The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-10-07
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.


WHEN reduced to extremity by hum
ger, the wolf will swallow mud in order
to allay the uneasy sensations of his
stomach
TuERE is species Of crow IN Flor
ida that gives vent to a series 81 haw
haws in exact imitation Of the human
voice
A Wild elephant may generally be
tanned, 50 as % be conducted from
place to plncc unfettered, ii about alN
months.
I'm tile Guildford Endowed Grammar
School, III England, where the school-
master is held responsible for every vol
ume, which, il lost, be is bound 10 Il.
place, one master, to decrease his risk,
carefully packed all the books under tile
floor, where they proved q banquet for
the rats and mice.
THE curious library of old Samuel
Pepys, the well-known diarist, is i'm
prisoned in its original bookcases III
Magdnlene College, Cambridge. No
one can gain admission to it except III
the company 81 two Fellows Of the col
lege, and, il a single book is lost, the
whole collection goes to neighboring
college.
THE Norwegian lemniu9 il M nnimal
about the size OF mouse. They live
under the stones III summer, under the
snow il winter, They hiss and bite.
About once in ten years they migrate IN
large armies. They mareh il i straight
line, They cross lakes and rivers,
They 90 straight through hay-staeEs
rather than 90 around. Nothing stops
them, not fires, cascades nor swamps.
ii man stnnds in their way they will
Jump at him as high as his knee. III
struck they will turn around and bark
and bite like dog. Foxes, lynxes, owls,
hawks and weasels will follow them and
destroy large numbers Of them, but il
does not check them They continue
their course until they reach the sea,
into which they plunge, as persistent
and progressive as ever until the waves
exterminate them.
The microscope shows a variation in
the thickness Of human hair from the
1-250th to the l-600th part Of an inch /;
but, Notwithstanding such fneness, it il
massive cable in comparison with
&
silk-worm is many times finer, being
/ from the II Tooth to the ~, 000th Of an
inch. This, however, is nothing to the
Blenderness Of the spiders thread, which
hns been found in some instances to be
4 no more than l-30, 000th Of an inch in
diameter. The fibers yielded by the
vegetable kingdom are also Of astonish-
ing minuteness. Thus, every fiber 81
flax ii found TO be composed Of bundle
Of other fibrils, which are about
1-2, 500th OF an inch in diameter. Simi
lar fibers obtained from the pineapple
plant have been ascertained to be nc
more than 1-5, 000th on even II, ,O00th o.
All inch in diameter.
In the British House Of Lords Lore
Brougham once mentioned two some
understandable facts showing the ne
cessity OF having safe place for til,
deposit of wills. The first case is one ii
which one Of his noble friends as heir
at-Iaw, lost, and another Of bis nobl,
friends, as devisee, gained, E30, 600 !
year. How the first lost it. and the las
gained it, was by will being found il
an old rusty box, in an old travelling
carriage, and which, therefore, nigh
have been very naturally lost by acci
dent OF destroyed by ignorance. Tn
second case was one, also, III whicl
some Of his noble friends we're con
cerned, and the sum in question was n
less than 9160, GOO This sum woul'
have been entirely lost for the purpose
for which it was intended if the inquire
relative to the existence Of will wit
respect TO it had been instituted in WIZ
ter Instead of in the summer The vii
was searched for everywhere, but coul
nowhere be found. until, at last, it wa
discovered in CRATE, and stuffed like
piece Of waste paper through the bars
II it had been winter instead OF summel
in all probability when the fire had bee
lighted it would have been destroyed.