The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-09-28
FACTS FOR TIE CURIOUS.


TaE long Arctic might 81 of AS dny8'
duration. What gloomy idea
. THE last census ia this country gave
as relative numbers 963 women 10 every
1000 men.
A HEALTHY man requires about "a pint
Of air at a breath. He breaihcs about
Loo times an hour and requires about
hfiy-seven hoglhcads of AIR every twou-
ty-four hours.
ONE Of the modes 81 puuishment In
China Is 90 compel "a criminal 20 die ul
sleeplessnegs, by keeping him awake "a
week, night and day. Ten days Is sure
to prove fatal aud Is terrible agony for
the victim.
THE stages and thcni1H n The Grcekn
and Romans were 80 immense that the
actors, 10 be heard, were Obliged 90 have
recourse 10 metallic masks, coutrivcd
with great mouths, % augment tao natu-
raj sound Of the voice.
il a train of cars should start to-day
and travel toward the sun No the rate 81
sixty miles an hour, and tweniy-f0ur
hours a day, and $50 days IN q year, Dc
would take moro than 10 years to reach
the sun. And the sun il our ncxt-duoT
neighbor and our SOLAR system o. %
little fake Of light on The hJrdcra Of In
Unity.
Is the manufacture Of altar of roses at
Gharap0re, Hmdoosian, tho petals &C
the flowers arc put into clay Blill, with
iyiCe their weight 81 water, aud The
produce exposed 30 tLC irlsh nir i0r o.
night In open vessels. The altar j.
skinned from the exposed pans, and
sells at E1O tho rupee weight, 10 mako
which 20, 900 roses are required. 10 iB
frequently adulteutcd with sandal wool
oil.
Is the crypt Of the Capurin Church.
I Vienna arc buried the dead 20 tha house
/ OF Hap8burg There are moro than
I eighty sarcophagi, among thCm thoz1
/ OF tine Emperor Matthias Cgrymus, Who
| died two years before the discovery 20
/ America Macmillan, Emperor a Mex
leo Napoleon IL, and Joseph 4, who.0
/ coffin is made Of solid silver Hero uiao
/ are the remains 81 Francis l. v.hU1
/ wife, tho heroic Maria Theresa, & #s'l
! tO have visited lis tomb daily for tliI
| teen years, until she died and wl.B laid
beside him. As q Vrcclutun against
premature resurrection tho hearts aud
| mtostinC8 of the royal coplc8 arc 90.
/ moved and buried far away from the
/ Capucin Church.
Tine Mound Builders were u race ul
/ people very different In their habits aud
/ modes Of life from the Indiana who Ug-
cupied an tho country 90 The time oi tho
advent al tho whites. Thoy are now Ie.
garded as q distinct fnd extinct ratl.
OF their history very little iG known. exc
cent what can be gathered from the
| mounds and walls which they -huilt
most Of these ore madoof earth or gravel
| They are usually found gv0rgruWn ly
| living a.d decayiug trees. from which
/ we have tie proof that thcy have been
abandoned at least 900 years. WO
have proof also that tue Mound Builders
worked the copper mines Of Lake Su-
periOr, lead mines near Lexington, Ky,
and oil wells IN Canada and ponusyl.
vania. The remains Of the Mound
/ Builders are spread over a vast extent IT
/ country They are found in the sources
o. the Allegheny ina tue western parts
4 tho State Of New York, and iu nearly
! N II the Western States iucltduk
Michigan and Iowa Thry limo The
hores Of the Gulf Of Mexico from Texas
o Florida, whence they extend through
Alabama and Georgia into south Caro-
ina. From all the facts known little
more can be said than this: That the
valley of the Mississippi and Atlantic
cast were once densoly populated by
sedentnry, .g4. cultural aud partially
civilized race, quito different nom tho
modern Indians, though possibly tho
progenitors of some Of the Indian tribes
that aftor many centuries Of occupation;
they disappeared from our country "a
least 900, perhaps many Thousands, ~
years before the advent Of the Euro
peats.