The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1845-06-07

IVhce appIleu 10 ALMOST every thlng
! You wish to know how TO pack the
.Igreatest amount OF bulk in the smallest
lspace. The forms of cylinders leaves
large spaces between them. MAIZENA,.
ltclans labored for long time to find
what figure could be used so as TO loose
no space; and al last found that it was
The six-sided figures, and also HAT three
planes ending in a point formed the
strongest ROOT or floor. The honey bee
discovered the same thing good while
'go. Honey-comb is made up Of six
sided figures, and the roof is built with
hree plane surfsces coming TO a point.
If a flexible vestel be emplied Of air,
Is sides will be almost crushed togeth-
by the pressure of the surrounding at.
mosphsre. And If tube partly filled
with huid. be emptied Of its air, the
mud will rise 10 The top. The bee un-
dsrslands this, when he comes to the
top OF The small honeysuckle and ends
that he cannot reach mis- sweet matter
at the bottom, he thrusts in his body,
shuts up the flower, and The exhausts w
the air, and so possesses himself of the
dust and honey Of The flower. The feet
OF HES and lizards are constructed on
similar principle, and thus they walk
with ease or glass and ceiling. Their
teet are made so as to create vacuum
beneath them, and so they have the
pressure of the atmosphere, fifteen
pounds to the square inch, 10 enable
them TO hold on. The cal has the same
power 10 less extent.
flanls require the sunlight, and SOM
MOWERS turn themselves towards the SUI
as 1t travels round from east TO wesl.
The sunhowers does field this and SO
does feldof clover. These facts, though
we have not yet 60, the reason Of them,
are still extremely interesting.
You all know that If hollow ball be
filled with gass lighter than the cir, il
will rise and float away. This fact isl
beautifully carried out in nature. The
Iarlna, o: impregnating dust Of pl ants
are little balls, extremely thin, and fill.
ed with light gas. They are blown Of
from the male plant, and by falling up.
on the female plant mpregnate it. N4.
ture has so arranged it that the unctuous
matter which causes the impreg mating
parts OF plants 10 attach to Others never
occur al precisely the same lime in male
and female plants. Thus if the farino
from the male plant hit The male ii does
adhere; but if it hit The female, il does
ltachj the balls burst hut they are fast.
ened and take effect, Thus impregna-
lion often takes place many yards dis
lan,. In raising Indian corn you mus,
all have noticed that single hill of red
corn will impregnate an entire field and |
red coin will be scattered to long dis.
lance through the whole.
The gastric juice is worthy Of remark.
1t is tasteless, coorless, inodorous,
llmpid fluid, like water, and is adapted
in different animals to different purpos-
es In the hyena, and other carniver. !
Gus animals, it will not dissolve live |
flesh, but will dissolve dead flesh. These
creatures then live upon other animals,
and even bones are soluble in their gas.
'rlc juice, while il will not dissolve veg.
eatles at all, On the other hand some |
animals live entirely upon vegetables
and their gastric juice will not dissolve |,
animal food.
We cannot alter the natme Of an ami
nal by changing It's food. 1t will sill
belong 10 the family. In.this parlicu.
lar, bees are better instructed. When
they loose their queen bee-which is an
entirely different animal from the work
ing beef you present another to them
within lweniyfour hours, they will nol
accept OF her nor obsy her. They pre-.
Ter taking an ordinary grub, before it
has become fler, and feeding it with
particular food, and treating ii in pecu.
liar way; and when it leaves The grub
state 1t becomes a queen bee, and The,
always suffer themselves 10 be governed
BY her. Il
The habits ofants are extremely curl.
BUS. We all have heard Of ant houses
sometimes twenty feet in diameter, fill.
I'd with halls and rooms of great szt b
md strength. These and beaver dam.
ire constructed upon strictly mechani +
,al principles.
In some insec, species The males havel
wings while The females have none.-l,
This is lae case with The glow worm .
and The female has The property oil
emitting a phosporescent light, and II
were IL moi for this, The gentleman olou