The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1854-02-17
A CHAPTER ON CURIOUS FACTS.


susiains 2sl lbs.
A tin wire, the thirteenth Of an inch
sustains "a. 7 lbs.
Gun metal is IL lbs. Of Tin and 100
lbs. Of copper.
The emerald is ranked among the
gems, but is now only found in Peru. -
1t is green, harder than quartz, and al
ways in crystal. ORIENTAL emerald is a
green sapphire.
The European mountains consist OF
primitive and transition rocks
The surface of tho earth is l96, ,s62,>
256 square miles; and its soldily is $780,
25,945,3l5 cubic miles.
The narrowest part of the Atlantic is
more than two miles deep. In other parts
about one and half miles.
The sea is TO the land, in round mill
ions of square miles, as 100 10 40, or a
tol.
Bullock describes fossil lizard $50
feet long.
Rounded pebbles are broken fragments
of rocks, rendered smooth BY mutual at
tr'ions in long time, by water and tides.
The Amazon falls bu,a foot in fifty
miles; The Rhine one foo, in quarter OF
a mile; The Loire foot in one and half
miles.
Ninety species of b>nes ofquadrupeds
have been found which are now unknown
The waters of the Red Sea appear to
be thrty.two feet higher than The Med
lierraneun, and the Gulf of Mexico is
twenty-five fec, higher than The Pacific.
About thirty flesh water springs are
discovered under the sea ION the south Of
the Persian Gulf.
The Mediterranean makes tide of
only one or two feet.
The Cas- plan il 300 feet lower thun.
the Baltic, and 345 lower than the Eux-
inc.
No certain theory is formed of the eau,
ses Of earthquakes; but the most general
and rational ascribe them to steam and
the force OF gases formed by water and
metallic oxydes.
Fourteen earthquakes, in different pats
Of the globe, were recorded in 1927, and
perhaps this is an average number.
The Sandwich Islands are volcanic.
Owyhee is in the cone Of volcanic
higher than Mount Blanc.
Count Rumford, by boring cannon
within water, so heated it by the friction,
that he made i, boil, and actually boiled
piece Of beef in it.
One gallon of water in steam will raise
six gallons from SO to 2l2.
-Four lbs OF beof'Osos ] ID by boiling,
l ID oz by roasting, and ID 8 or by
baking. -Four lbs OF mutton loses Ia or
by boiling, lb 8 OF by roasting, and l lb
6 OF by baking.
Lamps were used by the ancienls, and
candles were an invention of the middle
ages. Al FIRST wcks ere made Of hemp,
papyrus, and the p;,h Of rushes Ok and
sheep lallow is now preferred.
One pound OF hydrogen consumes, or
fixes seven pounds and half Of oxygen,
which melts 800 lbs. of ice. One pound
of wax, oil, or tallow, consumes or fixes
two pounds of oxygen, which melts lO4
pounds Of ice.
Tho invisible radialions from heated
bodies may be acted upon by refiaction
like light, but they do not pass through
transparent bodies.
A volume OF ice is melted by as much
heat us will raise any equal bulk Of water
l40 degrees.
Animals die If their vital temperature
is increased one-twelfih.
Melted snow produces about one-eightb
Of its bulk Of water; hence snow two feet
deep produces three inches Of water when
lhawed. KIN
In Cornwall, certain steam engines
have lifted forty million pounds one foot,
with one bushel Of coal ;and one at Wheel
Town lifted sixty millions, with an eigh>
ty inch, cylinder, .na- -g.g5a .i-
Water saturated with nitre loses II de-
grees Of heat aud with nitrate of ammo>
MIA 46 degrees Of heat. ~ aa2''i
All solid bodies become luminous at
500 degrees.