Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — AN ODD COLLECTION. [ARTICLE]

AN ODD COLLECTION.

There is only one sudden deaW dnong women to eight among men. There are 12,000,000 silk hats mads annually in the United Kingdom worth 120,000,000. The wars of the last seventy year* have cost Russia |I*TTB«OM,QOO and the lives of 664,000 men. It is stated that nearly 1,000,0dd pounds of fur for hatters' purposes are produced in the United States. To be perfectly proportioned It if claimed that a man should weigh! twenty-eight pounds to every foot ot his height. The most densely settled State is Rhode Island, and the second Massachusetts. The former has 818.44 inhabitants to the square mile, and the tat:er 2T8.48. The tetters in the various alphabets d ene world vary from twelve to 209 n number. The Sandwich Islandorg alphabet has twelve* the Tartartato 202. The sun, if hollow, would hold 8t0,« JOO earth globes, and an eye capable as hourly viewing 10,000 square miles would require 66,000 years to see all Its surface. Prof. Boot easy says: Cats die at a* elevation of 18,000 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 elevations. Astronomers calculate that the surface of the earth contains 31,625,696 square miles, of which 28,814,121 are water and 7,811,604 are land, the water thus covering about seven-tenths si the earth's surfaaa