The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-03-11
Things Worth Knowing.

In fdst2 tho Governor Of Massachusetts, Sir NeD | " Vane, an aristocratic Puritan, as aastere As saint, and as ambitious as Napoleon, was hanged | for high treason. l In ie68, tha Province of South Carolina was | erected, with Grec conscience clause in Its chAF- ter. In le6t. Nova Cassova. or New Jersey, uas set | tied by Lord Barkly and followers. In i67S, Sew York and New Jersey, then be- | longing ta she English. were taken by The Dutch cRe year afler they were restored by treaty. In t6s3, the settlement of Pennsyly5nta was commenced by William Penn. The Persians gave name to every day of tho month, the same we do oi the week. April Is So called from Aperit, the spring. Ten beats of healthy pulse arc equal to nine seconds of time. Tue 6sst writer who used algetraie signs was a SuSe4nbeFgef, aauivd Stitelius in l544. The ieas. triesion Ia found in polished iron and brass.
 4 saaa Eve feet six Inches high, on level ground or on yhe sea sh0re, can see about three miles distant
 Black rats arc tanned in Germany and have bells hnag about their heekS, They drive away other Fats.
 Tbe Angora ca. has one eye blue and the other Tue pip Ia poultry is a disease that peodaees a thia tilra under the tongue
 Pcrtec4Iy white eats are deaf
 A horse sleeps while standing.
 Ths bones Of birds are hollow, and Glled with Nlr Instead Of Inarrow.
 Fish aud birds can sec through ihs nietilaing membrane that they draw over their eycs Co screen them froHa She sun.
 4 Ionse lays sixty eggs OF Hits In six days, and batehoS them in six more.
 < aea, grasshopper, and locust jump two hun dted times their length. in the ratio of quarter Of u1lJe to a Inau.
 in the migration of birds, the males arrive SeY- eral days in advance of the females.
 Hajr has been successfully kFansplauted from ene part Of the body to another.
 Tke atoms composing lhe "humsn form divine' are suPeosed so undergo an sniire change every The pulse of children goes double as quick as in person Of sixty--the one, one hundred and twenty ts the minute, the other. sixty.
 Cassada roots are made into bread in Brazil, and the starch is our tapiocA ." Wheat and barley grow more in the day time than aight-
 Hsps sntwine to the left and ConvulvOs to the right.
 Derldaos trees are those whose leaves wIshtr end faii once year, In contrast with evergreen. Extract of lettuce is cure for conghs, and aa effective sedasise.
 GAleaa is the native sulphuret Of lead, and con. tafTs antimony, sliyer and zine.
 Mount Athos. in Macedonia, is Q mile Nigh l; h2s swenty-tauS Greek mohssteTies. wiiA six thoa sand monks.
 TAR metals retaining heat the longest are iu Qricksllyer freezes at a9o below zero, Ether d a7S
 X poker laid over fire concentrates the heat Q the passing smoke aud increases the draugh through tho fire.
 Eros, goes downward, heat upward.
 Eggs are ha.eheh at t0io Of beat.
 Bell metal is three parts copper aud one of tin The drst tragedy written In AmeSica was b, Benjamin Coleman, while student at Harvard Ii was entitled Gustavns Yasa, ahd was enacted a ategunr commencement of the college. Cole msn afterwards became a noted Boston divine,
 Penn's charter was dated March 4th, 1881, ant his first colony comprised i've hundred souls.
 The Greeks and Romans bad no standing af mics in the time Of peace. In the time of wa every citizen was q soldier.
 The Romans lay oL couches at their meals rest ing on their !sh arfns and eating with Ibe right The sexes ate separately.
 William the ConqRerer was descended fron Roiio the Danish pirate n the seventh degree.
 FahfeaheIt, who invented the Thermometer 1Is0, was Dantzlc merchant.
 The report of gun is heard before the wot s'are.s
 Echoes cannot be heard Iu q less distance tha forty-sevgp feet, To distinguish syllables, tt r, 9nires one hundred and sixiy.oae feet for eae syllable.
 A bell ir water produces sound like two knlv, sLFuck together.
 In the Arctic regions Sou can converse s mlI distant.