The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-06-21
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ter; every city has several.
Many suits of armor worn in the
fourteenth century weighed 175 pounds
each.
Roman ladies dress their locks in
eight different styles with numberless
variations.
The Yale Nea0S published in Yale
college, glories in nineteen editors and
no reporters.
Brussels boasts of clock which is
never wound by human hands. Wind
power does it.
Sparkling champagne was the dis
covery of Petrus Perignon, a monk,
who died in 1715.
Nearly a third of the human race
speak the Chinese language, accord
ing to German authority.
Among the French dainties of the
fifteenth century were fried leeches
and hashed porpoise.
A doorkeeper of the house of lords,
after forty years. service, is retiring
upon pension of 81, 600 year.
Men attending the pans in salt works
are never known to have cholera.
smallpox, scarlet fever or influenza.
A recent estimate places the amount
of standing timber in the state of
Washington at 800, 900, 600, 900 feet.
Four-ifths of the engines now work
ing in the world have been construct
ed during the last twenty-five years.
The Union Pacific has fifteen long
and great number of short tunnels,
the aggregate length being. 6, 900 feet.
The original sea water placed in the
aquarium at the Crystal palace, sgd
enham, Englang, in 1854 is still used.
A new census has established theffact
that $50 white men have already set
tied down to live in the Congo region.
Some of the English pumping en-
gines perform work equaling the rails
ing of 12O,000,00o gallons one foot
high by the consumption of 100 weight
of coal.
Commercial travellers, it is said, sup
port two-thirds of the country hotels
in America, to say nothing of in
structing the proprietors how to man
age them.
A species of eyeless fish has been
found in a subterranean boiling spring
found in a Nevada mine. The fish
would perish in water of ordinary
temperature.
The profits of the Paris postoffice,
which last year amounted to $40, ,0oO.-
900, have moved the postoffice clerks
to take preliminary steps to secure a
raise in their salaries.
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70,000,000 Europeans wear wooden
shoes. Bass wood is ordinarily used
for the sabots, but willow is the best
material. Poplar, beech, walnut and
birch are also used.
In proportion as the earth cools
down, ice accumulates near the poles
and on the tops of mountains; water is
taken more deeply into the surface of
the terrestrial crust, the formation of
hydrated minerals being manifested
everywhere.
When a COW is two years old q
wrinkle begins to form at the base of
her horns. At three years this wrinkle
is fully developed. When she is five
years old another will form, and after
that one will form each year. Thus
her age can be discovered.
The Vienna dealers in gems are
about to establish an exchange for jew
els in order to improve their business.
Vienna was formerly one of the princi-
pal European depots for fine gems, es-
pecially the oriental goods, but SO
many firms have removed to Paris,
London and Amsterdam that the
trade at Vienna has been retrograd-
ing.
During 1770 French women wore
shoes with very pointed toes and high,
slender heels. In 1889, the year OF
revolution, an abundance of rouge.
many patches and very high heels
were considered essential aids to fe-
male beauty. The men wore shoes of
similar elevation, while their attire as
whole was marked by many eccen-
tricities.
An extraordinary sentence was pass
ed upon murderer in Neuruppin,
Germany, recently. The criminal was
a workman who had murdered his two
children and afterward mutilated the
bodies in shocking manner. He was
sentenced to undergo fourteen years
Imprisonment at hard labor, and at
the expiration of the term to be exc
cuted.
An everage of five feet of water is
estimated to fall annually over the
whole earth, and, assuming that con-
densation takes place at an average
height of 5000 feet, scientists conclude
that the force of evaporation to sup
ply such rainfall must equal the liftin g
of 332, 100000 pounds of water 5000
feet in every minute or about 800,
100000 horse power constantly ex-
erted.
Liars club, exist in London and sew
eral provincial cities. The initiation
fee is five shillings, half OF which is re-
mitted should new member be able
to outlie any member present. The
tallest stories are told at each weekly
meeting But if man is known to lie
outside the precincts of the clubrooms
he is liable to expulsion.
Colonel j. H. Ray, of Dickson, N.
D., owns a relic of the prehistoric
ages. 1t was dug up in gravel pit
one mile from Glendive, in eastern
Montana, From it's structure it must
have formed the backbone of a biped
fully sixty feet high. A specimen of 8
human vertebra that has been taken
from the frame of man six feet high
was laid alongside it. The relic was
found to be perfect counterpart, ex-
cept that it was ten times as large.
There is one ward in New York City
with population of 70, 900 and having
but seven churches, or one church tC
10000 people. Another ward has AZ,
900 people and but four churches. II
may be news to most people in the
west that the majority of the wealthy
nabobs of the metropolis, who pay
princely salaries to preachers to ad
minister to their own refined spiritua
wants, have their places of business
within a stones throw of these place.
of spiritual darkness.
No country in the world has beer
visited of late years with such sever,
and widespread Affections as the en-
pire of Russia. Within the past twt
years it has suffered from terribl,
famine which has swept off millions o
its inhabitants and Impoverished still
greater mum bers. This was followed
by the cholera, which reaped an aw
full harvest in populations reduced
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