The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1853-12-29
A CHAPTER OF CURIOUS FACTS.

Attn wier the thirteenth o! and inch,
sustains but BAT lbs. 5J .r. ..
Gun meta is IL lbs. Of lin and 100 lbs.
of copper. a
The emerald is ranked among the gems
but is now found only in Peru. 1t is
green, harder than quartz. and always in |
crystal. Oriental emerald is green
sapphire
! The European mountains consist Of
! primitive and transition rocks.
The surface Of the earth is l96.862.- /
256 square miles; and its solldity is $780,
926 AIS cubic miles. ..
The sea is to the land. in round millions
Of square miles, as l6 10 40, or A 10 /.
TIE narrowest part of, the Atlantic is
more than two miles deep. In other parts
about one and half miles.
Bullock describes fossil lizard $50
feet long.
Rounded pebbles are broken fragments
of rocks, rendered smooth by mutual at. !
fractions, in long time, by water and
tides. TT
The Amazon falls but foot in fifty
miles; the Rhine one foot in quarter OF
mile; the Loire foot IN one and halt
miles,
Ninety species bones Of quadrupeds
have been found, which are unknown.
The waters of the Red Sea appear to
be thirty.lwo feet higher than the Med
iterranean, and the Gulf Of Mexico is
twenty. feet higher than the Pacific.
About thirty fresh water springs are
discovered under the sea, on the south oi
the Persian Gulf. .. .. .
The Mediterranean makes tide ofonly
one or two feet.
The Caspian is 800 feet lower than the
Baltic and 345 lower than the Euxine.
No certain theory is formed on the
causes Of earthquakes; but the most gen
general and rational, ascribe them to
steam and the force Of gdsses formed by
water and and metallic oxydes.
j Fourteen earthquakes, in differeptpar
OF the globe, were recorded in 1927, and
pherapS this is an average number.
; The Sandwich Islands are volcanic.
Owyhee is in the cone Of volcano
higher than Mont Blanc.
Count Rumford, by boring cannon
within water, so heated it by The friction,
that he made it boil, and actually boiled
piece Of beef in il.
One gallon Of water in steam will raise
six gallons from 80 TO 2l2.
-, Four lbs of beef loses ID BY boiling;
1 ID OF by roasting, and ID 3 OF by
: baking -Four lbs OF mutton Of mutton
looseS IA OF Of by boiling; / ID 6 OF by
roasting, and lb OF by baking.
Lamps we're used by the ancients. and
= candles were an invention of the middle
ages Atfrst, Wicks were made Of hemp.
. papyrus, and the pith OF rushes. Ok and
sheep tallow is now preferred.
= One pound Of hydrogen consumes OF
= = fixes seven aud hall pounds of oxygen
which melts 800 pound Of ice. One
= pound of wax. oil, or tallow. consumes
: or fixes two pounds Of oxygen which
:. mtlS lU4 pound OF ice. ...
The invisible radications from heated.
s bodies. may be acted upon by refracton
/, and reflection like light, but they do not
$ pass through transparent bodies.
A volume ol ice is melted by as much
i. heat as will raise an equal bulk of water
l4O degree.
II Animals die If their vital temperture i:
Y increased one twelfth.
If Melted snow produces about one'eightt
IS of its bulk of water; hence snow two fee
# deep produces three inches Of water wher
N thawed.
r In Cornwall. certain steam engine!
= have lifted forty million pounds, one foot
= with one bushel of coal; and one at Whee
III Town lifted sixty millions with an eight,
:; inch cylinder.
r Water stagnated with inter loses l
is degrees Of heat; and with nitrate of am
Of moniA 46 degrees of heat.
e All solid bodies become luminous at 80'
er degrees. o..
I'd Extreme cold produces the same per
is ception on the skin as great heat. WheI
Id mercury is frozen at 40 degrees beloN
at zero, the sensation is the same as that {
touching red.hot iron.
Acids combined with water, condens
ne it and produce heat. IT.. +.
n, Eggs are hatched at lO4 degrees
i'd heat. ... .......
rt- When a bulk OF lime and water al
DIS combined, the heat is caused by col
oi densation equal to the bulk Of lime, K
ng the mixture is the same bulk as at first.
.. Wafer boiS at 1877 degrees, at the Il
nd of Mont Blanc. ...a.w ,.-s
in One volume of nay gas combines wi
on with one Of another, or with two or ihr,
he exactly. -.
no The coolest hour Of the twenty. -four
i.n five in the morning, and the warmest
,'u from two 10 three in the afternoon. T
nc ne main heat is from halt. past eight 10 ha
W. W. past nine. The greatest range is in Jul
"a" and the least in December.
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ard A boat ascending the Ohio river W
i'm. hailed by another, when the tollowl