Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-01
How LECTURERS are Paid.

have got into print, which may very
likely exaggerate in some cases,
but are probably tolerably near the
truth on the whole. The first in i'm
portance as a sensation is, of course,
Mr.. Beecher. Redpath makes Mr..
Beecher's engagements, and it is stated
that he has the famous preacher down
this season for so lectures at $500 each,
but this is not wholly credited, espec-
tally as to the $500 per lecture. Persons
who have the means of knowing say
the amount is $500 instead of $500,
which would bring the gross figures
down to $4,000. Deduct $4,000 for
expenses, and FL. w. B. will have
$4,000 for lecturing as well as $4,000
for preaching-a tolerably snug in
come. Beecher took the field some
weeks ago. Iilton has also "inaugu-
rated" his season, and was on his way
home from lecture in Vermont when
he got into that scrape in sleeping
car. He lectured eight months last
year, and cleared $4,000. His terms
average $3.50 per night. DIR. E. II.
Chaplin and Wendell Phillips get $3.50
d night, but neither of them will con-
sent to 60 more than days journey
from home. DR.. Holland gets $125 a
night, and George William Curtis the
same, though the latter is out of the
field this season. The lively Cough
"takes" better than other man on the
lecture list except Beecher, and can
get from 5000 to $3.50 each for all the
lectures he can deliver Frederick
Douglass averages averages about forty
nights in the season, and his price is
500. He is not so much in demand
as he was a few years ago. De Cor
dOva, who carries on business as tea
merchant in New York, lectures for
800 and expenses. Robert Collyer
easily gets 1925, and DR.. Lord the same.
Ladies who succeed on the platform
command almost as high figures as the
men. Grace Greenwood could get
fifty engagements at 800 each. Mrs.
Abby Sage Richardson asks the same
amount. Mrs. Waller, the successor
Of Charlotte Cushman as q reader, is
good for 1925 to $3.50 every night.
Anna Dickinson topped them all, but
she has abandoned the platform for
the stage.
The Centre of the Earth.
A remarkable address has been de-
livered by Sir William Thomson in the
Physical Section of the British Associa-
ton on the subject Of the fluid or solid
nature of the earth's kernel. While not
denying that certain portions of the
earth's interior are In molten Or fluid
state, Sir William Thomson maintained,
on various more Or less reconcile
grounds, that no large proportion of
the earth's interior can by any possibil-
ity be in the condition of molten fluid.
" [ may say, with almost perfect GER
tainty, that whatever may be the rela-
tive densities of rock solid and melted,
at or about the temperature of lique-
faction, it is, think, quite certain that
cold solid rock is denser than hot melt
ed rock; and no possible degree
of rigidity in the crust
could prevent it from breaking
in pieces, and sinking wholly below the
liquid lava. Something like this may
have gone on, and probably did 60 on,
for thousands of years after solidifca-
ton commenced; surface portions Of
Tie HeltGu uatGIIal, losing ueat, 1To6Z-
ing and sinking Immediately, Or grow
ing to thicknesses Of q few metres
where the surface would be cool, and
the whole solid dense enough to sink.
This process must go On until the sunk
portions Of crust build up from the
bottom sufficiently close-ribbed skele-
ton or frame to allow fresh incrusta-
ton to remain, bridging across the now
small areas of lava pools or lakes"
That is q striking picture of the growth
of the round earth" which was once
supposed to have been made from the
first :" SO fast that it cannot be moved"
We are sorry to be robbed CT the be-
lief in the central lava ocean, after all.