Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-07-14
A Drunkard Burned 10 Ashes.
From the Fontanelle Gowa) Register.

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two or three others, were at Fontanelle on
the 9TH of June. While there the trio par
took of stimulants, and in the society of
friends prolonged their stay until late in
the afternoon, SO that when Mr.. Pool
reached the house of Mr. Isaac Smith it
was nearly dark, and Smith invited him to
stay with him all night. This Pool refused
to do, and Immediately went to a small
shed about eighty rods distant, which he had
for the past ten days, while en-
gagged in opening new farm. This shed
was built of rough Linn boards, nailed up
right to slender framework, with roof of
boards of same material, and was ten feet
long and eight feet wide. A small
door was the only entrance to the interior,
which was furnished with q cooking stove
and bed. Pool was seen on the night of
the 4th in the house we have just described,
in state of intoxication, the last time he
was seen alive. In the morning Mr.
Smith noticed that the house where Pool
had been staying was gone, and hurried to
the spot only to find his worst fears realiz-
ed. There, amid pile of white vapory
ashes and blackened coal, lay all that was
mortal of o. 2. Pool. But little flesh ad-
hered to the bones, which were burned to
a chalk, and were with the exception of
GOSGGnSI
one place A long, dark streak across the
top and sides of the stove, together with
the fact of the bones of one leg and foot
being on the side opposite that of the
other portions of the body, show that he
fell across the stove. Mr.. Pool was large
and powerfully formed man, in the prime
of life, with more friends than money, a
kind husband and father, and not an habit
ual drunkard; q man without an enemy in
the country
A RARE CASE. following account of
an occurrence in Nantucket some twenty
years since presents vivid contrast to GER
tain business transactions of the present
day, and SO may be of interest: cit was a
very severe winter, and the harbor had
been frozen over for weeks. The coal in
store had long been exhausted, and there
was much suffering from lack of fuel. Even
fences had been torn down and burned to
eke out the supply of wood. TO the great
delight of the townspeople theice broke up
one fine morning, and schooner was seen
approaching, There was much excitement
and before the craft was moored coal
dealer boarded her and eagerly addressed
the Quaker skipper. Capt. Clifford. ''Wal,
Cap'en," said he, ''youve about hit it this
cruise. I guess II hev to take y'ur hul
cargo Spose you'll want more'n the usual
81 ton. Wall, | like to do the squarl
thing by a friend, and I'll give you S12 a
ton for it" Friend" said Capt. Clifford,
''thee can have one ton of my coal if thee
likes for So, but only one ton; all must have
chance" Just then one of the richest
men in the place joined them, saying, 81
want ten tons of your coal at Your own
price-name it. [ have suffered enough
for once. He received the same answer,
and so did alone ton for each family,
| and $8 as the price of each ton. No love
of gain, no solicitation, no regard for indi-
viduals could move honest Capt Clifford
ABSORPTION OF LIGHT BY THE AIR.-Prof
III. Wild has been for some months investi.
eating this subject, and now makes known
several interesting and valuable facts
Among others he finds that dry air is more
transparent than damp; conclusion ap-
palently at variance with common observa
ton; for instance: we know that the at.
mosphere is clearest after shower, when
the air is supposed to be laden with mois
ture. In explanation of this he goes on tc
show very conclusiyely that, in ordinary
circumstances, dust in suspension in the
air diminlshes its transparency in q very
marked manner, and that the clearness
noted as succeeding a shower is owing to
the fact that all the dust has been washed
out by the falling rain drops.
"A novel style of head-dress in Paris
and the ve1y latest, too-is a garland of tu
lips worn upon the head, so arranged thai
the heat of the room causes the tulips grad