Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-08-27

nent degree. We are a good-natured,
facile people, not ungraceful, and certain
ly not lacking in selfpossession. Wehave
need only to respect ourselves little
more, cease looking across the water for
nlouels, aud give as graceful an expression
DIS we can to our sentiments toward uni
Eeisal man and woman, to become the &C
hh3wledged possessors of~good manners.
al tne present time the miles of rail
roaas IN operation aggregate 81 1O4.
against % miles in 1880. In the distrihu.
ton OF mileage the New England States
have 1908 miles; the middle States 1s
499; the Western States 81, BOB: the South
ern States Il, Jig, and the Pacific Statee.
2,l37. OF the separate States Illinois
leads the list, the. number of miles of road
being stated at 6,361. tPennsy lyania, with
$500 miles, comes next in order; New
York, with 1925, is third, and Ohio. with
4,1Oo, is fourth The total cost of the rail.
roads OF the country amounts to $685.
423,O57
The combined area of the six New
England States is 6S,34S square miles; the
area of the single State of California is
nearly three times as much The area of
the Middle States, including MARYLAND
| dLlNi w Ooo luId Is ooh square
miles; California has 1885 square
miles within its boarders; California
is a great country: it is 49,
square miles larger than the whole
of Great Britain; and it would make
twenty-four States the size of Massachus
etts, with couple of thousand square
miles to spare, or one hundred and forty
i've States as large as Rhode Island.
How M rrrI7 ~, IT,, ,,,-o
When tree stands so that the length of
its shadow can be measured, its height
may be readily ascertained as follows:
Set a stick upright Get it be perpendicu-
lar by the plumb line.) Measure the
length of the shadow of the stick. AS the
length of its shadow is to the height of the
stick, so is the length of the shadow of
the tree to its height For instance: if the
stick is four feet above the ground, and it's
shadow is six feet in length and the shad-
ow of the tree is ninety feet, the height of
the tree will be sixty feet (6 A. 80 6O) In
other words, multiply the length of the
shadow of the tree by the height of the
stick, and divide by the shadow of the
stick
AN egg is not fresh when it is two or
three days old. Kept but day in hot
weather, and there is a difference; already
incubation has commenced An egg
should be eaten the day it is laid 1t is
much the same with butter. An egg may
be impaired by bad food by filthy air or
! water. The different kinds of food have
an influence. Corn, with some other
clean feed will give good favor-will i'm
part that peculiar sweetness which so dis
tinguishes good egg from an ordinary
or poor one. Tainted food in all cases
should be avoided. This is our experience,
independent of what the books say A
fresh egg, perfect in flavor and quality,
cooked with butter equally good, is tit
bits rarity.-ErcAange
THOSE victims of the hay fever who
can't afford trip to Fire Island, the gen
ial climate of which greatly alleviates the
disease, may take hint from gentleman
who describes himself as sufferer from
ebay fever" for twenty years, but who is
now entirely relieved from the malady.
His cure is to get a saturated solution of
sulphate of quinine in water, in the pro-
portion Of one part of quinine to 740 of
water, lie down upon his back, dip a
small camels hair brush into the
solution, apply the brush to the
inside Of the nostrils, moving the
head about gently so as to make sure
that theTfuid reaches all parts of the nos
trils until it is felt in the throat He de-
scribes the relief as immediate, and says
that three applications day, when threat
ened by return of the disease, is suffic-
lent to prevent a return.