Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There are 1,500 different species ot snakes In the world. Jhpan has a written history eltemh Ing over 2,500 years. The famous pianist, Paderewski, |iM >200,000 for 100 concerts. The tea crop e< the werid Is estimated as 456,0<M,600 pounds. For over 1,206 ml lea the Nile dew net receive a single tributary stream The >15,000 sot of china In use at the White House contains 600 pleoes. The street aocldents of London amount to about 3,600 a year—nearly ten a day. The average whale measures from 60 to 65 feet la length and is from 88 to 83 feet in diameter. The wood "and” occurs 85,548 times In the Old Testament and 10,684 times In the New Testament It Js said that the taste porvea arg 2,000 times mere sensitive to quinine than they are to sugar. Microscopists and entomologists any that the flea's mouth is situated exact ly between his sere logs. In some of the cantons of Bwitxe* land all the dead, rich and peer, are buried at the public expense. TJwre Is enough iron in the bleed of | •forty-two men to make a plowshare weighing twenty-feur pounds. The platinum beds of the Ural Mountains are the only ones in the world in which that metal is found in grains. The average age of a cat is 15 years; a dog 20 years; a horse 28 years. Elephants have been known to live 406 ream