Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1895 — FACTS IN FEW WORDS. [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN FEW WORDS.

Windsor Castle has been used foi * royal rest ence 784 years. The golden rod bio ms earlier in the Beason the further north it is. A HOUSE well built of first-class brick will outlast one constructed of granite. t Owing to the altitude, it is almost impossible to boil potatoes in the City of Mexicp. There are between 300 and 400 educated female pharmacists in the Uni ted States. Darwin Asserted that there is insanity among animals just as there is among 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 i Conn.) police department enjoys nothing so much as chewing tobacco. The Zuyder Zee is to be drained at an expense of 1106,000,000, 72,782 acres of ground valued at 8130,000,000 being reclaimed. The tallest man of whom there is authenticated measurement was Funnatn, 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 average of man's life has increased from 41. a to 43. u 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 .- ea water there is 18. pounds of salt Red . ea, 9,; Medit srranean, 85; Atlantic, 81; English Channel. 72; laltic, 18; Elack Sea, _u. and vaspian, 11 solitary confinement is ca’culate 1 i-ictors state, to prod ce me anchulia' suicidal mania and loss of reaso.. ne months of absolutely soiitar confinement is almost certain to resu.t in the mental ruin of rhe convict.