Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-08
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

1HE average uclSSub VI b uaA AOAA W
to 40 years old is given at 5.52 feet; OF
o woman of the same age, DIS.
A MAN breathes about eighteen times
minute, and uses 5000 cubic feet, or
about 375 hogsheads of air per hour.
THERE are more than 500 separate
muscles in the human body, and an
equal number of nerves and blood
vessels.
EACH respiratory 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 a goblet
Of cold water is produced by the air
coming in contact with the glass and
condensing, leaving the moisture it con-
tanned upon the surface OF the glass.
1T is said that sea-urchins are so tena-
cious of life that on opening one of
them it is no uncommon circumstance
to observe the several parts Of the
broken shell move off in differen. d.
rections.
IThasbeen ascertained thatout Of l, 500
salmon eggs, in tho ordinary course Of
nature, only one produces a mature sal
mon. Ii all the eggs laid were to pro-
duce salmon, the ocean IN half century
would be a moving mass of salmon.
The analeps, viviparous fish OF the
rivers of Eastern Asia, has e singular
kind Of eye. The ball Of each eye is
divided horizontally into two hemis-
pheres by membranous band, and each
half is perfect organ OF vision; the two
upper halves are leng-sighted, and the
two lower halves near-sighted.
TAKING 1000 well-to-do persons and
another !, 900 Of poor persons, after five
years there remained alive of the pros
porous 943, of the poor only 655; after
so years there remained of the prosper
GUS 557, OF the poor 285; at 70 years OF
age there remained 235 of the pros
porous, and of the poor 65. The aver
eragalength of life among the well-to-
do was so years, and among the poor 50
years.
One Of the greatest wonders Of Egypt,
the wonderland, was the Labyrinth, an
immense mass Of buildings, mentioned
by Herodotus as the palaces built for
the twelve Kings. This great work con-
tanned 5000 chambers, half above and
half below the ground, beside immense
halls, courts, corridors, gardens, etc.
The roofs were wholly Of stone, and the
walls covered with sculpture. This
mass of buildings covered something
like forty acres Of ground.
The lake that has the highest eleva.
ton of any in the world is Green lake,
in Colorado. It's surface is 10, 252 feet
above the level OF the sea. Pine forests
surround it, and eternal SHOWS deck the
neighboring mountain tops. One o.
these, Gray's peak, has an altitude Of
1881 feet. The water Of Green Lake is
clear ascrystal, andlarge rock masses an6
a petrifed forest are distinctly visible al
the bottom. The branches Of the trees
are of dazzling whiteness, as though cui
in marble. Salmon and trout swim
among them. In places the lake is 20(
ieet deep.
BYRON wrote "The Corsair" in tel
DAYS. at the rate of 200 lines day
Lope de Vega wrote 800 dramas in 1O(
days; Voltaire composed "Zaire'' il
three weeks and "Olympie" in sig days
Dryden wrote his code to st. Cecilia
at one sitting, and Mrs Browning
1.-THE Lady Geraldine's Courtship
was the work Of twelve hours. Shak
speare, Dickens, Wordsworth ant
Moore, on the other hand, were SLOW
workers. Hepworth Dixon rewrote hi
"Two Queens" eight times, and King
lakes 'Eothen" was rewritten five o.
six times.