Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

King James translation of the Bible
into general use.
"Pickpocket" is the only English
word adopted into the French lam
guage which the French write and
pronounce correctly.-N Y sam.
"A bridge in Cecil County, Mary
land, bears the following sign: mo
tbs. If you go over this bridge Faster
than a Walk VOW Will bee find fly
dolersn
"A Russian traveller predicts that
Thibet will prove to be second Cali
fornia, as, during recent visit there,
he found the natives gold-washing in
the crudest way, but with the richest
results.
Down in Biddeford, Me-, people
are so heightened that instead of bath
rooms they speak of an evolutionary
studio;" at least so reads an advertise
ment in the Biddeford Times.
China offers as attractive field
for the work of professional explorers
as any other country on the globe. It
has recently been ascertained that the
Chinese coal fields occupy an area of
four hundred thousand square miles.
"A correspondent of the Scientific
american states that he knows from
personal observation of the seventeen
year locust having appeared in the
southern part of Massachusetts in 1918,
1885, 1852 and 1869. In 1918 they
were very numerous; in 1885 they were
less so; in 1852 still less, and in 1869
they were quite scattering in compari-
son with 1918.
Under the proposed system Of
pneumatic transmission between Paris
and London-two tubes employed, one
for sending and the other for receiv-
ing-not only is it intended to send
letters and kilograms, but parcels
weighing as much as twelve pounds.
1t is believed the time taken in trans
mission would be only one hour
Chicago Current.
The RusSki IpUdlid gives the sta
tistics of INSTRUMENTATION and desertion
in the Russian army. In these the
number of offenses committed during
the five years from 1879 to 1883 are
said to have amounted to sixty-six
thousand, of which ten thousand were
cases of insubordination; there were
twelve thousand cases of desertion and
twenty-four thousand of robbery.
The latest idea of public buildings
is that of having them made on the
telescope plant stories being showed
up by the hydrostatic pressure. In
case of fire in the twelfth story or
the sixth, the building is let down I'M
til it is on the ground, where the fire
men can easily flood it. 1t is 70 be
built of boiler iron. The furniture is
all to be made like an opera hat.-Chi-
cago Herald.
-Odlum's fate demonstrated what
needed no demonstration. The public
were prepared to believe that men
could not Jump from the Brooklyn
Bridge to the river and live. The vio-
lence of the shock ruptured the base
of his left lung, his spleen, kidneys and
liver, and broke his first, second, third,
fourth and fifth ribs-just as though he
had struck upon stone foOr.-N y
Independent.
Mr.. n. A. Brewster lives in Ran
dolph County, Ala. Recently he stood
houn County, in the same State, and
killed a deer in Carroll County, Ga
The same gentleman goes through
Cherokee and Cleburne Counties, Ala,
and thence into Polk County, Ca,
when he goes TO his Post-olfice The
distance traversed in the latter instance
is only one and a quarter miles,
Louisville Cou7ler-J0urndl.
Among other forms of animal life
which have disappeared from the earth
is the sea COW. This great animal,
which has been variously classed with
the whales, with walruses and seals,
and with elephants, was a toothless
vegetable feeder, living along the shore
in shallow water, and often weighing
three or four tons. It was seen alive
and described in 1741, but in 1880 it
appeared to have become entirely ex-
tinct.-Philadelphia Press.
At present the Rothscnild family
control the quicksilver supply of the
world, but new mine has been found
at Schuppiastena near Belgrade. There
are only a few quicksilver mines
known, the two largest being in Spain
and California. Both are owned by
the house of Rothschild, who only per-
NIT supply, but never glut of the
market to issue from their mines, and
thus they control an immense and very
profitable monopoly. The yearly con-
sumption of quicksilver is cut down to
one hundred thousand bottles, the
larger part of which comes from Cali
fornia, while Spain furnishes about
ten thousand bottles.
.-Swindlers on the other side of the
ocean still continue to work off Con-
federate money on immigrants coming
to this country, one passenger on a
steamer which arrived at Castle Garden
a week or Sc ago having been swindled
out of four hundred and twenty marks
in this way. The unfortunate man was
told in London that it was best to get
American money on that side so he
exchanged all his wealth four hundred
and twenty marks) for one hundred
dollar Confederate bill, which he was
surprised on presenting it at Castle
Garden, to find was worthless. The
bill was issued in Richmond in Decem-
per- 1862-N. Y. Herald.
Stanley, in his'book, tells of finding