The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-02-07
USEFUL INFORMATION.
Compiled for tie Democratic AdsOcate
by J.s. @.

since the world began This is a number
OF which we cannot form an adequate con-
ceplion. r
Now how long would it take q man, !
counting night and day, at this rate, TO
number the killed III war. He would
count l8O ia minute; 10s90 In an hour !
259, 200 10 day; 4,609 900 in year;
aud consequently to be exact, the time it
would take him to count the 14,000, ,000,-
OO0,Would be III years, ii months, %
days, IL hours, II minutes, 46s seconds.
Or u would take four men counting twelve
hours a day, fraction loss than "A years.
Hah the corpses of those who have fal-
len victims 10 war, were laid one after
another across y road, allowing three feet
70 each body, and the space between it
and the next, that road would be nearly
S,0O0,000 miles long; /. c.--to be exact,
1854, ,545 Sill.
This road would run around the world
more than 3l8 times Only think, more
than 3lS belts Of dead people encireling
the globe. For man to step over all |
these bodies, proceeding night and day at
the rate Of ten miles an hour, would oc-
cupy more than Asa yesrs, or if he should
travel IL hours a day al the rate of three
miles, il would take him 6Sl years.
AN INcH OF RAIN on THE ATLANTIC.
Lieut., Maury, in 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 $4,000 900 square miles. Sup
pose an inch Of rain to fall upon only one
NTH Of this vast expause, it would weigh
$50 100000, 900 tons, and the salt which,
as water, IL held in solution 10 the sea, and
which, when the water was taken up as
vapor, was left behind t1 disturb equiib-
rum, weighed 100000 more tons, or
nearly twice as much as all the ships in
the world could carry at cargo each
II might fall in day; but, occupy what
time It might in falling, this rain is caleu-
lated TO exert so much force-which is in-
concciyably 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 50 gentle
are the operations Of nature, that move
ments 50 vast arc unperceived.
INTERESTING TO THINK ABoUT.-Sci-
euti6c writers assert that the number of
persons who have existed since the begin
ming Of time, amounts to 36, ,627 ,S43, ,273,-
O75, ,S56. These figures, when divided by
3,O95, ,OO0-thc number Of square leagues
Of land on the globe--leave IL ,320, ,699,-
1872 square miles of land, which, being d.
vided as before, gives 1874, ,622, ,076 per-
sons to each square mile. Let us now
; reduce miles to square rods, and the mum.
/ Der will be 1853, ,lT4 ,G00,0 which,
= being divided as before, will give ,2S3
inhabitants to each square rod, which, be-
ing reduced to feet, will give about five
persons to each square foot of terra firma.
Thus il will be perceived that our earth is
, a vast cemetery, ,2S3 human beings lie
i buried on each square rod--scarcely sufi-
cient for ten grayes-each grave must
contain l2s persons. Thus it is easy seen
that the whole surface Of our globe has
been dug over one hundred and twenty
eight times to bury the dead
There's not a dust thst aoats on air
But once was living man"
GIANTs.-The bed Of 0g was q feet
0 long and Z feet broad. The height of
Goliah was eleven feet--his coat weighed
$50 and his spear head 10 pounds The
body Of 0resies, son of .Agamemnon, lead
er Of the Grecian expedition against Troy,
was III feet high. The giant Galbara,
brought from Africa to Rome, in the first
century, A. d. was ten feet high, and
woman 10 feet Maximus, n native of
Spain, the Roman Emperor, was 8 feet
high Maximus, originally from Thrace,
smother Roman Emperor, 81 feet high
His wife's bracelets served him for finger
rings. Ills strength was such that he
! could draw a loaded wagon, break horses
jaw with his fist, crush the hardest stones
with his fingers, and cleave trees with his
hands. His voracity was equal TO his
strength, eating 40 pounds of flesh and
' drinking Is bottles Of wine daily. Byrne
and o Brien, Irish giants, were eight feet
high. A Tennesseean giant lately died !
iSct hAShf NtiEhluS hOft lhuu Ouc tHOu-
sand pounds. The Kentucky giant was
feet II inches high. The Canadian giant
s feet high.
LARGEST Clock IN THE WoRLD.-The
dials Of the English Parliament clock are
% feet ia diameter, and are the largest
in the world with the minute hand IL feet
Every half minute the point Of the minute
hand moves nearly seven inches. The
clock will 20 eight and half days, and
strike only for seven and half, so as to
indicate by its silence any neglect in wind
Ing it up. The mere winding Of each Of
the striking parts will take two hours.
The pendulum b Is feet long; the wheels
are Of cast iron; the hour bell is eight feet
high aud nine feet in diameter, weighing
from fourteen to fifteen tons. The weight
Of the hammer Is four hundred weight.
An OLD SrovE-Mr. Solomon Beard
living about one mile east Of Woodsboro',
Frederick county, Nd, informs us that he
has stove 10 his house which was made
in l742, and has been in constant use, in
! the same house since 1e49 The stove
bears the Inscription Of "London, England,
l742" Il has never been moved siuce
put in this house, and although 10 use 1872
years, Looks as though il might last that
much longer. If there is an older stove
than this anywhere W. would like 10 hear
of IT, The land upon which the house is
built has been ia the Beard" family ever
since il was settled upon having been
willed by one generation to the next.
THE FATHER OF THE REyoLuTIoN.--
Nothing yet has appeared ofSamuel Adams
worthy Of his exalted merits. He was
the great representative revolutionary man
of New England, whose soul was on Ere.
not for sell, but for the cause; aud full ten
years before his 1776 oratlon, he was the
earnest and untiring advocate Of indepen-
dence. "All good men, wrote his com.
patriot, George Clyiner, Of PENNSYLVANIA.
in 1878, "should raise statue TO him ii
their hearts. Dearly did his fame spread.
II takes 65,00o eochineal insects "a
make one pound 10 weight, and the amount
/ isnnarfrd inful the Hated Cs.tn. -