Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-08-24
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body by cooling, Prof. Dewar says that
water can be made to become solid by
the evaporation of a quarter Of its
weight.
THE bridge of the Holy Trinity. Flor
ence, was built in 1869. 1t IS 322 feet
long, of white marble, and is even now
reckoned as being without a rival as a
specimen of the bridge building art.
A HORSE will eat in year nine times
his own weight. a COW nine times. an OK
six times and sheep six times.
JAMES CORE, of Martins Ferry, O.,
claims to have an almanac for the year
1869.
THAT the world was inhabited long
before authentic history began is now
one of the generally accepted facts.
There are said to be more than 5000
prehistoric buildings in Sardinia. They
are almost all in the fertile districts and
are built in groups, which are separated
from one another by wide and generally
barren places.
THE smallest insect known, the etera
tomas funainil, parasite OF the ichneu-
man, is about one-nineteenth of all inch
in length.
A HUNDRED years ago the best oysters
were sold at five for l cent.
bird catcher, who keeps scientific and
educational institutions supplied with
birds, birds nests and eggs, and is the
only man in the empire permitted to do
so.
THE History of the Reformation in
Scotland" by John Knox, was publish
ed when the author was 70.
Polo has been rapidly gaining in pop
ularity in France, and there has been q
good deal of play this season upon the
ground belonging to the Cercle des
Palineurs, in the Bots de Boulogne,
Paris.
NEW MEXICO is enjoying the first rainy
season it has had for four years.
If Mr.. Astor were to try to keep pace
with his income by counting it in silver
quarters, he'd be a jibbering idiot in a
weeks time.
Owls have good hearing.
THE cry of wounded hare resembles
that of child in distress.
TIE church members of the United
States number over 10000, 900.
THE mostly costly of metals is didyn-
ium, which sells at 81, 500 pound.
LONDON firms are said to spend over
SIC, 900, 900 week in advertising.
THERE have been patents granted to
$40 women from New York state since
1909.
A MAN in Boston has Mexican bee
still alive, though it has eaten nothing
for year.
AN employer of German clerks says
that they work 20 per cent. slower than
English ones.
PENNSYLVANIA WOODEN mills have q
capital of $50, 000,0 900, turn over 500, OOO,-
600 of products and employ $4,000
hands.
THE annual product of paper collars1
amounts TO 100000 per year, one firm
turning out Is, 900 per day.
IN 1886 there were 900, 100000 gallons
of beer drunk in Germany to IA ,000,-
600 gallons in 1891.
To keep race horse in even moderate
condition, with proper attendance, costs
| 81 1928 year.
THE cultivation of the grape in France
| gives employment to no fewer than %,
O00, 900 persons.
WoRKMEN are not allowed to work on
the streets in New Bedford unless they
have been naturalized.
THE province Of Bhopal, India, is
celebrated for the unusually great ad-
ministrative power of it's female sover-
eigns.
A MIDDLETowN, Del, man shipped
recently to New York 1000 bushels of
corncobs, to be used in the manufature
of pipes.
A BIRD named the morepork, of Aus
tralia, is frequently heard vehemently
demanding more pork in clear, stem
torian voice.
THE modest maidens of Old Orchard
have adopted the custom of bathing bv
night in the surf since the extremely
hot days have set in.
THE costllest toy on record was brok-
en-nosed wooden horse which belonged
to Napoleon Bonaparte, and was sold a
| year or two ago for l 200 francs.
CHARLES WooD, druggist of Harleston,
| England, has a brood Of white black
birds, fact which is vouched for by
several prominent ornithologists and
naturalists.
THE bakers dozen of thirteen is a
recognized figure in trade; a publisher s
dozen is usually thirteen copies. Among
th e fishermen in Cornwall long dozen
consists of twenty-six.
AT the foot Of Mt. Tacoma there are
trees that by actual measurement by
one Of the best surveyors on the coast,
L
to be $50 feet high.
IN Corfu sheets of paper pass for
money; one sheet buys one quart of
| rice or twenty sheets a piece Of hemp
cloth.
Six successful hospitals have been
founded for women by women physi-
clans in Philadelphia, New York, Boston,
Chicago, San Francisco and Minneapolis.
THERE is a surface of 5, 900 acres in Sile-
STA, Prussia, which is usually dry, but
which every thirty years fills with water
in some unknown way and becomes q
lake.
JUvENAL first recited his satires in
public at 80. He was supposed to have
attacked the actor Paris, the favorite of
Domitian; was sent to Egypt to COM
mand cohort of infantry, and died Of
vexation at this honorable exile.
STATISTICS recently compiled show that
| about ] 200 miles of new railroad were
built in this country during the first
six months of this year.
| Our of 4O.OO0 domestic servants in