Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-12-15
CURIOUS, USEFUL AND SCIENTIFIC
THE HIGHEST.

that mountain must be taken, IN the alb
sence of other and more accurate deter
limitations, to be the highest in the world.
INCREASING THE YIELD OF MILK.
Water made slightly salt, and to which
bran In the proportion of one quart to
every gallon has been added, is said to
increase the yield ofnilk by25 per cent,
it is given to COWS as their ordinary
drink. After short time the COWS will
refuse pure water, unless they are very
thirsty.
''BOXING THE EARS.
More than one case has lately been
brought under public notice, in which
serious consequence have resulted from
schoolmasters and mistresses Furnishing
children by severely choking the ears. F"
The not unfrequent results of this form
of discipline are rupture of the tym-
panum, deafness and sometimes concus-
sion of the brain, with lifelong injury.
Gaming on the back and shoulders is the
least Objectionable form of physical pun
ishment where any is authorized. -BYit-
ISL Medical Journal.
NOVEL HEAT INDICATOR.
Taking hint from the photophone,
VI. German has described to the French
Academy a photo-electric regulator of
heat for the burning in of stained glass;
the principle being, that when a part of
the muff1e-furnace attains cherry red
heat, this reduces the electric resistance
of ball of selenium at the focus of
paraboic reflector, and the seleDium be-
ing In a thermo electric circuit, gives
free passage to the current which rings
bell, or works an arrangement by which
the fuel is turned aside.
ARTIFICIAL EYES.
Artificial eyes have been used from the
remotest times, and it is said that they
have been found among the mummies of
ancient Egypt, The artificial eye is not
a globe, but is mere she'll Some are
so well made and so carefully adapted
that they escape detection not only by
casual observers, but also by doctors
conversant with the strides made of late
years In this department. It is essential
that the eye should not be too thick, on
account Of its weight. and it must not be
too thin, or 1t will be brittle There are
many advantages IN wearing a false eye
after the true one Is lost. 1t keeps the
eyelids In their proper position, it pre-
vents the lashes from turning inward and
producing irritation, and it prevents for
eign bodies from entering the eve
Many servant wears an artificial eye
without his employer being aware OF it.
FEW FIGURES.
A man walks miles an hour: a horse
trots z; steamboats, run II; sailing YES
sells make 10; slow rivers flow 4; rapid
rivers flow z; moderate winds blow z;
storms move36; hurricanes s; rife ball
1000 miles an hour; sound 743; light
100, 900; electricity 100000 A barrel of
hour weighs 1876 pounds: barrel of pork
200 pounds; barrel Of powder %; a
frkn of butter Sc; tub of butter 81;
wheat, beans and clover seed 81 pounds
TO the bushel; corn, rye and hax-seed Sc;
buckwheat 81; barley 48; oats 35; coarse
salt So; 80 drops make dracbm; s
drachms make one ounce; four ounces
make gill; 60 drops make a teaspoon
full, a tablespoonful J of an ounce; 4.840
square yards make one acre; square
mile is $40 acres; to measure an acre,
200 feet on each side, makes a square
acre within an inch. There are 1856
Languages, One person dies at each pull
sation of the heart; generation Is 80
years; average of life 81 years;
PORTABLE ELECTRIC LIGHT.
Atthe Glasgow exhibition of illuminat-
ing apparatus there was a complete
portable device for supplying four large
electric lights of "a, 000-candle power,
and able to light up perfectly hall 400
feet long by 159 feet wide It consists
of e. 6-horse power portable steam en-
CINE, having In front carriage to which
four Gramme dynamo-electrlc machines
are driven by four belts Two of the
belts are on each hywheel of the engine.
and as one of the belts has been arranged
TO work outside of the other, the t1y-
wheels are not of unusual width. AS
the jurors of this late exhibition are Sir
William Thompson, DR.. J. Hopkinson,
Prof James Thorson, DIR. James T.
Bottomley. DIR. Wallace, Mr. st. John
Vincent Day and Mr.. Mortimer Evans,
their report is looked for with much In,
terest The systems of electric light on
exhibition were the Mackenzie or Strobe,
the Loutin, the Cromptom and the Brush.
ga NEW MECHANICAL MOTION"
The inventor of ''a new mechanical
motion is reported, designed for work.
ing metal, wood or stone into irregular
forms and surfaces, which have hereto
fore been reached only by hand labor
and the graver's tool. The agent is de
scribed as being applicao ole to perpen
dicular, reciprocating rotary, or spira
motion. The tools, which are of various
shapes, according to the nature of th'
work required, are caused to strike yer,
rapid blows,-from {, 1000 to 5000 min
ute-and are said to produce certain new
and useful results heretofore impossible
to be effected by any known machine
It is claimed that many classes of use
full and ornamental work, hitherto don,
by hand at great expense, may b.
wrought out by this new device will
great rapidity, beauty, and accuracy
even with the unskilled labor of boy
and girls. The machines are applicabl
alike to the finest work in gold and sill
yer, or to large masses OF iron, wood an