The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-06-08


The average life of tradesman is
about two-thirds that of a farmer.
There are twenty representatives in
congress who are under Sc years of
age.
The ant is said to have the biggest
brain, according to size of its body, of
any creature.
To be perfectly proportioned, man
should weigh twenty-eight pounds for
every foot of his height.
Mrs A. T. Branch, of Orient, Fla,
killed six-foot rattler in her straw
berry patch the other day.
A Tifin, Ohio, man carries gold
coffin screw 100 years old for luck. He
found it in graveyard.
There were at the beginning of last
year 8,097 artesian wells in the west
ern states and territories.
It is proposed to police Pennsylvania
avenue, Washington, with patrolmen
who are over six feet high.
In Finland the women consider
kiss on the lips as the greatest insult,
even from their own husbands.
1t is calculated that the aggregate
annual income of the working classes
of England is about 81, 800, 900, 900.
The sole personal effects of man
who died in Auburn, Me-, recently
were q bible and pack of cards.
A Bath truckman, who owns two
horses has named one McGinty and
the other Annie Rooney, both being
chestnuts.
Five hundred thousand Londoners
save five days per annum each by rid
| ing on railways, a total saving of p
100000 days, worth f830,000
Italian titles are not very expensive.
That of prince cost only $4,000; that
of duke, $40, 900; marquis, 5000; count,
$1,000; viscount, or baron, $4,000.
An angels beauty is ideal. Should
an anatomist draw one, with the mus
cles necessary to move both arms and
wings, we should see queer figure.
The people upon the two continents
of North and South America, without
the arctic regions, are less than 1922
O00,0 900 in numbers, or only eight to
the square mile.
When America iS as densely pcopled
as Europe this half of the world will
have nearly 1,400, 000 0000-practically
the same as that of the whole world at
the present time.
The world consumes more than 50,-
900 tons OF cotton seed oil annually.
1t is largely used in hotels and res
taurants as substitute for salad dress.
ing and for frying fish.
Some of the African tribes pull theil
fingers till the joints "crack" as form
of salutation, and one tribe has the
curious fashion of showing friendship
by standing back to back.
The most populous continent is Asia
which contains two countries-Chint
and India-whose swarming millions
outnumber the people of all othe1
countries of the continent.
Earth worms six feet long are fount
in Gippsland, Victoria. They live il
burrows on the. .sloping sides of creek
and are the largest variety found il
the world. 1t must be burly bir'
which picks up the worm of Gipps
land.
Q in. Pickett, of Obion county, Ten
nessee. it is said, has mule, 90 year
OlQ. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ills dS3O, AO
quite a mule, and his owner is careful
|. never to leave him hitched to wagol
for fear he will run away and ge
spoiled.
North Dakota has full communit
of Indian sisters, established under
Indian mother superior, the first com
l. munitv of the kind ever established
though there have been before this In
dian sisters in other converts.
The various colors of flame in a WOO
It fire is caused by the combustion of th
elements of the fuel. The light blue
from the hydrogen, the white from
carbon, the violet from manganese
J. the red from magnesia and the yelloN
from soda.
According to the "Decret Doctrine.
we are now living in the Kali Yuga
. the last of the four ages, and it bega
n of Krishna, B. G.. 3102. The first mino
e cycle of the Kali Yuga will end in tn
Il years 1898.
A man in New Jersey has been fine
$500 for selling copies of the son
Maggie Murphy's Home." This
f not to be taken as an indication O
musical culture on the part of Jersey
q men, however. The only fault foun
/. with him was that he was violating th
5. copyright law.
Il j. A. Buchanan, of Obion county
g Tennessee, has in his possession an oil
4 hunters powder gourd, such as wa
, used by all the old pioneer hunters
|, : in which they carried their powder
= that belonged to his grandfather, an
= is, according to Mr.. Buchanan's est
V nation, over 100 years old.
A while ago hotel was built in til
desert near the pyramids. Sever;
l. hundred acres of the desert land wei
e bought in 1874 by wealthy Englisf
e man, who was suffering from consuml
4 ton. He believed that the desert al
n would be specific. For two years h
Il erected on the sand waste he ha
strength he had lost.
Dr.Adametz, the great Swiss schola,
says an exchange, found that sing
s gram of fresh Emmenthaler chees
contains not less than $1,000 microbe:
II In gram of the rind of the sam
't cheese he found 2,000,00 inha abitant
Thus it may be seen that piece
e cheese of less than pound weigh
l, may contain more living, moving
breathing individuals than there al
u human Inhabitants on the entil
i globe.
o. A curious case of bibliokleptism
y reported by the Jou17adl of Providenc,
R. 1. The offender is a woman name
It Ellis at West Attleboro and her victil
= the Pawlucket free library. The THE
il stole over 500 books, all of a hig
e class literature, and was accumulatin
a large private library when she VIZ
It detected. She is woman of NEAR
d and culture, and seems to have stole
simply because she could not help d.
n ing so.
: Henry A. Bower, of Adams towl
:. ship, Hamilton county, in 1854 slippe
a small cucumber in glass bottle, an
he permitted the vine to furnish nou,
ishment until the cucumber had file
e the available space inside the bottle
: The vine was then clipped off, the bo
tie was filled with alcohol and careful