The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-09-05
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The Oldest work on algebra is that OF DIophau
tus, who hourished at Alexandria In the fourth
century. It's improvers were Vieta Descartes,
Newton, Euler and La Grange.
Among the splendid tombs in Agra is that of the
wife Of sha.gehan, which employed 10000 artists
and workmen for % years, II is Of black and
white MARBLE sand has three platforms with
four towers and magnificent dome.
Hipparchus, in 1928 B. c., made catalogue OF
| 1,022 stars Flamstead, with the telescopes, made
another Of 2,S0i, Bode, in 1900, Of $1,000 and
Lalande, same year. of 5O,OOO Herche computed
$1,000 in nearly six degrees Of the Milky Way,
An EsquImaux boy, supplied by Captain Parry,
ate in one day 1917 pounds Of solid food, and
drank Of various liquids ~ gallons, A man of
the same nation ate 10 pounds of Solids including
two candles, and drank ~ gallons, yet they were
only from TO 41a feet high,
AS the animal system does not admit Of two ex-
elements at the same time, most morbid affec.
tions are relieved by new excItements, and those
abating, the disease abates and is often cured.
This is called sympathy, and the stomach and
brain appear to be the coramon centers Of II.
The number of teeth at maturity is thirty.two
orsixteen in each jaw. The eight front teeth are
called cutting teeth and the two next on each
side are called dog eye teeth The two next are
two pointed teeth and the three next on each
side are called maers or grinders. The two last
are called wisdom teethl Jas they are cut last,
Winckelman, quoting the comedies of Plautus
and Terence, observes that Greclan doors open
| outWards, so that person leaving the house
knocked first Within lest he should open the door
IN the face OF apassenger. Hinges were not then
in use; and at Rome, Pompei and Herculaneum,
DOORS even of marble, have at top and bottom
pivOts which turn in sockets
The follies Of philosophy have been the squar.
ing Of the circle, perpetual notion the inextin.
guishable lamp, attraction and srepulsiOn, the
philosophers stone, the universal solvent the
elixir of life the influence of the stars and the
raising of spirits, These several subjects, have
In the last fifty generations absorbed the lives of
at least 10000 men In each, amid the veneratiOn
or fear of the vulgar Of all ranks
Many of the old naturaliss entertained the no.
tion that geese were produced from trees. 1t was
supposed that on the banks of a river in the Or.
cades tree grew that produced live geese like
fruit, In an old volume printed at Balse in 1850
entitled, Munster Cosmographia" is a curious
engraving representing the barnace goose drop
ping from the bursting pods on the tree into the
stream beneath, and swimming away. A similar
cut is to be found in "Aldrovandus" and at the
end of "Gerrad's Herbal" The early navgator
ard travellers related the most extraordinary sto
ries Of this character
No letter in the alphabet has been so much
abused and mIsrepresentee by the English as the
letter II. The following petition from q volume
entitled "The Wild Garland" is an extremely
clever presentation of few of the grievances Of
! that unfortunate letter:
THE LETTER "H's" PETITION.
Whereas have by you been driven
From house from home, from hope, from heaven
And placed by your most learn'd society
, In exile anguish and anxiety
/ And used without one just pretense
With arrogance and nsoence,
here demand full restitution
And begyou'll mend your eocutlon.
ANSWER.
Whereas we've rescued you, migrate,
From handcuf, horror and from hate,
} From hell, from horsepond and from halter
, And consecrated you in altar,
And placed pou where you meier shouldbe
4 In honor and in honesty,
Wedeem your prayer a rude intrusion,
And will not mend our elocution