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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-05-06
Raspberry Culture.

Not one farm in ten throughout the
country has a raspberry patch sufficient
to produce a supply for family use.
This seems to me inexcusable, when
they are SO good and healthful, and SO
cheap ID their preparation, and when a
few square rods, properly managed,
will afford an abundance for any table
But now [ want to say afew words about
raspberry culture. When the canes
have grown to three feet, clip off the
tips. They will then stiffen up and
throw out branches, and these, if they
grow to much length, 90 or - inches)
should be clipped, and in their turn
they may produce short branches; thus
the whole growth of the plant is made
useful, and the canes are not only stiff
er and more self-supporting, but the
yield OF fruit is abundantly increased.
Some of the canes areready for clipping
at the time Of picking berries, and may
be pinched off then with little loss of
time. 1t is desirable to thin out to a
few of the strongest stalks.
T think that although rich and moist
soil is best, raspberries can be grown
quite well on dry, sandy soil, provided
there be liberal admixture of we'll
rotted vegetable manure worked into it,
and after elephants are sufficiently start
ed the whole surface of the ground
should be covered with old straw toi a
depth that will keep down all weeds.
This is also an excellent treatment for
currants, gooseberries, and other small
fruits
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-05-06
Postal Telegraph and Press News.

Ihepostal telegraph bill now pending
in the United States Senate reduces the
rates SO greatly that it is believed that
specials . under the postal system
will be as cheap as the Associated Press
news, under the present. The rates for
night specials from Washington to
a single Boston paper are So for a hun
dred words, or Sd, SO if the same special
is delivered to two papers without any
provision for reduced rates, where it is
dropped at way stations. Under the
proposed plan the rates for the same
service to one paper would be 81. so; to
two papers, $1.70, with one third less
rates when dropped at way stations.
These rates are less than those now
charged to the Boston papers for the
Associated Press news. Under the
postal telegraph system the agency now
employed for the collection and dis
distribution of commercial news would
be reorganized, and it's business per-
formed by associations organized by
merchants for that purpose. The low
rates offered to such associations will
not only correct existing evils, but pre-
vent many other abuses to which the
fASooAAo
ton: These associations can be organ
lied as freely as if there were rival and
independent telegraph companies. Tie
provision for specials at these low rates
will, it is believed, work as great reform
ID the relations Of the telegraph to the
press as resulted from the transfer of
the telegraph in England from private
companies to the government. There
the number Of towns to which the news
reports are sent is nearly three times as
large as formerly, and the number of
subscribers for the commercial news
increased in larger proportion. The
telegraph companies sent reports to one
hundred and seventythree journals,
which was increased in one year under
the postal service to four hundred and
slxty-seven, while the number of words
daily transmitted during the session of
Parliament was increased from about
SIX thousand to twenty thousand, and
III the same ratio for the rest of the
year. ... -s r.. ...# -.....l
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-05-06
A Hint.
BY MRS. EUNICE B. LAMBERSON.

BY MRS. EUNICE B. LANIBERsoN.
If home were home, and warmth were Their
Of heart, full trimming over;
With kindly words and welcome smiles
For each returning rover;
II half the tact displayed by wives,
And zeal in minor matters
We're brought to bear, by strategy
That soothes the soul it fatters.
If wCman'S voice were never heard
In angry tones upbraiding;
If little faults were smoothed away
In lieu of endless prating;
If | and self were in the shade
And Christian peace Astounding,
With closet prayer and secret praise
On wings of love resounding;
If strife to please were all the war
Between opposing forces,
And bitterness but hurled at those
Who advocate divorces;
If like the patriarch of old,
One took the safe direction,
BY waiting till the other chose
The right or left selection;
If half the ills were wet and shared
Of lifelong irritation,
And half the joys intensified
Enhansed by appreciation;
II counting days were now and then
Relieved as time advances,
And acid looks compared with some
Of youths exquisite chances;
If smiles assumed for passing guests,
For strangers delectation
Waned not, to meteors akin
Flashing from observation
II life were what it seems to be
Untranmeled by illusion,
And words were truth, and looks were love
And bushes meant confusion;
Ii yearning hopes and pure desires
With common sense united,
Assembled to our Fathers throne
Where womans wrongs are righted;
The whisky shops by more than half,
II utter desperation,
Would close their doors for want of trade
From this domestic nation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-05-06
Jews Not Permitted to Live in Russia.

The Cologne Gazette reports that a
German Jew, a merchant, who had for
six years resided in St. Petersburg,
where he had never experienced any
annoyance on account of his religion,
lately asked for a new residential pass
port, requesting that the name of his
newly-married wife might be therein
added to his own. On calling for the
paper, in compliance with a communi-
cation from the passport office, he was
there informed that he, as a Jew. had
no right to live in Russia, and must
leave the Empire within twenty-four
hours. In vain he pleaded his German
nationality, and the fact that he was
then residing under favor of a German
passport. He was only permitted to re-
main until an answer could be forward
ed by Prince Reuas, the German EN-
bassador, to the Russian Minister of
Foreign Affairs. The answer, expressed
In the best official style, was to the eff
feet that in view of certain articles in
the code for the regulation of the pass
port system, longer residence in Rus
STA on the part of the petitioner was
inadmissible.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-05-06

Standing one evening in that fringe
OF spectators which usually surrounds
the dancers, at an entertainment given
by one Of the American residents of
Paris, a French painter next to me ex-
pressed his admiration of forty or fifty
CT my countrywomen who were whirling
round to Strauss waltz. The revolv-
ing bevy was composed of young women
from sixteen to twenty-five, and they
certainly looked very handsome. He
reiterated with enthusiasm that he had
never seen more beautiful girls any
where-they were diamonds Of the first
water. On being asked if he did not
see single flaw, he evasively replied
that none Of us were perfect. Being
pressed-entz'e hOnanaes-he thought
the hands were not as we'll formed as
they might be-nor the utt0ches-an
imperfection in the Saxon race. Was
there anything else ? Beauty was some
what matter of convention, was said
again evasively, but further remark
brought out the question whether [ had
seen the Venus Of Milo in the Louvre.
had, and knew it was the accepted
model of womanly perfection. Had I
noted the waist of the wonderful statue
Had [ remarked the difference between
the waists of the women who were
dancing before us and that OF the
Venus?
You mean that the waists of nv
countrywomen are too long %
=" Exactly; but then they have the
most beautiful faces in the world To
which was added: "My candor is
atrocious. Then, as one of the fair
dervishes, whom he knew, passed, he
ventured into English and enquired
with solicitude, Mees, do you pickle
your health ?" indicating lexical re-
search at the word preserve. -zhe GAL
a.ry for May.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-05-06

SPANISH vessels entered the port of
Marsellles, short time since, bringing
100000 oranges.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-05-06
John Phillips, the English Geologist.

ooAAAA iiioApo, enO a1hS hSH UtuIUSISts
John Phillips, the English geologist,
who died in London April "a, was born
December IS, 1900. He was a nephew
Of William Smith, the father of Brit
ish geology, and doubtless received
from him the taste for geological study
which became in after-life an all-ab-
sorbing pursuit. He was chosen Sec
rotary to the British Asso citation. and
in the work of editing the transactions
of that body acquired many valuable
hints and much solid information as to
the then comparatively enexplored
fields of geological science. His first
publication was made in 1926, and from
that time on to his death he worked as
siduously. In all he contributed to
the literature of geology sixty books
and papers. He was at different times
President of the Geological Society
and --of the British Association, and
Professor of Geology in Kings College,
London, in Trinity College, Dublin,
and in Oxford University He receiv-
ed the Electorate from Dublin, Cam
bridge and Oxford. His latest works
are History of Vesuvius, and the &C.
ology of the Thames Valley. To me-
teorology he contributed Three Years
Observations on Rain, a Pluvimeter.
which registers The direction and incli-
nation of rain, and a method of meas
uring the velocity of wind by Their
mometer. Mr.. Phillips bore the de-
grees of M. A., LID, D. G. L., F. r.
S., and F. S. G..
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-05-06

A POPULAR clergyman of Buffalo re-
turned from an extended journey few
days since, and just as he alghted
from the cars and was receiving the
congratulations of crowd Of his par
ishioners who had assembled to greet
him, an inebriated Individual followed
in his wake, seized him by the hand,
and exclaimed "Well, good bye, old
pard, I'm going further, and shall keep
up the same old drink for awhile yet,
but you're pretty well sobered up, and
you had better keep SO, I 'spect, as
drinkin's rough when fellows round
home. But you know how to go on a
gallus spree and have a rum time lust
as good as any pard I ever had, and you
have my respect. Day-day old buster
Before the astonished clergyman could
gather his wandering wits the hail fel
low was off, leaving terrible scandal
for the delectation of the gossips of
Buffalo, and a prospective candidate for
the lunatic asylum.
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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-23
A Premeditated Suicide.

Ex-Congressman Bovine, of New York,
committed suicide few days ago. The
act was premeditated. as is evidenced by
the manner in which he proceeded. Mon
day afternoon he called at the Office of the
New 7 York Sun and asked that a short
hand reporter be allowed to accompany
him to his hotel at Richmond Village.
The request was complied with. and Mr..
Bovine and the reporter left the Office to-
gether. On the ferry boat Mr.. Bovine met
several acQuaintances, all of whom he told
that he would be dead before the next day.
Arriving at the hotel he ordered supper,
and after that meal he told the reporter the
story of his life. He said that he was elect
ed to Congress from the First District in
1S4S. He was Quarantine Commissioner
of New York under Governor King, anda
Presidential elector at the time of Mr.. Lin
coins second election. Previous to going
to Congress Mr.. Bovine was married, bul
subsequently divorced and married again.
His second wife died, and he then reniar-
| ried his first wife. He finally bid the re-
porter good night, and went to his room
The next morning he was found dead. an
empty bottle, labeled "laudanum, . telling
the cause of his death. He was much ad
dicted to drink, and for that reason hi
talk of dying was unnoticed, as during thu
day preceding his death he had been drink
! ing heavily.
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. DoNALDsoNvnLE LA. SATURDAY, MAY %, 1874 +.


Madrid dispatches of the Sd report the cap
ture of Bilbao by the Government troops un-
der Serrano; advices from Carlist sources,
same date, however, report that the Carlist
troops still occupied formidable positions
about the city, and were disputing serrano's
advance. A special to the London Times
says the Carlists had retired from the city and
that General Concha was about to take pos
session.
Marshal Serrano entered Bilbao on the ID.
There was great rejoicing at Madrid over the
deliyerance of the city, and in the evening
there was general illumination. tits stated
that the main body of the Carlists was re-
treating in the direction of the Province of
Guipezecora.
The betrothal of the Russian Grand Duke
Vladimira and the Duchess Marie of Mecklen-
burg has been promulgated at Berlin.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-23
Masculine and Feminine.

A proof of how much more appearances
weigh in this foolish world that facts, may
be found in the relative traditional estimate
of the owl and the goose. The former
bird, merely from looking grave and
solemn, and keeping himself retired
from public view, has been credited
with unlimited sagacity, and made the
chosen companion of the Goddess of Wis
dom. As no ministry, fifty years ago,
would have dared to give bishopric TO
Sydney Smith, simply because he was too
witty, so no old Athenian imagined that
Pallas would have preferred in her temple
the society Of a lively and satirieal bird,
like the goose, to the dull and gloomy
minded owl. But the goose is really a
clever creature, and proves it in a hundred
ways, while the owl, like Load Burleigh,
merely mods his head in solemn sort, and
is accepted as wise ON his own showing.
The great difference between masculine
and feminine folly has been said to be, that
stupid man generally retains enough
sense to conceal his stupidity under the
cloak of silence, while a stupid woman
chatters the more, the more ignorant she
may be, and SO betrays her deficiencies
to all the world. The man sometimes in
spires his neighbor land always his wife)
with the conviction that there is matchless
wisdom hidden behind his reserve, which
he buttons close round him as the shabby
genteel do to great coat to hide the abb
sence of shirt. The woman invariably
reveals her folly to everybody, and gets no
credit for the undercurrent of practical
sense which sometimes runs beneath. The
owl is in this respect decidedly of the mas
cuiine order of mind, while the goose goes
about caekling and screeching, with her
neck outstretched, SO that she looks
supremely ridiculous and idiotic, while all
the time she is not only sensible enough.
but has the rare merit of a strong dash of
humor in her composition. Since she
saved the Roman Capitol she has been
known to display all the domestic virtues,
and as many public ones as she has been
permitted to exercise. But no : expert
ence avails nothing against prejudice. She
has contrived to get herself classed among
tho 'sshrieking sisterhood," and her claims
are thrust aside with derision.-Neao Quar-
tsrly Magazine.
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VOLUME III.
POETRY.
SIGNS.
BY HOWARD eLyNpoN


0 SAD brown hills! pitiful seaside slope,
Bare as the heart bereft of its last hope!
Ye waters dark and dumb!
Cloud-shadowed skies, where scant blue shows
apace
/ am faint of heart for sight of her sweet face;
/ am like homesick child,
Lost in the void of this great wintry wild
w hen will she come
That was the blackbird He is calling her,
Out there, high up in that lean juniper.
Just now into the brook
A snow-wreath slipped, confronted by the sun
And mark hint OF green hath just begun
To creep across the grass,
Forerunner of what yet shall come to pass
Hush! listen! look!
There goes an azure flash betwixt the boughs;
The biuebird seeks site for his new house
FL ird by yon pussy willow
Down in the underbrush what's that SO red?
No more will Robin deign to beg his breadl
Straight as an arrow
Back to his old haunts flies the Quakerish spar
row.
She has left her pillow!
The rocks are emeralded with freshened mosses,
And cunniDgest lichens broider gnarled bosses
On chestnut bur
Poises hesitating rash newcomer,
Prince Gold-coat, though tbs far to look for sum-
Springs risen, and close behind,
And these, her heges, knowing her constant
mind,
Dare all for her.
-Harper's Weekly