Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1897 — AN ODD COLLECTION. [ARTICLE]

AN ODD COLLECTION.

fhm Is only one sudden deatk Isng women to eight among men. There are 12,000,000 silk hats mads annually in the United Kingdom worth $20,000,000. The wan of the last seventy **it have cost Russia $1,778,000,000 aid th. lives of 664,000 men. It is stated that nearly 1000,000 pounds of fur for hatters’ lurposes are produced in the United Sates. To be perfectly preportloted It If claimed that a man shoal* weight twenty-eight pounds to ever foot of his height The most densely settled State Is Rhode Island, and the seond Hassai chusetts. The former has 118.44 Inhabitants to the square mile and the latter 278.48. The letters in the vatous alphabets Z, me world vary fron twelve to 202 n number. The Sandvlch Islanders' alphabet bus twelve, the Tartarian, 102. The sun, If hollow, would hold 800,#OO earth globes, and an eye capable sf hourly viewing 19,000 square miles would require 86,000 years to see all Its surface. Prof. Booteasy 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 •Isvatlons. Astronomers calculate that the surface of the earth contains 81.625.62 Q ■qttare miles, of which 23,814,121 are water and 7,811,604 are land, the water thin covering about seven-tenths el the earth’s surface.