Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1896 — AN ODD COLLECTION. [ARTICLE]

AN ODD COLLECTION.

There is only one sudden death Among women to eight among men. There are 12,000,000 silk hats made annually in the United Kingdom worth 520,000,000. The wars of the last seventy years have cost Russia $1,775,000,000 and the lives of 664,000 men. It is stated that nearly 1,000,000 pounds of fur for hatters’ purposes are produced in the United States. To be perfectly preportioned it is claimed that a man should weight twenty-eight pounds to every foot of his height. The most densely settled State is Rhode Island, and the second Massachusetts. The former has 318.44 inhabitants to the square mile, and the latter 278.48. The letters in the various alphabets of the world vary from twelve to 202 In number. The Sandwich Islanders' alphabet has twelve, the Tartarian, 202. The sun, If hollow, would hold 300,000 earth globes, and an eye capable of hourly viewing 10,000 square miles would require 55,000 years to see all Its surface. Prof. Boot easy says; Cats die at an elevation of 13,000 feet, even though they are reputed to have “nine lives,” when on a level with the ocean. Dogs and men can climb the greatest known elevations. Astronomers calculate that the surface of the earth contains 31,625,625 square miles, of which 23,814,121 are water and 7,811,504 are land, the water thus covering about seven-tenths of the earth’s surface. An evidence of the striking uniformity" of size among the Japanese is found in the fact that recent measurements taken of an infantry regiment showed no variations exceeding two inches In height or twenty pounds in weight. The botanic garden of the Jardin des Plantes includes about seventy acres. The plants are all labeled with red labels, medicinal, green for alimentary, yellow for ornamental purposes, blue for art and black for poisonous plants. The most expensive parliament in Europe is 4hat of France. The two Chambers cost the nation $1,500,000 an- , nuaily. Spain spends $490,000 on her representation, Italy $420,000, England $320,000, Belgium $190,000, Portugal $150,000, Germany $95,000. It is not generally known that the ! cultivation of tea and coffee in Hawaii is rapidly becoming a matter of importance to our American markets. Fine qualities of tea and coffee are being grown successfully, and it may he expected in the near future that these islands will become an Important source of supply.