Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1895 — FACTS IN FEW WORDS. [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN FEW WORDS.

Windsor Castlk has been used for a royal residence 784 years. The golden rod blooms earlier in the season the further north it is. A house well built of first-class brick will outlast one constructed of granite. Owing to the altitude, it is almost impossible to boil potatoes in the City of Mexico. There are between 300 and 400 educated female pharmacists in the United States. Darwin asserted that there is insanity among animals just as there is ainvng people Some of the largest ocean steamers can be converted into armed cruisers in thirty hours. Analysts say that butter is the most nutritious article of diet and that bacon comes next. A horse belonging to the New Haven 1 Conn. 1 police department enjoys nothing so much as chewing tobaooo. The Zuyder Zee is to be drained at an expense of Sl(Xi,lOO,tiOO, 72,782 acres of ground valued at 8130,U00,000 being reclaimed. The tallest man of whom there is authenticated measurement was Funnam, of Scotland, who was eleven feet and six inches in height. The statistics of life insurance people show that in the last twenty-five years the averag) of man’s life has increased from 41.0 to 43. H years To prevent lamp chimneys from cracking put them into a kettle of cold water, gradually heat it till it boils, and then let it as gradually cool In a ton of Dead Sea water there is 187 pounds of salt: Red sea, 93: Mediterranean, 85; Atlantic, 81; English Channel. 72; Haltic, 18; Black Sea, 20; and Caspian, 11. Solitary confinement is calculated doctors state, to prod. ee melancholia’ suicidal mania and loss of reason. Nine months of absolutely solitaryconfinement is almost certain to result in the mental ruin of the convict.