The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-09-26
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taken by Francis Dalton.
The terms hard and hardy are de-
rived from the Anglo-Saxon.
A hearth tax was formerly assessed
in many of the German states.
Pilgrims Progress" has been trans
lated into 2OS dialects and languages.
In Russia it was once the common be-
lief that beardless men were soulless.
Two girls were arrested in johnson,
Wash, recently for giggling in church.
Sneezing may be averted by pressing
firmly upon the upper lip with the fin
gers.
A 12-year-old lad is one of the most
expert bear hunters in Benton county,
Oregon.
The spring and autumn maneuvers
of European armies cost annually $1Q,-
100000.
Three-tenths of the earnings of a Belg-
ian convict are set aside for his benefit
on release.
Last year Australia produced gold to
the value of $1,000, 900 in excess of any
other country.
AParisian book collector has 700 vol
umes not larger than one inch wide and
two inches tall.
Boiled water tastes flat and insipid
because the gases it contained have
been driven off by heat.
The porcupine is called so because
his name comes from two Latin words
meaning a thorny pig.
Soap bubbles are round because ev-
cry part of their surface is equally press
ed by the atmosphere.
The roar of Niagara has been phono-
graphed and may be heard in any part
of America for small fee.
A st. Louis man lost his life recently
while attempting to save drowning
dog. The brute was saved.
The discovery of 1eaven is attributed
to the Egyptians, and 1t was from them
that the Hebrews learned it.
Fanny Crosby, the blind Methodist
hymn writer, has written 5000 Sunday
school hymns, many of which are wide
ly known.
A man has thirty times greater chance
of life if he live in four-room house
than if he is only able to rent a single
chamber.
In France the wife whose husband OBJ
iects seriously to her going on the stage
makes herself liable to divorce by per-
sisting in her desire.
The piles which served as the founda-
ton for Trajan's bridge over the Dam
ube, A. D. 105, are said to be still visi-
BILE at low stages of water.
Loaves in antiquity were fiat and SO
prepared that there was no necessity of
cutting them. From this fact arises the
expression "to break bread"
A South American paper says there is
a wide difference of opinion among i'm
porters as to whether it pays better in
the long run to bribe the officers or pay
the duties.
The population of the City of Buenos
Ayres is estimated at $780, The
birth rate is high, but Is per cent are
out of wedlock. immigration added
$4,000 last year.
The Province of Buenos Ayres is in
solvent; it is being sued for debt Of
500. 900, which has been owing for four
years. The budget of 1898 has been
put in force for 1894.
The largest collection in existence Of
the smallest books in the world is said
to be that owned by M. Georges Salo-
mon, Partisan amateur, of whose 7OG
little VOLUMES none is larger than l inch
wide by 2 high.
South American ants have been known
to construct tunnel three miles in
length, a lal or for them proportionate
to that which would be required for
men to tunnel under the Atlantic from
New York to London.
An honest Pennsylvania farmer re-
Gently saw an advertisement in paper
saying that for $40 the advertiser would
tell how to keep butter from getting
strong. The farmer promptly sent the
money and at once received the reply:
"Eat it."
There is growing practice in col
lege towns for lawyers to collect debts
due by graduates by attaching their di-
plomas. The young men just turned
out after long intellectual struggle
are generally brought to terms by this
unique process.
In health and during exercise the
average man has about twenty respira-
tions minute and forty cubic inches
are inhaled at each respiration. In an
hour 48, 600 cubic inches of air will be
inspired; in twenty-four hours, ,152,
600 cubic inches.
A writer in the american ArchSteci
shows by giving figures that govern
ment buildings cost between 60 and &c
per cent more than the same class oi
private work, and that the average time
taken upon government buildings il
more than three times as long.
The bee works harder than most peo-
pie would believe. There are about
sixty flower tubes in every head oi
clover, and only a tiny morsel of honey
in each. In order to get enough sugar
for load, the bee must visit about g..
600 different flowers, and each bee mus
make, on an average, twenty trips 6
day.
In regard TO the mammoth remains o.
Canada and Alaska DR.. G. M. Dawson
notes that in the northwestern part o.
the continent they are abundant in, L
not confined to, the limits of great un
glaciated area there, comprising nearly
al -AldSkd anu part OF Cno aOJacon
Yukon district of Canada. No masto
don bones have been reported from thii
region.
The "raft spider" found in Terra de
Fuego, is most extraordinary insect
1t derives its name from the fact that i
constructs raft of matted leaves ane
pieces of wood, which it uses to pursue
its prey on the water. Raft spider.
travel in fours. They make their oar
out of twigs and generally row a thirty
two stroke, although they have beef
known at times to increase the speed te
thirty-six.
Little shops ape the ways of the biz
ones sometimes with absurd results
One sees now and then tiny 10 by 1.
shop fairly hidden beneath hysterica
declaration that great stock must b.
sacrificed. Sometimes a shop tina
could by no possibility hold more thai
a few hundred dollars worth of good
announces a great clearing sale, whel
a half-hours' rush such as the big shop
oooaSionaliu hova would Ioavo tho Y1Ioo