Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-06-03
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

PROF. ScoTT says that wood-pecker never runs down tree-trunk.
 IN the growth of all animals, they pass from the simple to the complex. Tine young of the higher animals repre- sent the full growth of the higher ami mals.
 IT is said on the best authority that a toad frequented r.. steps before the hall-door of 8 e4Ajleman's house in Devonshire for upward of thirty-six years.
 TIE minute lines and furrows on per sons hands are likely to rl ceive far more usefnl attention than the observa- lion of the great lines by fortune-tellers. There IS reason to believe that the spiral 'yhoris on the thumb and fnger-points are peculiar to individuals and races, and may be Gs certainly used to define the etAnological class or positive iden- titication of the being possessing them as the measurements of the skull or the examination of photograph would be.
 ACCORDING to Humboldt, the oldest town in the world Is Yakutsk-5, ,000 in- habitRnts-ia Eastern Siberia. It is not only the oldest, but probably the coldest. The ground remains frozen to the depth of 800 feet, except in mid summer, when 1t thaws three feet at the surface. The mean temperature for the year is 12.7 deg. Farenheiht. For ten days in August the thermometer goes as high as S5 deg. From November to February the temperature remains be- tween 40 deg. to 68 deg. below zero. 1 fItA frpya1, fr,1. months in the year.
 FRIDAY, which has long been super stitiously regarded as day of ill omen, | has been an eventful one in American history. On Friday, Chris topher Co., lumbus sailed on his great voyage of discovery. On Friday, he, though un- known to himself, discovered the conti- nent of America. On Friday, Henry IT., of England, gave to John Cabot his commission, which led to the discov- cry of North America. On Friday, the Mayh flower, with the Pilgrims, made the harbor of Princetowu, and on the same day they signed that august compact, the fororunner of the present constitU- tiop. On Friday, George Washington was born. On Friday, Bunker Hill was | SOlLCI ctl4N AOA t4lNAl C%A tAItcN, LliO surrender of Saratoga was made; and on Friday, the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown occurred, the crowning glory of American arms. On Friday, Con- gross declared the colonies free and in- dependent Americans surely need not be afraid of Friday.
 Ir is only when we regard our globe as 8 member of the planetary system, and that system in turn as a unit among the systems, that We realize how infni- tesimal are it's concerns and how rela- lively insignificant it is. We may, for practical purposes. treat the orbit oi Neptune as the circumference of oul planetary system, aId state the diameter of 1t, therefore, as ahout 5,4S6, 000, ,00C miles. But If we could suppose all this .ast plane converted into solid disk, instead of being as now for the most part ampty space, and if to 1t were ther given, by some means or other, slight y luminous surfacN, 1t would appear tC n observer upon the very nearest fxet 4tar no more pretentious than nev shiiling giittering in tue sunshine would tppear 10 an observer at distance 0 DScr 100 yards. h other words, i would want fairly good eyes to discerl
 at all. We may safely say, then, tha ;he annual thermal loss of our own littl sphere, though sufficient to melt TIT GU 1ic miles of ice, would, even thougl
 multiplied by centuries of centuries, II lIore affect the temperature of spac tlan the striking of match would avai
 to moderate the climate of Siberia.