The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-09-22

more, and one in the district of Monmouth
and South Wales hsd attained the great
age Of ia years.
IF the revolution Of the earth on its
axis were to be suddenly stopped. the
temperature of everything would be
raised TO such degree as to be Incapable
OF existing in any other TO I'm than vap0r
| When a bullet strikes the target, it be-
comes go hot that it cannot be held in the
hand. Its velocity is at the rate of twelve
| hundred feet q second. But what must be
the hest produced when body like the
| earth, moving at the rate of ninety
| million feet a second, is suddenly arrested
It would soon be converted into sea
fire, and all life would become extinct
AT present there are thirty.two circuses
and menageries in the United States. Of
this number ten are circus and menagerie
combined; three meDageries without the
circus, and nineteen clrcuses without the
| meangeries. These establishments give
direct employment to seven thousand men
and horses, requiring nine hundred vehi
cles for their transportation, and repre-
senting capital of $4,000 The re-
ceipts of each company average about
$3.50 a CAY, while their expenditures
auoudt 10 9iVV.
DR.. WIEGAND, Professor at the Uni
Tersity OF Halle, announces, after investi-
cation, that trains running nOrthward
have tendency 10 run of on the east
rail, and those running south likewise go
off on the west. This he attributes to the
combined shape and motion Of the earth
and eveu calculates the amount OF pressure
for given latitude in Germany. For a
thirty-tOn locomotive the tendency TO fy
the track, from this cause, is exactly six
and twenty four one hundredth pounds.
AN exchange says: "When we pour
mix into cup OF tea or coffee, the albu
men of the milk and the tannin Of the tea
instantly unite and form leather, or MI
mute fakes Of the very SAME compound
which is produced in the texture Of the
tanned hide, and which makes it leather
as distinguished from the original skin.
In the course Of year tea-driDker OF
average habits will have lmbibed leather
enough to make pair OF shoes, if It
could be put into the proper shape for
the purpose"
THE ECnperer Paul, Of Russia, once or
dered that certain retail shops should all be
numbered "No. !, etc." Forthwith every
shop bore on its front "No. l, etc" Such
was the Emperor's order, and it was lit
orally obeyed, for the Russians are literal
people. One dsy mandate was issued
that no man should walk the streets at
night without q lantern. & doctor set
out on his rounds, attended by servant,
carrying lantern. The police allowed
the servant to pass, but arrested the doc
tor.
AFEw days since, fortune-teller WAS
standing in front of the st. Joseph's mar
ket, Rue Montmartre, Paris, and was do
ing a good business with the cooks. While
be was dealing the cards which were to
reveal destiny, man came up and asked
for le grand jet. The fortune teller
promised him, Tor twelve sous, hcnors,
fortune, long life, good health, a faithful,
loving, good natur d wife. He asked the
fortuIe teller: Cant you tell your own
fortune?" sob never read my own
fortune" The customer said: Then
I'll tell you. In less than five minutes
you are going to pack up your cards and
come with me; to night you'll sleep in
Jail. an policeman"
AN interesting paper on the exa nina.
ae.a f Ct sgiy taken from various. Localities,
before the Royal Irish Academy. In air
from an iron fsctory he found carbon, ash
aud ion. The iron was in the form OF
little hollow balls, each about ore two
thousandsh of an inch in diameter, and tie
iron SO thin that light passed through 1t.
In "shirt factory" air were found fla
ments Of linen and cotton. Antimony-
from the type metal probably-was dis
covered in the air of printing rooms.
Stable air was shown to contain floating
hair and scales and in the air through
which tobacco smoke was passing, nlco'
tine, the poison Of tobacco, was found IN
! little giOhules.