Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — FACTS IN FEW WORDS. [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN FEW WORDS.

There are over 20,000.000 fruit trees in California. Norwegians are the most temperate people in the world. The first dentist in America made a set of teeth for Gen. Washington. Among the pupils at one of the public schools in Georgia is a negro woman 43 years old. An inventor has devised a child’s swing which will work the well pump as the child swings. A Chinese doctor in setting a bone wraps a chicken head among the bandages to insure rapid healing. Sioux Indians of South Dakota hell more than SIOO,OOO worth of grain to the Government e ery year. The robin is always the last bird to go to bed in the evening, ts eves are large, and it can see well by a dim light. A Boston naturalist, with a tuning fork, has discovered that crickets chirp in unison, and that their note is E natural. < A woman in Boston is suing the estate of a deceased physician so ■ 00 because of his breach of promise to marry her. The rudder of the Cunard steamship Campania consists of a single plate of steel, 22 by 11 feet 6 inches and li inches th ck. It was ro led at Krupp's German gun factory. The largest plow in the world is owned by Richard Gird, of San Bernardino county, Cal This immense sod-turner stands eighteen feet high and weighs 30,000 pounds. It runs by steam. Searchlights are such good targets for the enemy’s guns that the Germans are arranging to throw the light first on a mirror and thence on the enemy, thereby concealing its real source. A New Jersey boy, who experienced great difficulty in swallowing, had an operation performed on his throat, which brought to light a large pearl. It is thought he swallowed it In an oyster. The most unique Sunday school in the world is one on the line of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad, among the telegraphers. The regular lesson leaf is used, and all the Questions and answers are given by wire. In one of the New York apartment houses there are 226 pianos one to every four persons—besides a whole orchestra of piccolos, v olins, guitars, cornets, and an old-fashioned melodeon. Those who live across the way say that it is the noisiest house in America.