The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-02-09

A grain Of iron may be divided into
four million parts, aud gold may be
beaten 20 Gne that IL will take $780,
900 leaves TO make an inch In thickness.
Taking the enumeration Of the people
Of France In 1881 as basis, M. Cher
via shows that the increase since 1876
has been only twsnty per 1000, while
In England Il was l45, and In Germany
90 high as 674 per 1000.
About 90 per cent Of the human
body 10 water. Bread Is 40 per cent.
water meat. IS; Gsh, 81; eggs. 81 /;
potatoes, rs turniPs, 30; onions, ss /;
cabbage. 80 boiled rice, II bssts, SO /;
apples, Sc sgs, 25 oranges, so.
Il has boen observed that workers In
copper who absorb . considerable
amount Of dust from the metal, enjoy a
quite general Immunity from cholera,
typhoid fever, and like complaints,
while copper salts protect various mate
rails from parasites.
A ton Of London sewage contains
only three pounds Of solid matter, say
one pound Of organic aud twO pounds Of
mineral constituents, the former yiold.
ing less than three ounces Of Ammonia,
and tbs latter half an ounce Of phos-
phoris acid and II ounces potash.
Hence in Ton Of such town sewage
there is only about five ounces Of fcAtil-
izing matter.
A French scientist, explaining Why
fish eaten in! Holland are superior TO
those eaten in Frauce, says that the
Dutch fishermen kill their fsh as s6on
a. taken from the waser by making q
slight longitudinal ineision under the
tail with very sharp instrument The
French fishermen, on the contrary, al
lew their 6sh to die slowly, and this
slow death softens the tissnes aud rem
ders them more liable TO undergo
change.
Naturalists will DO interested in
learning that doe having horns, so
prominent and we'll developed as to
give it all the appearance Of buck at
distance, has just been killed in wOsd
near AAchen, or AixlA Cnapells, In
Rhenish Prussia. IL is we'll knows
that old dses shew rudiments Of horns
but scarcely, il ever, OF sneh size as to
emulate those of the male. In this in-
stance the longer Of the horns was Ains-
teen centimeters in length.
A fire balloon has been made in which
the lower part is constructed Of asbestos
cloth, while the upper part is covered
with freproof solution. A spirit
lamp is used to supply the hot air for
initiating it, and, being 6reprOof, there
is no risk, as with ordinary hot-air bal
Icons. Tie system is said to be sspec-
tally valuable Tor war balloons, As q sup
ply of spirits can be easily carried where
il would be difficult to take the appli
ances for preparing gas.
As to mimicry the giraffe has the
most astonishing power Of any animal
says DR.. II. w. Mitchell. Inhabiting
as il does, the forest of Africa, and feed
ing upon boughs of trees, its great siz'
makes it most conspicuous object. LII
most dreaded enemies are the stealthy
lion and man. In the regions it mos
frequents are many dead and blaste'
trunks Of trees, and its mimicry is sucl
that the most practised eye has failed =
Distinguish q giraffe from a tree trunk
or q tree trunk from giraffe. 1t ba
even been said that lion has looke'
long and earnestly at giraffe, in doub
whether it was tree or not, and the
skulked away.