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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-24

The late Counselor E., chairman
of the quarter sessions for Dublin, was
SO remarkable for his lenity to female
culprits that a woman was seldom con-
victed when he presided. On one occa-
sion, when this humane barrister was in
the chair, prim-looking woman was
put to the bar of the Commission court
at which presided the equally humane,
though perhaps not so gallant, Baron
s.. She was indicted for uttering
forged bank notes. According to the
usual form of law, the clerk of the crown
asked the prisoner if she was ready to
take her trial.
With becoming disdain, she answered,
"Nol"
She was told by the clerk she must
give her reason why. As if scorning to
hold conversation with the fellow, she
thus addressed his lordship:
"My lord, I won't be tried here at all.
I'll be tried by my Lord E"
The simplicity of the woman, coupled
with the well-known character of
E, caused q roar of laughter in
the court which even the bench could
not resist. Baron s., with his
usual m1ldness, was about to explain the
impossibility of her being tried by the
popular judge, and said:
"He can't try you - when the
woman stopped him short, and with an
inimitable sheer, exclaimed:
"Can't try me! [ beg your pardon,
my lord, he tried me twice BEFORE"
She was tried, however, and for the
third time acquitted.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-24
Transformation Scene at the Ferry
Gate.

Gate.
As ferry-boat steamed out of TIE
Fulton slip on the New York side on
Sunday morning, pretty girl of about
Ii years of age entered the ladses' cabin,
which was filled with persons going to
church i'll Brooklyn, and walking hastily
around deposited in every lap printed
card, headed ~ am blind" and going on
with the verse: No foot of land do I
possess, no cottage in the wilderness.
" It's my father, na'am," the little girl
explained, addressing herself, with tears
in her eyes, to lady. "He's very old,
and blind, and he has only one arm, and
he's waiting for me in the Brooklyn
ferry house," "Poor little grill" the
plying lady unused. Yours is hard
lot and she dropped dime into the tin
plate that the child carried around as
she gathered up the cards she had dis
tributed. Pennies and large sums were
poured into the tin plate, and when the
boat entered the Brooklyn slip the little
girl was drying her eyes and delivering
up the net results of very rich harvest
Her father did not seem to have kept biz
appointment with her in the ferry house
but she was met outside the gates by 9
desperately drunken young man, int,
whose pocket she freely poured her earn
ings, and then she accompanied him in
an apparently contented state of mind
along Fulton gtreet.-N 7. Sun.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-24
A Test for sheep-worry1ng Dogs.

In order that many of our innocent
canine friends may not suffer the ex.
treme penalty for sins they have not
committed, and that no guilty dogs may
escape, we think it worth while to repro
duce the following from the report of
the district veterinary surgeon in Wur-
temburg, as a novel device for discover
ing dogs which have been worrying
sheep. In February of 1874 dog
attacked a flock of sheep and killed
eleven. The shepherd reported the cir
cumstance to veterinary surgeon Oster-
stag, who soon after discovered q dog
which, from its general appearance and
muddy condition, he suspected to be the
culprit. He according resolved to test
his suipicions by giving it an emetic;
the effect of which was to bring up some
flesh and an ear, corresponding to that
of one of the sheep which had been par
TALLY devoured. Another dog was also
suspected, and to this was applied the
same treatment, but the creature only
vomited food of an entirely different
character. In the law court the owner
of the owner of the first dog had to pay
for the whole of the worried sheep.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-24
A Big Tooth.

While excavating for well at the
Mongolia mills, in this city, sixteen feet
under the surface, the miners came in
contact with the remains of some inn.
mensa omnivorous animal. A section
of one of the teeth, supposed to be the
top surface Of one of the lower grinders,
can be seen at our Office. The parts of
the teeth, the bones, and what are sup
posed to be the knee and hip sockets of
the joints were brought up. Only por-
lions of this immense animal were struck,
but the parts of the remains found would
indicate that it was superior in size to
the largest elephant. The inside pith of
the bones is perfect. though the bones are
quite rotten. The tooth, or grinder we
have in our Office measures 203 inches in
circumference, and Al inches across the
surface one way and 81 the other way
Sherman, Teaos, Chronicle.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-24

eral. "But," persisted the volunteer,
{" / haven't seen my wife for more than
year." "And J." said the general,
"have not seen my wife for more than
two years." "Ah," retorted the nndis-
ciplined woodsman, general, / am not
that sort of man." The next day this
representative son Of the greatnorthwest
was on his way home with approval:
George 81. Thomas, major general COM
manding," on the back of his furlough.
- Washington Republic.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-24

Christmas timel The man must be a
misanthrope indeed in whose breast
something like a jovial feeling is not
reused, in his mind some pleasant associa-
tions are not awakened by the recur-
renee of Christmas. Who can be in
sensible to the outpouring of good feel
ing and the honest Interchange of sffec-
ton which abound at this season of the
year?
l have always thought of Christmas
time as kind forgiving, charitable,
pleasant time; the only time in the long
calendar of the year when men and
women seem by one consent to open their
shut up hearts freely, and 70 think of
people below them as if they were really
fellow passengers, and not another race
of other people bound on other journeys.
There seems magic in the name of
Christmas. Petty jealousies and dis
cords are forgotten; kindly hearts that
have yearned toward each other, but
have been withheld by false notions of
pride and dignity, are again reunited
As to the dinner, it is perfectly delight.
ful-nothing goes wrong, and everybody
is in the best of spirits, and disposed to
please and be pleased. Grandpa relates
an account of the purchase of the
turkey; Uncle George tells stories, carves
poultry, takes wine, jokes with the
children at the side-table and winks at
the cousins who are making love, and
when at last servant staggers in, with
a gigantic pudding, there is a laughter,
and shouting and clapping of hands
beyond the power of words to describe.
Then the dessert, the speeches, the songs
and stories, the funl
And thus the evening passes, in a
strain of goodwill and cheerfulness, do.
ing more to awaken sympathy and
perpetuate good feeling than all the
homilies that have ever been written by
all the divines that have ever lived
Charles Dickens.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-24
The Three Lights .

A lad who lives in the mountains near
Turner's on the Erie railway, while peer
ing cut of q window into the darkness
one night not long ago, exclaimed:
" There are three lights, and one of them
is for me. / shall die before long" On
the following Sunday, while he was on
his way home from church, he again
asserted that he was going to die soon.
That afternoon he went into the barn to
look after the stock, and was kicked by q
horse In the breast. On Tuesday he
died from the injuries, The vicious
horse was overwhelmed with remorse or
some kindred feeling, for he Drained him.
self against tree about ten minuftes be-
fore the boy died. This is what the local
chronicler Complementary describes al
a case of Juvenile presentiment and
equine grief.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-24
Among the Romans.

When good Governor s., who is a
most devout Episcopalian, was the chief
magistrate of Kentucky, he was wont to
frequently entertain the members of the
general assembly at the governors man
sion.s To one of these levees came, with
the member from his county, an old
mountaineer who had just reached
Frankfort with the raft of logs which
he had brought down. the Kentucky
river. The old man, who was called
Familiarity "Uncle Johnny" soon be-
came the centre of an admiring group,
to whom his jean clothes were not at all
an improper attire for the governors
levee; and his tongue being loosened by
a glass of sherry wine, which be then
tasted for the first time in his life, he
was entertaining his audience with
stories from "his county," when the
governor approached.
Uncle Johnny, here is the govern
or" said one of the company; and
straightway the old man was silent, for
he was overwhelmed by this first vision
of the majesty of the commonwealth.
SEQ on with your story, Uncle
Johnny" said some one; the governor
will like to hear it,
eyes, 60 on, Uncle Johnny" said the
governor, with kindly smile of en-
enlargement; and the old man, thus con-
vincsd that even the governor was also
q man, concluded his narrative.
Then becoming holder, he ventured to
address the governor, saying, "guvnor, ]
went to your meeting yistiddy, and I seen
whar you SETS"
He had been to the Episcopal church,
and had been shown the governors pew.
"Did you, Uncle Johnny?" responded
Governor S.. And how did you
like itT'
+" Well, guvnor, I never knowed much
what they was a-doin', BAT I ris and fell
uifh 'em erery time" -Harper's Moga
zine
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-24

ence are still observable. The writer
has frequently seen companies of young
lads, grotesquely costumed and provided
with all sorts of odd musical instru-
ments, going the rounds on Christmas
eve, and has witnessed their minstrel
performances in the Railways of private
dwellings in our large cities, which they
invariably concluded by passing round
the hat. The serenaders in such cases,
however, were by no means poor chill
dren, but had undertaken the expedition
quite as much for their own amusement
as for the Christmas money thus col
lected.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-24

A PICTURES o. description of De Witt
Clinton was given recently by the Rev.
DR.. Shaw, of Rochester. The doctor
who was present when Clinton united
Lake Erie with the Hudson-said of the
Politician "Never shall I forget the
picture he made as he stood there at that
time. His hair hung in chestnut curls
about his head; he had clear hazel eyes,
with complexion as fair as woman's.
He was the abandonment, Misunderstanding
man I ever saw-the type of all that
was imposing and dignifed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-24
THE KING IN ELS CRADLE.
BY J. G. HOLLAND,


There's song In the airi
There's star in the skyi
There's mothers deep prayer
And baby's low cryi
And the star rains its fire while the beautiful sing,
For the manger of Bethlehem cradles king.
There's tunult of joy
Ger the wonderful birth,
For the Virgins sweet boy
Is the Lord of the earth.
Ayl the star rains its re and the beautiful sing
For the manger Of Bethlehem cradles king
In the light of that star
Lie the ages impaired;
And that song from afar
Has swept over the world.
Every hearth is afame, and the beautiful sing
In the homes of the nation that Jesusis King.
We rejoice in the light,
And we echo the song
That comes down through the night
From the heavenly ;hrong.
Ayl we shout to the lovely evangel they bring,
And we greet in his cradle our Saviour and King.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-24
s. Not That Sort of a Man"

During a lull in the storm of war, in
which the army of the Cumberland was
almost continually shrouded, a private
soldier of a western regiment made
application for furlough, which was
refused. Not content with the disap-
prevail of his immediate superiors ne
persisted, and finally got himself and bis
application before General Thomas, to
whom he made personal appeal The
general listened patiently to the rugged
Hoosier, and then told him that it was
impossible to grant his reg uest. But, ,,
expostulated the soldier, :" am ma
ried man." So am /, !" replied the gen.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-24

BY PHILLIP o. SULLIVAN.

Maidens, mothers thai may be.
Bring your wreaths to deck the shrine
OF the Mother Maid divine
With her Child upon her knee;
Shout your silvery songs OF praise
For the birth of better days.
Mothers comet nee confessed
In your glances deep and milo
The alteration of the Child.
Come, your children at the breast:
Lift your pray erful songs of praise
For the birth Of better days.
Children. come with confidence,
Seek the bene iiction mild
OF this gentle little Child,
Who was love and innocence;
Lisp your guileless song OF praise
For the birth Of better days,
-Hdrper's Masasiae
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-24

The Utes think that the president is
elected by, and rules over, the whole
world.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-24

CHICAGO kills six hogs for every min.
ute of every day in the year.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-24

Unjust have been rare fun to see the
mummers making their rounds. car
irving at the frs. residence in their way,
they knock at the door," says an account,
" and claim the privilege of Christmas
in the admission of George and his
merry men. First is seen old Father
Christmas, bearing, as emblematic de-
vices, the holy Dough, wassail Dough,
etc. Beside him stands a pretty little
girl, carrying branch of the mistletoe.
Then comes the grand Turk, the gallant
Knight st. George, and the latter's an
tagonist, the devouring dragon. A doc
tor is also presented with large box Of
pills to cure the wounded. Drums and
other music accompany the procession.
Another old custom which is init
mately associated with the ancient OBJ
servance of Christmas was the perform
ances of the Waits" who were at first
court pages, and afterwards town musi-
clans, sometimes employed as watchmen
to call the hour, and sometimes simply
serenaders, who relied upon private lib.
erality for living. Says an old writer
of the Glasgow: GA remnant of this
custom still popularity called waits, yet
exists, in the magistrates annually
granting kind of certificate or diploma
to 8 few musicians, generally blind men
of respectable character, who perambu-
late the streets of the city during the
night and morning for about three weeks
or month previous to New Years day,
in most cases performing on violins, the
slow, soothing airs peculiar to portion
of the old Scottish melodies; and in the
solemn silence of repose the effect is very
fine. At the commencement of the New
Year these men call at the houses of the
inhabitants, and presenting their creden-
tials, receive small subscription" In
the cities of London and Westminster,
even so late as half century ago, the
waits held semi-official position, and
the post of leader of the waits was held
to be so valuable one that in the great
metropolis it could only be obtained by
purchase. This custom, too, has lost all
it's original significance, though both
here and in England traces of It's infu-
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-21
Among the Penguins.

A gentleman who passed some days
sketching in the Falkland Islands had
many opportunities of observing the
penguin population, and he declared
them to be the most intelligent, impu-
dent and inquisitive of the feathered
tribe. He planted his camp.stool in the
densest part of their rookery," where
they crowded about him, picked the
buttons off and frayed the tails of his
coat, walked about his drawing materi.
ais, and altogether behaved themselves
as if he had been sent for their special
entertainment.
Fear there was,none-or, rather, it
was all on the side of the man for moth
ing but an occasional vigorous use of O
walking stick enabled him to maintain
his ground and finish the beautiful
series of water.color drawings.
The structure of these birds should
not be passed by without word of COM
ment, so admirably adapted sit to their
mode OF life. The fore-limbs-which
in most other birds are wings-are fiat
tened out into pair of broad swimming
paddles covered with scales, enabling
the bird to follow its prey beneath the
water with swiftness, grace and ease
contrasting remarkably with its awk-
ward movements on land. The feet are
broad and partially webbed, and the leg
is modified in order to give stability to
the body. Provision is made for long
continued diving by enlargement Of the
veins, which thus retain and act as res
ervoirs for the vitiated blood until it
can be renovated by breathing. The
bones are filed with oily marrow, and
the feathers are exceedingly compact
and well adapted to resist water.
When molting, the penguin avoids
water, and the feathers come away in
patches instead of singly, the whole
process resembling more nearly the
shedding of o snakes skin than the
molting of bird. Fashion has not
spared the penguin at one time its skin
was in great request for ladies' muffs,
and is still, we believe, extensively
used for many purposes of ornamental
tation.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-21
Persian Ladies.

The bath is the greatest pleasure and
luxury-we might just as we'll say neces-
sity of life-of the Persian women.
They spend great part OF their leisure
time there indeed, the Eastern ladies
regard the use of the bath almost in the
light OF a religious duty. The bath
room in Persia is the temple, the news
room, the drawing room, the concert
room, the smoking room-all in one.
The women make appointments to
meet there and they tattle and gossip
away their sweet hours there, sometimes
spending eight hours at time in the
carpeted saloon attached to it-where,
in the bath, they tell stories, relate an
ecdotes, eat sweet-meats, smoke the
narghileh Tor pipe) and embellish their
beautiful forms with all the faucied
projections of the East-dyeing their
hair and eyebrows, and curiously stain
ing their fair bodies with a variety of
fan tastic devices, not unfrequertly with
the figures of trees, birds and beasts,
sun, moon and stars.
The day on which the ceremony of the
bath rises into high, religious exer-
else, according to the Persian women,
is "the last Friday of the blessed
month of Ramazan )" when, according
to their special etiquette, they ought
to dress superbly, and perfume them
selves and put on their best ornaments,
and 60 to the porticoes of the mosques.
There they =" sit down and stretch out
their feet, and every one must light
twelve tapers, and, in doing this, care
must be taken to lift the hand high
above the head, so as raise up the vail,
as if by accident, and thus display their
beautiful faces" All the twelve tapers
must be lighted by each maiden. and
where one of the tapers is left unlight.
ed, it is regarded as an unlucky omen.
" Further, it is not at all necessary,
that, in lighting the tapers, silence
should be observed. On the contrary,
lovely women should always let their
sweet voices be heard" Such is the
law of the Persian sages.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-21
Artificial Diamonds.

The chemists of the present age are
about to renew the experiments made
fifty years ago to manufacture diamonds
not limitations or substitutes, but the
genuine article. NJ. Gannal, q distin-
guished French scientist, presented to
the French Academy of Sciences in 1928,
paper on this subject, containing an
account of some interesting experiments
that promised success. The paper was
referred to committee, and nothing
further was ever heard of it. DIR. Gan
nal is now dead, but his sons, discover
ing the paper among their fathers doc
uments, now send a copy to the academy
with view to having the experiment
renewed. 1t seems that in making
some experiments with carhuret of sui
phur, the idea occurred to DR.. Gannal
that the carbon might be separated from
it in the crystalline form. He therefore
took certain quantity of the car
buret, poured little water on the
top of it, and then carefully introduced
some stick phosphorus. The latter i'm
mediately dissolved, with the formation
of three separate layers. phosphorus at
the bottom, carburet of sulphur in the
uuu WdtCI tuO AlUCL u
time he noticed that sort of hlm was
formed between the two latter layers,
and when exposed to the sunlight it
was iridescent. After the experiment
had been in progress three months,
sudden fall in the temperature froze the
water, split the glass, and the contents
were thus lost. He again began his ex-
periments, but as each one required six
months to carry out, and as the numer-
GUS accidents to which they we're liable
continually interfered with their sue
cess, he finally abandoned his efforts.
However, in the course Of his expert
ments he had been able to procure some
minute crystals, which lie submitted to
an eminent jeweler, who tested them by
the microscope and other means, and
decided that they had the true fire, wa
ter and hardness of the diamond more
over, on being subjected to the blow
pipe, they left no ash. This is undoubt-
eddy the age in which to develop such
discovery. The age of the telephone,
photograph, microphone and a thousand
other useful and brilliant inventions
will find new uses for the diamond even
if it becomes as plentiful as gold and
silver. -Burlington HdDkeye.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-21

A Few DoN'Ts.-When you are ont
to dinner, or tea, and the hostess invites
you to the table, don't wait for the in
vitation to be repeated, as it is not only
impolite on the part of the guests, but
many of the tempting dishes lose their
relish. had company few days
since, and they were called three times
before they made their appearance in
the dining-room.
When you are out calling with one
of your thirsty children-and this is
their usual condition - your friend
kindly offers to get you glass, don't
say 1.-The dipper is good enough, don't
trouble yourself" This is no trouble
to the neat housekeeper, for she has q
strong preference that you use the glass,
for various reasons.
When you have spent day with q
friend who does her own work, and she
has exerted every nerve for your pleas
ure, after she has washed her china, and
her work done up, don't expect her to
sit at the piano or organ all the evening
and play until she is ready to fall from
the stool. And during the day unless
invited by her) don't 60 into her kitchen
and ask hundred questions. There
are very few whom we welcome in our
kitchen. Old-fashioned housekeepers
seldom do this, only those who depend
upon girls know the terrible annoyance
OF this intrusion.