The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-03-23
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Opium smoking is absolutely for
hidden in Japan.
A century ago there were only four
teen newspapers in London.
There are now about 2,250,000 acres
in Scotland occupied by deer forests.
Camels can stand heat and cold, but
they perish quickly in moist atmos-
phere.
The best isinglass dissolves complete
ly in hot water, leaving no visible re-
siduum.
India has priest who is drawing
pension and is in his one hundred and
fifty-second year.
The observations indicate velocity
of twenty-six miles second for Algol
and its diameter as 100000 miles.
In the Sahara Desert the day may
be boiling hot, but not unfrequently
the temperature at night falls below
freezing point.
There are said to be $4,000 newspa-
per women in London, who have twen-
ty-two press clubs and authors socie-
ties among them.
The value of the crown of England,
100000. 1t has been four times in
pawn; once for $4,000 only!
There is in the United States but
one railway President who is woman.
That is Mrs. Charles D. Haines, OF
Undertook, N. Y, the executive head
of the Hamilton and Kingston Rail-
road.
In recent years a number of expedl-
tions, scientific and commercial, have
touched at Nova Zemb bla, but the island
is still little known, and even the
greater part of its coast line is not yet
accurately laid down on the maps.
According to the theory of Mr..
Thompson, the end of the world (Which
is 0,000,O00 years in the future) will
not be brought about by excessive
heat, as limited in the Bible, but by the
remnant of humanity being frozen to
death.
A brother Bishop said recently of
DR.. Brooks that eff he took a high and
spiritual conception of the duties of his
Office, he had it in him to become the
ideal Bishop" and the Boston Herald
thinks that sehe has already risen to this
position"
Ex-Mayor Campbell, of Youngstown,
Ohio, though blind since he was 5
years old, became musician enough to
teach the study of it, studied law and
graduated from the Harvard Law
School, and successfully edited a paper
in Ohio for eight years.
"The most loyal wife," says Marion
Harland, admits to her inmost self, in
the most confidential season of self
communion, that she could have
brought up her husband better than
did his mother or whatever feminine
relative had the training of him."
In Waterbury, Conn.,, an engine
inch square and reaches height of
5-8 of an inch has been made. It has
148 parts held together by SO screws.
an inch and the whole weighs three
grains.
The sacred standard at Constantine
pie is believed to be formed of the
neither garment of Mohammed, and a
pair of his pyjamas, which are reveren-
TALLY preserved at Lahore, are held by
the faithful to have miraculously ex-
tinguished fire at that place no longer
ago than 1849.
Last year there were twenty-three
surviving widows of Revolutionary
soldiers, and several of these have
since died. The oldest of those now
alive are Nancy Raines, OF Carter
Furnace, Tenn, aged 100, and Ann
Maria Young, of Easton, Pa, who is in
her 101st year.
If a well could be dug to the depth
of forty-six miles, the density of the
air at the bottom would be as great as
that of quicksilver. By the same law a
cubic inch of air taken 1000 miles
above the earth's surface would expand
sufficiently to fill a sphere 1000, 900, 900
miles in diameter!
Josef Holman, the child pianist, has
failed to keep the promise of his mar
his fingers seem to lose the magic sup
pleness of his childhood, his ear is less
susceptible to delicate intonations, and
his once absorbing taste for music
seems to be deserting him.
The number of artificial teeth made
in America is increasing very rapidly
Last year the trade turned out nearly
forty million teeth. The houses which
do the most extensive export trade are
obliged to prepare teeth of different
colors for different countries.
Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, the IA
year-old daughter of W. K Wander
bilt, is beautiful child, with hair and
eyes as dark as Spanish gypsy and
the imperious manners of a young
princess. She is quite a marvel oi
erudition, and speaks German and
French, Chinese and Italian with equal
fuency.
A man weighs less when the baro-
meter is high, notwithstanding the fact
that the atmospheric pressure on him
is more than when the barometer is
low. AS the pressure of air on an or.
dinary sized man is about fifteen tons
the rise of the mercury from 20 to 81
inches adds about one ton to the load
he has to carry.
Jules Verne's wonderful tales, in
which science and fancy go shares
wi n him, are written in little OBJ
servatory on the top of his house at
Amiens. The house-top was favorite
point of vantage in scriptural DAYS, and
is coming into favor again with
students in the country and tenement
dwellers in the city.
A curious instance of one poison
killing another is reported from Vac
kandandah, Victoria, where strychnine
cured a snake bite. A solution Of
nitrate of strychnine in 240 parts o1
water, mixed with little glycerine
was prepared and twenty minims in.
jected hypodermically at intervals o1
ten or twenty minutes with good re.
suits.
The Japanese believe in more my.
thical creatures than any other people
on the globe, civilized or savage
Among them are mythical animals
without any remarkable peculiarities
of conformation, but gifted with super.
natural attributes; such as a tiger
which is said to live to be 1000 years
old and to turn as white as polar
bear.
Both sexes among the Esquimauz
are tattooed. Labrets are favorite or
naments. In early youth cut il
made in the lower lip and small
wooden ring introduced to keep it from
closing. Gradually it is enlarged and
the adult is decorated with a labret OF