Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-16
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

RED and green are the colors which
the color blind are the least able to APP
preciate.
THE songs of the birds, as we'll as most
other sounds of musical birds, have as
their express object the charming Of fe-
male ears.
IT has been estimated that there are
only about 8. 400 disorders to which the
human frame is liable.
So MIcRosooPIoAnnY perfect is the
matchmaking machinery now In use
that screws are cut with nearly 600
threads to the inch-though the finest
used in the watch has $50. These
threads arc invisible TO the naked eye,
and it takes $4,000 OF the screws to
weigh pound, their value being six
pounds Of pure gold.
A TIGER in state of nature has been
known to spring up the precipitous side
Of hill from sixteen to twenty feet
high, showing marvellous agility.
RABBITS have been driven by hunger
to eat their ears. They accomplish the
feat by bending the ear down with the
paw until it reaches the mouth.
A REMARKABLE use is being made of
potatoes. The clean peeled tuber is
macerated In solution Of sulphuric
acid. The result is dried between sheets
of blotting paper, and then pressed. OF
this all manner Of small articles are
made, from combs to collars, and even
billiard balls, for which the hard, brill
iantfy-white material is well fitted.
In bread making, one of the products
Of decomposition by fermentation, be-
side carbonic acid, is alcohol; which,
during the process of baking, is dissi-
pated In the oven. The quantity thus
produced is equal to a quart Of proof
spirit for every 400 pounds Of bread.
A PIANO teacher in Philadelphia has
for years studied the anatomy of the
hand with view to discover why it is
80 much more difficult to raise the third
finger of the hand above the keys of the
piano than the other fingers. He thinks
If he cuts cord attached to that finger,
which is wanting In the others, the diff
Guilty will be removed, and he has in
| duced pupil to submit to the operation,
which will shortly be performed.
| Docs in q state Of nature never bark
| they whine or growl. The explosive
noise is only found among those which
have been domesticated.
THERE is. q bird In the London Zoo
! logical Garden called the hoYnbil
| whose keeper stands ten feet off an0
losses grapes at the bird SO rapidly thai
| nobody's eye can follow them through
the air, but the birds eye does, catching
every one IN It's bill at almost every CON
ceivable angle of haif-a dozen grapes
shot at him IN rapid succession, he viii
not miss more than one. In this coun
| try he could get q irst-class position II
the National Base Ball League.
M. PLATEAU has studied the phenom
ena Of the bursting Of bubbles. When ;
bubble bursts it disappears almostinstan
taneously, leaving behind it a multitude
of small liquid drops. The bubble be
gins to burst at one point, the film roll
ing away in circle around the opening
and its edge becoming rapidly enlarg
ing liquid ring. This ring draws itsel
together into segmental portions, which
ultimately become.sma spherules. At tn
same time the contraction of the rest o
the bubble causes rush of air through
the aperture, and blows off the sphe
rules into the air with a kind of small
explosion. The phenomena are hes
| observed by blowing bubble of glyc
| crime solution upon All. iron-wire ring
and then bursting it at the top b,
touching it with needle whose poin
| has been dipped in oil.