The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-04-21
THINGS NORTH KNowING.


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/ In 1862, the Governor Of Massachu-
setts. Sir Henry Vance, an aristocratic
Puritan, as anstere as . saint and az am.
bilious as Napoleon, was hanged for
high treason,
In 1888 tho province Of South Caro-
Ina was erected, with free conscience
clause 10 Its charter.
In 1854. Nova Cassova, or New Jer-
sey, was settled BY Lord Barkly and fol-
lowers.
In 1878 New York and New Jersey,
then belonging to the English, we're
taken by the Dutch I; one year after
they we're restored by treaty.
In 1888, the settlement Of Peansyl-
|.vania was commenced by William Penn.
Tho Persians gave naue to every
day of the month, the same as we do Of
the week.
April is so called from Aperit, the
Spring. ks
Ten beats of healthy pulse are
equal to niue seconds OF tune.
The first writer who used algcbraic
signs was Nuremberger, named Shf
elius, in 1914. a II ~
The least friction is found in polished
iron aud brass. So
A man Eve feet six inches high, on
level gronnd. or on tho sea shore, can
see about three miles distant.
Black rats are tanned in Germany
and have bells hung about their necks.
They drive away. other rats.
The Angora cat has one blue eye and
the other yellow.
The pip in poultry is n disease that
produces thin ilm under the tongue.
Perfectly white cats are invariably
deaf. ~
A horse sleeps while standing.
The bones of birds are hollow, and
filed with air instead of marrow.
Fish and birds can see through the
nictitating membrane that they draw
over their eyes to screen them from the
sun. stSz .EkSss -
A lousc lays sixty eggs or nits in six
days and matches in six more.
A flea, grasshopper and locust jump
two hundred times their length, in the
ratio of quarter Of mile to man.
In the migration of birds. the males
arrive several days in advance Of the
females.
Hair has been successfully trans
planted from ono part of the body TO
another.
The atoms composing the shuman
form divine" are supposed to undergo
an entire change every forty days.
The pulse In children goes twice as
quick IS in persons of sixty-in one,
one hundred and twenty to the minute,
inahe other, sixty.
Cassada roots are made into bread
10 Brazil. aud their starch is our Tapi-
oca. fs-,,..e.ss-
Wheat and barley grow more in the
day than night. u @
Hops entwine to the left and convul-
vns to the right 9s -
Decidous trees are those whose leaves
Hither and fall once year, in contrast
with evergreens. @ ls
Extract of lettuce is cure for coughs
and an effective sedative. :
Galena is the native sulphuret of lead,
and contains antimony, silver and zinc.
Mount Athos, in Macedonia, Is a mile
high. Il has twepty-four Greek mon-
asieries, with six Thousand monks.
The metals retaining heat the long
est are, in their order, brass, copper,
iron, tin and lead.
A poker laid over FIRE concentrates
the heat of the passing smoke and ir-
creases the draught through the FIRE.
Frost goes downward and heat up
ward
Eggs are hatched at 104 degrees of
heat
Bell metal is three parts copper and
one of tin.
The FIRST tragedy written in America
was by BENZ. Coleman, while student
At Harvard. 1t was entitled Gustavus
Vassa, and vas enacted at a regular
commencement Of the college. Cole.
man Afterwards became noted Boston
divine. @
Penn's charter was dated March 4,
1881, and his frst colony comprised 500
souls
The Greeks and Rsmans had no
standing armies in the time of pence
In the time OF war every eitizen Vas
soldier. ~-.. e-sss-,:s
The Romans lay on couches at their
meals, resting on their left arms and
eating with. their right. The sexes ate
separately. r
William the Conqueror was de-
scendant of Rollo, Danish pirate, in
the seventh degree. 49,
Echoes cannot be heard in less DIS
tance than forty-sevcn feet. To distia.
guish syllables, it requires one hundred
and sixty-one feet for each syllable.
A bell in water produces sound like
two knives struck together.
In the Arctic regions you. can con-
verse a mile distant.
Horace Greeley and some other
gentlemen have purchased the North