Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-30
NO. 29

family. LIS at-great-granQmOtnor is
85, it's grandmother II and it's mother 20
years OF age.
The movement in favor of returning
TO local time gains strength in Maine.
Machias has voted to abandon standard
time, and Ellsworth, Bath and Camden
have already followed the example OF
Bangor.
The large sawmills in Northern Wis
consn may soon be. lighted by means of
gas evolved from the sawdust that goes
to waste. An inventor in Deseronto,
Can, is corresponding with owners to
introduce his process. He claims that
man and boy, with half a cord of fuel,
can make 10000 feet of good illuminat-
ing gas from ton of dry sawdust.
1T is little singular that so many of
our public men are so near of an age,
remarks a Washington correspondent.
Blaine was born in 1880, Allison in
1929, Window in 1927. Garfield was
younger than any of them, having been
borni 1881. Sam Randall was born
in 1928; Senator Edmunds was born in
the same year; Conkling came into this
un nworthy world in the same year; too.
Allison, Window and Randall are not
gray, but Edmunds looks like man of
Cononel Ingersoll is building on his
New Mexican ranch unique dwelling
house. 1t is of logs, with the bark taken
off and oiled. The interior is finished in
mountain mahogany and other hard
woods, and no paint is used, all the
woods being oiled. No two rooms are
alike. Towering above is an observatory,
from which the eye can view ranch
fenced by the round rim of the horizon.
Chickens when first Matched should
not be hurried out of the nest. For
twenty four hours at least, from the time
the earliest commence to show them
selves, it is better to leave them under or
with the hen mother. They need no
food for from day to day and half
usually. When they get strong enough
to venture from beneath their mothers
wing it is time to move the brood.
The Bell Tavern, the Old Bailey
Criminal Court and two adjoining prem
ises, in the heart of the city of London,
Eng, were destroyed by fire last week
Four barmaids perished in the tavern
The Old Bailey was the seat of the
Central Criminal Court, and it was there
persons sentenced to be executed were
hanged in public up to the year 1868
Immediately opposite the Old Bailey is
Newgate, the famous prison which has
been used since 1907. The Bel Tavern
was famous old London hostelry, and
c.
landmark has disappeared
The Rural World says: "Of Green
wood one-third to one-half or more of
its weight is water, partly depending
upon the time of cutting. Ali kinds OF
wood cut in January in the northern and
western states contain from Is to 25 per
cent less water than they dc in spring.
Experiments have shown that 100 pounds
OF ash wood cut in January contained 20
pounds of water, while the amount cut
April contained 38 pounds of water; 100
pounds of sycamore cut in January con-
tanned 33 pounds of water, and 40 cut in
April. White pine cut in January con-
tained 52pounds; cut in April, 81 pounds
of water"
A curious insurance company has been
started at Brussels, which proposes to
insure the recovery and restoration of
lost or stolen goods. 1t is appropriately
named the Eureka" and starts with q
capital of 100000 francs. The mode of
operation is as follows: Each subscriber
pays premium of two and half francs
year, and is registered under certain
number, together with the articles he
wishes to insure. Upon losing any of
the latter, he at once gives notice to the
company, who set about recovering it,
under penalty of being mulcted in its
value. 1t is, in fact, kind of detective
bureau, with the stimulus so sadly need
ed in all American detective bureaus, of
forfeit to insure faithful performance of
its obligations. So long as our present
police system fourishes branch of the
Eureka might find profitable employ
ment in New York.
The London Saturday Review gives
those English journals which are clamor-
ing for the determination ofc dynamiters
in the United States, by our government,
well-tempered file to gnaw on. "To
suppose" it says, ''that Ithe American
0OV6IuLucuL WOuIu UuUCIGdhC tLC tI1ch "a
suppressing Irish agitators would be simp-
lY asking what the English Government
steadily refused to do. Mazzini, who
defended political assassinations as heart
lily as any Irishmen, and did his best to
practice it, was sheltered in England for
many years, though it was known that
he was continually engaged in conspir-
acy. Herezen published his infamma.
tory 'Kolokol' in London, and no request
for its suppression was ever listened to.
Before the American Government can
act, it must be shown that the Irish agit-
ators committed an actual ofense, going
beyond the general incentives to crime.
Evidence to that effect has never yet
been forthcoming
ANCIENT AND MODERN DENMARK.-
The growth of population in Europe in
face of 80 large emigration is something
remarkable. During this century the
population of Denmark has almost
doubled-from about 1000, 600 to nearly
1900, ,O00-although the increase for the
past twenty years O86O-SO has been
smaller than in the decade OF looO-6O,
on account OF the greater emigration. In