The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1859-04-07
A string or Curious Facts.

Wllt DC new 10 our teaiefS!
The diff renee between the skulls Of a domes.
! tic hog aud a Wild boar, IL as great as that be-
tween the European and the negto skull Do.
mcstic animals that have subsequently, run
wild IN he .,..,,,s, oi,-r tow generations lose
all traces OF thcir domcstication, and are physi-
cally different from their tame originols.
II is not natural for a COW, any more than for
any other female animal, to give milk when she
hos no yuung to nouri3h The permanent pro-
ducton OF milk is n modified anmel function,
produced by an artificial habit, Tor several gen
erations. In Columbia. the practice of milking
COWS having been laid aside, the natural state
OF the function has been restored. The secre-
tion OF milk continues only during the sucking
OF the ca {, aud is only an occasional phenome-
non. II the cali dies, the milk ceases to Cow,
aud it is only by keeping him with his dam by
day, that an opportunity OF obtaining milk from
cows by night can be found.
The barking of dogs is an acquired hereditary
instinct supposed to have originated in an At
| tempt TO initiate the human voice. Wild dogs
and domestic breeds which become wild, never
bark, but howl. Cats, which 50 disturb civil.
lied communities by their midnight 'cater-
waus,' in tler wild state iu South America,
are quite silent.
The hair OF u negro is not wool, bat curled
and twisted hair The distinction between
hair and wool is clearly revealed by the micro
scope
The dark races have less nervous sepsibility
than the whites. They are not subject to dis.
ease. They sleep souudly in every disease; nor
does any mental disturbance keep them awake.
They bear surgical operations much better lhan
the white people.
) A certain species of fungus has been known
to attain the size OF gourd in one night; and it
is calculated that the cellules, OF which it 10
composed, must amount to forty seven thou.
sand millions. If it grow in twelve hours, this
would give four thousand millions per hour, or
} more than sixty-six millions ench minute
Animalcules have been discovered so small
that one million would not exceed grain of
sand end Eve hundred millions would sport in
a drop of water Yet each OF these must have
! blood vessels, nerves, mudleS, circulating fluids.
&c, like large animals.
One of the most wonderful achievements of
ASTRONOMERS, is the weighing of the bodies Of
The solar system. 1t is certain that the mass OF
Jupiter Ia no more than 332 aud not les than
E 222 times the mass OF this globe-so accurately
- has this work been accomplished. The mass OF
the is 339, 55l times greater than that OF the
earth aud moon aud 700 tim IS greater than the
: unilcA masses Of all the planets.
J The planet Saturn is composed of matter half
as heavy as water Mercury is considerably
n heavier than quicksilver, and II third heavier
. than leah and our own globe is twice as heavy
as common rock, and huli Us heavy as lead-a
: fact which shows the density Of internal parts.
= fash Of Lightning on the earth would bs
; ible on the moon in second and quarter;
- on the sun in eight minutes; on Jupiter, when
: farthest from US, in fiftytwo minutes; on Ura-
i nus in two hours; on Neptune III four hours
y aud quarter; on the star Vega, of the first
: magnitude in forty-Gve years; on IA star OF the
eight magnitude in four thousand years; and
such stars are visible through he telescope.
La Place, the great French astronomer, says:
al have ascertained that between the heavenly
bodies all attractions are transmitted with u
,;t,.,u ,i,h 4 ha inE Cps
several thousand times the velocity of light
His annotator estimates il at eight million of
times greater than that Of light,
The circumference of the earth is2j 600 miles.
A railroad train travelling necessarily night and
day, at the rate OF tVrnty.six miles on hour
would require six we,ks TO go round it, A tun-
mel through the earth, f,om England to New
Zealand, would be nearly eight thousand miles
long.
THE GALLArRy OF SLAvEnoLpERs. Ths Com
mercal AdUertissr speaking of the conduct OF
Mr.. Lamar, the owner Of the Wsnl.rtr, gives
the following new illustrations of the hospitality
and galanry Of the chivalrY OF the whip, brand
and cuffi,.
"A married lady resident in the neighboring
City OF Brooklyn, whose name was mt ntoned
In the narrative given to us has been spending
the Winter at hotel in Akin, South Carolina
in con;c@@a; with sick daagm,er, who required
G, a mild clima,e, A few weeks ago she wrote TO
RI a brother residing in the weslert part OF this
" State and, in the course or the letter, spoke OF
the evils OF Slavery, as she saw them around her.
J. This letter was published and some one sent q
ne copy of the paper to the Postmaster at Akin.
a. public neeling was Immediately cailed aud q
Committee appointed to ferret out the writer.
He A northern gentlemen who us ali invalid, hap
a pened also to be at the hotel was suspected
a aud was threatened with lynch law il he did
us not confess. AS OF course he could only persist
4 l,l nlgnkI, knn.a ~. II
o. accordingly, had not The lady nobly come for
u ward to exonerate him by acknowledging the
ye letter as hsr own, affirming, at the same time
w that she was mol prvy 10 its publication. The
III Gil izcns then turned their wrath upon her, and
IP she was peremptory ordered 10 leave the place
y in 4S hours. The lady pleaded for more time or
w behalf of her sick daughter but the citizens o
Il Akin knew no such hum mtnity She asked fe
OF liberty to remain until her husband could arrive
10 10 escort her end her sick child. Bat The cit-
O. zsns Of Akin knew not ring Of galsntTy o
Ia courtesy The order wss imperative, 10 spite
OF the earnest pleading OF the woman, wife aud
of mother. Nor was this all, The landlord Of the
he hotel-wolld that We knew the monsters namC
ordered the mother and the sick daughter tC
nv leave his premises in half an hour Wha
At. further occurred batwren tile lady and the In
OF human Origins of Akin, South Carolina, we ar
OF not informed. Bnt we learn that on Wedenes
be dav morning last her husband received a letteI
No sppriSng him Of her situation. end on the after
nj noon OF the same day he start d for the South
or and met his wife nni daughter al Columbus OF
to their way home
d.; The New Orleans True Della protests
ai against cruel, arbitrary or unjust Legislation
H. against free negroes in Lousians, Of whom Their
II is "a large native resident population, correc
o' in their general depormrnt honorable in the
ny intercourse with society; aud free from reproseh
ee 50 far as the laws are concerned, not surpasEc
in the Lo1ensyeneSs Of their lives by any egta
so number Of persons in any place, North or South
ne Gov Packer of Pennsylvania. ia Dougai
rel Democrat, and special iSvorite with Forney
en Al the recent Sta'e CONVENTION OF the fennsyl
lis vsnia Democracy, resolution drawn az mildly