Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-07
CURIOUS, USEFUL AND SCIENTIFIC,
PREHISTORIC HEAD IN STONE.


A specimen of so-called Indian sculpt-
ure was exhibited at the meeting of the
Bucks County Historical Society, held
at Quakertown, Tuesday. The speci-
men was of stone, and was found near
Fair Hill, Hilltown Township, where
there were found seven others more or
less finished. The sculpture work Is
that of mans head, resembling that of
an Indian. He has prominent nose,
receding forehead to an apex, strong
shaped neck, with an evident inclina-
ton to a full face. 1t is thought the
work was carved by prehistoric race,
which is known to have once lived in the
upper part of Bucks.-Eastoaa (PG.)
Free Press.
HIS VOICE CAME BACK TO HIM.
The Marathon Independent tells quite
a story of the recovery of mans voice.
Davidson Stanley, living near that place,
is the individual, and since last October
had not been able to speak above whis-
per, owing to some trouble of his lungs,
it was thought. One night, recently,
the family was aroused by noise in the
wagon house. A son had some difficulty
in getting a light, and MIR. Stanley,
aroused from a sound slumber by the
noise made by his son, attempted to
scream. He did scream, too. something
apparently given away in his throat or
lungs, and his voice came back to him.
He is now able to talk as before, al
though extended conversation tires him
and his voice has husky sound, as
though he was suffering from cold.
THE OLDEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD.
AtAubernie, en-Royans may be seen an
old woman living IL hut in narrow
street, who has reached the extra
ordinary age of 1913 years. She has no
infrmity except slight deafness, being
III full possession of her mental faculties.
She was 'scontiniere" under the First
Empire. and had two sons killed at the
battle of Friendland and in Spain. She
is supported entirely on the aims given
her by visitors VINO go from great dis
tances to see her as an object of curios-
ity, and her neighbors help her to do
her household work. She lives almost
exclusively on soup made with bread, to
which is added little wine, and some
tipes a little brandy. DR.. Bonnie, who
that she is never i'll. Her skin is like
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straight. Bells.
SOME PECULIARTTIEs OF DIV oRCE.
M. Bertillon, the editor of the 'sAnnals
of Demography," has been giving a
lecture in which he sets forth the fact
that the households in which divorces
are most common are those where the
consorts are most nearly of the same
age. Where there is great disparity
of age it is necessary to make complete
distinction between cases where the ell
der party is the husband and where he
is not. Old husbands, for some reason
or other, seem to be better able to retain
the affections of their wives, or at any
rate to maintain legal possession of their
better halves, than young ones; for, as
the man is older in proportion to the
woman, so is he less frequently divorced
from her. With women it is altogether
different, for the Older they are in pro-
portion to their husbands the more
likely they are to part or be parted from
them. In making these comparisons,
judicial separations-in countries where
divorce is not permitted-are counted as
divorces. But III. Bertillon finds that
in countries where divorce is prohibited
suicides from domestic trouble and
poisonings are much more frequent than
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