Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-18
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.

According to DR.. Edward Smith, an
egg contains 1515 per cent. of carbon
and per cent of nitrogen. Another
writer estimates that the value of one
pound of eggs as food for sustaining
the human body, is to the value OF
one pound Of lean beef as / 1874 IS to
| 900 AS a fiesh-producer, one pound
OF eggs is about equal to one pound OF
| beef
A WONDERFUL RECOVERY.
Some thirty-siX years ago, by a pre-
mature explosion of gunpowder, an
iron bar 81 feet long, IL inches in
diameter, and weighing 13A pounds,
was shot completely through a mans
head and perforated his brain. This
man walked up a flight of stairs after
the accident, and gave his account Of
how it happened Although his life
was despaired OF for some time, he de-
veloped no paralysis, nor did marked
impairment of his intellectual faculties
follow convalescence. Eventually he
recovered his health. Twelve years
elapsed before his death, during which
time he worked as a labOrer on a farm.
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
PETROLEUM MADE INTO BUTTER.
A considerable part of the American
petroleum shipped to Europe is, after
being deodorized, made into butter
and suet, which aroused by thepoorest
classes to some extent, but very largely
by bakers in the large cities, who use
it in making cake. The confectioners
also employ it. 1t has a great advan-
tage over butter in that in store cakes
or candy the petroleum not only does
not become rancid and betray the age
of the article, but acts as q preservative
in keeping the other ingredients Of the
cake from spelling. A recent hygienic
council, sitting in Paris, protested
against this use of our oil, but it snot
thought its consumption in this way
will be lessened.
THE WORK OF THE WAVES.
There has recently been discovered
on Star Island, Isles of Shoals, a sin
gular hole in the solid granite ledge of
the island, just above high water mark
in front of the ice-house. 1t is five
feet six inches deep and two feet three
inches IN diameter, perfectly circular,
and with smooth sides, apparently
the work of human hands, but when
or by whom made, or for what pur-
pose, no one has yet explained. 1t
was packed solidly with pebbles and
gravel when discovered, and has been
trodden over thousands of times by
fishermen and former residents of the
island and summer visitors without
its existence being detected.-POrts-
mouth Chronicle.
A MEXICAN DELICACY.
In the market places of several
Western Mexico town peasant women
bring in for sale trays, covered with
living ants, each about as big and
round as large white currant, and
each entirely filled with honey or
grape-sugar, much appreciated by the
ingenious Mexican youth as an excel
lent substitute for coffee. They hold
the ant by its head and suck out the
honey, with which its back parts are
greatly distended, and throw away the
empty body. Women buy the ants by
thequart, press out the honey through
a muslin strainer and make it into a
sweet intoxicant that IS greatly en-
joyed by Mexican youth and husbands.
I-PhiIadelphia Press.
CURE FOR HEADACHE.
An English physician reports q case
of persistent headache cured by the
disseminating of meat diet, and even
now a single meal Of butchers meat
will bring on a recurrence of the old
trouble. In that case the meat diet
caused headaches because in that in
| dividual the digestive processes were
not sufficiently powerful TO disintegrate
the meat in the natural way and it's
| elements went into the blood in the
form OF poisonous properties. These
impurities resulting from imperfect
| digestion of meat caused headache.
In other cases they may cause bilious
ness, diarrhoea, skin eruptions or asth-
matte troubles When one is sick and
doesn't know why, he might we'll ask
himself the question whether he may
not be eating too much meat.-Health
Monthly.
DOCTORS NOT INFALLIBLE.
The opinions of doctors arefar from
infallible. Their patients often die
when the practitioners feel sure they
will recover, and still oftener recover
when they feel sure they will die.
Joseph Hervey, of Newburyport,
Mass, IS a striking example of this.
When he was % he had some ailment
which his physicians pronounced NOR
tai. They advised him to arrange his
affairs and look the inevitable calmly
in the face. He did not agree with
their diagnostication, and told them
they were certainly mistaken. Soon
afterward he married, although they
had assured him that marriage would
hasten his end. He is now 79, and has
survived his wife, his daughter, his
physicians and most of his cotempo-
raries. For many years he has suffered
from the govt, which is vulgarly
thought to prevent other diseases, and
never itself to carry one off. His case
would seem to sustain the erroneous
notion.-LOWeH Courier.
DISTRIBUTION OF THE SENSE OF TASTE.
Taste, however, is not equally dis
tributed over the whole surface of the
tongue alike. There are three distinct
regions or tracts, each of which has to
perform it's own special office and func-
tiOD Tho fin Of tho tOprI1a ic CON