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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-29
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, 1876-03-17
Love of Titles.

We saw, the other day, on Washington
street, Boston, a sign inscribed with "Prof.
Dash, clothes cleaner" This passion for
assuming titles, whose sound, and once
select associations, contrast singularly
with the common and even menial occu-
pations of those who use them, reminds
us, as the lamented Lincoln used to say,
of "little story" At one of the meet
ings of the American Association for the
advancement of Science, some years ago,
gentleman was in attendance who
entered his name on the reception book
as Mr., sculptor. One of the dele
gates, in course of conversation with him,
begged leave to inquire the subjects of
his leading works.
10" said thestranger in reply, 81 don't
sculp any myself; but then, yer see, ]
seii-aarble to the feileFs as-scdip. -
Our great expounder of scienc, now dead,
described himself as "Louis Agassiz,
Teacher" If youAOok at the title-page
of 1.-THE Systematic Theology" massive
work by the greatest of American theolo-
giaps, you Will simply see, "By Charles
Hodge" The personal vanity which
tempts men 10 pIeL1 VI hnneA niBD-
sounding title to their names, is not con-
fined to the cleaner Of clothes, or to the
man who sells marble to the fellers as
sculp." Foolish people are found among
all classes, as well as men,-whO
are vain of title, "Good-by, General l''
cried wag,-who knew this weakness
of human nature,-apparently to some
one on the San Francisco steamer, as
she was leaving the wharf. Instantly
more than half score of hats were
raised, to the great amusement of the
wag and his friends.
"Macaulay and 1 were in the same
boat" remarked a writer of some insig-
niicant history, in the presence of Doug
lass Jerrold.
"Yes," replied Jerrold, "but with a
different pair of oars"
, 1876-03-17
A Historians Habits.

Study and method, industry and regu-
larity, must characterize the habits of
life of those who write histories that will
live. An illustration of this may be
seen in the habits of our American his
torian, Mr. George Bancroft. All his
life he has been a hard student, and as
methodical as the workings of steam
engine. A writer thus describes his daily
life at Washington, where he resides:
He has always been an early riser, and
for twenty years, or more, has been in
the habit of working an hour or two
before breakfast. Breakfasting at half
past eight oclock, he goes into his library
at half-past nine o'clock and works regu-
larly until three o'clock, with short in
termission for lunch Then he drops his
manuscript and memoranda, and, putting
mark in his thoughts, forgets care and
labor for the remainder of the day. Every
pleasant afternoon he can be seen riding
Black Elsie, his favorite mare. Notwith-
standing his age, Mr.. Bancroft is one of the
most graceful and vigorous horsemen In
the city. He has kept up this habit for
many years, and during the summers he
has spent in this country he has generally
taken a iaunt of three or four hundred
miles with Black Elsie as his companioBA
He has ridden all over the scenes of the
Revolution, from Ticonderoga to the field
of the battle of Savannah, where Pulaski
fell.
Mr.. Bancroft is a good liver, and his
dinners are noted for richness of viands,
but he is temperate in every way. He
has one of the most valuable private
Libraries in the world, his house being
literally packed with books,pamphlets and
papers. There are about twenty thousand
volumes in all, comprising works in all
languages, of all eras, of all branches of
literature and science. He is quite tas-
tidious in regard to his bindings, which
are of the richer materials and in exqui-
site taste.
Among his papers he has transcripts OF
all the archives of every nation on the
globe that has had any relation whatever
with American history. They have been
collected by him in France, Germany,
England, Holland and other countries,
where he has always been permitted to
make copies of any state papers desired.
He has, also, the originals of many i'm
portant documents relating to Revolu-
tionary affairs. One of Mr.. Bancroft's
peculiarities is his habit of clipping news
papers. He is great newspaper reader,
and scarcely ever finishes one without find
ing something in its columns worthy of a
place in his scrap-book. His cyclopedias
are mammoth collections of newspaper
articles, which are pasted in between the
leaves under the topics to which they refer
, 1876-03-17
PAUPER1sM OF THE CH1NEsE PEOPLE

PAUPERIsM OF THE CHINEsE PEOPLE.
The masses Of the people are very
poor. It is with them a severe struggle
for existence. The average wages of me-
chanics and common laborers for days
work Of twelve to fourteen hours is ten
to twenty cents; but-skilled Chinese me-
chanics in our trades are paid by foreign
ers twenty-five to seventy-fve cents q
day. The cost of European or American
living here is one-third less than It Is in
the United States. Chinese living of the
commonest sort, but the best that can be
afforded by the masses, doesn't average
to exceed six cents q day. A wealthy
Chinaman doesn't expend more than IS
or SO a month for his food. The result
is great deal of destitution and suffer-
ing among the masses; there is much
begging in and about the temples and in
the streets of the old city; there is, too,
notwithstanding the terrible cruelty of
punishment inflicted for crime, much petty
pilfering and robbery from the person
and from houses. There are many rich
Cinnamon, but they are not inclined to
works of charity; they hold and hoard.
There is no properly organized system
Of charity; relatives and friends are sup
posed to take care of the sick and of the
unfortunate. 1t is only in cases Of dire
necessity that Government agency affords
relief, and then it is only temporary.
The Founding Hospital is Government
enterprise, and that Is its most conspic-
uous chaTity.-Troy Times.
, 1876-03-17
Detroit Currency.

WHAT'S the use of learning to write
when an tx, his mark, " is just as good
in law as the full name of the person.
A New Hampshire court has decided
that a bow of thirty-two is too old to be
licked, even if he does stay around home
An Indianapolis lawyer has made
fortune of $4,000 out of divorces, while
otbermen have lost all by trying to smooth
over family troubles.
"Do genius and debt always go to-
oether9H asks the Brooklyn argus. Well,
EVERYBODY knows that it's dreadful easy
for a great man to run in debt.
Almost ,OOO, 900 paper collars are made
in this country every day. The stool K on
hand is so large that men can wear three
collars at once if they want to.
The Mobile Register has decided that
the grave-diggers of that town have either
rot to keep sober or drop their vocation.
Either that or else Mobile people should
quit dying.
A woman who tainted away in car on
the Lake Shore Road the other day was
revived BY a man holding cold door-key
to her nose. People who buy camphor
only throw their money away.
An Allegheny woman was struck in
the side by bullet fred from a pistol,
and she jumped up and down and cried
out; 81 never get new corset that some
thing don't happen to it'right away"
The Commercial Club" of Chicago, a
social affair, expired for the want of $11O
to pay rent and gas. The club business is
always big thing as long as the first
stock of wine and cigars last.
Spectators have been fencing in the
Yosemite Valley, and when the tourist
thinks he sees a grand sight it turns out
to be board fence with the usual sign
on it, "Tickets fifty cents each"
An Arkansas man pleads "color blind
ness" as an excuse for murder. He killed
a white man by mistake for negro. The
most eminent physicians of the day
agree that such mistakes are of frequent
occurrence.
New York State is also to have a law
against pointing unloaded deadly weap-
ons at person. The pointing isn't the
point. What the country wants is an in
junction to prevent these unloaded weap-
ons from shooting off.
On the Sd inst. Michigan farmers were
plowing their fields. On the 10th inst
they were using crowbars to dig the
plows out of the burrows. Is it any won
der that we all love America2
Private Dalcell disappoints his enemies,
They thought he would be speaking all
the time when he gotinto the Legislature,
but he is quite content with eleven Oh
twelve speeches per day.
, 1876-03-17
Bleeding from Lungs, Catarrh,
Bronchitis, Consumption. A
Wonderful Cure.

ROCHESTER, N. T., Jan. 18th, 1874.
r. '. PIERCE, NJ. D., Buffalo, N. Y:
Dear SiT-I had suffered from Catarrh in
an aggravated form for about twelve years
and for several years from Bronchial trouble.
Tried many doctors and things with no last
ing benefit. In May, ", becoming nearly
worn out with excessive Editorial labors on
paper In New York City, / was attacked
with Bronchitis In q severe form, suffering
almost a total loss of voice. / returned
home here, but had been home only two
weeks when / was completely prostrated
with Hemorrhage from the Lungs, having
four seOS'v bleeding spells iOthiR too Oees, and
yfrst uiree inside Of mine days. In the Septem-
Der following, improved sufficiently to be
able to be about though in a very feeble
state. My Bronchial trouble remained and
the Catarrh was tenfold worse than before.
Every effort for relief seemed fruitless. /
seemed to be losing ground daily. contin-
ued In this feeble state, raising blood almost
daily until about the first OF March, '73, when
became so bad as to be entirely confined to
the house. A friend suggested your rene.
dies. But ] was extremely skeptical that
they would do me good, as | had lost all
heart In remedies, and began to look upon
medicine and doctors with disgust. Howev-
er, obtained one Of your circulars, and read
It carefully, from which came to the conclu-
sion that you understood your business, at
least: / finally obtained a quantity Of DR..
Sage's Catarrh Remedy, your Golden Medical
Discovery and Pellets, and commenced their
vigorous use according to directions To
my surprise, | soon began to improve. The
Discovery and Pellets, In short time, brought
out severe eruption, which continued for
several weeks. felt much better, my appe-
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1esh. In three months every vestige Of the
CatarTh was gone, the Bronchitis had nearly
disappeared, had no Cough whatever and l
had entirely ceased to raise blood; and, con-
trary TO the expectation Of some Of my friends,
the cure has remained permanent have
had no more Hemorrhages from the Lungs,
and am entirely free from Catarrh, from
which had suffered so much and so long.
The debt Of gratitude l owe for the blessing
have received at your hands, knows no
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experience, that your medicines will master
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have recommended them to very many, and
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Gratefully yours,
WM H. SPENCER.
p. O. Boz 5O7, Rochester, N. Y.
, 1876-03-17


The LANGUAGE OF FLowERs.-The
language of flowers, which is peculiar to
the Turkish harems, owes its celebrity
wholly to Lady Wortley Montague; it
was she who introduced It into Europe.
The Persian personifes the rose, and
makes it the mistress Of the nightingale,
to whom, In the return Of spring, he tells
his amorous pains. The Hindoo dedi-
Gates flowers to his divinity, whose vari-
Gus attributes they represent to his
imagination; but it Is in Turkey alone,
and in the harems, that we find this mys-
terious language, to which there exists
nothing similar among other Oriental
nations. There the language of flowers
Is merely the amusement Of the secluded
fair ones, and knowledge Of it can only
be acquired from the slaves of the
harem.
, 1876-03-17

FREE WASHING FOR THE SIcK.-That
is not g bad society in London which
does free washing for the sick and infirm.
Enfeebled mothers tell what comfort it
gives them to find themselves and their
children in clean clothing, and anybody
can see how much it conduces to health
and cheerfulness. There are multitudes in
large cities who are powerless to do what
is considered the hardest and most neces-
sary employment Of the household, and
what they are unable to do, they are as
unable 70 pay for. Now, 1t Is one thing
to bring food and cordialr, another to see
that such persons have suitable changes
Of clothing; and next to keeping soul
and body together is the duty of being
clad in clean apparel.
It is to be wished, also, that q society
which washes for sick people, could teach
a still larger class of well people to wash
for themselves. It Is one Of the mysteries
as we'll as miseries of life to see how
many families among the poor are will
ling to abide in filthy garments and sur
and to live but one degree
above Digger Indians.
, 1876-03-17
A Rat TeIegrapher.

A telegraph inspector In England re-
Gently pressed into his service a rat,
under the following peculiar circum.
stances: It was necessary to overhaul A
cable Of wires inclosed in iron tubes. A
certain length of the cable had 10 be taken
out Of the tube, and the men commenced
hauling at one end without having taken
the precaution to attach the other to a
wire by which It might be drawn back
to the tube after the inspection and re-
pairs. The question arose, how the cable
was to be restored to its proper place
and here the ingenuity of the inspector
was manifested. He invoked the aid of
a rat-catcher, and provided with large
rat, ferret, and ball of string wound
on a Morse paper drum, he repaired to
the opening in the tube. The 'sflush-
boxes" were opened, and the rat, with
one end Of the string attached to his
body, was put into the pipe. He scam
pered away at racing pace, dragging
the twine with him until he reached the
middle Of the length Of pipe, and there
stopped. The ferret was then put in,
and off went the rat again until he sprang
clear out of the next hush-box. One
length Of the cable was thus safe, and the
same operation was commenced with the
other; but the rat stopped short few
yards in the pipe, and boldly awaited
the approach Of the ferret. A sharp
combat here commenced, and it was
feared that one or both of the animals
would die in the pipe. But after sundry
violent jerks had been given to the string,
the combatants separated; the ferret re-
turned to his master, and the rat, making
for the other extremity of the pipe, car
ried the string right through, and so
relieved the inspector from his anxiety.
, 1876-03-17


A MoRTaAaE.-In the whole range OF
sacred and profane literature, perhaps
there is nothing recorded which has such
staying properties as q good healthy
mortgage. A mortgage can be depended
on to stick closer than brother. 1t has
mission to perform which never lets up.
Day after day it is right there, nor does
the slightest tendency to slumber impair
its vigor in the night. Night and day,
on the Sabbath, and at holiday times,
without a moments rest for sickness or
recreation, the biting offspring of its exist
ence, interest, goes on. The seasons may
change, days run into weeks, weeks into
months, and months be swallowed up
into the gray man of advancing years,
but that mortgage stands up in steepful
vigilance, with the interest, a perennial
stream, eeaselessly running on. Like q
huge nightmare eating out the sleep of
some restless slumberer, the unpaid mort
gage rears up its gaunt front in perpetual
torment to the miserable wight who Is
held within its pitiless clutch. It holds
the poor victims with the relentless grasp
Of giant; not one hour of recreation; /;
not moments evasion of its hideous
presence. A genial savage of modifying
aspect while the ini rest is paid; very
devil of hopeless destruction when the
payments fail.
, 1876-03-17
A Boy Hero.

The burning of the British schoolship
Goliath had this good effect, that it served
to show the excellence of the system by
which the boys (all of them mere chill
dren, and gathered from the very slums
Of cities) had been trained. "No sooner
was the fire bell rang ttan every boy
was in his place, says London journal,
"and from first to last the order was as
perfect as if the little workhouse lads had
been drilled troops" Many instances of
heroism are cited. There was a barge
moored close to the ship, and a number
Of the striplings, mostly between seven
and tel ,yeare Of age ad-made good.
their escape to her. The flames >were
blowing toward them fercely, and some
twenty or more of the children, terrified
by the heat, and almost choked by the
densesmoke, wanted to push off for shore,
but one Of their number, a petty officer
named Billy Bolton, mere child him
self, checked the mutiny and held the
great craft to her mooring until all who
came over that side of the vessel had got
safely into her. Capt. Bourchier SAYS
that the quiet, resolute bravery of this
little fellow was the means Of saving
more than q hundred lives that would
otherwise have certainly been lost. An
other lad, named Mouling, but aptly
known among his companions as ''Capt.
Webb, " swan about in the cold water
like great Newfoundland dog, picking
up the feeble stragglers and helping
them into shallow water. Another jumped
over the ships side, height of thirty
five feet, into the water. He struck a
piece of timber and disfgured his face 50
feArfully that the captain could not
recognize him. The LAD, however, being
asked how he came by his injuries, re-
piled with the usual salute, that be had
had "a whack on the head, " and SO went
on helping his companions out of the
water.
, 1876-03-17
p. O. Boz 5O7, Rochester, N. =.

WHEN in the city, call at TowNsESD's
CANDY FACTORY, and see a splendid assort-
ment OF Confectionery-sold at lotoer prices
than at any place in the city. Broken Candy,
only 20 cents pound; superior candles 70
those sold in the towns, for 50 cents pound,
Hotel Building. Candies sent BY express t0
any part Of the State
, 1876-03-17

AN attempt has lately been made to
convey the fry of trout and salmon from
England to Australia by the Peninsular
and Oriental Company's steamers, the
route Of which is by the Suez Canal; but
without success. The experiment pro-
ceeded satisfactorily until the Red Sea
was reached, when the mortality COM
menced, and on the twentieth day out the
whole Of the fish were dead.
, 1876-03-17

IT HAS PEcoME NoToRIoUs that no cough,
resist the healing, strengthening, soothing
operation Of HALE's HoNBY OF HoRnHoURD
AND Tar.
, 1876-03-17

AuLLER's PEBBLE aPECrACLE8.
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gomery st., near Bush, 5an Francisco. Cal
, 1876-03-17

TRAPPER's INDIAN OIL-The simplest and
most powerful remedy for rheumatism, neu.
ralgia, sore throat, and all aches and pains.
Sold everywhere, at ffty cents per flask
, 1876-03-17

ISAAC H. FRorHINoHAx, chief clerk in
the stamp department of the Boston post
office, was arrested recently for embez-
cling stamps, and held to bail in $4,000.
, 1876-03-17

CANCER CAN BE CURED-Dr. BOND, Of
Philadelphia, announces his discovery for
the radical cure Of Cancer. No Kni6sI No
Pain! No 0dustieI Remedies with full direc.
tions sent anywhere. Pamphlets and particu-
lars sent free. Address With stamp, DR.. II.
T. BoND, $50 North Broad st., Philadelphia, Pa.
, 1876-03-17

AMI disease Of the bladder and kidneys,
droPslcal swellings, gravel, diabetes and
brights disease speedily succumb TO the In.
nuenee Of KEARNEI's Extract BUcHU, the
only reliable remedy for those diseases, In
Mhera.
, 1876-03-17

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, 1876-03-17

HOLMAN HUNT has painted his own
portrait for Liverpool exhibition.
, 1876-03-17

scale Of charges for popular favor, and a con-
tinuation of the prosperous patronage they
have heretofore enjoyed individually.-Sdn
Francisco Bulletin.
, 1876-03-17

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THE RISDON
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iron
, 1876-03-17
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