Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1893 — Curious Facts. [ARTICLE]

Curious Facts.

There are 20,000 kiftds of butterflies. There are 16,000,000 cows in the United States. A full-grown elephant is capable of carrying a load of two tons. In Sweden and Norway it is t crime to make any profit on the sale of liquor; it must be dispensed al cost. The word “preface” used in the beginning of books was originally e word of welcome to a meal, and was equivalent to‘"Much good may it de you.” There are 37,000 women in the United States earning their living as telegraph operators] and a large number in other branches of the service. The Queen of Greece is president of a sister-hood devoted to the reformation of criminals, and visits personally the condemned prisoners in Athenian prisions. A medical authority states that the voices of singers and actors can be much better preserved if used in theatres lighted by electricity rather than gas. —— A firm of women tea have bought an estate in Ceylon, and carry on their business entirely through women blenders, tasters, packers and agents.