The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-02-06


the new Capitol at Nashville has been rem
edled by Spreading thick layer of sand
dust ON the floor, covering it with a heavy
carpet and curtalning the windows with
heavy curtains. The Ohio Constitutional
Convention remedled "a similar defect in
College Hall, Cincinnati, by covering the
walls with canvas.
Success makes men witty Santa Anna
IN reply to Gen. Gadsdens proposition for
a new treaty, said that he did not see why
the United States wanted another; they had
one treaty ratified which they refused to
observe. and two negotiated which they re-
fused to ratify
Among the lower animals tenacity of life
is the most remarkable in the polypi; they
may be pounded in mortar, split up, turn
ed inside out like glove, and divided into
parts, without injury to life fire alone is
fatal to them. 1t is now about hundred
years since Trembley made us acquainted
with these animals, and first discovered
their indestructibility 1t has subsequently,
been taken up by other natural historians,
who have followed up these experiments,
aud have even gone SO far as to produce
monsters by grating IF they be turned in
side out, they attempt to replace themselves,
and if unsuccessfully, the outer surface as
sumes the properties and power Of the inner.
and the reverse. If the effort be partially
successful only, the part turned back disap-
pears in twenty four hours, and that part of
the body embraces it in such manner that
the arms which projected behind are now
fixed in the centre of the body; the original
opening also disappears, and in the room Of
feelers new mouth is formed, to which
new feelers attach themselves. and this new
mouth feeds Immediately. The healed ex-
tremily elongates itself into tail, of which
the animal has now two. If two polypi be
passed into one another like tubes, and
pierced through with bristle, the inner one
works its way through the other, and comes
forth again in few days; in some instances,
however. they grow together, and then a
double row of feelers surround the mouth
If they be multilated, the divided parts grow
together again, and even pieces of two sepa-
rate individuals will unite into one.
NUMERICAL LAWS OF THE SEXES s-The last
census develops some curious facts. 1t fix
cs the numerical law of the sexes thus
l. There are more males than females born,
by about per cent.
2. At 20 years of age this preponderance
is entirely lost, and there are more females
than males. r
3. At 40 years, the balance is again the
other way, and there arc more males than
females. ~ ''
a. At 70, the sexes are about even, and the
ultimate age Of the human being is reached
without any decided advantage TO either sex
Between 70 and 100 years of age, there
are 1871 more white females than males.
being more than 3 per cent. of the whole
number. Beyond the age of 40 years, the
probabilities Of longevity are much greater
for American women than for men. This
contrasts singulary with the fact, that the
phySignc (relatively) of American women is
inferior to that of American men, That fact,
as is shown, however, tells tremendously
on women between the age of 30 and 40,
when their mortality is very great, ..aa ..
The longevity of some women is eXtraOr-
dinary. There are 430 American women
above 100 years of age. .--
A IIlT.-The Boston Post has the follow
ing hit at the Knud Iverson monument af-
fair: ... s.,- r, #.a .-.E .....
"Out West" remarked Aunt Kitty, look
ing up from the newspaper ".they build mon
uments to persons who don't steal uf ba
80 suppose that to be the reason repli-
ed Roger, "why there are so few .monu7
ments in that country"