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« Things Not Genebally Known."*
it were , on the cemeteries , and dwelling in the mausoleums , of former worlds , —let us learn the lesson of humility and wisdom , if we have not already been taught it in the school of revelation . " In the next section , the earth , its surface and interior are treated of . Here , among other things , we find an explanatory article upon antediluvian animals , which should be read along with the "big animals" at the Crystal Palace . The sea is the subject of the
succeeding division ; and here we have two conflicting evidences as to the power of oil to still angry waves : one being an experiment of pouring several gallons of oil upon a rough sea without any effect ; and the other , oil upon the sea from the leakage of a whale ship calming the waves . Under the " Atmosphere , " we find this curious record of the
"Antiquity of Lightning-Conductors . —The art of bringing down lightning from the heavens seems to have been the only charm which the ancients possessed ; and M . Salverte , in his work on the Occult Sciences , shows a probability that the ancients defended their buildings from lightning by conductors , and that the Temple of Solomon was thus protected . " Tinder " Light and Sound " is this interesting instruction : —
"To tell the Distances of Ships at Sea . —If a gun be fired by a vessel at sea , the distance may be known by observing the number of seconds which elapse between the flash and the report . In mild weather sound travels at the rate of 1 , 123 feet in a second : if , therefore , the report of the gun were beard five seconds after the flasb had been seen , the distance of the observer from the gun would be 5 , 615 feet , or rather more than a mile . "
Most persons have heard of drinking-glasses being broken by sound : here is a piece of evidence upon the svibfeet . The late Mr . Brayley , the antiquary , was once present at a party in a house on Ludgate-hill , when Mr . Broadh urst , the tenor , by singing a high note , caused a wine-glass on the table to break , the bowl being separated from the stem .
The reader , we dare say , will remember our dispute with the United [ States , about the Oregon territory , some fourteen years since . Here , under geographical discovery , we learn what it cost to set the boundary-line , but the money has been well laid out : — " This line , run in accordance with the Ashburton treaty , cost the labour of
300 men eighteen months . For 300 miles a path was cut through the forest , 30 feet wide , and cleared of all trees . At the end of every mile is a cast-iron pillar , painted white ; square , four feet out of the ground ; and bearing , in raised letters on its sides , the names of the commissioners who ran the line ; and the date . "
u The Phenomena of Life and Death , " afford several curious instances of speculation and inquiry ; but these we pass over to reach the " Animal Kingdom , " whore , among other tilings , we learn that in the Zoological Gardens , at this moment , are two living specimens of an ox which once roamed overall the woodland districts of Central Europe , and which , in England , was contemporary with the extinct mastodon , elephant , and rhinoceros . Hero are also two bundles of facts in the natural history and economy of the cat and the dog ,
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« Things Not Genebally Known."*
it were , on the cemeteries , and dwelling in the mausoleums , of former worlds , —let us learn the lesson of humility and wisdom , if we have not already been taught it in the school of revelation . " In the next section , the earth , its surface and interior are treated of . Here , among other things , we find an explanatory article upon antediluvian animals , which should be read along with the "big animals" at the Crystal Palace . The sea is the subject of the
succeeding division ; and here we have two conflicting evidences as to the power of oil to still angry waves : one being an experiment of pouring several gallons of oil upon a rough sea without any effect ; and the other , oil upon the sea from the leakage of a whale ship calming the waves . Under the " Atmosphere , " we find this curious record of the
"Antiquity of Lightning-Conductors . —The art of bringing down lightning from the heavens seems to have been the only charm which the ancients possessed ; and M . Salverte , in his work on the Occult Sciences , shows a probability that the ancients defended their buildings from lightning by conductors , and that the Temple of Solomon was thus protected . " Tinder " Light and Sound " is this interesting instruction : —
"To tell the Distances of Ships at Sea . —If a gun be fired by a vessel at sea , the distance may be known by observing the number of seconds which elapse between the flash and the report . In mild weather sound travels at the rate of 1 , 123 feet in a second : if , therefore , the report of the gun were beard five seconds after the flasb had been seen , the distance of the observer from the gun would be 5 , 615 feet , or rather more than a mile . "
Most persons have heard of drinking-glasses being broken by sound : here is a piece of evidence upon the svibfeet . The late Mr . Brayley , the antiquary , was once present at a party in a house on Ludgate-hill , when Mr . Broadh urst , the tenor , by singing a high note , caused a wine-glass on the table to break , the bowl being separated from the stem .
The reader , we dare say , will remember our dispute with the United [ States , about the Oregon territory , some fourteen years since . Here , under geographical discovery , we learn what it cost to set the boundary-line , but the money has been well laid out : — " This line , run in accordance with the Ashburton treaty , cost the labour of
300 men eighteen months . For 300 miles a path was cut through the forest , 30 feet wide , and cleared of all trees . At the end of every mile is a cast-iron pillar , painted white ; square , four feet out of the ground ; and bearing , in raised letters on its sides , the names of the commissioners who ran the line ; and the date . "
u The Phenomena of Life and Death , " afford several curious instances of speculation and inquiry ; but these we pass over to reach the " Animal Kingdom , " whore , among other tilings , we learn that in the Zoological Gardens , at this moment , are two living specimens of an ox which once roamed overall the woodland districts of Central Europe , and which , in England , was contemporary with the extinct mastodon , elephant , and rhinoceros . Hero are also two bundles of facts in the natural history and economy of the cat and the dog ,