The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-03-31
BITS OF INFORMATION.

THE exterior surface of the atmos-
nhere is curved like that of the sea, and
the whole atmosphere revolves with the
earth.
VoLrAIRE was the first writer in France
TO recommen3sthe adoption of inocula-
ton for smallpox to the people of his
country.
A RAGE for comfits existed in the reign
Of Henry III. When the body of Due de
Geuse was found he had box of comfits
in his hand.
In 1851 the dress of a French dandy
consisted ola black velvet coat, green and
silver waistcoat, yellow velvet brooches
and blue stockings.
SIR THOMAS PARHYUs, who died In
1741 IN England, made a collection of
stone collins, and was, at the time of
his decease, in possession of seve raj
score.
The ''nine worthless" spoken of in hist
DRY were three Gentiles-Hector, son of
Priam, Alexander the Great and Julius
Cesar three Jews-Joshua, Conqueror
of Canaan, David, King of Israel, and
Judas Maccabeus and three Christians
Arthur, King of Britain, Charlemagne
ana NrOtIIeN OF DOulIOu.
"CIrY OF MAGNIFICENT DISTANCES d"
is a popular name given to the city of
Washington, the capital of the United
States, from the fact of its being laid
out on a very large scale. The entire
site is tIaversed by two sets of streets,
from seventy to 100 feet wide, at right
angles to one another, the whole again
intersected obliquely by fifteen avenues
from $50 to 100 feet wide.
NICHOLAS J. ROOSEVELT was the first
70 take a steamboat down the great
rivers. His boat was built at Pittsburgh,
in the year 1911, under an arrangement
with Fulton and Livingston, from Full
tons plans. 1t was called the "New
Orleans" was about 300 tons burden,
and was propelled by a stern wheel, as
sisted, when the wind was favorable, by
sails carried on two masts. The hull
was 1873 feet long, 30 feet beam, and the
cost of the whole, including engines,
was about $40, 600. The builder, with
his family, an engineer, a pilot, and six
"deck hands, " left Pittsburgh in October,
1911, reaching Louisville III about seven
ty hours (steaming about ten miles an
hour, and New Orleans ID fourteen
days, steaming from Natchez.
Dew is produced by the condensation
of watery vapor from the atmosphere.
Its deposition is, however, unaccom-
panied by the appearance of any visible
mist. Such mist appears when the con
densation takes place within the body
of the air itself, and is then called fog D
in the lower regions of the atmosphere,
and cloud IN the higher. Dew oc-
ours only at the surface of contact with
solids, the air above remaining clear.
The deposit of dew is caused by the
cooling of the bodies believed, and this
takes place in consequence of the Iadia-
ton of heat into open space, without
an equivalent return. 1t is commonly
formed at night upon the leaves of gras:
or trees and other objects, especially
when the sky is clear, so as to allow
sufficient radiation of heat from them to
cool their surfaces, and consequently the
layer OF air next them, below the point
OF saturation, of dew-point. The moist
ure which collects upon the surface o
a cold body, rs pitcher OF water
standing in a warm room, and tina
which collects on a window pane wheI
it is breathed upon, are strictly exam
pies of the deposition of dew.