Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16

maze 4dImOuUn famous lOT C0uUuIl6SJ
suddenly (my authority for this state
ment is William Coke, who was in
Gothenburg in 1884, appeared on
the coast of Sweden. In 1852 the
Gothenburg fishermen caught 1000;
the next year $4,000. Ten years lat
er the product had reached 1877 900
barrels; and in 1881, 100000 barrels,
each containing 1000 herring.-ROb-
ert Porter.
IN A BUREAU DRAWER.
A very mysterious occurrence took
place at the residence Of J. j. West, Of
this county a few days ago. A little
son Of Mr.. West had occasion to open
bureau drawer, when to his great
asst onishment there met his view q
large snake, which Immediately showed
signs of great revenge, and young Mr..
West came very near being bitten by
the snake. An earnest effort was made
by the family, and it's snakeship was
soon subdued. 1t was found after
being killed to measure 5 feet and II
inches. The snake was very large and
supposed to be of the species known
as the rattlesnake's pilot. 1t is q
mystery how the snake came to get
into the bureau drawer, but it is sup
posed to have entered during the
previous night.-But1er (Ga.) Herald.
NEW MADRID's LIVING SKELETON.
A remarkable living skeleton is liv-
ing at New Madrid, Mo. John and
Rena Raglan, colored, are the parents
of the monstrosity, and have besides
several bright mulatto children who
are fat and hearty. Nicely, as the
child curiosity is called, is 10 years OF
age, and is 4 feet in stature. All the
flesh on the child's body will barely
weigh pound. Her bony arms have
grown stiff and close to her breast,
and her thin hands hang folded and
immOvable against her wrists, making
the upper portion of her being resem-
BILE a sheep in the act Of jumping. She
has never spoken a word, but gives
utterances to noise like the bleatlng
of a lamb. There are ugly marks on
her person, which are scorches she has
received from the fire in winter, as her
trail frame had to be held so close to
the fire in order to instill warmth to
keep her alive.-CairO, Ill.,, Special.
A BLUE BLOOD ROMANCE.
During the troubles in the reign of
Charles |. country girl came to Lon
don In search OF q place as q servant
maid, but not succeeding, she hired
herself to carry out beer from a ware
house, and was one of those called
tub women. The brewer, observing a
good-looking girl in this low occupa-
ton, took her into his family as q
servant, and after short time, mar
ried her. He died while she was yet
young woman, and left her the bulk of
his fortune. The business of brewing
was dropped, and Hyde was recon-
mended to the young woman as a.
skillful lawyer to arrange her hus-
ward Earl of Clarendon, finding the
widows fortune considerable, married
her. By this marriage there was no
other issue than a daughter, who af-
terward became the wife of James IL,
and mother Of Mary and Anne, queens
of England.-London Echo.
TIME ON LAKE CONSTANCE.
The Lake Of Constance is only some
fifty miles in length, but any one who
travels from pier to pier, and wishes
to know the right time of day at each
ought TO carry five watches. It's
waters wash the shores of five differ
ent states-Austria, Baden, Wurtem-
berg, Bavaria and the Swiss fedora
ton. If you land at Rorschach and
want to catch the train for Ragatz or
Chur, your watch ought to stand at
Berne time. In Friedrichshafen you
must know the Stuttgart time, in Con-
stance the Baden time, in Lindau the
Munich time. The Austrian time is
not reckoned from Vienna, but from
Prague, which differs no less than
twenty-eight minutes from the Berne
time. Hence a traveller crossing over
the Austrian frontier at ST. Marga-
reten must put back his watch half an
hour in order to set himself right at
the Swiss station. This nonconformi-
ty among the clocks may be an amuse-
ment, or merely a slight inconvenience
to the tourist, BUTT must be a serious
hindrance to the men of business in
this center Of increasing international
trafic.-PsaH Mall Gazette.
THE UPPER AIR.
The greatest difficulty which meets
every thoughtful weather student is
his inability to obtain any satisfacto-
ry account OF the conditions and mo-
tions of the upper portion of the at
mosphere. AS has been said, "We live
at the bottom of the atmospheric
ocean, of which the upper layers are
practically inaccessible to u.s." The air
is arranged symmetrically around the
globe, and it is much denser close to
the earth than above it. The actual
height to which the air extends is not
known exactly, but at the level Of
about 40 miles it is no longer dense
enough to be capable of refracting the
SUMS rays. At the height of about Z
miles, or $4,000 feet, believed to have
been reached by Messrs. Glasier and
Coxwell, in famous balloon ascent
from Northampton, September 5,
1862, the air was found to be so rari-
fled that great difficulty was expert
enced in breathing. Such a height as
miles is quite Insignificant when COM
pared with the diameter of the earth.
In fact, if the earth was represented
by 81 "a inch globe, the height OF the
atmosphere, even supposing it to be
10 miles, would be represented by a
shall fo,11.- rot his Of ~, inch tbiok