The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-11-14
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In all Persia there are only twenty
miles Of railroad.
There are 147 Indian reservations in
the United States.
A Bohemian monk, in 1854, invented
the first lightning conductor.
In Finland and east Turkestan thun-
derstorms are wholly unknown.
Several European journals are being
printed on American made paper.
A telegraph line now traverses the
Cobb desert in China, 5000 miles in
length.
Aluminium is used as a substitute for
leather in building up the heels of boots
and shoes.
A machine making forty-two cigar
cites q minute has been invented by
Erenchman.
Recruits for the Chinese army will
not be accepted unless they can leap
ditch six feet wide.
Philadelphia makes its own gas at
cost Of az cents thousand feet, and it
Is scld to consumers at $1.25.
People who are troubled with sleep
lessness should drink cocoa, instead of
tea or coffee, at the evening meal.
Nearly everybody smokes in japan.
The girls begin when they are 10 years
Of age and the boys year earlier.
A car load of matches was ignited by
friction in transportation and burned
the other day at Burgin, Kentucky.
England has forty ships engaged in
the South African traffic, Germany
eight and the United States only two.
An advertisement of diving pictures"
at New York includes the announce
ment all the persons will wear clothes.
The consumption of wine in Mines,
France, averages bottle day for ev-
cry man, woman and child in the city.
When full the biggest ocean liner in
the world is said to be able to carry
$3.50. 600 worth of passengers on single
journey.
Before storing honey in trees bees
will clean the trees of all rotten wood
and vefuse. They never do anything
by halves.
An artist has written the Lords
prayer with a diamond on glass SO
microscopic as only to cover the S,00oth
part of an inch.
According to custom of Corea all
loyal Coreans must wear a white hat
for three years after the death of one of
the royal family.
Over three million acres in Dakota
have been irrigated, thereby increasing
the value of the land from $77, 600, 600
TO $500. 600. 900.
The grandmother of the German
kaiser was in early life a musician of
marked ability and composed many
marches for the Prussian army.
It Is stated on good authority that a
genuine Rubens, worth $5, 600 was pick
cd up at auction by an expert in Lon
don the other day for 35 shillings.
The leaf of the cocoanut tree is near
" thirty feet long. A single leaf of the
parasol magnolia of Ceylon affords
shade for fifteen or twenty persons.
The first four-track draw bridge in
this country has just been completed
near West Farms, N. Y, by the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Rail-
road.
A Georgia man, who received an cleo
tric shock in thunder storm, tells the
Atlanta Constitution that he felt a@brassy
taste in his mouth" for some time
after.
Weber belonged to a musical family
and his father was extremely anxious
that one of his children should prove a
prodigy in some direction, no matter
what.
The scientists have decided that the
average workingman requires daily in
his food not less than four ounces of
fat and eighteen ounce of the carbo-hy-
drates.
The central portion of New York State
is being overrun with grasshoppers.
Buckwheat, potatoes and beans have
been destroyed in large quantities by
these pests.
Tromsoe, in Norway has just cele-
brated its 1,0O0th anniversary. In that
time it has grown from sixty people to
5000, The Inhabitants are chiefly de-
voted to fishing.
The alligator does not attain his full
length until he is so years of age.
When year old his length is about
twelve inches; at the age of 15 he has
grown to two feet.
The cold is so intense in northern ST.
IBERIA that the earth never thaws to a
greater depth than five or six feet.
Bodies buried at a greater depth re-
main perpetually frozen.
A railroad between Coalzacoalcos and
Salina Cruz, Mexico, which opens a
new means of transportation between
the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific coast,
has been completed recently.
The pin machines of England, Hol-
land and Germany turn out an average
~ 81 000 00n r1suS rxyOTlz do "
of the year. At Birmingham one fac
tory makes 10000, 900 pins pei, day.
India has 81. 900, 900 acres in rice, 15,-
600. in wheat, $4,000, 900 in other
food grains, 100000 in sugar cane,
35l.0 in tea, 10000 900 in cotton, L.
900. 600 in indigo. 800 900 in tobacco.
In the Sandwich Islands the apple has
become wild. and forests of trees of
many acres are found in various parts
of the country. They extend from the
level of the sea far up into the mountain
sides.
While some workmen were diggin g
recently among the ruined temples OF
upper Egypt they unearthed an iron
box containing metal plate, which two
scientists who have regulations at stake
declare to be a camera and lens.
Of820, 600 children within the school
age in London, between 100000 and
800, 900 are educated in schools con-
trolled by the London school board.
They are taught by 1900 teachers, one
teacher to more than sixty pupils.
In the well-kpown house of Chequers,
in Buckinghamshire, may still be seen
the clothes worn by Oliver Cromwell
when baby. Among the articles used
by the protector in his cradle days are
six caps. scolloped round the edges and
bound with ribbons, now yellow with
age.
The pope has an egg which he re-
ceiyed from an English lady one Easter.
The shell is made of ivory, its lining OF
white satin and the yolk in golden
ease containing large ruby set in dia-
Ronds; the whole is worth upwards OF
10000
Sir Walter Raleigh was the first white