Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1891 — Facts in Short Order. [ARTICLE]

Facts in Short Order.

The male of the silkworm moth travels at the rate of one hundred miles a day. The average cost of constructing a mile of railroad in the United States at thq present time is about thirty thousand dollars. The number of passengers carried by all the railroads in the world averages six millions a day. It would take all the Lancashire cotton factories four hundred years to spin a thread long enough to reaoh the nearest star at the present rate of production of about one hundred and fiftyfive million miles per day. Teachers’ salaries in the United States annually amount to more than sixty million dollars. To effect the respiration of a carp, thirteen thousand three hundred arteTies, vessels, veins, bones, valves, etc., are necessary. In average condition, a turnip seed may increase its own weight fifteen times in a minute.