Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-01-20


goods to his old chestnut horse.
The number of air cells in the lungs
OF grown man are 500, 100000.
AT PRESENT more than 100000 lives
are insured in the United States alone.
A HEN will lay upwards of 40 eggs
per annum, and bear one or two broods.
The word toad expresses In several of
the languages of Europe its habit OF
swelling.
By law passed recently, a pencil
written note is just as valid as though
written in ink.
NEWFOUNDLAND dogs have been kept
by the city, in Paris, to save human life
In the Seine.
The food Of the Greenland whale is a
small crustaceous animal not so large as
a common shrimp.
MUTILATIoNs, especially of the first
phalanges of the left hand, are practised
by the Australians
SAvAGEs not only express satisfaction
by smiling, but by gestures derived from
the pleasure of eating.
The bridge of boats on which Xerxes
crossed the Hellespont was fastened by
cables made Of papyrus.
+ NEARLY as many reams of paper, IN
the United States, are made into collars
as are used to write upon.
THANKSGIVING blood from living ami,
NAL to an unhealthy one has been
practised for three hundred years.
THE equatorial telescope constructed
for the observatory at Vienna is the
largest refracting telescope yet made.
AN APE produces an exact octave Of
musical sound, ascending and descend
ing the scales by tones and half-tones.
FIVE thousand Of the Inhabitants of
Paris earn a livelihood by catching rats,
and selling their skins to the glove max
ers.
The ancient Greeks seem to have been
entirely unacquainted with the art of
covering earthenwage with vitreous
glaze.
In ITALY women mourn in white, and
men in brown. In Ethiopia gray is used,
and in Egypt yellowish-brown, like a
dead leaf.
WHEN the Nile was about to overflow.
warning heralds were sent through the
streets, bearing familiar symbols of the
river goddess
For the last decade the increase OF
whites in the twenty-five Northern States
was 26.8 per cent, in the sixteen South
/ ern States 32.9
/ A HEALTHY man Of average weight,
imbibes about eighty ounces of water,
! in liquid state or mixed with solid food,
every twenty four hours.
An EGYPTIAN monk was beatifed for
having lived to the age of eighty-fye
with no other food than raws herbs and
grass stepped in vinegar.
NEGRO soldiers standing at drill bring
the middle finger tips an inch or two
nearer the knee than white men can do,
and some touch the knee-pan.
! Musk sheep, found in the Arctic re-
! gions, are said to have whine somewhat
like the snorting of a walrus, entirely
unlike the bleating Of a sheep.
A wELL-BUILT smelling furnace for iron
will last, in constant heat, for from foui
to six years before it will be necessary
to stop it for purposes of repair.
THE Mound Builders occupied the en-.
tire country from Lake Superior on the
! HOLt1 10 tItt 0t4IA VI IhSA4cO on Une
south, and from the Alleghanies to the
! Sierras.
THERE are still in existence proof
sheets of an old Russian newspaper
which Peter the Great helped to edit,
with the Cars own corrections on the
margin.
The Latins called steel, choly6s, be
cause the first steel in repute amone
them came frsln Spain, where the rive
Chalybs was the best known for temper
ing it.
ACCORDING to the present mortality IL
England, forty per cent. of the deaths
occur among children under five years
of age, forty per cent between five ant
sixty five, and twenty between sixty five
and one hundred.