The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1853-04-14

III MS WtShs ana legs, sixty-tNo IN MS arms aau
hands, and siNty-seven in his trunk. lie has also
four hundred and thirty -four muscles. His heart
makes sxty-tour pusatons in minute, and there
fore three thousand eight hundred and forty in an
hour, and ninety two thousand one hundred and sixty
in day. There also three complete circuations
of has blood in the short space OF hour. In respect
to comparative speed of animated beings and o., mn
PEELED bodes it may be remarked that size and
struction to have little influence, has
paratve strength, though one body giving any guam
iIty of motion To another said TO lose much OF
own. The s'Oth Is by no means a small animal, and
yet it can travel only fifty PAGES day; worm craws
only five inches IN fifty seconds; but ladybird
Nv twenty million times its length in less thana
hour. An elk can mile aud half in seven MN
utes; antelope mite in minute; the Wild mule
of Tartary has speed greater than that;
cnslc can fly ten leagues in an hour; and Canary
falcon can even reach two hundred and fits leagues
~ the short space Of sixteen hours; violent wind
travels twenty mixes in an hour, sound one Thousand
oae hundred and torty-two En5sh feet in second.
! CutLDHooD.--Therc are some children left. Al
least met one the other day 1t was It'le fellow
Of i've years. lie had come with his father into the
country 10 oil my friends As he left
the carriage he the kennel OF i large watch
dog thatwas chaincd IN the courtyard.
/ 'Don't touch the dog cried, 'he' bite ,ou.'
/ ''Why viii he bite mel
because he don't know YOU"
/ ''Oh II that's ALL" he replied, II will TIL hin
that | am enry.'-(Carpet Bag.
! Soue years ago, as tn. late Rev. Dr.. Prinele, of
Perth was taking walk one summer afternoon, two
young beauN took in into their heads to break Jest
upon the old parSon. Walking brishiy mp - HIM.
and making their bow politely, they asked hja II he
could tell them the color OF the devils WI. The
worthy clergyman srrvc, ing them a,irn'IYey few
seconds, made the following reply: ''Tuy, here is
most surprising case Two men have served
all the days Of thcir life, aaI doui know the color
OF hi Wig"
WHY is a nan ascending vesnvius like an I,ish-
man trying to Hiss pretty girl! Because he wants
to get 1T the cra,a's mouth.
.'Dd YOU attend church to-,iayl'' said planter to
his slave. ''Sariain, ,naSs,,' the reply, ''and
what two mighty hig stories dat preacher aid tell
Nv hat stories were they!"
'Whv, he tell de people no man can saryc two
mass:,> now, dis is ic fuss story. kase ,uu see
You, ole inasSa. and ais" young ma>sa John.
Dcn lie preachr saws, he will love de and haze
dc oder, while de Lord knows hae gu b Il ;"
/ 4 grave friend Of tells MS that he ADD his wife
always 90 to bed quaireling "And yet" said he.
''with all Our differences, we never fall o"t."
7. P.--phish PHI ht-say the Coolers.
/ \ western editor heads his list of marriages.
g N,)te o. the ,reat.'
Jones says he hates TO women lmyinC furniture
At auction rooms. The prcl,iest then look ugiy-
their coantemances are 50 for dtddag,
one Of the broadest hints To pop the question
which it is possible too yonng lady give gentle
man, declare him her intention OF never mar
Ring.
! Philosophers say that Figures cannot lie This
only shows that philosophy but little acquainted
with tha uses to which women put cotton ana coffee
bags.
! oUERY.-Whon did ,binson Crusoc meet on
lis bens the desert isind,-A grcat s,cFN On
the shore, au a THE running inland the
Mss. U Maniac.
HINT FOR EXCrEsioNisTs.
He who watch would keep,
Two things must do;
Pocket his watch,
And rafch his pocket. too.
A SUMMARY EPIGRAH.-Thc,dOre Hook once
rron seeing tax collector, " hose name Winter,
approach the party he was with, got of the follow
. in5 npiomptu:
Here comes Mr.. Winter, collector of taxes
/ | advise you to give him whatever he axes,
! ADV sc You 10 give it without, any tumney,
! For though his names Winter, his actions are
Sunmay.
j. it proine say Of a stream, that ii not worth
dam' No, lay msi,e.
/ Spell "ac,yi,y'' in three lctters-N C. Aud
>ourness in iruiA G. ID T.
The inventor of knock kneod syrup has int pat
enea a wash for sore-eyc,i potatoes. lie obtained
the receipt from Ezra II. Prentice, the gentleman
who raised sorel colt from horse chcsnul.
IT'S strange" mut,ered a Young man as he was
Stesgor.ng home from supper party, ''hw evil COM
muucati lns corrupt good manners. I've been
rounded by uulbers all the evening, and now Pm a
tunber myseii."
Al Irishmln observing a dandy taking his usual
strut IN Broadway, stepped up him and inquired
/ How much rint d" you bs AKIN ior thin houses
surc,' ''What do You ask me tina, ior!' .'Faith,
and | fought the whole stra,e belonged I'll yc,
pied The lishnan.
lnflncy is ovable, uo'w Outstanding fictfuness and
the whp"pIng cough.
The Paris Universe has this startling criticism on
prou!hoH's new book:
''The author is not content with insulting, accord
Ing to his custom, the Clergy, Christianity, aud God
himself, he goes furthcrhc insults the Emperor and
the Empire"
How perfectly Partisan. IL a Frcnc,uan should
paint Heaven, he would represent God holding can
opy over the Emperor Napoleon.
''lIave YOU said your prayers, Johp}'
''No ma an. 1t ANT my work; Bill says the
prayers and the ames, We agreed to DO IT, cause
It comes -hortcr.'
Economical youth, that.
\ friend of ours, in speaking Of Albonis exquisite
tast' and exceeding plnpncSs, sh" is ''caage
rose, with the feelings OF violet" Not a bad ''pu,
in, that.
Ifyou would make enemy of a man, become his
friend and dissuade hiGl from vice.
An artist of our acquaintance drew horse and cart
naturally the other day, that when he i'ut on the
traces, they commenced drawing him. When last
seen, they going down Nassau street the arts,
pulling way, aud the qladruped the other.
One Of the Ballet girls connected with Niho's The
atre, Is light and fairy like, that She frequently
sleeps all night in water Ely. Ia Paris she once
danced platform composed Of cob-wcha and moon
oeams-he former answered for boards, and the lat
,e, Tor the tiu.bers.
Punch says, if yon would enH good health You
must avoid all excessive eXctcncnts, among which
he places rum drinking, women hug5ing, and quarrel
ling with an Irishman.
The editor Of the Home Journal assembled Trinity
Church seepie, to take what Mrs. Harris would term
a view of ne 'outsqnirts.' In speaking Of the
nibuses, be says they looked like 'douhe headed
toises with white backs novel id a, and sin,,l-
larry felicitois.
An l,;,hman went fishing, and among other things
he hauled in large sized turtle. To enjoy the
surprise Of the si,l, he placed it in her bed
,oon The next morning the irst that bounced INTO
the breakfast ROOM was hiddy with The exclamation
/ Of ''Be Jabers, I've got the divi'' ''What dcv!