The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-07-27
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struetion in the Mexican National uni
versity is seven years.
suit has been brought in Buffalo
to recover $1,000 for alternating boys
affections from his father.
Glynn county, Georgia, has woman
hermit who has only spoken to three
persons in sixteen years.
The material for an AK head has to
be heated five times and pass through
the hands of forty workmen before it
is in proper shape
Seals sleep upon land; they also do
so floating upon their backs in the sea.
This habit they mostly indulge in
when the weather is fine and the sea
calm.
In 1891, says StahE u,sd Eisen, Ger
many imported from Sweden and Nor
way 14S, $50 tons of iron ore, of which
So, 689 tons went to Westphalia and
65,941 tons to upper Schleswig.
The bones of Jumbo, Barnum's big
elephant, that was killed few years
ago at ST. Thomas, Canada, weighed
even 2,400 pounds. The total weight
of the body, bones and all, was six
tons.
Under the conviction that the plu-
mage of canaries can be altered in
color by varying the food DR.. Beddoe
thinks that the color of the human
hair must eventually be influenced by
particular diets.
Lady Mary Somerset says some
pleasant things of US who are SO for
tunate as to be American women by
birth or adoption. For one thing, she
-, hoff
posted on current topics than men.
There is a church in the town of
Bergen, Norway, that is built entirely
of paper. 1t can seat 1000 persons in
comfort, and has been rendered water
proof by solution of quicklime, curd-
led milk and white of eggs.
A single seed of an Asiatic pempe-
rion planted on Trevsy grounds, Ber-
lin, propagated vine as large as a
mans body, which in nine weeks grew
to total length of nearly 800 feet and
ripened more than 100000 seeds.
There are now twenty thousand
trained nurses in England, Ireland and
Scotland. The largest hospital in Lon
don employs 250 and the seven next
in size aggregate 1000. So where
such number goes becomes quite
comprehensive.
The measles bacillus, discovered in
Berlin by DR.. Canon, varies from one
three-thousandth to one one-thou-
sandth of an inch in length, and pos
sesses characteristics said to be "dif-
ferent from those of any other bacillus
known"
Black glass was once used for mir
rors, as well as transparent glass with
some black substance on the back. 1t
is related that the Spaniards found
mirrors of polished black stone, both
convex and concave, among the natives
of South America.
1t has been found that cattle fed on
distillery slops, which require no chew
ing, soon begin to have diseased teeth
and gums, and that their teeth decay
in the same manner as the human
teeth, while those that chew natural
food have sound teeth.
More first magnitude stars are in
the field of vision in winter than in
summer. Sirius, Aldebaran, Procyon,
Betelguese, Rigel and Capella are
bright stars seen in the winter months
which are not visible in the evening
hours during the summer
Thistles, according to the London
Vegetarian Federal Union, are desira-
ble articles of human food If boiled,
they are @like delicate turnip tops and
may be eaten like spinach on toast,
with poached or fried eggs, and with a
little olive oil or mixed with cream"
In the Hebrides sea beans are sup
posed to be fairies eggs. Whether
this is correct belief or not it is GER
tain that all people of the world living
near the ocean have entertained faith
that its waters were inha abited by hui
man-like creatures more or less super
natural.
The costliest dinner set ever made
was by Tiffany. Mr.. Mackay brought
from his mines $4,000 worth of bull
ion and this the jewelers. made up into
service, asking 5000 for the work,
making the cost in all $95, 900, and no
sovereign in Europe eats from such a
gorgeous plate.
An Atlanta, Ca, druggist has in
vented bottle that will prevent drug
gists from making mistakes in filing
prescriptions. It has stopper which
is covered with sharp points that will
prick the hand of the person handling
it if he is not careful. The idea is to
put all poisons in such bottles.
There are many mysterious things
about beetles. Those of Brazil are
famed for their brilliant metallic hues,
yet no one has been able to find out
what makes these colors. Some are
of gold, others of silver, yet others OF
blue enamel, seemingly, and so on
through an endless variety of tints.
Mrs. William Thaw, widow of the
great philanthropist of Pittsburg, has
authorized the building of one of the
finest spectroscopes in the country for
the needs of the Allegheny observa-
tory. No expense is to be spared, the
spectroscope to be as finely constructed
and adjusted as the one in the cele-
brated Lick observatory.
The construction, mode of use and
the effect of burning glasses was
known to the ancients even a full thou
sand years before the time of Archi-
medes, who is said to have constructed
burning glass which he used to a
good advantage in reducing several
Roman war ships to ashes at time
when they were besieging Syracuse.
1t has been shown that the white
elm of our bottom lands and groves
yield, one year with another, at a very
moderate estimate, too, 329, 600 seeds.
Now, an elm ordinarily lives at least a
full hundred years, and, consequently,
in the course of that comparatively
short life produces nearly 100000
grains, all coming from one original
seed.
The extent of the street railroad in
terest in the United States may be esti-
mated from a recent report, which
states that there are 5,7S3 miles Of
such roads in operation, having 30, sos
cars and employing 7O,764 men. The
total number of passengers carried
last year was 2,O23, ,01O, 202, being 349,-
S20 per mile of road and 62, 237 pei
car.
The Literary society of Finland is by
far the most active, as it is the Oldest
society of folklore in the world. II
was esta blished in 1881, in order tc
gather oral material as well as manu-
scripts relating to the archaeology and