Litchfield enquirer., 1829-08-13

ueeus FUpteu aus irlenu, I" then ] fear YOU
put on too much at time; for my part,
though as Istold you salt water makes nv
plants look fourishing, | ann careful never
to put on more At time than can guther
thus"-at.the same time drawing his finger
across his brow, and shaking it over The
vegetables. Salt water put on in this
way never fails, even IL the land is poor,
to procure an excellent growth" Eorgar-
dens II. the country this water ought al
ways to be put on in the morning before
sunrise ]; 1t will make cabbages especially.
grow surprisingly. --- WilliamstoUn Adv.
+ MUSCULAR POWER.
] have calculated the average weight
carried1bS stout porter in LOndon,at two
hundredpounds; but we are told there arc
rorters In Turkey, who. by accustoming
themselves to this kind Of burden from
an early period, are able to carry from
seven to nine hundred pounds, though
they walk at slower rate, and only carry
tho burden a short distance. The weak
est man can liN with his hands about one
hundred and twenty-five pounds, a strong
man four hundred. Topham, carpenter,
mentioned by Desanguliers, could Tiff
eight hundred pounds. Ho rolled up a
strong pewter dish with his fingers. He
lifted with his teeth and knees a table six
feet long, with half hundred. weight at
the end. He bent a poker, three inches
In circumference, TO q right angle, by
striking Il upon his leiN fore arm another
no bent and unbent about his neck, and
snapped a hempon rope two inches In cir
conference. A few years ago, there was
person ut Oxford who could hold his arm
extended half O minute, with half hum
dred weight hanging on his little finger.
We arO also told by Desaguliers, ofa man,
who, by bending his body into an arch,
and having harness fitted to his hips,
was capable Of sustaining cannon weigh
ing two or three thousand pounds. And not
many winters ago the celebrated Belgoni,
when frst entering on public liCo, OK
hbitod himself 70 the theatres OF London
and BY similar kind Of Harvesting, was Gu.
pabls Of supporting, even in an upright
position, pyramid Of ten or twelve men
surmountod by two or three children, w hose
aggregate weight could not be much les,
than two thousand pounds with which
weight he walked repeatedly towards the
front Of the stare. er ,s4.@ N! E@.n
The elephant. which may DO contem-
plated rs q huge concentration Of animal
excellencies, 10 capable of carrying with
case a burden Of between three and four
thousand pounds. With its stupendous
trunk (which has boen calculated BY Cuvier
to consist Of thirty thousand distinct mus.
cles) II snaps oil the stoutest branches from
the stoutest trees, and tears up the trees
themselves with his tusks. How accumu-
lated the power that Is lodged In the mus
Gle Of the lion With single stroke Of
his paw no breaks the back bono Of a horse,
and runs of with buffalo in his Jaws al
full speed no brushes the bones between
his teeth, and swallows them as part Of
his food. a
Nor 10 Il necessary, In the mystery Of
the animal economy, that the muscles
should always have the benefit Of bony
lever. The tail Of whale 10 merely
muscular and ligamentuous and yet this
Is the instrument Of liz chief and most
powerful attack +; and possessed Of this in
strument, to adopt the language Of On old
and accurate observer, "a long-boat he
valueth no more than dust for no can
beat Il all in skaters at blow" The
skeleton Of the shark is.entirely cartilagin-
Gus, and totally destitute Of proper bone |;
yet Il Is the most dreadful tyrant Of the o.
cean IL devours with its cartilaginous laws
whatever falls in its way and one OF its
species, the squalls cGrckGriGs, or white
shark, which is often found thirty feet
long, and Of not less than four thousand
pounds weight, has been known to swal-
low man whole ut mouthful.
The sepiG octopodia, or eight armed
cuttle-fsh, Is found occasionally Of an e.
normous size In the Mediterranean and In.
dian seas, its arm being at times Eine faith
oms in length, and SO prodigious Is their
muscular power, that when lashed round
man, or even New Foundland dog, there
10 great difficulty in extricating themselves,
and hence the Indians never venture out
without hatchets in their boats to cut of
the animals holders, should no attempt to
fasten on thcm,and drag them under water.
The hinge Of the common oyster is a
single muscle and il has no more than
single muscle in the ckama gigas, or great
clamp-iish, an animal of.she oyster form,
but the largest testaceous worm we are ae-
quainted with. Il has been taken in tho
Indian ocean Of q weight not less than Eve
hundred and thirty two pounds; the lish,
OF inhabitane, being large enough to fur
nish a hundred and twenty men with q
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