The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-04

JOuEudl, HIS U66u IJuOtIoL1ON III ShAh
for many centuries.
Yale university had its beginning in
Saybrook, Conn, in 100, and removed
to New Haven in 1716.
In snowy weather in Sweden and
Norway trusses of straw and hay are
tied to the lamp posts for the birds.
Professor Huxley says that an oyster
is far more complicated piece of ma
chinery than the finest Swiss watch.
A dog market is held every Sunday
in Paris, where it is possible to buy |
anything from black and tan to q
huge mastiff.
The extremes of temperature in the
Sahara are such that, while the day
may be oppressiyeiy hot, at night it is
freezing cold.
The British isles comprise no fewer
than 1000 separate islands and islets,
without counting mere jutting rocks
or isolated pinnacles.
In Genesee county, New York, there
are 155 families who have never seen
a bible. So says an agent of the
American Bible society.
Ireland has only eight theaters--
IuIGS III OuOllu, O1G III DCiIdoC, OiIO III
Cork, one in Limerick, one in Water
fold and one in Londonderry.
The women physicians of Philadel-
phia are credited with receiving very
large incomes for their services. Some
average $4,000 year, others 500, 900.
A footpad was lately captured in
| Hungarian town, and with him bear
that he had tanned and taught to crap
pie with pedestrians whom he desired
to rob.
Able LISTS first concert programme,
when he was only years old, has been
discovered. 1t bears the date of 1920.
The performance was given in Olden-
burg.
A colored woman residing at India
i Springs, Ga, has been the mother of
fifty three children. One of her sisters
has had thirty children and another
one has nursed twenty-seven.
i Master Bayliss, of Coventry, Eng
land, is the youngest cyclist in the
world. He is 1-2 years old and wheels
around on a beautiful little tricycle.
weighing ten pounds. The child is al
ready fine rider.
A wealthy American has established
sanitarium in valley of the Jordan,
near the Dead sea. This valley is the
most marked depression on the face
of the earth, being l, 200 feet below sea
level.
A Michigan woman has patented a
device for securing glass in the doors
of stoves and furnaces, in order that
, the process of baking may be watched
without opening the doors, and also
to save fuel by decreasing draughts.
The old-fashioned birthstone match,
which was used with tinder box, was
little slip of very thin wood, six
inches long and quarter of an inch
broad; it tapered at either end, and
at either end was dipped in birthstone.
The first elevated railway in Eng
land is now fast approaching compile
ton in Liverpool. The line traverses
the entire length of the docks of that
CITY. a distance of six miles, and will
be ultimately extended to the heart OF
the town.
France wants to alter her coinage so
S as to avoid being inundated with
!; foreign copper money, often inferior
.. in value to her own. The government
5 would like to introduce some new
y laI LCL thS OeGoS1 SO1L tJOoSAR-S J
a mixture of bronze and aluminium.
+ The personal column of a New York
- daily contains this golden opportunity
"a well educated young man of good
social position will marry any lady O.
means who will provide funds for him
L to procure a divorce from his present
g wife, whom he cannot get along with.
The oldest church in the United
States is the church of San Miguel
erected at Santa Fe, n. M, seventy
, seven years before the landing of the
pilgrims on Plymouth rock, twenty
n years before the founding of St
- Augustine, Fla, and ffty-Lhree year;
). after the landing of Columbus.
Robert Bray brook, bishop of London
IF who died in 1404, was taken from hi:
j. tomb after the great fire of 1866, after
having been buried for 262 years
n Notwithstanding this his remains were
= found to be perfectly fresh and un
n shrunken. His hair had grown more
e than yard in length, and had &
II natural, lifelike luster.
= After several years of struggle cot
ton spinning of Chinese cotton by
e Chinese hands is esta ablished in Shan
ghai. Five hundred and fifty looms
] and q, 900 spindles turn out weekly
1870, 900 yards, thirty-six inches wide
/ of a superior quality of imitation
d American drill sheeting. Half The
looms are of English make and half o
e American.
But one species of venomous bird il
e known to the student of ornithologica
/ oddities--the Rpir N'Doob, or Bird O
: Death" feathered paradox of New
Guinea. Persons bitten by the Great
+ ure are seized by maddening pains
which rapidly extend to every part Of
Il i and lockjaw are the other symptoms
u which follow in rapid succession.
d The Austrians consume more tobac
co than any other nationality or rae,
I on the globe, civilized or savage. Re
d cent investigation by eminent stats
ticians gives the number of pounds
consumed annually by each 100 in
" habitants of the different European
Is countries as follows: Spain, 10 pounds
Italy, 12S; Great Britain, 1888; Russia
1872; Denmark, 224; Norway, 229, anC
Austria, 273 pounds.
A curious yet profitable business il
the expectation and reimportation o
quicksilver has sprung up in Califor
y MIA. Quicksilver for export is sold a
h S. less per flask of seventy-six and F.:
e half pounds than that for home con
Il sumption, and shrewd dealers hav'
3 not been slow to take advantage of thi
rebate of over 6 cents per pound
They have cheerfully paid the freigh
to Australia and back again, and hav'
'f cleared. nearly cents per pound OIL
l. the transaction.
You have often asked or been asked
"Why does thunder sour milk?" Tht
answer is this: Milk is very sensitive
e to atmospheric changes. Electricity
W the cause of thunder, produces, or i
v it does not really produce" follow
n great and rapid changes in the at
mospheric conditions. Lightning il
the discharge which comes Of electrical
: inequalities, producing chemica
changes in the air. thunderstorm
represent the greatest activity of elec
trical phenomenon, and the best au
thorities give it as their opinion tina
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