Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-07-22

OF Cne water, leaving a. vortex OF water
behind like whirlpool. Bryan says
the animal looked to be larger that a
horse, and had q head something like
a hlppOpOtamus. 1t was OF q pale
yelloWlsh color under the neck and
dark brown on the back, and showed
considerable of it's body above the
Water.-EmersOn's International.
PETROLEUM REsIDUUM FOR FUEL.
Ihe value Of the residual product of
| petroleum distillation as an efficient
and economical source of steam pow
er is claimed to have been conclusively
established in connection with the
marvellous development by the broth
ers Nobel of petroleum industry at
the Baku works, Russia, which are fed
through pipe lines Of an aggregate
length OF more than sixty miles, by the
apparently inexhaustible petroleum
supplies of the Aspheron peninsula.
The residual Or heavy oil which re-
mains after extracting theilluminating
and lubricating oils from the petrole-
UNI, and of which Messrs. Nobel alone
now produce 100000 tons annually,
IS already used as fuel on upward of
three hundred steamers upon the Cas-
plan Sea and the Volga, and by the
locomotives on the trans-Caucasian
and trans-Caspian railways. In re-
gard to the employment of refuse
petroleum as fuel in locomotive
engines, it is claimed that, weight
Tor weight, it has thirty-three per
cent. higher evaporative value than
anthracite, and that while so per
cent. of efficiency is realized with
the latter, IS per cent. is obtained
with petroleum refuse.
HALF SNAKE AND HALF DOG.
The Tucker County wv. Va. Pioneer
OF last week contained the following:
e'R. w. Eastman arrived Sunday from
Davis, In the upper part of this coun-
ty, and reported the capture Of won
derful animal near that place a few
days ago. We are not giving this to
the public for the sake of a sensation,
but because we believe it to be a fact.
The animal was caught in a steel trap,
and was dead when found. 1t had the
head Of a bulldog and the hody Of
snake, except that it was very thick
for its length, and the body was COW
cred with deep-red fur. It's entire
length was about five feet, and the
circumference of it's body some 20
inches. It's teeth were partly like q
dogs, partly like snakes. Mr..
Eastman had with him the lower tusk.
1t was about % inches long, protrud-
ing from the animals mouth, and was
curled like a sleeps horn. The tusks
OF the upper jaw went backward like
a snakes teeth, and were about l
n \ J.
was supposed to be water animal
like an otter. There is nothing to in
dictate that it ever had legs. Mr.. Par
sons, chief civil engineer of the West
Virginia, Central and Pittsburg Rail
road has gone to Paris to examine the
dead beast, and doubtless he will do
something toward unraveling the
mystery of what it is"
A RATTLESNAKE'S INVOLUNTARY CHASE.
Mrs. John White, living a few miles
from Hawley, Pa, went out on the
hills near her house few days ago to
look the huckleberry barrens over and
see what the prospect was for the ber-
ry season. While standing at the side
of an old road she heard q rattlesnake
sound it's rattle Immediately behind
her, and then felt a tug at the skirt of
her dress. She looked around quick
ly, and saw that bigrattlesnake had
struck at her, and that its fangs were
fast in the bottom of her dress skirt.
Mrs. White started on a run for home.
The snakes fangs were so securely fast
ened in the dress that the snake was
carried along. Mrs. White ran so fast
that the rattlesnake was whipped and
tossed about ike the tail OF kite.
The distance to the house was a
quarter of a mile, and when Mrs.
White reached her door she was so
much on ercome by exhaustion and
fright that she tainted on the steps.
Her daughter ran to her assistance.
When she saw the snake, with it's teeth
fast in her mothers dress, she did not
stop to investigate matters further,
but ran screaming to a neighbours half
p mile away. She supposed that the
sna ke had bitten her mother and killed
her, and so announced when she
reached the neighbours.
A man ran back to Mrs. Whites.
She had recovered sufficiently to crawl
into the house. The snake was still
fast in her dress, but was dead. The
thrashing on the stones and against
the ground that it had received had
beaten the life out of it. The snake
was four feet long and had seven rat
tles.-New York Sun.