The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-03-13
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ago.
The humming bird of Mexico lays an
egg that is not much larger than pins
head
Deep sea sounding of 4,5OO fathops
were taken on the coast of Alaska in
1898.
The latest estimate of the population
of Maine is 722,000, a gain of Il, 900 in
four years.
Pope Telesphorus. of the second GEN.
tury A. D., instituted Christmas, the
great Christian festival.
The marriage ceremony of Javanese
bride is not complete until she washes
the feet of the bridegroom.
The sound of a bell. which can be
heard 40. 200 feet in the water, can be
heard only 456 feet in the air.
A Saco physician has certified that an
old lady "died from old age, and that
said disease is not contagious"
Deposits of sand and dust six inches
deep were left in some dwellings dur
ing recent sandstorm in Wyoming.
In nine consecutive transatlantic voy-
ages the II. 000-ton Lucania averaged
trifle over twenty-five miles an hour.
The vito of G. Beaupre, of St. Ray
mond. Providence. Quebec, gave birth
to twins after she was Is years of age.
The wettest place in the world is
Cherrapungi, in Assam. where the aver
age rainfall for fifteen years has been
49S inches. In 1861 it was 905.
WV. Thomas, ex-minister to Sweden
and Norway. says that, relative to its
kH4
tenn of Sweden is the most complete in
the world.
A Newark On. j. bridegroom start
ed on his wedding tour the other day
with a black eye. His sister-in-law
causing it by vigorously throwing
weighty slipper after him to give luck
to the young couple.
A storm overturned a large oak tree
on the farm of NJ. D. Cartwright, of
Ripley, Miss. While squirrel hunting
B. S. Saunders, of Indian Bay, Ark,
discovered beneath the roots pot
of gold and silver coin amounting to
$4,000.
In the shop of ST. Petersburg watch
maker human-faced clock is on view
the only one of its kind. The hands
are pivoted on its nose. aud any mes
sages that may be spoken into its ear
are repeated by phonograph through
its mouth.
Herr Mascha has lately unearthed in
Moravia number of skeletons of man.
moths associated with those of human
beings. A remarkable feature of one
find was that of what appeared to be a
whole family of human beings of gi-
gantic size ceexistent with the man.
moth.
The death of the oldest cat in Con-
necticut at the age of "a years and
months is recorded at Hartford. The
cat was named Dick and was hand
some fellow, Maltese, and white, bright
and intelligent above the average of his
race. and had plenty of admirers out
side of his home associates.
w. G. Sterling 6 Son, large cedar
pole dealers of Monroe. Mich, have re-
ceived an order for telegraph poles to be
shipped to Buenos Ayres, South Amer
ica. This is a trial order, and if the
poles go through safely and are salts
factory, this company is promised some
large orders.
Fifty-five towns and cities in Eng
land destroy their garbage and solid
refuse by burning. using an average of
ten furnaces each for that purpose. The
combustion of the material is used for
the generation of steam, by which the
streets are electrically illuminated. thus
reducing their municipal expenses by
this means.
1t is now the turn of Cadmus to sur
render the fame he has long enjoyed
for bestowing an alphabet on Greece.
Engraved stones unearthed in the ISL
A,NE ~
method of writing long before the in
PRODUCTION of the Phenician alphabet.
Archaologists are evidently bent on
showing that the ancient celebrities are
really quite modern.
Trinity parish in New York City is
served by a small army of organists,
singers, acolytes and other semi-ecclesi-
astical adjuncts to worship. There are
twelve organists and assistants and
more than 800 persons are employed in
the choir or as acolytes, servers and
crucifers. Besides these the parish en-
ploys nearly forty teachers in its daily
schools, score of sections and nearly a
dozen doctors.
New Hampshire yields most of the
mica produced in this country, and no
great quantity at that Mica always
a e5OOu HAlSC, uho SCSOuo~
hand furniture dealers in New York
sometimes make it a speciality. Even
bric-a-brac dealers occasionally keep it,
and an eccentric member of that guild
in Houston street has a pane in win
dow of her shop glazed with leaden
mica by way of advertisement.
Kentucky has been rounding up her
fat children and has discovered some
nnfo hlo To7.r01l nfrY hoe
a9-year-old boy who weighs 131 pounds.
Little Horace Lane, of WyckIiffe, is the
last prodigy heard of. He is years old,
weighs 142 pounds. measures thirty
nine inches round the waist, forty-one
round the chest, eighteen round the
biceps, and is four feet five and half
inches tall.
Dover, N. H, one of the prettiest of
the smaller cities of New England, is
reported to be one of the largest con-
sumers of snuff among all the cities of
the country. The population is some
thing like 10000 and last year more
than five tons of this form of tobacco
was used there. The habit of snuff dip
ping is not usual in New England. and
it was brought to Dover, so it is said,
by soldiers Just after the war; and has
increased to its present proportions.
India is getting nearer to England
year by year. New and faster steam
ers have been put upon the P. and o.
line and letters are now delivered in
London twelve days after their depart
ure from Bombay. The mail, of course,
travels across the continent by rail to
Brindisi, a route which would not be
available for the transportation of troops
in the event of war. The troops could
be carried from Great Britain to India,
it is believed, in eighteen days,
A frog farm with about 100000
head of stock is carried on successfully
by man in Contra Costa county, Cal.
He started ranching in frogs a few
months ago with herd of about 1000
frogs and is already making lots of
money. He supplies the markets of
San Francisco, Oakland and other
large cities on the coast II costs little
or nothing to raise the frogs, and the
y-anOhnr 30 ota 70 l., L