Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1845-10-09
scraps of curious Inform ation.

ne tdItt IS I,JlO mlles III diameter,
and 81 $50 miles round
Gold can be beaten so thin that | 500
leaves OF it would equal in thickness
common newspaper-or 1870 leaves
would make thickness of one inch.
Cotton yarn has been spun 50 fine by
hand in India, that one pound Of il would
reach ore hundred and fifteen miles
When 1t lies on the grass in The dew it
is no longer visible. The natives call it
"woven air." In England, it has been
woven SO fine that one pound will reach
I67 miles
Cork, if sunk 200 feet in the ocean,
will not rise on account O! the pressure of
the water.
In the human body there are $40
bones.
Wrought iron will hold up 40 tons to
the square inch, steel 90 tons.
The strongest cable tina. can be made
is of fine wire, which will hold up go tons
TO the square inch.
In a number of the Westminster Re-
view il is stated tina, the first newspaper
set up in Germany was in l7l5 ant. the
first published in America the Boston
Newsletter. began in l704-lhe frs,
Pennsylvania paper in 1919.
Forests of standing trees have been
discovered in Europe, Embedded in stone.
There IS iron enough in the blood of
forty two men to make fifty horse shoes,
each weighing half pound
A man Is taller in the morning bv
half an inch than he is at night.
Water is the only universal medicine;
by 1t all diseases may be alleviated or
cured.
In water, sound passes at the rate Of
s,5Os feet per second. In air, | Jap feet
per second.
When the sea is a blue color, it is deep
water; and when green shallow.
About the age of thirty six, i, is said
that the lean man becomes fatser, and The
ia, man leaner.
The atoms composing a man are be-
lleved to be changed every forty days,
and the bones in few months.
Fossil remains on the Ohio prove that
II was once covered by The sea.
The map of China made coo years
before Christ is still in existence
The l4lh of January, on an average of
years, is the coolest dav in the year.
In the Arctic regions, when the lhermo-
meter is below zero, persons can converse
at more than mile distant. DIR. jamie
son asserts that he heard every word of
sermon al the distance of Two miles.
hand used for horses is four inches.
Ezeklel's reed was Is feet | Is inches
long.
A Sabbath days journey was about,
" o-thlrds of mile.
Maps and Charts were invented BY
Anaxlmander. the MiIesian philosopher,
disciple of Thales, and the earliest phi
los"phcal astronomer on record, $50
years before Christ. He was also The
first who constructed spheres. celes,
tan chart was constructed in China in The
sixth century. Sea charts were frs,
brought 10 England by Bartholomew
Columbus, to illustrate his brothers
theory respecting Western continent, A.
ID. 1889. The earlles, map Of England
was drawn by George Lilly, in l520.--
t'oiSd'"i tidits III WHICH lne WOriu
was taken as plane, was invented in
1916. A map of the moons surface first
drawn at Dantzic in l547.
he brown rats thai infest our dwellings
the most migratory Of vermin--were
formerly supposed TO have come, like the
Gcfhs and pandais. from The north of
Europe; hence they have been called
Norway rats. Ii is believed, however,
they originated in Persia and the southern
regions of Asia. They were first known
IN Paris about the middle of The 10Th
century. Their first appearance in a
country is always along the sea coast
They are following close upon the steps
of commerce into all parts of The world.
BY experiment, il has been ascertained
that in crushing. gun metal will hold up
l60 tons to the square; iron from SO to
so tons.
In quarrying mill stones, in France.
they are hewn ont, first in the right size,
then deep grooves are made. and willow
wedges driven in. Water is then poured
upon the willow, which causes the wood
TO swell, and the rocks are thus split in the
right shape.
Sagacity Of dog.-We have
favorte dog-a huge, noble fellow, COM
bning the Newfoundland and the maslff
whose doings supply frequent occasion
for admiring wonder. Mr. I.ion-for that
is his name in the family -conceives it to
be his duty to give an alarm whenever
the bells ring for fire. He marches to
his masters bedroom door, and sets up
sonorous barking that would waken
The seven s!eepers themselves; but so
soon as The master gets out OF bed, or
even If he does but speak Lion graveiy
walks back to his own couch and adj
dresses himself TO sleep again with all the
composure imaginable. 1t is clear tina,
he reasons the matter within himself
somewhat in this wise-"There is A fire
Il must call my master. Bow-wow.
WOW WOW! Oh, master is awake, is he!
Very well; the fire is his business, not
mine. If there is any danger he will see
to il; so III go and finish my nap.--N |
7. Com. .4dueriser.