The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-07-01

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The conyicts of Norway are made
20 tim the soil
Expectation Of American eggs is in
creasIng constantly
The happy eagle Of Brazil feeds eH-
cluaiYely on monkeys.
The average crow is said TO destroy
100000 insects year,
London has 2.15l miles Of streets
and 300 miles Of tramways.
Rapid growth Of the finger nails Is
said TO indicate good health.
Some doctors say that eating beef
regularly is had for the temper
The salary OF Lieutenant general OF
the United States army is $1,000
Elghty.seyen in every one hundred
Canadian farmers own their farm.
Zine shlngla naIls. cut from the
solid metal, are practically indestruct-
ible
Russia is establishing numerous
wireless stations over is great terri
tory.
As a general rule a mans hair turns
gray five years earlier than a wom-
ans.
An electric machine has been made
10 wash and purify the air in any
room.
A watch ticks 1576S0O00 times in
a year and the wheels travel 3.558A
miles
The Turkish government has awak-
ened to the need Of irrigation and
railways.
Last year twenty-five people we're
killed by motor cars in the streets OF
London.
Neptune takes more than 100 years
10 make the complete revolution round
the sun.
More women marry between the
ages of 20 and % than at any other
time Of life.
Alfred Wade. Montesono, Wash.
raised l23 bushels Of wheat on two
acres Of land.
An Alabama man. 81 years OF age.
says he has eaten hot biscuits regu-
larly all his life.
Cooked food is sold from automo-
biles in the streets of Paris, Berlin
and Moscow
A healthy horse eats nine times its
weight in food in a year, a healthy
sheep six times.
A rosebush in a garden at Freiburg
covers ninety-nine square yards and
bears 10000 buds
Fifty-ton loads of coke can be dump
ed from up-to-date freight cars in less
than two minutes
At the last semi-annual official esti-
mate there were 299.293 Indians in
the United States.
The rudder Of the transatlantic
liner Olympic weighs 100 tons. being
the heaviest ever built
It is estimated that 10000 horse
power can be easily developed from
the st. Lawrence River.
Astronomers discover an average Of
three comets a year, but few Of them
are visible to the unaided eye.
From the whole of the worlds SUI
face the sun sucks up about 5000
/ cubic tons of water per annum.
Germany's students are jealous OF
foreigners and are endeavoring to
shut them out of the universities.
The Yarmouth and Lowestoft her
ring season has yielded 8OO,OOO,0OO
herrings, which sold for $5,OOO,OO0.
Copra is imported for its oil, which
is used wholly in soap-making, the
only by-product being residue used
for stock food.
The only by-product from copra is
the cake left by the crushing, which
is used for cattle feeding, and is
worth from $34 to S39 per ton.
The United States is the only coun-
! try of commercial Importance which
| does not forbid the use of white phos-
phorus in the manufacture of matches.
More than 100000 persons emigrat-
ed from this country during the year
1907. This is a much smaller num-
Der than shown by the previous year.
St. Louis has concrete building
ffty-seven feet high, which is entire
ly without windows. The illumina-
ton is by means of skylights in The
roof
The Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany is conducting extensive expert
ments with the hope of making wire
less telegraphy available for the oper-
alton of trains.
AS fax pulled from the ground
yields a longer fiber than that reaped
in the usual way, a Canadian clergy
man has invented a pulling attach
ment for binders
Mrs Mary A. Mason, of Great Sar-
rington, Mass, whose will has just
been probated, left nearly half mil
lion dollars to the town to establish
| and maintain a hospital
The production OF 1858 short tons
of tungsten concentrates in the Unit
ed States last year establishes a new
record for the metal Of this amount
Colorado yielded 1,401 tons
The Transvaal produced in the year
ended June 30, 1909, 1924, I'll, ,S55 fine
ounces of gold, valued at $150,793, 1903.
an increase Of $50, 1863 ounces and
! S12,057 ,230 over the previous year.