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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-03-04
Propagation of Cholera.

M. Teller, one of the most acute OF
French observers, adopts the theory
of the propagation of cholera by 1nvis
IDLE germs conveyed in the air or in
water. He places no great reliance
upon the effect of antiseptics upon the
air itself, their action being, to say the
least, doubtful and, moreover, he
considers the action of the germs una
voidably taken in respiration as COM
paratively innocuous, because those
taken into the lungs do not reach the
intestines, and because such as are
thus swallowed, being taken as it were
in small quantities at time, the
vitality of the system is
able to resist their action, in like man.
ner as it overcomes the action of poi
son taken in insignificant doses. NJ.
Teller thinks that it is by introduction
of the germs into the alimentary canal,
where they find conditions altogether
favorable for their rapid multiplication
and development, that the disease is
most frequently and most fatally COM
municated. He cites fruits as being
especially calculated, some by their
downy covering, as the apricot or the
peach, others by the gummy or glutin-
Gus coating which most of them pos
sess, to arrest and retain the germs
carried by the air. Fruit should,
therefore, be carefully washed, or the
skins removed, in times of epidemic
cholera.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-03-04
Shad in the Hudson.

OF the five million and forty one
thousand shad which were successfully
Matched and turned loose, last year, by
far the greatest part we're placed in the
Hudson. During the period of five
weeks intervening between May Goth
and Both, 1873, at which date the fish
ing season ceased, owing to the high
temperature of the water, the total
number of mature shad caught was L.
643, from which 5, 745, 900 spawn were
extracted. Io the year 1870 upwards
of 1900, 900 young shad were turned
loose in the Hudson, which, together
with the 100000 fry put in since,
must eventually increase the annual
supply, 1nasmuch as heretofore the
entire yield of the Hudson has been
but 100000 Thirty years ago the
shad fisheries of the Hudson were so
run down that very few of them were
paying, and many fisheries had discon-
tinued their labors.-Atbary Journal,
Feb. 17M.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-03-04
A SAD TRAGEDY.
The Suicide of Won GabIeny.

The Journal DIES Debats Of the Sd
inst, publishes some details concern
ing the suicide at Zurich of Field Mar
shall Won Gablenz, of Austria. Gen.
Won Gablenz, it appears, had lost heav-
lily at the Vienna Bourse, especially in
operations connected with the Austrian
Credit Mob1lier, in which venture alone
his losses amounted to 100000 francs.
At first the Austrian journals refused
to admit that bis death was caused by
suicide they have since, however, &C
knowledged the fact. A Zurich news
paper relates that the Field Marshal,
who had arrived in that city few days
previous, had killed himself In his
room by shooting himself in the heart
with pistol. Upon his table was found
a number of letters and telegraphic
dispatches, prepared with his own
hand, in which he announced the news
of his death to his relatives. Another
journal of Zurich says that a short while
previous to his fatal determination to
take his life he had invited two of
his friends to pay him visit at II A. NJ.
on the day of his death. When reach
ing his room they found the doors
locked. The door was then forced
open. The sleeping apartment was
empty, but in an adjoining cabinet the
body of the General was found
stretched upon a sofa. His head was
hanging behind the cushions, and the
right arm was lying in military pose
upon the right leg. His LETT hand
still held the pistol grasped in it. The
bystanders says the newspaper IN ques-
ton, were struck with the " beauty"
of the death scene. The heart had
been pierced with the bullet. Lying
on the table in front of him was note
written in firm hand, and by the side
of the note was pencil. This note he
had directed to be read at his funeral.
Ii ran as follows:
"I have prayed and am composed.
but can no longer live. The elevated
were especially agreeable to me be-
cause of the good that [ could do on
every side. It was towards this goal
that all my efforts tended, and now it
is my consolation. For long time I
have suffered from nervous irritation
which for months has rendered me I'M
able to sleep. The measure is full"
Gen. Won Gablenz was sixty-nine
years old. He took distinguished
part in the campaign of Lombardy in
1859, and in 1864, at the invasion of the
duchies, he commanded the Austrian
forces. At Sadowa he had two army
corps under his command. Since then
he had been Commander-in -C Chief in
Hungary.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-03-04
The Burned Pantecllnicon. at London.
From the New York Sun, Feb. 10.


The Royal Pantechnicon Company
was organized in 1868, and was similar
to our Trust Companies. The building
itself was an Imposing block, eight
stories high, fronting Hyde Park, and
in the immediate neighborheod of the
palatial residences of Baron Roth
schild, the Duke of Wellington, Sir
Robert Peel, and others. The front
walls were of granite, elegantly sculp-
tured. The building cost $1,000, 900.
The basement, which was lined with
iron, was carefully guarded by watch
men while each safe had an iron
grating before it. Here were locked
up the valuable silver ware of the old
families OF England, who rarely used it
except on state occasions. These
priceless collections were carefully
numbered, the Company giving bonds
for their safe keeping, and charging
according to the value Of the property.
The first floor was magnificent art
gallery, in which were deposited the
rarest pictures of the Turner, Rey-
holds, and other galleries. Persons
going out of town also left their private
collections of pictures here for safe.
keeping Besides these there were
glass cases filled with costly jewelry,
and valuable collections of coins, Adj
mittance to the Pantechnicon could be
obtained only from a depositor Or a
director. In the rear of the first floor
were collections of equipages, mostly
of foreign make. which were considered
50 costly that the owners feared to trust
them on their own premises. On the
floors above, besides several art gal
leries and marbles, were endless collec-
tions of costly furniture, requiring
constant care and attention to keep in
order. The Pantechnicon was also
used for the safe-keeping of landed
titles, mortgages, and other valuable
papers, the Company sometimes ad-
vancing money on the collaterals de-
posted.
Every day during the London season
rows Of carriages could be seen stand
ing in front of the building while their
occupants were viewing the collections
inside. It was said that the young
aristocracY who visited the Pantchni-
con were often shocked to find that
mere shopkeepers possessed more
wealth than themselves. sas
The Company owned large number
of vans and carts, and employed nearly
a thousand persons. It also owned its
own railroad cars, which were SO con-
structed that they could be run on to a
large six horse truck, thus doing
away with the necessity of unpacking.
The Company was generally employ
ed by families to move their house
hold goods in all parts of the country.
It had branch Offices in all the princi-
pal cities of Great Britain. The de-
struction of the building will involve
heavy losses of rare family plate and
pictures.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-03-04
A Sunbeam.

The greatest of physical paradoxes
is the sunbeam. It is the most potent
and versatile force we have, and yet it
behaves itself like the gentlest and
most accommodating. Nothing can fall
more softly or more silently upon the
earth than the rays of our great lumi-
nary-not even the feathery fakes of
snow which thread their way through
the atmosphere as if they were too
filmy to yield to the demands of
gravity like grosser things. The most
delicate slip of gold leaf, exposed to a
target of the suns shafts, is not stirred
to the extent of hair, though an in
fant's taintest breath would set it in
tremulous motion. The tenderest of
human organs--the apple of the eye
though pierced and buffeted each day
by thousands of sunbeams, suffers
no pain during the process, but
rejoices in their sweetness, blesses the
useful light. Yet few of
those rays insinuating themselves into
a mass Of iron, like the Britannia Tu-
bular Bridge, will compel the closely
knit particles to separate, and will
move the whole enormous fabric with
as much ease as giant would straw.
Tie play of these beams upon our
sheets of water lifts up layer after lay
er into the atmosphere, and hoists
whole rivers from their beds, only to
drop them again in SHOWS upon the
hills, or in fatten1ng showers upon the
plants. Let but the air drink in lit
tie more sunshine at one place than
another, and it desolates a whole re-
gion in it's lunatic wrath. The marvel
is that power which is capab of as.
Stunning such a diversity of forms, and
Of producing such stupendous results,
should come to us in so gentle, so
peaceful, and so unpretertious a man
ner
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-03-04
Extraordinary

English papers are telling a story of
the venerable Archdeacon Thorpe, of
Bristol, which is very extraordinary,
if not improbable. The reverend
gentleman was very corpulent, and, in
preaching an ordination sermon in the
old-fash1oned country church, it is said
that he had to be hoisted into the pull
pit over the side before the services
began, the door being too narrow to
admit him. Curiously enough his SER
mon was on ''The Importance of a
Right Introduction in the Christian
Ministry" and he founded his dis
course on the parable in which it is de-
clared that che that entereth in at the
door is the shepherd of the sheep,
while he that climbeth up some other
way the same is thief and a robber."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-03-04
A French Bedroom.

Now 60 to the bedroom, and from
the door absorb it with your eyes, for
never have you seen a picture more
complete. The walls, the hangings,
and the seats are all in pale blue satin
(she is fair,, edged sparingly with
velvet of the same shade, and en-
broidered daintily with moss-rose buds.
swathed in still paler yellow leaves.
But this description, though exact,
gives no idea of the effect produced by
that wondrous tissue, of the Incredible
effect of delicacy and thorough feminine
elegance which it sheds around. The
room is filled with vague, floating
grace; it's every detail is COM
bined to aid and sustain the
almost fairy aspect it presents. The
bed is shrouded in thickly- wadded
satin curtains, inside which hang 9TH
ers made of muslin so vigorously filmy
that its folds seem almost mist the
coverlet, which hides the lace trimmed
sheets and pillows, is in blue satin,
lined with elder down, and covered
with the same veil of floating white,
hanging down in a deep founce over
the woodwork of the bed. The toilet
table is the samoa nesting maze of
transparency and lace, with blue be-
meath, and knots and streamers of
mingled satin and velvet round. On
the chimney-piece stand clock and
candle-sticks of Sevres china. The
piano is in pale bois de rose) not rose
wood, which is very different sub
stance), inlaid with plates of painted
Sevres to match. At night light comes
from above, where hangs lamp of
Sevres again. In our day, with our
active ideas and actual wants, such
rooms as these are TYPICAL. they rep
resent the highest form Of realization
of modern taste without it's faults, or
rather with as little Of them as is con-
sistent with the expenditure of so much
money and so much thought. In
these rare vases, vanity seeks for
another satisfaction than that of glare,
but vanity is at the bottom all the
same; the only difference is that it IS
accompanied by true sense of art
French Home Life. .-... a
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-03-04
Important 10 those who Draw Notes.

A man drew note promising to pay
one hundred dollars. He used the
printed form and did not close up the
blank devoted to dollars, and after
passing it as negotiable paper, some
body inserted ''and fifty" after the
one hundred and before the printed
word dollar. The note, thus altered,
got into the. hands of an innocent party,
who presented it to the drawer, and
the Supreme Court decided that the
maker of the note was liable for it's
face, because through negligence he
did rot draw line between the
written word "dollars." Any testi-
mony that the drawer might offer to
establish the fact that he gave the
note for one hundred dollars must go
for nothing, Gas there was nothing on
the face of the note to show that it had
been altered" Evidence of an altera<
ton on the face of the note would
have changed the case. Let this be
lesson to all drawers of promissory
notes. No one can be too careful in
such matters. -Boltinaore NeaOs.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-03-04
From the New York Times.
The Ghost that Jim Saw.
(Kansns Pacific Rail,cay.)
1910

kansas Pacific Rail,Uay.)
1873.
"Why, as to that" said the engineer,
&C Ghosts amt the thing we are apt to fear;
Spirits don't fool with lovers much,
And throttle-valves don't take to such;
And as for Jim
What happened to him
Was one-half fact and t'other half whim
Running one night on the line. he saw
house-as plain as the mortal Law
just by the moonlit bank, and thence
Came a drunken man with no more sense
Than to drop on the rail, z. t...
Flat as fail,
As Jim rode by With the midnight mail.
Down went the patents. Steam reversed.
Too late for there came thud.' Jim
cursed.
As his fireman, there in the cab with him,
Kinder stared in the face Of Jim,
And says, What now p
Says jim, What now!
I've just run over man-thats how
The fi.eman stared at jim They ran
Back, but they never found house nor man, -
Nary q shadow within a mile.
Jim turned pale, but he tried to smile
Then on he tore,
Ten miles or more,
In quicker time tn an he'd made afore.
Would YOU believe it the very next night
Up rose that house in the moonlight white
Out comes the chap and drops as before,
Down goes the brakes, and the rest encore
And so, ia fact,
Each night that act
Occurred. till folks swore Jim was cracked,
Humph Let me see it's year now, most,
That [ met jim, east, and says, 'HOw's your
ghostY
Gone says Jim: 'and more, it's plain
That ghost don't trouble me again;
/ thought I shook
That ghost when took
4 place on an eastern Iine-but look;
What should meet the first trip out,
But that very house that we talked about,
And that sells man! "Well," says [,
guess
It's time to stop. this yer foolishness.'
So I crammed on steam,
When there came a scream
From my fireman-and 1t broke my dream
s You've killed somebody's" Says I, &c Not
much;
Eve been thar often, and thar amt no such,
And Low I'll prove it, Back we ran.
Apd-darn my skin but thar aCuS q man :,
On the rail, dead
Smashed in the head
g Now call that meanness - That's all Jim
SAID, - - -6fet fOfte.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-03-04
The Bird Of Gold.

Upon whitely-blossomed spray
Chanted golden bird, one day
A strange, sweet bird, with ROSY wings.
Whlch only IN the sunshine sings. .
us voice rlng as a spirit clear
Mlght Vlbrate through crystal sphere,
ana An when high hope its heart would stir,
II, II swept the air, a conqueror
LIS silent now. No more, in sooth,
returns the golden bird of youth
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-03-04

DIR. LEaRos, an eminent French
sovont, died from being poisoned
while engaged in astrological re-
searches,
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-06-27
Caravan OF the Dead.

1t was toward midnight when we heard
from the distance q monOtOnouS ring OF
bells, and as | soon learned, this was from
a large caravan which had set out an hour
before us. We redoubled our steps in order
to overtake it, but hardly had we advanced
a hundred PAGES when an insupportahle
smell began to Cypress Us. The Persians
knew at once the cause of it. We moved
faster, but the stencil grew stronger and
stronger, and, when influenced by curiosity,
| inquired about it, | got for an answer that
this was caravan of the dead. A caravan
of the dead, thought; that is singular; aud
| hurried to my neighbor to get an explana-
ton. Ae called out to me, $50 on, go onE'
and, after powerful squirting of his little
ass, already hard enough pressed, he came
up to me as | was joining the aforesaid car
avan which consisted OF about forty horses
and mules, laden with cotfins, and accom-
panied by three mounted Arabs. Everybody
strpye hard to reach iC in order to get past
it as soon as possible. | shall never forget
the sight that met my eyes when | came up
with one of heliders. Hisnose and mouth
were covered, his yellow face showed yet
more ghastiy by the moonlight. In spite of
the tnT4plffudurabl9 tnT4pl stencil, could not help
me that he atdl' aIlte3 these dead
ten days, and had 10 conduct them twenty
days more before le could reach Kesbela,
the spot where these pious persons, who
had died for the love OF Imam Hussein,
were permitted to be buried. This custom
is general i'll nil Persia; and whenever means
permit, they order themselves to be trans
ported from the distant Khorassan to Ker-
bella. TO be placed i'll the same earth in
which the beloved Imam Hussein rests.
When we had left the caravan of the dead
far behind us, turned to take.a glance at
this weird procession. The beasts laden
with the long cottins buried their heads
deep in their neeks; the riders occupied
themselves with urging the horses on with
a hollow cry. Such sight, in whatever
neighborlood, would be gloomy enough,
but in the centre Of the desert it was some
thing indescribably mounful. The Per-
slams have thought tit to maintain this
custom for six hundred years. For whoever
comes to Kerbcla has the sweet hope of
finding himself, on the day of the resurrec-
ton, in the immediate neighborhood of the
holy martyr, and from hence, under his
conduct, Of passing to the ever green plains
of Paradise Words.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-06-27
Joan of Are "A Historic Doubt.

Mgr. Dupanloup, the Bishop of Orleans,
has gone to Rome, it is said, to obtain the
Of the Maid. An equestrian
statue in memory of her has already been
erected this year near the Louvre in Paris.
Her faithful worshippers are not content
with this, but ask place for her among the
saints immortal. But the lawyers of the
Vatican entertain grave historic doubts. 1t
is not only above all things necessary to
know whether Joan of Arc had and
practiced in the heroic degree (such is the
for1nula) the four cardinal virtues of Forti-
tnde, Justice, Temperance, and Prudence,
and the three theological virtues of Faith,
Hope and Charity. But there rises also
spectral inquiry whether her reputed ex-
cution as soreeress was with the consent
and under auspices of bishop of the
church. 1t would be a strange anomaly if
1t should happen that the infallible church,
the same yesterday, to-day and forever,
should, in the year of our Lord, 1874, caIi-
onize as saint the eccentric and daring
woman whom it burned as a witch in 143f.
1t is to solve this difficulty that M. Dupan-
loup has been summoned to Rome.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-06-27
Hand Shaking.

How did people get in habit of shaking
hands? The answer is not far to seek. In
early and barbarous times, when every
savage OF semi was his own lawgiver,
Judge, soldier and policeman, and had to
watch over his own safety, in default of all
other protection, two friends and acquaint-
ances. or two strangers desiringto be friends
or acquaintances, when they CHANGED to
meet, offered each to the other the right
hand-the hand alike of offence and defence,
the hand that wields the sword, the dagger,
the club, the tomahawk, or other weapons
of war. Each did this to show that the
hand was empty, and neither war nor
treachery was intended. A man cannot
well stab another while he is in the act of
shaking hands with him, unless he be
double-dyed traitor and william, and strives
to aim cowardly blow with the left while
giving the right and pretending to be on
good terms with his victim. The custom of
Misunderstanding prevails more or less among
all civilized nations, and is the tacit avowal
of friendship and good will, just as a kiss is
Of warmer passion. Ladies, as every one
must have remarked. seldom or never shake
hands with the eordiaiity of gentlemen, M
less it be with each other. The reason is
obvious It is for them to receive homage,
not to give it. They cannot be expected to
show to persons Of the other sex Il warmth
of greeting which might be misinterpreted
unless such persons are very closely related
to them by family or afluction--in which
cases hand-shakiDg is not needed, and the
lips do more agreeable duty.
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Education in Europe.

An Italian journal contains some iterest-
ing reports as to the educational condition of
different European countries:
In SaXony education is compulsory; all
inhabitants Of the kingdom can read and
write, and every child attends school.
In Switzerland all CAN read and write,
and have got a good primary education.
Education is obligatory, and greater efforts,
in proportion to its means, are made to i'm
part primary instruction than in any other
European nation.
In the smaller States of North Germany
education is compulsory, and all the chill
dren attend school,
In Denmark the same is true. All the
Danes, with a few exceptions, can read,
write and keep accounts. The children all
attend school until the age of fourteen.
In Prussia almost all the children attend
school regularly, except in some of the
eastern districts. An officer who had charge
of the military education Of the Landwehr
in twelve years had only met three young
soldiers who could neither read nor write.
Au inquiry having been instituted it was
found that those three were the children of
sailors, who had been born on the river and
had never settled in any place. Instruction
is obligatory.
who can neither read nor write is one in q
thousand. Instruction is obligatory.
In Baden every child receives instruction;
and in Wurtemburg there is not peasant
or girl Of the lowest class, or servant in an
inn, who cannot read, write and account
correctly; every goes to school, instruction
being obligatory.
In Holland, public assistance is taken
away from every INDECENT family that ne
elects to send its child to school. 1t is es-
timated that the number of illiterate is three
per cent.
In Norway, almost all the Norwegians
can read, write and account passably well.
Instruction obligatory.
In Bavaria, among 100 eonscripts. but
seven whose education was incomplete or
entirely wanting, were found. Instruction
also obligatory.
France, with its twenty three illterate
conscripts in hundred, comes next, and is
followed by Belgium, Italy. Austria, Greece,
Spain, Portugal. Aloldo- Wallncili, Russia,
and Turkey, in the order named.