Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1898 — PACTS IN FEW WORDS. [ARTICLE]

PACTS IN FEW WORDS.

Windsor O \stlh has been i: ed so • royal resi ence 784 years The golden rod bio ms ear ier in th* <eason the further north .t is. A HOUSE wall built of first-c'ass brick will outlast one constr ,cted of granite. Owing to the altitude, it is almost Impossible to bvil potatoes in the City -of Mexico. There are between 300 and 400 ed ucated female pharmacists in the Uni >d States. Darwin asserted that there is insanity among animals just a- the e is umong pe ide Some of tbn largest ocean .-teamers ran be con or ed into armed cruisers In thirty hour, Anali ; s say that b tter Is the Xiost nutr tious article of die: and that bacon comes next. A horse belonging to the Xew Hazen Conn, police department enjoys nothing so much as chewing tobacco. The Zuyder Zee Is to be drained at an expense of $106,100?<00, 72,781! aorer of ground valued at $130,C00,0.0 being reclaimed The tallest man of whom there 1* authenticated measurement was Funnam, of Scotland, who was eleven feet and six inches in height The statistics of life insurance people show that in the last twenty-five years the average of man's life has tu-p-eased from 41. U to 43. v years To prevent lamp chimneys from tracking put them into a kettle of oold water, gradually heat it till It bolla, vnd then let it as gradually cool In a ton of Dead Sea water there it LB7 pounds of salt Red r ea, 93: Medlt srranean, 85; Atlantic, 81; English Channel, 72; Baltic, 18; Black Sea, 26; <nd Caspian, 11. Solitary confinement is calculated doctors state, to prod oe melancholia tiicldal mania and loss of reason bine months of absolutely solitary confinement is almost certain to resigi in the mental ruin of the convict