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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-04
n. WALKER has the following:
Manufactures and Industries.

Special experts have been appointed by
the government to collect statistics of
manufactures and industries throughout
the country, by Superintendent WALKER,
of the Census Bureau. These statistics
will be for the twelve months beginning
June 1, 1879, and all cities of above 5000
inhabitants are to be thoroughly canvass
ed. Schedules have been prepared for ten
different classes of manufacturing estab.
lishments On these schedules full ques.
tions are printed. The ten special indus
tries are boot and shoe factories, cheese
and butter factories, Touring and grist
mills, salt works, lumber mills and saw
mills, brick yards and tile works, paper
mills, coal mines, agricultural implement
works and quarries. Besides these, par
ticular attention will be given to the sub.
jects of leather, both tanned and curried,
condensed milk factories and slsughtering
and meat packing. There will also be
general schedules, embracing the work of
the chief manufacturing industries of the
C1tJS S0SA as N1OthAASs hotc oho cops
pianofortes, sugar renneries, etc., the de-
tails in connection with which ale all to
be enumerated carefully.
The questions on the general schedules
are more carefully prepared than usual,
and are very complete. For instance,
some of the more important on those of
manufactures are as follows:
Name of corporation, company or individual
producing to the value of $500 annually.
Name OF business manufacture or product.
Capital (real or personally invested In the BUSH
Greatest number of hands employed at any one
time during the year.
Average number of hands employed, including
the number OF males above sixteen years, te-
males above fteen years, and children and
youths.
of hours "a the ordinary day OF labor, from May
to November. and from November to May; ~
average DAYS wages for skilled mechanic; 81
average days wages Tor ordinary laborer;
az total amount paid in wages during the year.
Months in operation, including those on full
time only, on one-hslf time only, and those who
were idle
Value OF material, including mill supplies and
fuel.
Value of product including jobbing and repair
The power used in manufacture, including, If
C2) height of fall. in feet; (3) number of wheels
their kind, breadth In feet, revolut ons per mins
ute, and horse power. If steam power Is used,
number OF boilers, number Of engines and horse
power.
With each schedule instructions will
be given, stating that the term product.
i've industry" must be taken in its broad.
est significance, to include not only large
factories, but also all the mechanical
trades. 1t will be valuable accompani-
ment OF the regular census report, and a
good deal of care and labor should be de.
voted to making it up.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-04
Mystery of Scent.

No one has yet been able to analyze
or demonstrate the essential action of
perfume. Gas can be weighed, but not
scent. The smallest known creature
the very monades of life-can be caught
by microscopic lens and made to de-
liver up the secrets of their organization,
but what is it that emanates from the
pouch Of the musk-deer that fills whole
space for years with it's penetrating odor
AN odor that an illimitable number of
extraneous substances can carry on with
out diminishing its size and weight-and
what it is that the warm summer air
brings to us from the flowers, no man
has yet been able to determine. So fine,
so subtle, SO imponderable /; it has eluded
our most delicate weights and measures
and our strongest senses. If we come to
the essence of each odor, we should have
made an enormous stride forward, both
in hygiene and in chemistry, and none
would profit more than the medical pro-
fession if it could be as conclusively
demonstrated that such an odor proceeds
from such and such cause, as we al
ready know of sulphur, sulphate, hydro
gen. amomnia and the like.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-04

A writer in the Cedar Rapids Republican
saves his plums from curculio as follows:
One spring he tried the experiment of
placing under the tree two coops, each
containing a Brahma hen and a large
brood of enterprising chickens. The re-
suit was very satisfactory, for the tree
bore an amazing crop of perfectly sound
plun,s, and the chickens made pretty
good fruit for the table also. Since then
he tried the same plan with early apple
ard cherry trees, with similar results.
The chickens are death on the insects
that make such havoc with fruit trees,
and easily gobble them up when they
first make their appearance from the
ground, Try it and see.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-04

ARCTIC ExPLoRATIoN.-Last fall, two
New Bedford whalers, the Vtgilant and
Wallerton, were shut in, just inside Beh-
rings Straits, and few months since the
U. 8. steamer Tom Coroin was sent out
from San Francisco to relieve the prison.
ers A report has just been received at
Washington from Captain HARPER, in
command of the Coraoin, written at Ouno-
laska, June 7th; he intended to proceed
on his mission of mercy the following
DAY. When he wrote, the snow was still
on the ground there, and the air chilly
and raw, but there were indications that
the ice in the straits would soon break up
so they could pass through.
Captain HARPER reports that he
had with him an ample supply of
provisions, and proposes to re-victual
the whalers, SO that, if they were in con-
dition, they could proceed, and spend the
summer whaling, and come home next
fall. After relieving the whalers, the Cor
oin will proceed to cruise into the Arctic
Ocean to look for the Bennett yacht Jean.
nette. Should she not be found, the Cap.
tain says he shall proceed to Wrangle
Land. He had concluded not to take any
additional sailors, but when they should
arrive at Fort Michael's he intended to
purchase dogs and sledges and hire driv-
ers for the land expedition. He minated
that he intended to explore Wrangle Land,
now very imperfectly known, and to de-
termine, if possible, its entire coast and
geographical character, and whether it
was really small island or whether it is
part of the continent, or anything else
about it so that hereafter it may be clear
ly defined on the map. He expected to
be through with his relief work by the
last of July, and that would leave three
months for exploration in the Arctic
Ocean before he should try to come out.
Capt. HARPER is one Of the best seamen
in the service, and the Tom Corwin the
best fitted vessel for Arctic navigation
that ever went north, except the PolarSs.
1t is believed at the Navy Department
that should he be shut in next winter
north of Behring's Straits himself, that he
will have plenty of supplies to make
two.season cruise, and he may accomplish
a great deal in the way of Arctic explora-
ton in addition to the relief work.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-04
Who Will Vote for Hancock?

The Albany Eventng Journal answers
this question very pointedly, when it says
"Any man who believes the Union is safer
in the hands of the party who furnished
all the traitors that tried to destroy it
than in those of the party which was it's
sure defense from the beginning to the
end Of the war, sosN cote for Hancock.
Any man who believes that the finances
of the country are safer in the hands Of
the party who has co operated with in.
fationists, greenbackites, "absolute {"
money gentry and all other financial
quacks rather than in those of the party
which has always been the steady advocate
Of honest money and the un1inching de-
fender of the nations credit, ptll cote for
Hancock
Amy man who believes that the majority
should not be allowed to prevail, but that
their will clearly expressed ct the ballot
box is to be Garcelonized whenever
opportunity offers, a0iu cots for Haneocb.
Any man who approves of the revolu-
tionary attempt of the late Democratic
Congress to starve the Government to
death, so,U cote for Hancock
Any man who believes that candidate
who is no more competent to discharge the
duties of the Presidency than Cleopatra's
Needle is competent to do fine sewing is a
filter person to elect to that great office
than one whose talents, experience, train
ing and bent of mind unite thoroughly to
qualify him for the position, aoiN cote for
Hancock.
Any man who wants to have such task.
masters as the Solid South and Tammany
Hall set over the country, and finds pleas
ure in the thought of political readiust.
ment which would transform the North
into newer of wood and drawer Of
water; will cote for Hancock
Any man who believes In the doctrine
of State rights, as now reasserted with all
the old emphasis by the Democratic party,
a doctrine from whose loins sprsng seces-
sion and the consequent bloody and Co.'S
ly war, aoill cote for Hancock.
Any man who believes that Reform in
the abstract is sweet boon, but thinks so
lily of Reform in the concrete, as to enjoy
the spectacle of Presidential candidate
slyly ciphering to capture the elect oral
vote of State by the most revolving in
stance Of bribery and corruption on rec
ord, aoiU cote for Hancock"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-04

During the last ten years Chicago has
advanced from the ninth to the sixth city
in the United States in the magnitude Of
its direct importations. In 1870 the
goods imp orted were valued at 81 OBS, 243,
on which the duty collected was 1897, 1856
In 1879 the value was $4021, SAB, and the
duties $1,S07052. The number of pack
ages in 1870 was 1876, and in 1879 6,59S.
The present year will show a tilblarger
increase.
Chicago's official census is SOB ,29s; all
of Cook county, COG. S01.
Under the census of 1880 New York
maintains her position as the first in the
Union; her population will be over
5000. 900; 1t was 4, 3S2, 900 in 1870. Pennsyl
vania comes second, as heretofore, with
4,227, 900, which is an increase of 20 per
cent. over 1870, when the population of
the Keystone State was 1851 .951.
Rhode Island is the first State to send
to the Census Bureau complete state
ment of its population. The whole num-
Der is 276,710, a gain of 59,3O7, or 27.2S
per cent. in ten years. There is gain in
every town but five.
Census returns from New Hampshire
indicate an increase of population in that
State. Granite men are not likely to let
their number decrease.
There are Ga cities in the United States
with population exceeding 10000; there
are Al cities with more than 10000; 81
with more than $4,000; 81 with more than
10000; "a with more than 75. 900; 90 with
more than 100000; 4 with more than $780,
900. and with more than 100000. Lon
don is long way ahead of New York,
but the other English cities fall below the
American cities. Liverpool ranks below
Philadelphia and Brooklyn; Manchester
and Birmingham are below Chicago and
st. Louis; Leeds and Sheffield are below
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-04
The Folly of Virtue.

A very good and pious-looking youns
man applied for position i'll we'll.
known store last week. After he had
introduced himself and made knowr
his wants, the proprietor informed him
that he would like to have clerk if he
could get one that would suit him.
II suppose you go to church, eh?' he
commenced.
eyes, sir"
'"Do you drink? ' continued the mer,
chant, cycling him sharply.
"Never."
"Do you use tobacco in any form %
Here the young man pushed the quif
into the roof Of his mouth, and replied
with a smile that was childlike and bland.
II never use the weed, and never lid.
[ consider it the lowest and most shock,
ing habit that a man can be addicted to.a
"Do you frequent the policy shops"
"No, sir; never"
"Do you 60 the National Theater, dog
fights, or boxing exhibitionsP
"Never was at any in my life" was the
emphatic answer.
"Can you tell the ace Of diamonds
from the king of clubs?"
81 know nothing whatever of cards."
"Do you ever bet?'
"No, sir, / don't"
Suppose" said the merchant, "a man
should offer to bet 81 900 to $40 that
three-legged goat could outrun a grey
hound, would you take him?''
No, sir!
"Then you won't do for this establish
ment; we don't want you've never
hire fools !"
That youth won't be SO good next time.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-04
The Cure for GOssIn.

What is the cure for gossip? Simply
culture. There is a great deal Of gossip
that has no malignity in it. Good ma
tured people talk about their neigh
bors because, and only because, they
have nothing else to talk about AS we
write, there comes to us tie picture of
family of young ladies. We have seen
them at home; we have met them in
galleries of art; we have caughta glimpse
of them going from book store or
library, with "a fresh volume in their
hands. When we meet them they are
full of what they have seen and read.
They are trimming with questions. One
topic of conversation is dropped only to
give place to another in which they are
interested. We have left them after
delightful hour stimulated and refreshed,
and during the whole hour not negh-
boris garment was soiled by SO much as
a touch. They had something to talk
about. They knew something, and
wanted to know more. They could lis
ten as well as they could talk. They
speak freely of neighbours doings and
belongings. They had no temptation to
gossip, because the doings of their neigh
bors formed subject very much less in
teresting than those which grow out of
their knowledge and their culture. And
this tells the whole story. The confirmed
gossip is always either malicious or ig-
norant. The one variety needs change
of heart, and the other a change of pas
ture. Gossip is always personal con-
fession either of malice or imbecility,
and the young should not only shun it,
but by the most thorough culture relieve
themselves from temptation to indulge
in it. 1t is low, frivolous, and too often
dirty business. There are country
neighborhoods in which it RACES like a
pest. Churches are split in pieces by it.
Neighbors are made enemies for life by
it. In many persons it degenerates into
a chronic disease, practically incurable.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-04
Twenty-fOur Proverbs i'm Cooking.


Miss Dod's lectures are full of little
bits OF information that might fairly be
called culinary proverbs. Here are
.ew of them:
There is a greenness in onions and po-
tatoes that renders them hard to digest.
For health's sake put them in warm
water for an hour before cooking.
The only kind of a stove with which
you can preserve uniform heat is gas
stove; with tyou can simmer pot for
an hour, or boil it at the same rate for
twenty minutes.
White flour may not be the best. The
test OF good flour is by the amount of
water it absorbs.
In cooking fowl, to ascertain when it
is done, put skewer into the breast,
done.
A few dried or preserved cherries,
with stones out, are the very best thing
possible to garnish sweet dishes.
Single cream is cream that has stood
on the milk twelve hours. It is best for
tea and coffee. Double cream stands on
it's milk twenty-four hours, and cream
for butter frequently stands forty-eight
hours. Cream that is to be whipped
should not be butter cream, lest in whip
ping it change to butter.
10 beat the whites of eggs quickly,
put in a pinch of salt. The cooler the
eggs the quicker they will froth. Salt
cools and also freshens them.
In boiling eggs hard put them in boil
ing water. 1t will prevent the yolk from
coloring black.
You must never attempt to boil the
dressing of a clear soup in the stock, for
it will always discolor the soup.
In making any sauce, put the butter
and flour in together, and your sauce
will never be lumpy.
Whenever you see your sauce boil
from the sides of the pan you may know
your flour or corn starch is done.
Boiled fowl with sauce, over which
CRATE the yolk of eggs, is a magnificent
dish for luncheon.
Tepid water is produced by combining
two-thirds cold and one-third boiling
water.
To make maccaroni tender, put it in
cold water and bring it to a boil. 1t will
then be much more tender than if put
into hot water or stewed in milk.
The yolk of eggs bind5 the crust much
better than the whites. Apply it to the
edges with brush.
Old potatoes may be freshened up by
plunging them into cold water before
cooking them.
Never put a pudding that is to be
steamed into anything else than a dry
mold.
Never wash raisns that arc to be used
in sweet dishes. 1t will make the pud-
ding heavy. To clean them wipe in g
dry towel.
To brown sugar for sauce or for pud-
dings, put the sugar in perfectly dry
saucepan. If the pan is the least bit
wet, the sugar will burn, and you will
spoil your saucepan.
Outlets and steaks may be fried as
well as broiled, but they must be put in
hot butter or lard. The grease is hot
enough when it throws off blush
smoke.
The water used in mixing bread must
be tepid If it is too hot, the loaf will
be full of great holes.
To boil potatoes successfully: When
the skin breaks, pour off the water and
let them finish cooking in their own
steam.
In making crust of any kind, do not
melt the lard in flour. Melting will
injure the crust.
In boiling dumplings of any kind, put
them in the water one at time. If they
are put in together they will mix with
each other.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-04

Boston and Baltimore; Bristol, Bradford
and Stafford are below Cincinnati, San
Francisco and New Orleans; Hull, New
castle and Portsmouth are below Wash
ington, Cleveland and Buffalo; Leicester,
Sunderland ana Oldham are below New
ark, Louisville and Pittsburg.
A table in the forthcoming census re.
port will succinctly show the comparative
death rate in the larger cities for 1879.
The figures come in slowly, but to date
Gen. WALKER has the following:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-04
Census Gleanings.

The published returns OF the census
just taken bring out several important
facts. They show that the population OF
the Western States has increased much
faster than that of the Eastern; that the
population of cities has increased faster
than that of the rural districts, and that
the percentage of increase in cities has
been, with very few exceptions, In pro.
portion to. their population when the
census was last taken. But the most re-
markable showing presented by these re-
ports Is that in respect to the population
of farming districts in the Western States
that have been longest settled. Strange
as it may appear, there has been consld-
cradle decrease in the agricultural popu-
lasion of many of the best farming coun-
ties in Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin. If
the aggregate population OF the counties
is larger in 1880 than it was in 1870, it is
generally owing to the growth of one or
more large towns. In several instances
one city or town in county has gained
more inhabitants during the past ten
years than the county in which it is stu.
ated has. In other words, q large town
has grown at the expense of the farming
towns in the vicinity OF it. Counties that
contain no cities or large towns have
shown little or no increase in population,
aud some of them have sustained a con-
siderable loss.
The South ia gaining in population
more rapidly than the older States of the
North. Returns from thirteen country
parishes of Louisiana show an average
increase of 43 per cent. Arkansas re-
ports an increase of SO per cent, from
4S4 400 in 1870 to 759, 400 in 1880. In
North Carolina, nine counties represent
ing the different sections of the State,
show an increase running from 90 to 40
per cent. Mississippi and Georgia both
report considerable gains. Missouri
promises an average gain of 80 per cent.
Thirty.six counties in Texas show pop
ulation of 425, 722. The same counties in
1870 contained 219,S41 inhabitants. The
increase is, therefore, 20S, 1871, or about 80
per cent. The only Southern State that
reports loss is Kentucky. In the North,
on the other baud, Maine has remain ed
nearly stationary, Vermont has lost, and
he older Agricultural States of the West
have not grown so rapidly as in the pre-.
ceding decade.
The following partial returns received
at the census Office show the municipal In.
debtedness of the states named:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-04
Making q grand total Of ..........s 1897 %

Municipal Indebtedness includes all
local Indebtedness, county, city, town, and
school district, but excludes state debts.
In the list given above only nineteen
states are included, which is one half the
whole number. If the other half make
an equal showing the aggregate local In
debtedness alone of the country is nearly
S1,4OO, 100000. In 1870 ii was returned at
1868 100000. We have, therefore, made
considerable progress in that direction in
the last decade.
The New England cities show large
gains in population since 1870, as the fol-
lowing te BILE indicates:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-04

The animal that resembles fruit is the
gray ape. I
A great curiosity: A plate of butter
from the cream of a joke.
When banks become unsteady, even
the depositor is likely to lose his balance.
It is perfectly natural for man who
is drunk to feel melancholy, because he
is morn full.
The compositor who set up ISL 900" in.
stead of $4,000, might have prevented
his mistake by little fourth ought.
An old lady said she could never I'M
derstand where all the Smiths came
from, until she saw large sign, "Smith
Manufacturing Company"
Doctor" said gentleman to his sler-
gyman, chow can I best train up my SON
in the way he should go? 'By going
that way yourself" replied the reverend
doctor.
Jane" said be, II think if you lifted
your feet away from the fire, we might
have little heat in the ROOM" And
they hadn't been married two years
either.
A little boy went to his father, crying,
the other day nd told him that he had
kicked fly that had splinter in his
tail.
A Boston physician announces that
kissing is unhealthy. He was probably
caught by his wife while kissing the SER
want girl.
Mary had little lamp,
Filled full of kerosene;
She took it once to light fire,
And has not since benzine.
IF the average school girl ever has an,
opportunity to witness a tornado, She
will clap her hands and exclaim: Isn't
it gorgeous! It's too comic for anything.
It's awfully jolly!"
Mr.. Isaac V. Green, of Michigan, ran,
away with his wife's aunt recently. | In
Their words:
He ran away with his spouse's auntS>x
And never again was seen; [plann
Thus proving anew what rare old
Is the Michigan I. V. Green.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-04

The Elgin Ill.) condensing factory
ships on an average a carload of con-
densed milk per day, mostly to New York
and California. Japan takes some. Three
hundred and fifty cases, or twenty-one
thousand pounds, is what goes in car.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-04

Bus, kiss; rebus, to kiss again; plu
ribus, to kiss many times; syllabus, to
kiss the hand instead of the lips; blum
derbus, to kiss the wrong person; omni-
bus, to kiss all promiscuously; erebus, to
kiss in the dark.
To which may be added, syllabus, one
man kissing another.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-04

A young farmer at Kinston, N. O., has
been sent to Jail for thirty days, for kiss.
ing another mans wife against her will.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-04

A 12-year old child while playing in the
elevator at Altoona, ILL.,. fell into wheat
bin, and was sucked down and suf.
located before extracted.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-08-04

Unless there is a great difference in
age, lady visiting should not rise either
on arrival or departure of other ladies.