The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-05-29

AOOdOly the oldest timber IN the
world is that which is found in the an
Client temple of Egypt. It is 1000
years Old and perfectly sound.
QUANTITY OF SA1r IN THE OCEAN,
livery body knows that the waters of
the ocean are very salt to the taste but
now many of you have thought of the
immense quantities of salts of differ
enG Kinds that must be in the Atlantic
ana Pacific to give flavor to such enor-
NOUS bodies of water? Scientific men
nave thought about it and one of them
tCaptaln Maury) has told us that if all
the various salts of these oceans could
DC separated from the water and spread
out equally over the northern half of
TINS continent, they would form q COW
Srlng one mile deep. So heavy would
DC TINS mass of salts that all the me-
cbanical inventions of man. aided bv all |
the steam and all the water-power In |
the world, could not move it so much as
one inch IN even centuries of time.
THE HEAT OF THE SUN.-Father Sec
chi, the distinguished Italian astrono-
ner, has recently published the result |
OF ms Investigations in the solar tenn
Perature, made during last summer, and |
states that his efforts were directed to-
RELATION
OF Inc solar radiation with that of the
electric light. The instrument used
was q thermo heliometer of the investi-
gators own invention, and the conclu-
sion reached was that the radiation of
the sun would be Sc! times that of the
carbon points. If, therefore, the tenn
perature at the surface of the latter is
fixed at 5, 432 degrees Fahrenheit,
number not exaggerated, and suppos-
ing the radiation proportional to the
temperature, we obtain for the potential
temperature of the sun 24O, 1876 degrees
Fahrenheit.
WHENCE THE NAME OF "PENNs1YvA-
MA. The origin of the name of the
state Of Pennsylvania will be found in
a letter of William Penn, its founder.
dated January 6, 1851, flom which the
following is an extract "This day,
after many watchings, waitings, solicit
tlngs and disputes in council, my coun-
try has been confirmed to me under the
seal of England, with large powers and
privileges, by the name of Pennsylva-
MIA name the king would give it in
honor of my father. I choose New
Wales, being billy country and when
the secretary. a Welshman, refused to
call 1T New Wales, / proposed Sylvania,
and they added Penn to it, though /
was much opposed to it, and went to
the king to have it struck out. He said
1t was past, and he would not take it
upon him for feared it might be
looked upon as a vanity in me, and not
as a respect in the king to my father,
as 1t really was"
New TREATMENT OF CANCER.-Anoth-
er treatment of cancer has been brought
out by DIR. Hasse, of Berlin. An &C
count is given in the Medicinishe Cen
trail Zeitung, February 18th. Dr. Hasse
injectS, with a hypodermic syringe,
pure alcohol, to which one per cent. of
ether is added, not into the new growth,
but around its edges, thus obliterating,
he claims, the vessels, especially lynn
phatics, which convey the infection, and
causing the atrophy of the growth it
self. The plan Is rather severe, but is
much reduced by ice-bags, and lasts on
ly about two hours. The injections are
repeated every eight to fourteen days,
and have no alarming reactions. He
claims striking success in carcinoma OF
the mamma, and in caulifower excres-
cence of the uterus, but has failed in
epithelioma of the lip, which he attrib-
utes to the impossibility of celebrating
by the large and closely adjacent coro-
nary artery.-MedicGL and Surgical
Reporter.
CURIosIrIEs OF THE BBLE.-A man
who was condemned to solitary confne-
ment for life in a prison, relieved the
tediousness of the years by ascertaining
the following facts: The Bible contains
1856, 4S9 letters, 773, 692 words, 81, 173
verses, 1, 189 chapters, and 66 books.
The word land" occurs 46, PIT times,
the word "Lord" occurs 1855 times
the word Reverend" occurs but once
which is in the 9th verse of the It'll
Psalm. The middle verse is the Stl
verse of the 18th Psalm. The 21s
verse of the 7th chapter of Ezra contains
all the letters of the alphabet excep
the letter ]. The finest chapter to rea(
is the 26th chapter of the Acts of til,
Apostles. The 10Th chapter of II. King
and the 37th chapter of Isaiah are alike
The longest verse is the 9th verse of tn
Sth chapter of Esther. The shortes
verse Is the 35th verse of the 18th chap
ter of st. John. The 9Th, 18th, 21s
and 31st verses of the 10th Psalm ar
alike. All the verses of the both Psalm
end alike. There are no words or name
of over six syliables.
HARDNESS OF MINERALS AND METALS
In physics one body is said to be harde
than another when it is capable o
bCEhLCLluB bllC bpGClul6D WIN WHICH ]
is compared. In minerology, in whic
science the hardness is an importan
characteristic, ten bodies are usual
taken as points of comparison-th
softest being termed l and the hardes
10. These are /, tale; 2, gypsum
carbonate of lime 4, fluor spar {
phosphate of lime; 6, felspar
quartz; s, topaz; 8, corundum II
diamond. Hence, when scientific work
speak of the hardness of body bein
6, 6, 4, etc, reference is made to tn
relative hardness expressed by the lis
above given. The tenacity of metals
estimated by the resistance which wire
of the same diameter experience whe
passed at equal temperature throug
the same hole of draw lench. TIL
following gives the relative tenacity {
various metals and alloys Steel a
ready drawn, 100 !; iron already draw
So; brass already drawn, IT; gold 6
0,875, annealed, 70 steel annealed, 6i
copper already drawn, 6S; silver q
0.750, annealed, 80 silver at 0.S75, 81
brass annealed, 46 iron annealed, 80
platinum annealed, SO; copper anneale6
So fine gold annealed, 81 fine silve
annealed, 81; zinc, 81 tin, IL lead, !
THE WALL. OF CHNA.-The wall {
China is a greater wonder than the Ply
amids of Egypt, and must have been
heavy drain on the wealth and labor {
the Empire when it was built. Nj
Seward has some interesting comment
on it: The Chinese have been for tw
or three thousand years a wall-makin
,,oO,,la II would bankruDt New YOr