Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — THINGS WORTH KNOWING. [ARTICLE]

THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

The Buddhists nave thirty-two hells. One ton of coal yields 10,000 feet of gas. In Denmark the loftiest mountain is said to be only 535 feet high. Pigeons have been used as mail carriers for about seven hundred years. Every square mile of the sea contains 120,00u,0u0 tish of various kinds. In the coldest part of Siberia the ground is frozen to a depth of 620 feet. It is said tnat about 10,000 gross of pens are produced from a ton of steel. A human body, when cremated, leaves a residuum of about eight ounces. The British Isles comprise no fewer than one thousand islands and islets. The longest verse in the Bible is the ninth verse of the eighth chapter of Esther. MasSACHUsh.s is said to be the great shoe producing commonwealth of the world. Astronomers claim that the temperature of the planet Neptune reaches 900 degrees below zero. Anatomists say that the average weight of the circulating blood of the body is about twenty-eight pounds. I r has been discovered that t>e weight required to crush a square inc i of brick varies from 1,200 to 4.5u0 pounds. It is alleged that in the Ukwine, in Russia, women do all the courting, and propose to the men they desire to marry. The skin of the whale is thicker than that of any other fish. In some places it reaches a thickness of several inches. Bullion is, properly, uncoined gold and silver in the mass; but the word i» sometimes used to denote gold and silver coin. At the time Shakspeare wrote his p ays there were not in all the world as many English-speaking people as there are now in New York and New Jersey. Every time a cigar dealer takes a handful of cigars from a box and spreads them out before acustomer, be violates < ne of the most stringent laws of the United States. Algeria, which has 2,500,000 acres of cork forests, of wnich 300,000 acres are made to yield regular crops, is c aimed to be the greatest cork-pro-ducing country in the world.