Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-30
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.
. A DANGEROUS ANIMAL.

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healthy and good mixer. cit is not
| known how she came into possession
| of the bar" the account adds. We
hope she came by it honestly; but
| when COW becomes SO erratlc IN her
diet as has this one, it is impossible to
| predict to what length she would not
60 to satisfy the cravings Of depraved
appetite Buffalo Express.
A CALF IN A STORM.
In speaking of recent storm IN Cal
houn, Ca, and the damage it did, the
Times of that place says: GA colored
tenant on D. M. Durham's place had
a calf, tied with twenty-foot rope to
tree, in the field to Craze. After the
storm had passed over the colored
man went out to see about his calf,
and found him prostrate, the tree
twisted off just above where the rope
was tied, and ring around the tree
deep enough for him to lay his finger
in. 1t is said that the ring around the
tree was made by the wind taking the
| calf up and whirlingi it round and round
at the end of the rope, while the other
end made the ring. On Tuesday
morning the calf was able to walk, and
is now all right"
DEEP-sEA FISH.
The report of the fishes collected
upon the famous Challenger ex-
petition shows that all those
dredged from great depths 1.-TWO
to three thousand fathoms) pos
sess bones and ligaments of great
softness, and muscles loosely con-
nected. This is provision to al
low OF the permeation of their tissues
by water, since otherwise at the great
depth where they live the pressure of
the water, which shivers solid glass to
powder, would crush their bodies.
Many of these abyssal fishes are
blind; many have phosphorescent or
gans, or secrete a .phosphorescent
slime; others have distensible stom-
achs and wide mouths, which can en-
gulf fishes much larger than them
selves.
FACTS ABOUT MALARIA.
While malaria belongs chiefly to low
lying districts, it may, under favorable
conditions, exist at great elevations.
On the Tuscan Apennines it is found at
a height of HOO feet above the sea
level, on the Pyrenees and Mexican Cor
dilleras 5000 feet, on the Himalayas
5, 4OOfeet, on the Island of Ceylon 6, $500
feet. and on the Andes II 900 feet.
Under ordinary circumstances, how
ever, q certain moderate altitude af-
fords immunity from malaria The
elevation of entire security is not pos
itively known, but it has been approx
mated as follows: In Italy 400 to 500
feet, in California 1000 feet, in the
Appalachian chain of the United
States 5000 feet, in the West Indies
1,4OO to 1880 feet, in India 1000
feet. In any Of these regions malaria
may drift up ravines to an indefinite
height.
BROWN DYE.
Some of the German manufacturers
find that the most serviceable brown
may be impaired to wooden and half
wooden goods, after the dry removal of
all spots with hard soap, by washing
the pieces well by hand, then drawing
them through weak, iukewarm soda
bath, rinsing and passing through
warm acid bath. For twenty pound
dyeing bath one pound of Roman
alum, eight ounces of sulphuric acid,
and four to eight pounds of archil are
boiled for forty minutes, and the shade
regulated with turmeric, sulphate of
indigo, and archil For yellowish
brown there are added together one
pound of common alum, eight ounces
OF sulphuric acid, two pounds of tur-
meric, four to six pounds OF archil, and
some sulphate of indigo. The pieces
desired OF the darkest shade are dyed
first, and in both cases the result is
highly satisfactory.
MACERATION IN SUGAR MAKING.
The maceration process in sugar
making has been introduced expert
mentally at one Of the principal estab-
lishments in the Sandwich Islands,
and, according to the account, a saw
ing OF fifteen per cent. ofsugar has been
accomplished, even after passing
through such three-roller mill as has
been IN use for several years on the
plantation in question. The juice is
carefully measured, and the density
and temperature noted for every fifty
gallons. At the maceration mill which
grlnds the moistened trash from the
other mill, eight to ten minutes has
been found the average time occupied
in filling a fifty-gallon measure, having
at least an average density of five
degrees at a temperature Of seventy
four; or, in other words, when the
three-roller mill is doing thirty clari-
tiers day, juice standing ten degrees,
| the two-roller mill is grinding the trash
wet with hot water, furnishing juice
enough to make two tons, and some
times more than that, per day. This
is the saving daily by taking the trash
from first-class mill doing frst-class
grinding. No additional fuel is needed
beyond what the trash supplies, and
the additional sugar from one crop
pays for the machinery.
A BIG SHARK.
1t is related in the Boston Herald
that Richard Freeman, a fisherman,
had 8, desperate encounter with a
| swingtail shark off Rainsford Island,
which resulted in it's capture after an
exciting struggle. The shark made it's
presence known to Mr.. Freeman by
| charging under the boat and nearly
upsetting it. Mr.. Freeman armed with