Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-07-29
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.
POISON BY THE QUART.

mOrph1a and laudanum-the enOr-
nous amount of 5,412 grains, which,
if reduced to laudanum standard of
one grain of opium to each twenty-five
drops of laudanum, would amount to
over three quarts of laudanum per
month. Last spring this unfortunate
man paid over $4,000 to his medical
Observation-Disclosures, Penn, Cor.
N. Y. Morning Journal.
COLLECTING "TODDY" IN INDIA.
In Southern India they have a pecul-
lar way of extracting juice from the
cocoanut for the manufacture of an
Intoxicating drink called 'stoddy." A
cut is made at the end of the growing
fruit and to the latter small earthen
pot is attached to catch the oozings.
Twice a day the liquor is collected by
men who climb the trees in curious
fashion. They have sort of strap of
bamboo about seven or eight feet long,
which they fasten around the tree and
around their own bodies just above
the waist. They also have smaller
strap OF the same sort around their
feet. They ascend the tree by raising
the strap q foot or SO up the trunk,
and then they pull themselves up by
it, and they climb up and down very
rapidly and easily.
BEAUTIFUL AT FOUR SCORE.
An old lady over 80 years of age,
and who was once a great beauty,
died recently in Paris, leaving after
her diary in which she endeavors to
show up the alleged vanity of women.
From the age of 20 to 80 she spent
three hours day at her toilet, which
foots up for the period one year nine
ty-one days and six hours employed
in dressing her hair, powdering her
cheeks and painting her lips. From
80 to so the toilet labors amounted
to five hours day, the extra hours
being consecrated to covering up the
tracks Of time, including the oblitera-
ton of crows feet and other necessary
filling in and grading. Time, four
years and forty days. After so her
efforts had to be redoubled. To the
last she resisted the effects of time
Chicago Herald.
A WISE OLD CAT.
A large Maltese tomcat, the proper
ty of a lady in Cornwall, is a better
and more patient birds hester than
any boy in the place. He cautiously
climbs every tree in which new nest
appears, assures himself that the old
bird is not there with his paw, feels
every egg that has been laid, and de-
sends without breaking any of them.
When, after four or five visits, he is
satisfied that the full complement is
there, he goes no more until it is about
time for the young ones to be Matched.
Then he watches them until he con-
siders them fat enough to be eaten,
when he usually secures the old one as
we'll as her fledglings. He never goes
out of his mistress grounds, and
leaves the hens and their families
scrupulously alone. Hewas christened
Doctor" but he dishoners the name.
CATS AND SEWER GAS.
A woman detected the odor of sewer
gas in her parlor. AS the landlord
from whom she leased the house
would not believe in the existence of
the gas, she hit upon a device to con-
vince him. She first poured a quanti-
ty of valerian down the pipe of one of
the basins in the upper story. The
odor Of valerian presently filled the
parlor below, Procuring two cats she
turned them loose in the parlor. They
Immediately evinced delight at the odor
and ran to an adjoining closet where
it was strongest. They finally jumped
upon shelf in the closet, and there,
by their contentment, showed that
they had traced the odor to it's source.
The househ older sent for a. plumber,
who, removing the lath and plaster,
discovered a leak in the pipe which
communicated with the sewer.-St.
Thomas Times.
WARNING TO BALD HEADED MEN.
A bald headed man in Louisville,
KY, is supposed to bedying from bites
inflicted by flies. Last Sunday his
matutinal maps were disturbed by the
numbers of common house flies that
settled on his head while seated on
the porch. He was finally driven into
the house. just as he passed in sew
eral alighted on him and before they
could be knocked off had bitten him
III several places. In q few hours the
places began to swell and become in
famed, until one of his eyes was
closed. He suffered much pain from
the bites and continued to grow worse,
until it was feared that his blood had
become poisoned from some matter
possibly contributed to his system
through the medium of the probosces
Of the insects. What should induce
them to so persistently follow him is
unknown. Some apprehensions are
felt as to the ultimate recovery of the
gentleman, who is about 70 years old.
AN INFANT HERCULES.
Howard County is no less noted for
it's wonderful human productions than
for it's successful vegetable growth.
j. G. Power, who. lives six miles
north of here, called Tuesday and
brought with him a six-year-old son
who weighs 81 pounds, measuring "a
inches around the waist and 81 around
the chest. His flesh is solid and his
muscles wonderfully developed. He
heads q barrel of flour with but little
exertion and raises an anvil weighing
100 pounds with apparent ease. And
his mental development is no less re-
markable. He converses freely and
with marked intelligence. He per
forms hard physical labor requiring
great muscular strain without the