Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1885-05-30
FACTS FOR THE CURIOU6

Ar Cape Island, N. j., the sea has
gained on the shore fully q mile since
l776. The tides on the eastern shore
Of the State are obseryably growing
higher.
DURING the reign of Napoleon I. o
book of birds for children was sup
pressed because it contained the phrase
1.-The cock IS rather the tyrant than the
chieftain of the faTm-yard"
EVERY shell fred by an army during
siege operations costs, with the powder
with which the mortar is charged, the
sum of eight dollars-enough to support
poor family for fortnight.
The lead used i'll sounding from yes
sci usually weighs about fourteen pounds,
but in deep-sea soundings a weight OF
not less than 100 pounds Is frequently
employed. Wire has been largely used
for line, as it makes less friction in
sinking through the water With hemp
| rope sinker OF 300 weight is sometimes
twenty minutes in reaching the bottom
III 1000 fathoms of water, SO great is
the friction OF the lire.
TIE Oldest monument in the world is
in the Ashnolean Museum at Oxford.
This is the Intel stone OF tomb which
formed the last resting place of an officer
who lived IN the time OF King Sent, of
the second dynasty, whose fate is fixed
by III. Mariette more than G,000 years
ago. The stone is covered with that del
cate and finished sculpture which dis
tinguished the early periods of Egiptian
history, and was UNNECESSARILY superior
TO the stiff and conventional art of the
lattor ages OF Egypt, which we are accus-
toned to see IN European museums.
THE Japanese are remarkably exempt
from deformed feet. The reason of this
is to be found in the shoes they wear.
The wooden sandals worn in Japan
have separate compartment for the
great toe, and make clanking noise on
the streets. Straw slippers are also
journey will strap supply of them on
his back, that he may put ON new pair
when the old iS worn out. They cost
but cent and half pair. They are
rights and lefts, and leave. the foot free
to the air. They are never worn in the
house, being left outside the door;
passing down Japanese street long
rows of them are seen Mt the doors, old
and new, large and small. 1t is sur.
pris4ng to SEQ how rapidly the Japs step
ont of them, and pick them up again
with their feet without stopping when
leaving the house.
AS THE most valuable wealth country
eau possess is its healthy population,
the tables of mortality are worth study;
and from these we find that on the first
day of life seventy eight boys die, to
sixty three girls In the first week of
life 1913 boys die, to 1853 girls In Prussia
the mortality among females is the
greatest from 10 to ID years of age; and
from the 25th to the 10th ii Is greater
than at other periods of life, and yet at
all periods of life the census of females
compares favorably with TINT of males.
In England, taking period of seven
years, there were eight mon to fifteen
women who were alive at 101 years;
three men to five women at 100 years
two men to three women at 103 years of
age, and no man TO one woman who
lived to 104. 1t is observed that only
one person in 1000 born lives beyond
81 years.
FROM comparison of the results Of
recent deep-sea soundings, it appears
tliit1 tiiO AoiAoWAhS 1Ao Juco SoucIdllLS-
tons: l. The water of the South Pacific
is in it's whole mass cooler than that of
tie Atlantic. 2. The water of the South
Pacific is, down to 4, 225 feet, somewhat
warmer than that of the Atlantic, but
below that depth cooler. 8. The bottom
temperatures are generally lower in the
Pacific than in the Atlantic ut the same
depths and in tha same degree of lati-
tude but nowhere III the Pacific are
found such low bottom temperatures as
in the Antarctic portion of the South
Atlantic, whore temperatures of --03
ceSltigrade TO -0.6 degrees have been
measured. 4. iIf the western parts of
the Pacific and the adjoining parts of
the East India arch pelago, the tenn
perature of the water reaches it's
minimum at depths between LIST and
1857 feet, remaining the same from
this depth to the bottom. In the whole
of the Atlantic the temperature from
1887 feet to the bottom gradually
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