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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-16
How Old is the World.
London Academy.

Biologists, astronomers, ana Dhysl-
ciStS alike have hitherto been batf1ed IN
their attempts to set up any satisfa Glory
kind of chronometer which will approx
imately measure geological time, and
thus give us some clew to the. antiquity
of our globe. 1t is therefore worth not
ing that Mr.. Mellard Reade, of Liver
pool, has lately contributed to the Roy
al society very suggestive paper, in
which he endeavors to grapple with the
question by employing the limestone
rocks Of the earth's crust as an index
of geological time. Limestones have
been in course Of formation from the
earliest known geological periods, but it
would appear that the later formed
strata are more calcareous than the
earlier, and that there has, in fact, been
a gradually progressive increase of cal
careous matter. The very extensive
deposition of carbonate Of lime over
| wide areas of the ocean bottom at the
present day is sufficiently attested by
| the recent soundings Of the Challenger.
According to the authors estimate, the
sedimentary crust of the earth is at
least one mile in average actual thick
ness, of which probably one tenth con-
sists of calcareous matter. In seeking
the origin of this calcareous matter, it
is assumed that the primitive rocks of
| the original crust were Of the nature Of
granite or basaltic rocks. By the disin-
| tegration of such rocks, calcareous and
other sedim entary deposits have been
| formed. The amount of limesalts in
water which drain districts made up of
granite and basalts is found, by COM
parlsOn of analyses, to be, on al aver
age, about 373 parts in 100, 900 parts Of
water. 1t is further assumed that the
exposed areas of igneous rocks, taking
an average throughout all geological
time, will bear to the exposures of sedi
mentary rocks ratio of about one to
nine. From these and other data Mr..
Reade concludes that the elimination
OF the calcareOus matter now found in
all the sedimentary strata must have
occupied at least 6OO,O0O,OOO of years.
This, therefore, represents the mini
mum age of the world. The author in
fers that the formation Of the Lauren
tan, Cambrian, and Silurian strata
must have occupied about 20O,OOO,OO0
of years; the old red sandstone, the car
boniferous, and the poikilitic systems,
another 20O,0OO,0O0. Mr.. Reade is,
therefore, led to believe that geological
time has been enormously in excess of
the limits argued by certain physicists;
and that it has been ample to allow for
all the changes which, on the
hypothesis of evolution, have occurred
in the organic world.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-16

"When I was down in the San Juan
country, bout five years ago, a pros
pectin' around in Cunningham's Gulch,
along of two or three more of the boys,
we saw some goats cavortin' around on
what appeared to us to be the tip-top of
the mountain. We made up our minds
that those goats belonged to us, an pre-
pared accordin'. One of us pulled off
his boots an began to climb up to drive
the critters down, while the rest on us
ambushed at the only place where we
thought they could come. Pete-that's
the Teller that elm up-Pete, when he
got to the top, found that he was about
hundred foot above the goats, which
was standin' on the edge of a precipice
morn three hundred foot high. Pete
riz up an hollered an threw stones at
the goats. The critters didn't stop a
mint to hold council on what they
should do, but just gin one jump an
over the precipice they went. We
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-16
A Joke at the Bay State Capitol.
Boston Herald

Senator Knowlton, of Bristol, is for
getful man, even to depositing his hat
and coat in sundry aforementioned
places. He has often lost a train by
having to delay to find his garments. A
few days ago he dropped his Old Colony
Railroad pass in the room Of the COM
mittee on railroads, Of which he is a
member. The other members Of the
pass-laden committee thought to have 8
joke at the Bristol senator's expense.
So they cooked up letter to Senator
KnoWlton, enclosing the pass, and sign
ed by " President Choate," Of the Old
Colony. The letter informed Senator
Knowlton that the pass had been re-
turned to the writer president Choate)
by pawnbroker, who had been refund
ed the money advanced upon the pass.
The letter then admonished Senator
Knowlton, if he wanted money hereaf-
ter, to apply to the corporation, and not
to pawn his pass. A messenger handed
the letter to the Bristol senator, who
was nightly cut up in consequence.
Down he sat and wrote note to AttOr-
ney-General Marston, who is clerk of
the Old Colony, asking him to refund
the money President Choate had paid
the pawnbroker, and enclosing the pass.
The senator Indignantly denied that he
was "any such man as to pawn his
railroad pass. The Attorney General
received the letter of his senatorial
friend, and sat himself down and wrote
to President Choate, giving Senator
Knowlton the highest possible COM
mendation for honesty and all gentle
manly qualities. President Choate's
turn to be astonished now came. He
wrote letter to the Attorney-G
expressing his perfect confidence in
Senator Knowlton. Next the Old Col
ony President came up to the state
house to inquire what all this meant.
He was told that the whole thing was a
huge joke. All the correspondence is
now in the Bristol Senator's pocket.
His pass was also returned.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-16
Wonderful Las Tinajas.

4 wonderful place is Las Tinajas,
about thirty miles southeast of Mission
Camp. The mountains have one face
of hard: smooth granite. All the water
falling upon this basin has to flow
through nine tanks, one above the
other. The lower tanks are of easy &C.
cess, and are often drained of their con-
tents by men travelling between Yuma
and Sonora. The upper tanks are APP
preached only by circuitous and diti-
cult climbing over rocks. 70 one
standing below they afford no indica-
ton of their existence, nor does the
steep mountain-side seem possible to
ascend to one unacquainted with the
way to do il. In the upper tank water
has never been known to fail. To this
water comes game of all kinds, in
great numbers, from the great waterless
country around Las Tinajas. Antelope,
mountain sheep and dear of several
kinds come in herds. Rabbits and
hares are as plenty as anywhere and
are prey for uany coyotes and beauti.
full rock-foxes.
One would think that all this game
would be thinned out by the Papago
Indians who inhabit the country. But
those Indians are superstitious and
avoid Las Tinajas with abject terror
Within two miles of this water are
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-16

certainly $50 graves, and probably more
each marked by rows of stones laid
in the form of a cross. Scores of men.
famished for water, have expended
their last strength in reaching Las
Tinajas, only to find the lower tanks
dry; and, ignorant of the upper ones,
have lain down in despair to die. Their
remains have been buried by later
travellers and the graves marked Mexi-
can fashion, by cross of stones. Dur
ing the rush to the gold fields Of Cali
fornia, cholera attacked adventures on
the road from Mexico, as it did Ameri-
can immigrants along the Platte; pesti-
lence combined with thirst to gather
corpses at Las Tinajas. Recollections
Of bleaching bones and grinning skulls
protect the game from PapagO arrows
and fint-locks.
After passing through it's usual fer
mentation, the water becomes clear
and pure as any in the world; it comes
from the clouds only, and flowing into
the tanks over insoluble granite, it car
rles no mineral matter. Every heavy
rain pours q whirling torrent through
the tanks, washing them out to the
very bottom; no organic matter stays
behind. The number and variety of
birds mere is marvellous, many of
them appearing of new and undescribed
species. At morning and evening the
din OF their songs, confined by the
sides Of the mountain, is almost deaf
ening. All around Las Tinajas is the
remarkable vegetation of the desert;
near It's tanks are many and curious
plants nourished by their moisture,
The place is one of much interest.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-16
What She Risked to Get Married.

Officers of the Iron Mountain road in
Missouri give the details Of romantic
and rather exciting episode which oc-
Cured recently on that line. At Bel
mont a woman of fine personal appear
ance and handsomely dressed purchased
ticket to go north. After travelling
about a mile, and while the train was
at full speed, she suddenly arose, and
walking quickly to the door, she sprang
out into darkness. She was observed
to 60 to the door, but at the time no
one supposed she had made so dan
gerous a leap. In due time, however,
she again appeared at Belmont, having
walked back along the track, without
having sustained any injuries. She
then explained that she was from the
south, and went under a marriage en-
gagement, but that her stern grand
father interfered and the only chance
left was to seek some distant place for
the performance Of the marriage cere-
mony. A place on the line OF the rail-
road had been selected, where her lover,
who would be along by the next train,
was to meet her. 1t appeared, how
ever, that the grandfather, close in pur-
suit, was on the same train from Bel
mont with the fugitive, although he was
not aware Of her near proximity. She
caught sight Of him and without hest
tation left the car, as stated. After the
train had run a few miles, it was found
that she was missing, the conclusion
being that she had fallen from the car.
The grandfather having heard of the
circumstances at once concluded that
the reckless woman was the one for
whom he had been in hot pursuit, and
he took the first train back to Belmont.
Before he got there the lady had made
known her circumstances, and she had
no trouble in finding her friends. The
old gentleman made inquiries for her
upon his return, but was started off in
the wrong direction, and at the same
time watch was kept for the expected
lover, who was easily recognized from
the description she had given. Soon
after his arrival the two were united
legally and no longer feared pursuit.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-16
HOthadS.

The Irish Farmers Gazette (Dublin)
says: If gardeners and others will give
trial to the following plan they will
find it less than one fourth the expense
of glass frames, and much more useful:
Take white cotton cloth of a close
texture, stretch it, and nail it on frames
of any size you wish; mix ounces of
lime water, 4 ounces of linseed oil, /
ounce Of white Of eggs separately,
ounces of yolk of eggs; mix the lime
and oil with very gentle heat, beat the
eggs separately and mix with the for
mer. Spread the mixture with a paint
brush on the cloth, allowing each coat
to dry before applying another, I'm til
they become waterproof.
The following are some of the adyan-
tages these shades possess over glass:
1st.-TEe cost being hardly one
fourth.
2d.-Repairs are cheaply and easily
made.
3d.-They are light, they do not re-
qulre watering; no matter aow intense
the heat of the sun, the plants are never
struck down, faded, or checked in
growth, neither do they grow up long,
slckly, and weakly, as they do under
glass. and still there is abundance of
light The heat entirely arises from
below, and is equable and temperate,
which is a great object. The vapor
arises from the manure and earth. and
is condensed by the cool air passing I'M
der the surface of the shade, and hangs
in drops upon the inside, therefore the
plants do not require SO frequent water
ing. If the frames Or stretchers are
made large they should be intersected
with crossbars, about a foot square, to
support the cloth. These frames are
also we'll adapted for bringing forward
flowers in season. For forcing melons,
tomatoes, vegetables, etc., this prepared
cloth is especially adapted, as it can be
attached to boxes of any size and cut
to fit them. Little, though square,
boxes of the proper size and height,
covered with this prepared cloth, can
be placed over the beds in which
roots and seeds are planted, and the
plants allowed to stand without trans
planting until all danger of frost is over,
when the boxes may be taken off and
placed carefully away for another sea-
son.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-16
DREADFUL DIPHTHERTA,
What to do When it COmes---Yreatmen
of the Sick and Funerals Of the
Dead.

From the Circular OF the Massachusetts State
Board of Health.
In the first place, as diphtheria is a
contagious disease, and under certain
circumstances not entirely known, very
| highly so, it is important that all prac-
tical means should be taken to separate
the sick from the well. 1t is also infec-
tious, wooden cloths, carpets, curtains,
etc., should be avoided in the sick
room, and only such material used as
can be readily washed.
All clothes, when removed from the
patient should be laid aside, and in
their stead soft pieces of linen or cotton
cloth should be used, and at once
burned.
Disinfectants should always be placed
in the vessel containing the expectora-
ton, and may be used somewhat freely
in the sick room; those being especially
useful which destroy bad odors without
causing others (nitrate af lead, chloride
of zinc, etc. In schools there should
be especial supervision, as the disease
is often SO mild in its early stages as not
to attract common attention; and no
child should be allowed to attend school
from an infected house, until allowed
to do SO by q competent physician. In
the case of young children, all reason
able care should be taken to prevent
undue exposure to the cold.
Pure water for drinking should be
used. avoiding contaminated sources of
supply; ventilation should be insisted
on, and local drainage must be care
fully attended to. Privies and cess
pools, where they exist, should be fire.
quently emptied and disinfected; slop
water should not be allowed to soak in
to the surface of the ground near dwell
ling houses, and the cellars should be
kept dry and sweet. In cities especi-
ally in tidal districts, basins, baths, ETC.,
now connected with drains should never
communicate directly with sleeping
rooms.
In all cases of diphtheria, fully as
great care should be taken in disinfect-
ing the sick room, after use, as in scarlet
fever. Afther a death Of diphtheria,
the clothing disused should be burned
or exposed to nearly or quite a heat of
| boiling water; the body should be placed
as early as practicable in a coffin, with
disinfectants, and the coffin should be
tightly closed Children, at least, and
adults also in most cases, should not at
tend funeral from a house in which q
death from dlphtheria has occurred.
But with suitable precautions, it is not
necessary that the funeral should be
private, provided the corpse be not in
any way exposed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-16
CalifOrnia'S Strong Man.
Sacramento (Cal.) Record niOn.


The death of Charles Bennett, form
erly superintendent of the San Fran,
cisco Olympic Club, appears destined
to reopen the discussion concerning the
effects of muscular training upon vital.
ity. In order to reach any intelligent
conclusions, however, it is necessary to
state the case correctly in the beginning
The facts are briefly these Several
years ago Mr.. Bennett found himself
affected by symptoms Of pulmonary
disease. At that time he had never
practlced gymnastics, and was slender
and weakly. Acting npon the advice
of friends, he joined the Olympic Club
and went into something like regular
training. In a few months all his
alarming symptoms had disappeared
and, under the new regime, he rapidly
developed great muscular power. He
became eventually a remarkable attn
lete and active gymnast. His strength
was SO great that he could put up a
250-pound dumbbell with one hand
aud $50 pounds with the other. He
was an expert boxer, and daring aero.
bat. On one occasion, when the Olym-
pic Club gave an exhibition at the old
Metropolitan theatre, member named
Ward, a very daring gymnast, and q
well-known compositor, was performing
what is called the Niagara Leap, and
fell from the trapeze, some twenty-five
or thirty feet above the stage. Bennett
was standing directly underneath, and
as the falling man approached he
clasped him in his arms, and by the
exertion of his great strength saved his
life. though the shock strained him Sc
verely. When Mace, the pugilist, came
to California, Bennett put on the gloves
with him, and the champion was aston
ished to find an antagonist who could
knock him clear off his feet at every
blow. We believe that Mr.. Bennett
practically relinquished gymnastics five
or six years ago. Whether his death,
OF consumption, can be attributed to
over exertion, is a. question which GER
tainly can not be answered either way
confidently, until much more careful
examination of all the circumstances
has been had.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-16

thought we had 'em sure-an' though
we'd q leetle rather shot 'em-y1t we
didn't hev no special conscientious scru-
pies agin eatin' goat which had COM
mitted suicide. But we didn't eat any
of them goats, not by no means. They
Just came flynn down that perpendlck-
Ter rock fer MORN three hundred foot,
'bumpty, bumrty, bump tuchin' the
wall onct in bout every sixty foot until
they reached the bottom, where they
landed all right an struck out like light
MIN for the timber. | 'spose 'twould a
killed 'em if they'd jumped straight down
but We see they knew q trick worth two Of
tibet, an by touchin' the rock as they
come twas bout the same thing, we
see, as goin' down stairs. Now, I've
heerd folks say the goats jump off Of
high rocks an land on their heads, an
bein' kind of accustomed to buttin' it
didn't hurt 'em none. Them stories is
little too tough for me, an advise
we, stranger, fer to take no stock in any
thin man tells we that he can't say,
as he saw himself Goats is KNOWN
critters, thar's no doubt about that, but
they don't do half the wonderful things
which fellers as has no regard for truth
let on they do. [ did see one thing
onct, howsumdeaver, which [ never
saw,anything like it afore. Twas down
among the Sangre de Christie range
whar [ was lookin' round last Fall. l
saw an old goat walkin' bout half way
up big precipice on little shelvin'
path, which the same [ saw petered
out about the middle of the cliff. The
goat didn't know this, an came trottin'
along as pert an sassy as we please.
Pretty soon along came kid follerin' :,
an then l wondered how they was
agoin to git out of that scrape. The
path KEEP gettin' nearer an nearer
till it couldn't been morn six inches
wide an then it ended altogether. The
cid goat stopped and seemed kind Of
surprised like; first she looked down
twas bout 500 feet, guess-then she
looked up, an then she seemed to be
thinkin' the matter over. All at once
she riz up on her hind legs an swingin'
one of 'em over the edge, turned round
on the tother as if on a pivot, an then
dropping down on all tours, give a jump
over the kid an trotted back. The kid
didn't stop to go to the end Of the patti
but just riz up an copied the old ones
motions exactly.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-16

The agony oftight boots is traditional,
but so serious result of the torture is
not often reported as the Elmira Gazette
announces: A lad named Thomas
Near wore pair of boots that gave as
much pain to his feet as they did plea
sure to his eye. They not only pinched
his feet, but bruised the skin in places,
producing an eruption which rapidly
took malignant form, and, going to
his heart, produced death.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-16

SINCE its foundation in 1895 the pres
ent Paris Mint has coined 1,7OOOOO,0O0
gold pieces.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-16
A Heart-BrOken Merchant.

The shrewdness and business capaci-
ty that have made the Yankee the first
Of traders and promise to turn this
country into the workshop of the world
received striking and happy illustra-
ton the other day. The scene was
hereabouts, the characters a rising
young merchant and pretty woman.
He had an affection for her, she lik-
ing for him, SO they became bethrothed.
After a time, she found out that she
didn't love him we'll enough to marry
him, and the match was broken off. 1t
was a severe blow, and he staggered I'M
der it; but he fought well for himself,
protested that his life was ruined, asked
if she could not learn to love him, and
in all ways did the proper thing. She
was immovable, however, and he sadly
and reluctantly took his leave. While
his eyes were full of gathering tears, he
babe his faltering farewells, then closed
the door upon his hopes. A moment
later he opened it, stepped back into
the room, and with tears in his voice,
brokenly murmured, Il hope this will
make no difference about your coming
to the store, Miss; and that your
mother will continue to trade with us.
[ shall be happy to give the usual dis
count. Our stock is large and varied.
our aim to please" And the door shut
finally, leaving him alone with his
grief.
A TABLE OF wages and the cost of liv-
ing, with the price of staple articles of
commerce, going back as far as the
year 1900, has been published lately.
It shows that wages during the thir-
teenth century were about so cents a
week. In the next century they ad-
vanced some Is cents, and continued to
advance slowly until, in the last CEN
fury, they had reached $1.87. The
average for farm labor in the same
countries at present is $3.50 Der week.
Wheat in the thirteenth century aver
aged II cents, or eight and half days
labor, a bushel. Now wheat is worth,
wholesale, In Europe, about $1.46
hushel, or two and half days labor.
In six centuries meat has nearly trebled
in price, but wages have increased more
than sevenfold.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-03
NOTICE
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