Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-06
NO. "a
1t is estimated that about $4,000 per-
sons sail annually for Europe.

| sons sail annually Tor Europe.
The two coats of paint on the great
bridge at New York weigh 10000 pounds,
but the whole weight of steel in the air
is ID, $50 tons, and the load it is expected
always to be carrying is 3,100 tons more,
making 1870 tons. But each Of the
four cables will hold up more than 10000
tons.
In report upon the seaweed, upon
which many Of the poor in the distressed
districts in Ireland are at present depend
wholly unfit to be staple article of diet
for children, or even for adults, and that
it will soon run down the unhappy con-
sumers by diseases of wasting nature"
The surgical operation for the removal
Of a cancer in the mouth, recently per-
| formed upon Congressman William D.
Kelley, Of Philadelphia, was a very Sc
we're one. The right side Of his face was
| cut open from the corner of his mouth to
the base Of his ear. Six doctors were in
attendance upon him during the opera
| ton, which lasted two hours, he being
under the influence of ether all the time.
Mrs. Annie Besant, the Malthusian
apostle and editorial colleague of Charles
Bradlaugh, is now about forty years old,
| and is of Irish birth. When young she
was famed for her beauty, but an attack
of brain feYer destroyed the charms of
her countenance. She is now large,
well-proportioned woman, with dark
brown hair and dark gray eyes full of
fire. Her face is leonine, energetic, rest
less in expression She is finely educated
and has particularly logical mind. She
is planning to come to America soon on a
lecturing tour.
THESUEz CANAL SEWER.-The Suez
Canal. which has long been familiarly de-
scribed as the ditch through the desert,
is now, it seems, in fair way of becom-
ing an open and stagnant sewer The
stations en- its banks are drained into its
waters. It is never flushed, there is no
| tide .ssand the stencil is becoming intolera-
hle Diarrhea and sickness prevail on
board vessels detained in the canal, and
as detentions are increasing in number
and duration, the matter is becoming
serious M. De Lesseps must bestir him.
self, or this nuisance will constitute SER
ious addition to the long array of counts
in the indictment against his monopoly,
by which English shipowners are pre-
pairing to support their demand for a Sec
ond canal.-PaW Mall Gazette.
ga patch on the seat of boys trows-
ers," sapiently remarks a Connecticut
paper, sis something new under the son."
1t was once thought that anything new
was less valuable than an older competi-
tor. Age does not always bring wisdom,
however. We live IN an age of inven-
tions and Improvements. Ely's Cream
Balm is not new preparation. People,
hundreds of them, have used it for years.
1t is, however, new in one respect. 1t is
the only certain cure for catarrh so far
discovered. ''My daughter and myself,
great sufferers from catarrh," says G. M.
Stanley, dealer in boots and shoes, Itha-
ca, n, Y, ''have been cured by Ely's
Cream Balm. 1t restored my sense of
smell and health" S. A, Lowell, of
Franklin, Pa, says: "EIy's Cream Balm
is worth its weight in gold as a cure for
catarrh. One bottle of it cured me-
This Balm is not liquid or snuff; and is
easily applied. 1t is fragrant, pleasant
aud certain in its effects. 80
THE POPULAR GAME.-The growing
popularity of the royal game of whist as
a social amusement serves to recall the
saying sof Charles James Fox, that
there was but one greater pleasure in life
| than losing at whist, and that was-win-
ming; and recalls also the keener wit Of
a Canadian lover of whist and every thing
English. Colonel Ormond, a retired
officer in the English army, had long been
known for peculiarly robust and pene-
trating profanity, and also for the rat
terrier tenacity in which he contended in
whist for the odd trick. After playing
his favorite game sixty years for about
eight nights in the week it is not strange
that he died.
Colonel Ormond is Dead" said Mr.
Wetmore the morning after the gallant
Briton's demise.
"Ah?" said Mr.. Almon.
eyes," said Wetmore, "he'll not be
troubled any more about the odd trick"
"No," said Almon, ''but he'll have
more trouble about the last trump.-NeaO
York Tribune.
DR.. Sturtevant, of the New York Agri-
cultural Experiment Station, has of late
been experimenting to discover the effect
of the food of a cow on her milk. To
him it seems certain that the influence
of the food is to be detected more readily
in the churning of the butter from the
milk than from the study of the actual
butter-fat in the milk. He says during
forty eight days trial from January 2 to
February Is, under different kinds of
food, he possesses an analysis of the milk
yielded daily, and determination of
the butter obtained by churning from the
daily yield. The percentage of fat in the
milk, according to the analysis, varied
from All to 5.99; the percentage of but
ter as obtained by the churn, varied
from 240 to 5.97, and it will thus be seen
from these figures Sthat the variation. in
the butter obtained is here greater than
is the variation tn the fat in the milk.
Taking the everage of the last three days
of each period of feeding, says the Direc-
tor, in order to obtain the influence OF
food upon the butter and the fat. we have