Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-05-23
- Curious Facts.

~ About thirty freshwa,er springs rendis.
-cpveredyunder the sea, on the south side of
the Persian Gulf.
A wasps nestusuallv contains fifteen or
sixteen thousand. cells. ~ cT
r., The Atlantic OceaU is estimated nj threc
miles, and che Pacific four miles deep.
There are six or seven generations of pnats
IN the summer, and each lays two hundred
and fifty eggs.
There are about nine thousand cells IN n
square foot OF honey comb. Five thousand
bees weigh pound. '.
A swarm of bees contains from ten 10
twenty Thousand ina haturalstate, and
from thirty toforty thousand in n hive.
'Ihe btfnes of birds are hollow and flied
with air instead ofmarrow. .-, m
Fish are COMMON in the seas of Snrinam
I with four eyes; t@oofthcm on horns,wlicL
grow on top of their heads. eNf
f. Two Thousand nine huntlped silk worms
produce one pound of silk ;-but it would re-
quire twenty seven thousand spiders, all fs
male, TO produce one pound of web
A queen bee will lay Two hundred eros
daily for sixty days, andd eggs afehatcI.
ed -insthrce days. A single queen bee has
been stated 10 produce one hundred thou
sand bees III season.
a single female housc-1y produces, in
one season, u,.twcGtymiIion eli glty thousand
three hundred. and twenty 4.
Some female spiders produce nearly two
thousand eggs.
Or Bright published case Of an ego
producing an insect eighty wears after Il
must have been laid 80
COMETS. 1t is stated that two comets
are now visible TO the naked eve. The first
rs recedins fromtbe earlh. The other NAV
be seen in the Northwestern part of lilo
heavens, and is supposed to be identical
with the t ird comet of I846. which has
been computed to return to It's peribelon on
the 25th of June. This comet win be vis;.
Bile during the whole of Nav. The asser,
tious of the French astronomer who nnb.
lished to the world that the earth would he
destroyed by this comet, seem to have met
with general scepiicism.
CAsUAETY. We learn from The Evepinc
News, that Captain Peirpont of the scbr.
Parker, was knocked overboard near the
Charleston Bar and drowned He was a
,na.'fe, we believe of Connecticut. and wn.
the defendant in The case of the State va.
.PelrPPnl now before the Court of Enols.
for the purpose of testing the constitution
alty OF The law against ducking and fishing
passed IN 1855. = Georgcto,cp Times,
I TIE TgLlow SKINS AHEAD. Chi.
nese viii ere long probably claim that
America belongs 10 tbtm by fipb, Of prior.
ty of discovery, for james iianley' Chi
nese Interpreter, Chinese Camp, Tnehme
county Gal" ayers that there is no doubt
that the Celestials discovered America l4oo
years ago This puts Columbus the Welsh,
fthe Nnrthmen, and nIl,the other modern
fellows cenHclY into the shade. He piycs
a number of Chinese words which are Near.
| " Identical with number of Indian y ords
some 'ofthe California tribes. lftbe dis.
coVerics of America continue To multinly it
VIII soon he eyidcnt that there never was n
tlmc when it was. not known, and the New
world WI l.tN hays 20 Dc etermedthe Old World.
.WEEcK,oY LAKE Ears ELEVEN LIVES
4c cosr---=7Snndusky, May 5.--lhe Canadian
bark Empire, of Port Dover, Capt. Morgan,
went ashore yesterday, near Marblehead--
I'l he captain and'a passenger were saved
How TO MakgA 4 t'oRruNE.-4fake ear.
nest hold ofl;fe, rs II appreciated for and
7 Edesiined,to, a high and noble purpose.--
aSludS closely the minds bent for labor ora
profession. Adopt it early and pursue it
sIeadily. never looking back to. the turning
furrow, but forward to the new ground that
ever remains tobe broken. MeansaDd ,Yays
are7nbundant,to every mans success, if viii
and. and. actions are rightly adapted, TO them.--
Our rich men and 9urgleai men have carv-
td their paths tofortune, and by this inter
nal punciple--a principle that cannot fail to
reward It's votary,ffit be resouielypursued
LoslSh orrephe'oye the lack of inhetii
ance,als unmanly. Eyeryman should strive
TO. be creator instead Of AN inheritor. He
should beqneath instead Of borrow. The
human race; in this respect, want dignity
and discipline They prefer to wieli the
! sword OF vniorousa foGcfa,hers, forpinp
sul%'r ownrweapops. This isa mean and ig,
| noble sPnt. Bet eyeryy man he conscious
OF The power in him and The Providence
over him, and fshl Ills own battles with his
own good lance Let him fe,F that II ~
better to carnea crust than toinhcril Golfers
OF gold. This spirit Of SELF nobill;y ,nce
learned, and eve, y man wdltliscovey wThin
himself, under God the elements andaca.
paoities ,ot weahh. Nile willibe fich. inesti,
lnablg rich in self,fspurees, an,i can lifl hi.
l9. lace proudly TO meet The noblest among men.
NeNER marry for@a5 fortune. We over
| heard 2 poor unfortunq,ej get The following