Spirit of the Times Batavia, Genesee Co., NY May 2 1843 REMARKABLE FACTS. The Hindoos have the art of personating death so as to deceive able surgeons. An Elephant bred to war stands firm against a volley of musketry, and 30 bullets in the flesh will not kill him. The Esquimaux attain the height of but 4 feet 3 inches, and the Mougol Tartars but 4 feet 9 inches. Fish are drawn towards a lisot; they assemble to be fed by the sound of a bell, and are fond of music. We have seen trouts, in a small pond, come to the margin at the call of the owner and feed on crumbs of bread thrown to them. -Ed. Dai. Adv. A Chesnut tree on Mt. Etna is 196 feet round close to the trunk. Potatoes planted below three feet do not vegetate; at one foot they grow thicker, and at two feet they are retarded two or three months. The mahogany tree is full grown in 100 years. Cypress trees are known to be 800 or 900 years old. The surface of the sea is estimated at 150,000,000 square miles; taking the whole surface of the globe at 197,000,000. Its greatest depth is supposed to be equal to the height of the highest mountains, or four miles. The sound of thunder may be heard for 20 or 25 miles, or, with the ear to the ground, much more. Lightning is reflected 50 or 100 miles. * * A RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS. It is simply, when you rise in the morning, to form a resolution to make the day a happy one to a fellow creature. It is easily done--a left-off garment, to the man who needs it; a kind word to the sorrowful; an encouraging expression to the striving.--trifles in themselves light as air,--will do it, at least, for the twenty-four hours; and if you are young, depend upon it, it will tell when you are old; and if you are old, rest assured it will send you gently and happily down the stream of time to eternity. Look at the result: You send one person--only one--happily through the day; that is, three hundred and sixty-five in the course of the year--and supposing you live forty years only after you commence this course, you have made fourteen thousand six hundred human beings happy, at all events for a time. Now, worthy reader, is not this simple?--and it is not worth accomplishing? We do not often indulge a moral dose--but this is so small a pill, one that needs to red currant-jelly to disguise its flavor, and requires to be taken but once a day, that we feel warranted in prescribing it.--It is most excellent for digestion, and a producer of pleasant slumber. --London Atlas. * * ELECTRICITY. It is stated in an English paper that a little girl who had been some time under water, was restored to life by electricity, after all other means had failed. The shocks were passed gently through the head and breast, and along the spine, while the power was gradually increased. In ten minutes she gave signs of life, and in three quarters of an hour was quite recovered.--This would seem to establish the fact that electricity is the principle of life. * * WOMEN. Woman are the Corinthian pillars that adorn and support society; the institutions that protect women throw a shield also around children; and where women and children are provided for, man must be secure in his rights. * * submitted by L.C. Schmidt