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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-24
Russian Leaders.

The Grand Duke Nicholas is fine look
ing, tall, forty-six years old, brother of
the Car, as naughty a Prince as the
House of Romanoff has ever produced,
and a soldier as devoid of military his
tory as any review Or parade guardsman.
Abdul-Kerim Pasha is the actual Com
mander in Chief of his army. The Grand
Duke Nicholas is a mere fgurehead,
guided and commanded by his Chief of
S-aff, Gen. Nepokoytchizky, the Moitke
of Russia. He has been in active SER
vice since the age Of sixteen, or for thirty
years past, but he has had scarcely any
field experience. He spent few days
in Sebastopol during the siege, and was,
when quite a youth, attached for two
years to the general staff of the army of
the Caucasus, where he took part in a
few skirmishes with the Clerkesses. He
was brought up as a field engineer, and
is at present chief of all the military
engineers of the empire, with General
Todtleben as his assistant. The Grand
Duke is married to the daughter of
Prince Peter, OF Oldenburg, and has two
sons, one of whom, the Grand Duke
Nicholas, Jr., youth of twenty, is with
him in the capacity of aid-de-camp. The
Grand Duke is the third son of Gar
Nicholas, and is accordingly an uncle Of
the two princely sailors at present in
this country.
The chief of the general staff in the
Danubian army, and the man who will
actually lead and command the Russian
forces, is Pole.
Gen. Nepokoytchizky's origin has fol
long time been a hindrance to his pro
motion, buthis abilities are too great no1
to be ultimately acknowledged. He was
during the war of 1853-54, chief of stat
in the Fifth Army Corps, commanded by
Gen. Luders. He was the leading spiri1
in all the operations on the Danube dur
ing that war, and has now the incalcula
BILE advantage of operating on fele
perfectly familiar to him. He ha
picked out for brigadier and division
generals men who served under hin
twenty-four years ago as captains ano
majors, and who, accordingly, know th'
Danubian region just as well as he does
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-24
4 Strange kt0ry.

Here is true story from Philadelphia,
with all the elements of mystery and
dramatic horror for which our modern
novelists and play wrights strive in vain.
Two or three months after the Exposition
closed the dead body of man was found
in lonely gorge, six miles from the
city, too much decomposed for recogni-
ton, and without the slightest clew in
his clothing by which to identify him.
1t is supposed that he had been a guest
at the Changers Hotel, which was an
enormous temporary barracks to which
thousands of transient dodgers came
daily. No register was kept, nor could
any account be taken of them after they
fsid for their room in advance. What
could be more unlikely than that this
unrecognizabIe body could be identified
as one of the nameless millions who
came and went through Philadelphia
last year, or that his murderer should be
found?
Yet, by a chance letter to prominent
newspaper publisher from Germany, the
whole strange story is laid bare. The
murdered man proves to be young Ger
man of wealthy family who came to
Philadelphia last summer. At this
Granger's Hotel he fell in with another
German, and formed close companion
ship with him. The stranger learned all
his secrets, the peculiarities of his busi-
ness and family life, obtained letters
from him, from which he studied his
handwriting, peculiarities of expression,
etc. When his plans were ripe he en-
ticed the young fellow out to this lonely
gorge, killed him, took possession OF his
trunk and other property, and opened a
correspondence with his family in Ger
many. Since last October this cores
pondence has been carried on, the mur-
derer personsting his victim, and obtain
ing by pleas of illness, losses, etc., large
sums of money.
By this time his arrest will in all
probabilities be made. We spoke the
other cay of the inexorable justice which
dogs the steps of guilty man. But we
never remember to have seen stronger
proof of it than this, unless it was the
death of Lee at Mountain Meadows
In old times the avenger of blood held i
as sacred duty to pursue the murderer
and the Erinnyes helped him with keel
eyes, whose sight reached around th'
world. We have given over the matte
to the police, who certainly ale no
weighted with oppressive sacred duty
and who see much worse than other peo
pie. Yet, by some mysterious pursue,
sent by other hands than ours. th
guilty man is followed and brought t
Justice at last.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-24
Detroit Free Press Currency.

DefrOit Free Press Currency.
Princess Mary of Hanover has con-
cluded not to marry Prince Arthur of
England. She doesn't mind his big
feet, but she can't love a man who
would leave the big &c Fl off her native
country.
A Buffalo man can be fined five hun
dred dollars for opening letter directed
to his wife, but out this way every wife
hands all her letters right over and says:
"Please open and answer them, my dear"
If the Canadians don't want Victoria
to be Empress of Canada, why, we'll and
good. She'd like one more title, in
order to make her name thirteen feet
long. but she can live and die without it.
A Wisconsin constable levied On the
undivided half" of gray mule. He
wasn't particular which end he took,
aud it was thirteen days before he opened
his eyes and recognized his wife.
One reason why it isn't best to pay
seyenty-fve cents per quart for straw
berries is the fact that they are rot worth
it, even if frescoed with gold leaf. Old
potatoes are the best thing to stand by a
patriot.
That sewing machine patent has ex-
pired, and men who ought to be posted
say that sixty-fve dollar machines will
be selling for thirty dollars in less than a
year. 1t won't do any harm to wait a
little and see.
Gideon Welles never had any boys,
and so when neighbor's son asks the old
man to hold the tongue of cart be.
tween his legs while the boy kicks in
the end board, the old man growls
about the world s awful impudence.
1t is curious fact that an eight-yeal
old boy can't sit for five minutes on s
cane-seat chair without getting the back
ache, but he will walk right out and sit
on the top of a hitching post for half ar
hour and feel like peaches over it.
There are mosquitoes at the North
Pole as well as in New Jersey, and house
flies in China as well as in America
The best way is to put up with the situa
ton and remember that the great George
w. Childs, A. NJ, was once so poor ant
mean-looking that farmers wouldn't give
him a ride
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-24
The Mea0ge9'ieS.


The animal show, the '' moral" de-
partment of an exhibition, requires the
utmost. care and watchfulness on the
part of its attendants. The elephant
man receives a salary of about ten dol
lars a week. There is an attendant to
every three cages of animals, and his
salary, provided he stays the season
out, is twenty dollars a month. The
great lion and tiger tanner receives the
muni6cent salary of twenty-five dollars a
month; for this sum he jeopardizes his
life daily. The "cat," or carnivorous
animals, such as the lions, tigers,
leopards, jaguars, panthers and wildcats,
are fed six times a week, eating about
sixteen pounds of beef and liver at a
meal. They are never fed on Sundays,
as it is deemed best for their health to
starve them one day. An elephant eats
about fifty pounds ofhay and three pecks
of oats each day during the summer. In
winter they are fed with meal and hay.
The hyena is fed with rib bones and
scrap beef, about five pounds being his
daily allowance. The herbiferous ami.
mails, such as the musk OK, zebra, gnu,
antelopes, deers, ETC., are fed on hay
with an occasional meal of oats. The
unwieldy hippepotamus is the infant Of
the animal species, as it eats nothing Of
any amount, but drinks enormous guam
titles of milk, of which it is given all il
Graves. 1t is regarded as the "grea
attraction" and is the special object O
the proprietor's sohcitude. The sea lions
Or seals, are fed on fish only, eating Al
much as eight or ten pounds per day
They are extremely dainty, as they will
touch no fish that have the least appear
ance of not being fresh. The Happ,
Family, or monkeys, around the cage
of which thejuvenile crowd concentrates
is the cheapest in point of food of tn
many described.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-24

The newest thing in stylish grace is
wearing the train over the arm, making
the bellies look like little kittens running
round after their tails.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-24

PROBABLY the sublimest spectacle
that Wagner ever saw in his maddest
dream was a beautiful lady, dressed all
in snowy white, with nut-brown hair
falling in cascade down her back, in
the middle of the night trying to snug
gle her husbands best razor so as to cut
her corns,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-24

BY HKIHE.

Warm summer dwells upon thy cheeks
And IN thy dancing eyes;
Bot 10 thy little heart, fair child,
Cold, frosty winter lie
Yet these, 1 think, as years grow on,
VIII play a different part;
Then, winter on thy cheeks shall be,
And summer In thy heart.
Hast thou forgotten, quiteforgotten, dear,
That possessed tsy heart for many year?
Thy little heart, 50 small, 50 false, 50 sweet,
Sweetest and falsest heart that ever beat.
The love and pain hast thou forgotten, dear,
That weighed upon my breast for many year
I know not wkich was greater Of the twain,
Only that they were great, both love and pain,
Ilonged to liuger, resting
Beside you, free from care;
But you ran of, protesting
You had no time to spare.
vowed my soul should never
Know other queen but you;
You only laughed, however,
And droppei curtsy, too.
All day you sorely tried me;
Aud, not content with this,
You cruelty denied me
Even farewell kiss.
But II you viii not soften,
] shall survive II still
I've been through this 80 often,
Sweet-and II does not kill.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-24

The progress of the war in Europe is
nowhere more clearly indicated than in
the shrinkage of the bakers loaf.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-24

THERE is said to be a paper church
actually existing near Berlin, which can
contain nearly one thousand persons. 1t
is circular within, octagonal without.
the roof, ceiling, the Corinthian cap
itals, are papier-machine, rendered
waterproof by saturating in vitriol,
lime-water, whey and white of eggs.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-24

THERE is to be a statute of Prof.
Morse erected in Poughkeepsie.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07

New England Farms.

The Boston Travcler explains tb.
decadence of agriculture 10 New Eng
land in this wise: The farms are
deserted, not because of the small.
profits of cultlvating them. One goes
to the West to till the prairie; another
to California in search of gold; and
third to college and thence to the city
as lawyer or physician, because be
can make more money as professionsi
man than as farmer. Unless some
new and industrious race shall set to
work to reclaim these farms the land
Will tor many years be given up to tie
growth of trees. ~ Yankee boys have
strayed from their homes not because
they have the instinct of Ishmael and
are too lazy to work, but because they
have bad the clear serse TO see thaf
the times have changed; the country
is not growing and prospering as it was:
young men cannot 60 tie pearest city
or the furthest settlement and gain
reputation and wealth in a few years:
they marry at 30 instead of 20, and
even then it is hand-to-mouth do
mestlc life, and two children are quite
enough to feed and clothe. In eyery
city there are troops of young men Ia
professional life, out at the elbow and
down in the mouth, who would be bet
ter Oft on New England farms than
they are in their Offices, waiting for
clients and patients that never come.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07

The claim of the United States for
the return of the 81 500, 900 lent to
help out the Centennial Exposition has
been rejected by the United States
Circuit Court, although there are
abundant funds remaining in the hands
Of the managers with which to satisfy
1t, Consequently, unless the decision
OF the court is reversed on appeal, the
81 500, 900 will be distributed among
the shareholders in the enterprise, and
be just so much taken out of the pub.
lilo treasury for their benefit. That
this would be the result was foretold
~ the opponents of the loan at the
tlme It was proposed, aud was indig
nantIy denied by its friends. Some Of
them, at least, were disingenuous in
their demand, and intended that the
money should be gift and not loan
as is evident from the peculiar wording
of the bill appropr;ating it.
The clause which was relied on to
protect the interests of the nation, and
which was used to secure votes for the
grant, reads thus:
The appropriation hereinbefore
made shdll be paid in tull into the
Treasury of the United States before
any dividend or percentage of the prof
its shall be paid to the holders of said
stock"
TIE advocates of the grant professed
to read these words with comma after
the word dividend" and persuaded
the public that no dividend of any
kind would be paid to the stock holders
until the loan from the United States
bad been first returned. Now, by
their counsel learned in the law, they
have successfully contended that there
is no such comma, and that only a
dividend or percentage Of the profits"
was intended. Inasmuch as dividend
of capital is not dividend of profits,
they have got the Judge to say that the
stockholders may pocket the 81 .500,-
600 as returned capital, and the United
States must lose the whole.
This is not the first time that
comma or the want Of it has been
made a fsh-hook by which to pull
money out of tie public treasury. A
clause in the Tariff act of 1875, by the
omission of this modest sign Of punctu-
alton, admitted free duty of all kinds
of foreign fruits, when the intention Of
Congress was merely to exempt fruits
imported for their seeds The trick in
thar case was universally denounced
and speedily frustrated, but in regard
to the 81, l,50O,O 900 now in question, the
nation is very possibly without RENE
DIV.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07

The shock Of railroad disaster like
that of Ashtabula upon the nervous
system OF survivor must be some.
thing terrible. A glimpse of its effects
is seen in the case of Conductor Hem.
who was in charge of the train which
went through the bridge, and who
went on duty again for the first time
last week. A passenger who was on
his train when he went over the new
bridge for the first time, told Toledo
Commercial reporter that be noticed
that as the train neared the bridge
Hem seemed very much agitated.
The horror of that awful night of ter
ror seemed to come over him so COM
pletely that the great drops of perspi-
ration rolled down his face, and he
grasped the seat nervously tor support.
When the train passed off the bridge
on to terra frma he exclaimed, "Thank
God I'm over, and now I'm not afraid
to go over it thousand times"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07

We have story to tell Of blue light
whsre glass was not used. Leavitt
Harwood, travelling agent for the firm
of Kingman l. Co., who resides on
North Madison street, bad been aflict-
ed for some time with rheumatism.
For about month previous to the SEN
satlonal item in the Chicago Tribune
on blue glass, Mr.. Harwood had been
eon6ued to his bed. He was unable
to dress himself. Upon reading the
article in question. he concluded to try
the effect of blue light in his room,
without going to the expense of buying
and settiGg blue glass. Acao1dinglY
he had some blue sAsus paper put On
the inside OF his window, 50 that the
light in passing through might be rem
dered blue. After basking in this
wonderful blue light for one day he
was able 10 arise and make his own
toilet, drawing on his boots without as
sistance. In few hours more he was
able to be out travelling again. If blue
paper is able to effect such wonderful
cure, what may not be effected with
glass! In this connection it may be
proper to remark that house plants
which were weakly and stinted before
are thrifty and growing nicely under
the effect of blue paper.-Peoria (M.)
Transcript.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07

There has been a change in the pro-
prietorship Of the Park Hotel property
in Madison. 1t is a very valuable
piece of property, occupying as it does
one of the very best locations OF Madi-
son. 1t fronts on the Park 1872 feet
and on Main street 1872 feet, giving
ample ground of the most eligible
character for hotel. The purchaser
is DR.. VIM. Jacobs, who has become a
resident of Madison within the last
year. The price paid for the property
is ST. 600 which is much below its
cost The Hotel Company have been
heavy losers in the transaction.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07

FAREWELL TO THE PorATo Bua.
The Colorado potato beetle, or po-
tato bug, as we generally call it, has At
last found its match in the shape of a
mite parasite. Prof. Riley, at a meet
ing in the ST. Louis Academy of Sci
ence exhibited potato bug which was
SO completely covered with mite par.
asie that the point of a needle could
not be placed on any part of the bee
ties body without touching one of the
parasites. He estimated the number
of mites at 500. The bug had been
attacked by these enemies and killed.
The potato bug seems to have num-
ber of natural enemies, such as the
toad, the crow, the rose-breasted gross
beak and domestic fowls. There are
no less than twenty-three insect enc
mics that attack and kill it. The bug
has also been migrating eastward across
the continent for several years, until it
has now reached the Atlantic Ocean.
We hope it may find watery grave,
and let the waves sing its requiem
Rocky Mountain News.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07

The, TURKs.-Olive Harper, who
has been writing to newspapers from
various parts OF the world during the
past few years, delived lecture on
"The Cross and Crescent" in San Fran
cisco recently She said the Turkish
women are short and fat, ignorant, ex-
travagant, deceitful and gossipy. They
are Informed and not handsome, aud
make unfaithful wives Of the men
she said. "There are no meu more ig-
norant than the rank and file of the
Turkish army. The Turks, as a rule,
are courageous, and at the same time
gentle and kind, except in war. when
they rival the worst tribes of Indians
By their acts of cruelty and brutality.
They are not educated, speak in met
aphors and are naturally polished and
refined. They are handsome race,
rather short and thick in stature.
They never tell the truth when lie
will answer. They are temperate in
their hsh'ts as regards The use of
liquors, but smoke and drink coffee
incessantly"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07

Mr.. Bayard Taylor, writing of animal
nature in the -4Hanttc, tells this story
of a parrot owned by friend in Chi
cago: When the great fire was raging
its owner saw that she could rescue
nothing except what she instantly took
in her hands. There were two obi ccts
equally dear, the parrot and the old
family Bible, and she could not take
but one. After moment of hesitation
she seized the Bible, and was hasten.
ing away, when the parrot cried out
in a loud and solemn voice, Good
Lord deliver us !" No human being
could have been deaf to such an ap-
peal; the precious Bible was sacrificed
and the bird saved: He was otherwise
a clever bird. In the home to which
he was taken there were among other
visitors gentleman rather noted for
volubilitY. When the parrot first
heard him it listend in silence for some
time, then to the amazement of all
present it said very emphatically,
You talk too muchn' The gentle.
man, at first mbarassed, presently re.
sumed his interrupted discourse.
Thereupon the parrot laid his head on
one side, gave an indescribably comical
and contemptuous "H'm-m!" and
added, "There he goes again."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07

in the city, consisting of The latest and
most fashionable styles of Ladies', Gentle
mems and Children's Wear He deals with
none but the most reliable eastern manu-.
'acturers, and has heavy and choice as.
sortment of Ladies French Kid Button,
French Kid Polish. Ladies Box-Toe Shoes,
Ladies Box-Toc Slippers, and al other var
leties most in demand, aud most substan
tial. de has splendid stock of Ladies
goods from Reynolds Bros, Utica, N. Y,
which are not surpas, ed
He has been careful, 10 the selection of
ali his stock, particularly with reference to
servlceable qualities and beauty of finish
He invites the public to examine his stock.
He warrants all goods
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07
AUGUST WIGGENHORN,

TEWELER, has recently opened Jew
u elry Store in Johnson's block. corner
Main and lst street, where he will keep
constantly on hand large stock OF
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry. Silver and Pla-
ted Ware, &c. Particular attention paid
to repairing Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
kc. and warranted to give satisfaction.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07
A GRITZNER.

FASHIONABLE Baroer and Hair Dres-
ser. Shop under Post Office, Brooks
Block, Watertown, Wis. The best OF HAIR
Dye used, warranted to told color for eight
weeks.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07
HAMLIN H. FORD,

-7ATERTOWN Lumber Yard. Lumber
w of every description Lath ana
Shingles constantly on hand ard tor sale at
she Lowest Market Price, at the Milwaukee
Depot. Watertown, Wis.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07

THE DUEL-NEw YoRK, Jan. p.
DIR. May, father Of one Of the late
duelists, was questioned by the Grand
Jury yesterday, as was also James
Kearney Warren, banker. The exam
ination Of both gentlemen occupied
less :han ten minutes. At its close
the Grand Jury was no wiser as to the
duel than before. It was expected
that DR.. May. at least, would possess
important information which could not
criminate himself, and must therefore
be given up. This is probably the
last attempt in the matter.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07

Dave Raggio, one of the most des
perate characters in the country, was
killed by fortunate shot fred at him
by woman in Chicago. whose house
he was robbing. He had been dis
missed but q few weeks before from
Waupun: after three years of service
for burglary committed on L. A.
Wheeler's store in Milwaukee.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07

Hopeful parties predict that by the
year 1880 Milwaukee will have pop
ulation of 10000.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-02-07

A gentleman who has just returned
from business tour through the sheep
ranges of San Joaquin valley, says the
Sacramento Bee of January Is, reports
most singular action on the part of the
mother sheep in that region. The
ewes of the flock persistently refuse to
give suck to their lambs, driving them
sway from the "maternal fount," thus
forcing the lambkins to die of starva-
ton. Herders and farmers have a
curious theory to account for it. They
consider that it portends severe and
continued drouth, and their theory is
that the sheep have an instructive
knowledge that there is to be a short
crop of food, and thus save the trouble
of fruitlessly raising their young only in
the end to die of starvation, they have
thought it more kindly to permit their
tender lambs to die for the want Of
nourishment before acquiring sufficient
physical 9Th to more acutely suffer
the pangs Of hunger.