The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-04-13
81 lq = = FlA April. IS. 1882.
FACTS roR THE CURrous.


y 4 seid that no rhymes exist in the
EngAsh Language for the words silver,
orange, month, kiln, bilge and gull.
II has been said that man il the only
animal that makes use OF tools, but the
statement has been controverted, OBJ
starvation having shown that other ami
pals do occasionally employ tools. This
b especially the case with monkeys,
which In confinement have been OBJ
served to use stones to crack nuts, and
sticks or leather straps to draw toward
He1n objects which lay beyond their
reach.
SHAKESPEARE uses more different words
than any other writer In the English
language. Writers ON the statistics of
words Inform rs that he uses about
5000 different words in his plays and
sonnets, while there is no other writer
who uses so many as 10000. Some few
writer's use as many as Il, Geo words, but
the great majority of writer's do not en-
plOy more than 5000. In conversation
but from 5000 TO 5000 different words
are used.
III the city Of Dublin there are "a, 600
Families, averaging five usmbers, who
ere each living in o single room. The
death-rate OF fhe city is 40 per l,OOO,
which fs equivalent to 90 per 1000 in
the tenement-house districts. These
two facts, the enormous number of fami-
lies living in single room, and the high
death-rata, prove that the horrors and
dangers Of Irish distress have not been
exaggerated. These families of FIVE,
shut mp each in single room, depend
tnr support upon wages of from 10 to II
English shillings week.
TEE ease with which the Esuui-
maux OF st. Lawrence island can see to
. great distance, and the marvellous way
IN which news is transmit ed from the
most distant points, is really wonderful.
A native will describe the dress and ap
pearance Of man who is approaching at
q great distance. A white man, even q
sharp-eyed sailor, can just make out
that It is human figure. So If anything
occurs on the coast, If piece of wreck
comes ashore, the full particulars will
be known In short time LOCO miles
from the place where it occurred. It is
q wonderful system Of telegraphy-one
native rushing off to pass the news to
another, and thus speeding intelligence
over hundreds Of miles in single day.
From the examination of book COM
piled 1000 years B. G. i. has been as
certained, what has long been supposed.
that Chaldea was the parent land of
astronomy; for it is found, from this
compilation and from other bricks, that
the Babylonians catalogued the stars,
and distinguished and named the con-
stellations. They observed the seventh
day as one of rest They invented the
sun-dial to mark the movements of the
heavenly bodies, the water-clock to
measure time, and they speak In this
work of the spots on the sun, fact they
could only hare known by the aid Of
telescopes, which it is supposed they
possessed, from observations that they
have noted down Of the rising of Venus
and the fact that Layard found crystal
lens in the ruins Of Nineveh. These
bricks" contain an account of the del
uge, substantially the same as the mar
rative in the Bible. They disclose that
houses and lands were then sold, leased
and mortgaged, that money was loaned
It interest, aud That the market garden
~, 70 use an American phrase "worked
q shares" thAt the farmer, when p2ew-
ing with his oxen, beguiled his labor
~ Unnksse fE MI l1p-les
~ efyilixation with the usages q
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