The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-06-08
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There are in the entire country
about 250, 700 Indians, who control 90,-
0OO.0 900 acres of the public land.
A fish dealer in Bath, Me-, on cut
ting open yellow perch found eight
twenty-penny nails in the stomach.
Quill toothpicks came first of all
from France. The largest factory in
the world is near Paris, where there
is an annual product of 100000
quilts.
Fathom is from the old Aryan root
fat, to extend, and denotes the dis
tance from tip to tip when the arms
of an average-sized man are fully ex-
tended.
Jane Scrimshaw lived in London
during the reign of eight soverelgns,
from Elizabeth to Anne. OF her l27
years, eight of them were spent in an
almshouse.
The French Congo country, many
will be surprised to learn, is five times
the size of France, and is supposed to
contain population amounting to 81
100000 souls.
General Serrell is said to have invent
ed an electric instrument for striking
ship when fourteen miles distant
from New York blow equal in force
to $4,000 foot tons.
The coming giant is an 18-year-old
boy named Myron Jilson, who lives at
Nottingham, Vt. He is 6 feet 10
inches in height weighs 200 pounds
and is still growing.
The jurors in Detroit court recent
ly ranged from cents to $60,000 IN
deciding the amount of damages IN a
libel suit and finally compromised on
a verdict of $11, 200.
Hitherto the British bushel has been
reckoned as sixty-one pounds of grain,
but change having been made in the
standard weight the bushel in future
is to be defined by sixty pounds.
A muscular colored man in Arundel
county, Maryland, killed an infuriated
bull which attacked him by seizing the
animal by the horns and throwing
him with violence sufficient to break
his neck.
A Dexter (Me.) man received So
from friend few days ago to whom
he had loaned that amount twenty
five years ago. Accompanying the
payment was diamond ring of large
value as interest.
One of the largest camellia plants
ever known is now growing in a
nursery near Birmingham, England.
It quite fills large greenhouse. Some
1000 buds have been trimmed from the
tree, and it still has 5000.
At certain church near Ledbury
an annual sermon is still preached
against the vice of dueling. This is
done in accordance with the last will
and testament of damsel whose rival
lovers died fighting for her hand.
Poisoning by mussels is well-known
fact. Such poisoning appear sin chronic
form in Terra del Fuego, mussels be-
ing abundant on the shores and other
kinds of food rare, so that the natives
eat large quantities of the former
daily, both Of bad and of good quality.
The New England States use For
mosan teas, the middle states all kinds
of Oolong teas, green teas and few
Congos; the South, principally green
teas, and the Northwest and Canada,
Japan teas, which latter constitute
over one-half of the entire consump-
ton.
That man will be hailed as blessed
who shall invent a jewelers. trunk that
burglars cannot break, that baggage
men cannot smash and that will sur
yive the wreck of collisions. There is
room for that man and need for that
mans trunk, asserts the JeaCelers' Re-
Uiea0.
A thornless raspberry has been ex-
amined by Professor Britton of New
York City. 1t was sent to him by Pro-
fessor Millspaugh of the West Virginia
agricultural experiment station. 1t
grows luxuriantly in Randolph county,
West Virginia, and bears fruit, but no
briars.
The British Museum has secured
from Thibet copy of the Jangyn, a
monster cyclopedia of Thibetan budd-
hism. 1t comprises 225 Volumes each
of which is 2 feet long and inches
thick. There are it is supposed, only
two other copies of the work outside of
Thibet
A favorite food fish in Japan is the
tai. 1t contains two bones, which the
Japanese call, from their shape, the
hoe and sickle When eating the fish
mother will tell her children "Now
W"A1 ulAIAA SOG you GAO IOc anu
SICKLE" and the children use them as
playthings.
The microscope has revealed many
wonders, among others that the COM
mon caterpillar has 1000 muscles in
his body; that the drone bees eyes
each contain 1900 mirrors and that
the large, prominent eyes of the bril-
liant dragon flies are each furnished
with $4,000 polished lenses.
1t is said that many of the German
colonists on the Volga river who are
sufferers from the Russian famine, in
order to save fuel, have dug holes in
the ground, subterranean shelters in
which they burrow like foxes. They
form, undoubtedly, the only instance
of civilized people who to-day are liv-
ing the lives of troglodytes.
In the churches for colored people in
some parts of the south in the United
States, when collection is to be taken,
the box, instead of being passed from
pew to pew, is deposited upon table
In front OF the pulpit, and the broth
ers and sisters are eXhorted to come
forward and put their contributions in
to it.
AL AuSIrdlIan AGRICULTURAL paper
makes note of an immense increase in
the number of sheep in Australia in
the last two or three years, and of the
enormous development of the grazing
capabilities of the country The esti-
mated number of sheep in Australia
in 1892 is 60,000,000, against 81, ,O0O,-
600 in 1884.
The first consignment of camel skins
for commercial purposes ever brought
to this country reached New York on
the last voyage of the steamer
Normandie. 1t consisted of five bales,
thirteen skins in bale, shipped from
Alden to firm of morocco manufact-
urers, in "The Swamp" The ship
ment is an experiment.
In the old days, before the French
revolution, favorite pastime at the
court of the grand monarch was the at
tempting to guess the identity of
person by the eyes alone. Face and
form were totally concealed by mask
and domino, and the eyes were left to
tell what tale they could. The result
was the merest guesswork.