The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-02-22
SELECTED mIscELIAxY.

Four million two hundred thousand
TONS OF hot water, averaging 1S5 . Fab
renheft, are annually pumped from the
Comstock mines. To heat this mass Of
water by artificial means would REQUIRE
q consumption Of oyer $4,000 tons of
coal a year.. The water from some Of
the deepest shafts, 5000 feet, has o
temperature of 157 deg. Fahrenheit
Mummies were certainly made in
Egypt some 1000 years before the
Christian era began. The body of the
patriarch Jacob Che died B. 6. 1882
was embalmed and deposited in the
cave of the field of Machpelah, and his
son Joseph, who died before Christ
1855, was embalmed in Egypt, by his
own desire, and his descendants re-
moved his remains, and, during the
Exodus, buried them in Shechem.
The ''Parisian'' tells of a woman who
found out a way to prevent wrinkles.
She squeezed out the juice from tho
bulbs of several white lilies until she
had obtained about seventy grammes
OF liquid, to which she added an equal
quantity of the best honey, and thirty
five grammes of pure white melted wax
These substances, being well mixed,
formed a pomade, with which she deli
cately rubbed her face night and mora-
Ing.
Mile. Hubertine Auciert, the cello
brated French advocate Of woman's
rights, is described as a blue-eyed bru-
nette of distinguished appearance and
delicate features. Her age is about %.
She is the daughter of q rich landholder,
and was educated in a convent. She is
moi a brilliant orator, but earnest, sin
cere and energetic. She possesses .
handsome p%atrimony, and lives on her
income.
The statue of Jeanne dare, at Com
piegne, the town where she was taken
prisoner by the English, is equestrian.
and represents Jeanne holding a stand.
ard in one hand and pointing to the
enemy with the other. The sculptor il
NJ. Leroux. The government cast the
work in bronze and presented it to the
town of Compiegne, which has had Il
erected in front of the belfry, almost 90
the spot where s'Jehanne'' was taken
prisoner by the Picardy archer who was
in the service of the English.
The estate of William Birks Rhodes.
called the Hounslow miser, who died in
1873, has lately been wound up. 1t ro-
allied the sum of f78, 600 from invest
ments, chiefly in gas shares, and was
bequeathed in equal parts to the Life
boat institution and the Royal hospital.
Gray's-Inn road. The sale Of the effects
in the residence of the deceased realized
f5 U.s., and the sum of f100 has been
received by each of the five next-of-kin
from the above named institutions in
full of all demands.
A ave in eastern Tennessee is two
miles in length, and has openings at
both ends. The owners of tho ground
around each entrance charged for adj
mission, and acted as guides for visit
ors. Their rivalry led to serious fights
in the cave, for each held the other to
be q trespasser. Then one of the con-
testants hit upon a novel and effective
means Of running the others business.
He sunk a shaft SO as to admit q large
stream into the ave at about the cen
tire, and, as there was an incline in .
favorite direction, the water poured out
at the enemy's portal, while his own
was unobstructed. The matter is to DO
made the subject of a lawsuit.
Some Of the most eminent scientific
men now accept the view taken by Ad-
hemar, namely, that continents have
not been depressed, but overlooked by
the ocean. Owing to the procession Of
the equinoxes, the mass of water is
transferred from one hemisphere to tho
other once in 10. 800 years, and the sun
remains eight days longer in one hem
isphere than in the other. At the pres
ent time the winters of the Southern
pole are eight days longer than with us;
tho ice continent has consequently
formed there, and the mass Of the ocean
is to be found in tho Southern hemis-
phcrc, and tho ice covers o space upon
and around the South pole more than
twice the area of all Europe. The ex-
tromo Of cold at the Antarctic pole was
reached about 600 years ago, since
which time the climate has been be-
coming milder. while that north Of the
equator has been growing colder