The southern press., 1851-07-19
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ll.e hAinan brain averages In weight l-hd q
the b1dy--about two p0unde and half that OF
the dog, l.20th; that Of thu horse, l-450; oil
of the sheep 1850; Of the OK, I 80th
The proportion of the brain TO the spinal
cord is the lowest fish, two to one, ia reptiles
two and hall TO one; in birds, three to one
in animals, four one; in man, The highest o.
all created beings, Z is twenty-three 10 one.
The bones of birds IRE hollow, and filled with
air instead of marrow.
I. A man IS taller in the morning, by half an
inch, than he is at night. An acquaintance with
this fact led to cunning expedent on the par'
of some soldiers in the English army. The re-
gulations requiring that none but soldiers who
measura(ks six feet should be admitted into .
certain regiment, a number who fell tribe
short of the required stature, went early IN the
morning to be measured, when they were found
to be Of the height required.
It is estimated that thirty thousand millions
of human being have persisted in war. There
fell at the battle Of Austerltz, 10000; Dresden
10000; Waterloo, 10000; Eylae, 10000; Boro.
dino, 10000; Isus, 10000; Cannan, 10000
ArbeIa, 100000: in the Siege Of Jerusalem, Il
OoO, 900, and at Troy 100000. In the Rus.
sian campain, 100000. During twelve years
of recent wars in Europe, no less than 5,S00,000
The army Of Xerxes, which numbered at one
time 100000, was reduced to n few thousand
lengths Khan butehered in the province Of
Herat, 100000.
In I84S, the mines Of Russia produced 1926
pools Of gold, worth f39i4, S32, or Bio, GOO,
900. OF silver, l,l92 pools, worth tl8S,000
The pood is about 36pcunds avordupois.
DR. Scoresby states, as the result OF his inves.
tigations, that the highest waves Of the Adam
Tic average as feet ~ the mean defiance betwesn
each wave $50 feet; width from crest 20 crest
500 feet; interval oftime between each wave,
is seconds velocity SO and q half niles an hour.
Meiger, a German, collected and described
600 species of flies from a 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 a half; at Stockholm, eighteen
hours and half; at Hamburger the longest day
has seventeen hours, and the shortest seven; at
ST. Petersburgh, the lonaest day has nineteen
hours, and the shortest FIVE; at Tornea, in Fin
land, the longest day has twenty-one hours aud
half, and the shortest two hours and a half;
at Spitzbergen the longest day is three months
and half.
If piece Of wood be forced 10 great depth
in the sea, the pressure will force the water into
Tie pores VI tHt WpOu dIiu VIII iiCtCttoO 10
weight so much that it will sink like stone.
For The same reason is it possible there is a
depth below in which fishes cannot exist.
An Irish mile is 2240 yards; Scotch, 1884 /;
German, 1906; Turkish, 1882.
The surface of the earth contains 80 100000
of square miles, of which l50,0oo,O00, or lit
tie more than three purths are covered by wa
ter The greatest depth is computed to be about
equal TO the height of the highest mountain
Eve miles.
The great coal field of the Mississippi valley
covers an area of 10000 square miles, or A.
800, 900 square acres. This is six times the area
of all the coal fields Of Greet Britain.
There are over 600 species of man,mdlia, or
animals that suckle their young; 1000 species
of BIRDS 800 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 s76 species of plants, and re-
jects al the horse eats 262 and rejects 2l2 !;
the hog eats only 10 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 800 broad -
They continued to fly past the ship an hour and
u-haif. Allowing nine cube inches of space la
each bird, at velocity of 30 miles an hour, they
would number $50 millions.
Wilson, 10 his American Ofnithology, calcu-
lates the number ola flock of pigeons. A flock
one mile in breadth, (below the truth,) moved
four hours at 60 miles an hour, or $40 miles.
He allows three pigeons to each square yard,
which would give 2,230,272O00 two billions
f,.o H.. Il III II
and setenty-two thousand.
The golden eagle flies 40 miles an hour, p-
geons from 40 to go, 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, 81 arms
and hands, so; legs and feet so.
The popn'aion of the earth is computed to be
s00,000000. Asia, 500,O00,000; Africa, 80 600,
600; America, 10000 900; Europe, l50,000,o00.
They are estimated to be divided as follows With
regard TO their religious belief :-Pagans, AGO.
100000; Mahometans, l3o,000,00o; Roman
Catholics, 100000 900 ; Protestauts, 100000
Greeks and Armenians, 30,000,000; Jews,
100000.
The CHIFFosIERs OF PARIs.-The fraternal
association OF rag gatherers (chifoniers) gave y
grand banquet in Paris. near the close Of last
month. II took place at public house called
the Pot Trincolorc, near the Barriere de Fon-
tanebleau, which isfrequented by the rag gather
ing fraternity. In this house there are three
rooms, each Of which is specially devoted 10 the
use Of different classes Of rag-gatherers ONE,
the least dirty, is called the Chamber If Peers,
and is occupied by the first class that is, those
who possess basket in good state and crook
ornament ed with conner 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 dilapi-
dated condition, and Is frequented by the lowest
order of rag gatberers, who have no basket or
crook. and who place what they find in the streets