The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-10-31
MISSING INKS.

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$4,000 horse power.
The only quadruped that lays eggs is
the ornithorhynchus of Australia.
The word "penknife" is one of the
words found only once in the Bible.
Delaware is the lowest state and Col
orado the highest above the sea level.
A portrait of Emily Bronte, the only
one known, has been recently discov-
cred.
Some deep sea fish have luminous
organs and light their own way through
the darkness.
Nearly two million sacred images are
annually manufactured at Vladimir and
Kursk, Russia.
Every civilized nation of the world,
even China and Japan, now has
weather bureau.
In the textile trades and mines of
Austria week of seventy-two to ninety
hours is not uncommon.
A Hungarian inventor claims to be
able to make from wood pulp a fabric
suitable for durable clothing.
Sirius. the fixed star, now in the as
cendant, is computed to be 100, 900, 000,-
600 miles distant from the sun.
A cotton shower, looking exactly like
snow storm, is common sight in the
cottonwood groves in Colorado.
At Bombay twenty-four inches of
rain have fallen in day; at Genoa,
thirty; at Gibraltar, thirty-three.
Alabama's supply of red cedar is ex-
hausted. This state was once the chief
source of supply of the United States.
A small horsepower engine which is
said to make forty-two cigarettes a
minute is the invention of a French
man.
An English writer describes Poe and
Emerson, 'the one as the artist of the
beautiful and the other as that of the
true"
There are over 5000 ancient towers
in Sardinia, the object of which no one,
from Aristotle down, has ever been able
to determine.
The tallest people in the world are
the Patagonians, whose average height
is feet; the shortest are Laplanders,
averaging but 5.
The Sierra Nevada range of mount
aims in California is nearly 500 miles
long, 20 wide, and from 1000 to nearly
Is, 900 feet high.
The tissue of the liver is composed of
an immense number of polygonal
masses from sixteenth to twelfth of
an inch in diameter.
A woman of perfect form should
measure about foot more from her
waist to her feet than from her waist to
the crown of her head
Lieut.. Bersier, of the French navy,
has invented a compass which does
away with steersman, as the compass
steers the vessel itself
The fattest man was Daniel Lambert.
A few days before his death, in his 10th
year, he was weighed and turned the
balance at 739 pounds.
Involuntary muscles are generally
pale or nearly white, and are composed
of cells or granules about 1-3000th part
of an inch in diameter.
Prof. John Milne, one of the greatest
living authorities on earthquakes, says
it is not likely that they ever result from
electrical disturbances.
Birds and bees frequently fight pitched
battles over honey stored in trees.
Sometimes one side and sometimes the
other comes out victorious.
Jewish guides in Rome never pass
under the Arch of Titus. but walk
around it. The reason is, it commemo-
rates victory over their race.
Malachi Moon, of Moniteau county,
Missouri, has Gordon setter that is
confirmed inebriate. He drinks only
lager beer, but gets drunk regularly.
The hair has growth of its own
apart from that which animates the
human body. This accounts for the
growth of the hair in the dead long
after interment.
Science tells US that the body of every
human being weighing 150 pounds con-
tains one pound Of salt Also that every
one of us needs in year about fifteen
pounds of salt.
At a recent civil service competition
for the position of sorter in the English
postoffice, with maximum pay of SO
week, there were sos female candidates
to fill ten vacancies.
1t is now believed that chemical and
medical science will soon make the veg
etable foods-notably grass-digestible
by man without first passing through
animal Intermediates.
In speaking of the death of an aged
Baptist deacon. the Springfield Repab-
lic0rs remarked the other day, Although
quiet and unostentatious man, he was
very much respected"
Seasoned timber is but little liable to
decay under the influence of dry at
mosphere and will resist decomposition
for an indefinite period when kept to-
tally submerged in water.
1t is said that a man at Heming's Cor
ners, Tenn, shrinks once month from
180 to ITO pounds and remains in that
condition for week, after which he re-
gains his original weight.
The earnings of the dog catcher of
Wilmington, Del, for the last fiscal
year were $1.578. so, which is nearly
800 more than the salary of the mayor.
The dog catcher works by the piece.
The aerial space within the limit of
our vision is calculated to have diam
eter of 42O, 600, 900 miles and circum-
ference of 1, 1929, 742, 600, 900 miles. And
this is only a fragment of the immensity
of space.
The frogs in a certain hollow at Quit
man, Ca, make such noise that the
owner of a neighboring house has to
use speaking trumpet at night when
he wants to make himself heard in the
next room.
An ingenious Pittsburger has devised
a clothes wringer which is operated by
electricity. 1t works automatically and
when the last piece is squeezed out a
bell rings and the washtub is turned
over and emptied.
Abram Barton, of Bristol, England,
has devised submarine boat for which
he claims speed of sixteen knots It
is shark-shaped and is propelled by
twin screws located at what would be
the fans of the fuke in the fish.
In somewhat speculative conclusion
of a recent paper, Mr.. Preece mentioned
the effects of an aurora on telephone
circuits, and stated that it was not a
wild dream to say that we may hear on
this earth A Thunderstorm in the SIM