The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-22
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

The average height of man from 30
to 40 years old is given at 5.52 feet; Of
q woman of the same age, 5. 1S. ~
A MAN breathes about eighteen times
minute, and uses 8, 900 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 dnct is ione-fourth
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-
tanned upon the surface of the glass.
1T is said that sea-urchins are SO tena-
cious of life that on opening one of
them it is no uncommon circumstance
to observe the several parts of the
broken shell move off In q different di-
rections.
IThas been ascertained thatout of ], 500
salmon eggs, in tho ordinary course Of
nature, only one produces mature sal
mon. If all the eggs laid were to pro-
dnce salmon, the ocean IN half century
would be a moving mass of salmon.
TIE 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 membranous band, and each
half is perfect organ of vision; the two
upper halves are long-sighted, and the
two lower halves near-sighted.
TAKING 1000 well-to-do persons and
years there remained alive of the pros
porous 943, of the poor only 655 ), after
80 years there remained of the prosper
ous 557, of the poor 283; at 20 years of
age there remained 235 of the pros
erage length of life among the well-to-
do was 80 years, and among the poor 80
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.
| Lie IOOlb W0I0 WHOLLY VI SlOu6, huQ bilt
walls covered with sculpture. This
mass of buildings covered something
like forty acres of ground.
! TIE lake that has the highest eleva-
ton of any in the world is Green lake,
in 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
14,3l feet. The water of Green lake is
clear ascrystal, andlarge rock masses and
a petrifed forest are distinctly visible al
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 20t
feet deep. s4W
BYRON wrote The Corsair" in ter
days, at the rate of 200 lines day
Lope de Vega wrote 300 dramas in 10(
DAYS; Voltaire composed |" Zaire"n In
three weeks and "Olympie"in six days
DRYDEN wrote his code to ST. Cecilia
at one sitting, and Mrs. Browning'l
'.The Lady Geraldine's Courtship
was the work of twelve hours. Shak
speare, Dickens, Wordsworth ani
Moore, on the other hand, were SLOW
workers. Hepworih Dixon rewrote hi
"Two Queens" eight times, and King
lakes " Eothen" was rewritten. five O
| sir times