The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-18

No criminal records were kept be-
fore the present century.
In Southern Europe $4,000 oranges
have been picked from one tree.
Bicycles cannot be ridden in Danish
cities faster than the speed of cab.
When terrified an ostrich travels at
the rate of about twenty-five miles an
hour.
Out of every 100000 letters that
pass through the postofice only twenty
go astray.
Edinburgh university is one of the
chief medical centers in the world. 1t
was founded in 1882.
The whole amount of gold actually
in circulation is estimated to be about
eight hundred and sixty-tve tons.
A German scientist has shown that
the lands in Germany devoted to
grains used in beer production would
support 50,O0O,ooO people.
The oldest and largest medical
school in America is that of the Uni
versitv of Pennsylvania. 1t was found
ed in 1865 and has graduated 10,45S
men.
Dramatists in France get II per cent
of the gross receipts of each play, and
are allowed tickets to the value of 100
francs for every performance of such
plays as they have written.
People have been known to wear po-
tatoes with holes bored through them,
SO as to form gigantic finger ringa for
the cure of rheumatism, while others
carry potatoes in their pockets for the
same purpose.
The longest speech ever made was
by Roumanian deputy in support of
the impeachment of an eX-minister,
John Bratiano, when he spoke for thir-
ty-seven hours, or one hour over full
day and half
The Friends school, of Providence,
R. l., is now over a century old, and
among the $4,000 names enrolled on
the registers may be found those of
many distinguished people. This school
will hold reunion on June 90, which
will probably be a great event in its
history.
The centrifugal force developed by
the earth's rotation tends to throw
bodies off it's surface as a stone is pro-
PEELED by sling, and in consequence
of this fact ,29Sth of the weight of
every particle of matter lying along
the equator is employed in keeping it
on the earth.
The rate of progression of a storm is
often fifty miles an hour, and series
| has often been traced in a direct line
| from north to south distance of 400
miles. The average altitude of thun-
derstorms has been found to be not
over 5000 feet above the surface of the
earth.
In Paris male domestic servants are
encouraged to marry, as they are OBJ
served to be more settled and atten-
tive to their duty than when bach
elors. In London such marriages are
discouraged as rendering servants
more attentive to their own families
than to those of their masters.
Naples has Froebel institute, man
aged by Nine. .Schwabe and Mile. Baer-
mann. 1t is twenty years in existence
and began with two children. 1t has
now twenty-nine classes and 1000 pu-
pills. All do not come under the head
of free students, as many are from
well-to-do families.
A diamond expert in London thus
discourses on the product and distrib-
ution of diamonds: The Americans
are the finest Judges of diamonds in
| the world, and insist upon having the
finest stones and the most perfect cut
| ting. 1t is estimated that they will
take 93,000,000 worth this year.
There were on British pastures last
wear nearly $4,000 900 sheep and
lambs, showing an advance of nearly
a million and a half over the number
in 1890. Our total sheep stock last
year, moreover, exceeded by 100000
head the f1ocks of two years ago, and
by more than 1000, ,000 the iOcks of
| 1891.
A French technical journal recon-
mends the use of coal tar for water
prooting masonry. A small amount of
India rubber dissolved by benzine will
increase its durability. 1t should be
applied boiling hot, and if the color
should be Objectionable it can be dust
ed with plaster of paris before drying.
England with ninety-four universi-
ties, has 1928 more professors and
5,814 more students than the $50 uni
versities in the United States. The
revenues of Oxford and Cambridge
represent capital of about seventy
five millions of dollars. The Univer-
sity of Leipsic is worth nearly twenty
millions.
Iceland was colonized by Norwegians
in 874. Christianity was introduced
in the year 1000. and the people en-
joyed republican form of government
and had flourishing literature till
l., l. Il,
of Norway, in 1864. The thousandth
anniversary of colonization was cele-
brated in 1874.
A dead gypsy was buried recently
in Weissensee, near Berlin. The hearse
was followed by gypsies playing fd-
dies or clashing symbals, the six old
est members of the clan beating tam
bourines. The burial was performed
with the ordinary catholic rites, but
afterward the gypsies sacrificed a dog
"to the moon"
An OK train is now operating in COM
petition with the Mexican Interna-
tional between Piedras Negras and
Santa Rosa. A considerable amount
of lumber is being transported in this
primitive manner, and while the OK
teams are little slow, they get there
Just the same, and it is claimed, for
considerable less money.
The diving apparatus is one of the
latest objects to which the telephone
has been applied. A sheet of copper
is used in place of one of the glasses
in the helmet, and to this telephone
is liked, so that the diver, when at the
bottom of the sea, has only to slightly
turn his head in order to report what
he sees or to receive illustrations from
above.