Show STARTLING FACTS the british aristocracy includes 14 persons the brain of an ant is larger in proportion to its size than that of any other known creature there are moro wrecks in the baltic bea than in any other place in the world the average is one wreck a day throughout he year if the armies of europe should march at an eight hiie five abreast fifteen inches apart it would require nine and a half days far them to pass a given point prom an investigation as to the cause of capeis of poverty it is learned that per cent of the number was clue to old age to physical ty and 50 per cent was the result of accident and sickness the cloth of the old egyptians was so good that although it has been used for thousands of 3 ears as w mappings rap pings of the mummies the arabs of today to day can wear it li is sill of linen the ancient egypt taffs considering wool unclean the skin of the whale is from two inches to tw 0 feet thick and the skin of a large specimen weighs 30 tons the rhinoceros is the thickest thi clest skinned quadruped with a hide so lough as to resist the claws of tho lion or tiger the sword or the balls of the old fash boned musket |