Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — Facts In Few Words. [ARTICLE]

Facts In Few Words.

The wages of female servants in Prussia range from $14.28 to $71.40 per yeat; of males, $23.80 to $95.20. MICROSCOPISTS say that the strongest microscopes, do not, probably, reveal the lowest stages of animal life.' The wettest place in this country is Neah Bay, in Washington. Over 123 inches of rain fallß there every year. IT is about thirty miles across town in London, and for that entire distance there is said to an unbrhken line of and stores. * The water that pours over the falls of Niagara is wearing the rook away at tbe rate of five yards in four years. Chicago has a Domestic Science Association, which proposes bo, build an £ institution where women will be instructed in home duties. os-, , Some recent investigators claim that the sweetness and fragrance of tha very best butter is due to a certain beneficent species of bacteria. Mourners' at Persian funerals m furnished with little wads of ootton with which to wipe aw#y their tears The tears are then preserved and are supposed to contain restorative qualities In case of fainting.