Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1896 — FACTS IN FEW WORDS. [ARTICLE]

FACTS IN FEW WORDS.

Windsor Castle has been med so» 1 royal reßi once 781 years The golden rod bio ms earlier in the reason the further north it is. A house well built of tirst-e’ass brick will outlast one constr eted of granite. Owing to the altitude, it is almost Impossible to boil potatoes in the City of Mexico. Thebe are between 3 *0 and 400 educated female pharmacist- in the ITDil T Di ted States. Darwin asserted that there is inanity among animals just a- the e i» ui.-iung pe >J'te Some of the largest ocean steamers can be eoa- erted into armed cruisers in thirty hours. Anal; •->>'« say that b tter is the /o ust nutr tious article of diet and that .■aeon comes next. A horse belonging to the Xew Ha/en Conn, poli-e department enjoys nothing so much as chewing tobacco. The Zuyder Zee is to be drained at .».n expense of SlOc.cOop-0 1 1, Tl‘,7*:. acre' >f ground valued at *130,' 00,0 0 being .-ee aimed. The tallest man of whom there is juthenticated measurement was Fun:atn. of .-cotland, who was eleven feet and six inches in height. The statistics of life insurance pec* ole show that in the last twenty-five ears the averag of man's life has inreased from 41.9 to -13. • years To prevent lamp chimneys from u-acking put them into a kettle of cold vater, gradually heat it t.ll it boils, id then let it as gradually cool In a ton of Dead Sea water there is 87 pounds of salt. Red ;-ea, 9„; Medit jrranean, 85; Atlantic, >1: English channel. 72; Baltic, 18; Black Sea. 10: ind Caspian, 11. Solitary confinement is calculated ioctors state, to prod ce melancholia ♦iicid.il mania and loss of reason -me months of absolutely solitary ;onfinement is almost certain to resuil n the mental ruin of the convict