The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-07-06
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

DR.. HERR, a foreign electrician, has
shown that it is possible to telephone
600 miles.
THE huge hunting spiders OF South
America and Ceylon have legs which
cover foot of ground.
NEARLY 5000 different species OF
birds have been exhibited andclasslhed,
and probably thousands more exist.
TAKING that Of beef at 100, the total
solids or actual nutritive material IN
different fishes vary from sixty-two to
1863.
EXPERIMENT has proved that sound
travels faster in water than IN alr--ln
water at the rate Of 4,078 feet per sec
ond.
THE acorn-barnacle cements its fore
head to rock and remains thus all its
life with its head downward and lts
heels in the air, kicking its food into its
mouth.
AGAssIz once had an opportunity to
carefully measure large jeIly-tish as 1t
Law at the surface of the sea. Its disk
was seven feet in diameter and its ten
taclcs ll2 feet long.
THE house spiders web will last for
many weeks, while the garden-spider
must spin afresh or mend her web every
twenty -four hours. The former some
times lives from six to eight years.
IT is not generally known that there
Is such thing as false eyebrows, yet
such is the case. They are made per-
fertly bv the Use of chair lace and
would never be suspected as counter
felt.
DIR. NoRDEysKJoLD, the Arctic travel
cr, has discovered that iron Is always to
be found in snow, from which 1t may be
extracted by magnet 1t supposed
that these particles of iron are OF mete-
ore origin.
THE bones of the Archae plery, rare
fossil found III Germany, are very much
/ like those of lizard, and its hind legs
are like those of II bird, and 1t was when
alive clothed with feathers. This was
really most wonderful link between
the birds and the reptiles. There can
he no doubt regarding the reptilian
nllinities of birds.
MACHINES in watch facto.y will cut
screws with $50 threads to the inch
the finest used in watch has 300.
These threads are invisible to the naked
eve, and it takes l44,00 Of the screws
TO make pound. A pound of them II
worth six pounds of pure gold. Lay one
upop piece of white paper and it looks
like tiny steel filing.
THE name of the Deity is spelled with
four letters i'll almost every known Ian
guage. 1t is in Latin, Deus; Greek,
XnuS Hebrew, Adon; Syrian, Adnd;
Arabian, ALA; Persian, Syra; TmtaS-
ian, Idga; Egyptian, Aumn or Zeut; !;
Fast Indian, Esgi, or Heni; Japanese,
Xan; Turkish, Addi; Scandinavian,
Odm; Wallachian, Xene Croatian, Dega;
DaImatan, Rogt Tyrrhenion, Eher ;
Etuurian, Chur; Morgarian, Oese; Swed-
ish, Codd; Irish, Dich; German, Gott ;
French, Dieu; Spanish, Dios; PERU
wan, Lian.
The speed at which some wings are
driven is enormous. 1t is occasionally
50 great as to cause the pinlons to emit
drumming sound. To this source the
buzz of the fly, the drone OF the bee and
the boom of the beetle are to bereferred
When IL grouse, partridge or pheasant
suddenly springs into the air, the sound
produced by the whirring of its wings
greatly resembles that produced by the
contact Of steel with the rapidly-reyolv-
ing stone OF tho knife grinder. 1t has
been estimated that the common fly
moves its wings $50 times per second
i. c., 49,, 800 times per minute, and that
the butterfly moves its wings nine times
per second, or $40 times per minute.