Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1896 — AN ODD COLLECTION. [ARTICLE]

AN ODD COLLECTION.

There is only one sodden death fcmong women to eight among men. There are 12,000,000 silk hats road# i annually in the United Kingdom worth 120,000,000. The ware of the last seventy year* j have cost Russia $1,775,000,000 and th# lives of 004,000 men. It Is stated that nearly 1,000,000 pounds of fur for hatters’ purpose# are produced In the United States. To be perfectly proportioned It 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 315.44 inhabitants to the square mile, and the latter 278.48. Tl ut lathers in the various alphabets Gertie wojJ4 Mary from twelve to 202 in number. The Sandwich IsJnjULgr#' alphabet htfs twelve, the TartarMl, 202. ' *■ The sun, if hollow, would hold 800,000 earth globes, and an eye capable Df hourly viewing 10,000 square miles, would require 55,000 years to see all Its surface. Pr.of. Bootensy 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 31,625,028 Bquare miles, of which 23.814,121 are water and 7,811,504 are land, the water thus covering nbout seven-tenthr ot the earth’s surface.

An evidence of the striking uniform lty of size among the Japanese h bond In the fact that recent measur* ments taken of an infantry regiment showed no variations exceeding two Inches in height or twenty wunda U weight The botanic garden of the Jardtn dee Plantes Includes about seventy acre% The plants are all labeled with red la* bels, medicinal, green for alimentary, j-ellow for ornamental purposes, blu# for art and black for poisonous plants; The most expensive parliament in Europe is that Of France. The two Chambers cost the nation 81,500,000 annually. Spain spends SIOO,OOO 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 be expected in the near future that these islands will become an Important source of supply. ViV'J.