The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-10-21
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Hawks can fly ct the rate Of $50
miles an hour.
Ducks can fly at the rate of go
miles an hour.
The crow can fiy st the rate of %
miles an hour.
The sparrow can fiy at the rate Of
90 miles an hour.
The falcon fys at the rates Of 75
miles an hour.
Fair winds, may make their fight
three times greater.
Leuwenhock has computed that
10000 threads of the full grown
spider are not larger than q single
hair Of the beard. He calculates,
fusther, that when young spiders
first begin to spin, 400 OF them are
not larger than one of full growth
allowing which, 10000 OF s young
spiders threads are not so large as
the single hair of a mans beard.
Frogs live from II 70 10 years (if
not eaten).
In Spain there are 10000, 900 fine
wooled Merino Sheep tended by
$4,000 shepperds and guarded by
$4,000 dogs.
The Australian dog and the shep-
herd dog of Egypt never bark.
The total annual production of
tobacco is estimated at 100000
tons. Forty different species of
this weed are described by botan-
lists.
10000 little mouths or pores
are found upon one sqaure iAch of
the lilac leaf. The lilac must
breathe freely.
Sound moves at the rate of 12a
miles in a minute.
5000 stars (only) are visible TO
the naked eye. Counties millions
are revealed by the telescope
some so remote that their light,
travelling at the rate of 100000
miles a second, cannot arrive at our
little plannet in less than 14,o00
years. Others light would require
two millions Of years for its transit
from their distant orbs TO our own.
The number Of seeds in one pound
of barley, 10, 400.
The number of seeds in one
pound of oats, $4,000.
The number of seeds in one pound
of rye, $4,000.
The number Of seeds in one pound
of buckwheat, $4,000.
The number of seeds in one
pound of clover (red), 249,60O.
The number of seeds in one
pound of clover white, J, 6S6, 400.
The number of vertebnated ami
mails is estimated at 10000.
The number of birds Is estimated
at 5000.
The number of reptiles will prob
ably reach 1000.
The number of fishes will proba-
bly, reach 1000.
There are about $4,000 species
of living animals in all.
A Goldfish has been found to pro-
duce 3 100000, eggs or spawn.
A ling has been found TO produce
19, 100000 eggs or spawn.
A herring weighing 8 ounces has
been found to produce $1,000 eggs
or spawn.
A mackerel weighing 30 ounces
has been found to produce 454, 900
eggs or spawn.
The sirene has been brought into
unison with the sound produced by
insects, and indicates that the wings
Of gnat flap at the rate Of 10000
times per second.
The wings of some insects are so
thin that $4,000 placed one upon
another wound not form 4 heap OF
more than a quarter of an inch in
height.
$4,000 eggs of silk worm weigh
onequarter of an ounce. The worm
lives from 45 to SO days. It in
creases in weight in 30 days $500
fold, and during the last % days of
its life cats nothing.
The old Alexandrian Library con-
tanned 700, 900 volumes, the largest
ever brought together before the
invention of printing.
The Royal library, Paris, contains
100000 volumes and $4,000 manu-
scripts.
The Bodleian library, Oxford,
contains 100000 volumes and SO,-
600 manuscripts.
The Royal Central library Mu-
mich, contains 300, 700 volumes and
$4,000 manuscripts.
The Vatican, Rome, 100000 vol
umes and 10000 manuscripts.
University, Gottinger, 100000
volumes 5000 manuscripts.
British Museum, 2os,ooo volumes
and 10000 manuscripts.
Vienna, 10000 volumes and 1e,-
600 manuscripts.
Naples, 100000 volumes and g.
600 manuscripts.
St Petersburgh, 100000 vol
umes and 10000 manuscripts.
Dresden, 3oO,oOo volumes and g.
Too manuscripts.
Copenhagen, 100000 volumes
and 20, 900 manuscripts.
Berlin, 100000 volumes and 5000
manuscripts.
These constitute the most vRlua-
libraries in Europe.
D'Israeh estimates the number Of
volumes which have been issued
from the presses Of Europe down to
the year 1916, at about 3,377, ,64o,-
600.
Glass windows were first used for
lights in 1850.
Chimneys first put to houses, in
1896.
Tallow candles for lights, In 1890.
Spectacles invented by an Italian
in 1910.
Paper made in 1902.
Woolen cloth made in England
I241.
Art Of printing from movable type
I440.
Watches first made in Germany
I34I.
Barometer first invented by Tor
recelli, in 1895.
Telescopes invented by Porta and
Manson 1890.
Tea first brought from China to
Europe 1901.
Circulation OF blood discovered
By HaFyey,in 1910.
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