Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-07-10

tern tribes. Their friends asccrtoincd tbo
whereabouts of the lost children some time
ago, and induced tho % leave the Indi-
ans and return to olativcs in one of
the Eastern States. The BOYS, after try.
ing civilized life while, concluded that
thcy didn't like it, and were here, ycster-
day, on their way back to their Western
home. We could not learn their names or
the tribe of Indians they belonged to.-M
didnopolts Jonrmdl.
A NEW 1NsTITUmoN.-Ncw York re-
joiccs in another Constitution. The
smallpox, which in old times was only
casual visitor, is now settled among us, a
permanent resident If, in all Christen-
dom, anybody wants it, here is the spot
If any physician wants practice, any med
lcal student observation, here is the quar-
ter to get either. If any philosopher in
physic aspircs to settle the disputed oues-
ton of variolous habit, let him shy Phila
dclpha as rural district, and Boston as a
quiet, healthy village, and come at once to
the great smallpox metropolis, whore he
shall sec everything worth embracing in
nomenclature of disease exhibited on the
largest scale. We arc not boosting of any
trlttlng or temporary advantage We have
no more smallpox this week than we had
last, and we have had less this month than
last. Still, within eleven years we have
had $4,000 cases in this single city, and
5000 deaths from it, and if this docs not
entitle usTto the consideration of head
Quarters for the disease, we despair of ever
attaining that honor.-Ncw York Times.
IN FIX.-An American at Paris went
to arcstaurant to get his dinner Unac-
quainted with the French language, yet
unwilling to show his ignorance, he point
cd to the first line in the bill of fare, and
the polite waiter brought him q plate of fra
grant beef soup. This was very we'll, and
when it was dispatched he pointed to the
second line. The waiter understood him
perfectly, and brought him vegetable soup.
Rather more soup than want" thought
he, "but it is Paris fashion" He duly
pointed to. the third line, and plate of ia
pioca broth was brought shin; again to the
fourth, and was furnished with bowl of
preparation of arrow root. He tried the
fifth line and was supplied with some Cruel
kept for invalids. The bystandcrs now
supposed that they saw an unfortunate in
dividual who had lost all his teeth, aud our
friend, determined to get as far from the
soup as possible, pointed in despair to the
last line on the bill Of fare The intell-
gent water, who saw at once what he wan
ted, politely handed him--a bunch of tooth
picks. This was too much-our country
man paid his bill, and incontincntly left.
RAPIDITY OF THoUGHT, OR NERVOUS
AcrIoN.-A method of transforming the
valuation of time into space by the rapid
revolution Of a cylinder, under the plansof
Dir. Fizeau, French mcchanioian, has
been applied to the measurement of the ra-
.pidity ofthe nervous impulse. Such cyl
inder has been made to rotate 10 as to meas
are as miuuteSa subdivision of time az the
ono fiYe-hundrcd- -thQusandth part of a sec
ond, and by means of microscopic observa-
tion, this small division may besub-diyidcd
so as TO obtain,the ten-millionth part of a
second If an electric shock be given to
the arm, it produces a sensation and con-
traction of the muscles. Hcnce, by NOTING
Che interval of time between tho shock and
the contraction, Che time occupied by the
transmission of tlle sensation and the ac-
tion Of the brain may be determined ac u
rately,
This has been done by actual experiment
IN France, and so carefully have the results
been attained, that science. has been cna-
bled toartiye at the following facts: That
sensations ara transmitted to che brain at
the rate Of speed Of 1870 feet per second, or
about onesHfth as fast as sound that the
bgspsa requires, on the average, one-tenth of
= SECOND 30 transmit its orders to the nerves
presiding over voluntary motion; that the
time rcquiredt 70 transmit am order from the
motor nerves to she muscles Is nearly the
same is shat required by the nerves of scn-.
elE to trRpslait q senAationj and that tho
Mo lesationrequires from one and a.
ltlls ID two tenths Of b second,
asjins With different individuals.
gllell NE speak Of an active, ardent.
az ono HAT Is alow. cold. or ana