Miscellaneous.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 66, 27 November 1880, Page 2 (Supplement)

Miscellaneous.

Noticeable. — That the boy who is most afraid of the girls ia the first to be oonaUeß in matrimony. That the little dovb'. prefer boys to girls. That they Boon change, nevar to go back to their- early love. Thai the little girls love the girls best. That they don't gejt over their preferenoe so soon as the boys do, some. of them never. That' women love thje men because they love everything they have to take care of. That men love women baoauae they oan't help it. That the wife lorefe her hußbandao we)l thaVshe naß no thoughts for other men. That the husband so love) bis wife that he loves all women for* her sake. Tbat girlß who {have given over all hopes, ol matrimony, or who never had any, love, t> flirt with married men. That the marriep man is apt to think himself all-killing among the fair, sex, simply because he has founfi one woman foot enough to maxry him. Tha^ homely huabanda are the beat; they. never forget the compliment paid them by theif I wives in accepting them. That homely wive* are the truest; they know how to make the moßt of what they have. That the woman who marries does well. That the woma^ who doeß not marry does better, nine times out of ten.— Boston Transcript. I

A Cooling Covbblbt. — Certain diseases] suob as typhoid fever, are sometimes treated by refrigeration, or artificial, cooling of ' th| patient ; and a new coverlet lor this purpose hag been recently introduced into tbi Hdpit&l de la Fitie by Dr. Dumontpallier) The coverlet ia made out of a tube ot oaoutohouo, 80 metres long, folded on itself in a Beries of equal lengths, and enclosed in two Bquares of doth. A current of cold water flowß through the tube from end to end, from and into a distributing apparatus placed on a table at the foot of the bed! 'The diatribntor consists of two stop-cooks— one in connection with the reservoir of cold water; and the other with the outflow-pipe. Ther j mometers, to show the temperature of the water as it enters and leaves the coverlet! are inserted in speoial chambers fitted to the b top-cooks. The tube from the coverlet' to the outlet stop-cook is arranged to Bend the water through a small glasß bell-jar on the table, so as to enable the regularity of th.4 outflow to be seen. The apparatus is said to be highly sensitive ; a slight alteration in the orifioe of one or the other Btop-cook, or both together, ia followed almoßt immediately by a variation of the thermometrio readings. $

SOME CITBIOTTS FACTS ABOUT THB Memory. — M. Delauney has made a communication to the Societe de Biologic respecting memory as studied under the various biological conditions. The inferior races of mankind, such as negroes, the Chinese, etc., have more memory than those of a higher type of civilisation. Primitive races which were unacquainted with the art of" writing had wonderful memories'/ and were for ages in the habit of handing down from* one generation to another hymns as voluminous as the Bib^el Prompters and professors of declamation know that women have more memory than men. French, women will learn a foreign' language quicker than their husbands! Youths have more memory than adults! Ik is well developed in children, attains its maximum about the 14th or 15th year, ancj. then decreases. Feeble individuals of a lymphatic temperament have, more memory than the strong. Students who H obtain the prize for memory and- recitation chiefly belong to the former clasß. Parisian students have also, less memory than those who come from the provinces. At the. Ecole Normale and other schools the pupils, who have tbe best -memory are not the moat intelligent. The memory ia more developed among the peasantry th;<n among citizens and among the olergy than among the' laity. The memory remains, intact in diseases of the left side of the brain, and is much affected in those of the right, from which it may be inferred that the right side is more the seat' of the faculty than the left. From a physiological point of view memory is. diminished by overfeeding,- by physical exercise and by education, in this cense, that the illiterate have potentially more memory than .those who knew how to read and write. We remember, moreover, better in the morning than in the evening, in the summer than^in the .winter, and better in warm than in cold 'climates. Memory is, therefore, to a certain extent, in inverse proportion to nutrition, and, more than that, it is in inverse porportion to evolution, since it* is greatest in those individuals who are the least advanced from an evolution point of view — inferior races, women, children, the feeble, etc. In short, according to M. Delauny, there is an evolution of the memory, which in first censorial, literal; then intelligent; but memory properly speaking, .diminishes inversely as the evolution.— Medical Fress and' Circular., ' What They Knew JFoob Thousand Yhabs Aao.— The Popular Science Monthly pub: lichee abstracts from the address of Chief Justice Daly before the Geographical Society) in which he says: — "'From one of, these books, compiled after the manner of out modem 'enoyolopsdias, an&|the compilation of whioh is shown to, have been, made more than 2000 years 8.C., it has beenasoertained; what has long been supposed, tb'at'Chaldea was tbe parent land of astronomy; for it is found, from this 'compilation and from other bricks, that' the Babylonians catalogued th< stars, and distinguished' and named the con 7 Btellationa; that they arranged 'the twelve constellations that form oar present zodiac to show the course of the snn'fl path in'the heavens; divide time into weeks, thonUis} and years; that they divided the'-; week j as we now have it, into seven 'days,' six being, days of labour and the ■ seventh " a day of rest, to whioh they gave a name from whioh we have derived our word • Sabbath,^ and which day, as a 'day of rest from all labour ol every kind, they' observed as ligoiously as the Jew or the Puritan*- motion of the heavenly-bodies and the phenomena of the weather were noted down* and a eohl neotion, as I nave before stated, detected, as ~M. de, Perville claims to have discovered^ .between the weather and the ohanges of the moon. They invented the son-dUMo jnark 1 the movements of the heavenly |bodieo,Jtne waler-olock iom6*Bwe,iimo, azuLJhej^spealr in this work of the spots on the sun, a Uof theyoquld only have known by: the. aid of telesoopeß, whioh it is supposed they possessed, from observations , that they have noted . down of the rising of Venui and th? fact that Layard found a orystal lens in the rains of Ninevah. These. ( bricks' contain an account of the Deluge, substantially the.samf a> the narrajive in the Bible, except that the names' tie, different. . They Miecloie that houses, an^ land were the^ sold, leased, and moctgagectt^aimoDey w*a loaned at interaer^ and that the market gardeners, to use an American phrase, 'worked on •hjnai,' u that the farmer, when ploughing with nii oxen, begn|led bis labour wxth short and homely flongf, two of which hkve, been) founa, and connect this very remote oivU^ation With , ';:,i' ■