The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-09-21
Three times as many herrings are
consumed as any other fish.

celebrate their golden wedding.
Philadelphia is the greatest carpet
manufacturing center in the world.
The new British coinage will bear
the queens head without the crown.
The first postoffice opened it's doors
in 1862; in England in 1851, and in
America in 1710.
The great cathedral in the City of
Mexico in the largest in America, and
Copper-plate engraving was first
done in 1911, wood engraving in 1899,
etching on metal with acid in 1912.
Watches were first made in Nurem-
berg in 1477 and were called by the
natives Nuremberg animated eggs"
Cannon were invented in 1880, were
used by the Turks at Adrianople in
1853 and were made in England in
1547.
The harvester was invented by Cy-
rus Mccormick in 1881, and has been
improved by many subsequent in
ventors.
Glass mirrors were known in A. D.
%, but the art of making them was
lost and not rediscoyered until 1900,
in Venice.
The first electric telegraph line was
laid in Switzerland by Lesage in 1882,
the Morse transmitter was invented in
1887.
The great cantilever bridge at Nj
agara Falls is entirely composed of
steel. 1t is 80 feet in length, weighs
5000 tons and cost 100000.
A French artist, M Marcy, has sue
ceeded in Photographic flying insect.
The time of exposure was only 1-2500th
of second,
The new imperial crown of Queen
Victoria has its entire surface COM
pletely covered with jewels, several of
which are famous in history.
A marine biological laboratory is
about to be established on the islands
of Jamaica in honor of the fourth GEN.
tenary of the discovery of America.
The czar of Russia has recently
found time to become interested in the
game of cricket, and has organized
two elevens among the young men of
his court.
Banks and banking were known in
Greece 385 years before Christ, in
Rome 352B B. c. and in Venice 1857 A.
A. The Bank of England originated
in 1895.
In using what is known as the Can
adian method of boring oil wells, a
well 1000 feet was bored in 228 hours,
or an average of 4.78 feet per hour Of
| actual work.
The ancient republic of Andorra, on
| the southern slope of the eastern
Pyrenees, with a population of 5000,
has never yet seen an electric lamp OF
gas burner.
According to DR.. Hansen, the red in
flowers is single pigment soluble in
water and decolorized by alcohol. but
capable of being restored by the ad
dition of acids.
The cartridges of Germany, Austria
and Belgium have groove at the end
instead of an enlargement at the base
| the advantage of which is that the
cartridge is packed more easily.
! A scheme, propounded by M. Rago.
sine, which provides for the construc.
ton of steel pipe line from the Cas-
| plan sea through Persia to the Persian
gulf, is attracting attention in Bakr
oil quarters.
Something concerning the immensit,
on which the universe is esta blisheC
may be inferred from photograph
recently taken containing the image
of about $4,000 stars every one o
which is sun.
Princeton has two trees which wer'
planted previous to the declaration o
independence. The sycamores in th'
deans yard were planted in 1857 by
order of the trustees to commemorate
the resistance of the stamp act.
A silver dime of 1904 is worth 81, Of
1897, 1900 and 1902 So, and of 179e
$3.50. Silver half dimes of 1902 vii
fetch $50 each, and value of from
81 to $3 attaches to these coins of the
issues of 1894. 1896, 1897, 1901, 1906
and 1916.
At three of the large London rail
way stations s-Charing Cross, Cannon
street and London bridge-as many as
80, $50 movements for signal and point
levers have to be made every twenty
four hours, quite apart from the tele'
graphic operations.
The aborigines of the Andaman isl
ands, curious and even unique peo.
pie, are said to be fast disappearing
All of them on two of the islands are
dead, and only few are left on q
third. Only small number of chill
dren are born and they die in infancy
Miss Ella Ewing, of Scotland county,
Missouri, is coy damsel of IS sum
| bn inht txuF
inches in height and is still growing
She is said to be retiring in DISPOSE
tion, but exhibits quite an amount Of
exuberant girlishness among her init
mate friends.
A Japanese soldier has invented 8
gun which enables the possessor to
send "a cloud of binding dust" into
the eyes of foe at distance of twelve
feet. 1t is said that the poor foe il
thereby absolutely deprived of sight
and therefore, of course, at the mercy
of his assailant.
All of the Washington coins, both O.
silver and copper, were minted in En-
gland as patterns for the American
coinage but the designs were not &C
cepted, because it was considered con
trary to the principles of our govern,
ment to stamp the head of the presi
dent upon our coins.
A dressed stone II feet long, 13 feet
wide and containing 1902 cubic feet
has rested on pillars in quarry al
Baalbac, in Syria, for more than 1900
years. 1t was intended for the founda
ton of the Temple of the Sun, mile
or more distant, to which four stone.
nearly as large were actually trans
ported.
Charles Wood, a druggist of Har
lesion, England, has brood of white
black birds, fact which is vouchec
for by Land and Water and by severa
prominent ornithologists and natural
lists. Mr.. Wood bought the youne
birds from laborer who found then
in the nest in hedge in that neigh
} borhood. The birds are perfectly
white, with pink eyes and yellow
beaks, and are quite healthy and very
lively.
The galloway at the Deer Parl
group of mines near Descanso, Cal.
was broken in a singular way recently
| It had a Sinple SDan of A. 451 feet Th,