Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-07-23


head fast therein. Being unable to extri-
cate himself, the dog died, and the fox,
being cut off from the only avenue of
escape from the log, likewise persisted,
both of them, evidently, having died of
starvation. ~
AS THE eccentricities of genius are ever
interesting, we are pleased to mention an
excellent gentleman of San Francisco,
| whose costume owns two beautiful and
peculiar features. These are very
gorgeous neck-te several yards long,
whose ends float. behind him like the Star
| Spangled Banner, and a large stick Of
brilliantly candy, resembling
anss infant BARRIERS pole,p and projecting
from his mouth. Wherever he goes he is
accompanied by these charms, and q con-
sequent triumphal procession of boys.sg6
THE Titusville's (Pa.) Herald says; "a
| young lady whose pa struck lie a few
years ago, and who has since been at
boarding school, recently returned and a
| party was given for her benefit. Upon the
bottom Of her einvitation-cards she caused
to be inscribed r. S. Y. p and one was
] sent to an illiterate rich fellow, who has
/ also made his money by boring. He did
not come, but sent a card with the letters
| D.S.CsC' Meeting him in the street,
she asked him what the letters meant
Tell me first what yours meant?' oh!
mine was French for Respond if you can
not except well, mine was English for
| 'Darned sorry can't come go -
DRY AND CRACKED FINGERs.-The New
! York World in answer to a correspondent
says: eve know by experience something
about dry and cracked fingers, for we
once worked on a farm and were careless,
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cleansing our hands. It was our own
yours. We finally learned to avoid the
with CASTLE soap and hot water, and wip-
ing them dry before exposing them to the
'cold air. Before going to bed at night we
used to rub them with glycerine and dry
| it in before the fire. IVES never had any
trouble afterwards If at our work we got
our hands wet when they were dirty we
took pains to rub them dry as soon as
wecould before exposing them to the air.
LEGISLATIVE AFUN.-A little fun goes
further in Legislative Assembly than
| anywhere else in the world. A paper
bullet we'll Thrown will sometimes make
| its thrower the hero of the moment among
our Albany -givers. The closing scenes
OF our Congresses are marked with the
! most wonderful capers, whose stupidity is
only less remarkable than the apprecia-
ton of the audience and actors There is
perhaps not SO much active horse-play in
the House Of Commons, and yet very
trif1ing thing will stir its members up to
laughter. short while ago, when Mr..
| Hughes was speaking, Mr. Auberon Her
bert placed glass of water on the bench
behind him, on which the orator sat down,
breaking the glass and moistening con-
siderable expanse of trouser. The House
cheered lustily-N. 7. Tribune. Il
! Down IN ARKANsAs.-Acorresp
of the Springfield Qll) Journal, travelling
on horseback through Arkansas, gives
this experience of the general intelligence
in the interior: But if travel has its draw
backs, it has also its humors. | asked az
old woman about the road to Pocahontas,
Gus. " Yes sir, I'll tell We all about it.
! You go out yer bout mile and a half,
and the road forks, and the Batesville road,
hit put off. But you don't take that road,
you take the Pocahontas road. "Well,
madam, which side does the Batesville
road put OFF, "Well, stranger, I disre-
member. Pears like it was the right-hand
side, and then pears like it wasn't. But
it don't make no difference, no how, stran-
ger, kase you don't take that road; you take
the Pocahontas road" And so did
ExHALATIoN OF CARBoNIC ACID CAS-
The ArehS0 FIR PhyssoZogae contains an &C
count of Aubert and Lange's interesting
researches on the quantity of. carbonic
acid eXhaled in given time from the skin
Of man. The experiments were care
fully made in an air-tight chamber, in
which the subject for experiment was
seated, and through which current of
air, freed from carbonic acid, was steadily
passing, while the proportion Of .carbonic.
acid in the air on, leaving the chamber
was estimated by transmission through
! Dubbed tubes containing a solution of salt
of barium. The results Of these novel in
vestigations lead to the general conclusion
/ that sixty-two grains of carbonic acid-a
| considerable amount, certainlY-are ex-
through the skin, in the course of twenty
four hours &C Nv sES-6 ~ Z
REGULARITY OF THE WATERS OF LAKE
| TAHoE.-We believe it is welLestablish-
ed fact that the bodies of persons drowned
in Lake Tahoe have never been recovered,
the clear cold waters of the lake absolute
| ly refusing to give up their dead. This
circumstance, which at first thought APP
| pears SlIaHge, is accounted LOT upon The
hypothesis that the waters at the bottom
of the lake are so icy cold as actually to
arrest decomposition and consequent ex-
pansion of a dead body, one of the con-
ditions under which it would be expected
to return to the surface. Whether the
| victims who repose at the bottom Of the
| pellucid waters of this far-famed lake I'M
| dergo petrifaction, or are transformed into
| mermen and mermaids, is a secret which
will never be known until they come to
the surface at the summons yof Gabrielas
trump.-GOzd HUI (NeD) Neaos.
LOST ARTs.-It now appears that the
smelling of iron was carried onsin Egypt
from the very earliest period. Mr.. Charles
| Vincent, in an English scientific journal
sets forth some new facts in reference to
this subject: In the sepulchres of Thebes5
may be found .delineations of butchers
sharpening their knives on round bars of
iron attached to their aprons The blades
of the knives are painted blue, which fact
/ proves that they were of steel, for in the
tomb Of Ramases Ill. this color is used
to indicate steel, bronze being represented
by red. An English gentleman has re-