Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-03-12
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


peg new uullClpdI eIeCIf1c power
plant, to cost approximately S1,O14,7OO.
The Winnipeg Electric Railway Com
pany has three times offered to sell
its Lac du Bonnet plant to the city.
Preliminary work for the construc.
ton of midas large new steel plant
near Kalimati station is making good
Roadway. The plant on the Ramrana
manganese property has proved to be
of the highest value. A forty-fve mile
railway is already under construction.
John Brown was executed at Harp
ers Ferry on Dec, 2, 1859. 1t was short
ly after II o'clock in the morning Two
thousand Virginia soldiers were ranged
around the scaffold when he was
brought from his prison house and
placed in a wagon which was to convey
him to the scene Of the execution
The curator of the museum at Brus-
sells has just been pursuing an interest
ing claim in the Belgian courts. IN
May last Nine. BOuriant, the widow of
an Psychologist, offered to the museum
two scarabs with inscriptions, which
the lady claimed related to a voyage on
the coast of Africa referred to by Hero
dotus The curator purchased the sea
rabs for $4,000, and, as may be mag
ined. they created Il great deal of inter
est in the learned world, the final judg-
ment Of which was that the so-called
antiquities were forgeries. NJ. Capart,
the curator, has sued the widow for
the return Of the purchase price and
the courts have decided in his favor.
From the War Department comes no
tice Of an interesting relic formerly the
property of President Lincoln Upon
the occasion Of his memorable visit to
Gettysburg the President cut with his
own hands u cane, which he afterWard
presented to his War Secretary, Edwin
NJ. Stanton, by whom it was naturally
highly priced. This cane is now in the
possession Of Mr.. Jahncke, president of
the Jahncke Navigation Company of
New Orleans. who married a grand
daughter of Secretary Stanton. 1t has
gold top with an engraved inscrip-
ton, which was probably placed on
the treasured souvenir by Secretary
Stanton.-National Magazine.
Few Swiss scholars have had a more
brilliant career than the new principal
of the University Of Lausanne. DR.. II.
Charles Louis Blanc was born in Lau-
same, fifty years ago and began his
studies at one Of the primary schools
| in the city. At nineteen he took his de-
gree in science, afterward going, as so
many Swiss scholars have done, to Ger
many, first to Stuttgart. then to the
University Of Fribourg- en-Brisgau,
where he won his doctorate in philoso-
ply with hOnors. Since then he has
| made his mark as a zoologist, and now
enjoys European reputation. He has
had a hand in research work and in
experimenting geological museums in
Switzerland and in Germany.
There is at present an interesting ex-
hibit in No. 6 tank at the Brighton
Aquarium, says the London Globe 1t is
something like dogfsh, only much
larger, while in the natter of sheer
uglineSs it stands unrivaled Its tech
nical mans is the topper shark. 1t is
six feet long and weighs from eighty to
ninety pounds, while its mouth looks
large enough to take an elephant single
handed. The shark came into the pos
session of the aquarium in rather a
curious manner. A man named Lane
of Brighton was fishing some two miles
off the Palace pier with long line,
when ne felt vicious tug at his hook.
He quickly "hauled in his slack" and
then the topper came to light. Mr.. Lane
at once hurried ashore and placed the
topper in his new home.
Consul J. n McCun Of Glasgow, fur
nishes the following information con-
corning he waste in coal consumption
and the prevention of smoke and dust,
as recently presented to his associates
by the chairman of the Glasgow and
West Of Scotland Technical College !:
THE more recent knowledge on these
subjects showed that in most cases
smoke and dust were quite unnecessary
concomitants Of industry. Investiga-
tons of the recent royal commission on
coal supplies have shown that the pres
ent inefficient consumption of coal in
Great Britain leads to waste Of from
40, 100000 to 6O,O0OOOO tons per annum,
and is also responsible for the greater
proportion Of smoke and dust from
which they suffer. Thirty per cent of
the total British consumption OF coal
might be saved by employing the best
known means for such purpose"
There was recently introduced il the
House of Representatives a bill for the
purchase of the house in Tenth street,
Washington, in which Abraham Lin
coin died on April Is, 1865. The bill
proposes the acquisition Of the two ad-
! joining houses and the entire collection
of the Oldroyd relics of Lincoln. of
which there are some 5000 pieces in
the building. There is also included a
/ library of thousand volumes all relat-
| ing to Lincoln and the civil war. In
one Of the rooms is a black locust
rail split by Lincoln in 1880, and taken
! from a fence around his old home. and
| the walnut cradle in which his children
were rocked. The bill contemplates the
purchase also of the two adjoining
/ buildings on each side, with the under
| standing that both are to be torn down