The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-02-16
FACTS IN A FEW LINES,

No woman has entered the Conyen
of st. Catherine, on Mount Sinai. fo
1,400 years.
The oldest national flag in the worlt
ls that of Denmark, which has been il
use since the year 1919.
In Buffon's experiments he once
found Frenchman who could exert 9
force of 534 pounds with his jaws.
Once upon time the Scottish high.
lands were part of vast chain of noun
tains separating the Arctic sea from the
Atlantic.
Peace was proclaimed at Paris after
the Crimean war on Monday, March 81
1906 and i'll London on Tuesday, April
30, 1856.
Pulverized tiger bones are used as
medicine in China. 1t is believed that
they inpart to the invalid the strength
of tiger.
In the United States a ( liver of horses
sits on the right and turns his team in
that direction. In England the national
custom is the reverse.
The most eminent critical philoso-
pher was Kant, whose "Critique Of
Pure Reason" began new era in the
history Of philosophy.
Cromwell, carl Of Essex, established
parochial registers for births, deaths and
marriages between 1880 and 1888. in
the reign of Henry VIII.
Dust showers are frequently reported
from ships in the center of tho Moditer-
ranean 9ea and from hundreds of miles
Off the west coast of Africa.
The dance called honpipe dates as far
back as 1900 and took it's name from the
instrument called the pibcorn, to the
music of which it was danced.
st. jerome states that he saw Scotch
men i'll the Roman armies in Gaul whose
regular diet was human flesh and who
had double teeth all around"
In Australia horses and cattle are now
being branded by electricity from stor-
age batteries. The temperature is uni
form and the brand safe aud artistic.
The first great fire in an American
city occurred at Boston Aug. g. 1907.
BY this connagration 100 buildings were
destroyed, the loss amounting to over
e200, 600.
lii France man can put away his
wife if she goes on the stage without his
consent; i'll Portugal, if sto publishes
literary work without first asking his
permission,
An English writer says that the Glas-
gov water from Loeb Katrino is very
soft, and on that account it is computed
that the annual saving to the city in
soap alone amounts to some $3.50, 600.
That the earth is solid right to the
center, with tho exception of lakes and
reservoirs Of molten matter below the
crust, has been demonstrated by the re- |
rent researches cf Lord Kelvin and other |
Among tho additions to the Geological |
socicty's gardens. London, is Il Mexican
skunk, which was captured on an estate
IN Yorkshire, having escaped from cap
tivity. Three young cheotahs from So
have also been added to the
collection.
John Frederick Bottghor, who in
rented hard porcelain, was originally
IN alchcn,ist who, while employed at
he trmslnutation Of metals by thc
lcctor Of Saxony, discovered red porcc-
ain and later, by strange accident,
White or true porcelain.
In later times tho abbcsscs of the
;rcat converts were sometimes sum-
noned to councils and in tho reign of
edward III seven Countesscs and three
,aronCsses wcro summoned to attend by
,roXy at council at Westminster (13G2)
long with mobiles, abbots, etc.
The ages at which the greatest com
nanders made their repptations are
hose: Alexander the Great, between 2l
nd 33; Hannibal between 2G and 40;
'uli1s Cesar between ~ and 80; Fred
rick tho Great, between 20 and 81;
iustavus Adolphus, between SO and 3S;
Napoleon, between % and 4G.
Tho king CT Benin, on the west coast
f Africa, believes i'll the efficacy of hu-
nan sacrifices. When times are good, he
ills large number of slaves, and in
casons Of calamitics he kills an equally
nrge number Of these untortunates, and |
n 10th cases to appease tho gods, who
re supposed TO be equally apgrS at the
cod and i'll fortune of mortUls.
1t is not generally known that the re- {
lains of all the cars Of Russia since
'eter the Great lie III memorial chapel
uilt on one of the islands of the Neva.
III the cenotaphs are exactly alike, be- !
AZ q block of white marble, without /
ny decoration whatever. The only dis
nction by which each one is marked is
40 name Of the deceased emperor, {
There arc instances Of countesses,
aroncsscs and abbessea being summoned
send proxies CT TO furnish their nil.
'aly service, but not to after, Garlia.
lent MS peorcsses. 1her'. ..,rcst approach
, such a SUMMONS is that Of four ab.
esses who. IN la0u, were cited to tho
rcat council held TO grant an aid on
ne knlghtinG OF the Prince of Wales.
pf all The numerous instrumentssem.
loycd III our time, the oldest and. most
ldely known arc the drum, harp ana \
ngpipe. The first of these, simple. as its
obstruction is, has literally played an
nportant part in music 1t originated
the north Of Asia and was for more
IAN 1000 years tho only instrument
nown to the rude and rowing Tartars.
1t is Interesting to nota that, had it
ot been for the act Of settlement, the
nglish crown, by Hereditary descent, :
ould have gone to the fmily of the
lnghter Of (hGrleS | Grd Mnnll NOW I