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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-04-23
A Snail that Would not Starye.

An Egyptian desert snail was receiv-
ed at the British Museum on March 25,
1916. The animal was not known to
be alive, as it had withdrawn into its
shell, and the specimen was according
ly gummed, mouth downward. on to a
tablet, duly labeled and dated. and left
to its fate. Instead Of starving, this
contented gasteropod simply went to
sleep in a quiet way, and never woke
up again for four years. The tablet was
then placed in tepid water and the shell
loosened, when the dormant snail sud-
denly resuscitated himself, began walk
ing about the basin, and finally sat for
his portrait, which may be seer of life
size in Mr.. Woodward's Manual of the
Mollusca.'' Now, during those four
years the snail had never eaten a
mouthful of any food, yet he was quite
as we'll and fourishing at the end of the
period as he had been at its beginning.
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CHEWING GUN.

Among the quiet little manufactures of
the country is that of chewing gum. Only
ono factory exists in New York aud the
few others are in New England, New York
State, Ohio Illinois, aud Tennessee. The
gum is sold by druggists, grocers aud con-
frciiHners in cities, and the country grocery
that hasn't IT is considered incomplete
Gum from spruce trees was exclusively
used until recently, when it found a rival
IN gum mastic, a white and attractive arti-
Gle made from parafiine. which is sweet
ened. The consumption of this chewing
gum in the United States is about thirty
tons yearly: that Of spruce gum somewh at
less, ami that OF gum made in Tennessee
from balsam tolu, aud sold in the Southern
states, about twenty tons. Lately a ma
terial has been used styled rubber gum "
and Central America. The sap, like that
of the India rubber tree, has a milky look.
The gum was first imported into the United
states with a view of melting il with India
Gle than the latter. 1t was found to be
lmpliablc and therefore useless for that
purpose. 1t had long been chewed by the
>nnth aud Central America Indians and
found useful in allaying thirst. Expert.
ments were, therefore, made in purifying il
Tor chewing and with final success 1t is
tasteless, and has the merit of lasting
longer than other gums, which more
quickly dissolve and crumble in the mouth
- great is its duc,ility that piece half an
inch, which after being heated in the
mouth, can be stretched into a thread a
hundred feet long. Its consumption is
about fifty tons year. Chewing gum
does not, like tobacco, require that the
saliva shall be expectorated; it does not,
like smoke, excite the nerves, nor like a
smperabundance Of food or drink, hurtfully
overload the stomach.
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GLEANINt;S.

Oak is stronger than iron Of the same
weight.
-" Cultured oysters - arc announced for
sale at Washington restaurant.
Mr.. Jones will please take the chair
as Mrs. Jones said when they were moving.
London has l3. 500 cahmeu. among
them being lawyers, clergymeu, and doc
tors, and one real lord
Some readers do not thoroughly appre-
ciate Job. The Pacific Islanders would.
They like boiled man
Every married man should join some
good society, and as good as any is the
society of his wife and children.
The days have come when the one
thing harder than getting into bed at night
is the getting out in the morning
Dried leaves of the lemon-verbena
are used in Spain Tor making Il tea which
is taken for nervousness and indigestion.
A Western lawyer included in his bill
against his client: " To wax ing up in the
night ard thinking about your case, So
=" wish you merry kiss, miss" said
Jones, as he folded his girl in his arms and
brushed the caramel dust of her lips with
his moustache.
"A Missouri woman keeps up bar in
her house for her husband TO patronIze; and
IN this way keeps him at home besides get
ting all his money.
One reason why the Office doesn't seek
the man IN this country is because it can't
lily over the heads of the hungry crowd
standing around it.
William Hassctt. of Newton, Mass,
has been sued for the cost of his own grave
stone, which he ordered a year ago i'll an
ticipation Of an early death.
Thousands of tramps have arrived in
the South for the Winter, and around
Atlanta, Ga, no householder responds to
ling of the door bell at night without car
ryIng with him a shot gun.
An English gentleman writes to the
Tunes protesting against what he calls the
nuisance of ministers giving their con
gregations. in the shape OF rermons. the
condensation of the weeks views Of their
particular news organ.
An Irish gentleman declares that he
has never found Freuchman who could
pronounce this: -'.Thimbcrig Thistlewaite
thievlshly thought to thrive through thick
and thin by throwing his thimbles about:
but lie was thwartcd and thwackcd and
ihumped and thrashed with thirty-lhree
thousand thistles and thorns for thievishly
thinking to thrive through thick and thin
by throwing his thimbies about''
No. don't learn trade, young mar.
You might soil your hands. wilt your shirt
collar and spoil your complexion. sweating.
Go hang your chin over counter; learn TO
talk twaddic To the ladies'; part Your hair
IN the middle; make an ass Of yourself
generally, and work for wages that wouldrl',
support Chinese lauudrymau on uice-fed
rats, and leave a big enough balance to pay
his washer woman, Just because its a little
more genteel in TIE eyes of the people
whose pride prevents them from pounding
non or hewing wood. and whose poverty
p,nches verse than one of those patent
cross legged clothes pins if the truth were
only told.
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LORENZO DOW.

Lorenzo Dow. it is said. was on his way
TO preach IN South Carolina, when under Il
large spruce tree he overlook. a colored lad
who was blowing large tin horn, and
would send forth a blast with rise, and
swell, and cadence. which walked the echoes
of the distant hills. Calling aside the
blower, Dow said to him: What's your
name. sir >" Ny name-Gabriel, sir. -
said the brother in ebony. Well, Ga.
bfiel, have you been 10 Church Hilla''-
" Yes massa, Use been dar many a time. !"
DO you remember big spruce pine tree
on the hiil?" oh, yes, massa, knows
dat pine tree " Did you know that L.or
EMO Dow had an appointment to preach
under that tree to morrow >" "On, yes,
massa, everybody knows dat" We'll.
Gabriel, am Lorenzo Dow, and if you'll
take your horn and go to- morrow morning
and climb up into that pine tree and b de
yourself among the branches before the
people begin To gather, and wait there till
] call your name and blow such blast
with your horn as heard you blow a
minute ago, Ill give you a dollar Will
you do II, Gabriel ,? =. Yes, massa, take
dat dollar He hid away in due time An
immense concoursc of persons of all sizes
and coloIs assembled a; the appointed hour
and Dow preached on the judgment of the
last day. BY his powers of description he
wrought the multitude up to the opening
OF the scenes of the resurrection aud grand
assize, at the call of ih. trumpet peals
which were TO wake the sleeping nations
Then, said he, "suppose. my dying
friends, suppose, you should hear, at this
moment, the sound of GabIiels trumpet
Sure enough, At that moment the trumpet
ut Gabriel sounded. The women shrieked
and many tainted; the men sprung up and
looked aghast: some ian; others fell and
cried for mercy; and all felt for a time
that the judgment was set and the books
were opened. Dow stood and watched the
drifting storm, till the fright abated and
some one discovered the colored angel who
had caused the alarm, quietly perched on a
limb of the old spruce, and wanted to get
him down to whip him. Then he resumed
his theme, saying. II forbid all persons
present from touching that boy up there.
If colored boy with a tin horn can
brighten you almost out of your wits, what
will you do when you shall hear the trum-
let thunder of the arehangel? How will
you be able to stand in the great day of
the wrath of God ~
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pencd some time previous Ia the wear
lI9l, for the records of the county
show that in that year Peter Angus
tus Bouchell. who was Of an ancient
family that probably came 10 the Manor
while the I.abadists were in the hcvdav
of their power aud prosperity. and who
had married Catharinc Herman. the
sister of the simple, minded woman, and
John Augustine Lawson, jointly leased
several plantations on the Manor
These two persons. the reader will
observe. both assumed the name Of
Augustine. in accordance with the
will of their wives great grandfather
Young Herman, the half-brolhc of these
ladies, being dead they were or were
supposed to bc-;he sole and righiful
heirs of the Manor. which then was
divided into upwards of IF V planta
tons, most of which had been leased
by former proprietors, for long terms of
wears. for what now would be consider
Ell very low rents. These rents were
generally made payable at the Manor
house, srmi-annuallv. at Christmas aud
Whitsuntidc. All, or large number
OF them, Wee payable in grain or to-
bacco, and frequently pair of good
fat capous or dung hill fowls were add
ed as part of the rent. so that the table
of the lord Of the Manor might he well
supplied with poultry.
The widow of Ephraim \ Herman
(then Mrs. Ca,to) was living at this
time and was in the endowment of her
share of the income derived from the
Manor During the life Of Catharine.
her husband. Peter Bouchcll. las ap.
pears from bill filed in the Court OF
Chancery, by Joseph Ensor, in 1860. a
copy Of which is in possession of the
Maryland Historical Society received
the rents from the lcsSees of the Manor
plantations. and kept the accounts incl
dent TO the business transactions be-
tween himself and the other heirs.
whose agent lie seems To have been
aud the tenants. GULF.
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THE RATS OF NEW YORK.

The curse of New York flats is the rats,
particularly those flats so called. built over
blocks or stores. 4 few years ago took
and furnished one of these flats ut rate of
800 per month. In few months the cook
came in terrified. A rat had burst out of
the sink, squeezing itself through the mar
row lead drain. pire, aud exploding out
ward as if gunpowdcr had fired it, They
climbed in the windows of the kitchen, and
ranged up and down the passage way, fairly
hallowing with joy. One night barred
my bedroom, and all night heard the rats
scratching To get in. Next morning
found that they had torn up the carpet
with their teeth bit the corner Of the
doors and gnawed the Venetian blind stats
To pieces. packed up and departed.
These rodents of New York have con-
stantly growing teeth, popular substance
being at the root, which feeds the teeth as
the top is worn Off 10y friction. II the rat
breaks the upper tooth, the lower grows
forward, fills up the gap. and like sword,
pierces the unopposinc jaw. Our common
brown rat is supposed TO have originated
in Norway, and thence to have passed over
The globe III every ship ho could get passage
on. There used To be rat in England
different from the Norway chap. but the
latter soon drove him out. The city rat is
almost as fierce as a wolf, and acts in com
bination like wolves.
They arc cannibals, and eat their own
wounded companions; rat caught in I
trap by the leg is very often assaulted and
killed by his associates, and the foot re-
manning IN the trap is often supposed by
the ignorant To Indicate that the animal
chewed eff his own leg. The male rats
outnumber the female, as in the electoral
commission, when there were eight to
seven. There are really eight male rats to
three or four female; it is supposed that
the delicate flesh of the female rat tempts
her gallants, and by keeping down the
number of females they keep down their
species, much to the pleasure of mankind.
Rats suffer much for water, and the com
mon way of killing them in New York is
To give them phosphorus, when they burn
inside and run and howl until they die
Livery stable men here say that rats have
been known to nibble the horn of 4 horses
hoof, and to guaw the callous soles of dogs
feet while the dogs slept. The female rat,
nevertheless, is an afrectiouate mother,
aud has to fight the rat. who wants to
make a meal of the children.
Yet rats are exceedingly clean. and wash
themselves after every meal; they are also
epicures, and when there is good meat and
bad, will eat the good aud leave the indif
fereut. Sometimes naval vessels undertake
to purge themselves of rats by means of
chatting pans filled with birthstone, and often
the rats run along the cables attaching the
vessels to the shore, and have To he knock ed
OIL with Il billet of wood The black rat
was driven out of the English colonies by
the brown rat. which stole all his females
and bred upon them until all the black rats
turned brown
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LADY MACBETH'S DRUNKENNESS.

1t has been a source of wonder TO readers
Of Shakespeare that it could lie possible for
a woman who certainly possessed many of
the graees of her sex, and was not of a mas
culine nature, to enact with such horrid
GOODNESS as Lady Macbeth shows, the scene
with the daggers and that following, in the
presence of the murdered Duucan's retinue
Her referouce tie her motherhood, in the
lines:
i have given suck. and know
How tender tbs TO nurse the babe that milks
me;
| would. while il was smiling in my face,
Have plucksd my nipple from his homeless
gums,
And dashed the brains out, had SO sworn,
As you have doue 10 this;
and her remark,
Had he not resembled
Ny father as he slept, had done't,
show her TO have been too sensitive to the
holiest sentiments of filial and parental
piet,' 10 have perperrated or assisted in so
ugly 4 heed as tho deep damnation of Dun
cams taking off, without such stimulation
as persons of her nervous and active tenn.
permanent are accustomed TO resort to in
times of unusual cxertion. Her impres
sonable feminine nature is betrayed no
less in the impetuosity Of her resolve and
it's execution than in her vacillation when
she attempts TO screw her courage to the
sticking place which is no less than her
husbands wavering, although manifested
differently. and her acute and never dying
IemoIse after the excitement OF the mo.
alent has passed. aud the reaction, physi-
cal aud mental, takes place. More fearful
thoughts enter her mind than are suggested
10 her lord. Amid all Macbeth's fear, no
such terrible image occurs TO him this:
These things must not be thought
After these ways; SO. 1t will make us mad
All this is the result, apparently, of 4
kEgh-struug disposition, weakened by i'll
.tsIlgcnce in alcoholic drink: for, if we had
TlAc space. We could show that her behavior
- a series of symptoms like those observed
bs physicians in persons suffering from
rr:.d forms of alcoholism. This aspect Il
ber character is suggested, If not confirmed,
by her own words at the most critical mo
zncnt of the crime:
That which hath made them drunk, hath
made me bold;
What hath quenched them hath given me
fire.
Ia, hrs a hat hnt
ing an exceedingly nervous organism. sh,
is driven to desperate aud half maniaca
| boldness by the same drink which la,
dulled the senses of the sluggish biooded
! beth does not drink any thing, but depends
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STUDYING NATURAL PHILosoI.Hy.-OIs'
heyser found Cooley's boy starding in a
suspicious position under his best apple
tree, with a stick in his ha'ld, and a Ger
tain bu!gy appearance about his pockets.
Having secured him firmly by the collar.
keyser shook him up bit. and then asked
him sternly what he was dong there.
Amt doin' nothing" said Cooley:
- came over yer to study"
That's entirely too thin" exclaimed
keyser.
a. Yes, did; came over here TO study
about Sir Isaac We had i, in our own
lesson. He was in an orchard and saw an
apple TAIL, and that made him invent the
traction OF gravitat; and come yer to see
if it was So
1t won't do, sonnie," said Keyser
- on re too enthusiastic about Sir Isaac
and besides, what were you going TO do
with the stick -
with this stick, This yer stick. What
was goin' To do with this stick. Why A
boy gave me this stick to hold for him
while lie went on an errand for his aunt"
And where did that apple core co. u,
from there on the ground -
That apple cose, That on. LAYING
there. The buds are awful on apples.
saw biack1ird arop that there, an say.
to myself. them birds arc just euiniu' NJ
keysers apphs.''
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GENIUS IN LABEIs.-An old newspaper
man from Ohio has started drug store in
Detroit, and 4 local paper, commenting on
his Innovation, remarks that he " i'll either
be 4 millionaire within the next three years
or bust in less than six mouths. His
story is very cheerful. Skulls, crucibes,
fnrceps, chromos, false teeth, bones. alma
macs, parrots, and sticks of liquorice are
scattered around in delightful profusiou,
and there isn't drawer or bottle without
an original label. On one drawer he has:
= Glue she sticks right by you, no matter
what the weather." On another: Cop
peras = Eat slow aud chew fine On an
other: Paris green Sure in its operation,
bottle reads. " Buy some of me and stop
that blamed cough" OF another. I'm
Sal. Peter-who are you ~ On another,
Prussic acid-Dou't fool around with a
revolver" Hanging against the wall is a
beautiful sign, which reads, " If you don t
want to ask for 4 fine tooth comb, point
your finger at mo-. At the back end of
the store is still Larger sign. and it bears
the tender sent iment: - There is no flock
without its missing lamb. Sometimes you
lind him in the bedstead. | keep the stuff
10 make him weary of life. Don't ask for
bed bug poison, but call it the Lost Lamb
Restorative. shall know what you mean. ="
The 'front.' of the store bears some happy
thoughts. Among them is one reading:
"Walk right in here, if you had buck
wheat cakes for breakfast last Winter"
Another says: . | can cure that red nose in
Just fifteen days" \ third reads: =. Y GU
men with the catarrh, please step this way"
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STEALING EXTRAORDINARY.

Many readers will remember the painful
anxiety of the public in the early days of
October, 1854, when hope for the safety of
the steamship Arctic faded gradually out
On tho night of October 10th, George H.
Burns, a survivor of the lost ship, reached
New York, and went to the Herald, know
ing that paper paid well for news His
narrative was taken, and got i'll type at a
late hour-after 3 o'clock The Herald )
plan was to withhold their city circulation
until an hour at which no other shee, could
reprint ,hc story from it's columns. A
rumor of the arrival Of Il survivor reached
the city editor of the Times, but his most
trusty reporters worked until after > A. NJ,
and found nothing reliable. The forms of
the Times were closed, and the city editor
started for home, disheartened, and every
nerve strained to painful tension over the
defeat.
\ few blocks were passed when a man
jumped on a street car. He was sufficiently
intoxicated to attempt familiarity with the
conductor. The quick ears of the city edi.
tor caught the words Arctic eraid-only
man. II was enough. He left the car, ran
at the top of his speed to the Times office,
and shouted, out of breath, stop the
press 4 young man named South was
called from the press room and promised
$50 if he would get the first copy of the
Herald that came on Their presses. d" Buy
II, beg it, steal it, anything SO long as you
get 1t, exclaimed the city editor. All the
Times compositors were routed out Of their
beds by messengers, and stood at their
cases, sticks in hand, like an army sure OF
speedy aud glorious victory. Forty min
utes after the press was stopped. South
came into the composing room waving the
wet sheet Of the next mornings Herald
overhead. A mighty shout arose. The
story was given out in four line takes -
In au hour it was up and the presses again
set to work. They run without intsrmis
sion until , O'Clock in the afternoon to sup
( ply the demand. The Herald not discov
ering the theft Of the one paper, adhered
To the plan Of Withholding the city paper,
until O'Clock, and then found the heavy
edition on their hands. South got his $50
and the salary of the city editor was ad
yanced.
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upon his iron will to accomplish his pur

upon his iron will to accomplish his pur-
pose.
1t is hardly necessary to refer to Lady
Macbeth questions,
Was the hone drunk
Wherein you dressed yourself? hath it slept
since?
And wakes it now, to look so green and
pale
At what it did SO freely?
To her other references to things associated
with intoIication, and to her attack of what
seems to be kind of delirium resulting
from the overcharging of the blood vessels
Of the brain, caused usually by strong drink,
to convince our readers that Lady Macbeth
was fam iliar, from habit, with tn. effects
of indulgence in alcohol, and that it was TO
its stimulating power that she owed her
courage on that awful night.
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HINTS on SOCIETY MANNERS.

Never stare 4. any one.
Ladies cannot talk or call across a street.
ance.
4 bow should never be accompanied by
4 smile.
Where an introduction is for dancing,
there is no shaking of hands.
Ladies, knowing each other 10y sight,
bow after an axchaEge of cards.
Drawing of the glove before shaking
hands with lady is not required.
The inclination OF the head only. not the
body is required in bowling.
1t is c,vility to return bow. although
you do not know the one who is bowling TO
you.
4 married lady should extend her hand
to a stranger brought to her house by a
common friend.
In prumenades, 4 gentleman keeps to the
left of lady, to \ protect her from jostling
elbows.
When a gentleman is introduced to a
lady, both bow slightly, and the gentleman
opens conversation.
A lady cannot take the arms of two
gentlemen, nor should two ladies take each
one arm Of gentleman.
4 gentleman should not shake hands
with a lady unless she proffers her hand,
when he should reciproca,e instantly
A gentleman walking with a lady returns
bow made to her, although the one bow
ing is an entire stranger Ia liim
1t is not considered a lady's place to bow
first TO gentleman. Immediately on
recognition, salutation should oe mutual.
A gentleman when stopped 10y lady
turns and walks with her; he is not obliged
to escort her home, but leave. without
apology.
lady may permit gentleman who is
walking with her 10 carry any very small
parcel that she has but never more than
one
In bowling to a lady the hat is lifted
slightly from the head; betwee gentlemen
the touching Of tha hat or the gesture of
the hand is sufficient.
The person introduced makes the first
remark. When introduced. II is great
want Of good breeding not to enter at
once into conversation.
1t is not customary to introduce residents,
unless the hostess knows that an introduc-
ton will be agreeable to both IA tics
Strangers in the city are introduced.
Ladies and gentlemen are privilege d to
speak to each other, in the drawinp.ro IN
of a common friend, without any introdn c.
ton, though gentlemen usually perfer {,
ask for introduction.
well-bred person instinctively bows the
moment lie recognizes an acquaintance, at
the first meeting of the eyes. Any one
who has been introduced is entitled to this
mark of respect.
In introducing, the gentleman sho uld be
presented to the lady, the younger ady to
the elder. The word " introduced " is pre-
ferred to present. The least formal
merely mention the names, "Mr,--, Mrs.