The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-11-16

Grant 90 the part Of carpet.baggers and
scalawags, because Of the general belief
that without military interference the Dem
ocrats will carry tho State at tho next cleo
ton.
Curious, Useful and Scientific. >,
WEIGHTS AND ACES.
Somebody who has been studying our
weights" reports that upon an average,
boys at birth weigh little more aud
girls little less than six pounds and a
bali. For the first two years the two sex
es continue nearly equal in weight, but
beyond that time males acquire decided
prepouderenco Thus young mon of2O av-
erage l43 pounds each while the young
women Of 20 average l2O pounds. Men
reach their heaviest bulk at about 80,
when they average about l52 pounds; but
women slowly increase in weight until
fifty, when. their average is about 100
pounds. Taking men and women togeih-
or, their weight at full growth averages
about twenty times as heavy as they were
on the first day of their existence. Men
range from lOS to 22O pounds, aud wo.
men from SS to 2O7 pounds. The actual
weight Of human nature. taking the av.
eragcs ofall agcs aad oondillons--noblcs,
clergy, thinkers, tailors, maidons, boys,
girls and babies all included is very near
y one hundred pounds. These figures
are given in avordupois weight; but tho
advocates Of tho superiority Of women
might make a nice point by introducing
the rule that women be weighed by Troy
weight-like other jewels--and men BY
avordupois. The figures will then stand;
young men of2O, l43 pounds; young wo.
men of2O, 100 pounds.
m "a WONDERFUL FLY @
An intellectual fly inhabiting q bar.room
in Omaha is credited with such wonderful
abilities that nothing is thought Of a mans
going to sec bis performance. Tho &C.
count given by the bar keeper is, that his
attention was 6rst attracted to this prodi-
gy from the fact that all tue other flies
few away when this fly saw Ct to regale
himself at the cheese dish, which is to be
found at the end Of a very well regulated
bar. Waiting humbly until this superior
being bad dinod, the other flies would
then dart voraciously on the dish from
which they had before rcyereutially ab.
tsiained, Having caught him tho tbar-
keeper trained him an hour each day
Once he fugitived, but the next day re-
turned. Having been interviewed by a
reporter, this is what the fly did: Being
ordered to brush bis head, be rubbed It
vigorously with bis fore legs, and then
waited the next command. Shoulder
arms, cried the bar-keeper, and Mr.. Fly
promptly raised bis loft foro leg straight
up in the air. Then he walked lame on
hisleft fore leg, then on all legs, then
stepped up on coffee grain and stood
there on bis bind legs, and so on and so
on.
rup prNns np alTupN
Lieutenant Davis has written o curious
book on the subject Of astronomy, in which
after arrivingat tho conclusion that Sat.
urn's ring originated from an encounter Of
the planent with group Of meteors, be
he attempts to approximate othe period Of
their formation. He considers that the
Saturuian metcors and those now compcs.
ing the zodiacal light at period consider.
ably anterior to the ear.h's early fluid
state. From what is regarded as very
vague conclusions, based on the period du.
ring which life is supposed to have exist
cd on our globe, be iufers that "the form.
alton Of Saturn's meteoric rings has OCCUR
red not much more recently than two mil.
lions Of years ago, and probably at date
not very much more remote than three
millions ofyears.' This is truly . some
what wide margin! The same somewhat
imaginative astronomer considers that the
earth's original fluid state was probably
owing 10 meteoric storm, due to the en-.
try Of meteors into the solar system, He
further regards the source Of energy from
which solar heat is derived as being un-
doubtedly meteoric, and considers that the
solar spots result from the absence Of me-
toric streams falling into the sun in those
localities; the perodicity Of these spots be
ing accounted for BY periodicity Of me-
teoric showers.
AURORA BY DAYLIGHT.
The question whether the Aurora Bore
ais is ever visible by daylight, has been
discussed with considerable animation in
England for some time passed, the mega
tive contestants asserting that the social.
ed aurorras have in every instance been
due cloud formations, or some like cause.
The dispute may probably be considered
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