The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-11-04
Curious, Useful and Scientific.
WEIGHTS AND AGES.

WEIGHTS AND AGES.
Somebody who has been "studying
our weights, y reports that upon an av-
erage, boys at birth weigh little more
and girls little less than six pounds
and half. For the first two years
the two sexes continue nearly equal in
weight, but beyond that time males
acquire decided prepondence. Thus
young men Of 20 average 143 pounds
each while the young women of 20 av-
erage 100 pounds. Men reach their
heaviest bulk at about 30, when they
average about 152 pounds; but women
slowly Increase in weight until fifty,
when their average is about 1919 pounds
Taking men and women together, 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 800 pounds, and
women from IS to 207 pounds The
actual weight of human nature, taking
the averages of all ages and conditions
mobiles, clergy, thinkers, tailors, maid
ems, boys, girls and babies all included
is very nearly one hundred pounds.
These figures are given in avordupois
weight; but the advocates of the supe.
riority of woman might make n nice
point by introducing the rule that
women be weighed by Troy weight
like other iewels-and men by avoirdu-
pOis. The figures will then stand
young men of 20, 143 pounds; young
women of20, 100 pounds.
WONDERFUL FLY.
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room III Omaha is ,redited with such
wonderful abilities that nothing is
thought of a mans going to see his
performance. The account given by
the bar keeper is, that his attention
was first attracted to TINS prodigy from
the fact that ali the other flies flew
away when this fly saw fit to regale
himself at the cheese dish, which is to
be found at the end Of every well-reg-
ulated bar Waiting humbly until this
superior being had dined, the other
flies would then dart voraciously on the
dish from which they had before rev.
erentially abstained. Having caught him
the bar-keeper trained him In an hour
each day. Once he fugitived, but the
next day returned. Having been in
teryleWed by n reporter, this is what
the fly did: Being ordered to brush
his head, he rubbed it vigorously with
his fore legs, and then waited the next
command. shoulder arms, " cried the
barkeeper, and Mr. Fly promptly raised
his left fore leg straight up III the air.
Then he walked lame on his left fore
leg, then on all legs, then stepped up
on q coffee grain and stood thers on his
hind legs, and so on and so on.
THE RINGS OF SATURN.
Lieutenant DAVIS has written a Curl
Gus book on the subject of astronomy,
in winch, after arriving at the conclu-
sion that Saturn's rings originated
from an encounter Of the planet with a
group Of meteors, he attempts to APP
proximate to The period Of their forma-
tion. He considers that the Saturnian
meteors ana those now composing the
zodiacal light, entered the solar sys-
TEN together at a period considerably
anterior to the earth's early fluid state.
From what IS regarded as very vague
conclusions, based on theperiod during
which life is supposed to have existed
on our globe. he infers that the form
alton OF SatIITn's meteoric lings has Oc-
CURED not much more recently than
two millions Of years ago, and proba
bly, at a date not very much more re-
mote than three millions of years. 3"
This is truly a somewhat wide margin !.
The same somewhat imaginative as
tronomer considers that the earth's
original fluid state was probably owing
to a meteoric storm, due to the entry Of
meteors into the solar system. He
further regards the source of energy
from which solar heat is derived as be-
ing undoubtedly meteoric, and consid-
ers that the solar spots result from the
absence Of meteoric streams falling n
to the sun in those localities; the pc.
riodicity of these spots being accounted
for by periodicity of meteoric show
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AURORA BY DAYLIGHT.
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