The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-05-19

foremost in concert, with ewes and lambs
in the centre of hollow square.
Mice will live entirely without water
for though, says DR.. Priestly, ! have
kept them for three or four months, and
have offered them water several times,
they would never taste it and yet they
continued in perfect health.
Black rats are tanned In Germany, aud
a bell being put about their necks they
drive away other rats. The economic rat
Of Siberia lays in a stock Of winter pro.
visions. The hamster does the same, and
to assist him has pouches on each side Of
the mouth.
The behemoth Of the Jews was either
the hippopotamus or mammoth, said 10
the Talmud to feed on a thousand noun
tains in day; speed which aeeords
with the Indian tradition about them, and
with that Of the great and terrible dun
COW of Dunchureh.
The sheep in the Shetland Islands are
calculated at 100000 and the finest Of
their wool is wrought into stockings at
two guineas pair; the cOarsest very
cheap.
The Angora goat has one eye blue and
the other yellow.
Wild asses in Tartary and Thibet live
in troops, and keep sentry; being very
vigiant, and If attacked, swift in escape.
Hogs and dogs were the only animals in
the newly discovered South Sea Islands.
The West Indie Islands contained only a
small animal, the agouti. The continent
Of America contained many large animals,
but unlike those on the old and New
Holland, &c. &c. only contained kanga-
roos and Opossums, unlike others any
where else.
Bullocks perform indiferently with
yokes aud bows: in France they draw by
the horns. They plow an acre per day
with ease. -Four bullocks draw three tons
of coal; two draw 35 cwt. three miles; and
two draw 1920 sheaves, weighing 6375
pounds. Young's Tour, H.
The horn of the rhinoceros alone is
erect aud perpendicular to the bone, on
which it stands at right angles, thereby
possessing greater purchase or power as
lever, than any horn could possibly have
in any other position.-BrHce.
English race horses run at the rate Of
from 55 to 30 miles an hour, or a single
mile in 62 or 63 seconds. Stage coaches,
with their draught, often run IL or II
miles an hour. In a passion for swift
travelling, George Ill. always went on
journeys IA or Is miles; and his son, the
Duke of York used to urge post horses 16.
Bakewell's black draft horses will draw
above three tons. A horse has "a grind
ers, 4 tushes, or single teeth, and 12 front
teeth. At FIVE the colts teeth are shed
and tushes appear; at six they are grown,
and at eight the black marks disappear,
and the horse is then called aged.
The pouch Of the kangaroo and opossum
is fold in integuments Of the belly, with
an external opening, where the young are
received in tender state, and nourished
by the paps within the cover.
In New Holland, the quadruped which
most prevailed at its settlement in 1877
was the kangaroo, with very long hind
legs and with short fore ones, with a sack
or bag under the belly Of the female fo'
the comfort and protection of the young.
Of these animals and opossums there were
so distinct species they are very delicate
and very intelligent animals Another
native animal is quadruped with the
bill Of duck, called the ornithorincus par
ddorus the birds are equally original
The swans are black, and eagles are
white, some of them Z feet high every
thing had an original character All the
quadrupeds are like opossums, all the fish
are like sharks, and the very land, the
trees, the vegetable products, resemble
one another in peculiarity. Many thou
sand species Of plants have been discover
ed, mostly new. OF the gum tree there
are 100 different species, some of them
$50 feet high and 40 feet round. There
are also 100 species of the leahess
acacia, and these two kinds of trees com
pose the woods of the country. Van Die
mans land lies between lat Al and 43I
south, and is 100 miles long, and 140
broad. The climate is milder than that
Of England; but in the winter, from May
to July, the mountains are covered with
snow. The Eucalyptus or gum tree grows
to lS0 feet high and 36 feet round.
The pip, disease of poultry, is thin
film which grows under the tip Of the
tongue.
The European wild cat is not consid-
cred as the original of the domestic cat,
but Nubian which passed through Egypt
into Europe.
One pair of pigs will increase in six
years to lis, ,l69, taking the increase at
fourteen times per annum. A pair of
sheep in the same space cf time would be
but 64.-ARnut
The Aranea avicularia is a spider, large
enough to catch and kill small birds.
Wolves were destroyed in England be-
tween 961 and 964.
Herrings breed in the Arctic ocean,
and in April or May pass in immense
shoals through British seas, followed BY
fishes and birds Of prey. The Doeger
bank in the North sea, 1870 miles long, is
favorite resort of these and of turbot,
cod, soles, &c. Other banks in the same
sea from Holland TO the Shetland Islands,
are also resorts Of fish.
In the Bahamas the violet crab lives in
the mountains, but spawns in the sea,
and travels there for that purpose after
which the young crabs travel to the
mountains.
Cock-chafers, 50 cruelty abused by un-
taught children, are such pets Of nature,
that they are six years in the grub state
advancing to maturity.
Eggs are hatched at 104 degrees Of
heat.
Hives yield from 60 to 100 lbs. of
honey in season. W
At Coppermine river fish we're SO frozen
as to break with the blow Of Ratchet
but If others were thawed before fire they
revived.
Dried Eggs.