Democratic messenger., 1899-06-24
$l.OO A YEAR.
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

nually
The queen has so housemaids at
Windsor castle.
Marine underwriters paid si2 600. OOD
in losses on sea last year
Wooden legs are used by over |. 900
400 English speaking men
Eightsix per cent If railway tickets
issued in England are for third class
The higes, price ever paid for a race
horse was .l50. 00O for the famous Or
monde
Only about ono in 900 cattle ship
ped abroad from this country dies or is
lost at sea
St Peter :. Rome. can accommodate
81. 600 wcrShippers. and st Paul's
London. b. 900
The earliest church If Staten Island
denses at Stony Brook
Last year in "a cities Of the United
States S.S44 divorces were asked for
and $500 were granted
ONiHH 10 the uIHeESHNt III Iiit aver
age death rate il may he said that three
Englishwen live as long as five Rus
SLAMS
The only artisan buried in Westmin-
ter abbey is George Graham. the instru-
ment maker who invented clockwork
in the year 1900
Alaska babies rarely cry When they
do they are held under little stream
of runnin. water-usually under
barrel tap-rntil they stop
1t is believed that aluminium was
originally discovered b G.. 40. but if so
the discovery was confined To only
few and was quickly forgotten
In taking an oath in England there
is now no eompnlsion to kiss the book
The law provides that the Scottish form
may be used if the swearer so desires.
The Universalist Register for 1899
reports ISL churches. with IS. $50 mem
bers Massachusetts leads in the denom-
national work. and New York comes
next
In Germany new houses are being
supplied with floors made of compressed
paper They are soft to step on and
having no cracks of any kind. harbor
no dust
A newborn baby in Dover. Me-. re-
ceived as his first the following timely
outfit from friend of his parents A
bunch of toothpIcks, a toothbrush and
shaving mug
The Crystal palace in London. where
the first worlds convention of Chris
tian Endeavnr will he held in 1900. can
accommodate 100. 900 persons. Prepara-
tions are making for -. 900 delegates.
lyon best a man whrn he gets the
worst Of it. says the New York Com
mel icial Advertiser '.You worst him
when you get the hest of it. That is to
say. to best and 'tu worst mean ex-
actly the same thing Curious is Ian
guage and its developments 7
Perhaps the finest mansoleum in ex-
istence is that IN Agra. India. which
was built by the Emperor Shah Jehon
of erection. and ON il 90. O00 men were
constantly employed dnring that pc
riod The cost was "a IUO. GOO
The original IL states contained 325,-
1S5 square miles. or pos. a0a. 100 acres
In 1898 the United States contained
.. 7a0. 100 square miles. or .6SS. 313. 800
acres. in organized states Ii also CON
tanned $50. a70 square miles. or 561. 2l2.
500 acres of territory not organized as
states
When Chinese girl is married. her
attendants are invariably the oldest and
ugliest women anywhere to be found in
the neighborhood who are engaged ex-
pressly to act as foil to her beauty.
IL is said that several exceptionally ugly
old women make handsome income
per annnm by acting in this capacity.
The following curious advertisement
recently appeared in the London Spec
tator Thousands of people would be
glad to know of religion without SUI
perstition. faith without credulity
and worship without idolatry. Apply
for theistic literature to Mrs Laing.
the Theistic church. Swallow street.
Piccadilly. London
When Lord Kitchener went 10 Cam
bridge university to receive his degree
of doctor of laws. the undergraduates
celebrated the occasion with bontires
and IA good deal Of rowdyism The uni
versity senate now recommends that n
rule be passed that henceforth no I'M
dergraduate shall take part in the pub
lie proceedings of the university
A unique Maori mat composed of the
feathers nf the kiwi (the wingless
bird of New Zealand) was sold in Lon
don auction room the other day In the
mat were two panels of feathers of the
white variety. which probably no living
person has seen in England Ii is said
that il took the tribe whose chief doubt
less used it as u prayer mat ten years
to collect them The mat fetched so
guin.as and was bought il is said. for
the Natural History museum
A Lewiston Me merchant has in
his store an old fashioned clock which
is peculiarly sensitive II sometimes
stops. and IL any one steps into the
store or goes by it will start again. and
if horse stops ON certain spot in the
street il will start A man who hap
pened to notice il and who had one like
ii himself said that his would not run
after he had started his furnace in the
fall In the spring. after he ceased TO
keep fire. il would run all right
In the war of the Crimea. with
|. 1850. 500 troops. there We're killed in
battle 53. $40; died of wounds. 66. 600:
died Of disease. l92. 200 In the Ameri-
can war of lS6i.5 in the northern army
there took the field .. 336. OO6 troops:
there were killed in battle. "A. a40:
there died Of wounds $4,000 there
died Of disease. 4t9. 240. In the Spanish
American war there took the field ETA.
Ill troops: there were killed in battle.
29s: there were wounded. 1871; there
died from disease. 26i9
Care of Pigs.
One OF my ueighhors had four litters
of pigs 10 come Cn the 10th Of Febru'
AIRY with the mercury IA degrees below
zarn He nad,s ,,,,nd beds of short stuff