Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-06-14
Curious and Scientific.

/ Curious and Scientific.
A NEW Wellingtonia gigantea. o,
big tree,'' forty feet and four inches
in diametea, has been discovered lately
near Vesalia, in Southern California.
This is thicker by seven feet than any
other that has yet been found.
DIR. PRICE, mechanical genius of
Albion, Mich, claims that he has, at
last, attained the great unattainable,
viz: perpetual motion. He already
has a model, which he will have patent
ed, and is now at work on machine to
run printing press.
AN extensive alum deposit has been
. discovered IN a valley of the Madras
Presidency, India, having been found
first by shepherds. The head men of
the native villages are said to be re-
luctant to disclose mineral discoveries
to the English.
The question whether, when the head
is moved from side to side, the eyes
are rotated in an opposite direction,
has long since been subject of discus
sion. An account of some experiments
published lately in German journal
tend to show that slight rotation does
occur. if4sa
THE English journals state that
spongy iron-which is finely divided
iron produced by calciniag the powder
ed ore with charcoal-is a more power
full deoderizer than animal charcoal
Even sewerage water filtered through a
layer of this is completely purified, and
sure to remain sweet.
CHAPPED HANDS, face, rough skin,
pimples, ringworm, salt-rheum, and
other cutaneous affections, cured, and
the skin made soft and smooth, by using
the JUNIPER TAR SOAP, made by Cas-
WE'LL, HAZARD & Co, New York It is
more convenient and easily applied than
other remedies, avoiding the trouble of
the greasy compounds now in use.
SEVENTY years ago some domestic
rabbits were introduced upon Sable
Island, small sandy islet lying about
a hundred miles off the Novia Scotia
coast, and, beng left alone and not
crossed in breeding, they have entered
their feral state in hveries of beautiful
silver gray, with white collars, intimat-
ing some remote affinities with by-gone
races.
In the museum at Cassel, Germany,
is library made from 500 European
trees. The back of each volume is
formed of the bark of a tree, the sides
of the perfect wood, the top of young
wood, and the bottom of old. When
opened, the book is found to be a box,
containing the flower, seed, fruit, and
leaves of the tree, either dried or imitat-
| ed in wax
/ A NEwTv-DIscovERED quarry Of Kan
sas marble is ten miles from Baxter
Springs, and covers 1000 acres. It is
in layers of six, eight and eighteen
inches and from three to four feet
thick; pure, white and mottled and in
exhaustible. The latter variety is
tinged with pink. 1t take fine polish
and finer edge. There is great excite
ment near it, as no other quarry west
of the river is known comparable with
it.
ON Twelfth Day an Indian woman of
Cuzco, in Peru, forty-fve years or age,
gave birth to triplet of boys, one of
whom survived. AS this happened,
strangely enough, the day of the
Three Kings, it excited the superstition
of the natives. The surviving boy was
named Gaspar, after one of the kings
It occurs to the Angle-Saxon mind
that the coincidence would have been
more remarkable if all three boys had
| lived.
The discovery of an ancient outlet of
Lake Superior is mentioned by Prof.
Winchell, the director of the State
Geological Survey of Michigan, in his
last report. It is deep valley, bor-
dered with high bluffs, and runs from
Lake Superior to Green Bay in Lake
Michigan, suggesting the practicability
of ship canal across the same route,
with a view to shortening the voy-
age between the ports of the two
| lakes
| PROF. BoTTGER recommends gun cot
ton, saturated with solution of per-
manganate of potash, put up in the
form of poultice, and held over an
open wound by ban6age, as the best
disinfectant for bad odors that can be
conveniently applied. The strength of
the solution of permanganate, best
adapted for the purpose, is one part,
by weight, of dry salt in one hundred
parts of water Ordinary cotton cannot
be taken, as it readily decomposes but
gun cotton is permanent, and not liza
UlO W ADlOSlOu WuCu LII u1OloU SpCtuC.
Nor MERELY TO TICKLE THE PALATE,
but to infuse health and vigor into the
enervated and diseased system, is the
| high purpose and sure effect of DIR.
! WALKERS VEGETABLE VINEGAR BIrTERs.
/ This famous restorative creates no sud-
den flash of excitement, to be succeeded
by increased debility and ten-fold
| gloom. It braces the relaxed nerves,
and imparts permanent tone and regu-
larity to the whole animal machinery.
Dyspepsia, liver complaint. physical
prostration, diarrhea, and, in fact,
nearly all complaints that are not or
ganic, yield to it's operation.
One blacksmith in Western New
York has taken from horses feet over
200 nails that have been trodden upon
ing been carelessly thrown into the
street. Nails and pieces of glass are
4 constantly swept out of stores with the
other dirt, and the damage done by
them to horses is of amost alarming ma
ture. In New York, the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is
taking the matter in hand.
The peculiar faint blush haze which
occurs in the region about the mouth of
the Mississippi frequently produces a
peculiar optical delusion. Mr.. Hill
gard, in a recent paper on the mud
Jumps of that locality, says that an
island quarter OF mile distant and
fifteen feet high, when seen through
this haze, appeared to be wooded
mountain with rocky escarpments, and
at IFS foot A. wide Sp"oadinpt CITY, which
suddenly resolved -tself into row OF
grave white pelicans perehed on the
beach, which took wing at the approach
! of boat.
A SHOWER OF FISHES. heavy
rain of last night, says the Rochester
Express of Saturday night, was sur
charged with living creatures to an ex-
traordinary extent In many places in
J the city, small fish fell with floods of
rain-water. and were found in pools,