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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-14
Deaths of Kings and Queens OF England

William the Conqueror, died from
enormous fat, from drink and from the
violence of his passions.
William Rufus died the death of the
poor stays which he hunted.
Henry [. died of gluttony.
Henry IL died of broken heart, occa-
stoned by bad conduct of his children.
Richard Ceur de Lion, like the ami.
NAL from which his heart was named,
died by an arrow from an archer.
John died, nobody knows how, but ii
is said from chagrin, which we suppose
is another name for hellebore.
Henry III. is said to have died "nat-
ural DEATH"
Edward l. is said to have died of a
natural sickness"--a sickness which
would puzzle all the college physicians
to denominate.
Edward IT, was barbarously and in
decently murdered by rufians employed
by his own wife and her paramour.
Edward LII. died of dotage, and
Richard II. of starvation-the very re.
verse of George ".
Henry ". is said to have died Of fits
caused by uneasiness, and uneasiness
in palaces in those times was very
common complaint.
Henry V. is said to have died of 3
painful aff1iction, prematurely. This is
courtly term for getting rid of King.
Henry VI. died in prison, by means
known then only to his jailer, and now
only in heaven.
Edward V. was strangled by his uncle.
Richard III.
Richard III. was killed in battle
Henry VII. wasted away, as misel
ought to.
Henry VIII. died of carbuncles and
fury.
T. Edward VI. died of decline.
Queen Mary is said to have died of g
broken heart.
Old Queen Bess is said to have died
Essex to his enemies. =.
effects of vice.
Charles I. died on the scaffold.
Charles IL. died suddenly-it is said
of apoplexy.
William III. died of consumptive
habits of body and from the stumbling
of his horse.
Queen Anne died from dropsy.
! George |. died from drunkenness
which his physicians politely called an
apoleptic fit
George H. died of rupture of the
heart, which the periodicals of that day
termed visitation of God.
| George III. died as he had lived-a
mailman. Throughout life, he was at
| least consistent monarch.
George ". died of gluttony and
! drunkenness.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-14
Alaska.

The word Al-ak-shak means "the great
land" and correctly describes the coun-
try. 1t is great territorially. From the
eastern boundary to the island of Alton,
the extreme western limit is 2,200 miles
in an airline. According to Prof. Guy
ott, this island is as far west of San Fran
cisco as Maine is east. Consequently be-
tween the extreme east and west of the
| United States, San Francisco is middle
city.
The coast lines of Alaska, followed up
and down the bays and inlets, are about
| 10000 miles, or once around the Globe.
Its total area is about as large as all of
the United States that lie east of the
Mississippi river and north of the Caro-
llnas and Alabama. It's great river, the
Yukon, is over 1000 miles long, an6 navi-
gable for steamers rom 1 800 to 1900
miles, with varying width from ono to
five miles, along the course. It is 20
miles across the delta of it's five mouths.
Alaska has the greatest mountain peak
on the continent-Mount st. Elias, 49,
500 feet in height 1t is the great island
! region of the United States, containing
an aggregate area of over 81 900 square
miles, equal to the size of some of our
important states. 1t contains GA volca-
noes, ten of which send forth fire and
melted rock.
The seal fisheries make Alaska q val
liable possession; then the furs of the
fox, martin, mink, beaver, otter and
other animals make it worth having
Its fisheries alone are worth all it cost ;
the cod, salmon, halibut and herring be
ing there in inexhaustible quantities.
Its mineral resources will some day at
tract a large population and prove to the
world that Alaska was no barren pur-
chase.
The great surprise in connection with
Alaska is the mild winter climate of the
northern Pacific Coast. The great Japan
current of the Pacific that gives Oregon
and California their winter climate first
strikes the shores Of our North American
continent at the western end of the
Aleutian islands, and imparts it's greater
heat to the Alaska coast Consequently
whilo in the northern latitude, it yet
has warmer climate than New York
City.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-14
Registered Ahead OF Time.

Last Tuesday afternoon, young man
escorted geod-looking young girl into
the 1Etna House office. He was greenly
fair, and she had sensible, wholesome
German face.
Can I-can We-get room here-for
all night2" he enquired of the clerk,
casting glance full of solicitude and
anxiety towards the young lady who
crimsoned slightly and looked towards
the window.
The clerk turned the register on the
counter, and replied= Certainly; regis
ter your name andsI will show you to q
~oom."
"Please write it yourself" said the
stranger, pushing the book toward the
clerk
"What name?" asked the clerk, plac-
ing the blotter under his right hand.
johnson il j Johnson = and-yes-
md wife, Lincoln, Illinois"
The girl with the crimson cheeks cast
q look of divine reprimand towards her
escorted them to room No. 6, where he
eft the pair, returning to the Office with
:. cynical look about the left eye
Presently the troubled young man re-
turned to the Office, button-holed boy,
kho went hurriedly down the street.
A few minutes thereafter, Justice WILDER
entered the Office and enquired for Mr..
Johnson. He was shown to room No. 6,
and as soon as the brief statutory ques-
tons and answers could be made, the
crimson young lady was really made Mrs.
Johnson. The cynical look departed
from tho clerks eye-there was no long
CIR doubt about the integrity of the ho-
tel register.
Mr.. and Mrs. Johnson left the city yes
terday, taking the train for Chicago.
DanviHe News.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-14
JayaneSe Mechanics,

The Island of Java, in the East Indian
archipelago, is under the government of
Holland AT Surabaya the government
has large machine shop where many
castings are made, but where the chief
business is the manufacture of steam
boilers for the navy. A travelerdescribes
this establishment, in which over nine
hundred Javanese were laboring vol
UNFAIRLY. The Javanese are ofthe Malay
race, and most of the overseers are ma
tive, but few Europeans peing employed
IN the whole works. These Malays per-
form their allotted tasks quietly and
steadily, without loud talking or unneces-
sary noise. Some of them are SO skillful
that they receive nearly two guilders, or
% cents, per day. Here the standard
weights and measures for the govern
ment are made. Some Of the workmen
had been in the shops as long as fifty
seven years. This is all the more re-
markable, because these natives are
usually unable to labor at the age of
th1rty-five or forty, on account of their
absolute habits. Most of their machin-
cry is not as nicely finished as that i'm
ported from Europe, but it appears quite
as durable. Yet the fact that the JAY
anese have the capacity to do some nice
work was proved by one in charge of
the engraving department, whose fine
cut lines would have been creditable to
many a European.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-14
About Nutmegs.

Nutmegs grow on little trees which look
some like pear trees, and are generally
over twenty feet high. The flowers are
very much like the lily of the valley.
They are pale yellow and very fragrant.
The nutmeg is the seed of the fruit, and
mace is the thin covering over this
seed. The fruit is about as large as a
peach. When ripe it breaks open and
shows the little nut inside. The trees
grow on the island of Asia and in trop-
ical America. They bear fruit for seven
ty or eighty years, having ripe fruit up
on them at all seasons. A fine tree in
Jamaica has over 1000 nutmegs on it
yearly.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-14
A Chinese Military Review.

A Chinese review is thus described by
a correspondent of the Shanghai Courier.
The men, clad in uniforms Of red and
blue, were ranged in two ranks, every
tenth man holding flag, while the SER
geant in the middle gave the time to ad-
vance by waving huge crimson STAN
dard. At the sound Of horn. which
resembled the humming of gigantic
bee, the battalion prepared to receive
cavalry. Out popped soldier brandish-
ing pike, which he poked at an imagi-
nary assailant, then uttering a shrek
like an owl, he fourished his shield.
turned somersault, and trippingly re-
tired to the ranks. When everybody
had popped out, brandished and boxed
his pike, shrieked like an owl, thrown a.
somersault, and retired, the big horn
hummed once more, the soldiers formed
IN square, and one of them danced
gravely but theoretically forward, throw
ing out his right leg with graceful jerk;
then bounding backward, he again
danced forward, this time throwing out
the left. Then he jumped, he waltzed.
he capered, he pranced, he turned head
over heels, rolled himself well in the
dust, (which rose in clouds), stood on the
back OF his neck while he flourished his
legs III the air, recovered himself. grasp
ing wildly with his arms at nothing in
particular, made grotesque courtesy to
the Nlceroy, and retired. With this mar
tlal spectacle the review concluded.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-14

The state of Illinois has had three cap.
itals. The first was Kaskaskia, at the
mouth of the Okaw River, which was
established as the provincial headquar-
ters as early as 1858, and continued the
territorial capital until 1910, when by an
act of the general assembly the present
site of Vandalia, then wilderness, was
selected, and state-house and other
necessary buildings constructed, at
cost of about $50, 900. On Feb. IS, 1887,
the capital was removed to Springfield,
and 100000 used in erecting necessary
buildings, which have since been aban-
aoned for the stately structure, costing
millions, which is yet'uncomp1eted.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-14
The gay and festive soda-fount

The gay and festive soda-fount
Now sizzles in the land,
And Deacon and good Mrs. Jones,
Around the counter stand,
The lady's gentle nectaTine
Within the glass is fzzin'; :.
The deacon slyly Winks and says
He'll take "the same" in his'n.
A new clerk in drug store was dis
charged the other day because he didn't
know how to look wise, roll his eyes,
and say seventy-five cents without turn
ing red in the face as he handed out a
little powder that had cost the concern
two cents and fraction. Emotion and
business don't jingle.
A colored child had a fall from sec
ond-story window the other day, and
his mother in relating the occurrence
at a grocery, said "Dere dat chile was
a comm down feet fust, wild cherry
chance of bein killed, when de Lawd, he
turned him ODER, de chile struck on his
head, and dar wasn't so much as but
ton flew off," i
The melancholy days have come, the
saddest of the year; the husband wears
an injured look-house cleaning time is
here. The wife goes madly tearing
round with scrubbing brush and broom
the dull and sombre thud of mops is
heard in every room. Now with wild
and frightened glare-a glare devoid of
hope, the husband tumbles down the
stairs upon cake of soap, or with an
awkward, clumsy flop and with a smoth-
cred wall, he trips DER some protruding
mop and sits down in pail.
The following is said to be funeral
sermon lately peached in Ohio, by a.
Buckeye clergyman II have been beg
ged, importuned and entreated to preach
this 'ere sermon, but I don't want to
do it. / never liked the man / never
knew nothing good Of him. He had
horses, and he run them; he had
cocks, and he fit them. I have heard he
was occasionally good at fires. The bear
2rs will please remove the body and sing
he following hymn:
With rapture we delight
To see the cuss removed.
It was at a revival meeting in Horkin-
lon, Iowa, Several had related their ex-
perience. Mr.. w. was called. He arose
and spoke as follows: brothers and
sisters-you all know why I joined the
church last winter. Shortly after came
out on the Lords side, man, one of the
devils agents, offered to bet five dollars
that would not hold out a year. l
covered that oct with five dollars. The
time isn't quite up yet, but will be in
two weeks. Five dollars will come good
to man these hard times. Thank the
Lord. Brothers and sisters, if any OF
you should see any man who wants to
invest any money in the same way, just
send him on. Pray that remain faith,
full"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-14

Save the root of the celery plant, dry
and CRATE it, mixing it with one-third as
much salt. Keep in bottle well
corked. 1t isdelicious for soups, oysters,
gravies, or hashes.
To wash quilts, comfortables, tickings,
ackings, ETC., soak in pure cold water "a
hours or more, then rub through warm
water with little soap, and rinse well.
1t is worth trying.
Carbonate of soda wet and applied ex-
ternally to the bite of spider, or any
7enomous creature, will neutralize the
poisonous effect almost instantly. 1t
acts like charm in case of snake bite.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-14

THE OHIO MORMON TEMPLE.-The Nor
mon church which Joseph Smith built
at Kirkland, Ohio, in 1884, is now owned
by Smiths descendants, and is rented
for lectures, dances, and exhibitions of
all kinds. This first Mormon temple is
a massive stone structure, four stories in
height, and surmounted by tower over
looking all the country around. Tt was
solidly and durably built by the Nor
mons themselves, of roughly hewn sand
stone, from plans Smith claimed to have
received in vision, and is still quite well
preserved.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-14

When boy walks with girl as if
he were ashamed, and afraid some one
would see him, the girl is his sister. If
he walks so close to her as to nearly
crowd her against the feuce, she is the
sister of some one else.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-14

Honest and courageous people have
very little to say about either their
courage or their honesty. The sun has
no need to boast of his brightness nor
the moon of her effulgence.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-14

Sincerity is speaking as we think, be-
ieving as we pretend, acting as we pro-
fess, performing as we promise, and
beirg as we appear to be.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-14
4 Popular DelusiOn.

a great many persons have an idea
that it is unlawful to touch or attempt to
aid man found dead or dying, and that
the first duty is to notify some official.
Lives have been sacrificed under this
delusion. The first duty is to render
every possible aid, and then promptly to
make the facts known to the authorities.
The contrary idea has been obtained
from the laws of other nations, which
are as absurd as they are inhuman. Re-
ferring to the law of Russia in this mat
ter, an eastern exchange says:
Among the most extraordinary of the
tyrannical regulations of the Russian
police is one which strictly forbids any
one to touch dead or dying man with
out the direct sanction of the police. In
consequence of this arbitrary enactment,
it is no uncommon thing to see a man
lying bleeding and helpless from a very
severe fall in the streets of Moscow or
ST. Petersburg, without anybody daring
to assist him.
To what an extent this curious tyranny
is carried, may be judged from a single
instance. An English gentleman resid-
ing at Peterhof, a coast-town about six
teen miles from st. Petersburg, one morn.
ing found his Russian groom hanging by
the neck in the stable, and cut him down
at once, just in time to save his life. The
next Gay he received visit from the
local Inspector OF Police, who, far from
commencing his prompt humanity, We
hemently abused him for daring to trans
gress the law.
The Englishman heard him to the end
without word and then said, quietly:
We'll, Mr.. Inspector, I'm extremely
sorry to have done anything, but will
make all the amends in my power. If
| find you hanging anywhere, / pledge.
you my honor I won't cut you down."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-14

what is moro quaint and poetic than
achild's idea of ice: Water gone to sloeps
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-14

An adept in ocean travel urges those
who fear sea-sickness to take ten-grain
pill the night before sailing, and dose
of citrate of magnesia on the following
morning. Then eat breakfast and 60 on
board. He has followed this practice
for several years, and been entirely free
from all qualms. All those who have
initiated him have been equally FORUM
ate.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-14

American iron is considered better
material for car-wheels than either Eng
lish or Scotch.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-14

to signal to the shore, must stand at
| least one shot, and that was almost GER
| tain death.
| Even in that desperate moment an alb
surd idea came into my head, as such
! things will come sometimes. had read
! somewhere of an ingenious recipe for
finding safe place on board a ship in
action by putting ones head out at a hole
where shot had come in, relying on
the improbability of another coming in
at the same orifice. There was one cor
ner of the framework splintered by
| several bullets; to it crept, and held on
despairingly.
Another fash from the battery. This
time could see the shen coming like a
black speck in the sky. Anxiously I
| watched for the burst to come; but this
time it came not, and the shell plunged
into the sea fifty yards short, throwing
up a mighty pillar of water, and rico
chetting away far over my head. Was
the fuse blind? [ asked myself. No;
there was another flash and another
| rush through the air, and sullen plunge
III the sea beyond the target. The shrap-
mel practice was over, and they were
firing plugged she'll.
Now or never was my time. climbed
on to the woodwork, sprang to my feet,
and waved my hands. From the shore
[ must have looked very like picture
of Andromeda chained to her rock. I
was too late, however, to escape shot
Once more the red flash spouted forth,
and I heard the ominous rush coming
nearer and nearer, till with roar as of
an express train it rushed past my head,
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-04-17

Items OF Interest Regarding vari-
Gus Properties.

utep.. or r-,,.-.., R-.g...,,r~ var.
The Eureka Tunnel Is now IN over l,2oo
ieet.
During next month Messrs. Rose 4 Du-
ker will resume work on their mines in the
Spring Valley District.
The owners OF the Atlantic and Pacific
Tunnel intend putting on a force OF men
to work as soon as the roads are open.
Tbe Trnstaes NJ The MARYLAND Tunnel
and Mining Comnsny are about n invite
bids for ~runninp tbe trnneI q furtbar die
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-04-17

The SENTINEL yesterday stated that there
were whispers afoat in the western part Of
the State about reducing the wages Of
miners. The same thing is alluded to in
the Salt Lake Tribune. Mr.. Mccormick
q banker Of that city, lately returned from
San Francisco. On his arrival he was in
terviewed on the cause Of the depression
in the stock market. After going through
the old story OF Kearney and the new Con-
stitution, he said: .Still another cause is
the action Of certain companies In threat
ening to shut down on work for a few
weeks or months. You know they have q
Miners Union which fixes the price Of
mining labor at 81 per day. The owners
say-and I guess they are right-that they
can not make money and pay such prices
for labor, and IS the easiest way to solve
the difficulty they think Of shutting down
and thus bring the Union to terms"
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-04-17
The Benents Of Mining.

The San Francisco Bulletin lays down
the annexed sensible suggestions on the
benefits Of the mining industry: II only .
dollar in bullion is obtained for the dollar
expended in the search, there are two dol
lars in specie where there was one before ;
and II 1t be true, as it ia said, that he who
makes two blades Of grass grow where there
was only one before, Is a benefactor OF his
race, then how much more is he q benefac-
tor who doubles the quantity OF gold and
silver in the world. The search for hidden
treasure is as legitimate and as praise
worthy as any Of the industries OF life.
Any legislation that discriminates against
the business ia unjust, and should be dis
c~ountenanced. Gold is the life current OF
merc There is 10 danger that the
stock will ever become too large. So long
as il is retained as the medium OF exchange
between one part Of the country and
another, and between one nation and
another, it will be we'll to encourage every
effort to increase the home supply, and thus
strengthen the foundations Of finance and
trade,
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-04-17
DE. TOZIER's INSANITY.
A Scandal that IL Stirring the Social
Tide OF Oakland.

DR.. Tozier spent q summer in Eureka,
about Cur years ago. He kept a column
"ad'' in the SENTINEL, and paid for it, and
this journal thought him q pretty level
headed sort Of M. D. He belonged to the
chronic school Of physicians. who make
chronic infrmities and such. . speciality.
It appears that his mind went wrong down
at his home in Oakland, and he was lately
sent to the Insane Asylum. A great scandal
has cropped out about his case, which is
thus alluded to by the Stock Exchange:
The DIR. Tozier case is attracting much
attention in Oakland, where the matter is
regarded as something like 8 dark conspi-
racy. Tozier, it appears, spoke rather free
ly OF the frequent visits Of his wife to the
office Of DR.. Adams, for Tozier is old and
the wife a plump and pleasing person.
Adams unequivocally pronounced Tozier's
suspicious the Authorizations of a lunatic,
and when he was called as expert by the
wife, to pass on Tozier's sanity, he recon-
mended the commitment Of the old gentle
man to the Asylum. And to the Asylum
Tozier went. Now, the evil-minded gossips
Of Oakland say that Tozier is as sane as the
law requires him to be, and an effort to
have his liberty restored is being made.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-04-17

From the Carson Appeal.
The stir among the disaf1ected politicians
Of the East, calling themselves lndepend-
cnts, is evidently being instituted by men
who hope to defeat the nominees Of both
the regular tickets, and to appropriate the
spoils Of Office among themselves. The
fact that the s~o-called Independent party,
wherever organized, is made up Of defeated,
sour and revengeful politicians, is too well
known to require the citing Of special cases
in proof. They have now determined to
cali q National Convention to meet at st.
Louis on May 9Th, and the call is addressed
to both Republicans and disaffected Demo-
Gratis. They are working against the NOM
nation, not only Of Grant, but Of Blaine.
They seek to prevent the nomination Of
Tilden also, and their tendency, though
not as yet pronounced, runs more and
more towards Edmunds a. the Republican
candidate. and Bayard IS the Democratic
candidate. Anything to beat Grant and
Tilden is their watchword. A Convention
Of Independents is + be held in New York
in May, and in that State q series Of popu-
lar lectures on political topics has been
arranged to be delivered by Horace White,
Charles Francis Adams, Albert Stickney
ard Matthew Hale.