Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — OURIOUS FACTS. [ARTICLE]

OURIOUS FACTS.

The young of several specie* sCMerpents le treat down the throat es the mother when pressed by sudds* dan<w. In Europe thrushes build their wests as near to human habitations as they can to escape ths persecutions st the magpies. The largest bird Is the world Is the condor. Condors with a spread of whig of eighteen to twenty feet have been shot on the Andes. The first modern bridge of which bistory makes mention was the fsasous Sublidan bridge at Rome. It was erested In the seventh century. The average golden eagle watahs twelve pounds, lg three feet from the tip of his bill to the tip of his tall and has wings of seven foot spread. The crater of Etna is a quarter st a mile high on a plain three miles serose; it falls in every 100 rears. Is as eruption in the year 1608 th* city st Oatnla was overturned in a meant, and IMM people perished in the raise. A French statistician has been taprap* tigering the subject of wasted weeds and letters. The French and BnpMsh languages are, as ho proves with many figures, especially open to criticism in this matter, and money is loot every year by lack of verbal economy.