Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-11-09
The Great Pyramid of Jeezeh.

The great pyramid of Jcczeh in Esyp,
was the largest of the seven wonders of tku,
anceint world and was accounted tho most
astonishing. So far as VIC have informa-.
ton it was tho first pyramid built and IL
the only one which has held the attention.
OF all mankind in oil ages. The great
pyramid gives perfect scale for ther-
mometer far surprising in fitness for human
uses anything now possessed by men. This
scale places zero at trccziug point and
makes boiling point 250 degrees. And
now como out certain remarkable traits.
Just one-tiEth of the way from zero to boil
ing point is fifty degrees, which, as the
continuation Of the five with the ten, is tho
most perfect decimal, and which plumber
the building proc'aims with the greatest
emphasis Now this fifty degrees lust
corresponds to sixty-cight degrees Fahrcn-
heit, which is the "mcan temperature of aIf
lands Inhabited by man" and is "that tenn
pcrature most suitable" for the perfect
health of man on the globe. Then ru-
tiply the 250 degrees by four, for the four
SIDES OF the base of the pyramid, and VIC
come to 900 degrees, "that most notabl,
and dividing line of heat, where it causes
bodies TO bogin to give out light" and
which has been called s'lron Bright Red in
the Dark Multiply this agaia by Gyc for
the sc sides or fsc angles of the building
and we come to 5000 degrees, the probable
melting point of platinum. the most dense
and refractory Of all metals"
The extraordinary harmony of this deci-
NAL scale with the material facts in nature
places it beyond al comparison above cvery
other scale known to man But it has
another strong excellence. Fahrenheit,
the most finely graded scale now in use, has
only $50 degrees between freezing point
and boiling point, while the Great Pyramid
scale has seventy degrees more. Thus
Sory much finer eradlioas Of heat and ctlI
can be read in even degrees from this scale
than from that of Fahrenheit; and as fr
Cen,igradc and Reaumur, they arc too fur
away to be mentioned Now this focr
gradation is of great practical valuo to
chemists, observers of The weather, and,
indeed, oil who have OCCASION to use n
thermometer. Hence, thermometer
marked with this scale is altogether supo
rlor Tor human uses to any other now offered
to men.
An official dspatch from Manila, Spant
November /, says that one hundred salors
were drowned during the recent typhoon.
The granite hills are not SO chanpclcss
and abiding as tho restless sea.
When honesty is sleeping lot the alarm
clock OF conscience wake up.
What renders the vanity Of Others un.,
bcnrablo to us is the wound it ipnicts on
ours.
knowledge will always prcdomiuatc over
ignorance, as man governs the other animals.
Man cannot dream himself into noble
character; he must achieve by diigcpt
effort
One thing obtained with difficulty is far
better than a hundred things procured with
ease.
No life can bo utterly miserable that is
heightened by the laughter and lovo OF one
little child.
There arc over G,000 echoars in tho
Sabbath schools associated with MIR. Spur
gcoo's Tabernacle, London a W
TIE Holsto,, 1icthoaist says the member
of the church who cannot find timo to read
q weekly religious paper will DO hard up
for time to say his prayers. va}q li
Moses Williams, who died 10 Boston d
few days ogo, leaving fortune Of S6,OO0,-
600, began life peddling milk in the streets
of that city.