New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-21

Notice upon the SOLD Portions and Microscopic
Living Forms of the Matter floating with the
water of the Mississippi. | e1,rac, from il few
curious details At Memphis, the river rolls away
at the rate Of -, 100 o06, 232, 79l cubic feet
year The 2,950ih part, or 100000, coo cubic
fee, of this volume is mud. In this mud are
found So different kinds Of microscopic crea
lures, A polygssuiques, 81 phIlollihaires, ?
poly,hames, and several Uniformed species. A
comparison Of the Mississippi with the Ganges
and he Nile gives the following results
The Ganges, when its waters are high, flows
at the rate of 100000 cubic feet second the
Mississippi, 1911 cubic feet second; the
Nile, l76,l4s cubic feet second. So that the
volume of the Mississippi is nearly as large as
that of the Ganges at high water, and two and a
half times as large as that Of the Nile.
The proportions of solid matter contained IN
the rivers are as follows In the Gauges, 55I
cubic feet in a second; In the Mississippi l47
cubic feet in second In the Nile, l3l cubic
feet in second So that the Mississippi is by
far the purest river of the three.
Finally, organic life enters in the turbd por.
tons Of the rivers in the following proportions
In the GaDges, animal microscopic life forms from
one third to one-fourth of the mud-glving from
1879 to ls6 cubic feet Of animalcula in second.
In the Nile, it forms from one-twentleth to one
tenth, giving from six to thirteen cubic feet of
worms in a second. In the Mississippi, 1t forms
from fitch to thirty third, giving the Fa
ther of Waters from two to four cubic feet Of
animated mud, which it rolls by Memphis, every
second Of its life.
II has been noticed for the last twenty years
that the climate Of the temperate zone Is gradu-
ally becoming more equable, and that OF late the
extremes Of heat and cold in winter and sum
mer are decidedly less severe. A circumstance
somewhat corroborative Of this theory il thLs
Earthquakes are coming north. We are being
treated to an acquaintance with some Of the mo-
nopoies of the torrid zone. They have felt q
serious shock at Bordeaux, where never, IN the
memory Of man, was one ever felt before. 1t
lasted eight seconds, and did remarkable deal
of work, considering the time it had to do it in.
1t began with an explosion and finished with
three oscillations from south to north Pictures
trembled upon the walls tumblers slid of from
the shelves and broke; the glass windows OF
churches shivered into splinters clocks that
were going were stopped, and others that had
stopped were set going. 1t was two o'clock at
night, and the horizon was lurid red, as if the
last rays of confagration were still lingering
in the atmosphere. In the surrounding country,
the cattle were as frightened as the men, and ut
tered low murmurs and complaints. Perhaps
this earthquake is visiting France, charged with
terrible errand. The Red Sea was commits
stoned to swallow Pharaoh and his hosts the
whale was sent to swallow Jonah why should
not an earthquake be deputed to swallow Mr..
Bonaparte! Let US hope that it will not make
a mistake and take the wrong man and that /,
will not miss its aim like that sharp shooter
of Vincennes C. b. =.