Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-05-06
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

THE average height of man from 30 to 40 years old is given at 5.52 feet; of woman of the same age, 5.16.
 A MAN breathes about eighteen times a minute, and uses 5000 cubic feet, or about 375 hogsheads of air per hour.
 THERE are more than 800 separate muscles in the human body, and an equal number of nerves and blood vessels.
 EACH perspiratory duct is one-fourth of an inch in length, which will make the aggregate length of the whole about nine miles.
 THE water on the outside of goblet of cold water is produced by the air coming in contact with the glass and condensing, leaving the moisture it con- tained upon the surface of the glass. IT is said that sea-urchins are so tena- cious of life that on opening one of them 1t is no uncommon circumstance to observe the several parts of the broken shell move of in different di- rections.
 IThas been ascertained that out of l. ,50A salmon eggs, in tao ordinary course of uatUre, on y one produces mature sal mon. If all the eggs laid were to pro luce salmon, the ocean in half a century would be 8 moving mass of salmon. THE analeps, viviparous fish of the rivers of Eastern Asia, has singular 1ind Of eye. The ball of each eye is iivided horizontally into two hemis- l pheres by a membranous band, and each nalf is a perfect organ of vision; the tive upper halves are long-sighted, and the ewo lower halves near-sighted.
 TAKING 1 ,000 well-to-do persons ana another 1,000 of poor persons, after five 9ears there remained alive of the pros porous 943, of the poor only 655; aftel 50 years there remained of the prosper ,us 557, of the poor 283; at 70 years o age there remained 235 of the pros porous, and of the poor 65. The aver craze length of life among the well-to lo was 50 years, and among the poor 3: years.
 1 ONE of the greatest wonders of Egypt the wonderland, was the Labyrinth, al immense mass of buildings, mentioned by Herodotus as the palaces built fo he twelve Kings. This great work con
 aimed 5000 chambers, half above ant
 .alf below the ground, beside immenst
 .aus, courts, corridors, gardens, etc rhe roofs were wholly of stone, and tn walls covered with sculpture. Thi mass of buildings covered somethin ike forty acres of ground.
 THE lake that has the highest eleva tion of any in the world is Green lake in Colorado. Its surface is 10, 252 fee
 ,bove the level of the sea. Pine forest
 surround 1t, and eternal snows deck tn leighboring mountain tops. One ( these, Gray's peak, has an altitude (
 I4,341 feet. The water of Green lake
 clear as crystal, and large rock masses an
 petrifed forest are distinctly visible
 tue bottom. The branches of the tree
 Ire of dazzling whiteness, as though cr in marble. Salmon and trout swil .mong them. In places the lake is % ;eet deep.
 BYRON wrote "The Corsair" in te lays, at the rate of 200 lines day i-ope de Vega wrote 300 dramas in IL jays; Voltaire composed "Zaire' hree weeks and Olympic" in six day Dryden wrote his "Ode to St. Cecells
 tt one sitting, and Mrs Browning | ''The Lady Geraldine's Courtship
 vas the work of twelve hours. Shal peare, Dickens, Wordsworth al
 Moore, on the other hand, were slo
 vorkers. HepworLh Dixon rewrote h , Two Queens" eight times, and Kin;
 ake's Eothen" was rewritten five f six times.