Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-05-12
Mineral Blossoms.

a WEATHER BEATEN t'iron hat is fire.
quently worn by veins of the gold and
silver families.
ONE OF the old biographies states
that the onl y brass mine In the United
States was in Connecticut.
HE sparkling iron pyrite is called
'tfools gold," from its snowy. rich
gl1tter1ng appearance and want of real
value.
The geological survey Of a mineral
Held that the miner cannot use to ex-
plore for and develop the vein system is
elementary.
IHE life OF Job was an example of
that great primary law that all discord
is harmony not understood; all partial
evil universal good.
The Golconda of the future will be
discovered in the coal measures under
the grand prairies of the great basin of
the Mississippi.
SCIENCE, capital and labor should 60
hand in hand and attack the rocky
vaults where the economic laws have
massed their metal treasures.
LABOR is the only real wealth, and
money its representative; should the
| soils and rocks cease to supply, poverty
would possess the land.
MOSES lived before the discovery of
Keppler's laws to astronomy, the theory
Of chemicatomic attraction, Of elemental
truths in geology, and could not be ex-
pected to write correct treatise On
these sciences.
|
| reads a sign on the blackboard Of a
| schoolhouse In enlightened old Massa-
chusetJs, where education is supposed
to sit on the top rail and make faces
at ignorance.
The mind of man reaches the farthest
star; the solid granite is subject to his
will; the sulphuret Of silver was bedded
in the quartz, and the diffused silver
atoms at his bidding were piled in in
gots,
"WHAT is that I smell % screamed
the preacher, as the gentle aroma caused
by the breaking Of Deacon Bimby's
pint flask in his pocket diffused
itself around. ''It's liquid death
floating in the air; and it's the
deadly forerunner Of strengthening
time" added the preacher, and then he
collapsed.
| The rise and progress Of nation are
controlled by its material resources
coal, iron, lead, tlmber, prairie; these
were first formed by the constancy of
action of natural economic laws, and
| these judicial threads continue and
mould the human mind to aggregate
indistinct states, and people tohave the
| the mining and engineering skill to sue
cessfully develop these material re-
| sources.
The increase in the cultivation of
beet-root in Europe for the manufac-
ture of sugar is said to be causing great
| loss to cane-sugar planters liz Cuba,
who have been at an enormous outlay
for machinery and labor to produce
the fine class of sugar that is exported
from thence. Should the European
manufacture and consummation of beet
sugar go on increasing as it has done
during the past four years, serious
changes are anticipated in the cane
sugar productions all over the West
Indies.
ALL was made for man. When sick,
herbs heal his ailments; when tired,
good wine restore him; the grass is his
carpet; the spring his fountain of
health; the mountain scenery his mental
| ''dessert;" the ocean an aquarium; the
continents his hunting grounds; the
| winds fan his cheek; the mineral field
is a natural cabinet; earth, air and water
furnish him food; ly the moons pale
Light he goes to bed, night draws the
curtain, which the sun witndraWs; and
light is his food, mentally and physic-
ally.
The mineral wealth massed in the.
ridge of azoic and paleozoic rocks that
terminate at Lands End Cornwall,
England), drew the ships Of the Phen-
ecians from the eastern shores of the
| Mediterranean through the Gate Of
Hercules (Gibraltar), to mine tin ores;
caused the legion of Caesar to cross the
| Straits of Dover, and found Luds-town
Gondon); to build macadamized roads;
started the emigration Of Saxons from
the upper Rhine, the Danes, Normans,
Tudors, Stewards, and has been the
theatre where has been enacted the
great mining drama OF Western Europe.
| So will the mineral wealth stored in the
| aZO1C ana pOl6OAOlC SbIdU6 "a GLS OAdrk
range Qron Mountain regions of South
Missouri, in the center of the CONT
nent, in the future times, aggregate the
actors who are to play each his part
in the future continental mining
drama.
THE guides over the Alps who STAY
above the snow line, and are obliged to
drink snow water, carry piece OF slate
and scrape the earthly material in each
man cup at lunch time, till the,
water is muddy, and then drink it.
The natural instinct of these uneduca-
ted men had taught them that the osse-
Gus system must berenewed Ten barrels
OF ground plaster of paris daily emptied
IN the Croton reservoir, New York,
would purify the water and renew tho
osseous systems of the people of that
city. Ii the people who 1--we on the
Low, 70, o1a4t e l.