Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1891-02-18
A Few Facts and Figures.

distance Of forty miles.
Within 62 years Mexico has had 81
presidents, one regency, and one em-
pire, and nearly every change OF gov
eminent has been effected by violence.
velocity of about six or seven
miles "A second would suffice to carry a
body away from the gravitatlon of the
earth.
In Paris, out OF the 2,700000 resi-
dents, ii is calculated that one in lS, or
100000, live on Charity, with IA tend
ency toward crime; IN London the
proportion is one in 80.
Sheet iron is rolled so thin at Pitts
burg iron mills that 10000 sheets are
required to make single inch in
thickness; light shines as readily
through one OF these sheets as through
ordinary tissue paper
The smallest known insect, the
(Pteratomuo PutpamiD parasite OF
the ichneumon, is but one -nineteth of
an inch in length
The accumulation of wealth, esti-
mated at IA per cent. of the gross
earnings Of mankind now aggregates
$4,000, 100000 per annum and is in.
creasing relatively as well as absolute
ly, from year to year.
An English astronomer states that the
oldest historical record of a selar
eclipse is in Homer's IIiad (xvII 367).
The thread of the silk worm is so
small that mn average of AZ of them
are twisted together to form thread
Of common sewing silk; that OF the
spider is many dlaneters smaller; two
drains of spider-web by weight would,
if stretched into straight line, reach
a distance Of over 400 miles.
Paratolid is the name of Professor
Koch's remedy for tuberculosis, from
which disease one-ssventh of the
worlds population dies.
The sun is 80 500 900 miles from the
earth; the latter receives only one two-
thousand millionth of the solar heat
the nearest fixed star is 10000, 900 900
miles distant, and it takes three years
for the light TO reach the earth.
Every year layer of the entire sea,
fourteen feet thick, is taken up into
the clouds; the winds bear their bur-
den into tho land and the water comes
dawn in rain upon the fields, to flow
back through rivers. -
Indian ink is made in some unknown
way from burnt camphor; tbs secret
is only kaewn to the Chinese and they
refuse to reveal il.
By aid of a polariscope DR.. Pineus,
of Berlin, claims to be able to detect
certain traces of past emotions in the
hairs; he explains that violent mental
disturbances cause the hairs to become
dscolorized just bensath the skin.
As an instance Of the wonderful
fscundity of vegetable life, it is stated
that a single tobacco plant will pro-
duce 100000 seeds.
In the photograph of tho heavens,
In course of preparation in the Paris
Observatory, it is calculated that GA
100000 of stars will be represented !;
in tho nebula of the Lyre, NJ Bailland
took a photograph four by five and
one half inches, which revealed to tho
naked eye 4,S00 stars.
In China less than 10000 officials
suffice to rule, in most perfect man
ner, ono third Of the world"s inhab-
itants.
In the absence OF a complete chemi-
cal test, the high specific gravity of
gold Q9 81 is the test of its purity.
One half of the people born die be-
fore the age of is.
A recent survey has established the
number of glaciers in the Alps at l., 155,
Of which 249 have length Of more
than four and three-quarters miles !;
the French Alps contain 144 glaciers,
those of Italy rs, Switzerland All, and
| Austria 462
In each respiration an adult in hales
a pint Of air; a healthy man respires
! IS to 20 times minute, or 81, 900 times
a day; a child, 25 to 35 times min
ute; while standing the adult respira-
ton is 90 times per minute; while ly-
ing down, ID.
A grain of musk will scent room
, for 20 years, and al the end of that
time will not show 1t has dimlni"bed
| l., tho laaet. q uroiu of carmine or