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The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-11-13

PARIS UNHEALTHY AND UNsAFE.-The
unhealthiness of Paris has been 80
marked recently that it has excited the
attention Of the authorities who are care
fully looking to the drainage and other
matters of civic hygiene. Among other
reformations, the old laws are to be
again put in force as to the keeping
within the city not only OF animals such
as pigs, COWS, sheep, etc., but also the
more domestic pets, like dogs, cats and
birds. The number of dogs and cats in
almost every street in Paris is something
enormous, and their presence in the hv-
ing rooms of the poorer quarters must
be very detrimental to the public health.
An inspection viii shortly be made as to
the domestic pets of each family, and
strict regulations made as to how many
each house may be allowed TO keep. In
the matter of safety of the streets the
police are equally vigilant. During the
last six weeks, in one quarter alone, that
of st. Vincent de Paul in the tenth
reimbursement, there have been 273 ar
rests of vagabonds and night prowlers,
and the numbers are pretty much the
same for the other quarters, making alto
gether some $50 arrests every night.
London Times.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-11-13


.ooed n,ornias. MIS- Ksts. szie young Mlekie
sGosS mefntn' 1saias IS 70 oarsslf sazs I zee,
I,5o5 M tloon,n u svle.zf Bet Kate turned away
1s 80 sid. ,s4fi11ef Niclie wish you good day.
You're herEfleE d111ttx. neE dnnt sAy word
Prtsty t1to1 about ysu md nat Hprah I've heard.
You kao4 yen dane9 "a with her the day Of the fair
And plaI1sd h<f sfl ? elet ard her very red hair.
fou called her 20 Angel quils IN with hsr fell
And s night NAez sou peEtsds 9ca kissed her q
rksn senne lliekis esFe ( - wink e he said.
s.r dzE9gc1 her ny daflin fia may turn your head
Yes faith, dssssed hers my daslin,, It's true,
For sEnt bgtA ny eyes kAse, and sAncaed 'sNsa
Yes, Il III What ala
kdflt ft'6true
IRhnl both my ayes,
And fnncied twas your
sfWefl, i've 80 tire 70 stag. 20 goodbye. Mieki.
FRA,
Noss maj 4ieasze hsr: but sou don't desave me;
IN net 10 ~ blafneyed, Mick. word in yoar ear
You ha1 bo&t1r be Of, for my 4Ad'a comm hers.
Fo r1nr dma,1 ceflln is has That's not him SEE
Nov hohbin D6hind shnt ovid blncktnorn tree.
11g rs Paddy Aahcn- 20, said Kate Wath
nneoF.
.snnsgs 1oi your eyea open a. last, MIckie. dear,
Ana nhufe ron ara right; lis ny own darlin' Pat,
is lsts my sdvics, Nick. ana get ont Of thnt;
Fur he's conlin 70 eoort me. Now listen, my lad;
when khnf boy Kisses me- OH won't ron be glsdl
For when bis lips meet mine, why, what viii / do
But shut both my syes. Kick. and fancy it's yonl
Thapa What Ia5 do.
Alclie, lee true.
shuf both my eyes,
And fancy its ySuf~
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-11-13
The Friend Of DeIicate Ladies'.

Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure is the
remedy that will cure the many diseases peculiar
to women, Headaches, neuralgia, disordered
nerves, weakness, mental shocks, and kindred
ailments effectually removed by its use.-The
Mothers Magazine.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-11-13
An Artificial Sun.

An electrical engineer of Boston
is about to try the experiment OF
lighting Holyoke, Mass, in manner
that will strike tho present genera
tion as novel. It is proposed to
build a tower seventy five feet high
overlooking the town. This is to be
surmounted by an immense lantern
of such Illuminating capacity as to
pat all previous lamps in the cate
CORY OF trihes. At present only one
tower will be built, but if the princl-
pie should prove success, seven or
eight towers will ultimately be
erected, that the city may be rem
dered as light as day, and gas and
kerosene completely superseded.
The idea of the inventor is to charge
the upper strata of the atmosphere
with luminous vibrations in the same
manner as is done by the sun, and
thus to produce the same effect that
is obtained during the day from the
reflected, refracted and ditfused light
Of that popular orb. It is believed
that electric light can thus be made
to permeate spaces which are inac-
cessible to direct rays by the same
law by which daylight diffuses it
self--that is, by virtue of an expan-
siye property which is constantly IL
Iustrated on the larges scale of polar
illumination, but has no place in our
text hooks on optics. The light
given by the solar orb u few minutes
after sunset, when only the upper
strata of the atmosphere are directly
affected by the solar beam, furnishes
the best example of the diffusion and
expansion that the Boston engineer
proposes TO initiate artifeially. His
plans provide for an illuminating
power from each lantern equal to
100000 candles, which is nearly
twenty times larger than that of any
electric lamp yet manufactured, but
is not all impractieable, as it involves
only an increase in electrical volume
and pressure, and corresponding in
crease in the diameter of the car
bons. The cost of the tower, lamp
and generator for single lamp will
be $4,000, irrespective of the engine
power required to run the latter. If
this experiment succeeds Edison
will have to look to his laurels.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-11-13

/ have suffered from kidney difficulty for the
past ten years, accompanied with nervous spasms.
Physicians gave me but temporary relief, but af-
ter using three and one-balf bottles of Warmers
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, my nervous spasms
were entirely relieved. My age is Il years.
recommend this gresi remedy to all suffering
= rf<.. Il.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-11-13
REMEm BER

That Warren's Music House, 90 Morrison street
near the Postoffice, Portland, Or, has everything
in the musical line at reasonable prices A large
stock Of sheet music, books, pianos, musical mer-
chandise, band and orchestra music always on
hand Mr.. Warren buys every thing direct from
Eastern houses, and can afford to sell cheaper
than any store in Oregon. Send for catalogue
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-11-13
SHORT BITS.

Toledo claims citizen who pours hot
water down his wife's back because she
won't join his church.
The hunting season in Ireland is prac-
tica1ly at an end. most of the landlords
having gone TO London for the winter.
There are no professional beauties in
this country. The great number of anna
teurs crowd out professionals,
A thonghtful person remarks: "We
cannot all be cabin passengers in the
voyage of 1ife." That is true, but some
how or otherwe always feel as though we
were cabin passenger who had got
chucked into the steerage by mistake.
The Hindoos perform the wonderful
trick of making mango out of nothing.
The nearest approach we can make to
that trick is to make man go ont of q
door. Boston Post. We can do worse
than that. We can make man go ont
Of his senses by inficting such jokes
upon him.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-11-13
What You Can Buy for 10 Cts
ON OUR TEN CENT TABLE

And a Thousand Articles too numerous 10 mention
FOE TEN CENTS I
All shades woRsTED only cents an ounce
From New York Auction,
Per steamer This Day:
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-11-13
The Great English Remedy

Vision, Noises in The head. ths vital nnid
passing unobzer7ed In the Ntf1ey and naHy
other Diseases that lead to Insanity and death.
DIR. MINTIE VIII agree 70 forfeit ktye
Hundred Dollars for q case or this Kind the
VITAL lunder htn sp CLAD
advice and treafmentt Will not cnres q nf
anything impure or fnfurjous found liz u.
DA. q fHTiE treats all Private Disessfs ssifr
cessfuily without mercury. cosSuatNttsa
Free. Thorough examination and Hdytet fu-
Guiding analysis OF urine, IS % Price 0f Vital
Restorative. IS % per bottles or four tttnes
The quantity for $40 90; sent % any atcd5ess
on receipt OF price. or %. D.. secure from ub-
servation, and In private nAEna Il desired, BY
A. T. BfINT1E, n. ID.
H Mearuy street, SAN frAuefsc0s RI
DR. MfNTls,s KIDNEY HEM%sN,
NEPRETlCUH.e cures all kinds Of Esdney
and Bladder Cofnplaints, aon0frh<ea, t3ltel
Ieucorrhosa. Hor sale by all druggists. 81 eg Il
bottle. six bottles for IS 90
DIR. MINTaEsS DANDEEION PILLS
are the best and cheapest DYSPEPSIA an
BILIOUS cnre in the market. FOR sale by i
druggists.
HODGE DAVIS q co. Rartlaua. ar
wholesale Axeuts- ms+fl
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-29
Fashions in Lips.

Prof. W. FL. Flower contributes the
following 20 Popular Science Monthly.
1.-The Bongo women - (says Schwein-
furth) "delight in distinguishing them
selves by an adornment which to ou1
notion is nothing less than a hideous mu-
tilatiOn. AS soon as woman is married,
the operation commences of extending
her lower lip. This, at first only slight
ly bored, is widened by inserting into
the orifce plugs of wood, gradually in
creasing in size, until at length the en-
tire feature is enlarged to five or six
times its original proportions. The
plugs are cylindrical in form, not less
than an inch thick, and are exactly like
the pegs of bone or wood worn by the
women of Musgoo. By this means the
lower lip is extended horizontally till it
projects far beyond the upper, which is
also bored and fitted with copper plate
OF nail, and now and then by little
ring, and sometimes by a bit of straw,
about as thick as lucifer-match. Nor
do they leave the nose intact; similar bits
of straw are inserted into the edges of
the nostrils, and [ have seen as many as
three of these on each side. A very
favorite ornament for the cartilage be-
tween the nostrils is a copper ring, just
like those that are placed in the nose of
buffaloes and other beast of burden for
the purpose of rendering them more
tractable. The greatest coquettes among
the ladies wear a clasp, or clamp, at the
corners of the mouth, as though they
wanted to contract the orifce, and tier
ally to put a curb upon its capabilities.
These subsidiary ornaments are not,
however, found at all universally among
the women, and it is rare to see them all
at once upon single individual; the
plug in the lower lip of the married
woman is alone sine qua non, serving
as it does for an artificial distinction of
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-29
They TumbIed to 1t.

A good story of President Jackson S
time is told in the Hartford oct. Times:
cold Hickory paid visit to Hartford
in 1888, and was met near the city by a
number of organizations under the lead
ership of a prominent Democrat, Gen.
James T. Pratt, who escorted the presi-
dent into the city. It was observed that
three men in q wagon were riding abreast
of Jackson's wagon, and while not de-
signing to insult the distinguished visi-
tor, their conduct was so boisterous as
to annoy him. One of the assistant
marshals requested them to fall back,
but was answered by fiat and profane
refusal. Gen. Pratt then rode up and
asked them to take himself out of the
way. Another blast of profanity and an
emphatic refusal greeted this request.
Gen. Pratt was mounted ON fine, pow
erful horse, and halting until the wagon
containing the men was a few yards
away, the general put spurs to his ami
NAL and charged upon the horse which
was drawing the refractory persons. He
came up at full gallop, his horse striking
the other on the foreshoulder with tire
mendous force. The struck animal was
knocked down the embankment, the
wagon upset and partly wrecked, and
the stubborn occupants found them
selves sprawling on the ground. AL
though the shock of the collision was
great, Gen. Pratt kept his seat as firmly
as rock, and the crowd cheered him
Justify. Old Hickory could not repress
smile as the three men took the unex-
pected tumble.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-29
Terrible Explosions.

The boiler exploded in a saw mill fourteen
miles east of Leadville, Col, on the 25th inst,
instantly killed Washington Emery, engineer,
and James Menzier. The explosion resulted
from too much steam, the guage being out of
repair.
By the explosion of a steam pipe on the
steamer Maggie Harper on the night of the
25th., near NieFs Landing, on the Mississippi,
Lem. P. Boyer, the engineer was fatally
scalded and five colored roustabouts badly
scalded Two of the unfortunates are expected
to die.
An accidental explosion of 800 pounds of her.
cules powder and nitro glycerine took place on
the Oath inst, at the Lime Kiln crossing, a
shoal in the Detroit river about 20 miles below
Detroit. where the government is engaged in
extensive blasting to remove dangerous ledge
rock. The explosive materials were on a scow
moored on the shoal. This, of course, was
blown to atoms. The shock was felt for miles
away; several workmen engaged near the vicin-
lty were cut by flying splinters, but none were
seriously hurt.
The boiler in Hoos & Sons fruit drying house
at Monroe, Mich, exploded with terrible yio-
lence on the oath inst, killing Henry O'Brien,
the engineer, Leonard Martin, cutter, and a boy
named Chaboreaux, and wounding more or less
seriously nine others. There were at the time
80 persons around the building which was de-
molished
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-29

sufficiently to walk with help back to
the house. On being questioned he con-
tessed that unless he could marry the
fair widow he wished to die, and she re-
fused to listen to his tale of love. He
was conveyed to the city station-house
reception room and remained till Mon
day morning, when the kind-hearted
widow called and said if he loved her as
deeply as he had given evidence, she
would marry him then and there. A
license was procured at once, and JUS
tlce OF the peace made the twain one
flesh instanter.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-29
Death on the RaiI.

The west-bound passenger train from Indian
apolis on the Vandalia road collided with the
east-bound freight on the trestle forty feet high
over Clear Creek, nine miles west of Terre
Haute, early on the morning of the Oath inst.
Both locomotives went down with terrible
crash, carrying with them the engineer, Oscar
Rankin, and fireman VIM. Saunders, of the pas
senger train, killing them instantly. Two postal
cars and eight wheat laden cars were smashed
to splinters. Engineer Watson of the freight
train had his arm broken and Lyman Booth and
A. W. Diahant suffered fractures of their lower
limbs.
Mrs. Polly Mcclure, aged SO, while crossing
the track of the Short Line railroad, near Vero-
ma, KY, on the oath inst, was run over by a
train and killed.
A train from Gloucester struck a carriage at
the Cabot street crossing, Beverly, Mass, on the
evening of the 21st inst, killing the occupants
Aaron Stevens and Clara E. Trask, both of
Beverly.
On the Chattanooga road, between Estill
Springs and Tullahoma, two freight trains col
lided, destroying an engine and three cars and
seriously ipjuring brakeman named Thomas
HALEY
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-29
Marine DiSaSterS.

The tug Thomas Spear, running between Two
Rivers and Ahnapee, Wis, took fire in Lake
Micerigan, off Carlton on the oath inst, and
burned to the waters edge. She had two scows
in tow loaded with stone for the harbor The
tug sank Immediately. She was owned by
Spear Bros, of Sturgeon Bay. The crew were
all saved and came ashore III a small boat. The
Spear was valued at $4,000. Insured
A schooner which was discovered bottom up
wards on the 10Th inst. in latitude Al: 80 north
and longitude 64:30 west, is believed to be the
Gladiator, which sailed from the Barbados for
Falmouth, England, some time ago. The dead
body of one man was found lashed to the
schooner by a rope. The stencil from the yes
sci was almost unbearable AS it was almost in
the direct path of transatlantic vessels, the
crew of the pilot boat Pet, which discovered the
vessel, bored hole in its bottom and sunk it.
At Bordeaux, France, on the 22d inst. ferry
steamer capsized, drowning six persons.
The steamer Gussie Telfair, in leaving Empire
City, CAL, on the 22d inst, struck ON Rocky
Point. She had thirty passengers and cargo
of coal and wood. No lives lost, and the cargo
will be mostly saved. The vessel will probably
be total loss.
The steamer Thracian, from Baltimore for
London. lost two men overheard in heavy gale
and had her chart house washed away.
The steamer Alsatla, which sailed from New
York on the 18th inst, for London, returned
for repairs on the Goth, having been damaged
by fire. When off Sandy Hook the coal in the
bunkers was discovered to be on fire, and short
ly afterwards terrible explosion occurred. The
greater part of the fuel was consumed before
the fire was extinguished.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-29
MOrfn8rX.

d. L. Arosemena. for three years cashier of
the New York Associated Press, and son of Don
,Iusto Arosemena, minister to the United States
from Columbia, died at New York city, on the
26th after short illness. Mr.. Arosemena was
graduate of Yale College.
G. T. Grace, celebrated English cricketer
and brother of the famous W. G. and E. NJ
Grace, died of inflammation of the lungs.
Donald Mckay, the well-known New York
shipbuilder, died on the 22d inst.
NJ. Thourel, Republican member of the
French chamber of deputies for Basses-Alpes, is
dead.
Rev. Francis Shorten, died at his home in
Louisville, KY, on the 21st inst, aged IS. He
had been in the ministry GA years, was born in
Fredericksburg, Va, and had resided in Louis
vile since 1889.
James Il. Reese. a prominent real estate
dealer of Chicago, ILL.,, died on the Goth inst.
aged 81. He was Chicago's first city surveyor.
Judge James Pinnott of the marine court
New York city, died on the night of the 10Th
inst
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-29
! Want to be an Angel.
from the Congregationalist.l

The Importance of timliness in per-
sonal effort for the good of souls was et-
fectually learned by city minister's
wife the other day. She was entertain
ing the infant class in her parlor-
Among the "infants was sweet lit
tie 3-year old cherub, with flowing
brown curls, large blue eyes, fair COM
plexion, and, despite her blue, silk dress
and long sash pure heavenliness of ex-
expion. They had just sung 81 want
to be an angel" and had returned to
their sport. And now, to begin
the loving lure for that young soul,
already to mortal view so near the pearly
gate, the good woman held out her
hands with their most winning grace,
and asked in her softest tones; "Dora,
dear, do you want to be an angelo"
Looking up from her suddenly inter
rupted game the incipient angel slightly
took down" he fascinated hostess
with the outburst, "Oh go to grass;
don't bother"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-29
A New EnuIand Romance.

Norwalk, Conn. has just been treat
ed to a romantic episode. A German,
aged 27 years, had been counting a
widow, and on Sunday night, after some
disagreement, he seized rope and ran
to the woods, threatening to hang him.
self. The widow in terror ran to one
neighbor and another to give the alarm,
and man started in the direction he
had taken, and soon found him hanging
from the limb of tree. He was cut
down insensible, and doctor sent for,
but before his arrival he had recovered
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-29

The editor of the London Times thus dis
courses about American cheese and butter.
The Americans eat very little cheese them
selves. They cannot make very good cheese,
nor do they ever attempt to compete with the
various kinds Of cheese produced in particular
localities and very successfully initiated in this
part of the world. All their cheese is of much
the same quality, and it is not one to find favor
at an English lunch or dinner table. The
cheese factory can only hit fair average of
richness, and must leave flavor alone. Butter
is still more hopeless affair As a rule,
American bntter is inferior Everything has
been done to render it fit for foreign use, or
for long keeping, but very little apparently, to
make it more agreeable to the palate" We
venture to say that the author of these sage ut
terances has eaten American cheese when he
fonaiy imagined he was deyouring the product
Of some Swiss dairy.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-29

The resolution extending the freedom of
San Francisco to President Hayes has been
handsomely engraved on a gold plate inches
by 50 inches, which is inclosed in silver en-
yelope bearing the presidents address on the
front and the figure of the city seal on the back
The plate contains the resolution handsomely
engraved, with the seal of the city in the centre
of the heading, and the names of the super
visors and the clerk of the board at the foot.
On the left hand upper corner is sheaf of
grain and on the right hand upper corner a
grapevine and fruit. Oh the left hand lower
corner is the American eagle and on the right
hand lower corner is a grizzly bear.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-29
The National Soldiers, Homes.

The board of managers of the National
Soldiers Homes have made several changes in
the officers at the Dayton and Milwaukee insti-
tutions, removing Gov. Brown of the Dayton
Home and appointing Gen. Patrie Of New York
in his place. Gen. Hincks of the Milwaukee
Home was superseded by Gen. Sharp, of New
York. DR.. Weaver, surgeon of the Dayton
Home, was removed and DR.. Stevens, of Eaton,
Ohio, appointed in his place. No charges are
made against the gentlemen removed. Col
Brown, governor Of the Dayton Home, has
been appointed general inspector of the homes
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-29
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1880.
VARIOUS TOPICS.

GEN. MANTEUFEL's administration in Alsace
Lorraine from which he has been recalled, is
the subject of acrimonious controversy in the
German newspapers, the general opinion being
that his government was not success. The
North German Gazette, referring to the matter.
condemns the course of the German journals,
saying that it is bad policy at this time, ''when
Frenchmen are considering whether they should
cease to make the reconquest of the provinces
the central policy of French policy" which m
dicates that Germany looks with suspicion on
its uasclble neighbour.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-29

II is said that at the next session of parlia-
ment an effort will be made by number of in
fuentlal members of parliament to alter the
Two proposals will be submitted to Mr.. Glad
stone--one that the session shall commence in
December and terminate in June; the second.
which is an alternative scheme, is that the
house should meet at three and adjourn at mid
night. There is a third proposal which is
favored by members of the fourth party; this is
that parliament, as at present constituted,
should not meet at ALL
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-29

The National American Kennel Club were de-
sirous that the field trials for 1880 should be
held at Vincennes, Ind, on November Is, the
only question in the matter being whether the
farmers In the vicinity where game is most
abundant would allow of the general use of
their grounds for the trial of the large number
of dogs entered for the various stakes and
purses. The club has addressed the landhoId-
ers on the matter, and as unanimous and
cheerful consent has been promptly returned,
the date and location first announced will be
adhered to. Game is reported as plentiful and
the field trials will no doubt be thorough and
satisfactory
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-29

TEMPERANCE reform III ST. Johnsbury, Vt,
has taken new step. There is town agency
for the sale of liquor, where people can get
what they want by prescription of physician.
Many people had slight ailments, for which
they found relief in stimulating beverages,
which some of the doctors eheerfully prescribed
in large doses. The new step is to publish each
week the names Of all who thus buy medicine,
together with the name in each instance of the
physician prescribing it. The consequence is
that people are not as sick as they were, and
the business has fallen off one-half.