The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-10-17
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stand telegraphy.
A steel shaft is to mark the historic
battlefield of Braddock, Pa.
Patti has gold watch only three
fourths of an inch in diameter.
The most densely settled state is
Rhode Island, the second is Massachu-
setts.
Potatoes cooked in the skins contain
more nutriment than if peeled before
boiling.
The Russian peasant never touches
food or drink without making the sign
of the cross.
A bicycle to run on single track of
railroad has been invented by a man
in Latah, Wash.
A gas well at Montpelier, Ind, has
changed its tune, and oil flows freely
from its mouth.
In France, Belgium and several other
European countries all elections are
held on Sunday.
The kangaroo readily leaps from 60
to 40 feet. The highest recorded leap
of horse is 81 feet.
Canada's divorces for the past twenty
years have just been figured up and
they amount to only 116.
There are more artesian wells in Cal
ifornia than any other state in the union.
One county claims 457 such wells.
The water that pours over the falls OF
Niagara is washing the rock away at
the rate of five yards in four years.
A larch tree, 140 feet high, the tallest
h. Tv,x- i
blown down in one of the recent gales.
Sea bathing causes many diseases of
the ear. Cotton should be put in the
ear when it is the intention to submerge
the head.
Royalties have, as body, defective
eyesight Princess Maud of Wales is
the only royal lady who wears single
eyeglass.
1t is about thirty miles across town
in London, and for that entire distance
there is an unbroken line of residences
and stores.
1t has been figured out that man
who shayes regularly until he is 80 has
cut off about thirty-fve feet of hair
from his face.
An "inch of rain" means gallon of
water spread over surface of nearly
two square feet, or fall of about 100
tons upon an acre.
According to the electrical engineer
there are good reasons for believing
that the friction of rain is the real
cause of lightning.
1t has been declared by Dr. Ross, a
Nova Scotia mining expert, that Wyom-
ing is richer in minerals than any other
state in the country.
Coal tar yields sixteen shades of blue,
the same number of yellow tints, twelve
of orange, nine of violet and numerous
other colors and shades.
A man named Button, of Fort Scott,
Kan, has named his daughter Pearl
and a Mr.. White, of the same state, has
named his daughter Snow.
Snakes in South America fear the
secretary bird, and will even crawl
away from its shadow. This bird can
easily thrash snake twice its size.
Professional fortune tellers roam from
house to house in New York, seeking
fools, to whom they reveal the future
at fees ranging from 80 cents to 81.
No living reptile possesses true power
of flight, and only one, the flying dragon
of the Indian Archipelago, has any
power of suspending itself in the air.
The bulletin of the Berlin bureau of
statistics says that four-fifths of the en-
gines of classes now working in the
world have been constructed since 1870.
Among the definitions in new Eng
lish dictionary are these: Bicycle
Pleasures treadmill. Ink-A black
fluid often used to make black seem
white"
Harris. in his book "Hermes," says
that all the nations of the earth, ancient
and modern, have ascribed to the sun
a masculine and to the moon a feminine
gender.
Recent figures show that the total
value of the matches made and con-
sumed every year throughout the world
is but little if anything short of 5000,
100000.
A Society of Women Journalists
has just been formed with an Office neal
the Strand, London. A register OF
women journalists seeking employment
will be kept there.
A French naturalist has hatched
chickens from eggs which he has kept
fresh for two years. To preserve the
eggs he dips each in solution of gum
lac dissolved in alcohol.
Prof. Onken, the German historian,
has been all his life remarkably free
from pimples. He is vegetarian, and
his favorite meal is formed of buttered
rolls, eaten with radishes.
An Elmira lady, to earn money fol
OhT170h 70 cha ha,
husband ten times for one dollar. Now
she has the money and her husband hai
an inartistically gashed face.
In patch of five acres in Burnet
county, Texas, are to be found nickel
gold, silver, lead, tin and large mum
Der of rare metals, such as cerium, Ian
tharum, erbium, thorium and uranium
LeadviAe was called California Gulct
from 1859 to 1864. 1t was then gold
producing point, and from 1864 to 1871
was almost abandoned. The discover,
of the great beds Of carbonate gave i
new life.
In connection with the sanitation O
armies thousands of experiments witt
large bodies of men show that they ar,
better able to endure the fatigue 8
hard marches when not allowed any al
cohol at all.
Once every fifteen years the plane
Mars comes within 35, 900, 900 miles o
the earth. AT all other times distanc
of something like 141, 900, 900 mile
separates the Marsians from the peopl
of our sphere.
The Victoria lily of Guiana has cir
cular leaf from six to twelve feet in di
ameter. 1t is turned up at the edg
Ikea tray and can support. according
to its size, from one hundred to thre
hundred pounds.
A German historian says that tn
menu card celebrated its 400th anniver
sary in 1889. 1t was first used, he de
clares, by Duke Henry of Brunswick a
the session of the German reichstag a
Regensburg in 1889.
Baltimore is the fourth maritime cit
in the country, being exceeded by Ne'
York. Boston and New Orleans, an
nearly 3. 900 FOREIGN vessels arrive an