Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-02-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


Gold has been discovered in Vermont,
the assays show that the ore is very rich
Seventy churches among the Congre-
gationalists have adopted the individual
communion cups.
Harder, the great authority on fish,
says that every square mile of the sea
is inhabited by 12G,000,000 fish.
Eighteen hundred people in Iowa
have signed a petition asking that Mrs
Cora Chaplain Weed of Muscatine re-
ceive diplomatic appointment.
A celebrated physician divides fruit
into five classes, each possessing a special
astringCnt, the oily and the mealy.
The number of marriage licenses is
sued in Chicago has been steadily drop
ping for the past four years, and in 1897
it was nearly 20 per cent. less than it had
been in 1893.
Mary Stuart was not cross-eyed, but
one eye had q peculiar movement, NOV
ing farther in one direction than the
other, giving her the appearance at cas-
ual glance of being cross-eyed.
"A writer in the Engineering Maya
zine says that during the last fifty years
the size of steamships has been multiplied
tWentyfold, the horsepower employed to
drive them has been multiplied fOrty-fOld
and the speed with which they traverse
the sea has increased three-fold.
The amount of money that single
toad might save to a farmer in one season
by the destruction of cut-WOrms has
been estimated at nearly $40. This cal
culation is based on the damage that the
number of cut-Worms a toad could eat in
a season would be able to effect among
growing crops.
Lincoln's Care III the Use of Words.
In the opinion Of the judges and practi-
TONERS with whom Lincoln was associat-
ed during his quarter of a century at the
bar his most prominent characteristics
was his rare faculty for detecting and
disclosing the controlling point in a legal
battle. But not less than this was his
clear, full, orderly and accurate state
ment Of a case; always SO fair and log
ical that it was often said that after
Lincoln had summed up the important
facts III a controversy there was but lit
tie occasion for argument on either side.
He habitually employed at the bar the
and the expression of ideas which he
SO often afterWard exhibited when called
TO a higher field Of labor; instances of
which are seen III all his state papers,
and in the changes for the better which
he made in the writings of his scholarly
secretary of state, particularly in the cor
respOndence relative to the Trent affair,
which probably avoided a war with Eng
land. A fine example of the grandeur
of his diction is TO be found in his Get
tysburg address, which has d permanent
place i'll the literature of the world.
He thought vigorously and thoroughly,
but did not speak quickly. In reality
his hesitation was only the result of his
great care always to know his ground.
His habit was, before speaking or act
ing, to deliberately look through, around
and beyond every fact, statement or
proposition involved, and subject it to his
wonderful powers of perception and
analysis. This required time, but it made
him successful in every important under
taking. While he thought much. he
could not truthfully be called great
reader. He knew thoroughly the works
of Coke, Blackstone, Stephen, Gritty,
Starkey, and later Greenleaf's "Eyi-
dence' and Story's Equity" He gave
but little time to searching for prece-
dents, or studying what is called case
law.-James l.. King. Librarian of Kan
sas State Library, in North American
Review for February.