Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-03
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
Or grain Of silver VIII make a wire
400 feet long.
THERE are 10000 seeds of oats in g
pound, and $50, 400 seeds of white
clover
GREAT BRITAIN has 80, 750, 900 cotton
splndles, the United States about T.,
coo, 600.
IL perceiving the tints of scarlet, our
eyes are affected by undulations recur-
ring 4S2, 600, 900 times a second.
THE zoospores microscopic animals)
swarm about in the moisture on the sur
face Of a leaf or stem. Film though it
may be, 1t IS an ocean to such fish.
TIE amount of work man can do in
n day has been estimated to be equal to
a force which, if properly applied, would
False the weight OF his own body one
mile.
AsINGLE heteromita (monad) gives rise
to 1000 like itself in an hour, about
900, 600 in two hours, and to a number
greater than the generally-assumed
number Of human beings now living in
the world IN three hours.
TT is q popularity of the ostrich that
father and mother take it in turn to sit
on the eggs, and when the. ostrich takes
his female companions out for their
evening promenade in the desert, one Of
them always remains by the nest
TIE various tribes of ants 90 to war
with each other, plumber each other
systematically and have altogether a
great deal Of excitement in their way.
Some tribes of ants keep COWS, and
others slaves others have blind beetles
resident with them-blind bards, per-
haps, to sing to them.
Or the 1000, 600, 0OOacres of cuItivable
land in the United States, only eleven
and a half per centum are used. The
2,5S6, 46S, 500 bushels of wheat, corn,
oats, barley, rye, buckwheat and pota.
toes raised last year were produced on
los, OS3, 605 acres, and the cultivation is
IN most cases careless.
TEF statistics of water surface-lakes,
ponds, bays and rivers-in the several
States and Territories present the ex-
IRENE aridity of New Mexico and Ari-
iona, with only 100 and 100 square miles
of water, respectively, and the marked
contrary characteristics of Florida, with
4, 40; Minnesota, 4, $50; North Carolina,
500: Texas. $3.50; Louisiana. 3, 200
and Maine, 3, l45 miles of river, lake and
inlet area. The total water surface OF
the country is given at So, 600 square
miles, and the gross area, land and wa
ter, 1925, 900 square miles, inhabited
by Is persons and a fraction to each
mile.
NyE county, Nevada, us the largest
county in the United States, covering
n, coo square miles. San Bernardino,
California, with %, 900 square miles, is
the next largest. California has four
other counties, each of them as large as
Massachusetts,, three that are each
larger than Connecticut, and fifteen that
are each larger than Delaware. Sioux
county, Nebraska, contains 21,O7O |
square miles. Oregon, also, has several |
large counties-Grant, UmatiIla and !
Lake containing respectively 1880, |
Il $50 and II, 900 square miles. Presidio, |
with Il, 500 miles, is the largest county |
in Texas. The smallest county in the |
United States is New York, State of New |
York, and il has the largest population.
The largest of the Territories is Dakota,
with 147, 800 square miles, and the |
largest county III any of the Territories
is Custer comfy, Montana, with Sc, 500 |
square miles.
TIE causes Of disease in the various
trades were classified as follows by DR..
Arlidge in az address before the British
Medical Association: First, the evolution
of dust; second, the evolution of un-
wholesome vapors and gases; third ma
terlals OF an irritant or poisonous nature
acting through the system or only local
ly; fourth, overheated air, whether dry
or laden with moisture; fifth, compressed
air and rarefed air; sixth, external con-
ditions acting upon the organs Of special
sense; seventh, over-exertion OF particu-
lar parts of the body; eighth, mechanical
productive of bodily injury.
The most prolific cause Of disease, the
doctor said, was from the evolution OF
dust, its presence and action being par
noticeable IN all textile facto-
ries, in mining for coal or metallic ores,
In cutlery manufactures, in cutting ard
polishing stone and ivory, and in the
process of grinding flour.