Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-06-21

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placed by solution of common salt.
CLOUD OF SEEDS.
A remarkable cloud, observed in
Guatemala during eight consecutive days
of last February, was found to consist
OF seeds floating in the air. The stream
of particles resembled snowhakes in APP
pearance, and was only visible when be-
tween the observer and the sun.
sonIDIFIED WINES.
An italian has invented a process of
solidifying wines. A small quantity of
the substance stirred in water repro
duces the article to it's original state A
French chemist has, according to the
London Medical News, found means of
crystallizing brandy, which resembles
alum in appearance, and dissolves readi-
ly. The object of both processes is to
facilitate transportation.
WONDERFUL OPERATION.
Prof. Gussenbauer, of Prague, over
year ago removed the laryDx and epig
lottis of patient suffering from cancer
GUS larynx, and supplied an artificial
larynx and vocal cords. The patient is
a riding teacher, the best in Sprague,
and is busy continually. He suffers
neither inconvenience nor pain. His
speech is perfectly Ineligible, and he
eats and drinks with facility. This is
the best living example of what the art
of the surgeon and mechanician can do
for such terrible disease as cancer of
the larynx.
A REMARKABLE CAVERN.
The celebrated "Kent's Hole" Of the
biologists is located near Torquay, in
Devonshire, England This remarkable
cavern, first scientifically explored in
1924 by Catholic clergyman, has given
up remains of the mammoth, rhinoceros,
hyena, elk, and other animals now ex-
tinct in England, together with many
hints and other relics of ancient man.
The earth in the cave has now been ex-
plored to great depth, and the finding
of human jaw far below the surface has
added link to the chain of evidence es-
tabllshlng mans great antiquity.
LOCOMOTIVE BUILDING.
From the statistics of the locomotive
industry it appears that it takes five men
about one year to construct locomotive
at the present time. In 1885, the date at
which the industry really assumed a
standing in this country, at about which
time the Baldwin Locomotive Works and
the locomotive establishment at Pater-
son, n. j., commenced business, it took
more than double that number of hands
the space of eighteen months to make an
engine. The difference in time and la
Dor saved must be looked for in the i'm
provement of the old machinery and the
invention of new machinery and appli-
ances.-Mechanic
THE UMBRELLA.
AS to the origin of the word umbrella.
The English name is borrowed from the
italian umbrella. The Latin term uaa-
bella is applied by botanists to those
blossoms which are clustered at the ex-
tremities of several spokes, radiating
from common stem like the metallic
props of the umbrella. The term, as is
seen, does not give the slightest idea of
the use of the article so designated and
we might well take lesson from our
cousins, German or French, who have
invented distinct names for that used to
ward off the rays of the sun and that
employed against rain-namely, rege1a-
Schirn1, pardptura;; Sora,ae1asch5rno, par
asol.
USEFUL CONTINUANCE.
Most people who use screw-drivers
must be occasionally inclined to use
strong language at their persistency in
slipping out of the nick and their refusal
to go into it. All that is wanted is a
short tube, big enough to enclose the
screw-head somewhat tightly, but only
spring tight, so that it may rise as the
screw-head comes near the wood. Also,
to provide for heads of different sizes
with the same driver. All this can be
done by just turning tin tube, three or
four inches long, like slate pencil case,
big enough to slide over the widened
part of round screw-driver, and then
fitting spring-tight on the shank by
means of a piece OF leather wrapped
round it; and for larger screws than
usual, you might pull the socket off and
put larger on, with thicker piece of
leather. / find it answers perfectly, but
just put the tubed Rrew-driver on and
turn. 1t will drop into the nick at the
first haf-turn, and stay there till the
screw is screwed home.
HOW LIGHT AFFECTS THE BLIND.
An interesting account has been lately
furnished by NJ. Plateau, the eminent
Belgian physicist (who has been blind
nearly forty years., of the sensations he
experiences in his eyes. He has no sense
OF objective light even when turning his
eyes to the sun. But his visual field is
always divided into spaces, some of which
are pretty bright and others sombre or
nearly dark, and which merge into each
other. Their general tint alternates, in
time, between gray and reddish. The
relative arrangement of those different
spaces is always bright The central
space seems now rather bright, now very
dark; above and below, and on the left
to the limits of the field, there is some
times brightness, sometimes darkness,
but on the right there is generally YER
tical band, nearly black, and beyond this
space which is nearly always bright
and reddish. These appearances follow
all the movements of the eyes, which
probably do not participate in the same
way In the tints, but M. Plateau cannot
distinguish what belongs to one from
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