The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-02-24

ing color, making it sell readily at high
est prices. u operates just as well on
all vegetable products as upon fruit.
turning out 9 product Of the very best
quality.
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
THEY eat monkey cutlets in Brazil.
OPIUM kills 5000, 900 Chinese every
year; 80 the missionaries say.
IT Is scarcely known that such is the
case, but whales and seals suckle their
young.
In the year 1900 February viii have
but twenty-eight days, although a leap
year. This phenomenon occurs once
only IN 200 years, and always in the odd
TIE Roman Emperor Maximinus was
upwards Of eight feet in height, and,
like Milo Of Crotona, could squeeze to
powder the hardest stone with his
fingers, and break the leg Of horse
with kick.
WHILE prisoner in Germany, Rich
ard I received an invitation to boxing
match with the son of his jailer. BE
received the first blow, which made
him stagger, but, recovering, with q
blow Of his fist he killed his antagonist
on the spot
The spoken language of China SO diff
fers IN every separate province that peo-
pie living a hundred miles apart can no
more understand each other than a Nor
wegian can understand Hottentot. The
Mandarin or Court language is more
common than any other dialect, and is
the official tongue Of the empire.
The average of heat and cold varies
but little from year to year. The aver
age of the highest daily record in 1878
was GIL, and in 1879 was 58a. which
shows an extreme of the change within
five years. The average Of the lowest
daily record for the year 1879 was All,
and for 1873 464, representing the ex-
tremes on that side.
WHEN we study the construction of
our most important instruments we dis
cover to our astonisbment that the latter
are copies of some parts of our BODY,
and simply q further completion Of
them. In the first stone hammer man
has unknowingly initiated his forearm
with closed fist !; in the shovel and spoon
we see the forearm and followed hand !;
IN the saw we find a reproduction of O
row OF teeth tongs represent the clos
ing together Of thumb and fingers in
the hook is bent finger reproduced {;
the pencil is simply prolongation OF
the foretinger; so we see in all instru-
ments, from the simplest to the most
complicated, only an improvement and
completion of the human organs and
thus we find that all tie intentional
thoughts of men are directed toward the
same aim as that toward which organic
development tends.
PRoF. TAFT, of Edinburgh, thus illus
trates the gigantic scale upon which ma
ture performs some of her most ordinary
operations Suppose a mere tenth Of
an inch Of rain to fall from the lowest
mile of the atmosphere. An inch of rain
is five pounds of water to the square
foot, and gives out on being condensed
from vapor, approximately, 5000 units
OF heat, on the centrigrade SCALE The
mass Of the mile-high column of air, q
square foot in section, is about $50 pounds,
and its specific heat about quarter that
of .Watax Thus its temperature
Throughout would be raised by about
33 degrees centigrade, or 60 degrees
Fahrenheit. For one-tenth of an inch
of rain, therefore, we should have a
rise Of temperature of the lowest mile
of the atmosphere amounting to 80
degrees centigrade- quite enough to
produce q very powerful ascend
ing current. As the air ascends and
expands it cools, and more vapor is
precipitated, so that the ascending cur
rent is further accelerated. The heat
developed over one square foot of the
earth's surface under these conditions is
equivalent to work at the rate of horse
power for twelve minutes. Over square
mile this would be 10000, 900 horse
power for half an hour. A fall of one
tenth of an inch of rain over the whole
of Great Britain gives heat equivalent to
the work of 100000 of horses for half
an hour. Numbers like these are be-
yond our comprehension. They enable
us, however, to see the full explanation
OF the energy of the most violent hurri-
canes in the simplest physical concomi-
tants of che mere condensation Of aque-
GUS vapor.