Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1851-05-22
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

The dead exceed fye-fold the minutes
nee the creation.
Texas derives It's name from an Indian
word, signlying beautiful.
The people of London, annually drink
about 5000 tons Of chalk.
Milk, so Nutritious when taken as food,
if injected into The veins acls as a deadly
poison. e,..s.
In Hiraosinn, unmarried females more
than sixteen years Of age, are regarded as
Infamous.
Deborah, from the Hebrew, means q bee !;
Rachel, sheep; Sarah princess and
Hannah, the gracious.
ln Chuucer's works there are a, leasl lhir.
ty',housand verses which may be said 10 be
dedicated tol love.
There is plant growing in the springs OF
Iceland, which not only flowers, but bears
seeds in water hot enough to boil an egg.
Some curious curiosiiy-huner has found
that the number Of grains in bushel OF
wheat weighing sixty.lwo pounds, is upwards
Of 639,OOO.
The earth, and those planets which, with
their satellites, form what is called the solar
system, moves through space a, the rate Of
thir,y.five miles an hour.
The larvae Of the "great goat moth" in.
creascs their weight one hundred and forty
iimesin an hour, and when full grown, are
$4,000 lines heavier than when frs
haiched. 3a2
The ancient cooks carried the art to tht
most whimsical perfection. They were able
10 serve up whole pig boiled on one side
and roasted on the other.
In thereign Of Henry l, about the yea
1880, a sheep could be bought in Englan,
for four pence and wheat enough for leedin,
one hundred men whole day cos, bu,
single shifting.
Snais were a great luxury among the an
ciem Romans. Piny tells us Of man VIII
q had invented a mode Of fauening snais, b
(which single shell was made 10 con,ai
more than quart. .e
Smoothing irons seem 10 be rather Ia:
nventch. About the lime OF Elizabeth All
amessIglarge stones, inscribed with texts (
cnplure, were used Tor The purpose Of irol
WnOsld eQn naya ew 11A Nf Hv3'A iD
/5d, has Uesn cdIcuIaled that If those WI
II have gore before ussp death, were all liyin
u Addisinbuted equally over the surface
y he earh, ,ishe United States would contain
4 ppala,ion of atleast three thousand mil
Il lns.eJ u aat59 p&- ~ n F
Ia the Canary Islands there are TO be four
.,-. ices which Yell an abundance ofpure frel
aler in the driest seasons In China, IL
N ic Ms produced BY cenain species ofplan
and In Ghiliihere are trees which daily su
ply the people with salt. 'a.','
'CSb5uge means the head hence we s.
Che kale has cabbaged, The lettuce has Gu
baged i. e. headed Hence, also, ii is sal
lhe tailor has cabbaged, meaning in this cal
that paris Of The cloth have been rolled
and packed away like the head leaves Of
cabbage. .,E
''Itis told, on the best authority, that
Eneishman was introduced TO the celeb
led John Hunter, who could. and did, at vi
throw himself into state resembling In
cry particular actual death. After ma
successful trials, one was ai length fatal,
he awoke no more, i.
Plants perspire more abundanily than
IE inals. Thus sun-Aower will perspire
H warm day thirty ounces, or, as il is said,
much as seventeen men. The stem o
vine cut of, near ihe head, with blad
fastened tightly around il, will, in the s
soon send off in the form Of perspira,ion.
enough 10 swell and burst the bladder. i
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