Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-08-20


CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT WHARF.-THE OK.
tent to which water minglcs with bodies, ap-
parcntly tho most solid, is very wonderful.
The slittcring opal, which beauty wears as
an ornament, is only flint and water. OF
every twelve hundred tons Of earth which a
landlord has in his estate, four hundred are
water. Tho snow.cappcd submits Of our
highest mountains have many million tons Of
water in a solidiicd form. In ovcry plaster Of
Paris statue, which an Italian carries through
our street for sale, there is one pound of wa.
ter to four pounds of chalk. The air We
breathe contains five grains Of water to each
cubic foot Of its bulk. The potatoes and tur-
nips which arc boiled for our dinner have, in
their raw state, tho one scvehty.fvc per cent,
and the other ninety per cent of water.
If a man weighing one hundred and forty
pounds, were squeezed in a hydraulic press,
seventy pounds Of water would run out, the
balance being solid matter. A man is, chem
ically speaking, forty,fvc pounds of carbon
and other elements, with nitrogen diTuscd
through five and a hall p%ailfuls of water. In
plants VIC find water thus miugling no less
wonderfully. A sunfowcr cvaporatos one and
a quarter pints of water a day, and a cabbage
about the same quantity. a wheat plant cx-
hales, in one hundred and seventy five days,
about one hundred thousand grains of
water.
The sap Of plants is the medium through
.,
which this mass of fluid is conveyed. 1t
forms a delicate pump, up which the watcry
particles run with the rapidity ola swift stream
by the action of the sap, various properties
may be accumulated to the growing plant.
Timber in France is, for instance, dyed by
various colors mixed with water, and sprink-
led over the roots of the trco. Dallias are
also colorcd by a similar process.
a GLOOMY PROpIEcY.-Thc "Hickman
(ky.) Courier" announces the doath of Miss
Susan G. Godsey, known as the sleeping
wonder. The fact is we'll authenticated that
Miss G. had been, for twelve years: previous
to her death, in r state of coma, or Sleep
This disposition to constant sleep was pro.
duccd by a severe attack of chill and fever,
since which time she only woke at intervals,
onoc or twice a day, remaining awake for but
a few minutes. On the day Of her death she
made one or two predictions, which arc given
by the "Couricr" for what they arc WORTH
One was that the sun would be totally collapsed
on the 9TH Of August, a fact of which she
could not have had any knowledge, as her
friends assert. Another was that "sllo sun
would never shine as bright after that day."
which will indicate that the end of the world
is speedily approaching. Whether a constant
sleeper is better qualified to predict future
events than q wide.s#ake prophet, 10 . point
we will not pretend to dccids.
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CooLIE.-The "New York Tribune dis
covers cause for grave apprehension, if not
positive alarm, in tho arrangements being
made to import Mr.. Chinaman into this coun.
try. 1t goes on to argue that they arc an
efeminate race, with no perception Of the
solemnitics of Christians oath, with a relig.
ion that inspires melancholy and suicide, with
no sclf-rospeot, sly, tricky, and, in all respects,
utterly untitled for contact with q free asso.
citation with a Christiaa nation. But tho
great rub-thc place whore it hits hardest
with the "Tribuno"-is expressed in tho fol.
lowing paragraph
GA great many Of The Chinese will be taken
into the valleys of the South to work upon
cotton and sugar estates, where they may re-.
place tho African. The mines Of the Pacific
and Rocky Mountain GATES will absorb 9th.
Cts. They will, to some extent, do tho work
Of tho freshman with mattock and barrow.
Just treatment ought to be secured for them
by special and woll.oonsidered provisions Of
law. They arc hereditary and life, long mi
nors. Ages Of bondage have sapped tho
foundations of character, and emasoulated
their manhood. Broughthither by ship.loads,
and cast ashore on remote plantations or i'm
murcd in distant mines, they become tho easy
prey of q race that too lately could DO stig.
matizod as a nation of slave. drivers"
AD- Morgan Hamilton, Of Texas, owns up.
EIo says The Republican party is as dead to,
day in Texas as it is in Kentucky. It had,
in tho face Of the formidable combination or,
ganizcd against it, busa sorry prospect in the
Immediate future, but then it had q future,