The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-05-25
MISSING LINKS.
A ton of coal is said to yield very
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second, 800 each minute, $4,000 every
hour, or 4S2, 900 per day.
1t is estimated that at least $5O,O00,-
900 of the governments paper money
has been lost or destroyed.
The bulk of the Japanese revenue is
derived from the railroads and tele-
graph lines which it owns
Patsy Sears, of Howard county, In
diana, aged 10S years, has been
church member hundred years.
The Oldest liquor in any New York
club cellar is supposed to be some
Sayillac brandy of the vintage of 1903
at the Union club.
A blacksmith's tools of the present
day are almost identical with those
used in the same trade over three
hundred years ago.
A floor painted in various colors in
gesso has been unearthed at Telel
Armama, in the palace of Amenophis
", the king of Egypt.
1t is interesting to learn from
scientist who likes to delve into the
minute that quart of milk may con-
tain as many as 60O,000,000 bacteria.
The average mortality of unmarried
men between the ages of twenty and
twenty-five is LIZA in every 100000,
while that of married men is only 597.
The English are said to eat more
butter than the people OF any other
nation, the consumption averaging
thirteen pounds year for every man,
woman and child.
By, actual experience it costs one
half a cent minute to smoke an
Egyptian cigarette, which makes them
probably the most eXtravagant thing
in the smoking line.
1t is a matter of record that 10, $40
dollars were coined in 1904, yet only
eight samples are known to exist, and
those that are in good condition are
valued at 81, 900 each.
1t is computed by well-informed per-
sons that Maine has wood enough to
make 29,000,000 tons of pulp, or sixty
years supply for all the pulp mills
now running in the country.
The extent to which baseballs are
manufactured in this country is indi-
Gated in the information that two
Philadelphia factories use 100 horse
hides week to make into baseball
covers.
Paper quilts are said to be coming
into extensive use abroad for the poorer
classes. They are composed of sheets
of white paper sewed together and per
forated all over at a distance of an
inch or two apart.
A superb new bridge has been con-
structGd in Rome over the picturesque
Tiber, and it is considered one of the
finest modern works in the city. 1t
has been christened Ponte Margherita
| by their majesties of Italy.
DIR. Herzog recently discovered in a
library at Aarau, Switzerland, a copy
of the first edition of Holbein's "Dance
of Death" The same volume includes
forty-six woodcuts of the same artist,
illustrating scenes from the bible.
There is an immense garden in China
that embraces an area of so, 900 square
miles. 1t is all meadow land and is
filed with lakes, ponds and canals
Altogether it is as large as the states
of New York and Pennsylvania com.
bined.
Mrs Newberry, very wealthy
woman who resides in Detroit is hav.
ing the Herreshoffs build for her g
large steam yacht in which she car
cruise on the lakes. Among other
luxuries it is to have a mahogany
dining-room on deck.
The man who lifted himself over 6
fence by his boot straps was rivaled by
an old German bachelor in Iowa, who
put a loop around his neck, threw the
rope over knob, put his foot in the
loop in the other end, hoisted himself
up and hanged himself.
According to a trustworthy CORE
spondent of the London Times The
average village priest of the Russo
Greek church is often a drunkard, al
ways uncultured, uneducated and un
refined. AS rule he is hated by. tht
peasants, whom in turn he treats will
Indifference and contempt.
The minimum age of employment
on the continent is generally y o.
from u to IA. But then English chill
dren only work twenty-eight hour
per week, while in France and Ger
many the hours are thirty-six, in Ital,
and Hungary forty-eight, in HOLLAND
sixty-six, and in Belgium seventy-two
There are said to be 200 women il
New York who go to Europe twice
year to buy their dresses. The mum
Der of men who cross the water TO
their new wardrobe is much greater
as many men take the opportunity o
running over to the other side for rest
recreation and business all combined
A notable decrease in the number o
deaths from hydrophobia is observed
by the registrar general of London
The deaths from this disease had beel
thirty in 1869 and had averaged twen
tyfour annually in three years, 1887
1888, 1889; but there were only eigh
in 1890 and fewer than in any yea
since 1868.
Instinct teaches the hen that i
would be no good to warm only on
side of her eggs and so when she feel
that they are "done" on one side sh
turns them gently round. Anyon
who has watched setting hens ha
seen them rise every now and the
and shuttle about for a few moment
on the nest. That is when they turl
the eggs over.
A new orchid, long sought for, ,whicl
is to immortalize the name of Righ
Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, who has
passion for orchids, and almost alway
wears one in his buttonhole, has bee
discovered and brought to England
1t was found by the agent of an Eng
lish firm in the Merapi mountains, an
is named the Cypripedium Chamber
lainianum.
Government engineers have enumeI
ated no less than 126 rivers in the Mis-
sissippi valley, which, in their presen
natural state, are not available t
stream navigation, but which Nigh
be made so at very reasonable cost
A two or three foot navigation for min
months of the year mi ght be secure
; on total of nearly $4,000 miles, an
with reasonable expenditure.
Many African travellers have faith i
the commercial development of Africa
Among the founders of the Britis
East Africa company, who contribute
more than $2,000,000 to carry on it
work, are found such well-known tray
elers and authorities as Sir John Kirk
who contributed $1,000; Sir F. DeWir