The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-12
INrEansrINa rAcrs AND Hasrs.

Eighteen millions of suns belong to our
armament. More than four thousand such
ornaments are visible, and every increase of
telescope power adds to the number.
Pliny states that the cedar Woodwork Of
the Temple Of Apollo, at Utica, was in per-
feet state of preservation after an interval Of
two thousand years. The famous statue Of
Diana of the Ephesians was formed Of cedar,
AID endured for many centuries. The ancient
Egyptians extracted an oil from cedar wood,
which they rubbed over the leaves papyrus to
preserve them from worms, and which also
entered into The compositions used fof pr6-
serving their mummies
Motherwort is an excellent remedy in all
nervous and hypochondriacal affections, diz-
illness in the head, &c. A strong tea made of
it and drank freely, win raise the spirits and
impart new life and vigor to the whole system.
The number of species of insects in Asia is
quite small in proportion to the extent of that
continent. In Thibet there are neither fleas,
mosquitoes, inaggots, nor leeches but the
inhabitants are sometimes afflicted by what is
known as goomtook, or the laughing disease,
producing severe pain in the throat, and re-
sulting in death after few days of suffering.
North America, in corresponding latitude,
has fewer species of insects than Europe
Brazil boasts of greater variety than any
other country on the globe.
The water-vine is very curious West
Indian plant. This vine when cut, first above
and then below, yields draught of pure
water, which has been collected by the roots
and is on its way upward SO fast that If the
first cut was made below the sap, it would be
out of reach before another cut could be made
from above.
IL the revolution Of the earth on its axis
were to be suddenly stopped, the temperature
of everything would be raised to such a de-
gree as to be incapable of existing in any other
form than vapor. When bullet strikes the
target, it becomes so hot that it cannot be held
in the hand. Its velocity is at the rate of
1;200 feet per second. But what must be the
heat produced when a body like the earth,
moving at the rate of ninety million feet a
second, is suddenly arrested 1t would soon
be converted into sea of fire, and all life
would become extinct
According to French strtstician, taking
the mean of many accounts, a man of fifty
years of age had slept 6,000 days, worked
$500 days, walked 800 days, amused himself
A, 900 days, was eating 500 days. &c. He ate
5000 pounds of bread, 10000 pounds of meat,
1000 do. of vegetables, eggs and fish, and
drank 1000 gallons. This would make re-
spectacle lake Of 500 feet surface and three
feet deep.
The chipping and singing of the cricket and
grasshoppcr are frequently spoken of but
they do not sing-they fiddle. BY rubbing
wings and legs together--each in manner
peculiar to the species--these insects produce
the sounds which Characterize them. Per-
haps our best instrumental perfrrmer is the
(" Katy-did" Each wing contains little
tamborine, and by the opening and shutting
of the wings these are rubbed against each
other, and produce the sound of Katy-did-
she-did,' which can be heard at such long
distance and gives the insect its name. These
sounds are supposed to be useful in enabling
insects to find their mates; or they may in
dulge in them for their own qualification, and
to add to the general harmony of nature,
The stetple of the clock of San Gotardo in
Milan, was the first to contain clock which
struck the hours. 1t was from this circum-
stance that the adjoining street Was Called
"Dell Ore" The steeple itself is considered
one of the finest in Milan.