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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-16

THEY had railroad accident in
England recently, and the Daily Neaus
says that the patience of the servants
of the company was .sorely tried" by
the relatives of passengers in the
wrecked train coming to make in
ouiries.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-16

AT a meeting at Montreal to raise
funds for the relief Of the yellow fever
sufferers it came out that the city had
never paid the $4,000 voted for the re-
lief Of the sufferers by the fire at St.
John, n. B.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-16

No woman can be employed in an
Austrian railway office unless she is
under Is and will promise not to marry
under three years.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-16

"DYING in poverty" says a modern
moralist, els nothing; it is living in
poverty that comes hard on fellow"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-16

YOUTH may SOW more tares in one
year than old age can ever pull up; but
only old age knows it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-16

The Baltimore Euery Saturday says
the world must stop praising pretty
women, and begin to praise women
who are ugly as to looks, but good.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-16

THE conscience has to do, not with
fitness or expediency or advantage, but
with right and wrong.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-16

REJOICING ard congratulation should
not be at our birth, hut at our death,
for the good we may have done.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-16

VIRTUE requires no other recon-
pense than the tribute of self-appro-
baton and respect Cicero.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-16

DELIBERATE with caution, but act
with decision; and yield with gracious
ness, Or oppose with frmness.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-16

THERE are many men whose tongues
might govern multitudes if they could
govern their tongues. -P3entice.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-16

= SOME men, by repeating what others
have said, fancy that they are growing
wise.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-16

WE have not far to go to find death;
but unless we are looking for HIM we
shall not know him when we find him.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-16

PoLTENEss is money, which enriches
not him who receives it, but him whs
dispenses it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-16

New picture frames are of smooth,
polished wood. without any carving or
tracery.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-16

AUSTRALIA has carried off the highest
diploma for wheat at the Paris Exhi-
bltion.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-16

THE courage and fidelity of telegraph
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-16
Scientific.

IT is stated that metals may be color
ed quickly and cheaply by forming on
their surface thin coating of sulphide
film. In five minutes, brass articles
may be coated with any color, varying
from gold to copper-red, then to car
mine, dark red, and from light aniline
blue TO a blue white. like sulphide of
lead, and at last redish white, accord
ing to the thickness of the coat, which
depends on the length oftime the metal
remains in the solution used. The col
ors possess very good iustre, and if
the articles to be thus treated have been
previously thoroughly cleaned by means
of acids and alkalies, they adhere so
firmly that they may be operated upon
by the polishing steel. To prepare the
solution, one-half ounce of hyposulphite
ofsoda is dissolved in one pound of wa
ter, to which is added one-half ounce
acetate Of lead dissolved in halfa pound
Of water. When this clear solution is
heated to from 100 deg. to 200 deg.
Fab, it decomposes slowly, and pre-
cipitates sulphide of lead in brown
flakes. Ifmetal be now present, part
of the sulphide of lead is deposited
thereon, and, according to the thickness
Of the deposited sulphide of lead, the
above colOrs are produced. Iron treat
ed with this solution takes steel-blue
color; zinc, a brown color; in copper
objects. the first gold does not appear;
lead and zinc are entirely Indifferent
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-16
Keep Your Own Counsel,

Nothing can be more injurious to
your peace of mind than to have too
many confdants. You live in abject
slavery every day, as you are constant
ly fearing that some one of your numer-
Gus contidants will reveal secret you
would not have anybody know for all
the world. We know, in many cases,
it does the heart good to open its door
to seeming sympathetic visitor; but,
alas there is much more seeming than
reality in this world of ours.
You will sit down and tell some one
of your acquaintance all your troubles,
real and imaginary, and say: "Now,
you are the only one in whom I have
confided, and | trust you will not speak
of this to any one else" Well, they
promise to respect your confidence, and
at the same time, perhaps, they are in
earnest; but by and by some one steps
in, and an irresistible desire takes pos
session of them to retail all they know
Of your history-and % little is added
on to the fact, to make it interesting,
you know, to their friends-not mean
ing any real harm to you, probably,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-16
Just Like EN-.

There was a sign up at the stamp
clerks window in the Detroit post-office
reading, No postal cards." One of the
first to see the sign was middle-aged
man with a satchel in his hand. He
called to post a drop-letter, and as he
licked on the stamp, he remarked:
"Out of postal cards, eh?'
"Yes," replied the clerk.
Every handy things" continued the
stranger, as he pounded the stamp with
his fist.
Eyes"
The man stepped to one of the boxes
and mailed his letter, and the returning
to the window, he put down nickel,
and said:
'pll take five of 'em."
The stamp-clerk doesn't keep shot
gun, and SO the fellow got away unhurt.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-16

well three weeks before canvasing ::
wrap every ham in newspaper, and sew
your cotton bag very close, to keep out
the fly The spareribs / never salt, but
hang them on nails around the house
where they will keep well until used
for salt makes them hard and dry. The
feet and ears should be laid on a clean
plank-not Notwithstanding once a
week to prevent moulding. When you
wish to make souse, soak them in
enough fresh water to cover them, with
a quart Of corn meal. They must be
changed every twenty-four hours, and
scraped every time, until clean and
white enough to boil. Put in to boil,
and skim until clean When the bones
are loose, it is done. If you wish to
make jelly, never let any salt be about
your feet, ears Or heads, as that spoils
the liquor for jelly. You can cheese,
Or keep in a weak brine K but never
shut it up close when warm. The
brains shonld be slightly sailed, then
washed off and boiled in water and
served up exactly as fresh oysters, and
they are delicious for breakfast. The
lard should be we'll washed. and to
every ten-gallon kettle, put tea-cup
half full Of soda when first put on.
Let your. cracklings be thoroughly
Drowned strain off, and your lard is
done. Every kettle should be well
cleansed before using q second time
Rural World
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-16

by SO doing; but it does them good to
talk it over with that somebody else
whom you warned them against
They, III turn, tell their friend to say
nothing about (which is one of the
hardest things to do. Yet they
promise; but they are sure to break
that promise just as soon as they get a
favorable opportunity. Thus your
cherished secrets are known to the
community at large, while you go on
IN bllsstul ignorance, thinking that your
good friend, Miss Day, alone knows
anything about your heart-sorrows.
Friend if you want secret kept, keep
1t yourself. You are the safest person
with whom to trust it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-16
THE IVIFTS FLIGHT.

IEroga NorShedd's Neac Translation Of the Aga
menahon Of 1EschytuS.l
Woe for the home, the home! and for the chief
tain's wOei
Woe for the bride-bed. warm
Yet from the lovely limbs the impress of the
form
OF her who loved her lord. awhile ago!
And woel for him who stands
Shamed, silent, unreproachtul, stretching hands
That find her not. and sees, yet VIII not see,
That she is far away
And his sad fancy yearning DER the sea,
Shall summon and recall
Her wrath, once more to queen it in his hall.
And sad with many memories,
The fair, cold beauty of her sculptured face
And all to hatefulness is turned their grace
Seen blankly by forlon and hungering eyes!
And when the night is deep,
Come visions sweet and sad. and bearing pain
OF hopings vain
Void, void and vain. tor the sleeping sight
iss seen its old delight.
When thro the grasps of love that bid it stay,
1t vanishes away
On silent wings that roam adown the ways OF
Sleep
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-16
s. HE'LL"
A Story and Theological Argument.
New York Tribune.

The domestic press teens with theo-
logical lore. The local editors through
out the land. from Cleveland to Atlanta
and from Springfield to San Francisco,
are button-holing ministers of the Cos
pei and putting them through the cate
chism. "Good morning, reverend SIR
what do you think about hell anyhow"
is the accepted formula. The clergy
seem to be only too glad to undertake
mission work in the newspaper offices,
and the number Of lay sermons on eter-
nal punishment which are now being
laid before the American public, in the
form of local interviews, is beyond
reckoning. A southern reporter, who
called upon Bishop Beckwith, of Geor-
gia, got a story as we'll as theological
argument. The bishop said that in Viz
glnla, many years ago, q youth was
under the care of one Of the old negro
" mammies." She used to picture to
him many vivid and terrible things that
were to be encountered in the bad place.
By these descriptions Of the torments of
hell she sought to make him abhor evil
and seek to escape its penalties. One
day, after hearing the place spoken of
from the pulpit, the little fellow said to
his old nurse: Nanny, you say the
wicked folks so to the bad place ?"
" Vas, honey, dey all goes down dar,
sho'! Dem dat don't hub and sarve de
Lord mus all go darp And you say
it is all fire and birthstone down there p"
OATS so, honey; de birthstone ar jess
burnin' all de time all de time-an
never gifts done burnin' yer up furebber!"
" Well, nanny, where do they get ali
the birthstone from to keep the fire up?'
Take keer, honey, don't let dat fool
yer bout de fab! Yer kerries de brim-
stone wild yer, an dar's huff in de heart
oh de sinner ter keep him in er blaze
furebber-dat's SOL"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-16
Loves Young Dream.
Breakfast Table.


A bridal couple. with more style about
them than grass widow, honored the
Indiana House with their presence two
or three days during the past week.
They gave the dining-room n mighty
tony look by marching in at meal time
arrayed in their new clothes, with white
gloves on, and when old man Ryman
first saw them he took one square look
and then sat down his cofee-pot and
went out into the kitchen and laughed
until his eye-balls felt pointed. In that
supreme moment he felt that he was
paid ten times over with compound in
terest for all the trials, vexations and
unpaid board bills encountered in his
hotel experience since he left the old
farm.
When the dining-room girl got her
face straight enough to get behind their
chairs and say
"Roast beef, roast pork, lamb, chicken
or fish p
The bridegroom said, "Chicken an
fish, but the bride with the character
istic presence of mind for which her
sex has ever been noted, interposed-
s'Oh, no, ducky dear; we can't take
any O that; for, don't you know, pidgy-
widgy. 'twould muss our gloves up?
Well have to have som ething we can
eat with our knives and forks"
$50 we will, neutrality-suspicious.
thought O that. What do you say to
roast beef, then: huxy-puxy? Can we
go some O. that, sweety?" asked the
happy man.
mo. no-darly It's always tough,
and we might splash the gravy and soil
our clothes, don't you see, honey-dew +?
Let's take lamb, pootsie, that's always
tender. [ don't care much about it,
but it cuts SO easy, lovey, and I expect
their knives are as dull as hoe" re-
marked the BRIDE. #HA
"Well, [ don't care, pussy; whatever
you say, for s'pose we've got to keep
up appearances; but durn my buttons,
sugar-lump, if hain't got a confound-
ed big notion to peel off these mittens
an wade into some O. that ERE chicken
and fish, for Pm all-killin' fond of it, an
these blame things sweat my hands so,
doosy-poosy, an quicker an draw wors' n
a stickin' plaster, and hang me if I
don't almost consate they've blistered
my fingers all up"
No, no-never, goosey, don't do that
for the world, or everybodyIll know
we're from the country, an maybe
they'll put us in the papers, hubby.
dear, an wouldn't that be awful"
And the young wife had her own way
about it, and they always do.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-16

peratrice, the performance Of the
trumpeter's horse. A Chasseur Antique
enters the arena upon a gray horse;
then come the arabs, who fire upon him,
and he is wounded and falls: and, as
you did not fall, the horse indignant at
your not performing your part IN the
piece, threw you down. What did he
do neXt!'
l related the little attempt of Brutus
to bury me.
Exactly like the trumpeter's horse.
He sees his master wounded; but the
Arabs may return and kill him, SO what
does the horse do? He buries him and
gallops off, carving away the colors,
that they may not fall into the hands Of
the Arabs"
"That is my hatwhich Brutus carried
off,"
Precisely He goes to fetch the Vi
vandiere-the vivandiere of to-day be-
ing your humble servant the Countess
de Noriolis Your great gray horse gal
loped into my courtyard, where | was
standing OH the doorsteps, putting on
my gloves and ready to get into my
carriage. My grooms seeing a horse
saddled and bridled, with hat in his
mouth and without rider, tried to
catch him; but he escapes their pursuit,
goes strai ght up to the steps, and kneels
before me- The men again try to cap
ture him; but he gallops off, stops at
the gate, turns round, and looks at me.
felt sure he was calling me; SO [ Jumped
into my carriage and set off. The horse
darts through roads not always adapted
for carriages; but [ follow him, and ar
rive where | find you"
At the moment Madame de Noriolis
had finished these words the carriage
received a fearful jolt, and we saw in
the air the head of Brutus, who was
standing erect on his hind legs behind
us. Seeing the little back seat Of the
carr age untenanted, he had taken the
opportunity of giving us another speci-
men Of his talents, by executing the
most brilliant of all his circus perform
ances. He had placed his fore feet
upon the back seat of the little carriage,
and was TRANQUILITY continuing his route,
trotting upon his hind legs alone, Bob
striving in vain to replace HIM upon
four.
Madame de Noriolis was so frightened
she let the reins escape from her hands,
and sank fainting in my arms. With
my left hand / recovered the reins, with
my right arm | supported Madame de
Noriolis, my leg all the time causing me
most frightful torture.
In this manner Madame de Noriolis
made her first entry into La Roche
large. When she returned there six
weeks later she had become my wife.
"Such indeed is life" she exclaimed.
"This would never have come to pass
if you had not bought the trumpeters
horse. "-London Society
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-16
Took 1t in Trade.

When Tom Flynn was the artist of the
Open Letter." he laughed at the idea
that there was any trouble connected
with the soliciting of advertisements.
Said he, l can get page Of ads in
day." .sa.- s~s5.
1t was suggested that he couldn't get
one ad" IN q week. He canvassed
three days with no result, and on the
fourth came in with a half column
dentist advertisement.
Put that in!" he cried, triumphantlv.
What did you charge him for that?'
Ten dollars"
"Where's the cash ?"
Took it out in trade He agreed to
pull two teeth (spit), but only let him
pull one (spitl, and he broke that off and
left root (spi') in the gum. Ii any Of
you fellows want tooth (spit) pulled,
go to OF 5 street, as there's five
spit dollars coming to u.s."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-16
Not That Kind o. Clock.

I" Hav We gat airy clock 81 to sell
somethin' noice, for a present to me
sisther?"
eve have all kinds of clocks" re-
piled the jeweler-" twenty-four-hoar
clocks and eight-day clocks, from ST. so
up to $500 in price. Here's one that
will just suit you---a fine French clock.
worth $15." &Aas 5l6fAaa
"Divil take yer Frinch clock Give
us wan that me sisther kin understand
whin it strikes. oil Cuy Derrick.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-16

INCoMBUsTIBLE PAPER.-At the Paris
School of Arts and Trades experiments
were lately made with a paper alleged
to be incombustible. Sheets of it were
exposed simply to the fierce flames of
spirit lamp without other effect than
to slightly Wither it. When the paper
was exposed in bulk no effect was ap-
parent. 1t was thought very desirable
for the manufacture of bank notes.
The secret of the manufacture rests
with the experimental
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-16

FROM a few experiments carefully
conducted by Prof. J. Plateau, of
Client, it would appear that the instinct
of insects IS not deceived by artificial
floWe1s. They may be attracted from a
distance by the bright colors of the
flowers but are not tempted to alight
upon them in quest Of food. From
this, Prof. Plateau concludes that in
sects are not guided by sight in their
visits to flowers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-16

In New England the bold, bad men
gave their mothers-in-law "non-explo-
slve" Kerosene oil lamps for holiday
presents.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-02-12

AN EAST RIVER MYSTERY.

MISS KAvANAGH's DISAPPEAR ANCE AND THE
LADY's LEAP FROM THE FERRYBoAr NEW
YORK.
lady jumped overheard on day evening last from
the Hamilton avenue lerryboat New York. II was first
reported to the Brooklyn police by Ar James Sander
son, residing at No All Union street, in the above
city Ho said that while crossing TO this city
O'Clock on Monday evening, lady about twenty four
years Of age, dressed in black, jumped overheard
was drowned wnon the boat opposite Governors
Island. He SAID, further, that although he gave
alarm effort made by the deck hands to rsscue
the woman, ana the boat proceeded on her why. The
description Of the suicide corresponded It is claimed,
with that Of Miss Mary Kavanagh, who disappeared
from her home. No. 2e4 Clinton avenue, about four
O'Clock on tho afternoon OF tho same day.
A sister OF the missing lacy stated to a HERALD re-
porter evening that Miss Kavanagh left her homo
at the time stated with the remark that she going
out for a walk As she did not return during tho
night her relatives became alarmed and teegraphed
to all her friends thiukng that she might have
NAMED with some Of them. The answer from each,
however, was TO the effect that they had not seen her,
and tho police were horned OF the Wednes
day They advised that the matter 10 kept quiet.
For q few days previous to leaving her home Miss
Kavanagh was quite melancholy, but as she was
naturally quiet TINS did not attract great deal
Of attention among her relatives Miss Kavanagh Is
described MS beng about FIVE feet eight and half
She alfred dark dress with overskirt, black
sack, with three rows OF braid upon 1t, and black
straw hat trimmed with black ami white silk velvet.
The name CT an. L. kavanagh' was stamped upon
her pocket book, which contained about $50. Miss
Kavanagn her sister thinks II shA committed suicide,
must have been temporarily nsan6 The IN ssing lady
wore q plain gold ring ind u SOLITAIRE diamond ring
DETECTIVES REPORT
Detective Zundt reported to superintendent Camp
bell yesterday afternoon that ho saw The two deck
hands. Walter Murray and Peter Peterson, who were
board the ierr boat New York on tho night above
mentioned. Murray SAID that while opposite Gov.
ernor's Island he was GU the front Of the boat,
but saw woman there Peterson stated that
whom the boat was near New York come
young TO him and stated
that while tn boat opposite Governors Island,
a woman IN black, about twenty-six years OF age,
with black sack and hat trimmed with white, jumped
the side railing into the river, whereupon Peter
500 asked the young man, "Why did you not give the
alarmY' Tho young man replied thar when the
woman jun ped over board he shouted for "hep' aud
the OF the Don't for boat hook, and that
he shouted Tor deck hands but nobody came to his
sistance. Mr. James Sanderson stated that the
woman who jumped overheard made no outcry, aud
when the boat landed on the New York side he came
back in the same boat TO Brooklyn, thinking he might
ses some sgu Of hor IN the nver. but saw nothing.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-02-12
POLITICAL AND GENERAL.

A settler In Oregon writes :--"Our farmers raise
good tobacco and rosychockcd children by the acre"
The Louisville Courier journal believes that the
new Tarin bill Is "a measure OF broad statesman
ship
st. Louis Repntiican:-.There might DO q party
founded silver, but Is 80 easy TO found one
Oh gold"
The tax-payng women of Boston who demand
tho right vote at municipal elections have tho Trdc
etier newspaper on their side, at least
Mont gomery Blair on reform -''somc Of tho poll
TEXANS begin to chrp, yet in very subdned tone,
bat II VIII become bodcr In time and ere the he xt
election we shall have a hurricane
Tho Atlanta Consultation says that tho South Is full
OF just JET DAVIS and the little chill
drcn there taught To call like his (-wheh
grows on every busn') by the name OF patriotism.
Montgomery Blair writes TO friend that he puT-
poses 10 compose history oil the adm istrations Of
Jackson and Lincoln which viii place his father
before tho world IN tho true light OF his political lilo
Philadelphia Times:-"rhe nation yet needs pro-
tectvc pocy, but not the pronibtory policy that was
a necessity thirty years ago, and IT should be gwen
liberal tariff with specific duties every article ta
completes win American industry, and, above all.
whom once revised it should DO permanent"
Montgomery Blair has written u letter 10 Major f.
Dobyns. OF Fulton, No., saying that he would have
quit politics had Tilden become President, but that
now he feels IL necessary that he should try 10 get
the true issues OF tho time before the public. so
many political leaders are the employ OF corpora
tons and 80 many stand IN Of them that Tor tho
first time la his no, he has sought Tor public STALLION,
In order TO oppose the usurpalion OF monsyed organi
zstionh