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From The SATURDAY Courier.

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and Vegetable food is the proper diet
Of mankind. Animal food is generally
tie most nutrlcious; but Vegetable food
is most easily digested, and should,
therefore, be used most freely.
Flax is a native Of Persia; and cot
ton was first grown in India. Silk was
first manufactured III China, about two
thousand seven hundred years before
the Christian era.
There are more than two hundred
burning mountains, or volcanoes, Oh
the earth. These volcanoes are be-.
lieeed to be the chimneys, or vents, by
which the gaseous matter escapes that
is generated BY the internal fires Of The
earth. According to some BIOLOGISTS,
the pres ragingin the earth are so in
tense, that The depth Of ten miles, the
earth is a red heat; at the depth Of
twenty miles, il is a white heat; and
at the depth Of fifty miles, the hardest
rocks will become liquid!
Gravitation is that property Of mat
ter by which it tends to move towards
other matter.
Language is a system, or collection
Of sounds, or signs OF sounds, called
cords, by means of which ideas, or
thoughts, or impressions are. communi.
Gated from mind 10 mind. Thoughts
are frequently conveyed by gestures
and looks; bu! these modes Of commu-
nication being ambiguous, and there
fore liable to a wrong Interpretation,
they are not to lie relied upon.
Ancient history consists Of the prin-
cipal events previous to the birth OF
Christ; and modern history relates the
chief events from the commencement
Of the Christian era TO the year l776.
The most modern history commenced
with the Declaration of American indie
pendence. The Ozark Ages" (some
writer's deny that there have been any
Dark Ages commenced about the close
Of the fifth century Of the Christian
Era, aud ended, about the thirteenth
century. History states that during a
great part Of this period, the earth was
vast ba,tle-feId; that the human race
seemed 10 be doomed to total extermi.
nation; and that personal safety began
TO be the only consideration! Surely
these were DARK AGES!
The air, or atmosphere, is an elastic
fluid, and surrounds The earth, extend
ing between foriy-fve and fifty miles
above lis surface.
The rose is found in all counties
it adorns the whole earth Poets Of
every age and cline have eulogised il
as the most beautiful and exquisite OF
flowers. Anacreon calls il the "fower
Of flowers"
The philosopher Thales, termed one
of the wise men Of Greece taught that
,cater was the sole e,emen; Of hich the
universe is composed; and he believed
tina; amber and the magnet possessed
life.
In the Encyclopedia Americana, |
find the foIlowing.--"Asym com
monty astraight line, which approaches
a curve line, 50 that the distance be-
tween them is continually diminishing,
although they never can meet, even if
indefinitely continued
BY the term matter, is meant any
substance which is capable Of affecting
the senses. Matter exists in three states
solid, liquid and gaseous,
The highest mountains upon the
earth are the HimmaIeb, in Hindoostan,
the Hottest peak being little more than
five miles high.
What is meant by the ''Solar Cycle"
is a period of twenty light years,
at the end Of which time the days Of
he week return to the same days of
The month on which they were at its
commencement. The LUNAR Cycle"
is period of nineteen years, at the
end of which the new and full moon re
turn on the same days Of the year as
at its beginning. J. r.
o. When the war with Mexico was
| first declared, the Government organ