The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-06-28
Curions and Scientific.

SIR CHARLES LYELL computes lhat All
North America will be washed away
into the ocean 10y processes now actually
in operation, within space OF four ana
halt millions OF years.
TnE hair on a camel weighs about ten
pounds, and sells for more than SlOO'
PIsroLs are an unknown weapon in
Lapland, the ancient tlintlock musket
being in that damp climate deemed
most reliable.
The average life of Methodist minis
tiers is % per cent. below that of minis
tiers of other denominations. They work
too hard.
THE sink.ho on the Sheboygan and
Fond du Lac railroad, two miles west Of
Ripon. Wis. has swallowed up from
5000 TO 10000 yards of earth, and II is
hoped that the bottom has been reached.
TIE newest Western wonder is soda
lake. on the Union Pacific railroad,
several miles in circumference, and
capable of supplying 10000 tons Of soda
a wear. We shall probably next hear of
a brandy mandatory in that quarter.
The actual duration Of a flash of light
ming does not exceed the millionth part
of second. But the retina of the hu.
man eye retains the impression OF the
e.ectrical fash for a much longer pc
Rod
The English Anti-Tobacco Society
have endetvored TO demonstrate the
horrible effects Of smoking by inducing
Prot. Newman 10 experiment upon
his own nervous system and note the
results. He found them so pleasant
that he has become confirmed user of
the weed, and the reformer are discon-
ISOLATE.
MAGMA CHARTA was translated into
English in 1855 the Psalms of David
We're done into meter in -3l0 plays
were first performed in Englih in 1923 /;
wills and settlements were fist written
in English in l347; and the fist speech
in English was made in Parli.ment in
1862, by Sir Edward Turner.
PRoF. SHEPARD, of Amherst College,
has recently made a valuable addition
TO his splendid cabinet of minenls. 1t
is a ruby ef enormous size, the largest
in the world, weighing SO pounis. 1t
was discovered somewhere in the south,
and was about 10 be taken TO Europe,
but Prof. Shepard made higl bid
$500, and secured 1t.
THERE is an artesian well in laris
which is nearly two thousand feet dep,
four feet in diameter at the top and wo
feet at the bottom, and which DISCHARGES
upward of five millions of cubic fet
of water every twenty-tour hous.
Throughout Europe, it is stated, muh
attention is being paid by scientific ei.
gineers to this kind of wells, and tn
opinion is rapidly gaining ground tba
they are the cheapest as well as the bes
sources Of water supply for large cities
II paper read before the Britisl
Association. DR.. Wilson argues tina
habitual criminals do not possess sue
an amount of intellect as to enable then
TO discriminate between right an
wrong, and that the majority of then
are devoid of moral sense; they are @
a low type of intellectual development
and some of them are unable TO SUI
mount even the rudimentary difficultie
of education. DR.. w. states that he ha
made several hundred separate measure
ments, and all showed cranial def
cheney, especiallyin the anterior lobes {
the brain.
u Peru one Of the greatest works {
the age is now in progress-the constru'
ton Of railroad from the port of Gala
across the Andes, involving tunnt
through those mountains at a highe
elevation from the sea than the SUNNI
Of Mount Blanc. Some idea Of the oil
fculties experienced in the prosecute
of the work may be gained from til
fact that the Inca Indians are the onl
persons who can work at such hig
attitudes, and that the single mule trai
by which all tools. materials and pr
visions, except the scant means of SUI
sistence obtained in the interior, pass,
over an altitude OF nearly seventee
thousand feet, amid a cluster of rocl
covered with perpetual snow. The wor
is wholly under the direction Of Amer
cans, and is expected to Thoroughly ope
up the vast mineral resources Of tn
portion OF the Cordillera range.