The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-07-20
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1900 duels year.
Football was favorite game among
the Greeks and Romans.
A French soldier can earn 5shllhngs
q month pocket money.
The cocoa tree of the Maldive islands
every month produces a cluster OF
nuts.
Among English people dark brown
hair is more than twice as common as
hair of any other shade.
1t is estimated that about $4,000
horses were ousted from street-car
service last year by electricity.
A chicken ranch in Bellingham Bay,
Puget sound, has 100000 fowls. 1T IS
said 10 be the largest in the world,
A tropical moth, called the atlas
moth, has wing spread OF one toot'
1t is gray in color and flies by night,
At the present day sacred pigs roam
inyiolate about the buddhist monas-
teries of Canton and elsewhere In
China.
A record of 5, ,435 immigrants arriv-
ing at single port in a single day
shows that this is a pretty good country
to come to.
The largest telephone switchboard
in the world is that in the exchange at
Berlin, where I, 600 wires are connected
with the main office.
More than fourth of the gold and
more than third of the silver pro-
duced throughout the world in the
wear 1891 was mined in the United
States.
In 1889 fifty Bonapartist journals
fiourished in France, but this number
has been now reduced to five, the
others having turned in favor of the
republic.
Musk in its natural state is said to be
the national perfume of many tribes,
who annually slaughter thousands OF
the rats for their musk pouches and
their skins.
People in Japan are called by the
family name first, the individual, or
what we should call the christian name,
next, and then the honoriic-t
Smith Peter Mr..
A female physician, DIR. Bissen, points
out the fact that, as tennis is a one
armed sport, it has tendency to pro-
duce one-sided development. Yet
she approves of cricket.
It is said that in all the forests of the
earth there are no two leaves exactly
the same. It is also said that amid all
peoples of the earth there are no two
faces precisely alike.
1t is not everybody who knows that
besides the ordinary fruits that are
raised in Florida, the pineapple grows
very well there, while the fig, the paw
paw, guava and sapadilla grow finely
The custom of kissing hands as 8
mark of respect is said to be the most
ancient and the most universal. From
the remotest times, through the ages
of Greece and Rome to the present day
it has existed.
A man in Hagerstown, Nd, has ar
egg which was laid by Plymouth
Rock hen which has clearly defined
upon its shell the imprint and letters ol
foreign piece of money. The date
1922 and the word Constitution" car
easily be deciphered-
So great has been the development
of the petroleum fields in Peru tha
pipe lines have been run from the mair
wells to the coast. The opinion is ex
pressed that the Peruvian field viii
soon be able to supply the demand O.
all the west coast of South America.
The smallest inhabited island in tn,
world is said to be that on which thu
Eddystone lighthouse stands. At low
water it is 80 feet in diameter; at higl
water the lighthouse, whose diamete
at the base is % 3-4 feet, completed,
covers it. It is inhabited by three pei
sons.
In California it is found that peac
stones burn as well as the best cos
and give out more heat in proportio
to weight. The stones taken out
the fruit that is timed or dried is co
lected and sold at the rate of $15 tol
Apricot stones also burn, but not S
well as peach, and do not command s
good a price.
The harp which was suggested b
the lutte is ascribed to JubaI, 1875 j
c., and was King David's fayorite il
strument. The harp was used by th
Welsh and Saxons, and also by th
ancient people of Ireland. One of th
oldest harps in existence is in th
Dublin College museum, and origina
ly belonged to Brian Borothme, king
Ireland.
Numerous instances are related
NEUROLOGICAL tales of the people of tn
sea having carried off human. being
conveying them to their pearl-line
grottoes in the depths. Mermen hay
in this manner often obtained huma
girls for brides, while mermaids NJ
infrequently seek to secure for hu
bands good-looking youths from dr.
land.
The foot warmers for cabs in Par
are chiefly of two kinds; one is tl
water pan, the other is the "chauffe
cite a charbon." The former 500
cools; the latter gives off some asphy.
iating fumes. Hence it is that n
Morel has combined both systems
employing the chaufferette outside tt
cab to keep the water pan inside tt
vehicle always hot.
Tradition says very rich mine W;
discovered somewhere near Salt Lal
twenty-five years ago by a mormo
and for some reason Brigham Youn
forbade the prospector to work tt
mine or make its whereabout know
just before dying the man indicate
the direction in which the mine lay, bl
Aoh0ACdo "a AAAAO1S AdfO 0Oo
the treasure.
One of the old stories is that in tt
year 1919 two councillors of Christia
". of Denmark, while sailing betwee
Norway and Sweden, discovered
norman swimming about with bunc
of grass on his head. They threw OF
hook and line, bated with slice
bacon, which the norman seize
Being caught, he threatened yeng
ance so loudly that he was thrown bat
into the sea.
A London horse dealer says of OIL
horses: PERSONALLY, thoroughly di
like foreign horses, with the exceptic
of American, and much as like a goo
English and an Irish hunter am fir
ly of opinion that, as carriage horse
Americans are superior to our Engli.
and Irish horses. l believe this to
due to the fact that for generation
the carriage horse in the States h
been distinct race, and has new
been spoiled by the mixture of al
cart blood"
The Kansas dog case mentioned
dispatches as rivaling the famous Jon
county calf case is really unworthy