Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-05
CURIOUS, USEFUL AND SCIENTIFIC.
WHAT ECONOMY DID.

In CastletOn, VT, there is a clergy
man who was employed nearly fifty years
on salary ranging from $3.50 to 81 900
year. Forty years ago his family con
sisted of himself, wife and four children,
all supported on compensation of $500
year, and not yard of carpeting or a
stove in the house. Now he is living a
retired life, with $50 yards of carpeting
and four stoves on the floors of his
dwelling, all of the most approved pat
terms of the present day. Besides that,
he has son in. Massachusetts, one in
New Hampshire, one III Pennsylvania,
one in Oregon, one in Wisconsin, two in
the state of New York, and son-in-law
in Castleton. boston Herald.
ASKING NATURALIZATION AT NINETY NINE.
James Scott, aged SO years, a native
OF Ireland, came down from Campton-
Willie yesterday to take out naturaliza-
ton papers. He was unable to secure
them, Judge Reyes being absent. Mr..
Scott will go back to his home near
Camptonville and come here again with
the same object Ill the course of few
weeks. He has settled on government
land and wishes to perfect his title. It
is not often that man SO years old is
found seeking naturalization papers,
more especially when the object is to
secure a homestead. Most men are
generally pretty we'll settled, above or
below ground, SO years after their birth.
-MarySViUe, (Cak) appeal.
MADRAS GREEN SUN.
Some excitement is stated by the In
dian papers to have been caused amongt the
people of the Madras presidency by the
fact of the sun having recently presented
bright green appearance, particularly
near the time of setting. Prof. Niche
Smith, in commenting upon this phenom-
enon, observes that as far as he can dis
cover the appearance of a.green sun is
very uncommon. Mr.. Lockyer, how
ever, once observed the sun to be of a
vivid green when seen through the steam
Of little paddle-bo on Lake Winde-
mere, and this circumstance, he thinks,
points to a solution of the difficulty, and
shows that the cause of the appearance
is an unusual amount of actual vapor,
and not condensed into clouds. Some
experiments with the spectrum, of which
Prof. Smith gives the de tails, appear to
confirm this hypothesis. London Daily
NeeOS.
| A LOST PORT.
A curious discovery has been made at
the treasury department, which illus
trates the necessity of revision of the
customs laws. The officials, in preparing
map of the customs districts, discov-
cred in the treasury list port of delIv-
cry in Maryland, the name of which
could not be found upon any record or
any map. Inquiry was made at the
coast survey for information as to the
| locality of this port, and the coast sur
vey had no knowledge of it. Finally,
after protractod search, it was found
that there was such place on the ocean
side of the eastern shore of Maryland
half a century ago, but that it was
washed away, and became part of the
ocean fully fifty years ago. Yet the
place, or what was that place, is still
borne upon the treasury books as one
of the ports of entry of the United
| States.
BOHEMIAN RESURRECTION.
A terrible story is reported from Ma
cheno, In Bohemia. A man apparently
dead had just been lowered into the
grave, when suddenly the coffin lid be-
gan to move and the supposed corpse,
wrapped In its linen shroud, sat up.
The unhappy man had not, meanwhile,
| been in an insensible condition. He
had been conscious throughout his
illness of all that had been taking place
around him. He knew, that is to say,
that he was looked upon as dead and
possibly enjoyed the doubtful advantage
of hearing what his friends had to say
about him. The grief of some, the in
difference of others, If he was aware of
it must have added much to his suffer
ings. The mourners, we are told, were
mortified . when they found that the
man about whose grave they stood had
been only in trance, seemingly in
some such an@sthetic state as that pro-
duced by curari, which, without de-
stroying sensibility, prevents the ex-
preston of suffering. More frightful
torture can scarcely be imagined.-St.
James Gazette. -s "a. ~. .-...sr
~ DANGEROUS POTTERY.
A communication has lately been made
10y M. Puyrusson to the Academy of
Sciences in Paris, calling attention to
the danger to the public health by the
use of pottery which has been finished
off with glaze, in the manufacture of
which white lead is used. It is desir-
able this form of glaze should be re-
placed with one made of silicate of soda
and borax, as it has been found that the
acid of certain vegetables, and even of
milk slightly turned, is sufficient to dis
solve portion of lead from the surface,
if left in the vessel several hours. This
has been the origin of several mysteri-
| og r-1&1
symptoms of slow poisoning from ap
parently unknown causes, few people
imagining that their sufferings were
caused by the earthenware in general
use. M. Peyrusson is of opinion that if
glazed vessels are placed in water kept
at heat of 1902 for half an hour or so,
they lose their dangerous properties,
and are no longer acted upon by the
acids contained in SO many articles of
food in daily MISCELLANEOUS Journal.
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