Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-02-20
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made, that about l4,000,O00,000 Of human
beings have persisted in war since the work
began. This is number Of which we can
not form an adequate conception.
Now how long would 1t take man, count
ing night and day, at this rate, to numbe
the killed in war. He would count 1870 in
minute; l0,S00 in an hour; 259, 200 in day
94,8OS,OOO in year; and consequently t
be exact, the time it would take him K
count the i4,000,000,000, would be 147 years
II months, 20 days, 10 hours, II minutes
46a seconds. Or it would take four mel
counting twelve hours u day. fraction les
than "A years.
If all the corpses Of those who have fall
en- victims to war, were laid one after an
other across road, allowing three feet to eacf
body, and the space between it and the next
that road would be nearly 100000 mifel
long; i. e.-to be exact, 7054,645 5-11.
This road would run around the worlt
more than 3lS times. Only think, NOR,
than 3lS belts Of dead people encircling the
globe. For man to step over all these
bodies proceeding night and day at the rate
Of ten mile an hour, would occupy more
than 454 years, or if he should travel Il
hours day at the rate Of three miles, i
would take him 6S1 years.
AN lNcn OF RAIN ON THE ATLANTIC
Lieut.. Maury, in his physical Geography
of the Sea-" thus computes the effect of 0
single inch of ram falling upon the Atlantic
Ocean. The Atlantic includes an area OF
25,OO0,0O0 square miles Suppose an inch
of rain to fall upon only one-iifth of this ex.
panse it would weigh $780, 000,0000 900 tons and
the salt which, as water it held in solution
| in the sea, and which, when the water was
taken up as vapor, was left behind to disturb
equilibrium, weighed 100000 more tons, OF
nearly twice "a much as all the ships in the
world could carry at a cargo each. 1t might
fall in day; but, occupy what time it might
in falling, this rain is calculated to exert so
much force-whch is inconceivably great
in disturbing the equilibrium of the ocean.
If all the water discharged by the Missis-
| sippi river during the year were taken up
in one mighty measure, and cast into the
ocean at an effort, it would not make a greater
disturbance in the equilibrium of the sea
than the fall Of rain supposed And yet 50
| gentle are the operations Of nature, that
movements so vast are unperceiyed.
INTERESTING TO THINK ABoUT.--Scien.
tilic writers assert that the number of per.
sons who have existed since the beginning
Of time, amounts to 36,627, Sl3 273, 075 1856
These figures, when divided by 3,095, 900
the number of square leagues Of land on the
globe-leave II ,3208S9,732 square miles OF
of land, which, being divided as before, gives
1,314,622076 persons to each square mile
Let us now reduce miles 10 square rods, and
the number will 1853, l74,G00,000, which
being divided as before, will give |, 283 in
habitants to each square rod, which, being
reduced to feet, will give about five persons
to each square foot Of terra firma. Thus !
will be perceived that our earth is vas
cemetery, 1888 human beings lie buried OF
each square rod-scarccly sufficient for tel
Fgraves-each grave must contain 1873 per
sons Thus it is easy seen that the whole
surface Of our globe has been dug over one
hundred and twenty eight times to bury til,
dead
"There's not 4 dust that floats on air
But once was living man.
GIANTs.--Thc bed of Og was 81 feet Ions
and 7 feet broad The height of Goiah was
eleven lect-his coat weighed $50 and hi
spear head 10 pounds. The body Of Oresies
son Of Agamemnon, leader Of the Greciai
expedition against Troy, was ~ high. Tn
giant Galbara, brought from Africa to Rome
in the first century, A. ID. was ten feet high
and woman 10 feet Maximus, native o.
Spain, the Roman Emperor, was 8 feet high
Maximus, originally from Thrace, anothc
Roman Emperor, ~ feet high. His wife
bracelets served him for finger rings. Hi
loaded wagon, break horses jaw with hi
fist, crush the hardest stones with his finger
cleave a tree with his hands. His voracity
was equal to his strength, eating 40 pounds
Of flesh and drinking 10 bottles Of win,
daily, Byrnc and O'Brien, Irish giants
were eight feet high. A Tennesseean giant
lately died ~ feet high, weighing more thar
one thousand pounds. The Kentucky giant
was Z feet I inches high. The Canadian
s feet high.
LARGEST CLOCK IN THE WoRLD.-Tht
dials Of the English Parliament clock ar,
% feet in diameter, and are the largest in the
world, with the minute hand II feet. Every
half minute the point Of the minute hand
moves nearly seven inches. The clock will
go eight and a half days, and strike only
for seven and half, SO us to indicate by It's
silence any neglect in winding II up. The
mere winding of each Of the striking parts
will take two hours The pendulum If 10
hour bell is eight feet high and nine feet in
diameter, weighing from fourteen to fifteen
tons. The weight Of the hammer is four
hundred weight.
An OLD 5Tovg.--Mr Solomon Beard, liy-
ing about one mile east Of Woodsboro'
Frederick county, Nd, informs us that he
has stove in his house which was made in
l742, and has been in constant use in the
same house since lS49 The stove bears tho
inscription Of" London, England, 1742." II
has never been moved since put In this house,
and although in use 1872 years, looks as
though 1t might last that much longer. II
there is an older stove than this anywhere
we would like 10 hear Of IT, The land upon
which the house is built has been in the
Beard family ever since It was settled
upon, having beon willed by one generation
IN the next.
TUE FATHER OF THE REVOLUTION
Nothing yet has appeared Of Samuel Adams
worthy Of bis exalted merits. Ho was tho
great representative revolutionary man Of
New England, whose soul was on fre, not
for sell, but for the cause; and full ten years
before his i716 GRAFTON he was the earnost