Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-12-31
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

CELERY seed will germinate when twenty years old
 THE little, hard-coated fish called the helix espersia has been known to live a year out of water without food
 THE vultures of Africa will discover a dead animal as soon as it falls, from heights vIewless to the human eye.
 TIE lions teeth are so strong that he easily breaks the bones of his prey, and swallows them with the rest of the body.
 TIE mechanic stenographer is the lat est invention under particular notice in Paris. It beats the best professional short hand writers.
 A TIGER has been known to carry to his den a buffalo weighing twice as much as himself, throwing the animal over his shoulder as fox does a goose.
 TIE most poisonous snakes appear to possess perfect immunity from the poison of their own species, and a consid- erable immunity from that of other kinds.
 A REGENT calculation of Prof. Gelkie's puts the species of English mammals at forty, of reptiles at thirteen, of land birds at 139. Of towering plants and ferns l, 425 species are now known.
 WOMEN never appeared upon the stage among the ancients. Their parts were represented by men until as late a. l662, when Charles IT. first encouraged their public appearance.
 IN birds distinguished for their power of flight, the air fills the bones, sur rounds the viscera, insinuates itself be- tween the muscles, and buoys up the en- tire skin, so that the whole body Is in fated like balloon.
 So FIXED and certain are the dates Of departing and returning with many species of birds, that, in certain Eastern countries at the present day, almanac are timed and bargains struck upon the data they supply.
 THE weight of the largest brain on record Is said to be sixty-segen ounces {; the smallest-that of woman weighed but two ounces and five grains. Cuyier's brain has seldom been equaled ill weight 1t Is noted at GA. , ounces. The brain of James Fisk, Jr., was considered unusually large, its weight slightly ex- ceeding 6fty-four ounces. Yet 1t was ten ounces below that of Cuvier, and thirteen ounces lighter than the heaviest known.
 WHEN the herrings migrate from south to north they travel ill such num- bers that their shoals, says Kirby, con- sist of millions of myriads, and are many leagues in width, many fathoms in depth and so dense that the fish touch each other. This stream continues to move at rapid rate for months. A pair of" her rings, says Buffon, if left undisturbed for twenty years, would produce Q progeny whose bulk would equal that oi the entire globe.
 IN certain parts of the East curious mode of capturing elephants Is some. times adopted. A framed elephant will first be taught to walk on narrow pa;h between two pitfalls which are covered with turf and then 1t will bs taken into the woods, in order that it may decoy the wild herd into the neighborhood o the snsres. The "decoy" elephant having succeeded in the latter pur pose, will next, we are told, walk slowly round and close to the traps, and thel suddenly hasten forward, as thougl frightened, and proceed safely past the pitfalls, Ill which some of the wild eie plants are almost certain to become en ] tangled in their attempts to follow after him. Dr. Darwin, who tells us of thi. 1 method of capture, says that, if any O the wild herd be fortunate enough tt escape from the traps, they never fail, i | possible, to pursue the traitor who haC endeavored to decoy them, and to hay, revenge upon him; and sometimes the, have been known, in their rage, to be4 one to death.