Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1868-05-13
Days without Nights.


Days Without Nights. "
| Nothing strikes . stranger moro forcibly,
If he visits Sweden st the season Of the
year when the days are the longest, than
the sbscences Of the night d.. Baird rela.
ted some interesting facts. He arrived at
Stockholm from Gottenburg, 400 miles dis.
tant, in the morning in the afternoon went
to see some friends. He returned about
midnight, when It was as light % II is in
England half an hour before sundown.
You could see distinctly, but all was quiet
in the street 1t seemed 10 If the inhabi.
tants had gone away, or were dead.
Tho sun in June, goes down in Stock.
holm . little before ten o'clock. There is
great illumination all night, as the sun pas
ses around the earth towards the North
pole, and the refraction Of It's rays is such
that you can see to read at midnight with.
out any artificial lights.
The first morning that pr. Baird awoke
in Stockholm he was surprised to ace the
sun shining in his room. He looked at his
watch and found it was only three o'clock.
The next time he awoke it was five o'clock,
but there was no person in the streets. The
Swedes in the cities ore not very industri-
ous.s
There is mountain at the head Of the
Gulf Of Bothania, where on the 2Ist OF
June, the sun docs not appear to go down
at all. A steamboat goes up from Stock,
holm for the purpose Of conveying those
who are curious to witness the phenome.
non. 1t occurs only one night. Tho sun
reaches the horizon, you can see the whole
face Of it, and in five minutes more it be-
gins to rise. At the North Cape, latitude
y degrees, the sun does not go down for
several weeks. In June it would be about
25 degrees above the horisen at midnight.
In the winter time the sun disappears and
is not seen for weeks; then it comes and
remains for ten, fifteen or twenty minutes,
after which il decends and finally does not
set at all, but makes almost circle around
the heavens.
Dr.. Baird was asked how they managed
in those attitudes with regard to hired per.
sons, and what they considered dayswork.
Birds and animals take their accustomed
rest at the usual hour, whether the sun goes
down or not.
DISCOVERIES OF THE MICROSCOPE
Lewinhock tells US Of insects seen with the
microscope, Of which twenty-scven millions
would only eaqual mite. Insects Of vari-
ous kinds may be seen in the cavities Of .
common grain of sand. Mould is forrest
Of beautiful trees, with the branches, leaves
flowers and fruit. Butterflies are fully
feathered. Hairs are hollow tubes. The
surface Of our bodies are covered with scales
like fish; single grain Of sand would
cover one hundred and fifty Of these scales,
and a single scale covers five hundred pores;
yet through these narrow openings the
sweat forces itself out like water through
seive The might makes five hundred steps
in second. Each drop of stagnant water
contains world Of animated beings, swim.
ming with as much liberty as whales in the
sea. Each leaf has colony Of insects gra-
xing on it, ike oxen in meadow. y.
Too BAD.-Miss Betsy Pearl is "fair,
fat and forty" and unmarried. She man.
ages to obtain an honest and comfortable
living by keeping asmall shop Of emotions"
in the lower part Of the city. She is o
spruce old dame, and, among other articles,
vends spruce beer. One evening a custo-
mer called for glass Of the beverage in
quiring at the same time il it was new made
beer. .M.....
NO." exclaimed q wagsish bystander,
just as tho worthy dame was about to reply
in the affirmative; II can assure you it is
old maid beer"
The wag was seon suddenly to leave tho
ladys' premises with . glass flying after
him. ,.-s r..
THE baltimore ANeerScdn say: About
100000 bushels Of oysters are now an.
nually taken from the Chesapeake Bay and
tributaries. More than two.thirds Of them
come to Baltimore about 2, ,oOO, 900 90 else.
where. There are seventy regular packing
houses engaged in the business, Thomas
Kensett being the largest packer in the
world. About $1,000 persons, men, women
and children, are employed, and 100000
cans are packed each year. One.half Of the
amount caught arc packed here and shipped
in the shell to all parts Of the country. There
are 100 boats, averaging fifty tons each,
and about 5000 canoes engaged in dredging
and longing for oysters.
O..
THERE is story Of celebrated French
clergyman, who, on delivering sermon on
the duty Of wives, said: II see opposite mo
in this congregation woman who has been
guilty Of the sin Of disobediencs to her hus.
band and in order to point her out to uni.
versal condemnation, will ding my breviary
a. hor ho.dn Ha EfAa6 tha hook. "A If in