Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1890 — Curious Facts. [ARTICLE]

Curious Facts.

Dr. Gravenigo*, of the University of Padua, is said to have successfully performed an operation which hithertohas been vainly tried by various experimenters, both in France and elsewhere. The operation consists in the grafting of a chicken’s cornea into thehuman eye. In the successful case reported by Gravenigo the graft is said to have united quickly, and formed a cornea which was very transparent, shining and convex. The first Union flag was unfurled on January 1, 1776, over the camp at Cambridge. It had thirteen stripes of white and red, and retained the British cross in one corner. A gold nugget, worth $7.50, was found in the crop of a grouse that a woman was dressing for dinner at Sampson’s Mills, Ore., a few days ago. The pin factories of the United' States manufacture about 18,000,000,000 of these diminutive but useful articles every year. The sun cioes not rise on Mirror Lake, Yosemite, until 11:30 in the morning. ] • ■ ■ * -■■■" ~f