Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-04-08
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

Ar Cape Island, N. J., the sea has gained on the shore fully mile since ETC. The tides on the eastern shore of the State are observably growing higher
 DURING the reign of Napoleon I. book of birds for children was SUD- pressed because it contained the phrase The cock is rather the tyrant than the chieftain of the farm yard"
 EVERY shell fired by an army during siege operations costs, with the powder with which the mortar is charged, the sum of eight dollars-enough to support poor family for a fortnight,
 THE lead used in sounding from yes selusually weighs about fourteen pounds. but in deep-sea soundings a weight of not less than 150 pounds is frequently employed. Wire has been largely used for line, as 1t makes less friction ill sinking through the water. With hemp rope a sinker of 300 weight IS sometimes twenty minutes in reaching the bottom in 1900 fathoms of water, so great is the friction of the line
 THE oldest monument in the world is in the Ashmoiean Museum at Oxford. This is the Intel stone of tomb which formed the last resting place of an officer who lived in the time of King Sent, of the second dynasty, whose fate is fixed by M. Mariette more than 5000 years ago. The stone is covered with that del icate and finished sculpture which dis tinguished the early periods of Egyptian history, and was immeasurably superior to the stiff and conventional art of the latter ages of Egypt, which we are accus- toned to see in European museums.
 THE Japanese are remarkably exempt from deformed feet The reason of this is to be found in the shoes they wear. The wooden sandals worn in Japan have a separate compartment for the great toe, and make Q clanking noise on the streets. Straw slippers are also worn, and traveller setting out on 8 journey will strap supply of them on his back, that he may put on new pair when the old Is worn out. They cost but cent and half pair. They are rights and lcfts, and leave the foot free to the air. They are never worn in the house, being left outside the door; passing down Japanese street long rows of them are seen at the doors, old and new, large and small. It is sur pris.ng to see how rapidly the Japs step out of them, and pick them up again with their feet without stopping when leaving the house.
 As THE most valuable wealth country can possess is its healthy population, the tables of mortality are worth study ; and from these we find that on the first day of life seventy-eight boys die, to sixty-three girls. In the first week of life 168 boys die. to 153 girls. In Prussia the mortality among females is the greatest from 10 to 13 years of age i; and from the 25th to the 10th It Is greater than at other periods of life, and vet at all periods of life the census of females compares favorably with that of males. | years, there were eight mon to fifteen women who were alive at 101 years | three men to five women at 102 years two men to three women at 103 years ol age, and no man to one woman whC lived to 1G4. It Is observed that only one person in 1000 born lives beyond 94 years.
 FROM comparison of the results ot recent deep-sea soundings, it appears that the following are just generaliza tions: l. The water of the South Pacific is in it's whole mass cooler than that o the Atlantic. 2. The water of the Soutl | Pucific is, down to 1, 225 feet, somewhat warmer than that of the Atlantic, but below that depth cooler. B. The bottom temperatures are generally lower in tht Pacific than in the Atlantic at the same depths and in the same degree of lati
 tude; but nowhere in the Pacific art found such low bottom temperatures a. in the Antarctic portion of the SoutE Atlantic, where temperatures of -0t centigrade to -0.6 degrees have been measured. f In the western parts O
 the Pacific and the adjoining parts O
 the East India archipelago, the tenn
 perature of the water reaches it
 minimum at depths between l, ,7S7 anC
 9,937 feet, remaining the same iron
 this depth to the bottom. In the whol,
 of the Atlantic the temperature iron
 8,937 feet to the bottom gradually
 though slowly increases.