Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-05
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

GOOSE QUIILs FROM OCEANS BOTTOM.
One strange discovery of the deep-sea
dredging off Rhode Island was worm
inhabiting quill like a goose quill.
The quilts were about foot long, and
soou after being taken out Of the water
grew so hard that they could be, and
were, used for pens. They stood up in
the mud at the bottom of the sea. The
worms inside were opal colored, and,
when taken out of their strange tene-
ments, glistened and presented rather
pretty appearance, so far as color was
concerned. They were raked mp by
thousands, and none of the scientific
men ever heard of them before.
A MIGHTY ARMY. ABOUT 10000, 900
American voters marched to the polls
and deposited their ballots for Presiden-
tlal electors on the I'd day of November
last. What a tremendous army IF
the 100000 men were divided into
little squads or plateons Of five there
would be 100000 of such squads.
Now, giving each squad the space of
three yards the 100000 squads would
require 5000, 900 yards. The distance
between New York and San Francisco is
about 5000 miles. One English geo.
graphical mile contains about 1900
yards, and so 5000 miles would contain
5000, 900 yards, just the length of the
great line.
BLUE-BoTT1E FLIES. Three blue
bottle flies, says Linnmus, will devour a
horse as soon as a lion could do it. The
statement is no doubt somewhat of an
exaggeration, but it is not so far over
the mark as it may be supposed to be.
One fly, it has been stated, will produce
10000 eggs, and no sooner are the mag
gots Matched from them than they set to
work with such vigor that in twenty-four
hours they will increase in weight 200
times. In about three weeks every one
of them may have become perfect fly,
half OF them, perhaps, females, each
capable Of depositing another 10000
eggs in any dead rat or 'high" leg of
mutton that threatens to breed pesti-
lence in the air.
A CLOCK MADE OF BREAD.-Milan has
a curiosity in clock which is made en-
tirely of bread. The maker is Peru
Wan, native of India, and he has de-
voted three years of his time to the con-
struction of this curiosity. He was very
poor, and, being without means to pur-
chase the necessary metal, deprived
himself regularly of his daily bread,
which he devoted to the construction of
this curiosity, eating the crust and say
ing the soft part for doing his work. He
made use of certain salt to solidify his
material, and when the various pieces
were dry they were perfectly hard and
insoluble to water. The clock is of re-
spectacle size, and goes well. The case.
which is also of hardened bread, dis
plays great talent in design and execu-
ton.
THE WORKING Hours OF LIFE.-Sup.
pose man threw away in every year
ffty-two days for Sundays, thirteen days
for illness, vacations and interruptions :;
and suppose Ethat for forty-fve conse-
cutive years he works 800 days year
a very large average-that would give a
man, in the mature part of life IL, 500 days.
IF you please, there isn't any doubt about
that. Surprising that q man have health
and industry enough to work ten hours
in each of these IL, 500 days, he will have
$4,000 mature working hours. A man
who is 40, however, has but 80, 900 hours
left, man who is so has so few hours
left that I don't want to shock you by
mentioning their number. At the end of
135, 1000 hours the mature working por-
ton of life is ended and there is no
doubt about this proposition. Positively
the pulpit knows something on this
point. Time moves in straight line,
never in circle. We say Tuesday comes
back to Tuesday, Wednesday to We'd
nesday. January to January. The name
comes back to the name, but not the
thing to the. thing. In no circle does
time move, but in straight line, an
eagles fight, forth and right on. The
trees stay, but the leaves fall and you
and 7 are leaves. not trees.