Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-12-27

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tits said that Cleveland has one saloon
to every 115 Inhabitants.
Married women in japan shave off
their eyebrows and blacken their teeth.
At depth of one mile the pressure
of ocean water is one ton to the square
inch.
A spring of good water on claim ia
Oklahoma adds $500 to the value Of the
claim,
Lake Acubo, Chill, has an area of 40
square miles, and is 1880 feet above
sea level.
Louis Cyr, the Canadian Sampson,
lifts $500 pounds without harness or
other apparatus.
Bacteria are so small that, it takes
100000 Of them placed lengtEwse to
measure an inch.
In 1899 there were l,200,0 two
wheeled and 100000 four wheeled
vehicles in France.
James Willis of Mount Sterling, KY,
has been struck by lightning four differ
cnt times and still lives.
1t is said that the Yale football team
earned for college athletic interests
nearly $4,000 last year.
Frozen turtle from the south seas is
now on its way from Queensland to
| London us an experiment.
The peacock is found in a wild state
in India, Ceylon, Madagascar and many
other parts ol Asia and Africu.
4 dog 80 inches high, 0 feet, i inches
long and weighing $50 pounds, belongs
to Il. w. Abbott, Elkton, Mass.
Tho Mint Registry says that there
were 1850 silver dollars coined in 1904.
They are now worth $1,000 each.
OF the 10000 recruits in the Bavarian
army of 1903, only half u dozen men
were found unable to read or write.
A Biblical student has figured cut
that Suomon's temple was only 107 feet
long, IS feet wide and 81 feet high,
The great pelican often has wing
spread of 10 feet. The bird itself some-
times exceeds 25 pounds in weight.
The wire suspension bridge over the
Niagara is nearly 800 feet in length, and
is suspended 260 feet above the river.
The wife of g. Beaupre of St. Ray
mond, Providence, Quebec, gave birth
to twins after she was 75 years of age.
A negro boy of Cherokee, Ga, who
was attacked by three rattlesnakes and
bitten several times, recovered within IL
few days.
The original of the face on the silver
dollar is Miss Anna Willess Williams,
formerly a teacher in the Philadelphia
public schools.
Remains of the Orohippers, an extinct
|. species Of horse found in the Bad Lands,
prove that it had five toes and was not
larger than goat.
A manufacturer of artistic furniture
in Paris has just completed chair, the
. forelegs Of which are of solid gold. l.
is valued at $37 500.
The longest railroad tunnel in the
world is the st. Gothard. 1t is Of miles,
II longer than the Mont Gents, and It's
cost was $12,000,000.
There is miniature Indian corn
grown in Brazil. The ears are not
larger than little finger, and the grains
are the size of mustard seeds.
An electric street sprinkler is in use
: in Philadelphia. 1t has two 80 horse
! power motors, holds 2,700 gallons Of
! water, and runs is miles an hour.
A Peter Cooper's engine, the "Tom
: Thumb, weighed about u ton; the wheels
e were q feet in diameter, the smoke
' stack looked like a big 'putty-blower.'
$ Estimating the length of the railways
t on the globe at $4,000 miles, with II
$ trains daily, it Is calculated that the los.
by wear and tear on the metallic rails
* amounts to 600 tons day.
: The Prince Regent of Bavaria give;
Q presents on his anniversary day, insten(
y of receiving them. His last gift wa
Il 100 bottles of diphtheria serum for the
7 Hospital for Poor Children at Munich
n The longest time during which mott
4 has remained outside the Bank Of Eng
u land is III years. IL was for G25, aut
!. it is computed that the compound in
= terest during that long period am0uMtct
: to no less than $4,000.
:. When child dies in Greenland, thu
!, natives bury live dog with it, the do!
2 to be used BY the child as guide to TIN
;. other world. When questioned with re
q gard to this peculiar superstition, thel
n will only answer: "A dog can find hi
# way anywhere
e When the tomato is grated on tn
10 potato, which can be done by reason o
e the close relationship between the tw'
Is plants, the potato roots continue to pro
e duce potatoes, while the tomato giraffe,
II I'M the potato stalk continues to pEoduc
&c tomatoes.
l. When glass is as full as il possibly
l. can be of liquor the surface Of the liauo
l. is slightly convex, and the centre lie
IL higher than the brim. lii view Of thi
n fact, such glassful is called bumper
y because the liquor bumps up, Or pro
trudes in the middle.