Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-09-04

SCRAPS OF CURIOUS IxFoRMArlox-The diameter
of each globule of blood in man is from to 4000h
part of an inch.
The seed of the puf-ball hycopudon, is 125, 900
times smaller than human hair.
The weight of particle-that is the smallest part
of copper-is the one hundred and four mionth part
of grain.
Gold can be beaten SO thin that 1900 leaves of it
would equal in thickness, common newspaper-or
2S2 900 leaves would make thickness of one inch
Cotton yarn has been spun fine by hand In India,
that one pound of it would reach hundred and f-
teen miles When it lies on the grass in the dew it
is longer visible. The natives call IL ''woven
In England, it has been woven so fine that one
pound will reach l67 miles.
There more than % millions of pores In piece
of charcoal one inch in diameter.
Cork if sunk 200 feet in the ocean will not rise on
account of the pressure of the water.
Wrought iron will hold up 40 tons to the square
inch /; steel 60 TONS
The strongest cable that can be made is of fine
wire, which will hold up 80 tons to the square inch
By experiments, it has been ascertained that in
crushing, gun metal will hold up 100 tons to the
square inch iron from 90 to 80 tons.
In quarrying mill stones, In France they are hewn
out first in the right sze then deep grooves made
and willow wedges driven in. Water is then poured
upon the willow which the wood to SWELL and
the rocks thus split in the right shape.
Ii tallOW canQle De pldceu IN gun ana SDOI AT q
door one inch in thickness it will go through without
melting sustaining the slightest injury and if
musket ball be fired into the water, it viii not only
rebound but be attened the same as if fired against
solid substance musket ball may be ired through
pane of glass, making hole the size of the ball
without cracking the glass; and if the glass be sus
pended by thread IT Will make no difference, and
the thread Will not yibrate.
The art of wire drawing is said to have been dis.
covered at Nuremburg in l4l0. The first wire mill
in England established in 1868.
| In making gilt wire, grains of gold covering q
cylinder Of silver, are commonly drawn into a wire
I3 GOO feet long, yet the whole perfectly covered
so that microscope cannot detect the silver beneath
The umbrella is described in early dictionaries
portable pent house to carry in persons hand to
screen him from the violent rain or heat"
Turkeys are natives of this continent, and were
unknown the ancients The researches of natu-
raliSs have shown that they were natives neither Of
Europe Asia nor Africa The adoption of this USE
full, but unpoetical bird as national emblem, has
been recommended.
The brown rats that infest our dwellings-the mos
migratory of vermn-were formerly supposed to have
come like the Goths and Vandals from the north Of
| Europe; hence they have been called Norway rats
1t is believed, however, that fact they originated
Persia and the southern regions of Asia. They were
first known in Paris about the middle of the sixteenth
century. Their first appearance in country Is al
ways upon the coast 1t is said they brought
into Worcester by canal boats They are following
close upon the steps of into all parts of the
world.
In number of the Westminster Review it is stat
ed that the first newspaper set up in Germany was
I7l5 and the first published in America was at Phil
adephia in 1719. The last assertion least is In
correct whatever may be the with the former
The Boston Newsletter began in 1704. The frs
Pennsylvania paper as above stated in 17l9.
| Maps and Charts were invented by Ana ximander
the Mesian philosopher, a disciple of Thales, ant
the earliest philosophical astronomer on record, 57t
B. c. He also the first who constructed spheres
A celestial chart was constructed in China, in tn
sixth century. Sea charts first brought to Eng
land by Bartholomew Columbus to illustrate his broth
ers theory respecting western continent, A D. l4S9
The earliest map of England drawn by Georg
Lilly, in 1920. Mercator's chart, in which the wor
was taken as a plane, invented in 1916. A MAJ
of the moons surface first drawn at Dantzic il
| l647.