The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1881-09-23
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

TUE average height of man from So
to 40 years old Is given at 5.52 feet; of
woman OF the same age, 5.1S.
A MAN breathes about eighteen times
a minute, and uses 5000 cubic feet, or
about 375 hogsheads of air per hour.
THERE are more than 500 separate
muscles IN the human body, and an
equal number of nerves and blood
vessels.
EACH perspiratory duct is one-fourfh
of an inch in length, which will make
the aggregate length of the whole about
nine miles.
THE water on the outside OF goblet
of cold water is produced by the air
coming in contact with the glass and
condensing, leaving the moisture it con-
talned upon the surface of the glass.
IT is said that sea-urchins are SO tena-
cioRs Of hsSfissIt on opening on. e.
tlle1a Il Is otu<cvtzzzas.zl i,Ess.
to observe the several pa.1.l7 OF the
broken shell move off in different di-
rections.
IThas been ascertained thatout of 800
salmon eggs, in tho ordinary course of
nature, only one produces a mature sal
mon. Ii all the eggs laid were to pro-
duce salmon, the ocean IN half century
would be a moving mass of salmon.
THE analeps, a viviparous fish of the
rivers of Eastern Asia, has singular
kind Of eye The ball of each eye is
divided horizontally into two hemis-
pheres by a membranous band, and each
half is perfect organ of vision; the two
upper halves are long-sighted, and the
two lower halves near-slghted.
TAKING .000 well-to-do persons and
another LOCO of poor persons, after five
years there remained alive of the pros
porous 943, of the poor only 655; after
30 years there remained of the prosper
ous 557, of the poor 2S3 at 20 years of
age there remained 235 of the pros
porous, and OF the poor 90. The aver
erage length of life among the well-to-
do was 80 years, and among the poor 81
years.
ONE of the greatest wonders of Egypt,
the wonderland, was the Labyrinth, an
immense mass of buildings, mentioned
by Herodotus as the palaces built for
the twelve Kings. This great work con-
tanned 5000 chambers, half above and
half below the ground, beside immense
halls, courts, corridors, gardens, etc.
The roofs were wholly of stone, and the
walls covered with sculpture. This
mass of buildings covered something
like forty acres of ground.
THE lake that has the highest eleva-
ton of any in the world Is Green lake,
il Colorado. Its surface is 10, 252 feet
above the level OF the sea. Pine forests
surround it, and eternal SHOWS deck the
/ neighboring mountain tops. One Of
these, Gray's peak, has an altitude of
/ 14,341 feet. The water of Green lake is
clear IS scrystal, and large rock masses and
petrifed forest are distinctly visible at
the bottom. The branches of the trees
are Of dazzling whiteness, as though cut
in marble. Salmon and trout swim
among them. In places the lake is 200
feet deep.
- BxRosss wrote fs The Corsair'' in ten
days, at the rate of 200 lines day
Lope de Vega wrote 300 dramas in l00
days; Voltaire composed "Zaire" IN
three weeks and g Olympic" in six days;
Dryden wrote his code 70 st. Cecilia
at one sitting, and Mrs. Browning s
"The Lady Geraldine's Courtship y
was the work of twelve hours. Shak-
speare, Dickens, Wordsworth and
Moore, on the other hand, were slow
workers. Hepworth Dixon rewrote his
Two Queens" eight times, and King
lakes g Eothen" was rewritten five OF
! six times