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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-06
Natures Revenge.

The London Atheueum says: "The
Imperial Academy of Sciences at
Vienna has taken up a question in
which all Europe may be said to be in
erested-namely, the decrease of the
quantity Of water in springs, streams,
and rivers. A circular, accompanied
by an able and instructive report, has
been addressed to scientific societies in
other countries, in the hope that they
may be pursuaded to undertake OBJ
servations which, in course of time,
may furnish data for practical use.
The academy calls attention to the
fact that for some years past diminu-
ton of the waters Of the Danube and
other great rivers has been noticed, and
especially since the modern practice of
cutting down forests, without regard to
consequences, has prevailed. The
Austrian Engineers and Architects
Union have also taken the question in
hand, and appointed 'Hydrotechnic
Committee to collect facts and prepare
report. The Danube, the Elbe, and
the Rhine were each assigned to two
members, while the other two were to
to examine into the metecrulogy
of the subject, and into the
influence which glaciers and Alpine
torrents may have on the general result.
The committee regard the question as
urgent; they recommend the Immediate
adoption of remedial measures, and
they are unanimous in declaring that
the prime cause of the injurious de-
crease of water is the devastation of
forests. It cannot be too strongly
pressed upon all in the United King
dom that the system of injudicious
drainage of agricultural districts has
seriously interfered with the natural
condition of all our rivers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-06

being load for an ordinary horse. One
horse attached to sled on which dry
goods box is placed will answer. For
twenty acres, three sleds, made of 2x6
stuff, wide enough to hold the largest
sized dry goods box, will suffice.
Care should be taken to gather up
those that have popped out before a
rain, as rain blackens them, and they
will not sell as we'll. 70 prepare a
place for them to pop out, select clean,
smooth, hard place on the prairie, slop-
ing enough to cause rainwater to flow
off freely, so that none will stand or lie
dead: take sharp hoes and scalp off
smooth all the grass on a space say 100
by so feet, for twenty acres. This
should be swept off clean, leaving a
level surface of hard ground, Then
deposite your spikes, leaving border
uncovered of at least twenty feet all
around, to catch those beans that Jump
outward when opening under hot sun.
About the second or third day they
should be turned, to bring those at the
bottom to the top. A steel garden rake
is the best implement to use. About
the fourth OF fifth day they are nearly
all out of the burs, and the haulm or
straw, then greatly diminished in bulk,
should be pitched on pile to give them
time for all struggles to leave it, and the
beans being set free are found in the
bottom of the debris, can easily be raked
clear of the empty burs, and taken away
preparatory to tanning. Any good fan
ming machine will clean them, and if
the yard is clean and solid very little
earth will go with them.
After the beans begin to ripen the
field should be gone over once or twice
week till frost. In hot, dry weather
they ripen more rapidly than in cool,
wet weather. Children can perform
this work, and large family of children
cannot be more proftably employed
than in taking care of a crop of castor
beans. The work is Light. With a
ste. dy horse, children may do all the
work.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-06
Sex of Eggs.


Having noticed that one of my hens
(Houdons) sometimes laid round and
sometimes long egg, was rather in
clined to believe that the shape might
in some way indicate the sex, since it
had been so constantly affirmed that it
did. On further examination, found
that the round eggs usually had the
bubble on one side, and the long ones
usually had the bubble in the centre,
though this was by no means always
the case. Accordingly, I selected few
that combined the two pullet-producing
indications, VIZ, being both round and
having the bubble at the side. These
Give in number), Z set March goth. I
have reared from them three chickens,
two of which are cockerels. AS the
eggs were from the same hen, and as
others from her had opposite features,
viz: long in shape and having air bub-
bles on tie center of the largest end, I
am quite satisfied that at least these
two tests are worthless.-1. II. U. in
London Fanciers' Gazette.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-06
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
What will be Worn This Fall-Interesting to
the Fair Sex.
OvERSKIRTs.

OVERSKIRTS.
1t is in overskirts that the greatest
change is shown. They are still long
and clinging, but are draped differently
on the sides, and are SO narrow that bus
ties cannot be worn with them; indeed,
bustles are entirely abandoned in Paris.
The front is close apron, often wrin-
kled in careless-looking folds; row of
buttons and button-h holes down the left
side, while the right has square corners
below, and the top drapery is held by
o pocket that seems to be suspended
from the waist, and has loops and ends
below that catch up the back Of the
overskirt. Some Of these pockets are
very large, three cornered, and are
drawn together at the top by an elastic
band; many others are many sided and
fiat.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-06
How to Utilize the Grass Crop.


TIE Live Stock Journal has the fol-
lowing in regard to the utilizing of the
grass crop: 'sAbout three acres are
devoted to pasture for one to the
meadow. But it is to be observed that
the one acre of meadow keeps at least
two thirds of the same stock through
the winter that the three acres kept
through the grazing season; which
shows that the pasturage is not as well
utilized as the meadow. It is just here
That the farmer must begin his reform.
His ingenuity ought, certainly, to be
equal to making the grass that grows
upon an acre, and is fed in warm
weather, produce as great result as
the hay grown upon an acre cd fed in
cold weather. It is too great waste to
devote three times the amount of land
to summering an animal, when nine
animals, of the same weight, may be
kept in summer Oh the same amount of
food that would be required FOR
eight in winter. Pasturing is the most
wasteful of all old ways to use grass,
yet the farmer goes on year after year,
throwing away large percentage of the
produce of his fields, because he has
not the independence to change an old
wasteful custom. Soiing will double
his capacity to keep stock, and also
largely increase his yield of grain from
the extra manure made. We do not,
of course, advocate soiling on rough
lands which can be used only for pas
turage, but there are millions of acres
of grass on tillable lands trodden down
by cattle, producing less than half the
net income they might if the grass were
cut and fed to the animnls. Every
farmer who raises an acre of fodder
corn, and feeds to his COWS or other
cattle, green, in the fall, must see that
this acre of green corn produces as
much food as six to eight acres of pas
ture. We have soiled good sized cows
from the Goth of May to
the Goth of November, upon
a half acre when not less
than three acres would have been re-
CURED to feed them equally we'll on
pasture. The wastefulness of the gen.
eral system of pasturing may be seen in
the fact that throughout tbs dairy re-
gion, two-thirds of each farm is devoted
to keeping the stock through summer
and only one-third to keeping the same
stock through the winter, besides rails
ing grain to put the family through the
year. We do not advocate keeping
stock confined, for that is not at all nee
essary in the soiling system, but to give
them runway of a few acres, or the
wccd-lot, or the broken land on the
farm, and then feed them the grass in
racks or in stable three times day.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-06
CASHMERE AND CAMEL S-HAIR OVER
DRESSES

DRESSES.
Embroidery is the trimming for CASH
mere and cancels hair costumes" as
merchants call them, but which are
really sacques, Jackets, or basques with
overskirts. Black cashmere ever gar
ments of this kind will be as generally
worn as they we're last winter; black
repped silk and Sicilienne will be worn
in the same way, also gray, brown and
blue camels hair garments wrought
with black or with self color. The en-
broidery is done in silk, and covers the
jacket as closely as formerly, but the
pattern is spread lightly over
the whole garment. In the front
breadth of the apron is a
large cluster of needle-work, vine ex-
tends above the hem, and there are long
clusters in the back breadths. Some.
times the overskirt is merely hemmed,
while the jacket has fringes; in other
cases both have fringes. Some of the
jackets are square in front, in mantilla
shape, while others are pointed. The
sleeves are larger than those Of last sea-
not made. yet richly embroidered, for
$50 and upward. A few are lightly
beaded, but these are exceptions to the
rule.
When embroidery is not used, fringes
and braid will be the trimmings for
cashmere and cancels hair. The fringe
is wide, heavy, and very snowy; Melted
headings are again in favor. Broad,
loosely woven braids of silk are plain
looking, yet are of such pure material
that some cost $1.25 yard. Others
have gold threads wrought in tn en-.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-06

A DRIVING business -The express
mans.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-06
VELVET JACKETS.

Black velvet jackets come in jaunty
shapes, quite short behind, with loose
pointed fronts that fall open from the
throat; the short back is fitted by Eng
lish side forms, and is almost as close
as basque. The handsomest Of these
ale embroidered all over in heavy silk
work that seems to stand out from the
fabric. Others have matte braids in
lengthwise rows or in borders, and are
finished with fringe, fur or feathers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-06
OTHER COSTUMES.

Among other new costumes as those
of brown and gray striped Russian
cloth. One of brown, with narrow
twilled stripe of lighter shade, has an
apron overskirt, draped to form
square behind, and trimmed with
striped brown braid. The jacket has
wadded lining, is made with one dart,
and an English back heightened to
form side pockets. Another, of striped
gray Russian, has a long, clinging over
skirt, buttoned down to the left side by
smoked horn buttons and velvet bound
button-holes, while the right is caught
up by a velvet pocket, with silk
staings below. The jacket has a
peculiar double-breasted front that
curves around from the left to
the right, instead ofesloping diagonal
~, as formerly. It is trimmed with
dark border that comes with such
goods, and has velvet collar, cuffs and
pockets. A third suit has basque
and lower skirt of very dark brown
basket cloth, with sleeves and over
skirt of vaguely plaided brown, in
which are some rcd threads. Around
the plain lower skirt are two knife
pleatings, also plain. The plaid over
skirt is deep, and is draped in many
folds that are attached to the lower
skirt. The plain cuirass is cut in
points on the edge, with three rows Of
knife pleating between. The collar is
of plaid. The plaid sleeves have plain
cuffs
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-06

The new polonaises buttoned behind
are very graceful garments that show
fine figure to advantage, yet merchants
say they will be worn only by young la
dies and those who adopt extreme fash
ions. They give the costume something
of the chatelaine and princesse appear
ance. The front is of the princesse
shape, the right side is caught up by
large chatelaine pocket, and the back
is deliberately draped and buttoned
down the middle, One such costume
is of plum-colored brocaded wool and
silk, The brocaded polonaise has
deep apron, edged with wide Melted
fringe, while the back has five silk folds
upon it. The pocket on the right is
three-cornered bag, nearly half yard
deep, made of the brocade, edged with
knife-pleated silk, trimmed with large,
long-looped bows, and suspended by
bands Of silk that begin In the front and
back near the waist The neck has a
turned-over collar, and there are square
bands of silk in front of the waist. The
brocaded sleeve opens over one of plain
silk. Lower skirt of silk, trimmed with
puffs and pleatings.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-06
WEDDING DRESS.

A great many trousseaux are made in
September for the weddings that take
place later in the autumn. The new
fabrics for wedding dresses are creamy
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-10-06
LOWER SKIRTS.

The lower skirts of dresses have the
same number Of gored breadths as
those now worn. Their fulness is en-
tlrely confined to the back. The three
'front.' breadths are sewed plainly to the
belt, while the three back breadths form
an immense triple pleat, with the pleats
turned toward the middle Of the back,
and sewed fatty half yard below the
belt. Strings underneath, sewed to the
second side seams, are tied behind to
keep the sides and front smooth. The
trimmings around the bottom are alike
all around, and are made up of knife
pleatings, puffs, and gathered rufles.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-03-25
Scandal Notes.

The New York Herald hits the bulls
eye plump when it says "the most weari-
some mess of tittlc-tattle ever inflicted
on the patience of long suffering pub
lie is presented in the trivial and prOlx
testimony of the minor witnesses in the
Beecher trial"
Says the New York Post IAN hon
est old farmer from Clinton comfy, who
had come down to the city to pass Sun
day with his metropolitan friends, being
asked by one of them what the people
up in Northern New York think of the
Beecher scandal, replied that he never
tried it, and didn't know anything about
it-that he and his neighbors burn kero-
sene."
The great event of the trial, says the
San, will be Mr.. Beecher's own testi-
mony. Thousands of persons who can
conceive of minister yielding to a great
temptation and committing a great SIM
are reluctant and unwilling to believe,
nay, they will not believe, that a minis
ter of the gospel who has maintained
the standing of Mr.. Beecher for forty
years, will, under any circumstances,
commit deliberate and willful perjury
If Mr.. Beeeher is perfectly innocent,
we have that faith in the inherent force
and power of truth to believe that his
innocence will be made apparent by his
owa evidence. If, on the other hand,
he is guilty, we believe he will emerge
from the cross-examination of William
Fullerton a ruined man, convicted in the
general judgment of the whole COM
munity. In fact and in truth, the i'm
portance and the issue of the trial are
centered in the examination in chief and
the cross-examiuation of Henry Ward
Beechpr
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-03-25
Personals.

His Serene Highness Prince Hermann
Eugene Adolph Bernhard Franz Ferdi-
nand August Won Sayn-W attgenstein-
Hohenstein contemplates matrimony.
General Longstreet isn't gone to
Georgia to raise sheep, and doesn't in
tend to- He still pastures in the Cres-
cent city.
The condition of Mrs. johnson wife
of Senator Andrew Johnson, who was
reported as at the point of death few
days ago, has considerably improved
A bill has been introduced in the
Legislature revoking the sentence of
Punishment passed upon Roger Williams
in 1886. 1t is not known whether Roger
will return or not, even if they get the
bill through. Boston Neacs.
Notwithstanding all his faults, DR..
Kenealy probably knows more Ian
guages, dead and living, than any other
man now in Parliament To write a
most beautiful stanza in English and
translate into Welsh, Irish, French,
Latin, Greek and Hindustani, is to Dr.
Kenealy one of the easiest of all tasks.
Longfellow has made the following
reply to a request to become member
of the British Association of Spiritual
lists: 'Net being spiritualist in the
popular sense of the word-that is to
say, never having seen any manifesto
tions that convinced me of the presence
of spirits-I should deem. it. almost an
act of dishonesty on my part to accept
the compliment you offer / must there
fore, with many thanks for this mark
Of your consideration, beg leave TO de-
cline it, s,r IS =, 5Ts2l2 on 4:
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-03-25
Anecdote of President Lincoln.

AS the President was passing through
the wards of a hospital near Washing
ton upon one occasion he observed in
one of the beds young soldier whose
pallid countenance and expressionless
CLASSY eyes hetokened great physical and
mental prostration, and he inquired of
the attending surgeon if there was any
prospect of his ultimate recovery.
mot the slightest" replied the doc
tor. Ellis vital powers are rapidly eb-
bing away, and will soon be exhausted"
81 am heartily sorry for the poor boy,
and | should like to do something 10
make his last hours pass as comfortably
as possible. Would there be any harm
in my speaking to him ?"
And upon being answered that there
would not, he sat down by the bedside,
and taking the young mans hand, in the
kindest possible tone of voice said
'sMy young friend, / am President of
the United States, and am informed by
the doctor that you can possibly live but
a short time. Now if there is any re-
quest you would like to make in regard
to your family, it will afford me very
great satisfaction to comply with it. !"
The youth turned his dim eyes toward
the President, but made no response un-
til the question was repeated, when with
great effort he succeeded in giving arti-
culation to his thanks, and expressed an
earnest desire to see his aged grand
mother, who, he said, was then living in
Bangor, Me. 1870 @rsf
The President, after assuring him that
every effort sborfld be made to crafty
his wishes, babe him a kind adieu, and
calling the medical officer aside, asked
If there was any prospect of the young
mans surviving until the old lady could
be telegraphed TO and come to Washing
ton, and he seemed good deal perplex-
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-03-25
The Expenses of Public Grief.

1t cost the United States Senate 81, 607
to take Mr.. Summers body to Boston
and turn it over to Massachusetts,. And
1t cost Massachusetts 500, $50 to bury
him and celebrate his virtues with proper
flowers, decorations, eulogy, music, and
printing. Some of the items in this last
gross sum are Sc, 900 for flowers, 50, 900
for other decorations; entertainment
of Congressional and State committees,
81, 600; carriages, $4,000; Mr.. Curtis,
for his eulogY, $1,000; Miss Kellogg
and Miss Phillips, for singing, s 900;
"Prof." Churchill, for reading Whit
tiers poem, 5000; editing the memorial
volume $1,000 printing the same,
$4,000. The legislative committee seem
to have thought to measure their ex-
pendltures by the woe of the State.
And now Mr.. Curtis says he had no
81, 900 for the eulogy; it was offered
but declined yet the auditor reports the
sum as paid. The explanation is said to
be that, when Mr.. Curtis returned the
check, the committee, anxious to make
him some testimonial, decided to give
him a marble bust of Sumner by Mil
more-saying nothing TO him about it,
and letting the 81, 900 charge remain in
the accounts, so that, but for the publi-
cation of the figures now, he would have
known nothing about it till its arrival,
which is soon eXDeCted,
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-03-25
Michael Angelo.

On the first day of March, 1475, Mich
ael Angelo Buonaerotti, the eminent
painter and architect whose enduring
monument is the Cathedral of st. Peter
at Rome, was born. He left at his death
a package of his literary works, his let
tiers and those of the popes, princes, art
lists and others, who were cotempOrary
of his ninety years of life, in sealed
package, with the solemn injunction in
his will that it be not opened until the
400th anniversary of his birth. This
singular package has been kept sacredly
in the royal library at Florance, and on
the first inst, the agent of the Italian
government broke its ties; and from this
hidden chronicle, that will speak from
the lapse of 80 years much light will
be thrown upon the religious, political
and social affairs OF Italy in the days of
the Medici, il is anticipated.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-03-25
Gen. Butler on the Civil Rights
Bill

The letter OF General Butler to Mr..
Robert Harlan, of Cincinnati, is, like
everything that the celebrated states
man says, clear and to the point. 1t is
a candid explanation of the Civil Rights
bill by one of its strongest supporters,
and is important as a definition of the
real purpose and scope of that much
abused and generally misunderstood
measure The law passed by Congress
does no more, in General Buffers opin-
ion, than to confirm the rights already
possessed by the colOred man at law,
but denied to him because of the preju-
dices existing against his race. He
shows that the rights of colored citizens
are not increased by the act of Congress,
but that it has simply given them great
er power to enforce them when they are
denied. Special penalties are affixed to
the violation of common rights, and
United States courts are clothed with
the authority to compel obedience to
the common law.
But the enactment does not confer
upon the colored man the right to inter
fere with any business which is private
in its nature, so far as the person en-
gagged in it has the option of selling or
refusing his goods or his labor to aDpli
cants. As we cannot compel merchant
to sell wheat or wool when he prefers
to keep his merchandise, so we cannot
compel boarding. house keeper to take
unwelcome boarders, nor barber TO
shave people he does not wish to shave,
nor tavern keeper TO sell drinks to I'M
profitable customers. What General
Butler says upon this latter point is per-
haps a little too severe in its morality.
but an excess of that kind can easily be
pardoned in one who is inexperienced in
ethical teachings. His letter has the
great value that it explains the limited
scope of the Civil Rights act to the race
which is in danger of misunderstanding
1t, and his advice TO colored men not to
use the new law as a pretense to inter-
fere with the private business of private
parties is so sensible that we trust it
will be generally heeded.-N. Y. Her
aid.