The Port Gibson reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 185?-1857, 1854-03-15
A Chapter Of Curious Facts.


a lead wire. the thirteenth Of IN inch sa;
tains 2s1 lbg
A tin wire. the thirteenth Of an inch, sus-
tains but 81 lbs.
Gun metal is ~ lbs Of tin and 100 lbs Of
copper.
The emerald is ranked among the gems but
is now found only il Peru 1t is grcn hsr.
der than quartz, aud always in crystal. Ori-
entail emorald is a green sapphire
The European mountains consist Of primi
tive and trcnstion rocks
The surface Of the earth is 1876 $50 256
square miles; and its sOlidity Is 250 92j.
9352l5 cubic miles
The sea is to the lard in round millions o.
square miles. as 100 to 40, or 10 1.
The narrowest part Of tie Atlantic IS more
than two miles deep. In other parts, about
one and a half miles
Bullock describes fossil lizard 80 feet
long
Rounded pebbles are broFcn fragments u
rocks rendered smooth by mutual attrItions,
in long time, by water and tides.
] The Amazon falls but foot in f,ty miles;
the Rhine one foot in a quarter o. mile !;
| the Loire foot in one aud half miles.
Ninety species Of bones OF quadrupeds
have been found, which are Low unknown
The waters Of the Red Sea appear to Le
thirty.tTo feet higher than the Mediterranean,
aud the Gulf Of Mexico is twenty-five fest
higher than the Pacific.
About thirty fresh water springs are dis
covered under the sea, on the south Of the
Persian Gulf
The Mediterranean makes tide Of oE'y
one or two feet.
The Caspian is 500 feet lower than The
Baltic, and 845 lower than the Euziae.
No certain theory is formed on tie cause
Of eaithquakes bat the most general AMI
rational, ascribe them to steam and tie force
of gasses formed by water and metallc oz-
ydes.
Fourteen earthquakes. in different parts Of
the globe, were recorded in 1927 and per.
haps this is an average number.
The Sandwich Islands are volcanoic.
Owyheo is il the cone Of volcano higher
than Mount Blanc.
Count Rumford, 5y bOringa cannon within
water 80 heated it by the friction, that be madi
J it boil, and actually boiled piece Of beef n
it.
One gallon of water in steam viii raise s!2
gallons from 81 to 2l2
-Four los of beef loses ID. By boiling
ID. 5 oz by roasting, and l 10. ) oz ~ ba'
hing.-FOur los mutton loses IL oz by boiling
ll6. 6 o. by roasting, aud ID. ! oz by "a
king.
Lamps were used by the ancients, and eau
dies were an invention of the middle ages
Y at frst. Wieks we're made Of hemp. papyra'
and the pith Of rushes OK and Sheep tali5w
is now prefe d.
One pound Of hydrogen consumes, or IKE.
seven and half pounds Of oxygo1, whica
mclts $40 pounds Of ice. One pound Of wax
o;l. or tallow, consumes or fixes two pound.
Of cxveon, which melts l04 pounds Of ice.
The invisible radiations from heated boiio.
may be actel 1gon BY rec ton aud retoelor
Ike light, but they Do not pass tArou sh traus
4 volume Of ice i rreltei By as much
heat as will rise an equal bldx Of water l4C
degrees. /.
Animals die if their vital Temperature l.
increased oue-twelith.
Melted snow produces about ono eighth Q
its bulk Of water hence snow two feet oeeI
produces three inches Of water when tha%ci
In Cornwall, certain steam engines have
/ liaed forty million pounds one foot, with on'
bushel Of coal: and one at Wheel Iowi
lifted sixty two million with an eisd'y me-
Water saturated with nitro loses II degrees
/ Of heat. W,
An solid bodies become luminous at SO'
) degrees.
Extreme cold produces the same sensation
on the skin as great heat. When mercur.
J is frozen al 40 degrees below zero, the sensa
! ton is the same as that Of touching red no
: iron.
r Acids combined with water, condcnse j
and produce heat.
Il Eres arc batched at l04 degrees Of heat
/ When a bulk Of lime aud water are com
; bined the heat is caused hy CONDENSATION
t equal to tie bulk Of lime, for the mixture
, the same bulk as at first.
Water boils at l27 degrees, at The top 0
Mount Blanc.
The colle.t hour of the twenty four is hT'
ia the morning. and the warmest is from tw'
TO three in tho afternoon. Tho mean heat I
t from half past eight to halEPast nine. Ih'
I greatest range i in July, and the least II
December
} One volume Of any gas combines with on
; Of another, or with two or three esacty.
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: "Morning ReliefTrain, " soliloqnisea Mrs
: p,rtipoton. as she sat in ono Of the New ,Lsr
2 sew railroad cars, and gaEed upon the ticke
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