Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1890 — ODD HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

ODD HAPPENINGS.

Eaoli square inch of the skin con- . tains 3,500 sweating tubes, or perspiration pores. each of which may be to a little draini-tile one-fourth of an inch in length, making an aggregate length of the entire surface of the body of 201,166 feet, or a tile ditch for draining the body almost forty miles long. An ancient and remarkable clock has been ‘recently set up in the reading room of the municipal library at Rouen, France. A single winding keeps it running for fourteen years and some odd months. It was constructed in 1682, underwent alteration in-181d, was bought by the city of Rouen in 1838, and has been recently repaired and set going. The phoenix, the fabled bird of antiquity, in form is described as somewhat resembling the eagle. It was , said to live 500 years in the wildflraess and then return into Egypt, where, having, built itself a iitfst, or funeral I pile of wood and aromatic gums, and ighting it by the fanning of its wings, vas coasumed to ashes, out orwhlch' •ose a new phoenix. living skeieton was Cfaude aewrat, born in France in 1799. He ,vas tall and would have been well >naped there been any flesh on his Pft3yju.as.it. was every bone could be iistinctly seen. His arms were com>arcd to two ivory flutes,and his abdo•uen seemed to cling to the vertebra', lie made a fortune by exhibiting himself, and returned to his native town o enjoy it, but suddenly expired soon it ter his retirement.