Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-07-02

CAMPHoR ICE-Take spermaceti, half
an ounce; oil of sweet almonds, one
ounce; powder camphor, one drachm
Melt the oil and sperm together, and then
add the camphor, previously dissolved IN
| a little of the oil.
! WE speak much of Providence, and the
isAlmighty; we bow before an Infinite
Power, and do homage to an Infinite Wis
dom; but do we carry about in our hearts
a perpetual sense Of union and com
munion with the infinite Incarnate Love:
/ BREAKFAsTx Corn CAKEs.-Three tea
cupsfr1 of white Or Southern corn meal
one cup Of wheat flour, two of sour milk
with two tablespoonful Of cream, or one
of melted BUTTER, and one egg, and tea
spoonful of salt. Bake in gem pans, y
and serve hot like rolls.
THE daily weather map giving a com
plete and portable form of the weather
| changes over the whole country, and issu
| ing from the Central Signal Office al
| Washington, is now offered for sale under
a recent act of Congress at two cents q
copy.
The Dundee (scotlaud) Adoertiser ap
peared in print the other day on jute paper
manufactured almost wholly from refuse
jute .bagging. The Impression is said to
have been very neat, though the paper
defect easily remedied-was too thin and
transparent tes
GRAHAM PUDDING, OR MUsH.-Stir sift-
| ted Graham flour Every little at time, to
avoid lumps,) into boiling water (previ-
ously salted) until of the consistency de-
sired let it remain over the fire. two or
three minutes after the flour is all FL, stir
ring we'll ..a
! To PREVENT illegal voting, the Consti-
tutional Convention of Pennsylvania has
adopted provision which requires that
each ballot cast shall be numbered in the
order of it's reception, and each voter, if
| he pleases, may as an additional safe
| guard write his name on the back of the
| ballot
Iris remarkable how many ways there
are for people from the country to betray
| their rusticity. During the recent jubilee,
/ for example, there were a number Of au-
| thentic cases where ladies uttered the
obsolescent syllables, "Thank you," when
| gentlemen gave them their seats on a
| crowded street car.-Ch5cago Times.
/ .RUMNEY, Mass, has formed a town in
surance company, and will begin opera
tions in few days. 1t is stated that with
in twenty years the citizens of the town
have paid in premiums and assessments
! about $50, 800, and have received in return
only about $4,000. They propose here
after to insure their own property.
For the past two years increasing mum
bers Of real canvass back ducks have been
killed on Lake Hoshkonong, Wis, where
| they feed on species Of celery, which is
! identical with that found in Chesapeake
Bay. This bird is very rare north OF
| Maryland or Virginia, and is esteemed the
finest for the table of the entire species.
A MESSENGER Of the Revere National
Bank of Boston, named Allen, has disap-
| peared with checks and drafts amounting
to about $4,000, on which he had raised
| about $4,000 cash What he did with the
| remainder is unknown. Just before leav-
! ing the bank he was informed that his
services would no longer be required.
The Journal Of the Franklin Institute
says that French inventor proposes to
photograph dispatches to microscopic
| fineness, and blow them through tube
sunk in the streets of Dover. When at
their destination the dispatches could be
| enlarged again. By this method long dis
patches could be sent about as cheaply
and expeditiously as short ones.
IT is a remarkable fact, that one who
| loves his mother, who honors that moth
| er's memory, is never bad man, she is
| never a bad woman. Tell me how a
young woman treats her mother, and will
tell you what her general character is. Tell
me how young man treats his mother,
and | will tell you what his future pros
poets are for time and eternity. ggE.7r
A NEW method Of preparing coffee is
becoming popular in France. After roast
ing, the coffee is ground to very fine
flour, which is then slightly moistened,
mixed with twice its weight of powdered
sugar, and pressed into tablets Coffee
prepared for use in this manner is claimed,
pound for pound, to be susceptible of far
more complete utilization.
| CABBAGE LIcE.-The Hortsc,tzt,trast rec
ommends, on the authority of cores
| pondent, opening the leaves as soon as the
plant begins to head and the louise makes
its appearance, and sprinkling in common
salt, which, it is stated, has been entirely
successful. Another rubs on the outside
leaves a mixture of two spoonfuls of ker-
osene in a pint of water. lK
INTELLECT AND LOvE-I won't say the
more intellect the less capacity for loving
for that would do wrong to the under
! standing and reason; but, on the other
hand, that the brain often runs away with
the hearts best blood. which gives the
world few pages of wisdom, or Ssenti
ment, Or poetry, instead of making one
other heart happy, have no question
| O. W. Holmes
You come tc an empty birds nest, and
pick up the down that clings to it, or a
stray plume that dropped, but, finding no
other trace of the birding, you say, it has
flown away. And you come to a child's
empty cradle, or a household tree that
| stands grim and bare now, or shoulders
and means in the breeze; and you say,
that bird has learned to fly it vanishes
| from its nest just as it was plumed OF
wing and clear of note.
A CARLOAD of live fish, consigned to
!! the California Fish Commission at San
! Francisco, to stock the streams in that
State, was wrecked in Elkhorn River
twenty miles west of Omaha, and the en-
tire car of forty thousand trout, Holsters
cells, ETC., emptied into the stream. 1t is
said to be the best stocked stream in Ne
braska at present The cause of the acct
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