The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-01-30
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year 5000, 900 pounds of nuts.
There are now in Japan 377 Christian
churches and 643 missionaries.
In four years 26, 900 men and women
have taken their lives in France.
Vernier, the young French mathe-
matical prodigy,is only 10 years of age.
Miss Emily Faithful is an inveterate
smoker, through the advice of her
physician.
A suit of chain armor such as the
knights wore in Charlemagnes time cost
about 1000.
At Reading, Pa, seventeen school
mattresses are to have authority to ar
rest disturbers.
The eyes of the birds that fly by night
are generally about double the size of
those of day birds.
David Christie Murray prides himself
upon being able to write three-volume
novel in five weeks.
Since the beginning of history there
have been records of more than seven
thousand earthquakes.
Somebody says that there has been
spent for physical culture in the United
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Most of the land in the Republic of
Mexico is held in almost feudal tenure
by about seven thousand families.
The battle of the FoSty wa duel be-
tween twenty French and the same
number of Italian knights about 1890.
King Oscar, of Sweden, is the only
European monarch who unreservedly
accepts the Darwinian theory of evolu-
ton.
Queen Victoria, it is said, will now
use electricity for cooking the more
delicate dishes to be served at the royal
table.
All grades of paper, from the finest
note to the coarsest variety of wrapping,
have been made from stalks and leaves
of corn.
Auctioneers' fees in the United States
and England are paid by the vender.
In Holland and France the purchasers
pay them.
The duchess of York for some years
has devoted portion of her leisure in
the WRITER to the manufacture of clothes
for the poor.
The average depth of the ocean is
about three miles. If the water were to
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would be left.
Glass furnaces in Hungary are built
in the forests, which are used for fuel.
When the nearby timber is gone new
furnace is built.
w. S. Gilbert, Sir Arthur Sullivan's
famous collaboration, has so little ear for
music that he can not distinguish har-
mony from discord.
At Gettysburg 140, 900 men were op-
posed and of this number the total
federal loss was %, 1913; the total con-
federate loss was $4,000.
The Duchess de la Rochefoucauld,
daughter of Senator Mitchell, of Oregon,
is one of the cleverest women in the
American colony of Paris.
The great American tax dodger is
Mrs. Hetty Green, who, though pos
sessed of many millions, escapes with an
assessment upon $4,000
Shoes are often made by families in
the Argentine Republic and sold to
dealers, much as people in this country
once made wearing apparel.
Mrs. Morley, an eccentric Montreal
widow. has 100 cats in her house at
Tongue Pointe. She recently had
eighteen boys arrested for stoning her
cats.
The late Robert Louis Stevenson re-
tanned his fondness for excessive indul-
gence in cigarettes to the last and
smoked his last tobacco bundle a very
short time before his death.
The Roman soldiers must have been
powerful men. Many of the swords
that have been recovered from tombs
weigh six to ten pounds, while the bat
tle-axes often weigh twenty.
A London charitable organization
called the Ministry of Old Boots" an
nually collects and distributes 80, 600
garments and 1000 pairs of boots to
the needy poor of the great city.
Sarah Bernhardt has earned and
spent more money than any other living
actress. In the last twenty years she
has earned 81, 500, 900 and circulated ii
with the extravaganza of a princess.
Cecil Rhodes started his South African
career as a cotton planter in the colony
of Natal but when the first rush to the
kopjes of Kimberly took place, Mr..
Rhodes deserted the cotton field for the
diamond mines and has remained there
ever since.
There are 244 daily papers in the
United States and Canada, to each one
of which is accorded over 5000 circula
ton and less than %, 600 circulation by
the American Newspaper Directory
The aggregate circulation of the entire
number is 1876, 700.
Russian engineers are studying the
route for the waterway to connect the
White Sea with the Baltic. The tota
distance is about $50 miles. in part al
ready navigable, uniform depth of 81
feet can be obtained for the whole cana
it is estimated, at cost of only Sc, 900,
600.
Marion, the American revolutionar,
general, once feasted an English office
on sweet potatoes baked in the fire by
darky and served on a strip of bark
with log for a table. 1t is said tha
the officer resigned and went home, say
ing it was no use to try to conquer pee
pie who could live on sweet potatoes.
There are great many strang
and Italian are queer enough, as velC
farrad and velociferO may be quoted
The Chinese call it foreign horse,
flying machine" and "caTriage-tha
observation-disclosures" The Flemish dis
tinguish it with the easy name, "Gt
wielsneIrijvoettrappeudneusbrekerg g e
tel"
1t is said that the Emperor William
a great admirer of what is called
Germany the "Reichester officer" styl
of curling the mustache, with poin
toward the corners of the eyes. Havin
been told that Berlin hair-dresser ha
special treatment for this sort of adorl
ment he sent for him and ordered hil
to dress the imperial mustache daily
the desired style. The event is the tai
of Berlin, and the artist, Haby, who ge
5 marks for each visit, is delighted wit
the effect of his treatment.
Very few of the famous singers of tt
world have died rich, although man
made enormous fortunes. Alboni W;
notable exception. So was Nil
Catalni. Malibran died too young
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