Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1891 — Remember. [ARTICLE]

Remember.

The sun gives 600,000 times as much light as the full moon: seven billion times as much as the brightest star in the sky, and thirty-six million times as much as all the stars combined; in size the sun equals 1,300,000 earths, but owing to its smaller density its weight oquais only 500,000 earths. The organs of smell in the turkey vulture and c&rrion crow are so delicate that they can scent their food for a distance of forty miles. The period of “a genorat'on” has been lengthened; It used to be thirty years, and was later increased to thirty-four. Now a scientist says the average term of human life has increased in the last fifty years from thirty-four to forty-two years. In the photograph of the heavens, in course of preparation in the Paris observatory, it is calculated that 64,000,000 of stars will bo represented. In the nebulae of the Lyre, M. Bailland took a photograph, four by five and a half inches, which revealed to the naked eye 4,800 stars. An English astronomer states that the oldest historical record of a solar eclipse is in Homer's Iliad, xvii. 367. —Current Literature.