Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-03-21
HERE AND THERE.

MALE mosquitoes do not bite.
RUSSIA has an ice locomotive.
DUTCH railroads are the safest.
SWEDISH railroads are the cheapest.
THE life Of locomotive is fifteen
years.
: GLASGOW is pre-eminentIy city of
statues.
SUGAR was originally used only as
medicine.
The purest air is charged with dust
particles.
FLORIDA is one Of the greatest of lake
states.
STEEL rails average $50 tons to the
mile; iron, 145.
SCHOOL towels infect schildren with
ophthalmia.
IN the United States there are 276, $50
telephones.
THERE are 100000 sweat pores in the
human body.
One Swiss mountain cable railroad is
6,235 feet high.
THE human body has nine miles Of
perspiration pores.
A FLYING locomotive was exhibited in
England in 1868.
THE crater of Popocatapetl is three
miles in circumference.
PAPER betting for transmitting power
has been invented.
THE New York elevated railroad is
the best patrOnized in this country.
SYRIA has single railroad, the one
rail being laid in a wall of masonry.
BY the use of certain chemicals,
flames Of fire can be produced in water.
OLYMPIC Peninsula, west of Puget
Sound, has never been surveyed.
THE Hudson River has always been
the course for the fastest steamboats,.
a lien at Acushnet, Mich. laid an egg
that resembled a meerschaum pipe.
Mr.. MITCHELL, in North Carolina, is
the highest point in the Eastern states.
THERE is on exhibition in London a
talking and calculating horse.
HARRowGATE, England, cremates it's
garbage with it's electric lighting plant.
HENRY's LAKE, in Idaho, has float
ing island, the trees of which serve as
sails.
A MAN in Covington Ga, wears ring
made from the bone of an Indian war
riOr.
\ SINGLE nerve, the pneumogastric,
supplies the heart, lungs, stomach and
bowels.
A CERTAIN sign of death is when the
temperature Of the body in the armpit
is IS degrees.
4 FARMER in Arcade, n. Y, has used
the same two sap buckets every season
since 1919.
THE site of San Francisco's Midwinter
Fair was built by the winds out of drift
sand.
THE Antarctic polar region is believed
to contain 100000 square miles never
trOdden by man.
The average cost Of construction and
| roads is SOL, 644.
A SCHOOL of specialists holds that the
white cells of the blood are traps to
catch microbes.
THE eyes of untamed Eskimos are
mere Sits. Civilization seems to literal
ly open their eyes.
SIGNALLING through hose has been
accomplished by the New York City
| fire department.
FLOODED mines are sometimes arti
| ticially frozen, SO that the miner can
| quarry his way to his work.
i
was from Boston to Quincy, four miles,
| opened in 1927.
THE largest telephone switchboard in
| the world is that at the Cortland Street
Exchange, in New York.
AN amount of blood equal to all that
contained in the body passes through
| the heart every three minutes.
THE seed of the plant pride Of
China" grows fruit called "madberry"
which intoxicates birds that feed upon
| it.
Missouri and Kansas horses are grad
ually croWding out the small bronchos
and ponies from the Southwestern
| plains.
SOME queer stories are told about the
American cruiser Charleston. The
| plans were purchased in England and
now it turns out that they were very
sorry lot of drawings Not only that,
but the machinery plans were so de-
| tective that the entire scheme of mo-
tive power for the ship had to be re-
| modelled.