Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1833-1844, 1842-08-20

windlasa 50 lbs; hand plane 80 lbs; a
handsaw S6Ibs. hiNae fst
Mosl authorities rate hoFse as equal 10
ilve men, some al six, and The French al
seven.
Locks have been made with twenty.iOuf
movable wards, 80 MS TO spell any word,
and no key will open them but the one ads
justed tothat ward. m
A man is taller 10 the morning than at
might, 70 the extent VI half an inch o. more,
owing TO the relaxation ofthe carlilages.
The Esquimaux attain the height Of but
four feel three inches, and the Mogul Tar
tars but four feet nine inches.
The human body consists Of two hundred
and forty bones, nine kinds Of authorizations
IoT Jennings, a hundred carriages OF Iigainenls,
four hundred muscles or IendOns, and huG.
dFed nerves, besides blood, arteries, veins, &c.
Animals are vegetables with q case for
soil, and their roots turned inward TO the
soil. By replenishing the soil IN the sto-
mach, and expelling that which has lost It's
power Of sus,enance, the animal is inde-
pendent Of locality and locomolion.
Riley asserts that Arabs ia the desert live
two hundred years.
Jetfry Hudson, the dwarf, was but eighteen
inches high until he was twenty wears Of
age, and then he lose TO thiry>nine inches.
Babe, the Pole, was only thirty two inches
at his death, aged twenly~three years.
The foot of Chinese female, from the
heel 10 the great zoe, is only four inches
long.
Total abstinence from food seven days is
fatal TO man, hut there are instances OF sur
wing after A longer period A religious
fanatic IN 1883, determined TO fast forty days,
but died on the sixteenth.
In marching, soldiers take seventy-fve
Steps per minute: quick marching, hum
bred and eight; and in charging, hundred
and fifty Steps.
The Hindoos have the art of personating
death, so as 10 receive able surgeons.
An elephant bred to war. stands firm
against volley of musquelry, and thirty
bullets in the flesh will not kill him.
Fish are drawn towards light; they as
semble TO be fed by the sound Of bell, and
are fond of music.
chestnut tree on Mount Elna is one
hundred and ninety>six feet round, close to
the trunk.
The seeds Of plants are their eggs. A
sunllower produces four thousand, poppy,
thirty thousand, tobacco plant three or four
hundred thousand, and speenwort million.
Potatoes planted below three feel do nos
otsfse - $50 k==sst zenuz fhicl<aaf-
and At two feet are retarded two or three
months. --
A field Of wheat buried under an avalanche
for twenty live years, proceeded in its growth,
] &C., as soon as the snow had melted
The mahogany tree is full grown in two
hundred years Cyprus trees are known 10
i be eight or nine hundred years old.
An oak Gee grows Two feet eighteen and
a half inches; laIch, two feet seven
and half inches an elm. eight feet three
inches a beech, one foot eight inches; 8
IpoplaL six feet; willow nine feet three
inches,
Iron is fbrous, gold is crystalline.
There are no solid rocks in the Arctic lie.
giOne. owing TO the severe flosts.
Fossil bones Of the lizard, twenly-four fee
in length, equal to the dragons of antiquity
Ehave been found in Bavaria.
The surface Of the sea lie estimated a
a bundled and fifty millions square miles
taking Tie whole surface Of the globe a
a hundred and ninety millions. II
greatest depth is supposed TO be equal to tn
height Of The highest mountain, or four miles
q Fresh water begins TO freeze at thirly.tw
degrees, called the freezing point but sal
water not Until Tonyseighta and half degree,
River water contains about twenly-eigh
grains OF solid matter toahe cubic foot, Henc
such river as the Rhine carries 10 the SCI
D every day, hundred and forty five lhousan
: nine bundled and eighty cubic feel Of san
1 or stone, sH 'fs
Z Fish are common ID the seas Of Surinau
with four eyes, two Of them in horns whic
: grow on the crown of their head.
3 The North Polar seas have been explore
as far as latitude 8S 49, The south pols
d seas have not been penetrated higher Iha
;I75 degrees.
OF hundred parts into which the suIfac
n Ofths earth may be divided, Europe contain
seven; Africa, twenlysone Continent;
Il Asia, thirty-Ihrse New Holland, &c
e eight; South America, fifteen North Amel
ice, sixteen.
b A cylinder of water may be converted int
!; ice. by placing 1t in five pounds of sulphaI
of soda, and four pounds sulphuric acid, {
!, thitty-sIx degrees, well mixed. The ice
e extracted for use by putting the cylinder
+ hot water.
Extreme cold produces the same perceptio
n on the skin as great heat. When mercur
4 is frozen a. forty degrees below zero, the ser
Isation Of the skin is the same as that
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