Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-05
No. 32.
News Items.

hO ubTo Hdo ItdCuou i ATS LuaC
the United States Congress is planning
a visit to the exhibition, and great ex-
ltement prevails among the mana gers
who had hitherto hoped to be able to
keep up the reputation Of the show.
Cardinal McCloskey's ecclesiastical
reception came off, as promised, in New
York, yesterday, St. Patrick's Cathed-
raj being the scene Of the exercises.
There were 250 prominent Catholic
clergymen present, and housefull of
spectators.
GOOD TEMPLARs.-BosToN, May
3O.-At the session ofthe right worthy
grand lodge of the world, the commit
tee on the sacramental wine question
presented report, which recommends
members of the order to express the
deliberate conviction that the use of
termented wine at sacrament is no.
where sanctioned in the scriptures and
counsels members of the several
churches to which they belong to In
duce those having charges of the mat
ter to provide unfermented wine for
sacramental use. Report adopted.
WASHINGTON C1rY AFFLICTED
WITH TYPHOID FFvER.-The preva-
lcnce of typhoid fever in this city has
caused considerable alarm, and has en-
gagged the attention OF the Board Of
Health. Several physicians of the
city attribute this decease to gas escap-
ing from the sewers on account of their
imperfect construction. Plans for im-
provement of the sewersystem of Wash
ington have been submitted to the
Board Of Health, and will be presented
to Congress at an early day. Thirteen
cases Of fever are reported in one
square in the northwestern part Of the
city.
Mrs Annie G. Bracket writes to the
New York Tribune that the Stewart
Womau's Hotel failed be cause its idea
of isolatng one thousand human be-
ings of either sex is wrong from the
start; secondly, because of the deploz-
able ignorance Of those who had it ia
haud of the real character and needs of
those for whom it was intended, and
finally, because the working women Of
New Y York are real ,whole-souled women;
and not machines; because they are
conscious of right intentions and hon.
est work; because they like pets and
flowers and children in the house which
they must call home, and because they
are not one-sided, perverted beings
vowed to celibacy, but whole-hearted,
real women, as the Creator intended
they should be. who would gladly, If
so it is to be, find their own happiness
in, and make the happiness of some
possible future home.
A NOVEL BUTTER -CHURNER.-We
have story from Middleton, Conn,
that eclipses the marvels Of oleo-mar-
garine. The people Of that place have
accidentally discovered how to utilize
bull-frogs by converting them into
churners of butter. The discovery
was thus reached: A farmer in the
neighborhood, having placed pail of
milk in spring Of water to cool over
night, went there next morning and
found, it is solemnly asserted, instead
of the pail of milk, large bull-frog
sitting in contemplative mood upon .
roll Of fresh butter. The sole explain
alton is that the frog had jumped
from the water into the pail, and, in
trying to extricate himself, had, by
di!igent aud continuous strokes of bis
long legs, churned the milk into butter.
Such thing might happen in rustis
Connecticut, but we will venture to
assert that no bull-frog, however ener-
getic and trained, or ho .,ever asricul-
tural in instinct, could in any given
time convert the aqueous kind of milk
we get here into butter, or even into
tolerable buttermilk. Therefore, as we
can receive no benefit from the discov-
cry, We shall not attempt to put it into
practice. We shall continue, in oue
usual barbarors fashion, to eat the hind
legs of frogs. and leave it to Middleton
to employ them as natural, spontaneous
churners.