Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1847-11-05
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Sponges are believed to consist OF
excitable flesh full Of mouths, by which
they absorb and eject water.
The sloth does not advance above
100 yards in day 1t is two days in
climbing and descending tree.
Insects breathe through holes or
pores on each side of every segment OF
the abdomen called spiracula-
The gaIl-hy forms the gall nuts on
trees and plants by its eggs, and young,
and the gall fly does the same in the
skin of cattle.
"A healthy liver weighs nearly four
pounds, but diseased ones become four
or five times heavier.
The human brain is the twenty-eighth
ofthe body, but the brain of a horse is
but a four hundredth.
Otto of roses is the oil which swims
on the top in the dlstilla,ion of rose
water.
Bird lime is prepared from the ber-
ries of the mistletoe, and the middle
back of the holly; 1t is boiled till it be-
comes soft.
The human body, in a healthy state,
is generally at 81 Fahrenheit.
The heat of an oven, applied to a
dead human body, reduces it from $50
10 II pounds.
The earth is believed to increase in
heat a degree in every fifteen Driven
ty yards in depth.
Mercury for thermometers is puri-
fed by agitation in a bottle with sand,
and then by stralning 1t through leath-
Gf.
The waters of the Red sea appear
to be thirty-two feet higher than the
ELECTROMAGNETIC the Cult of Mex
leo Is twenty feet lower than the Pa
cifc.
Most mountains present their preci-
pltlouS faces to the sea and their slopes
10 the land.
The sea is to the land, in round mill
ions of square miles as one hundred
and sixty-eight to forty, or as four to
one.
The narrowest part of the Atlantic
is more than two miles deep. In other
parts it is one and half miles.
Insects are found in slate, and flies
and ants in amber
The highest peak of the Rocky
mountains is $4,000 feet, and Jane, S
Peak is II, 900 feet.
The mountains Of Seger. in Arabia.
produce frankincense: those of Safra,
the balm OF Mecca, from the amyris
opobalsamum, which in the carly ages
sold for its weight in gold.
Earth Is eaten as bread in several
parts of the world. Near Moscow. a
hull turnlhes earth of this description.
which will terment when mixed with
flour.
Politeness consists in being easy YOUR
self and making others so.
A liar is a coward to man and bra
vo TO his God.
1t is easier TO praise people into viz
tue that to rail them out of vice.
Content is natural wealth, and desire
for luxury is artificial poverty.
Those who are of the opinion that
money will do everything. NAV be
reasonably suspected of doing every
thing for money.
Words are like arrows, and should
not be shot NJ random,
Keen chances of censure proceed
generally from a dark involved temper.
like flashes Of lightning from a gloomy
sky.
Whenever we buy orsell, let or hire,
make a clean bargain of il, and never
trust TO Z" we sha'n'l quarrel about tri-
iics."
Temporal crowns and kingdoms
could not make rest for saints. As
they were not redeemed with so low
a ice, neither are they endowed with
so low nature.
Every burden of sorrow seems like
stone hung round our neck vet they
are often like the stones used by pearl
divers, which enable them to reach
their prize, and TO rise enriched.
Let not any one say he cannot gov
ern his passions, nor hinder them from
breaking out and carrying him into
action; for what he can do before a
prince or a great man, he can do alone,
or in the presence of God, if he will.
SCIENCE.
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