Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-04-04

projecting twenty or thirty nm. above
its upper surface into the lampglass; this
| tube preferably ends ip 81 wide Jet of
rolled platinum foil. Two other holes In
the cork, symmetrically placed on either
side the center, through which pass
short tubes joined by T-piece and india
rubber tube to the gas supply, serve to
| feed the apparatus with coal gas. The
gas is turned on and lighted above the
gauze. A narrow glass tube is pushed
up through theopen tube in the cork and
| through the hole In the middle of the
gauze into the coal-gas flame. On gently
blowing through this narrow tube (Which
| for convenience should have flexible
india-rubber tube attached to it,, the
breath catches fire at the coal gas flame,
and the tube may be gently withdrawn,
when its little flame ignites the air enter
ing the apparatus by the short open
tube. The draught of the flame fur
nishes quite enough air to burn; and the
apparatus, once lighted, will continue to
act as long as the supply of coal-gas is
kept up. The best air flame is got by
diminishing the gas supply to the lowest
point consistent with the continued ex-
istence of the air flame.
PRIMEvAL CELTIC MAP-sTONES.
In many parts of Switzerland are often
found smooth, fiat stones, evidently
hand polished, and covered with dots,
lines, circles, and half-circles. The or
igin and use of these stones, known
as ScbatenSte5ne, has long been a moot
point among the learned. Some have
thought they were charms, others that
they were meant to commemorate the
dead, or that the signs on them were
undecipherable hieroglyphics; but it has
been reserved for Herr Rodiger, of Bel
ZACH, in Solothurn, to throw a new light
ON those mysterious relics of the past
and suggest a theory concerning them
which seems to meet all the necessities of
the case. The Scbd7enSteine, he says,
are neither more or less than topograph-
zeal charts, as a comparison of them
with any modern map of the districts in
which they are found will show. The
engraved dots correspond with existing
towns and villages, the lines with roads.
Even the fords and mountain passes are
indicated. Herr Rodiger has examined
many of these stones from various parts
of the country, and he possesses a col
lection, picked up in Solothurn, which
form togethera map of the entire canton.
Another significant circums lance is that
the SchGlenSte5gae are mostly found at in
tervals of about two hours (say, six
miles, from each other, and at spots
where several roads meet. The former
Herr Rodiger calls "headstones" (hGupt-
steine), the latter he denominates "by-
stones" Cae6enStej7e). If he be right
in his hypothesis, the places where these
stones are met with possessed consider
able populations long before the dawn of
history; even the villages shown on the
ScbGLenSte57le must be far older than the
Christian era. Herr Rodiger considers
the Swiss map-stones to be of the same
origin as the similar stones which are
found IN Germany, Scandinavia, India,
and further Asia, and sees in them an
other proof of the high antiquary and
common origin of the Indo- Germanic
races, and the existence among the lat
ter, IN an indefinitely remote age, of
civilized habits, organized trade, and
more culture than is generally supposed.
Genera Cor. London Times.