Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-04-19

selves three or four times more eXhib-
ing space as they could otherwise have
had.
Upward of a hundred foremen from
the workshops Of France will attend
the exhibition purposely to study
American industrial progress.
Russia has applied for 5000 square
feet Of space in the art gallery, but On
account of. the lateness Of the applica-
ton, it is impossible to grant her more
than 1000.
Geography as it is Going to Be.
AS certainly as terrestrial revolutions
continue, in the course of 10000 years,
says a writer in the Popular Science
Monthly for April, there must come an
entire reversal of polar conditions.
The southern waters must be drained
Off to make the oceans of an opposite
hemisphere. New lands, enriched with
the sediment of a hundred centuries,
will rise up to extend the borders of
the old south continents, and islands
joining together will expand into main
lands. At the same time the northern
continents must be in great part sub
merged, and their SUBMITS and ranges
become the bleak islands and the bold
headlands Of a tempestuCus ocean.
Central Asia, with its broad table lands,
may still retain the name Of a CONT
nent; but beyond a few outlying ISL
ands there will be no Europe and but
little of North America left. The At
lantic waters will stand 500 feet over
Lake Superior, and will wash the base
Nf fl,o A L
length. A new gulf stream may
again, as it must often have done be-
fore, flow up the valley Of the Missis-
sippi, returning the deltas to the prai-
les, and remaking the beds Of the gar
dens Of the world.
These are no idle or impossible fam
cies. Not only are they the results of
rigorous calculation, but they accord
perfectly with the unmistakable evil
dences which the ocean has left all over
our native land, of its recent work and
presence.
Making Land In Holland.
The work of draining off an inland
sea, now going ON in Holland, will take
from twelve to twenty years. About
4S5,776 acres will be inclosed by the
dyke, and deducting one-tenth for
canals, there will remain nearly 49,
600 acres of which nearly $4,000 acres
will be sandy, of little use to agricul-
ture, but invaluable for public works.
The reservoirs will be. made on this
surface, and will cover about $500
acres The. cost of the work is expect
ed to be about $4S,O00,00O in gold, or
about 1923 an acre for 100000 acres.
But this does not include interest,
which, on capital of s4S,000,OO0, for
say sixteen years, would be a serious
matter. With interest computed on an
advantageous arrangement with the
government, the cost would be $51, $780,
900, or 1888 per acre. The Harlem
drainage cost only $123, and even that
did not pay, though the land has
doubled in value since. It is estimated
that the addition of this territory to
Holland will increase the revenues
$4,000 yearly. aa
Harvest Hands in California.
The Santa Rosa (Cal. Times of March
%, has the subjoined: /" It is thought
that from two to five thousand white
uOli, luOlS tI1d1l tllOoO uOW Ill Vic S1c1CC,
could find employment in harvesting
the grain and hay of California from
the middle of May until the middle Of
Augustine rate of wages being from
$3.50 to So per day and board. That
the state will harvest an immense
wheat crop, the winter rains have made
a certain fact. We hope the state, es-
pecially this section including old
Sonoma, will show such prospects in
the forthcoming grain yield that a host
of laborers will be needed. There is
much doubt, however, as to how long
work will last after the LIST Of Septem-
her, This being the case, those who
have no money to go into business with
at the end Of that time, should not risk
leaving the states for what may be q
that the competition is such as was new
er before dreamed Of at home. There
is no encouragement for idle gentilty
and though there is plenty of money in
the state, every stranger cannot pick
up purseful at his own notion"
THE late Charles Danforth, of Pater.
son. N. j., in a will made in 1867, be-
queathed 100000 to endow a female
seminary, but in a codicil made in 1870
he revoked the bequest because the pro
visions made for public schools were
very liberal, but the schools were mo-
conducted in an economical manner
and the State Legislature, through the
corruption or incompetency of its Sen
ators and Representatives, had granted
such extraordinary powers 10 the City
Council that the property holoers hao
been plundered and oppressed by I'M
just and burdensome taxation. The
document closes with the hope that hi
heirs may have sufficient to pay the ex
actions which may be levied upo1
them. Mr.. Danforth left over 81 900,
| 600.