Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-11

suggestion he tried the foregoing recipe.
He reports that the progress of the disease
was promptly arrested, and in almost
every case a cure was accomplished.
The necessity of cleanliness and of
keeping the pores of the skin open, is il
Illustrated by the fact that if a coat of var
nish or other substance impervious to
moisture be applied to the exterior Of the
body, death will ensue in about six hours.
The experiment was once tried on child
in Florence. On the occasion of Pope Leo
the Tenth's accession to the Papal chair,
it was desired to have living figure repre-
sent the Golden Age, and so a child was
gilded all over with varnish and gold leaf
The child died in few hours. If the fur
Of rabbit or the skin of pig be covered
with a solution of india-rubber in naphtha,
the animal ceases to breathe in few
hours.
ARTIFICIAL MLK-A French chem
list, NJ. Dubrunfaut, devised, during the
siege of Paris, an artificial milk, made by
dissolving one ounce and half Of sugar
in quart of water, adding an ounce of
dry albumen from white of eggs, and
fifteen to thirty grains of soda crystals,
and preparing, from this solution, an
emulsion with one and a half to two ounces
Of oliveoil. AS the siege advanced, these
materials became too scarce, and gelatlne
was substituted for albumen, while slaugh-
ter-house fats, purified by melting at 1902,
took the place of the olive-oil. A single
firm is said to have made daily, Of this
article, one hundred and thirty-two thou
sand gallons for Paris consumption. If
one must use artificial milk, it is better to
let the chemist make it than the milkman
-C7a5stsan Union.
THE New Orleans Times relates the
following extraordinary instance of re-
suscitation which happened in that city
not long since: ga child of three years
old died early in the morning, and was
duly laid out for interment; competent
physician certified to the decease, and the
friends Of the family assembled to solemn
ize the funeral. Late in the afternoon, the
body having been coffined and the funeral
carriages waiting at the door, thunder
storm arose. It will be remembered that
there were some unusually violent rever-
berations during the brief term of its
prevalence simultaneously with one of
the most deafening of these claps, the
child recovered its animation and resumed
all the functions of existence. 1t is now
permanently recovered. There is no
doubt of the facts in this case"
In Boston girls" are aged from sixteen
to twenty two; young ladies" range from
thirty to fifty-five.
THOUGHTS BY A NOODLE
don't think a goose is swan,
I don't think sheep is rabbit,
But think, when I'm thinking thereon
That thinkings a dangerous habit
For some people think they are right,
And some people think they are clever,
And some think that black must be white,
And some think of nothing whatever.
And some people think of themselves,
And some people think of their neighbors;
And some think the gold that delves
Is very poor pay for ones labors.
For my part, think that thought
That thunk while thinking and mUsing,
That thinking is really worth naught,
Because thinking, think, is confusing.
A REPORTER of the Detroit Free Press
and a policeman, each armed cap-a-pie,
sat up one night recently in a haunted
L 0use in that city to interview a ghost Tor
ghostess) which, according to all accounts
had been perambulating around in an I'M
canny sort Of manner, slamming doors,
sobbing like child, and occasionally
shrieking like all possessed. The various
performances all came off as advertised,
causing the reportorial hair Ito stand on
end like Quills upon the fretful porcu-
pine, ~ while the valiant "cop" handled his
revolver nervously and entreated his com
panion mot to be afeard" The result of
their investigation was the discovery of
the fact that old Boreas was at the bottom
of the mysterious demonstrations
open bung-hole Of a barrel in the attic
furnishing the vocal part of the entertain
ment, while a broken pane of glass let in
a gust which closed the door without the
aid Of human hands.
The Hartford (Conn.) Times says that
Conductor Bradley, of that city, who was
killed, with others, by recent railroad
accident on the Hartford & Waterbury
Road, was on "caboose" car at the time
the train reached the broken rail The
instant he felt the shock, he knew the car
was off the track, and sprang for brake
It was his last act. In the next instant
he was killed by the crash, and his skull
was broken. When picked up part of
his brain was visible, oozing out; but the
true and faithful conductor was able to
speak. And these were the words he
uttered-the last he ever spoke: "Pm
out the signals for the other t1ainh' The
ightning-]ike suddenness of the crash,
though it deprived him of all conscious
ness of everything happening subsequent
to the instant when he jumped to seize the
brake, did not blot out Of his vivid mem
DRY the sensation he had at that mo-
ment Of fate. There was the sense Of
impending danger, and of the necessity
Of instant action to avert it, That con-
seriousness remained, during the ensuing
few minutes in which the crash had come,
and the faithful conductor had met his
fate.
A TOUCHING INCIDENTAL short time
since, in this city, brilliant and much
admired lady, who had been suffering for
some time with a trouble Of the eyes, was
led to fear a speedy change for the worse
and Immediately consulted her physician.
An examination discovered sudden and
fatal falling in of the optic nerve, and the
information was impaired as gently las
possible, that the patient could not retain
her sight more than few days at most,
and was liable to be totally deprived of it
at any moment. The afflicted mother re-
turned to her home, quietly made such ar
engagements as would occur to one about
to commence SO dark a journey of life,
and then had her two little children, attir-
ed in their brightest and sweetest cos
tunes, brought before her; and so, with