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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-06-10
Excessively Neat

The editor of the New Albany
Ledger Standard is responsible for
the following:
eve were riding in & railroad car;
directly opposite sat a young lady
She was deliberately dressed and
neatly attired. We will not say that
she was homely, for beauty is a con
yentional term, and there may be
some Nations which we have not Wis
tied where she would be considered
handsome, but she was happily up to
the American standard; but the beau
ty, however, is not german to the
question, but her nose is, and what
we may say Of that cannot be con-
sidered malapropos in this cOunec-
ton. Her nose was of the yegeta-
bic kingdom and belonged to the turn
up species, in fact, the end of it look
ed as if it had started on a voyage
of discovery to the moon. Suddenly
her nose seemed 20 vibrate. There
were internal rumblings Of the Bald
Mountain kind, vet there were evil
dent sighs Of a sub-nasal upheayal.
She quietly put her hand in her pock-
ct and drew out a clean, white hand
kerchief. This she half unfolded and
laid upon her lap; then from her
satchel beside her, a small package
of thin straw-cOlored paper was TAX
en-, cut about six inches square; it
had evidently been prepared for this
or similar purpose. She selected
one piece, and the remainder was re-
stored to the satchel for future use.
This piece of paper was placed upon
the half unfolded handkerchief, and,
with her hand beneath the handker-
chief, she brought the paper in con-
tact with her nose, seized it and blew
the blast, which would have done
credit to Roderick Dhu. In short,
to use the language Of our cotempor-
ary, she exploded her nasal rheum IN
the paper; the paper was then dain-
tily lifted from the handkerchief and
dropped out of the car window. The
handkerchief was refolded and re-
turned to her pocket as unsoiled as
the moment it came from the laund-
ress. Could anything be more clean
", economical or convenient? With
plentiful supply of paper, one hand
kerchief would last month, to say
nothing of the saving in baggage"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-06-10
Hints 90 Owners OF Watches.

\ watch is a most delicate machine,
and a very little thing is enough to
damage its system, and make it go
too fast or too slow, or to arrest the
motions Of its wheels; and it is just
that very little thing that you don't
take any notice of. Show Us your
watch. and we'll tell you what are
the habits of its owner.
\ person Of irregular habits will
spoil the best watch in the world,
Careless or inexact people will always
have watches that go fast or slow
or that 90 both fast or slow by turns.
If you can't be steady and regular
in your habits, you need not expect
TO have a watch that you can rely on
All the best watchmakers in the
world will be unable to give your
watch that regularity which is lack
ing in yourself, and which you can
not, therefore preserve in your watch,
and which you destroy as fast az
your watch is regulated For o
watch should be wound up every
day at the same hour, and as soon as
possible in the morning. And the
best occasion for doing this is when
the minute hand marks seven or eight
minutes after the hour-hand has mark
ed the hour.
The operation Of winding q watch
should never be performed carelessly
or roughly; but on the contrary, with
great precaution especially at the
moment when you give the final turn
to the key. Then you should gently
moderate the movement, so as not to
wind the watch up too tight. You
should always take good care to fit
the keyhole before commencing.
1t is not a good plan to carry the
key about you, unless it is kept in a
case; and never carry it loose in your
pocket. ..as it is liable to get dust in
it. which you viii introduce into the
watch from time to time, in winding
it up, to its great detriment.
Never, under any circumstances
except those Of extreme necessity,
open the inetrior compartment-that
which contains the machinery Of the
watch
In winding up the watch the hand
that holds it should remain perfectly
steady and without motion.
The hands may be advanced or set
back when necessary, without any
harm being done to the watch,
contrary to the polular no.
ton on the subject.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-06-10
A Day at Home.

I Once in q while there is a day in
: Danbury when a man is out of work,
and he stays at home. After break
fast is eaten and the dishes are re-
moved, he pulls out the family draw
er and dumps the contents on the ta-
bic, to look for a paper of suddenly
acquired Importance. Having got
u chair which has lost leg, and for
that reason has peen set aside where
no body will be apt to get into trou-
BILE with 1.-THE drops into it, and it
Immediately comes apart, and depos-
its him under the table. Hejumps to his
feet at once, and kicks the chair
the hallway to the imminent danger of
his wife, and the woman who lives
in the other part of the house, both of
whom under the impression that one
of the children had fallen from the
mantle-piece, and broken its back,
have started to the rescue. He i'm
mediately asks his wife what kind
of an idoit she is to leave a broken
chair where any one can sit down on
it and jeopardize life and limb, and
sarcastcally inquiries if she wanted to
kill him. or merely cripple him for
life, and scouts with scorn indescriba-
bic the intimation that the chair was
placed where no sane party would
ever think of looking for Cne After
that he gets q new chair which he is
confident will throw him and hurt
him, and says so, and pores over the
paper again.
Pretty soon he is attended by one
of the children who is making hcrcu-
lanean efforts to scale one of the Ia
bic legs with view of getting on top
to see what is going on As the lit
tie round head, with the swelling
cheeks, and bulging eyes, and tum-
bled hair, and dirty mouth, appears
above the top, and beams up at him;
he nervously cries, Hey, you, now
come out of that. and start after YOUR
mother she wants yOu."-But the
child knows that its mother doesn't
want him, and so does he, and being
at loss to explain why, he falls to
work at the papers again In little
while one very chubby arm is thrown
on top of the table, and the eyes
have reached the level, and are TAX
ing the wonders of the display
There is another move up, then a
sudden weakness in the legs, that are
tightly hugged to the tables legs,
then desperate hopeless clutch at
the papers for safety, and the little
head disappears with lightning veloc-
ity and then an ominOus bump, and
then a scream, and the miserable
man is on his feet again, holding the
suffering child wrong side up and
screaming for help.-The moment it
got in its mothers arms, and the cam
phor is in reach, the man, who stays at
home because ne has nothing else to
do puts on his coat and hat, and
beats hasty retreat, leaving the
wife to claim the DISTRACTED breast
of the child, and to set the table to
rights. When he has another day to
himself, be dumps out the drawer
again, and goes over a similar per-
formance -DdRbuTy Nelcs.
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Did mot Wish 10 Criminate Himself.

In the case Johns, jr., ys Slack e
al, tried before the United States
District Court, the following dialogu,
took place:
Attorney-Please state your name
age, residence, and occupation.
Witness-My name is John Rey,
nolds f; l reside in Point Pleasant
Mason county. West Virginia; my
profession for the past two weeks has
been that Of lawyer, but previous
to that / was q millwright.
Attorney-What were you engaged
in last winter?
Witness turning to the Court +
Am compelled to answer that ques
ton?
Court-Yes, you are compelled to
answer.
Witness-Well, then, gentlemen, /
am sorry to state, / was member Of
the Legislature Wheeling Sand
ard.
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something which was to make a for
tune, but never doing it, although he
said that the time had positively come
for the great business coup so often
talked Of This it, appeared, would
take him to California. and, happy
thought. why should he not take a
lot Of choice millinery, DC, out there
with him and dispose of it at a splen-
did profit. The conliding women as
sented, and he went his way with
goods 10 the amount Of $4,000
When he returned he reported that
the goods were lost through the gross
carelessness Of the express eompa-
nies, whom, somehow, he could not
make responsible. Even then so
completely had he "gammoned" his
victims that they did not suspect.
Then be disappeared for time al
together, and they could not imagine
what in the world had become Of
him. At length lady called one
day on Mrs. T., and made inquiries
about her husband, and yery pretty
information each had to impart to the
other. She, too, lady of excellent
family and position in New York,
had been entirely deluded by this
scoundrel She had married him,
and he had got possession Of a coz
siderable part Of her money. Nor il
this all. The man is now understood
to be after a third venture of the sort,
and how many victims there may
have been before these two, who shall
say? In manner and appearance he
is described as most attractive, and
he treated the ladies whom he mar
ried with every kindness, 80 far as
behavior in manner went.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-06-10
MARBLE OR DUST.

Hl Mis-. y. NJ. u. IlAkI.
A child, beside statute, said TO me,
With pretty wisdom very sadly just,
THAT man is Mr.. LincoH, mamma. He
Was made of marble; we are made of dust"
One flash of passionate sorrOw trembled through
The dust OF which l had been dimly made
One fierce, quick wish to be of marble too
Not something meaner, that must fall and
fade.
ITO be forever fair and still and cold"
family thought, with faint tears in my sight
''To stand thus face to face with Time, and hold
Between us that uncrumblng charm OF white
"To see the creatures formed of sllghter stuff
Wavcr in little dcad-leaf whirls away,
Yet know that could wait and have enough
OF frost and dew, enough of dark and day.
"- would be marble? Wherefore: Just
TO miss
The tremors of glad pain that dust must
know
The grief that settles after some dead kiss
The lrown that was a smile not long ago:
"DO 1 forget the stones lsng loneliness?-
The dumb impatience all wan watching brings.
The looking with blind eyes, in vague distress,
For Christ's slow Coming and the End of
ThiHgs2
"No boy of mine with your young yellow hair
Better the dust you scatter with your feet
Than marble, which can see not you are fair
Than marble, which can feel not you are sweet.
"Ay, Of than marble which must meet the years
Without my light relief of murmurous breath
Without the bitter sweetness OF my tears
Without the love which dust must have for
DenIh.' "
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-06-10

TO THE CITIZENS OF OFPENNSYLVANIA.
Your attention is specially invited to the fact
that the National Banks now prepared to re
eeive subscriptions to the Capital Stock Of the
Centennial Board of Finance. The funds realized
from this source to be employed In the erection
of the buildings for the International Exhibition,
and the expenses connected with the same. II is
confidently believed that the Keystone State will
be represented by the name of every citizen alive
10 patriotic ccOmmemoration of the one hundredth
birthday Of the nation. The shares Of stock are
offered for slO each, and subscribers will receive
handsomely steel engraved Certificate Of Stock,
suitable for framing and preservation as national
memorial.
Interest at the rate Of six per cent per annum
will be paid on all payments Of Centennial Stock
from date of payment to January i. 1875.
Subscribers who are not near National Bank
can remit check postotfice order 10 the under
signed.
FRED. FRALEY. Treasurer,
s0i Walnut ST., Philadelphia.
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Loans Secured by Real Estate

Copies ofthe Bylaws, reports, rules Of deposit,
and special of Legislature relative to deposits
Of married women and minors, can be % tained at
the Bank.
TH7 Banking hours daily from to 3o'clock;
llOS and on Wednesday and Saturday evenings
from to -. o'clock. april y.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-09-24
THE COUNTY FAIR.

The First Annual Fair Of the Manito-
voc County Central Agricultural and
Mechanical Association commences to-
day and will continue during tomorrow.
We are informed that the prospects for
its success are fattering, and that the
exhibition of the manufactures and pro-
ducts of the county will well repay a
visit. The managers of the Fair have
spared no pains to make their first ven
tJ1re success, and it behooves all inter
ested to show their appreciation by at
tending. The races promise to ''draw''
well, and it is expected that some good
time will be marked tomorrow, as the
entrees for the various purses are nu-
merous. We shall publish the premiums
awarded in our next issue.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-09-24

NEW LIGHTHOUSE following is
the official notice from the Lighthouse
Board OF the new light at Poverty IS
land:
Notice is hereby given that on and
after Sept. l, 1874, light VIII be shown
from lighthouse recently erected. at
Poverty Island, Lake Michigan, entrance
to Green Bay The light will be fixed
white. The Illuminating apparatus is a
steamer lens of the sixth order. Lighting
$50 degrees of the horizon. The focal
plane is about thirty-seven feet above
the ground and fifty-tive feet above mean
low water. The fight should be seen in
clear weather, from the deck of vessel
ten feet above the lake, fourteen statute
miles. The structure is a red brick
house, surmounted by a temporary
wooden tower, from which the light VIII
be shown. In front OF the house is an
unfinished brick tower rising nearly to
the level of the light. Background trees.
| The approximate position OF the light
house, as taken from the Lake Survey
charts, is as follows Latitude, 10 deg.
81 min. north longitude, So deg. 40
min. west. Magnetic bearings and dis
tances OF prominent lights and objects
are as follows Point Peninsula light
house, northwest by west, IT. statute
miles. Pottawatomie lighthouse, south
west by west, 103 statute miles.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-09-24
THE FIREMEN.

The excursion Of firemen from the
neighboring cities and towns to this city
on Sunday last was an event which pass
ed off to the satisfaction of all concern
ed. In the morning delegation from
Two Rivers arrived, who, with the sever
al local companies formed a procession
at Turner Hall and marched out to the
depot to welcome the large number who
arrived from Sheboygan, Sheboygan
Falls and Centerville between II and y
o'clock. After their arrival they were
escorted to the Hall where Adolph Witt
mann, Esq, welcomed them III brief
and very appropriate address. In the
afternoon the procession was again form
ed and the assembled hundreds, with
flags flying and preceded by a brass
band marched to Gerphiede's Garden,
where the remainder Of the day was
spent in general jollifcation. The
event closed with grand ball in the
evening. No city in the State has a
more efficient fire department. than Man
itowoc, and we believe .heirsguests are
of the opinion that there isn't a more
generous, courteous set of men any
where.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-09-24

THE Sheboygan Times is authority
for the statement that the NJ. L. S. &
W. r. r. Go. are expecting soon to place
three new coaches, one baggage ca.,
fifty box cars and ten flats upon their
road, the present supply being made
quate to the demand of business. They
have now in use eight engines, six pas
senger coaches, one mail and express
car, four baggage cars, thirtyseven box
cars, and forty-seven flat cars, and run
three trains daily each way Sunday ex-
cepted) between Sheboygan and Mil
waul1ee, two between Manitowoc and
Milwaukee, and one each way between
Two Rivers and Milwaukee, and be-
tween Appleton and Milwaukee. and
two each way daily between Two Rivers
and Manitowoc.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-09-24

WHAT Manitowoc emphatically needs
is more manufacturing establishments ;
and when We take into consideration the
many advantages which this city and
county offers for the successful prosecu-
ton OF such enterprises, the opinion can
but find favor that those advantages viii
in time be appreciated and utilized.
With the finest of timber within easy
access, with excellent transportation ia
cilities, an unsurpassed farming country
around it to furnish sustenance for
thousands of artisans, with the cheap
ness of living and consequent reasonable
prices of labor, together with citizens
who will foster and assist such under
takings, Manitowoc presents facilities
for the successful manufacture Of every
variety of articles which require timber,
water and shipping facilities. Let US
make an effort to present our claims to
the public and urge them to the best of
our ability, and the time cannot be far
distant when the city will take that
rank as manufacturing city from which
it is SO clearly entitled, by nature, to as
sumo. Capitalists from abroad, we want
you here! Come and invest your money
and al enterprising public will labor
with you for a profitable return.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-09-24
LrFE-SAv1SG STATION. Capt. NJ

LFE-SAvISG STATION. Merry
man and party, now engaged in establish
ing hfe-saving stations at different
points on the lakes, visited Two Rivers
lasi Friday. They selected the east half
of lot three, block eighty-one, for the life
boat house at Two Rivers. This IS the
lot Immediately adjoiningCooper &Jones
lumber dock, on the south side of west
river. Capt. Meryman informed us that
steps would be Immediately taken to adj
vertise for bids for the erection of a
handsome boat house on the lot, with an
observatory overlooking the lake, and
that self bailing boat would be furnish
ed and placed in charge of a competent
person, whose business it would be to
look after properly, and in case it is re-
CURED, to pick his volunteer crew ard
go to the assistance of innperiled persons
on the lake. We understand a general
viii be appointed, who
willrecommendt disappointment of subor
dinates to be in charge at each of the sta
tons. The property above described
was leased for twenty years OF the Two
Rivers Manufacturing company.-Tlo
Riuers Chronicle.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-09-24

1t is rather peculiar, to say the least,
that in the entire towns Of Cato, Center
vile, Cooperstown, Eaton, franklin,
Gibson, Kossrth aud Liberty, in this
county, there is not, according to the
sworn statement of those who should
know, single gold or silver watch that
be worth less than $40 each and worth
S3S IN Two Creeks; that neat cattle in
Franklin should be returned as only
worth about $3.50 per head while those
In the neighboring town of Mishicott are
set down as worth about Sc. so each:
that sereo mules IN Meme are worth $50
and taoo in Two Cheeks are assessed at
500; that in Franklin 603 sheep are
worth $40, while 10 Eaton they are con-
sidered worth 81 90 each, and it is time
to question the varacity of those making
the returns when we find swine quoted
in Nfanitowoc at s.. 90 each and porkers
Of the same family, perhaps, are worth
just 20 cents in kossuth and the inquisi-
tive reader viii naturally want to know
what sort Of wagons, carriages or slelghs
| those are IN Meme, the owners of which
swear they are worth less than So so
apiece and who manufactured the seUe7
watches in Schleswig the whole of which
were returned as worth eleUen dollars.
But their owners sport them on q scale
of magnifcence equal to that of the two
| KOssuth families who boast Of pianos or
meiodeons worth eight dollars apiece
Another question which presents Itself
! for eluccidation is: How extensive q
| business does the Kosstlth merchant do
whose whole stock In trade is returned
as worth $50? And what wretchedly
poor lot of fellows those Maple Growers
are the total value of whose entire per-
sonal property foots up only 81, 1888!
It is no wonder Fred. Seeger looks
smiling and happy. Any man would
| who could sell pork and beef at from TO
to 15 cents a pound and go to Franklin
and buy who'd OK for 81. so. There is
money IN that, for according TO the
returns (svorn to be correct, remember)
/ that's al they are worth out there, and
q man Will generally sell the last OK OF
COW on his farm so long rs he gets all he
/ considers it worth. We demand an IL
vestigation into this beef business, and
If butchers get their cattle for such pal
| try sums, we want a reduction In beet
stake and mutton chops, and as hides
are utterly valueless Cat ST. so head for
neat cssttIe) boots and shoes ought to be
! cheaper, and Busse should be waited
on by an outraged public.
To show our readers that we are SIN
cere ia these assertions we publish the
following, appearing just as it was re-
turned TO our County Clerk and by him
| forwarded to the State officials:
Abstract Of the Assessment Rolls Of the several
Towns, Cities and Villages in the County Of
Manitowoo, as returned to the County Clerk for
the year 1874.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-09-24
MILWAUKEE EYE AND EAR INFIRMAR1

MILWAUKEE EYE AND EAR INFIRMATY.
"A correspondent of The Oshkosh
Times, in writing up the sights during
fair week, pays the Eye and Ear Intir1n-
AIRY the following handsome compliment,
and one that is deserved:
''Before leaving Milwaukee of course
we called on our friend, DIR. G. E.
Houghman, superintendent Of the Mil
waukee Eye and Ear In1irmary. We
found the Doctor in his Office, at the in
Urinary, attending to the wants of nu-
merous patients. The Doctor is gener-
ally admitted to have no superior IN his
branch of business, and his name is
known far and wide SIS fine practition-
er. In six years he has treated 1923
patients, and has now under treatment
about forty, some OF them from Ohio,
Illinois, Kansas, Michigan and other
states Where cases require constant
care, he provides them with room and
board in the infirnary, thus regulating
their dict, and at the same time giving
him an opportunity Of observing the DIFF
fereEt phases ot their diseases. DE-.
E0ughnan IS ,ioinG a great work
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-09-24

LAST Sunday lady was seen liz one
of our churches with her bonnet pro-
fusely decorated with flowers and grasses
fresh from the milliners. It was also
noticed that a grasshopper had made a
lodgment in this nest Of false attractions
and several worshippers watched his
maneuvers with greater zeal than they
listened to the sermon. The grasshop-
per nibbled a while at head of wheat,
and then came out with grieved look
upon his face, and gazed at the minister
in manner which seemed to say that
the vanity of fashion was a mockery to
hungry hopper-bug. Presently it at
tackled rose, but after a short effort in
this direction emerged from his retreat
and looked wistfully over the audience,
apparently with a craving desire for
sympathy or more palatable food.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-09-24

How To GET STAMINA-Iron frames
and strong nerves are not the lot of all.
But the feable need not despair. By
adopting the right means they may live
as long and enjoy life as much as their
more robust neighbors. Physical in
vigoration is, however, necessary to this
end and while the spurious tonics and
nervines usually administered, eventr-
ally depress both body and mind, DR.J.
WALKERS CALIFORNIA VINEGAR BITTERs
invaribly supply new vigor to the frame,
while they regulate every disordered
function. % aug4w.