Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1895 — CURIOUS FACTS [ARTICLE]

CURIOUS FACTS

In Switzerland one hundred of every one thousand stone cutters die of consumption; in England the rate is 840 deaths per one thousand. The lowest sick rate In the English navy service In 1893 was on the southeast coast of America station, and the highest on the China station. The tensile strength of iron at 400 degrees below zero Is just twice what it is at 60 degrees above. It will take a strain of sixty Instead of thirty tons to the square inch, and equally curious results have come out as to the elongation of metals under these conditions. It is believed that a herd of buffalo Is roaming the Red Desert northwest of Rawlins, Wyo. For the protection of these animals a bill has been introduced in the State Legislature punishing the killing of a buffalo by from three to ten years’ imprisonment. The crossing of a buffalo with black Galway cattle has been successfully tested at Good Night, Tex., Gordon City, Kan., and Sioux City, la., and has proven so highly profitable that the raisers of this novel species are going into the business on an extensive scale. It is said that the late Hans von Bulow left directions that a post mortem examination of his brain should be made to ascertain the cause of the excruciating headache from which he was a lifelong sufferer. The autopsy revealed the fact that the end of the nerves! had become imbedded in a scar of an injury to the brain, which he had received in childhood. It appears that in Japan one factor entering into the problem of the choice of a daughter-in-law is her skill In raising silkworms. The thread spun by the silkworm Is said to be regular and even in proportion as the worm has been regularly and carefully fed. The prospective mother-in-law carefully and minutely examines the evenness of the silk thread in the material of the garments worn by the young lady before giving her assent to the betrothal.