The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-14


Sweden is the most protestant coun-
try, for out of a population of 4, ,774, 400
only SO are Roman catholics.
The poet Burns spelled his name
Burness (his family name) until the
publication of his poems in 1856.
Fifteen thousand children are num-
bered in the membership of the Nor
wegian Total Abstinence society.
February is the month in which the
greatest number of births occur; june |
the month in which occur the fewest. |
The public libraries of all Europe |
put together contain about 100000 |
volumes; those of America $4,000, 900. |
In Corfu sheets of paper pass for
money. One sheet buys one quart of
rice or twenty sheets piece of hemp |
cloth.
The prefix 90" before SO many
names of Irishmen is an abbreviation
of the word Ogha, meaning grand
child.
A man in West Virginia has been
sent to jail for opening letter ad-
dressed to his wife revealing her inf
deity.
Gallileo's first telescope was made
out of common lead pipe, into the
ends of which were glued ordinary
spectacle glasses.
A German of science has shown that
the lands of Germany devoted to
grains used in beer production would
support 5O,OO0,00o people.
Free baths are advocated in St.Louis
as means of preventing the loss of
about forty boys who annually drown
in the Mississippi river at that point.
Applicants for certificates to teach
in the schools of Birmingham, Ala,
are required to pay an examination fee
of 81, which is applied to the library
fund.
The new science of experimental
psychology aims at measuring the
mental capacities of men as the an
thropometrist measures their physical
capacities.
A bachelor in Baltimore recently
gave as reason for his refusal to marry
that he considered young married
women the most ill-behayed creatures
in existence.
The famous Treadwen mine in
Alaska, which has yielded mere than
$4,000, 900 in gold bullion, was pur-
chased by the man for whom it was
named for $500.
"Love your wife as you would love
your soul, but beat her as you would
your fur" is said to- be a doctrine by
which the Russian peasant guides his
matrimonial relations.
Examination of the human skin
with the most powerful microscopes
reveals the fact that it is covered with
minute scales, overlapping each other
exactly like those of fish.
An old way of interrogating fate in
love affairs is to slice an apple in two
with a sharp knife. If this can be
done without cutting seed the wish
of the heart will be fulfilled.
1t is proposed in Philadelphia to re-
strict bicyclists to speed of six miles
an hour, bar them from the pave
ments, compel them to take out a
license and to carry an alarm bell.
Some very odd single names can be
found in the registrars Office in Lon
don, as righteous" Happy" "Hope-
full "Obedient," winding up with
triplet of Faith, "Hope" and "Char-
ity."
with the public schools of Belgium and
10000 of the 100000 primary pupils
have deposited over 100000 francs.
Great Britain has also established the
penny banks.
The annual report of the state aims
house at Tewksbury, Mass, for 1891
shows that there were 2,915 persons
admitted, of whom only 81 were born
born in Ireland.
A Philadelphia optician makes spe-
cial summer thermometer which reg
isters 10 degrees of heat less than the
actual temperature, and he says that
persons with vivid imaginations can
keep cool with one in the house.
In Australia there are caterpillars
from six inches to foot long, and
when young lady has one of them
drop on her back hair she says some
thing in a seven-octave voice with a
calliope attachment rung on to it.
J. w. Carter, of Cairo, in payment
of wager, crawled through a sewer
in the presence of several hundred peo-
pie who had assembled to witness the
feat. The sewer was only sixteen
inches in diameter and 120 feet long.
An officer in the British army thinks
that ducks would be preferable to
pigeons for carrying naval dispatches
over the sea, because they would drop
down and sit on the water when tired
and resume their flight after resting.
A gigantic clock has now been placed
on the second platform of the Eiffel
tower in Paris, and it is as remarkable
asa fine specimen of scientific and
mechanical work as it is noteworthy
as being the highest timekeeper in the
world.
A Pottstown lady is in search of an
owner for a silver thimble which she
declares she found imbedded in the
center of ham which she was slicing
She would also like to have some ex-
PLANTATION of how the thimble got
there.
The Scandinavian races think that
spirits can be driven away and witches
kept at bay by knife stuck in the
house or nails driven up. These races
have held from time immemorial the
idea that itwas lucky to find piece
of iron.
The points of the compass can be
told from trees by very simple obser-
vations. The side of the tree upon
which moss is found is the north. 1
the tree be exposed to the sun it!
heaviest and longest limbs will be OF
the south side.
Natural gas has been discovered or
the shore of the Great Salt Lake, with
IN ten miles of Salt Lake City. Sew
eral wells have already been put dowr
to the depth of $50 feet, and it is sale
that 5O,O0O,O00 cubic feet of gas ar,
now flowing daily.
The chances are that the man who
wrote an immortal book may hav,
something worthy to say even in ;
posthumous book. Henry de Roths
child has secured a newly discovered
manuscript from the pen of LIE Sage
author of "Gil Bias" 1t is an opera
comique. entitled "Arlequin Colonel,
and is written with remarkable ele
gance and wit.