The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-19

Of the sheep 1850; Of the OK, 80th.
The proportion Of the brain to the spinal
cord is the lowest in fish, two to one, in reptiles
two aud half to one (; in birds, three 70 one
in animals, four to one; in man, the highest OF
all created beings, it is twenty three to one
The bones Of birds are hollow, and filled with
air instead Of marrow
man il taller in the morning. by half an
inch, than he 10 at night. An acquaintance with
this fact led to cunning expedent on the part
Of some soldiers Ia the English army. The re-
gulations requiring that none but soldiers who
measured six feet should be admitted into a
certain regiment, number who fell trife
short Of the required stature, went early in the
morning to be measured, when they were found
to be of the height required.
1t is estimated that thirty thousand millions
Of human being have persisted in war. There
fell at the battle of Austeritz, 10000; Dresden
80, 900; Waterloo, 40, 900; Eylae, $4,000; Boro-
dino, 10000; Isus, 10000; Csnnsn, $4,000
Arbela, 100000; in the Siege Of Jerusalem, :
900, 900; and at Troy, 100000. In the Rus
sian campain, 100000. During twelve years
of recent wars in Europe, no less than 100000.
The army of Xerxes, which numbered at one
time 5000, 900, was redued to few thousand.
lengths Khan butchered in the province of
Herat, 100000.
In l848, the mines of Russia produced 1926,
pools of gold, worth f3.944, 832, or $l9, 6O0,-
900. Of silver, 1892 pools, worth El88,0O0.
| The pood is about 36 pounds avordupois.
| Dr. Scoresby states. AS the result OF his inves-
| tigations, that the highest waves of the Attain
tic average 45 feet the mean distance between
each wave 559 feet; width from crest to crest,
600 feet; interval of time between each wave,
Is seconds velocity 80 and half miles an hour.
| Meioer, German, collected and described
600 species Of flies from circle of country ten
miles in circumference. There have been col
lected in Europe 10000 species OF insects prey
ing on wheat.
| The longest day at Berlin and London is six
teen hours and half; at Stockholm, eighteen
hours and half; at Hamburger the longest day
| has seventeen hours, and the shortest seven; at
st. Petersburgh, the longest dav has nineteen
hours and the shortest FIVE; at Tornea, in Fin
land, the longest day has twenty-one hours and
half. and the shortest two hours and half;
at Spitzbergen the longest day is three months
and half.
If piece of wood be forced to great depth
| in the sea, the pressure will force the water into
the pores of the wood and will increase its
weight 80 much that it will sink like stone.
For the same reason is it possible there is a
depth below in which fishes cannot exist.
| n
German, 1906; Turkish, 1882.
The surface of the earth contains 100000
Of square miles, of which l50,000,000 or lit
tie more than three-fourths, are covered by wa
ter. The greatest depth is computed to be about
equal to the height of the highest mountain
FIVE miles.
The great coal field Of the Mississippi valley
covers an area of 10000 square miles, or Az
800 900 square acres. This is six times the area
of all the coal fields of Great Britain
There are over 600 species of mammalia, or
animals that suckle their young; 1000 species
of birds; 300 species of fishes; 700 species Of
reptiles; and $4,000 species of insects. Fifty
six thousand species OF plants have been deter
mined, while the number of species in all the
orders and genera are still greater, thousands
of which have not yet been determined.
The COW eats 276 species of plants, and re-
jects 14l ; the horse eats 262 and rejects 2l2
the hog eats only 70, and rejects all the rests
The immense numbers of some species are
astonishing. Capt. Flinders, in his voyage to
Australasia, saw compact stream OF stormy
petrels, SO to 80 yards deep and 300 broad
a-half Allowing nine cubic inches of space to
each bird, at velocity of 80 miles an hour, they
would number $50 millions.
| Wilson, in his American Ornithology, calcu-
lates the number ola flock of pigeons. A flock
one mile in breadth, (below the truth,) moved
four hours at so miles an hour, or $40 miles
| He allows three pigeons to each square yard
which would give 2,230,272,0O0, two billions
two hundred and thirty millions two hundred
and seventy-txo thousand.
| The golden eagle flies 40 miles an hour, pi-
geons from 40 to so, the Swift at about the same
speed.
There are 245 bones in the human body. The
skull is composed of bones, and 81 in the face
the head thus has 81; in the trunk, "a arms
and hands, so; legs and feet, so.
The population of the earth is computed to be
800,OO0,000. Asia. 500, 100000; Africa, 80 000,.
| 600 America, 10000, 900; Europe, 100000.
They are estimated to be divided as follows with
regard to their religious beef:-Pagans, 400,-
100000; Mahometans, l3O,00O,O00; Roman
Catholics, 100, 100000; Protestants, AZ, 100000
Greeks and Armenians 100000; Jews,
| 100000.
| The CHFFosIERs OF PARIs-The fraternal
association of rag gatherers (chifoniers) gave a
grand banquet in Paris near the close of last
month. 1t took place at public house called
the Pot Trincolore, near the Barriere de Fon-
tanebleau, which is frequented by the rag gather
ing fraternity. In this house there are three
rooms each of which is specially devoted to the
use of different classes of rag gatherers; one,
the least dirty is called the Chamber of Peers "
and is occupied by the first class that is, those
who possess basket in good state and a crook
ornamented with copper the second, called the
"Chamber of Deputies" belonging to the Sc
cond class, is much less comfortable and those
who attend it have baskets and crooks--not of
frstrate quality; the third room is in a dilapi-
dated condition, and is frequented by the lowest
order of rag gatherers, who have no basket or
crook, and who place what they find in the streets
in piece of sackcloth; they call themselves the
Reunion des Vrais Proletaires" The name of
each room is written in chailk above the door,
and generally such strict etiquette is observed
among the rag-gatherers, that no one gets into
the apartment not occupied by his own class. At
Saturdays banquet, however, all distinctions
Of rank were set aside, and delegates of each
class united fraternally. The president was the
Oldest rag gatherer of Paris his age is SO, and
he is called the emperor. The banquet consisted