The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-10-05
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The slaughtering of cattle by cleo
tricity is practiced in Scotland.
A potato weighing twenty-six ounces
is curiosity of Gastana, N. G.
The church members of the United
States number over 20,000,000
Prof. Stirling, English naturalist,
has found fifty species of electric fish.
An ice yacht has been known to
travel mile in one minute ten sec
onds.
An irrigation canal, in Utah and
Idaho, will irrigate 100000 acres of
land.
The most costly of the metals is
didynium, which sells at 81, 500
pound.
The first postoffice opened its doors
in Paris in 1892; in England, 1881; in
America. 1710.
Mails now sent through a pneu-
matte tube from Paris to Berlin in
thirty-five minutes.
Jewish writer's say that Isaiah wrote
the famous old ode on the fall of the
king of Babylon at 81.
Wasps' nests often catch fire from
the chemical action of the wax upon
the paper-like material.
In 1886 there were 00,O00,O0O gal
Ions of beer drank in Germany, to l.
100000 gallons in 1891.
A Chinese sect believes that women
by embracing vegetarianism will be-
come men on the Judgment day.
Artesian wells were known at Thebes
as long ago as the time of Timerlon,
1000 years before the beginning of
the christian era.
There are seventy schools for the
deaf and dumb in the United States,
and there is also college for them at
Washington, D. C.
A refrigerator has been recently
made in New York that will freeze 500
tons of ice in twenty-four hours. The
machine weighs 175 tons.
In one of Gladstone's own elections
his friends are said to have expended
$240. 1000 in his behalf. An average
English election costs $25, 900.
A woman 80 years old died and was
buried recently at Winston, N. G. Her
burial shroud was the dress in which
she was married seventy years ago.
A Japanese soldier has invented a
gun which enables the possessor to
send "a cloud of binding dust" into
the eyes of foe at distance of Il
feet.
An observatory of a fire and light
ming proof quality of construction has
been designed and section built so as
to be easily carried to the top of Mount
Blanc, where it will be permanently
located.
Pupils in an English technical school
rowed across the channel from Folke-
stone to Boulogne recently in an ordi-
nary four-oared galley. covering the
distance in five and one-half hours and
beating the record.
During a review of several regi-
ments in France, whittier he was sent,
Hugo Grotius, one of the famous men
of the seventeenth century, retained
in his mind the names of all the sold
iers that were named and passed be-
fore him.
Justus Lipsius, an eminent man of
the sixteenth century, made bold to
recite Tacitus from beginning to end,
with one of his audience placed before
him with a drawn dagger with which
he was to be stabbed if he missed one
single word.
Macrooystis a seaweed of the South
Pacific, it is said, often grows to be 80
or 40 inches in diameter and 1900 to
1000 feet in length. In no case do any
of these have roots in the proper sense,
their nourishment being absorbed
from the water by all parts alike.
DIR. Dareste has demonstrated that
monsters and monstrosities during an
imal development are not the results
of pathological changes in the embryo,
as hitherto supposed, but modifca-
tions of the processes of organic evolu-
ton, such as bring about the differ
ence between individuals and races in
mankind.
The latest police regulation in Ber-
lin for saloons or beer gardens with
female walters prohibits these persons
from coaxing guests to drink by a
winning smile, or tickling, or similar
proceedings. Moreover, the poor girls
are not allowed to sit down or appear
in costume. Long, decent" dresses,
however, are permitted.
Among the other great things in this
country the number of its high mount
aims is remarkable feature. There
are 800 mountains in the United States,
each exceeding 10000 feet in height.
The greatest number are found in Col
orado and Utah. In Alaska there are
five which exceed $4,000 feet, and
Mount Ellis, 19,500 feet high, is the
loftiest peak in the United States ter
ritory.
The Glasgow Herald makes the
of it's columns of humor that fully
one-half the humorous sayings we
hear come from America, and of the
other half fully so per cent should be
accredited to that country" Two or
three well-paying publications IN Eng
land are weekly papers whose contents
are almost all composed of clippings
from American papers, and rarely
credited.
A correspondence has been going on
in the London Times regarding the
origin of the stars and stripes, in which
one of the writer's says: "The armo-
rial bearings of the Washingtons are:
Argent two bars gules, in chief three
mullets of the second. Consequently
there seems little reason to doubt that
the iberator himself designed the flag
from the changes in the Washington
arms as they appeared on the very
seal which he used"
On the road from Khandala to the
famous cave of Karli, in India, says
Miss North, in her recently published
"Recollections of Happy Life" she
came upon "a splendid tree of Jonesia
asoka, full of orange flowers and deli
cate leaves. The priest of the temple
found me one fine flower growing
through a honeycomb full of honey
which had been built round its stem.
Did the buds push their way through
the honey and wax or was the thing
built quickly round them?"
Richard Beverly, who for $3.50 a
year takes the mail from Buena Vista
to Pleasant View, in Amherst county,
Virginia, carries it the distance of
eighteen miles on his back. Every
day except Sunday he walks from
Buena Vista to Pleasant View and
back, distance of thirty-six miles, and