Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-02
ALLsPICE AND FACTS.

\ lsmp need not be so heavy; bat,
I should it prove 50. it is only necessary to
twist up piece Of paper to make lamp
| lighter.
"Ab, remarked Fogg, as he eazed
bashtuily At the ballet girls, "now l uu-
derstsnd the full significance of the pas
sage, The body is more than raiment.
They call it romantic marriage when
couple Of the neighbors get the brides
father into back room and sit on him 10
prevent his interrupting and breaking mp
the wedding.
Whisky is your greatest enemy.
" Bat, said Jones, didn't the Bible say,
Mr.. Preacher that we are to love our enc
mies?' Oh, YES, Mr.. Jones: hat it
didn't say this: we are to swallow them.
The Mining uud Scj5atifc Press says that
geologjsts sssert that if the continents and
the bottom OF the ocean were graded down
TO a uniform level the whole world would
be covered with water wile deep, SO much
greater Is the depression OF the ocean bed
than tine elevation Of the existing land.
An International Forestry Convention
and Exhibition is 70 be held at Edinburgh,
Scotland, neat year. Ey, r. thing relating
10 the forestry OF the world viii be shown
up. The wish Is expressed, and 1t is
reasonable one, that tie Government
would DO something TO make this coun:ry's
part Of tie exhibition complete.
The story is toll of Senator "-eb"
ance, ct North Carolina. taat soon after
MS secoud marriage he remarked 70 his
bride My dear, I'm stubborn fe. 5w,
aud you may anticipate trouble Now, in
the beginning, while I ana submissive, I
want to give You one piece of advice Il
YOU follow it we'H get on mighty well. It
is this Make me DO as 1 darned please,
\ gigantic ielly-hsh stranded at Ceylon
weighed over two tons, and ut night gave
out lsht sufficient 20 read by. In ten
davs it had evaporsted so that it weighed
only few pounds In specimens of he
genus Gaycia aHrt1 there Is % s. per cent.
Of water. the solid matter forming small
part OF per cent. In large forms of
Rbiyo>tomg there is : per cent. OF solid
matter.
The Greeks wrote over the portals of
their temple as the highest knowledge,
Know Thyself = also the most impossi-
bls. 1t is . solemn thought that, with all
his get;incs Of wisdom, man can never
know himself but in part, No one knows
how good he ay be, nor the possibilities
for evil that lie latent in his bosom. Com
science itself tells him that he is very diff
fcreut from what he ought to be- Bishop
McLaren.
Professor Elliot, of New York City, is
conducting some interesting experiments to
test the sensIbIiity or insensIbilty Of in
sec.s TO pain. A dragon fly was fastened
-. ; j f~..r
the rest Of its body. the latter was then
fed to the insect by piecemea!, which it ate
with evident relish, the parts eaten OF
course dropping out st the severed end.
Having eaten its own abdomen, It was
served with six spiders and sixty flies,
swallowing them all and losing them lmme'
distely, evidently suffering no pain.
The forthcoming report Of the Chal.
lenger on deep-sea fishes will contain some
remarkable forms new to science. Many
are luminous, showing fiery spots upon the
head like the headlight Of the locomotive,
or sloug the fms 1t Is supposed that
these are the means OF commuulca-
ton. Some Of the localities from which they
were taken were two or three miles from
| the surface, where, if a man stood, the
| pressure would equal that OF two obelisks
! like the one in Central Park piled upon his
back. The temperature OF the water is
/ Just below freezing.
The Smithsonian Institution has sue.
ceeded in obtaining fine skeleton OF the
! gigantic sea-cow-RiytiHu steileTi-which
will be the only specimen in the United
| States. The history Of the animal is eX.
tremely remarkable. About one hun
dred years ago these animals lived
| in incredible numbers in the North, but
/ Stelier aud later explorers waged such L
war against them that IN thirty years after
their discovery they became extinct. The
animal was marine manatee, OF enormous
size, attaining length OF 50 feet and
weight of several tons.
\ correspondent Of the Scientific hmcri-
can proposes the following method for
changing the track OF torusdces Take
one keg or barrel of common rifle or cannon
powder to the limit of your city or town
where 1t is approached by tornado. Fix
| it to an artillery prm'ng tube, having 4
string to it about 100 yards long, Take
your position at the end of the string,
holding it taut Wait till the tornado
seems to be precisely over the powder,
then fire the powder by pulling the string,
and if the charge is large enough, that
gyrating, whirling tornado will be effect
ualy blasted out OF existence at least,
made harmless till blown beyond your town,
where, perhaps, it will reform itself. If
the tornado could be advertised few hours
before its appearance, giving time for prep
aration, tire suggestion might possibly be
valuable.