Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-12-25
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


a week.
The planet Jupiter now rises more
than two hours and a half before mid
night.
Switzerland, of all foreign countries,
is best supplied with professors of the
healing art next comes Italy, and then
England and Wales.
Private earthquakes are fashionable
at Maine Quarries. At Dodlin a few
days ago big blast threw a mass of
rock weighing 1900 pounds distance of
fifty feet.
On hearing a person, either foreign
or native, sneeze in public, Brahmln
will instantly cry out, Live! hve'' and
this cry will be repeated as often us the
person sneeZeS.
Almost every leading male member
of the Rothschild family is the happy
possessor of a fine collection of works OF
art picked up with more or less dis
elimination and taste.
The big white moose recently shot IN
the Maine woods by a Mr.. Sargent OF
Grafton has greatly interested natural
lists. rs we'll as sportsmen. 1t is the only
white moose ever seen in Maine, and
very few have ever been heard of else
where.
The coloring of animals seen i'll
Maine this season is something unusual.
There have been white moose, mix
white fawns, gray wolves and there has
recently been captured pale yellow FOX.
Many nations are superstitious about
sneezing, but none SO much as the natiN cs
of India. To sneeZe on entering place
of business, on starting on journey. OF
undertaking any enterprise or adventure,
means bad luck for someone either ply
sically or financially.
There are three rivers known as
Colorado The first is in Utah and
Arizona and is 1900 miles long; the sec
length; the third is in the Argentine Re
public. in South America. and IS 400
miles long.
The river Platte during the summer
is dry along the greater portion of its
course. The water runs underground,
only an occasional pool appearing on the
surface. By digging almost anywhere
in its course a supply of fresh, cool water
may be obtained.
The river Euphra ties flowed through
the city of Babylon and on each side of
its banks the walls of the city were car
ried up to a height as great as at any
other point, SO that even during a siege
the city was as formidably defended
on the river as on the land side
in Germany. 1925 cases of diphtheria
have been treated by serum incubation,
to a report Of the governments medical
depa rtment. OF these, S6.5 per cent.
recovered, 1919 per cent. died, and the
rest were still under treatment.
A phenomenon in the recent severe
droutlI in Maine which caused wells
nAvef before known to fail, to dry up
completely was that reputed bottom
less pond at Fort Fairchild was IS inches
higher at the seyerest period of the
lrouth than it had ever before been
known to be.
Before the coming of the whites to
America. the Mississippi river was
known by n different name every few
miles in its course. Each tribe that
dwelt along its banks gave it name,
and more than 80 of these local designa-
tons are preserved in the narratives
of the early travellers.
1t has been computed by geographers
that if the sea were emptied of its water.
and all the rivers of the earth were to
pour their present floods into the vacant
space allowing nothing TO evaporate,
10000 years would De required to bring
the water of the ocean up to it's present
level.
II. G. Pearce, an old Rock Island en-
gineer, died in his cab from hemorrhage
of the lungs while his suburban train was
rushing along between Twenty-second
and Thirty ninth street stations, in Chi
cagO. The fireman was aDpriSed of his
chiefs accident by the trains overrun-
ming stopping place.
Nothing is more common than for
persons to imagine that they have heart
disease. and they often make themselves
dreadfully uncomfortable in conSe-
quence. In the Overwhelming majority
of cases. more particularly in young,
nervous, fanciful people, the heart is as
sound as a bell, but the stomach is out
of order.
"A rajah at one time turned back his
army from the gates of besieged city
because one of his foot-runners CHANGED
to sneeze just as he had decided to give
the command to attack. A Brahmin
priest was consulted, and q special time
appointed by him to renew the siege be-
fore it was deemed promising under
taking.
One of those painstaking persons
called statisticians has been turning his
attention to the position of Russia in re-
gard to it's supply of doctors. The coun-
try has produced number of eminent
chemists but medical men are somewhat
scarce. In all Russia there are only 49,
740 qualified practitioners, of whom 553
are women.
The Chinese burglar takes an ingre-
dent of his own, burns it, and blows the
smoke through the keyhole of the bed
room where the master of the house is
asleep. The fumes dull the senses of
the victim Just enough to make him
helpless, while at the same time per-
hitting him to see and hear everything
that goes on in the room. The only an
tldote against this charm is pure water.
A Quaint Old Bookstore.
Down in Beaver street is a bookstore
SO filed with books that there is literally