Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-08-19
Faets Worth Knowing.

FaeIs Worth knowing.
There Is popular Frerei book BY Anne Martin,
which during tie las1 fvrty four years, has gone
through thirteen editors. the last recenily, and
which each OCCASION Of repEi ting h:s eeeA care
fully inside Level WITH Ise kIoEiedge Of tie day
Il Is Al introduction 10 natural history ard scieDce,
entitled Letters ID Sophie the changes that have
been made i; during the forty -four years of its ex
lstence would furnish odd subject Of speculation.
The letters are flied with instructive ami amusing
facts, which glitter N the too laxuraDt LEAKAGE ike
the gem fruits il a certain underground garden
hich certain tziiors son once visited Having
git among them lately br some chance Eehled our
pockets from the store.
We will begin win the subject Of Sansibility-
fle Sensibility Of Nature N. Durend lectured on
&nerslogy in Paris, about fifty years ago, and ne
thought be proved that there seIIsibiIty in
shines His great point vas the love Of the stone
for the sun. 1t was quite rose and nightingale
sc1DdsL Take . solution ef salt, put one-bah Of
i, IN the sun keep the rest in daI kness. Superb
crystals Will form under the kiss OF the sun, while
lii the shade the salt and water stiIl remain salt
aud water. Light, said N. DuTen5, goes therefore
into the composition Of crystal Diamonds are
almost wholly composed of sunlight; they are only
found in places where the gives heat and iight
enough 10 make them. Now, said the French phil
osopher what do you call that reception Of light TO
the bosom OF 3 Somewhat can you call that bot
love? He went farther, and asserting tina: al the
highest mountains are placed under the equator,
cal;ed them Jumps Of sunlight They are imIia-
tons of the salt experiment large scale Their
granite peaks crystalized light; but incomplete
crystals. Give them more light and they gill be
coinplete-tbey will become CRYSTALS of the sub
limest order, they will be diamonds-real Kohl
noors, or mountains of light If the sun were but
Little brighter and little hotter, Chimborszo
would be ali one diamond, The Himalayas would be
diamond sleeps, and sl towns in the East over the
suEaY side Of their wall would have diamonds tIIr
re.s ike Amberabai Every sun-baked brick Of
Egg pit would in that case become level worth
some quarts OF Koh inO0rs
this IS the result Of the SensibilitieS OF stones
The whole earth, many old ssges belieYed-KePler
among them-Ras alive. Il P4trin taught Of the
Earth how metals plants and minerals we're formed
By the gas in its body. II not to be sure,
kibie Ike a man, but ike world. 1t could not
talk words, but il could talk things.
Ills is not so very absurd. If the things in na-
'uEe be not sensible, they certainly stupid
Look Al Z tree shrub. BODUet used TO say
tina, the end Of all his study he could not see toe
d france between cat and rosebnsh Let Us
nat the wits that rosebaSh has Look
p: it. leaves, with their smooth slitterlug surface
Iurne'l to the sky; but their under-suffaces, all
soft I'D full Of pores, open to catch TIE moisture
r:srn; from the soil-hslt open when they need only
htti> Closed when they want none. The rain
that lis upon the wsxv roof made by the upper
surface Of the foliage of and is dropped into
The ground just over the sucking ends Of all the
tOotletS 4urn some Of those rose leaves upside
down. Lay cat on her back, and she viii not con-
sent 10 remain in that unnatural position The
rsse le1, too, objects to be inverted A man NAY
bend branch 20 that is leaves all hang with the
wrong side upward; bat let him Iaph il HeEill
obseIre how ali the iittle leaves slowly and very
cArsta,y begin to turn 10 their stems. At the end
q q r. hours every leaf viii have brought round
rs P3! shed surface to the light and be holding is
CPen r1ouths again over the ground for drink.
Is Elephant stupid? II knows what il wants and
likes, and II that De within reach will get it Put
,hs ross-tree INTO g5il with dry bad earth on Its
ieit ou viii not ind It suffering its roots to be
long IN the dark about tie trick that mas been MAY
Cd them They start out Of course AZ usual and
Ss the ua-eoacheS used to do, in all directions
bat thoee that Begin their journey through poor
Gust receive 10 mysterious way some Information
' Inc better land that is be found by travelling
so contrary direction. Accordingly they eli tnrn
hacx to follow their COMPANIONS VINO have gone in
70 he richer pAstursge Propose to put th6se roots
Into JaI, by digging trench round the tree or
sinking s.0ne wall iGUD the earth around il The
rO1tles dive into the ground until they have reach
ed the bottom Of the obstacle then pass il and mn
u2 again Until they find The level that best peasss
them.
Who viii now undertake 10 saw that ,l.,. e
not sensible: Let Sophia 20 into the 6eids and
hhe VIII tread upon a multitude Of Eovers tb,t
Know better than she does herself ,rbih -. 80
wind blows, what o'clock it is and vrh.t :; =! -
= thought about the weather. The G,Lsndo- 49,.
sS opens IN noe weather, and shuts uo yban rsin
Is coming The SORchus si6iricus shnts M =. tt
end of each days business, but only reIosns .'
gully asleep when she has no doui,S a. am I
the morrow, when she knows it will he g. ~'Gut
traveller seek shelter from the sun md - 1''
die with thorns white as ivory called bv 1;n. -
the AiaOeG e6UrRiG. The dark sb.ds ~ a'n'i''uS
perhaps becomes suddenly dotted viii iiH ny eAnu
looks up and observes that bis paraso1 = ss., nc
itself up; tha& every leaf is putting itssif ="
II he will look closely he will observe to- ~.
LEAVES sleep by the dozen in bed nestIa NAV .Ile
er in small heaps. Phe traveller has no him. ~ 'o]
plain about; he does not need the shade "
- cloud over the sun. The tree thinks-ona G 81
most obliged to say, the tree thinks-that al
twill come on to rain. There is no re.spo
its whole roots should not be watered in tn WY
soil and there is no reason why its leaves SsI;oa,
iyset on tleHder stems should be beaten fro ~:
holdings. The leaves, therefore, are shut No .e,
drawn together in small bundles, that the SUI
1nd in uniun the strength which in isoI,t;ayy
.ney DO not possess: while at the same time FOO.
- let tortAez rain to pass between them to wata.
T9ere is not an hour Of the day that is not the \.
,OveC nopr OF some blossom, which to itaIone onsS,
ner neart Linneus conceived the nlaoso,,, ~:
HoTsr clock Instead of rude meal hall sJS'U y
s &eza