The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1859-10-04
a Cclume of ,cresting varieties.

Warfare in tho days Of Caesar was no
more chiids play. In nine years he had
conquered 800 tribes, 500 cities, slain a
million Of men, and taken a million of
prisoners. After no had become master
of the world, he entertained the whole
Roman populaco at % 600 tables, furnish
ed with every luxury. lie madc an artificial
.lHEo, fcr the purpose of showing the as.
scmblago sample Of naval warfare. --
Astra'iH is almost exactly Of the same oy.
tent rs the United States. including tho
Territories. Wien Layoisicr who has
been called the father Of modern. chemis.
try, wa7.arrcsted, 10y order of the Com
mittco Of Public safety, during the "roigu
Of terror of the Fronch Revolution, be
asked Cor fcrtnighl's lifetime to finish
aomo experiments. Tho roply was, "The
Republic DOES not need them and his
head wss cut of by the gulotinc. He
WIS accused in his Office Of Farmer genor
al .Plumb1go and ccarcoHl arc com
posed Of the same substance, carbon; but,
while charcoal is yory combustiElc, plumLa
90 Is used in making rctofts to resist m
intense heat -.- -Ob.cyaiions on the com
moi. especially ON tho last brilliant oua,
which appeared n year 400, slow that
d'rrr IRE properties Of mattor at ali events
Of fsomo matter, with arc not ., ali under
stood The great mass Of almost all
rocks consists OF metallic ores more than
half Of them being composed of oxygen
aud somo mctah....0013 lh5. of water
consists Of 5000 lbs, Of hydrolen and so
II Us. of oxygen. 80. The stars, sun and
moon, apparently .o'l about ho heavens
once in 25 hours; the piyois being the
north AMI south poles Of tho heavens The
north polo Is very near iho north star.
Astronomy is the oldest or sciences; i, was
Iig.t studied by shopards, while vGtch-
iuG their tfocks at NIGHT. 1t said that
tur', ,no water" "bocla have Ioon coushuc.
tod hich from actual mcasurmcnt, Weld
moro than 90 per cent. Of tho power, a re
suit which has novog been CQIalnd Ey any
breast " whooI 10y Somo of the Comola
~hlio at tho gfoatost distance fom the
sun, do not move ~ fast as man can
walk. ---- In this htilulc, mon, with their
houses and farms aIo carried along 10y the
rotary motion Of the ealth. lust about rs
fast a3 n cam n ball moves, while the rev.
oIution Of tho earth around the sun carries
u All with n velocity moro than sixty times
that Of a cannon ball ---Pura clay is tho
ore of tho now imotaI aluminium. - The
Aurora Boreali5 i, one Of the things about
which hardly anything is known; tho ro.
cent display caused rs usual, peltulbatons
IN tho magnetic ncoilo, and in The work
ingS OF tho telocraphs. .-- Some Of Tho IN
test inventions in Tho steam engine made
hN our most profound philosophical mo.
chsnicans, are efforts To- utilize one form Of
it which va, known hcfcr, The Christian
eta Tho recent balloon ssc,usioag
seem 10 confirm Tho probability of thero
hnug current Of air at The hcight Of 10
GOO feet, flowing constantly from The west
toward the east; the top Of Mount Wasl-
ingtnn reaches int The lower a2a Of this
curr,nt. and generally fccis lt5 effects. 49,.
Angn, the grrat Fr,nch astronomer
expressed regret that be observatory Of
PUIs contained no Telescope equal 10 tho
magnificent refractor, # Washington and
CNrihnSc, in the UnltoJ Sta,cs. IL
model of the uniyorso wora constructed on
I scale of lo,oOO.O0O miles 10 an inch, 80
that tho sun should become a shot OS Of
cf an inch in di,netor,) the nearest f1od
stars would still be 80 miles distant ----
Tn" l,rgest steSfn engine siloat, is the one
on the Mefropol,s, which plies hctwecn
Now York snd Fall River Mas; il is
ger even than those uron any 81 our steam
ships. Comparative anatomy illustrates
lorciblv the uniformity Of the works of IA
tnro. We were walking on the shore Of
Staten Island with y gentleman who hal
pa'd Some attention to his science, and oh.
serving little bone on the beech. We ask
ed him if hc could tell to what animal it
belonged. lie looked at il without pick
ng it up, no roplicl, "los, that i, ,he in.
'idn lower bono oi the right foro leg of a
log .--- AgaE'ia ma1c drawing Of 4 fish
rom : single scaIo AMI Afterwards, when
ho fish WAS found, tho drawing proved TO
,c n very good Iikcno'. Expresses alo
known t. ho 800 or 900 wears old. Ihcy
ise 20 fco! and are from Is to 50 feet |
'round. Strabe speaks Of one in Pcr,is
$500 years old .--- At different! imcs,
lulie = number Of new stars have appear.
Al in tho sky, and after blazing y grca!
vhllo with great hrightness, hayo ceased !
o be visible An animal which does |
ot reach across the wire Of a pin srpcars,
ndcr microscope Of high power, moro |
hsn An inch and half in length
iScicutifr A,pcrie,n