Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1898 — BITS OF KNOWLEDGE. [ARTICLE]

BITS OF KNOWLEDGE.

ttxty languages are spoken In the ■mfklre governed by the Czar of Russia. The largest winged insect in the *w®rld is the Atlas moth of Central Brasfl. Its wings extend fourteen inches Iran tip to tip. An average of three British seamen Ims their lives every day by drowning, and 300 British steamers and sailing vessels are lost yearly at sea. There were only 500 miles of underground wire in London, England, in 1868; there are now 13,000 miles. In 1869 there were five and & half miles as pneumatic tubes, compared With forty miles now. A bricklayer can lay about 1,500 or 1,600 bricks in a day of ten hours where the joints are left rough; about 1,000 per day when both faces have to be worked fair; and not more than 500 a day when carefully jointed and faced With picked bricks of a uniform color. The human brain Is composed of at iBMt 300,000,000 of nerve cells, each an todepepdient organism. The lifetime of * nerve ceil is estimated to be about «txty days, so that 5,000,000 die every 4V. about 200,000 .every hour, and Marly 8,500 every minute, to be sueeroded by an equal number of their progeny. Thus once in everv sixty days • aaan has a new btaln. most renwrirable case of a letter MBBMd in theMMaMtiMroket nf ■ am

■with a short memory lately came to light in Nor h Carolina. The wonder is that the overcoat, the letter, the owner of the coat, the Writer, and the addressee all outlasted the interval of thirty-two years between the lapse and the restoration of memory in the oblivious custodian of the letter. It was written in 18'35. When discovered,'in 1897, inquiry was instituted as to whether the addressee wci; still alive, which being found to be the case the letter was duly forwarded.