Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-30
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

IHE gTeaG Guy OF LONDON requires 8
yearly supply Of 100000 gallons Of
milk.
The life of submarine telegraph
cable is shown by experience to be from
ten to twelve years. 1t cable breaks
in deep water after it is ten years of age,
it cannot be raised for repairs, as it will
break of its own weight fatal difficult
ty, and for which there seems to be no
practicable remedy.
In 1880 Marshal Soult brought par
rot named JACKIE to the French war
Office, where the bird remained for forty
years. He served under eighteen differ
ent Ministers, but was always stanch
royalist. Through every change of adj
ministration Jacko cried, "Vive lie roi! "
but would never say without painful eff
fort, "Vive PEmpereur |" He died on
the anniversary Of the death of Napoleon
l., in 1870.
The greatest amount of cold ever
known to be endured by white men over
took Lieut.. Schwatka's party in search
OF information about Sir John Franklin's
party. They were over eleven months
in sleds, and journeyed about 5000
miles. On Jan. 5, 1880, the thermome-
ter sunk 103 deg. below the freezing
point. The highest temperature that
day was SO deg. below freezing point
For twenty seven days the temperature
was 80 deg. below the freezing point.
WHEN rivers are much warmer than
the air, they give rise to fogs, because
the rapid evaporation from the warm
water pours more water into the atmos-
phere than it can hold suspended in an
invisible state, and consequently the
surplus vapor is condensed into mist by
the colder air through which it rises.
There are conditions of atmosphere when
no actual fog is apparent in which dark
ness prevails, and what are called dry
fogs, or sometimes blight. In some
cases they are clearly due to smoke, as,
for instance, the smoke of burning
prairies, which may extend over vast
distances.
TIE following calculation as to the
total number of existing botanical spe-
cies has been made by DR.. Muller, of
Geneva: We have at present in our
books about 100, 900 species, and, if we
suppose that 10000 Gin round numbers)
belong to countries like Europe and
North America, where there are hardly
any species, but some cryptograms to
be discovered, the remainder, or 1OO,-
600, representing exotic plants, more or
less tropical and southern, we may
double the latter for new species, giving
100000 for these less-known regions,
and altogether 100000 for the whole
globe, with the exception of countries
still quite unknown botanically. Add
ing only 10000 for the latter, we reach
a minimum sum of 100000 species of
plants.
MOST people remember the terrible
railway accident in which Dickens him
self and his proof-sheets escaped, while
SO many victims persisted. In the train
there was a gentleman and lady just
landed in England after their return
from India. The lady said to her hus-
band: 81 see the great wave rolling on;
it is close to us, aud then the crash
came, and she was corpse The hus-
band was unhurt, and, at a later time,
explained his wife's strange words. Ever
since they set sail from India she had
been haunted in sleep by the dream Of
the vast silvery wave, and always as it
was about to break on her she had
wakened in terror. This was the phe-
nomenon which she recognized immedi-
ately before the accident which caused
her DEATH