Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1899-06-03
Facts In a Few Lines.

me nlgncSt mouse III PdriS has eight
stories.
Detroit will have the first factory to
make linoleum in the West
There are $50 employees to every 100
miles of railroad in the United States.
Two-thirds of the United States have
abolished days of grace on commercial
paper.
Few people are aware that the first
American captain general of Cuba was
Andrew jackson.
The population of New South Wales
last year was 1916. 2lO, males showing
a majority of 100000.
Australia is the one place in the world
where the towns are more beautiful than
the country.
Certain enthusiastic citizens of Bula-
wayo propose erecting monument in
bronze of Cecil Rhodes
The parliamentary reporters are up
in arms against the length of Sir Henry
Campbell Zimmerman name.
The wornout uniforms of the British
army. when sold. bring back into the
war office treasury close upon sl50.O0O
Il year.
The largest telescope in existence does
not make the planet Mars appear any
bigger than the moon does through an
opera glass.
There are about so distinct tribes
among the natives of the Philippines
The Moros are the most bloodthirsty
savages known.
There are millions of the inhabitants
of the Philippine Islands who never
knew the dominion of Spain and never
saw Spaniard
Every inhabitant of the Austrian
village of Storbeck is chess player
The children are taught tn play chess
just as they are taught TO read and write.
\ New York lawyer charged coun-
sci fee of $3.50 and a bondsman fee of
$50 TO defend boy who was held for
the larceny Of 30 cents worth of gro
ceries.
The origin of the modern circus dates
back to about 100. when Philip Ashley,
4 discharged soldier. gave exhibitions
of horsemanship i'll an improvised ring
at Lambeth.
Gout is rarely known among the
working classes of Ireland Their i'm
munity from this complaint is thought
to be due to the fact that their food
consists largely of potatoes.
Horses. giraffes and ostriches have
the largest eyes of all terrestrial ami
mails, but among marine animals there
are cephalopods, or ink fishes, which
have eyes as large rs plate
At Stratford- on Avon, the poets
birthplace, is desk said TO have been
used by Shakespeare. The desk looks
authentic. IL shows marks where gen
erations of schoolboys have whitfield it.
Ii is estimated that it will take six
years to complete the New York harbor
although i'll less than
that time the new channel will have
reached a depth sufficient TO admit the
largest steamers.
If servant in Germany falls sick,
her mistress is not allowed to discharge
her, but must pay a. cents day for
her hospital expenses until she is per
fcctly well The wages of girls vary
from g.. 10 to $720 month, with board.
Plants protect themselves by terrify
ing attitudes, just as do insects. One
Of the uses of the movements of the
sensitive plant is to brighten animals.
A venturesome browsing creature COM
ing near it is afraid to touch a plant
spirits.
The Royal Academy of Sciences of
Amsterdam has paid a delicate compli-
ment to the English speaking world by
that its transactions shall in
future be printed i'll English instead of
the native Dutch. i'll order that they
may be more available to the scientific
world at large.
4 correspondent of the Baltimore Sun
suggests that the fiftieth anniversary
If Poe's death, which falls ON Oct. 60
This year, be celebrated i'll Maryland by
4 hearty revival of the movement to
erect i'll the city of Baltimore a suitable
monument to Poe.
At Birkin. near Fcrrybridge, England.
the other day plow came into contact
with stone coffin covered with stone
lid and containing human bones. The
coffin is ! feet & inches long. feet
wide and the sides inches to , inches
thick 1t weighs nearly two tons.
In an article ON the danger of long
hours in druggists shows the London
Lancet says that during the four years
ending July, 1895. - dispensing as
sistants in drug stores committed sui
ride. and seven others attempted. hut
failed, to kill themselves. These suicides
were the consequence of the physical
induced by the taking of
drugs to resist the effects of fatigue.
4 broken wooden headboard and a
neglected mound of earth in the Fort
Yates IN. d. military cemetery marks
the resting place of Sitting Bull. the
great Sioux medicine man, whose willy
brain planned the death trap ut Little
Big Horn into which General Clusters
command fell On the broken head
board is written, No. "a, Sitting Bull.
Indian" Relic hunters have cut most
If the headboard away.