Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-12

IN A CHIMNEY.


near Haywards, a lew days ago,
Julius Cathcot found slowed away
in round chimney-hole a sack con-
tanning $1,000 in 800 pieces.
McConoley, when notified of the find,
remembered having hidden the money
there long ago, but had entirely forgot
ten it San Francisco Chronicle.
THREE MILES ABOVE THE SEA.
A recent traveller in Asia, Mr.. Web
Der, states that in the mountains of
Thibet he has lived for months at the
height of more than $4,000 feet above
the ocean with the following results:
His pulse, normally sixty-three beats
per minute, seldom fell below 100 beats
per minute during the time he lived at
that altitude. His respirations were
often twice as numerous as under or
binary circumstances A run of 100
yards would quicken both pulse and res
piration more than run of 1000 yards
at the sea,level.
SNAIL FARMING.
The example of the great snail indus
try in Burgundy, which is acquiring
greater development year by year owing
to the quality of the flesh of the vine-leaf
fed molluse, has stimulated the Swiss to
effortsin the same direction. A number of
gardens, between Davos and Landquart
in the Canton of Grisons, have latoly
been transformed by their owners into
snail farms. During the summer time
children are employed to gather the
snails from field and hedge and bring
them to the farms, where they are placed
in bushes and fed upon refuse vegeta-
BILE leaves.
TOO MANY SHELLS.
Sunday night the building on South
Front Street used for an office by A. n.
Ludington, the oyster dealer, was push
ed from it's foundation in singular
manner. A heap containing 10000
bushels of oyster shells piled against the
building exerted such pressure that
the building, which is thirty-six feet in
length, was pushed from it's pile foun-
dalton. The rear of the building on
which the chimney is, was moved four
feet north. The front was not moved
SO far. The building which is one and
one-half stories high, was shattered and
bulged, and is damaged beyond repair.
: New Haven Paper.
CASHMERE sHAwLs.
The best Cashmere shawls, the long
shawls with plain ground, crimson, pur
pie, blue, green or yellow-green are
best-never cost less than G130 pair,
and are never sold singly. The next
kind, or square shawls, much more fire.
quently imported into Europe, are
either loom worked or worked,
needle-w worked being the most original,
and they cost from ESQ to ESQ in the
Punjaub, without freight or interest, or
profit to the importer, little facts which
we commend to the attention of women
who think they can buy the "best
Cashmeres" at Els or even 910 shawl.
: Every Other Saturday.
WHY NEGROES ARE BLACK.
Surg. Maj. N. Alcock has contributed
to Nature an interesting communication
as to why the tropical man is black, in
which he suggests that as in the lowest
animals pigment-cells placed behind a
transparent nerve termination exalt its
vibration to the highest pitch, the re-
verse takes place when, as in the negro,
the pigment-cells are placed in front of
the nerve examinations, and that the
black pigment in the skin serves to les
sen the intensity of the nerve vibrations
that would be caused in a naked human
body by exposure to tropical sun !;
that in ia ct, the pigment plays the same
part as piece of smoked glass held be-
tween the sun and the eye.
A WONDERFUL MACHINE.
An inventor writing to the Scientific
American proposes to revolutionize the
present system of cultivating the earth.
He describes machine that is rugged
with large windmill sails, has a tiller
for steering, will travel up hill or down,
and with the wind in any direction. A
full-sized one of sixty-horse power may
be depended upon to draw ten plows
four miles an hour, blowing four acres
an hour, with but one man in attend
ance. 1t will also harrow, and furnish
the power to SOW, reap and NOW, thrash,
grind, carry loads to market or irrigate
lands. Will travel ten miles an hour in
any direction and carry twenty passen-
gers, provided there is good breeze.
The machines are not expensive to
build.
THE CAPSTONE OF THE MONUMENT.
Thepyramidal capstone of the Wash
ington Monument is completed and
stands in the sheds of the monument
grounds, where it is an object of great
curiosity to multitudes of people. The
pinnacle of the marble is cut away
to allow copper apex to set into the
stone, which will be connected with
the lightning-rod on the interior of the
monument. The workmen say that
many people, especially young ladies,
insist on perching themselves on this
stone. in order to say that they have
stood upon the apex of the Washington
Monument. This involves standing
upon a space about six feet square and
five feet from the ground, which, to
most of the ladies who try it, is as dir
~ an experiment as it would be for
the average monument workman to
stand upon the very summit of the