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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-10
Fhe Washington Monument.

The cornerstone of the Washington
monument on the bank Of the Potomac
was laid on July 4, 1913, the design
having been prepared by Mr.. Robert
Mills, the Government architect. AS
originally designed the plan embraced
a grand circular colonnaded building,
$50 feet in diameter and 100 feet high,
from which rose an obelisk shaft, sew
enty feet square at the base, forty feet
square at the apex, and 500 feet high.
This rotunda, or base, was to have been
surrounded by thirty great columns,
surmounted by an entablature twenty
feet high, and crowned by massive
balustrade fifteen feet in height The
Washington Monument Society began
work on the structure at once and con-
tinued it for six years. In 1854 the
obelisk had reached the height Of 10
feet and then the funds that had been
contributed, amounting to $3.50, 900,
were exhausted. Since the year 1854
only four feet have been added to the
obelisk, so that it's present height is liza
feet. On January ID of the present
year, the House of Representatives APP
pointed committee Of thirteen to adj
wise as to the practicability of COM
plotting the monument in time for the
approaching Centennial. This commit
tee has reported, recommending that
Congress appropriate sufficient sum
to complete the structure by July 4,
1876. AS a matter of economy it is
recommended also that the pantheon be
dispensed with, and that terrace be
substituted at the base of the shaft,
200 feet square at the top, seventeen
feet high, terminating with slopes of
two-thirds, with grass plats and paved
walks, and assembled by appropriate
steps. The dimensions of the shaft,
according to this modification, would
be fffty-fve feet square at base, 1888
feet square at the top, and 537 $40 feet
from the apex to the base of founda-
ton. The total cost of completing is
estimated at 1910, 6S5,92.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-10
Russian "Images.o

Turn in imagination, says the Church
OF England Magazine, to those pictures
of the saints before which so many Rus
slams are constantly bowling and crossing
themselves They hang in the corner OF
every sitting room, whether of the En-
peror or of his poorest subject-some
times gaudy but smoke-dried; some
times brilliant with precious stones, sill
yer and gold. Often the background is
entirely covered with an embossed sur
face of gold, leaving nothing to be seen
but the face and hands of some angel or
saint. The quantity of treasure lavish
ed upon these ''images" is something
wonderful; it is not uncommon to see as
many as fifty diamonds set in one effigy.
At one church in Moscow, where there
is one of these richly ornamented shrines
to the Virgin, and where crowds of
well dressed devotees are always pray
ing, a poor, wretched beggar came to
add his petitions to the others. Miser-
able, half starved and dirty as he was,
the beautiful Virgin took pity upon
him, and stretching out her hand and
arm she gave him piece Of bread from
heaven. It was black, but it was large
who could doubt that it was miracle
Who can wonder that, with such things
happening, the drivers of public car
riages will take off their hats and cross
themselves three times on passing a
Church all blazing with precious gems
and medals, or one of these marvellous
shrines?
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-10
The DWellers by Etna,

The people, says the author of
Sketches in Italy and Greece" have
a sorror-smitten and stern aspect.
Some of the men in the prime of life
are grand and naughty, with the cast
bronze countenance of Roman emper-
ors. But the old men bear rigid faces
OF carved basalt, gazing fxedly before
them as though, at some time or other
IN their past lives, they had met Ma
dusa, and truly Etna in eruption is a
Gorgon which their ancestors have
oftentimes seen shuddering, and fed
from terror-frozen. The white-haired
old women plying their spindle or dis
taft, or meditating in grim solitude, sit
with the sinister set features of = tes
by their doorways. The young people
are very rarely seen to smile thew
open hard, black-beaded eyes upon a
a world>i which there is nothing for
them bit endurance or the fierceness of
passions that delight in blood. Strange
ly different are these jewellers on the
sides Of Etna from the voluble. 1.-THE
sailors Of Seiacca or Mazara, with their
sunburnt skins and many colored gar
ments.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-10
Jones, OF Nevada, as a Speller.

In the days when ':boiled shirts
were Sunday luxury the owners of
those articles had their names slammed
on the bands below the plaits, and as
the fashion of vests was not tolerated
at that time (this was not III the earl
ier years of the reign of George IIIo1
the name of a man could be easily 90,
certalned by glancing at the wristband
which was fully exposed to view on
one occasion Mr.. Jones had attired
himself hastily, and in the hurry had
put on shirt stamped with the name
OF his room-mate-J. Owens. "Hellor'
sad a friend, you've borrowed boil
ed SHIRT for your holiday" "Oh, no."
SAID Jones, this is my Shirt swell,
there's another mans name on it,"
pointing to the convincing proof, 81.
owens. But quick as flash when
I, Jones saw his mistake, he turned it to
his Advantage: "Oh, this is the way
our Welsh folks spell the family name,
J-o-w-e-n-s, Jowens, or Jones as you
call it Dye see ?"-AHa California.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-10
The Danbury Man in Liverpool.

Bailey has reached the land Of his an
cestors-the home of the Saxon and
Druid, etc. He was violently sea-sick
during the passage over, but managed
to retain a good deal of his hUmor. His
first visit to a ruin is thus described:
Coming back from the parks, [ spied
from the cab window the unnlistakable
indication Of what my soul had painted
for for years-what the soul of every
student Of the Old World pants for from
the cradle to it's realization-the broken
walls of ruin. There they lay before
me with the sunlight touching up their
MOSES, and bringing into strong relief
their broken and worn edges. [ babe
the cabman to stop, and Toasted my eyes
on the sight. It was not very large
ruin, but it was pretty good rized ruin
for Sunday. [ pictured to myself the
day when it stood as whole, with it's
long line OF masters alternating in the
possession, and making the walls rever-
berate with the flow of mirth and ban
quoting. How many merry step had
passed along it's corridors, and how
many a sad face had peered from it's
lattices A flood of strange, wierd
reveries set in upon my soul and carried
me by its power away down the ages
that are gone.
[ said to the cabman: Glow old
ruin is that ?" pointing to the walls
with a trembling finger.
'That That's new 'ouse going up
for Peter Stevenson, the linen draper
on George street,
It is simple thing, but it has punch
ed very large hole in the cup Of my
expectations. How am I to know
whether building backup against to
stir up my soul with is eight hundred
years or eight hundred days old? How
do [ know but that every builder is
supplied with moss and ivy and verdi
girls by the barrel, and is bound by his
contract to work them in? This is no
way to fool with stranger.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-10

and from a dark, yawning, unfathoma-
bile abyss, springs the fountain, spread
ing out into circular form of several
hundred yards, forming the WakJilla
River The water is not particularly
cold, and does not inits taste betray any
of that mystical power we would like
to establish. It is the ingredient of
lime that gives transparency and also a
magnifying quality to the spring. The
smallest coin, and even a pin, can be
seen twirling through it's depth, enlarg-
ed at every turn, until it rests on the
rocks below, and as like object could
not be seen through the atmosphere at
the same distance, this conclusion is
reasonable. Nothing but actual obser-
walton can give an idea of the
picture. The moss-covered stones
iutting irregularly from four hundred
to two hundred feet feet below, where
they centre around boundless depth !;
the flexible roots and grasses all bathed
in rainbow hues the numerous fish,
cells, and even alligators, sporting in
their element, rejecting the same pris-
matte coloring, and the gentle, dreamy
gliding over the depths Of aqueous
transparency, accompanied by the mu-
sic of the warble-t hroated hooking bird,
making it, with it's kaleidoscope
changes, more like fairy scene, and
we lose for a time our sense of the
earth, earthly. Dense hammocks of
evergreens, magnolia, bay laurel, inter
laced with the grapevine, clematis and
ever graceful jessamine, with their va
ried tints of leaf and blossom, softened
by veil of gray moss, affords fit set
ting for SO curious gem, suggesting q
magnificent opal.
This spring is supposed to have a
subterranean connection with Lake
Jackson, which lies twenty miles north
of it, and more than once in the memo
ry of man the waters have escaped from
the lake, except at it's greatest depths,
leaving it an extensive meadow, priced
us pasturage by the land owners of the
surrounding plantations"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-10
A Plan for the Sumner Monument.
Washington Republican.

A plan for monument to be erected
in Washington in honor Of the late
Charles Sumner has been presented by
an eminent artist to the executive COM
mittee of the Sumner national monu-
ment association. It is stated that if
accepted it can be executed in either
bronze or marble for the sum of $780,
900. It is to consist of one large CEN
trail statue of Charles Sumner, and four
life size statues representative of the
colored race the five figures to be made
of best italian marble and finest work
manship Cor bronze if preferred), and
to be mounted on a handsome granite
pedestal, which will be further orna-
mented by four bronze bas reliefs. The
statues Will be as follows: Central stat
ue-A statue eight feet high, of Charles
Sumner; on it's left will be plaster, on
which will be seen, partly unrolled, the
"civil rights bill" The Senator's right
arm will be extended towards heaven,
while the left, holding parchment, will
point to the statues at the base of the
monument. The Senator is intended to
express the grand idea that, all men be-
ing equal before God, the colored citi-
entitled to the same rights and privi-
leges before the law as any other citizen
of the same country. This statue will
stand on a square shaft of granite ten
feet high, with capital and base of hand
some design; this shaft will be placed
on the summit Of four flights of steps
which rise six feet and meet in the CEN
tire. The shaft Will be furthermore Or
namented by having on each one of its
faces a bronze bas relief illustrative of
the subject. At the foot Of these four
flights of steps will be four round gran
tie pilasters six feet high, Of handsome
design, and placed one at the corner of
the four flights; on these pilasters are
to stand the four representative statues,
as follows, each with its name in bronze
letters on the granite:
l. Freedom-A semi-nude statue of female
slave, to whom emancipation has just dawned,
and who casts from her wrists the broken
shackIes of servitude, while with face turned
to heaven she thanks her maker for the free
dom which at last comes to the race she rep
resents and of which she is typically the
mother.
2. War-Statue of a colored soldier in the
uniform of the United States army holding
his musket, with bayonet fixed, ready to repel
the coming attack Of his countrys foes; thus
representing the colored citizen sharing with
the white citizen the perils of war in defence
of his country.
3. Peace-Statue of colored farmer lean
ing on the plough at his right side, and on
which he rests his right hand, while with his
left he brushes the moisture from his fore
head; thus illustrating the colored citizen
earning his bread by free labor and by the
sweat of his brow.
4. Debate-Statue of colored citizen as an
orator and statesman, resting his left hand on
with the parchment in his right hand; thus
impersonating the colored man occupying the
highest public position, and sharing in the reg
ulation and government of public interests in
this country.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-10
Wit and HulnOr.

Boy is that a licensed dog ?" asked
Detroit policeman. "No," said the
! yoJlngster "he's rat terrier dog, and
m taking him down to have his teeth
fled"
OLD lady Ito her daughter, who is
a1nxlously watching for the boiling of
the water III the tea-kettle)-A watched
pot never boils. Daughter disposed to
put on a1rs)-Does any pot boil?
HERE is everything in the way YOU
put thing. A Massachusetts editor. of
| a humorous turn of mind and q knack of
twisting expressions to suit emergencies.
heads the list of births in his paper.
Our Young Folks for May"
MIsTHER ! misther what have We
done % said native of Wicklow to an
Englishman who had just tied his horse
to a telegraph pole on the street.
this, yer honor. Ye've hitched yer
horse to the magnetic telegraph, and
yell be in Dublin in two minutes if ye
don't look out"
Ole BULL was once seeing the sights
at Denny brook Fair, when he was at
tracted by the sound of a very loud VIC
lin in tent. He entered and said,
Ny good friend, do you play by note %
"The deuce a note, sir" ''Do you play
by ear, then?'' "Niver al ear, yer
honor, [ play by main strength, be
jabers.'
DEAN RAMSEY, in his g "reminiscences
OF Scottish Life and Character, tells
the following : The answer of the old
woman under examination by the minis
ter the question from the Shorter Cate
chism, q What are the DEGREES of God ?"
could not have been surpassed by the
General Assembly of the Kirk, or even
the Synod of bort Indeed, sir, he
kens that best himself"
A YOUNG bachelor who had been ap-
pointed sheriff was called upon to serve
an attachment against a young and beau
tiful widow. He accordingly called on
her and said Madam, I have an at
tachment for YOU The widow blushed
and said his attachment wasreciprocated.
You don't understand me you must
proceed to court 81 know it is leap
year, sir, but [ prefer you to do the
| courting." ''Mrs. P, this is no
time for trifing the justice is waiting"
"The justice! why, prefer parson. %
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-10
Severity of Prussian Discipline.

Prussian discipline deals hardly with
those Germans who finch under it's
yoke. A Saxon officer, Hanoverian by
birth, who had served King George till
the time of his dethronement, and when
expatriated sought refuge under the
Saxon banner, has been cashiered for
refusing to drink the Emperor William s
health on a public occasion. A Bavarian
corporal of the reserve has now been
dealt out even more rigorous punish
ment for a lesser ofense. Regarding
the medal of 1901 as a badge of SER
vitude to Prussia, he has declined to
wear it, and for this offense he has been
sentenced to degradation and a years
imprisonment. Against this sentence
the corporal has appealed, on the ground
that he cannot be compelled to wear
decorations but opinion in Germany
seems to doubt whether his suit will be
successful.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-10
Life ON the Railway.

Somebody has written his experience
on the railways of the country, and after
giving full vent to his feelings on nu-
merous subjects, opens on the code Eof
signals adopted by American railways,
as follows
eff the traveller cannot sleep easily
in the sleeping cars it will amuse him
to be able to translate the meanings of
the misunderstanding of the iron horse.
They are guides to the blind, not to
mention the deaf.
These signals generally come upon
the ear when you are trying to sleep,
and effectually prevent it. Forinstance,
you are just doing away, and hoping
that you will not awake until you are
called by the sleeping-car conductor,
when there comes aquick single screech.
You Jump up, and have a sort of feeling
that your hair is doing likewise.
But that single screech merely means,
Put on brakes.
Two yells Immediately after mean,
Let them go again.
Another screech, Put them on again.
And two more screeches, 'Let them &c
again, and so on.
If the whistle should snort three
times, it means Look out backing
up Three long snorts when approach
ing a station mean, Side-track.' A
number Of short, sharp toots mean
that cattle are on the track.
On some of the roads, the art of
whistling is carried to perfection. The
following circular, issued by the Gen
eral Superintendent of a Western road,
illustrates what [ mean:
TO all Engineers Engineers, in
approaching Parsons, will Indicate a
down brakes by seventeen whistles ;
'up brakes by thirty-two whistles
back up by forty whistles and two
snorts. In case Of doubt, whistle like
the ID. At street-crossings, whistle
considerably, and ring the bell. Always
whistle before dinner. Require the
fireman to keep the whistle-valve open
during dinner. After dinner, whistle
and squirt water then back up.
Squirt little then go ahead with a
whistle, a squirt, and ring. This or
der will be rigidly enforced"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-10
The EStheticS Of Perfume.

Perfumes are to women what dew is OF
the flowers, sons to the birds, stars to
the sky a sort of indispensable COM
plement, one might almost say season
ing. A young, pretty, well-dressed
woman when at the promenade, if she
wishes to be completely fascinating,
should leave on her tracks a particularly
exquisite, attractive odor. The great
is to know the perfumes best suited to
their style of beauty, without injury to
their health At the risk Of passing for
a fantastic mind, will offer two propo-
sitions that contain a germ entirely the
oretical on the use of perfumes for the
female toilet. One thing a woman-if
she is young, handsome, intelligent, and
elegant. possessing good qualities of
the body, heart, and mind, as my lady
readers must necessarily have should
do, is, never seek to resemble a flower,
be it ever SO fragrant, becauseit has but
one perfume but she may seek to re-
semble a bouquet, whose principal
charm consists in the union of numer-
GUS exquisite doors. The woman who
does this will have particular perfume
IOT CdCH pdIu VI uOI PCIoOu. lAO OCC-
ond proposition differs slightly from the
first. It is the result Of profound
conviction with me. Like certain col
ors that seem made expressly to mingle
with the beauty of certain women, SO a
particular type of beauty requires par
ticular kind of perfume. The perfume
that suits brunette would not suit a
blonde. Here few general remarks to
terminate: LIST, perfumes should be
light, penetrating, and always resemble
one of the odors of flowers I'd, musk
and patchouli should be regarded as a
pest ; Sd, eau de cologne is only fit for
porters and Germans 4th, Arabian
jessamine, heliotrope, pink and rose
seem expressly intended for large wom-
en- with dark hair, dull skin, red lips,
and fiery chances. Strawberry, lily of
the valley, and vervain will be judi
ciously employed by blondes with gold
en- locks and dark blue eyes. Nothing
foryellow chignons. From the French.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-10
THE CAR AT WOOLWICH.
The Great Nasmyth Hammer.


The Car of Russia, before leaving
England, was treated to a review at
Aldenshot, but the clouds Of dust OBJ
scured everything, and the military
display was almost failure. The next
day he attended review at Woolwlch,
which was far more successful. The
grounds had been copiously watered so
that the dust gave no trouble.
The Gar and his suite seemed to be
much interested in their visit to the
Woolwich arsenal. The London Tele-
graph says:
The party made their longest halt in
the factory where the Nasmyth ham
mer, the largest in the world-ftted
with top steam-is worked. Adding
to the forty tons dead falling weight of
the hammer the fifty -one tons added by
a full pressure of steam obove, a blow
equivalent to a weight of ninety-one
tons can be given by it with as much
control as child may exercise over a
toy mallet. The Imperial party occ'l-
pied a specially-erected platform to
witness the Welding of the trunnion
coil of a INTERPOLATION gun. The
Czarowitch last year witnessed SINH
lar process with the trunnion coil of a
thirty five ton gun. The massive door
of the furnace was raised, and in a fire
terrible for the fierceness of it's golden
| glow stood the white-hOt cola cylin-
der weighing twenty-three tons and a
half. This trunnion coil consists of
two thickness of bar iron, coiled one
upon the other, and the work Of the
steam hammer was to weld them into a
homogeneous cylindrical mass. The
powerful crane was set in motion, and
the swarthy smiths sprung to the
Observation-Disclosures machinery by
whichs the fiery mass was
seized by giant tongs, swung glowing
and kissing put of the fire, and placed
under the hammer. Blasts of hot all
rushed towards the spectators, but the
vast size of the building rendered eye
protectors unnecessary. The coil, it is
Unnecessary to say, was welded effectu-
ally-the very floor, although its foun-
dation is on rock, vibrating with tire
mendous blows. The force welded by
but dozen men at the lever of the
crane was astounding yet the hammer
WAS subject to a steam power more for
midable than itself. In their anxiety tC
see the next process the visitors passed
hurriedly through the heavy turnery
and sighting room, where they might
have seen thick slabs Of metal peeled
off the partly built guns, as apples are
peeled by dessert knife. The party,
without bestowing more than a passing
glance at the great guns OF the lathes,
went into the open air to witness the
shrinking on of the breech coil of q
thirty-fve ton gun. Lying side by
side, smiling in their new polish, lay
remarkable collection of guns ready
for use. The largest cannon was the
famous thirty eight ton gun, the largest
yet completed. The Woolwich Infants
| (thirty-fve tons) were an interesting
family of four; of twenty-five ton guns
there were twenty five, and twenty OF
eighteen tons. After these frightful
engines of destruction no one troubled
himself much with the smaller cannon,
whose name was legion
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-10

The Nevada Journal of April % re-
lates this incident " Miss Bradford has
a boy in her school who combines keen
perception with ready speech. The
other day, while endeavoring to explain
the difference In waterfalls-not the kind
that make ladies round shouldered, but
the waterfalls of nature-she gave the
class to understand that large waterfall
was cataract. "Now," said she,
"what is little waterfall % Kitty
ract," blurted outthe tow-headed young
ster, who sat chewing the corner of his
primer on the front seat.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-10

"WHY don't you give us little Greek
and Latin occasionally" asked coun-
try deacon to a new minister. "Why.
do you understand those languages %
"No but we pay for the best, and we
ought to have it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-10

ooh, Mary, my heart is breaking, D
said an Aberdeen lover to his Highland
Mary. Is it, indeed So much the
better for you, then, - was the quiet re-
ply. Why, my idol % " Because,
Mr. McSmith, when it's broken out and
out, you can sell the pieces for gun
hints."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-10

A SHOE dealer advertises Woman's
Rights and Let's"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-10

"SUN comes. moon comes,
Time slips away;
Sun sets, moon sets,
Love, fix day."
"a year hence, a year hence
"We shall both be gray"
A month hence, a month hence"
Far, far away"
GA week hence, week hence"
"And that's long delay
"Wait a little, wait little,
You shall fix the day."
Tomorrow, love, tomorrow,
And that's an age away"
"Blaze upon her windows, sun,
And honor all the day."
,>-urrYruv h1lpS have taken tO chawin
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-06-10

KENTUCKY bugs have taken to chewing
tobacco to an alarming extent.