The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-11-16
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wires IN the city OF Fnllauelpnla-
More than 10000 travellers visited
Shakspeare's birthplace last year.
James Cope, of Martins Ferry, Ohio,
claims to have an almanac for the year
1869.
The long-handled parasol is defunct,
the short, club-handled being in the
ascendant.
A person traverses about three
quarters of a mile in the course of an
average waltz.
The st. Louis chief of police requires
the 1000 Chinese in that city to be
photographed.
Petaluma, Cal, boasts of an artes-
ian well that flows $4,000 gallons OF
fresh water every hour.
A species of crow in India has note
which exactly resembles the human
voice in loud laughing.
Three hundred thousand dollars
worth of Victor Hugo's works have
been sold annually for the last six
years.
A London firm finds a windmill the
most economic means of securing the
motive power necessary to run a
dynamo.
Statistics show that about 1900
miles of new railroad were built in
this country during the first six months
of this year.
The first wheat raised in the new
world was sown ON the Island of Isa-
bella in January, 1494, and on March
30 the crop was gathered.
In speaking of the solidfication of 8
body by cooling. Professor Dewar says
that waser can be made to become solid
by the evaporation of quarter of its
weight.
A curious relic of old Roman life
found recently at Lanurium porto
Portese), and now stored in the
British museum, is thin slab of stone
that was anciently circus poster.
Investigations of rain drops lead to
the conclusion that some of the large
drops must be more or less hollow, as
they fail when striking to wet the
whole surface inclosed within the drop.
Polo has been rapidly gaining in
popularity in France, and there has
been good deal of play this season
upon the ground belonging to the
Cercle des Palineurs, in the Bois de
Boulogne, Paris.
In this country 30,000,000 acres of
land are being farmed by irrigation.
France owes its wonderful success in
gardening to this system, and in late
years Italy has spent over 5000. 100000
for this purpose.
Newcastle-on-Tyne spent $50, 100000
some years ago in digging out shall
low stream. The income from that in
vestment has since been $28, 8,000,0 900,
beside the increase in trade and the
enhanced value of property.
At the time of the Talmud pigeons
were used in amusing games. The
Talmud tells US that betting was in
dulged in at the pigeon play. The
owner of the pigeon which reached
first the point designated was the
winner.
Pigeons as letter-carriers. tradition
tells us. were employed at the time
when Joshua invaded Palestine as
mediums of communication between
the headquarters and camps in lands
far off on the other side of the Jordan.
There are said to be more than 5000
prehistoric buildings in Sardinia.
They are almost all in the fertile dis
tricts and are built in groups. which
are separated from one another by
wide and generally barren places.
The Brazil nut contains from fifteen
co twenty-four seeds, which all ger
inmate at one time. The most vigor-
GUS one gets first through a small hole
at the top to the open air, and there
upon it strangles and feeds upon the
rest.
Sir Henry Bessemer suggests the
substitution of aluminium tokens for
bank notes of small denominations
He says that, with the recent progress
in the science of metallurgy these
tokens could be made in fashion that
would set all the arts of forgers at de-
fiauce.
The famous termites, commonly
called white ants" although they be-
long to the order of the dragon fly,
infest Ceylon in countless swarms de-
vouring everything eatable, and even
cutting the timbers of dwelling houses
SO that the later are reduced to mere
shells.
There are at present in the Gobelin' S
mandatory two large state carpets
valued at $4,000 and $4,000 respec-
lively at least. They were made dur
ing the empire, one being ordered by
the Italian government and the other
being intended for the palace of Fon-
ainebleau.
The costliest mats in the world are
owned by the shah of Persia and the
sultan of Turkey. The shah and the
sultan each possess mat made OF
pearls and diamonds valued at over
$2,500,00 The largest mat ever made
is owned by the Carlton club, O
London, and is a work of art.
There are fifteen national banks ir
New York city which have deposits ex
ceeding $15, 900, 600 each, the larges
amount being $33, ,OG0, 900 in the
National Park bank, and the mex
largest amount. $4,000, 900, in the
Chemical National. Ten banks have
over $15, 100000 each loaned, tn,
National Park having the larges
amount, and the First National tht
second largest.
The tenth census bulletin recently
issued by the dominion statistician
shows an increase of about $3.50, 600,
900 in the value of industrial products
under the national policy, during the
last ten years. The capital invested
in the new provinces of British
Columbia and Manitoba has increased
by $15, 900, 900, in Ontario by sos, 900,
600 in Quebec by $57,0oo,00o, and il
the Maritime provinces by $4,000, 600
The quantity of heat wasted by sla.
has suggested projects for utilizing i
in raising steam, but nothing practica
has been attained until recently. A
mine in New South Wales the moltel
Stag is run into the bottoms of irol
chambers that can withstand interna
pressure and jets of water are forced
on the Stag. In short time the cham
bers are filed with steam that can b.
utilized in other parts of the works.
Herculite, new French explosive, i
yellowish-gray powder, composed G
sawdust, camphor, nitrate of potasl
and several substances that are KEEP
secret. 1t cannot be fired by sparks
fame or detonation. At trial, a hall
pound charge of the compound was in
serted in a blast hole about four feet i
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