The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-02-07
USEFUL INFORMATION.
Compiled for The Democratic Adpoeats
BY J.s.sd.

OF which we cannot form an adequate con-
ception. s Wam
Now how long would il take a man,
counting night and day, at this rate, to
number the killed III var. He would
count lSO ina minute; 10000 IN an hour;
259, 200 10 a day; "a sos, 900 IN year;
and consequently TO be exact, the time it
would take him TO count the $4,000, 000,-
OOO,would be 1i7 years, ii months, %
days, IL hours, IL minutes, AGA seconds.
Or it would take four men counting twelve
hours q dsy, Fraction less than IA years.
H.an the corpses of those who have faI-
lSn victims to war, were laid one aifer
another across road, allowing three feet
70 each body, aud the space between il 4
and the next, that road would be nearly
100000 miles long, i, o.--to be exact,
1856, 545 Sill.
This road would run around the world
more than 3ls times 0nly think, more
than 3ls belts Of dead people encircling
the globe. For a man to step over all
these bodies, proceeding night and day at
the rate Of ten miles an hour, would oe-
cupy more than 454 years, or if he should
travel IL hours day at the rate Of three
miles, il would take him 6Si years.
An Inch or RAIN on THE ATLANTIC.
Lieut.. Maury, 10 his physical Geogra-
ply Of the Sea, thus computes the effect
Of single inch Of rain falling upon the
Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic includes
an area Of 25,000, 900 square miles. Sup
pose an inch Of rain to fall upon only one
nth Of this vast expanse, it would weigh
800 900, OO0, 900 tons, aud the salt which,
as water, il held in solution in the sea, and
which, when the water was taken up as
yapor, was left behind to disturb equilib-
rum, weighed 100000 more tons, or
nearly twice as much as all the ships in
the world could carry at cargo each.
1t might fall in day; but, occupy what
time it might in falling, this rain is calcu-
lated to exert go much foree-which is in
conceivably great--in disturbing the equi-
librium Of the ocean. If all the water
discharged by the Mississippi river during
the year were taken up in one mighty
measure, and cast into the ocean at an
effort, it would not make greater disturb
ance 10 the equilibrium Of the sea than the
fall of rain supposed. And yet SO gentle
are the operations Of nature, that move.
ments so vast are unperceised.
INTERESTING TO THINK ABoUT.-Sci
entihc writers assert that the number Of
persons who have existed since the begin
ming Of time, amounts to 36,G27 ,S43, 273,
015, 1856. These figures, when divided By
1905, 000-the number Of square leagues
Of land on the globe-leave II 1920, $50,
732 square miles Of land, which, being di
vided as before, gives / ,3l4,622 ,076 per
{ sons to each square mile. Let us nov
: reduce miles to square rods, and the mum
4 Der will be 1853, l74, 900, 900, which
: being divided as before, will give | %:
inhabitants to each square rod, which, be
ing reduced to feet, will give about fv
persons TO each square foot Of terra frma
Thus it will be perceived that our earth
a vast cemetery, 2S3 human beings Ii
i buried on each square rod--scarcely sufi
cient for ten graves-each grave mus
contain l2S persons. Thus it is easy seel
that the whole surface Of our globe ha
been dug over one hundred and twenty
eight times to bury the dead
There's not dust that floats on air
But once was living man"
GIASTs.--The bed Of 0g was q fee
0 loug and feet broad. The height o
Goliah was eleven feet-his coat weighe,
$50 and his spear head 10 pounds. Tn
body Of 0resies, son Of ,Agamemnon, lead
or Of the Grecian expedition against Troy
was ia feet high The giant Galbara
brought from Africa to Rome, in the frs
century, A. d. was ten feet high, and
woman 10 feet. Maximus, native o
Spain, the Roman Emperor, was fee
high. Maximus, originally from Thrace
another Roman Emperor, 81 feet high
His wife's bracelets served him for iuge
rings. His strength was such that h,
: could draw loaded wagon, break horse
jaw with his fist, crush the hardest stone
with his fingers, and cleave trees with hi
hands. His voracity was equal to hi
strength, eating 40 pounds of flesh an,
' drinking Is bottles Of wine daily. Byrn,
| and o Brien, Irish giants, were eight fee
high. A Tennesseean giant lately died I
feet high, weighing more than one thou
sand pounds. The Kentucky giant was
feet | / inches high. The Canadian gian
8 feet high.
|. LARGEST Clock IN THE WoRLD.-Th
dials of the English Parliament clock ar
% feet 10 diameter, and are the larges
in the world with the minute hand II feet
Every half minute the point Of the minut
hand moves nearly seven inches. Tn
g clock will 20 eight and half days, an,
strike only for seven aud half, so as Il
indicate by its silence any neglect in wind
ing it up. The mere winding Of each o
the striking parts viii take two hours
The pendulum Is 10 feet long; the wheel
are of cast iron; the hour bell is eight fee
high aud nine feet in diameter, weighing
from fourteen to fifteen tons. The weigh
Of the hammer is four hundred weight.
An OH STovE.-Mr. Solomon Beard
living about one mile east Of Woodsboro'
Frederick county, Nd, Informs us that h
has a stove ia his house which was mad
in 1742, and has been in constant use, il
? the same house since 1919. The stow,
bears the inscription Of ''Loudon, England
IT42" II has never been moved sine,
put in this house, and although 10 uso 3.
years, looks as though it might last thai
much longer. If there is an older STOW.
than this anywhere We would like 10 heal
of It, The land upon whielithe house /.
built has been 10 the "BeArdf family eyei
since il was settled upon having been
willed by one generation 10 the next
The FATHER OF THE REvoLuTIoN.--
Nothing yet has appeared Of Samuel Adam,
worthy Of his exalted merits. He wa.
the great representative revolutionary mar
Of New England, whose soul was on ere
not for self, but for the cause; aud full tea
years before his 1916 Grafton, be was tn,
earnest and untiring advocate Of indepen
donce. Gan good men, wrote bis com
patriot, George Clyner, Of Pennsylvania
ia 1773, ''should raise statue to him il
their hearts" Soearly did his fame spread
4 1t takes $4,000 coehincaI insects /,
make one pound in weight, aud the amour
imported into the United States last YEA
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