The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-11-21

In Sweden so per cent of insanity is
caused by drink.
People of Persia ate 4,615 tons of
horse meat last year.
Astronomers claim there are over
1850, 600 comets in the solar system
alone.
A ton of coal reines sixteen and two
thirds barrels of sugar of 325 pounds
each.
The British museum has no fewer
than 700 theological books written con-
cerning the creation of the world.
A ship chandler in Front Street,
Brooklyn, bears the high-sounding
name of Mr.. Westminster Abbey.
The tallest man in the German army,
"one-year recruit" in the First regi-
ment, is z feet 1-2 inches in height.
People should never go in the early
morning to get boots or shoes fitted. In
the latter part of the day the feet are at
the maximum size.
Doctors say that there is a small
ganglion in the throat that has control
of the muscles of that region and acts
very much like true brain.
All known chemical elements are rep
resented in sea water. They are not
always capable of being detected, how
ever, by chemical analysis.
The smaller the seeds of plants the
more numerous they are. A single
plant of spleenwort will produce. it is
claimed, over million seeds.
A hole only one-thousandth of an
inch in diameter has recently been
bored through ruby by new piercing
machine owned by a New York lapi-
Diary.
Men are becoming scarcer year after
year. So says German statistician,
and he predicts that 5000 years hence
there will be only one man to 22O
women.
There are forty-eight different ma
terials used in constructing a piano,
countries and employing forty-five diff
ferent hands.
Recent experiments at the great
Krupp Gun Works, Essen, Germany,
prove that the discharge of large cali
ber cannons can be heard twice as far as
the Ioudest thunder.
According to Galton, patterns on the
fnger-tips are not only Interchangeable
throughout life but the chance of the
finger prints of two persons being
alike is less than one chance in 81. 600.
600, 900.
Over fifty kinds of bark are now used
in the manufacture of paper. Even
banana skins, pea vines, cocoannt fbers,
hay, straw, water weeds. leaves. shaw
ings, corn husks and hop plants are
used for this purpose.
Sir Andrew Clark when president oi
the Royal College of Physicians and
Surgeons advised that each mouthful OF
food should receive thirty-two bites
that is, one for every tooth-f one
wishes to avoid dyspepsia.
Insurance is considered very desir
able by a farmer who dwells within ter
miles of Wauseon, Ohio. He went to
town and insured his barn. A spark
from the locomotive that conveyed hin
home set fire to the structure he haC
just insured.
For hours poor luck had attended thu
efforts of a colored fisherman on Film
River, near Albany, Ga. Then his hool
became entangled in something and he
hauIed up gold necklace, which haG
evidently been at the bottom of the riv
er for many years.
A noise in his bedroom aroused Mich
aef Dixon, of Pequonnoch, Conn. In
few moments he was struggling witt
the intruder in the dark, and soon van
ished him. The supposed burglar turn
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had not seen for years.
To tell mushrooms from toadstools
without eating and waiting for results
peel an onion and put it with the flung
while being cooked. If the onion re.
mains white, you may eat with conf
| aence; if it turns black, eat it not, il
you have the slightest desire for life.
Such has been the growth of the pop.
liar opinion in favor of the sudden dis
position of the dead by heat that there
are now in the country eighteen incor-
porated cremation societies and dur
ing the past ten years about 5000 Gre
nations have taken place.
Business is rushing with repairer O
bicycles whose shop is on road much
trequented by wheelmen, between
Brooklyn and Coney Island. 1t is sale
he makes trade for himself by care
fully sprinkling about six papers o
tacks every day in the road near hi
shop.
The Paris-born families become ex
| tinct in three or four generations, in
consequence of their feeble fecundity
and high rate of mortality and the aver
age length of life among them is only
28 years and month, as compared witt
40 years and 2 months for the rest o
| France.
The famous Victoria Regis, the trop
ical American water plant, with leave
12 feet across and capable of bearing tn
weight of two men, was discovered il
Bolivia by Haenke in 1901 but was no
named till 1888, when John Indie,
described it and dedicated it to Queer
Victoria.
A belle of Manhattan Beach wore
fancy bathing dress well padded at tn
shoulders. A rival had secretly re
moved the padding from the right shoul
der, and substituted salt. When sh
was five minutes in the water she was
fright. One of her graceful shoulder
had melted.
At the hygenic congress just held i
Buda-Pesth the fact was brought t
light that stammering is far more CON
mon among men than among women
the proportion of male to female STAN
merers being almost four to one. Thi
is not surprising, for impediment c
speech is rare among women.
The Mexican vaquero beats the worl
as thrower of the lasso. One of hi
tricks is to stick lot of long handle
knives in the ground close togethe
within the limits of a narrow circle, an
bet with outsiders that he can ride pas
at race horse speed and pick up any on
of the knives designated with rope.
1t is the common belief that the peac
tree is necessarily of short life, but ther
are some very old orchards on the Dela
ware Peninsula, and single trees hav
been known to bear for a great man
years. A Sussex county peach-growe
has an orchard thirty years old, and i
good peach years it yields abundantly
An English committee of sportsme
and naturalists is taking in hand tn
protection of South African mammals
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