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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-04-23
JOHN McGIVERN.
ALL THAT IT Is REoomMExDED TO BE
CURES FEVER

Hamlet Mercer Co., Ills.
Dear Sir:-A short trial of your Indian Blood
syrup and can say with confidence that it Ii val
liable medicine. z. T. PHILLIPS.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-04-23

Dear Sir:-A short trial of your Indian Blood
Syrup cured our little boy Of Severe Fever. Re
ceiye onr thanks.
MP AND MRS nOWNER
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-04-23

Dear Strive have been using your Indian
Blood Syrup in our family for more than two years
and find it the best medicine for worms ever saw.
ANNIE MCINTYRE.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-04-23
LOSS OF APPETITE,

WATERFOWL, Rock Island Co., Ills,
DeaI Sir:-Sufering with Loss of Appetite and
Indigestion, ives Induced to use your Indian
Blood Syrup, short trial of which greatly ben
efled me.
MRS. C. D. WILSON.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-04-23

22d3t.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05
Cost of Iron i'm Medieval Times.
From the Contemporary Review.l


The cost of iron and iron tools was a
serious difficulty in medieval husbandry.
When iron implements were worth I'd. a
pound, that is to say, at least Is. pound
in modern money values, the culture of
the soil was superficial and the fertility
of the surface was rapidly exhausted.
Before the middle of Elizabeth's reign
the art of smelling cast iron was discov-
cred, for good deal of the queens heavy
ordnance was made from this material.
Nor is the price of wrought iron trebled,
as that of most other commodities is. In
the fifteenth century it was worth from
e5 to 98 ton; In the reign of Elizabeth
from e10 to e14 For, as the success of
agriculture is a measure of the success
with which other employments can be
prosecuted, as well as leisure class can
be maintained, so the inventions of the
mechanic materially assist the progress
of agricultural art and lessen the cost of
its operations
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05
A Young Lady's Insanity.

A sad case of insanity has come upon
Miss Susan Schenck, young and &C.
complished daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. G..
d. Schenck, living near White Mills,
Pa. It appears that young
man in one of the southern states has
for the past two years been paying his
attentions to Miss Schenck, and was en-
gagged to be married to her at an early day.
About three months ago he started from
his southern home for the north with the
intention of fulfilling the engagement,
when an accident occurred which resulted
in his death, The news of his death
reached the young lady's mother, who,
knowing the strong attachment her
daughter entertained for him, resolved
to withhold the sad news from her daugh-
ter, if possible. To this end the mother
intercepted the letter which conveyed the
news of his death, and the daughter was
left in total ignorance of the truth. Time
passed by, and the girl received no It'd
ings from her absent lover. Her only
solution to the mysterious silence was
that she had been deserted. 1t SO work
ed upon her mind that soon her reason
was dethroned, and she is now raving
maniac.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05
The Drama at Bodie.

There is plenty of action but unhappi-
ly very little style in the amateur drama
at Bodie, Cal On April 10th the kitch-
en- of the Bon Ton lodging house was
turned into Shakespearean temple. A
small stage was constructed, and seats
were provided for those youngsters who
were SO fortunate as to be present. The
low price of bit was charged for adj
mission. There was critical audience
present when the curtain ca horse blanket)
was drawn aside The piece was "Dead-
wood Bill; or The Roaring Water Spout
of the Rocky Mountains. " The scene
opened with a bloody fight between Bill
and Pete Dickson, a terror from Tar Flat,
for the possession of lovely maiden,
who was seated in stage coach Ca large
dry goods box.) The two roughs had
stopped the stage, killed the male pas
sengers, and secured $4,000 in gold
dust The fight was long and desperate.
Each was loaded down with knives and
revolvers which were borrowed from
every young hoodlum in town. But Bill
got his man and secured the prize.
There were nine murders in the first act,
and in the second four stages were rob-
bed, and band of Indians routed. 1t
was blood-freezing piece, and several
spectators had to be carried out.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05
Climate and Complexion.
Popular Science Monthly for Ma

u
There is a great diversity of opinion
as to the reason Of the differences of
complexion to be observed among man
kind. Roughly speaking, the hue of the
skin varies with the latitude, the fairer
races having their homes at distance
from the equator, the darker, within or
near the tropics. This fact would seem
to point to the position of the SUN with
reference to those on whom he shines as
the cause. But the question presents
difficulties which this supposition does
not aid me to solve. At the same dis
lance from the equator we find the fair
Englishman, the yellow Mongol, and the
copper-colored Indian. To the north of
the white Russian and Finn live the
swarthy Lapp and Samoyed. North Of
the Caucasus are skinned Tartars,
south of it fair-complexioned Circas-
slams. The aborigines in America vary
less in color than the natives of the Old
World. None of them are as fair as the
Swede, none as black as the negro of
Congo, and those living in Brazil on the
equator are not the darkest. There are
blacker men in Australia and New Gui-
nea than in Borneo and S,1matra, though
these islands are on the equator and
those are not. The Shillooks of the up
per Nile, who live about 10 degreesnorth
latitude, are blacker than the Monbutto
who are six degrees farther south.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05

having completed the requisite quantity
of liquid so as to leave an empty space
of about two fluid ounces, add the tar
taric acid, and, Immediately after, the BIZ
carbonate of soda. Cork the bottle
tightly, secure the cork with a stout
cord, and set the bottle aside for about
six hours before it is opened. 1t is then
ready for use.
THE PROFILOGRAPH.
A remarkable machine was described
at q recent meeting of the Societie d'En-
couragement pour PIndustrie Rationale,
at Paris, called the PHOTOGRAPH, because
when in use it traces mechanically on
paper the outline of the ground over
which it travels. 1t consists of a small
carriage mounted on two wheels, drawn
by one man, and attended by another,
who marks the levels at the proper places;
and underneath hangs an iron rod with
large ball at it's lower end, serving as
constant vertical position, while the
machine inclines in one direction or the
other, according as it ascends or de-
scends slope. To the upper end of the
rod is fitted pencil, which marks on a
sheet of paper the ups and downs of the
country traversed, whether on an ordinary
road or over trackless fields. The exact
profile is thus recorded to a given scale.
At the same time one of the wheels, act
ing the part of chain-bearer, measures
and indicates the distances travelled
throughout the survey. For surveyors
and others engaged in leveling operations,
this machine would appear to be
eminently serviceable. and there is talk
of its being made use of i'll new general
survey of France contemplated by the
government.
MINER S MEASUREMENT OF WATER POWER.
A miners inch of water is a quantity
that will flow through an inch aperture
with a free discharge, and under a con-
slant pressure of six inches above the top
of the opening. An aperture of twelve
and a quarter by fifteen and three
quarter inches, under pressure of six
inches above the top of the opening, will
discharge two hundred inches, and is the
basis of all measurements where water is
retailed in small quantity in the states of
California and Nevada. A miners inch
will discharge quantity of water equal
to twenty-five hundred and fifty cubic
feet, orabout seventeen thousand gallons,
weighing one hundred and th1rty-nine
thousand five hundred pounds, in twenty
four hours. An inch of water (miners
inch) having a grade of four inches to
the rod, will carry Off in twenty-fOur
hours distance of ten miles ten tons of
heavy quartz, sand and iron. At one
gravel mine in Nevada county, Califor-
MIA, twenty-five cubic yards, or forty tons
of detritus OF tailings, as the waste
material is called, are moved from three
to fifteen miles every twenty-four hours.
One hundred miners inches of water,
conducted through iron pipes and falling
three hundred ond fifteen feet vertically,
and applied by means of nozzle against
hurdy gurdy wheel sixteen feet in
diameter, will furnish sufficient power to
run an eighty-stamp mill, beside carry
ing off all the ore which it has furnished
the power to crush.-Miniaag Rericw.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05
A ROYAL Physician.

Charles Theodore, of Bavaria, the
royal prince, who has just been regularly
admitted to practice as physician, is a
specialist of some renown in eye diseases.
He has practiced for several years with
considerable success, and has been at the
disposal of his many patients at all hours
of the night and day. He is generous,
as well as a wealthy man, and to his
poorer patients gives not only medical
advice but substantial help. 1t is no
wonder that his tenants upon his magni-
fcent estate of Tegerusee will have no
other doctor. The prince is the brother
of the Empress of Austria, the queen of
Naples, and the Duchess of Alencon,
and upon his elder brothers death will
be the head of the Bavarian ducal line.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05
The Way the American Does 1t.
[From the Graphic.l

The Englishman seldom changes his
business or profession. The representa-
tive American is a natural Jack-at-all-
trades, sowing and planting, perhaps, to-
day, teaching school next week, next
year practicing law. He will undertake
anything, backed by an astounding con-
fdence in self and trusting in his genius,
luck. [ have in California seen young
man of 81, brought up to no trade OF
profession, experimenting the building
of magnificent road over those Alps of
America, the Sierra Nevadas He di-
rected the operations of surveyors and
bridge-builders, as well as the finance
and supply departments; for his forces,
100 miles from the nearest settlement,
required the baggage train of small
army. In various kinds of skilled labor
he found his tools. His was the execu-
tive capacity to use them. This man
was not brought up" He came up.
His education embraced merely the three
Rs, readin', 'ritin', and 'rithmetic."
That ended at II. Then he grapples
with the world. 4 few months in the
which in abandoned half learned, voy-
age or two at sea. At Is he starts for
the west. Arrived in some frontier town
he seeks not the vocation for which he
may be specially fitted, but looks for
whatever there may be to do. Let there
be an opening to fill and he does not ask
himself whether his is the exact mold to
fill it. No. He rushes in and where he
doesn't fit he trims a patch off here or
adds one there until he makes rough
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05
Three Debts Paid.
CFrom the Bangor (Me.) Commercially


A singular coincidence, showing how
much can be done by the payment of
even a small debt, happened yesterday.
A gentleman was at the wharf intending
to buy some Holsters, when two gentle
men came up and engaged with him in
conversation. The first gentlemen said
to the second, CT believe I owe you a
dollar" eyes," replied the second,
81 believe you do" The sec
ond man then spoke to the third: 81
believe 1 also owe you dollar" which
fact the third man acknowledged, and he
also said that he owed the first man a
dollar, which he desired to pay. In this
transaction the three men each paid their
indebtedness to each other, and they did
so without passing any money between
them
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05
The Oldest Established

Large Retail Dry Goods Store in the
state of Wisconsin, 1886 and 3S8 East
Water ST., Milwaukee, Wis.," situated
about the middle of the block north of
Mitchell's bank, better known as ''James
Morgan's," has been in the hands of car
penters, ETC., for the past two months,
and in few days the store will compare
in every respect with the frst-class stores
in New York and other eastern cities.
The ladies are invited to send for the
Spring and Summer price list.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05
PERSEPHONE.
BY MARGARET J. PRESTON.

Listeni What q sudden rustic
Fills the air
All the birds are in rustic
Everywhere,
Such a ceaseless Groom and twitter,
Overhead!
Such a fash of wings that glitter,
Wide outspread
Far away L hear drumming
Tap, tap, tap!
Can the wood-pecker be coming
After sap?
I.issome swaying make the willows
One bright sheen,
Which the breeze putfs out in pillows
Foamy green.
From the marshy brook that's smoking
In the fog
/ can catch the crool and croahing
OF the frog.
Dogwood stars the slopes are studding,
And l see
Blooms upon the purple-budding
Judas tree.
How their gauzy wings are g,ancing
As they pass
What does all this haste ana hurry
Mean, pray
All this outdoor flush and furry
Seen to-day?
This presaging stir and humming.
Trill and call?
Hedns 1t means that Spring is coming,
That is all J
-Lippfncott's Magazine.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05

RECENTLY a boy sixteen years old was
putting stamps on a large number of
newspapers at the postoffice i'll Portland,
Me-, when lady came in who bought a
Scent stamp, and then, coolly turning to
the boy, asked him to run out his tongue,
The boy did 50, when the lady moisten-
ed her 3-cent stamp on it, applied it to
the letter, mailed it and walked away.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05
DO a Favor to a Sick Friend.

If you have a friend suffering from
any disorder of the Kidneys send them q
package of Kidney Wort and you will
make them happy. It's great tonic
power is especially directed to these dis
eases, and it quickly relieves the dis
tress and cures the disease. Have you
tried it?
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05
RahY Saved.

We are SO thankful to say that our
baby was permanently cured of danger
GUS and protracted irregularity of the
bowels by the use of Hop Bitters by its
mother, which at the same time restored
her to perfect health and strength
Buffalo ErDreSS
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05
Vegetine.
One Package in Powder Form
cured Scrofula.
HOW TO REDUCE YOUR DOCTORS BILLS.
sc BREMEE ST., East Boston, Mass,

September 80, 1879.
Mr.. III. r. SrEVENs-Dcar Sir. My little daughter
Stella has been afflicted long time with Scrofula,
suffering everything. I employed different physi-
clans in East Boston but they helped her none.
bought some of your POWDER Form VEGETINE, and
my wife stepped it and gave to the child according
to the directions, and were surprised in fort
nights time to how the child had gained in flesh
and strength She is now gaining every day, and
can cheerfuly recommend your remedy to be the
best we have tried
Respectfully yours, j.. WEBB.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05

The enormous sale of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup
has had the effect of bringing out numerous
similar remedies; but the people are not SO
easily induced to make trial of the new article.
when they value the old and reliable one,-Dr.
Bulls Cough Syrup.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05

A CARDIFF ali who are suffering from the errors
and inlscreions of youth weakness early de-
loss of manhood, etc will send Recipe that will
discovered by missionary in South America. Send
selfaddressed envelope to the REV OSEPH T INMAN
Station ID, Neao York City.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05

A Book on the Liver, its diseases and their
treatment sent free. Including treatises upon
Liver Complaints, Torpid Liver, Jaundice, Bill
iousness, Headache, Constipation Dyspepsia,
Malaria, etc. Address DR.. Sanford, 1862 Broad
way, New York city, n. Y.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05
I'm Powder Form.

Vegetine put up in this form comes within the
reach Of all. By making the medicine yourself
you can, from SOC. package containing the
barks, roots and herbs, make two bottles of the
liquid Vegetine. Thousands will gladly avail
themselves of this opportunity, who have the
conveniences to make the medicine. Full direc-
tons II every package.
gsnd storee IS s1a @
of them, enclose fifty cents in postage stamps
for one package, or one dollarfor two packages,
and will send it by return mail III. r. Stevens,
Boston, Mass.
DIR. C. E. SHOEMAKER, the well-known aural
surgeon of Reading, Pa, offers to send by mail
free of charge a valuable little book on deafness
and diseases of the ear-especially on running
ear and catarrh, and their proper treatment
giving references and testimonials that will sat
isfy the most skeptical. Address as above.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05
Dauahters, Wives and Mothets.

DR.: MARCHISTS UTERINE ChThUIlICUN VIII
Womb, Whites Chronic Inflammation or liberation OF
the Womb Incidental Hemorrhage Flooding, Painful
81: pressed and Irregular Menstruation DC old and
reliable remedy. Send postal card for pamphlet with
treatment and certificates from physicians and
patients, to Howarth Ballard, Utca N Y SOLD by MI
Druggsts-x1.5 so per bottle.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05

The VOItaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich,
Will send their Electro-Voltaic Belts to the af-
ficted upon 80 days trial. See their advertise
ment in this paper headed son 80 Days Trial"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05

LYONS Heel Stiffeners keep boots and shoes
straight. Sold by shoe and hardware dealers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05

Dissolve all the salts, excepting the
tartaric acid and the bicarbonate in about
one pint of water, and introduce the So
luton into champagne bottle. Then,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05
HOMEMADE SODA WATER.

The artificial settler water, made with
a carbonic acid generator, is already,
says The Scientific american, an imita-
ton, far from perfect, of the natural
water A recipe to make it on the small
scale for family use, as it were, can only
give product differing still more from
the product of the spring. Yet the fol-
lowing would fairly initiate the taste and
properties of the natural water:
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-09-24

will he exposed to public sale, at the Cambria
House, Ebensburg, on MONDAY, SEPT. y,
1880. commencing at 10 O'Clock, \. NJ, fine
lot of BI.ooDED STOCK, comprising Bulls and
HeiferS from three months to two years old,
ali Of excellent breed nd all bought in TruRl-
bull county, Ohio by Mr.. John Elmer, OF
Lancaster county. Stock raisers viii do we'll
to attend and look TO their own interests, as
Mr. Elmer is taking an active part in having
the horned stock in this section thoroughly
improved l9-l'.-2t~J
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-09-24

LOOK HERE-I have a full line of samples
of mems and Youths clothing from reSpon-
sible house in Philadelphia, and am prepared
to show any one the goods and prices, and
will take measures and send for any suit tie
sired, which will deliver at profit of 10
over and above the Philadelphia wholesale
price Come one come all ] have bar
gains for short folks and tall.
:. NJ DoCGL%ss.
Chest Sprin-s, sept 81 1osO.-9t
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-09-24

MISPLACED ENTHUSIAsNi.-ImaGi ginning that
they had the laugh on the Democrats the
Republicans of this place got up pumpkin
parade and a small bonfire on Friday night
last in honor of what they conceived to be a
victory for their party in Maine, but which
has since proved to be the very .''rcvarSe. ="
The procession was composed almost entirely
of little boys, who, with pumpkins ScOOped
out and lighted candles stuck therein, march,
ed through town preceded ty the American
flag and some of the worst music we have
ever listened TO. There were also in the pro
ceSSion a numberOf transparencies, gotten up
for the occasion as we'll as Il bUTleSque ban
ncr in imitation of the handsome one pur-
chased by ProthonotaTy O'DOnncll and to be
presented to the Democratic district i'll the
county which gives the largest increased vote
at the coming election. After filing through
several OF the principal streets, the big crowd
of boys and girls and the small crowd of Re-
publican voters maSSed on the Diamond,
where bonfire was lighted and brief speech
es made by a. V. Barker, Alvin Evans,
Chaplain Davis and + W. Dick The Chap
lain. it is proper to say, mounted the rostrum
on his own responsibility, and nOtwltllStand-
ing the effort made by the band and the bows
to drown his voice he kept at it until all the
adicctiVeS in his vocabulary had been fired
off, when he got down and Mr.. Dick got up,
greatly to the relief of the few Republican
voters present At the conclusion of Mr..
Dicks remarks the procession again formed
and completed the circle OF the town, after
which peace prevailed and the pumpkins and
pumpllin-headsd disappeared from publicview.
STILL Up AND AT IT.-NTr. James W. Dai-
", of Allegheny township, called III on Mon
day and assured us that he is still canvassing
for q very fine selection of Catholic books, to
wit Collins Explanations of the EpistleS
and Gospels - the Faith of our Fathers, -
by Bishop Gibbons, and also fine selections
of Catholic prayer books, for all which he
takes orders and delivers at publishers retail
prices lie IS, however, making speciality
of a superb Family Bible, a qnaTto edition
bound in heavy French morocco, beautifully
pannelled, with two clasps, full gilt, and
containing more than one hundred and sew
entv-fvesscriptural engTavngS We would
recommend all persons wishing to buy Cath
olc books to consult Mr.. Daily. as he is deal
ing direct with two large Catholic publishing
Houses and is prepared to sell at fairer prices
than any other agent in the business.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-09-24
ToRIGIrAL1
HAVE YoU HEARD TIE NENs FRON NAiNE 2


Have you heard the news from Mains2"
The state Of Jimmy Blaine highoi
Where he shOwered gold like rain
But all his tricks were vain, higho
And "what VIII Sherman say"
of fhls disastrous day. higho,
And the slaughter and disnlay
Ills money could not stay, higho,
And GARFIELD and the rest
OF that Sodly tribe, 50 blest %, higho.
Who prayed, lied, and did their best,
But iailed 20 stand the test. highot
Now gallant Roscoe drops tear
On lovely Narrdgansetts pier. highoi
While shotsuns thunder in his rear,
Which timid tutors fear, highoi
And Bob II rgersoIl too that infidel tool
Who, bright though his genius, must be classed
as fool, highoi
Who labored might and main for ruin OF rule,
Saw his hopes turn to ashes in Phiegton's dark
pool, higho!
And Sherman, 1'inkstOn and Hayes
- VIII be cursed all their days. hiRho,
by justice, which ne'er long delays
10 deal with knavery and fraudulent ways higho,
The rout is so utter, 50 grand and complete
Ihat thero IS no way open TO make retreat,
higho, Tbent
Then surrender at once, and acknowledge you re
For the nation demands that you shall take a
back seat, higho NISDEX.