Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-04-01
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

DR. HERE, foreign electrician, has shown that it is possible to telephone. 600 miles.
 THE huge hunting spiders of South America and Ceylon have legs which cover foot of ground.
 NEARLY 5000 different species of birds have been exhibited and.classi6ed, and probably thousands more exist.
 TAKING that of beef at 10O the total solids or actual nptritive material in different fishes vary from sixty-two to 163.
 EXPERIMENT has proved that sound travels faster in water than in air-in water at the rate of 4,07S feet per sec ond.
 THE acorn-barnaole cements it's fore- head to rock and remains thus all its fife with it's head downward and it's heels i'll tie air, kicking it's food into its month.
 AGAssIz once had an opportunity to carefully measure large ielly-fsh as it lty at the surface of the sea- Its disk was seven feet in diameter and its ten tacles l12 feet long.
 THE house spiders web will last for many weeks, while the garden-spiler must spin afresh or mend her web every t@eDty-four hours. The former some- ines lives from six to eight years.
 IT is not generally known that there such a thing as false eyebrows, yet | uch Is the case They are made per ectly by the use of ''hair lace " and would never be suspected as counter 1 felt.
 DR. NORDENsKJoLD, the Arctic travel CT, has discovered that iron IS always to be found in snow, from which it may be extracted by magnet. It is supposed that these particles of iron are of mete- oric origin.
 THE bones of the Archae plery, rare fossil found Ill Germany, are very much like those of lizard, and its hind legs are like those of bird, and 1t was when alive clothed with feathers. This was really most wonderful link between the birds and the reptiles There can be no doubt regarding the reptilian aiiinities of birds.
 MACHINES in watch facto will cut screws with 5S9 threads to the inrh- the finest used in watch has 25O. These threads are invisible to the naked to make pound. A pound of them ls worth six pounds of pure gold. Lay one upon piece of white pa l.er and 1t looks like tiny steel filing.
 THE name of the Deity Is spelled witt four letters ill almost every known Ian guage It Is in Latin, Deus; Greek z aus Hebrew, Adon; Syrian, Adad Arabian, Ala; Persian, Syra; Ia ta ian, 1dga; Egyptian, Aumn or Zeut
 East Indian, Esgi, or Zeni Japanese Zain Turkish, Addi; Scandinavian } Odin; Wa lachian, Zene Croatian, b. g.
 Dalmatian, Rogt; Tyrrhenian, Eher
 Etuurian, Chur Morgarian, Desc; Swed sh, Cold; Irish, Dich German, Gott French, Dieu; Spanish, Dios; Peru vlan, Lian.
 THE speed at which some wings arc driven Is enormous. It is .occasionall, 50 great as to cause the pinions to emf
 drumming sound. To this source tn, buzz of the fly, the drone of the bee an, the boom of the beetle are to bereferred : When grouse, partridge or pheasan suddenly springs into the air, tee soun,
 pIOOtlCSh DJ bIS Nu1IDS Ol us HlIS greatly resembles that produced by tn contact of steel with the rapidly y-revolv ng stone of the knife gr -nder. It ha been estimated that the common fl, moves its wings $50 times rer second |. e., 19, 800 times per minute, and tha the butterfly moves its wings nine time per second, or $40 times per minute. ! THE explorations made of deep-se bottoms show novel constituent c such bottoms to be pumice dust, aris : mg, it is presumed, from submarin volcanic action; SD general is 1t, i . fact, that 1t rarely fails to appear whe
 carefully looked for in any of the dredg
 ingS, and it is believed to be the chic :, 'rigin of the deep-sea clays. An ad6i | gional element, which appears to hay 1 been detected at great depths, is "cos j mic dust" or dust formed from aero
 ites. Another interesting point i
 these explorations is the finding of man ganese peroxide in nodules inclosing or ganic remains-sharks' teeth and piece bone.