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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-06

wake her. | didn't camp in this here
place for nothin'. This echo's a good
warnin', as I've found out afore; an
these rocks don't tell no tales. Pm
goin' ter reconnoitre." And he darted
away, and was back before we had COM
pleted our hasty preparation for de-
parture.
Jest so. They're in sight. A bit
puzzled-halted to consider" He was
out of breath, and shot forth these ir-
regular sentences in the intervals of sad
ding up. CHOW, then, don't let on
about 'em to her, We know. Wake her
up, Rafe. Times out"
Marty looked frightened and chung to
me as [ lifted her. / smiled into her
face.
"Did l startle your" I asked. "It's
time to move on, you see, 50 L thought
we had better not delay. Hold fast"
L sprang to Cheveignacs back, and
we rode down the dark, rocky defile
slowly at first, lest the sound of hoofs
should by any means reach the sharp
ears of our pursuers. After some ff
teen minutes we seemed plunging into
a narrow gorge Or chasm, without out
let, between perpendicular precipices
We followed Miner, who led the way
But it seemed a narrow, tortuous way.
81 say" said Herries at length, :" dc
you mean to be like mice in a trap? Fol-
we're in one.',
"No we amt, young man. I know
this here region" retorted Miner, with
out looking roand.
Sure enough, at the end of the gorge
narrow aperture, barely admitting {
!, horse and rider, yawned beside huge
, boulder. It looked like the entrance tx
J a cavern; and Cheveignac pricked VI
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-06
Mark TWain's Home.

"A correspondent of the Worcester
(Mass.) Spy. who has been looking about
Hartford, Ct., describes as follows the
home of Mark Twain.
It is lovely spot, bordered on one side
by small, placid river, which winds
about with the most bewitching indecis-
ion. The slope between the house and
river is we'll wooded with fine old trees.
The house itself, built of brick, is very
picturesque fact, too much SO. There
is an appearance of effort for effect about
it by which it loses the charm that a
more natural treatment would lend. The
painting on some Of the brickwork is par
ticularly to be regretted. One pretty
feature is the decoration of one of the
walls by series Of hollows Of the size of
the end of brick sunk about three or
four inches, making sort of diaper
work Whether intended or not, these
hollows have been appropriated by the
birds for nesting places with very charm
inc effect.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-06
Anecdote of Forrest, the Tragedian.
Celia Logan in N. Y. Sun.

When Forrest was young-in those
bright and happy ante-divorce days-he
was friendly with all the world, even
with George Jameson, and together they
were playing an engagement at the old
Albany Theatre, Richelieu" was in
course of rehearsal. The young man
who played Francois was very nervous,
and Forrest found great difficulty in get
ting him to obey orders. In that scene
where the Cardinal says:
-"No mongrels, boy-mark the notch-a deep
one," &c.
he wanted him to stand in particular
spot. In vain he pointed out Just where
it was; the Francois never seemed to hit
it exactly. Thoroughly out of patience
at last the tragedian roared out:
"Where's the carpenter? Bring the
carpenter here instantly"
Everybody wandered what he could
want with the carpenter, but the re-
hearsal was stopped until the carpenter
came with his tools. Forrest pointed out
certain place on the stage, and sternly
babe him drive a nail there, which he did.
CHOW, sir" he said to the abashed
Francois, Poe marked notch-a deep
one-that you must see. Now, I think
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-06
Treatment of Bruises.

From times unknown bruises have
been treated by cold water. Mothers in
our early life used to apply it to any
bruise or confusion, especially to bruises
upon the forehead. Notwithstanding
this illustrious example, we prefer the
application of very warm water. Let us
see how the two operate: Cold applied
to the surface has a tendency to check
the flow of blood. Heat, under the same
circumstances, augments it. Thus APP
plying cold water to bruise or contu-
sion stops, more or less, the blood in it's
course through the injured part The
spot is "black and blue" Applying hot
water compels the moving fluid to hasten
it's course and be far away from the
scenes of turmoil. So the blood hastens
on it's way and leaves very few marks of
its presence. Ordinarily, bruises and
contusions rupture some capillary blood
tubes, and allow the blood to ooze out.
The thing to be done is to compel the
blood to flow on in its wonted way. The
application of very warm water is the
best treatment for Commissions and bruises.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-06
An Attractive Female.
From the New York Tribune


"The Tottering Lily" the wife Of the
Chinese ambassador at London, has been
visited by several ladies, who describe
her as a gentle-looking creature, with al
mond-shaped eyes and jetty hair, held
out i'll stiff tail over tortoise-shell pin
behind. Her attire, loose, many col
ored embroidered jacket, with large
sleeves, surrounding a skirt or trousers
worked in gold. A pardonable ruse was
perpetrated to obtain what was most COW
eted, viz, view of her feet. The con-
versation was, by means of the interpret
er, brought round to the subject. An
American lady present, celebrated for
beautiful feet, exhibited one of hers to
the "Lily," Immensely huge" was
the. remark; and the explanation that
they were useful to walk on was not &C
cepted as valid reason for their dimen-
sions. Again another lady showed tiny
boot with no more effect; and the
Lily not to be pleased by European
models of perfection, which have no
doubt turned many in this country, was
challenged to show what she considered
the soul Of excellence. Coyly, for the
Chinese have a genuine horror of pro-
fame eye in such matters, her Excellency
exhibited what she was pleased to call
her foot. Small it was-just the size of
lady's doubled fist, and much the same
shape apparently, swathed in bands of
hlue silk
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-06

you will know where I want you to
stand stand right on that nail, sir"
This certainly was a happy thought.
and both the star and the STRIPPING were
mutually pleased; but Jameson, a great
practical joker, had also happy thought.
It CHANGED that the nail had been driven
into the very center of trap, and not
being on in that scene when it came to
be acted, Jameson went below the stage,
and when Forrest began his great speech,
with his hand on Francois head:
/" No mongrels, boy-mark the notch
"a deep one" the trap suddenly began
to descend slowly, with Francois
did not dare to move-upon it, and he
gradually sank down, SO that by the time
Richelieu came to the famous line:
Beneath the rule of men entirely great the pen IS
mightier than the sword
the boy was out Of sight, and Forrest
had to finish the scene without him.
Of course, no cul prit could be found,
and the air was heavy with Forrestian
OathS
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-06
An Invasion of Pitcairn's Island.

In that lone spot of Polynesia, amid
an archipelago scattered far and wide
over the Pacific and celebrated as Pit
CAIRNS Island, an invasion of an extraor-
binary character is reported to have
taken place. 1t is tradition of the sea.
Of course, that this speck of land, amid
wilderness of ocean, was originally col
onized by the surviving mutineers of
the Bounty; and there is, probably, his
torical justification for the statement.
But it may be doubted whether any de-
scendants of the mutineers are still to
be found there, since, in 1856, one hun
dred and sixty of them were removed,
upon their own petition, to Norfolk Isl
and.
Be this as it may, the place is so soil
tary, 50 desolate, and SO out of the COM
mon track, that we only receive news
from it once in every two or three years.
The latest is to the effect that an army of
rats, landed from some wreck or an
other, recently behaved much as Mr..
Browning's rats did in Hamlintown,
swarming over everything, eating up
everything, consuming all the flour, and
devouring the entire grain crop of sea-
son; the island is seven miles in width;
across it they marched, myriad after
myriad in one compact array, some Of
them as large as rabbits-an assertion
which might appear exaggerated did We
not remember that the French natural
ist, M. Gentil, declares that he saw in the
sewers of Paris specimens Of this vermin
i" as large as full-grown tom-cats "-crea-
lures, indeed, which full-grown tom-cats
refused to fight. With locust avidity
they combined an unlimited ferocity, as
the poor Pitcairn Islanders have reason
to believe.
Innot few islands, indeed, these cast
away creatures, escaping from shattered
ships, have exterminated their former
inhabitants, rabbits and seabirds, the
latter falling aprey to them when young;
and in MonteVideo, travellers assure Us,
they render the dirtier streets dangerous
to even human beings, after nightfall.
Well, they seem to have made, as the
Greek dramatist phrases it, "a fierce,
unbidden feast upon the harvests and
stores of Pitcairn's Island, and it is not
surprising that the humanity of a Pacific
trader should have been appealed to for
a supply of -four. Neither that he should
suggest a more frequent looking in"
upon these recluses of the ocean.-L0,a-
don Echo.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-06
Detected bY q Dream.

This singular incident, that hints at a
psychological mystery which the spirit
ualists unravel satisfactorily enough to
themselves, but which clearer-headed
scientists cannot 50 easily explain, is
vouched for by San Francisco paper.
A lady visiting her sister in one Of the
elegant mansions Of that city went out
shopping the other day, carelessly leav-
ing her purse, containing coin and a val
liable diamond pin, on bureau. On
her return the purse was missing, and
with great trepidation the house was
searched over and over, but fruitlessly.
In the middle of the night the lady of
the house was awakened by the entrance
of her sister, who was acting in the most
singular manner and asking constantly
for writing materials. Her nervous sys-
tenn seemed to be highly excited, and she
did not appear to be in her right mind,
though it was not a case Of somnambu-
lism. Paper and pencil were given to
her, and she Immediately covered the
former with scrawls which were hardly
decipherable. She soon quieted down
and lapsed into her normal condition,
when the two ladies set themselves to
work to decipher the writing, in which
they were finally successful, finding,
however, it all to be repetition of the SEN
tence, "She has hid it under the stool. 5
They decided that "she'' meant the new
servant, and proceeding to the latter's
door they knocked for admittance At
the foot Of the bed stood covered stool,
the cover reaching to the floor Highly
excited, the ladies rushed to it, tipped it
over, and there lay the lost purse, with
its contents intact. The servant from
the outside of the door had closely watch
ed the ladies' movements, as they placed
their hands upon the stool she turned,
ran down stairs, unlocked door, and
rushed into the street and away before
she could be apprehended, and she has
not been seen or heard of since. So far
from being spiritualist, the lady is very
positive in her disbelief Of any such
agency, and, moreover, is an old-school
Presbyterian, and in accordance with her
religious doctrines is opposed to any such
theory as spiritualistic influence.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-06
Another Stove.

An improved German stove has been
invented, the special feature Of which
consists i'll having the lower part of the
fuel chamber provided with a crescent
shaped throat piece or plate, the latter
being also connected by means OF hinge,
SO that the former can slide. To work
this stove an inner fuel chamber is filled
to within some inches below the fuel
hole with coke or coal, wood hire IS lit
on the top, the heating cylinder is closed,
and a sliding door opened; the combus,
ton takes place from top to bottom, and
is regulated by the sliding hinged door,
or by yentilator-that is, by admittance
of air either into the stove or into the
chimney. The burned fuel is replaced
by fresh, filled into the heating cylinder
when required, and the ashes are re-
moved once or twice every twenty-four,
after showing small fork-shaped CRATE,
provided with handle, into the ash pit
This CRATE rests and moves on slides; it
serves to prevent the burning fuel from
settling while the ashes are being re-
moved, and is afterward withdrawn.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-06-06
HOW A PAPER is MADE.

Pray, how is paper NADER"
The question is easy to ask;
But TO answer it fully, my dear,
Were rather difficult task;
AMI yet in a bantering way.
AS the whip-poo-will sings in the glade,
I'll venture bit of a lay
To tell how paper is made.
An editor sits at his desk
And ponders the things that appear
To be claiming the thoughts of the world
Things solemn and comic and queer
And when he has hit on a theme
lie Judges it well to parade
He writes, and he writes and he writes,
And that's how paper is made.
An editor sits at his desk,
And puzzles his brain to make out
Telegraphic" so squaonled and mixed,
1t is hard to tell what it's about
Exchanges are lying around
ale waiting dispatches delayed,
lie clips, and he clips, and he clips,
And that's how paper is made.
An editor out in the town,
In search of the things that are new
The things that the people have done,
The things they're intending to do
Goes peering and prying about,
For items of many grade;
He tramps, and he tramps, and tramps,
And that's how a paper is made.
And all that those workers prepare,
OF every conceivable stripe,
Is sent to the printer, and he
hoceedeth to stick il in type.
His lines, all respecting his will,
In slow-moving columns parade
He sticks, and he sticks, and he sticks,
And that's how paper is made.
In short, when the type is all set,
And errors cleared up more or less,
It's g locked in a FORM as we say,
And hurried away to the press.
The preSSman arrangeS his sheets,
His ink gives the requisite shade,
Then he prints, and he prints, and he prints
And that's how paper is made.
, 1877-07-07
F N.

A schoming rascal one day entered q
tavern and asked the waiter if he could
have a good dinner for his money. "Cer-
tainly, Sir" replied the waiter, and very
soon the fellow was enjoying the best the
house could produce. On the bill being
presented, he rendered a shilling. you'll
see the amount in the bill Sir" said the
astonished waiter. eyes I know, but
you told me I could have a good dinner for
my money, and there's my money, it's all
l have" The waiter called the landlord,
who after hearing the story, surveyed the
fellow, and said, "Ah! You re a clever
scoundrel, and ought to be handed over
to the police; but never mind, TIL let you
of if you III just go over to my opposite
neighbour, and play him the same trick.
"Oh!" said the scamp I'd be very hap
py but I've been over there already, and
it was be who sent me to you"
HEB PROPER SCHOOL Amongst the
curiOsities in the Philadelphia Exhibition
there is an exquisite Bust in butter, the
work of a Canadian Farmers daughter,
which has excited such admiration, that
funds are being raised to send the young
lady to study in Italy. We should say
t:y Greece.-PSnch.
, 1877-07-07
NOTICE..

Ell S the Presidency Of st. Croix will
An require from u!timO August to uItimo
February next year about $50 punchsOns
and ITO barrels Of fresh Cornmeal, and
about $50 barrels of Halifax Herrings,
parties DESTROYS of contracting for the de-
livery of such quantity, or any portion
thereof, are requested to send in to the
Presidency, within the 31st inst, sealed
tenders marked "TENDERS FOR CORN
MEAL AND FISH" stating
l., the number of puncheons and barrels
offered,
9, the lowest price demanded pr. pun
cheon and per barrel.
The articles are to BE delivered at the
end of each month, part in Christiansted
ADD part in Freleriksted, viz in Christian
sted SO puncheons 26 barrels Of Meal and
40 barrels of Herrings pr. month, in Frede-
riksted 13 puncheons, 6 barrels of Meal
and s barrels of Herrings pr. month.
The payment from the Colonial Treasury
to be assigned every month when the quau-
tity for the month has been delivered aud
accepted.
The party whose tender is accepted will
receive an answer within the 18th of August.
Presidency's Secretary's Office, St Croix
Ord July 1877.
S. W. VAN BRAKLE.
, 1877-07-07
H. A. JURS.
TRANSLATION.

mURSUANr to the Ordinance Of 10Th
g August 1877 it is hereby brought to
public notice that I have received an an
nouncement that Lawyer G. S. WAssARD
has by a Power dated goth June q. c.
transferred during his absence from the
Island. from the 2Ist June q. C. to Cand.
polyt. G. H. D. ZAHRTMANN the Power Of
Attorney of I4th September 1876 which
the Directors Of tn, Joint Stock Company
1.-THE ST. CROIX CENTRAL SUGAR
FACTORY" had given, to issue, in con-
%neetion with Cand. poIyt. c. H. D.
Z~AHRrMANN, receipts in behalf of the said
directors RS Tor Tor None money y,I Payn 1rina5. etc, T. etc. tSo
Company aforenamed.
Caristiansted's Police Office, St. Croix
3rd July 1877.
, 1877-07-07
Tune 1861

The apparent lull s'ill continues. No
effort to cross the Danube has yet been
made, and though attempts TO storm Kars
are reported from Asia, no trustworthy
Information OF the result has yet arrived.
At ConstantinopIe on Thursday the Gov
ernment did not claim q victory. The
water III the Danube, however, is sinking,
and an impression prevails in well-infOrmed
quarters that the attempt to effect Il pas
sage will be made next week. During
the past one, every day has produced it's
crop of kilograms, usually about unimpor-
tant artillery duels across the river, bat it
is remarkable how little important news
reaches Western Europe. The newspa-
psrs this time have been very unsuccessful.
The Russian Government, though allowing
correspondents in camp, has managed to
convince them that their business is not
publicity i; and the Turks, though they do
not control the correspondents, refuse to
forward any unpIeasing kilograms. Nor
is there anything wonderful in the precau-
tions taken. In a slow war like this, q
correspondent who speaks out gives the
enemy information, and THE very week at
least two letters have bsen published
which, if their contents are accurate, will
be Of high value to the enemies of the
Power to which the correspondents are
accredited. The state Of affairs in Con-
stantinople, too, induces the Government
to invent kilograms, while, in one instance
at least. alarmist bulletins reporting Tur-
kish disasters are forwarded in the hope
OF indueing the British Government to
, 1877-07-07

Y HENH0LD til Anordningen If 1915
q August 1874 bekjendtgj0tss herve /. at
jeg har modtaget AnmeldeIss ON a. Herr.
Overretssagt6rer G. s. WAsSA2D. we'd
Fuldmags at code Juni 1877, har under
hans Fraverelse her fra Den fra eide Juni
1877 ct regne, overdragat til Herr Cand:
polyt: G. H. D. HARTMANN, del hlm
at B9styrelsan for Aktieselsklbet ''ST
CROIX FELLES SUKKERKOGERIER
under 14de September 1876 me d.
deolte Fulmagt. til Forening meA
Herr Cand; poIyt; c. H. D. HARTMANN,
at qvlttere for allie Pensebetalinger til
bemeldte AktieseISkab, SON matte 6nde
Sted paa de vestindiske Ger m. m.
Christiansteds Politikammer st. Croix
den 3die JUL 1877.
H. A. JURS.
, 1877-07-07

up 4, and the bonds OK the Unified Debt
81. That transaction, il the price were
moderate, would be Objectionable only
because it would furnish the Turks with
q certain amount of money, of which they
are greatly in need, and because it would
not confer on this country the right to the
administration Of Egypt. The Pashas in
Cons'antinople may, however, be trusted
to absorb and waste the money, without
allowing it to have much influence on the
war, and direct administration would be
secured, as we have argued elsewhere, in
no long time. The report, for what we
know, may be an utter fable, but it is not
impossible, as Lord Beaconsfeld will think
money an assistance to the Turks and hs
coll leagues will think the safety of our
communications with India a guarantee
against q needless war. A section Of the
Liberal party will be greatly annoyed by
the acquisition Of Egypt, but the country
has repeatedly signiied that it will &C
cept and approve this addition to its re-
sponsib' litiss.
An accident, not unusually destructive,
but unusually frightfuI to the imagination,
occurred at Bath on Wednesday morning
June g.. Between tue Great Western
station and the building in which the
Exhibition of the West Of England Agricul-
tural Society is held stands a wooden truss
bridge, Widcombe Bridge, on which a toll
is levied. The collector, anxious, it is
supposed, 10 increase receipts, put upon
this bridge a placard,-" Nearest way to
the Exhibition, " and SO great a crowd
pressed upon it that the bridge gave way,
twO-thirds Of it hanging suspended ill it
also fell. AS the height Of the bridge
above the water is thirty feet. the two
hundred persons on the bridge were all
more or less hurt-eight being killed, and
fifty dangerously wounded iu arms, legs,
or SPineS. Assistance was, Of course, at
hand and it is said that the majority OF
the sufferers waited for it with astonishing
GOODNESS and nerve, though the sh' ieks Of
some OF the wounled and Of many I'M
wounded pc sons upon the banks were ap-
pulling. The cause of the acct lent was
undoubtedly the inability of IT, bridge
to sustain q crowd on the march, the
movement greatly increasing the vibration,
and the question to be tried is whether
this inability was not known to the PEG.
pic who allowed the crowd to pass The
accident is a %curiously rare one in Eng
land, though a great many bridges are
SO doubtful that the pace Of carriages
driving over them is reduced by the rules
TO a walk.
, 1877-07-07
Extract from HGrilgS Domestic Physician

The history of the human race proves most
clearly, and aOithout a single exception, thar there
never was iu any nation a popular develop.
ment of science, literature, and the G'e arts
until after the introduction of she culture of
the grapevine, or after a facilitated importa-
ton of wine.
The latest chemical analyses have also prov.
ed, that wine contains combinations of phos-
phorns, which is a most imp ortan5 nourishmant
of the brain, and upon which its high develop
ment depends"