Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-14
What will Surprise an Indian.

least appropriate accuracy.
What will Surprise an Indian.
The Indian has little actual and COM
mon experience of many articles of
civilized manufacture, the simplest of
which is as entirely beyond his COM
prehension as the most complicated.
He would be a simple exclamation
point did he show surprise at every
thing new to him, or which he did not
understand. He goes to the other ex-
IRENE, and rarely shows or feels sur
prise at anything. He visits the States,
looks unmoved at the steamboat and
locomotive. People call it stoicism.
They forget that to his ignorance the
production Of a glass bottle is as in
scrutable as the sound of the thunder.
A piece of gaudy calico is marvel; q
common miracle. He knows nothing
of the comparative difficulties of in
vention and manufacture, and to him
the mechanism of q locomotive is not
in any way more a matter of surprise
than that Of 8 wheelbarrow. When
things In their own daily experience
are performed in what to them is re
markable way, they do express the
most profound establishment. l have
seen several hundreds of Indians,
eager and excited, following from one
telegraph pole to another q repairer,
whose legs were encased in climbing
boots. When he walked easily, foot
over foot, up the pole, thei surprise
and delight found vent in the
most vociferous expressions of ap-
plause and admiration. A white
lady mounted on side-saddle,
in what to the Indian woman would be
almost an impossible position, would
excite more surprise and admiration
than would a Hoe printing press in full
operation.
A Charmed Statesman.
Miss Adelaide Nelson, visiting the
Virginia Legislature, recently, ended
was Immediately surrounded by ad-
miring statesmen. AS she turned to
depart, one of the delegates was speak
ing. Although he was addressing the
Speaker, he no managed at the same time
to hear that the actress was leaving the
House. He looked around to see her
before she left, and as his eyes fell
upon her, he stopped in the middle Of
sentence, in the midst of the most
convincing part of his argument, and
in the most eloquent portion of his
speech. He forgot Speaker, House,
and Commonwealth. ''Mr. Speaker
er- er-er; Mister Speaker"
but he could not get further on. 1t
was evident that he could not speak
and look at Miss Nelson at the same
time. This wandering of mind and
eyes was more than even the sedate,
stately and grim House could stand.
The House of Delegates of Virginia
roared. This restored Mr.. Clarke, and,
like q man who had walked from a
dream, he went on with his speech.
A Natural Curiosity.
A reporter of the Pittsburgh Gazette
was recenAy shown what is certainly a
curiosity. This is fish, between four
and q half and five inches in length,
somewhat resembling the catfish that
inhabit our rivers, which had been taken
out of an oyster shell. An evening or
two ago, gentleman went into John
" DAAOA odAOOl, OA A14lo1AOAu oVA OOo,
above Strawberry alley, and called for
half dozen raw. on the half shell"
While opening the shells, the manipu-
lator of the bivalves was astounded on
opening one that looked as if it con
tanned fine oyster, to discover the fish,
snugly ensconsced therein, but dead anc
fat. The gentleman took the fish &c
Mr.. William Dauler, in the furniture
store next door, who placed 1t In 8
bottle of alcohol. How it got IN the
shell is an unsolvable enigma, except
on the hypothesis that 1t entered to de
YOUR the oyster while the latter had lts
shell open. Mr.. Dauler proposes t(
give the fish, which for the singularit!
of its development is novelty in itself
to the Western University, his Aims
Mater, to be placed in the museum.
AGRICULTURAL Hall, at the Centen
NAL, is to be taken apart and shipped
to Spring Lake, near Sea Glrt. Gut
the wood and glass hotel, q rallroa'
depot, and eight cottages are to b
uilt.
The ice men Say they have rarel
"sawn" 80 large crop.