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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26
immigrants Costumes.
IFrom the New York SUM-


One thing that strikes the observer
contemplating the immigrants as they
arrive, is the fondness for vivid colors
evinced by the people of the old world.
The national costume that formerly gave
such picturesque appearance to the
immigrants, and marked each people
distinctively are disappearing. From
Germany, Holland, England, Sweden
and Ireland come now about the same
general style of garments, varied simply
in cut and color, all bearing close re-
semblance to the general fashion of
raiment worn here. Yet, occasionally,
one will encounter groups from countries
more remote OF farther in the rear of
the universal progress toward assim-
llation who are well worthy of attention
and remark. 4 party of Icelandic men,
six In number, arrived here not long ago,
whose garb would have been prize for
a side show. Their pantaloons of dark
gray frieze extended up to their arm pits
Their vests and coats just met the upper
edge of the pantaloons, and from each
coat dangled between the shoulders of
each wearer pair of the funniest, most
ridiculous, and diminutive tails it is
possible to imagine. Big silver buttons
that had been bequathed from father to
son for many generations studded the
garments. The handsomest mems CO.'S
tunes WON by any immigrants are those
worn by the Tyrolese, consisting of long
stockings, velvet knee-breeches embroid-
cred vests, short cloaks, cone-shaped
hats, adorned with feathers, etc. It is
a dress that has been familiarized
throughout the country by the many
bands of Tyrolean singers who have
"yodel-ed" all over the land, and which
by its beauty, deserves to be retained.
The women from the same country have
brightly-striped petticoats, sometimes
with stripes of gold or silver lace that
make a very bright and pleasing show
Almost always both men and women have
finely developed, handsome forms, which
their costume displays to the best advan-
tage. Their faces are generally very
good-the women often very pretty-and
of all immigrants they are among the
cleanest and neatest.
The gayest-plumaged immigrant birds
are the Finlanders. They wear mostly
homespun materials, but gaudy with
bright colors. Generally they come in
colonies of forty or fifty persons, and
when such band arrives they seem to
brighten. all their surroundings. The
womens dresses are like very fancy
bathing suits of red, while and blue-no
half tints or shades, utstrong, pronounc-
ed colors-and their head-gear consists
of snowy white frilled mob caps. The
fondness for color which distinguishes
them is shown even in the dress of the
men, who wear coat bindings Of brilliant
contrasting tints. On their heads the
men wear colored caps of knitted wool,
like the fishermen of Brittany.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26
The InsuIted ELEPHANT.

This story is from letter written by a
gentleman in India. The writer says:
Gone day two ladies were watching
some elephants being fed near their
camp in the Central Provinces, when the
elder of the two took it into her head to
offer one Of the elephants a very hot
chapatti, which is a cake made of -four
and baked on the fire over thin plate,
and consequently, when fresh made is
burning hot. Elephants are usually fed
with these twice day, but they are al
ways allowed to cool before being given.
This one was still so hot that it hurt the
beasts trrlnk-for he dropped it with the
quickness of lightning and with shout,
at the same time striking blow on the
hand of the lady. Had she been but a
little nearer and the beast not at the full
length of his chain the same blow on the
head would have killed her on the spot.
AS it was, her hand was in most pain
full state for weeks afterward. Next
morning, when it was time to start for
the next encampment, this same lady,
who usually got up the ladder first and
sat nearest to the elephants head, pro-
ceeded to do as usual, but as soon as she
approached the elephant he began &c
trumpet and throw water over her. This
he did several times, and at last she had
to give up trying to ascend and another
lady took her place. The elephant, how
ever, permitted her to sit near his tail
but he remained cross all day."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26
LARGE EIms in New England.

Some of the New England elms, writes
the Hartford Times, attain a great
height and enormous dimensions. Such
are few or the Greenfield and North
hampton elms, and number in Lanes
boro', another Massachusetts, town, north
of Pittsfeld; and a number of the huge
Connecticut elms whose tri pie rows
adorn the spacious main street of East
Hartford and whose line, somewhat
thinner and more broken, extends all the
way northward to South Windsor. There
are On that road Individual elms whose
girth must be over twenty feet, and
whose vast upward and outward sweep
ing limbs, branching far and wide, seems
themselves to the passers-by who walks
or drives beneath like forest of great
trees. In the forks of several are cur
rant bushes, growing vigorously out Of
such scanty soil as they can get, at alti-
tudes twenty or thirty feet above the
ground-the growth of seeds dropped
there by birds. In Glastonbury's mead
ows there are some fine elms; and
Weathersfeld had, few years ago, a
mighty one, probably not surpassed in
Connecticut, on it's green driveway
known as Broad street. It still posses
ses a very large and splendid one there,
nearly up to the mammoth dimensions
of the famous old :" Pittsfeld elm," that
once stood on Pittsfeld green. Many
very large elms may be seen on either
side of the Connecticut, between Hart
ford and the straits below Middletown.
In fact, these noble trees, though per-
haps not SO plentiful as they were once,
are still abundant and it is one of the
charms of a ride, in almost any direction
about Hartford, that one meets with sc
many of these majestic elms. It is q
New England tree, and it's sweeping o.
pendant branches grace the green banks
of the Androscoggin as they do the
meadows of the Connecticut or the Hous
atomic. Some of the largest are proba
bly, 80 feet high, over 20 feet in girth
and have spread of perhaps 70 or 81
| feet.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26

evenings ago the hard-hearted parent
was riding home, enjoying the balmy
spring breezes on the rear platform of a
horse-car, when he fell into conversation
with very agreeable young man. He
was charmed with his pleasing address,
his respectful manners and his common
sense, and expressed himself to that eff
feet after he reached home, at the supper
table. "What kind of a looking young
man was he ?" said his better half with
sly twinkle in her eye. The inquiry was
answered with alacrity, by the unsus-
pecting man. "That was your son-in-
law" replied the lady as she hid very
broad smile behind her napkin.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26
THE DISMAL SWAMP.

Popular Errors in Regard to ItHow II is Situated
The Dismal Swamp, says an exchange,
is not vast bog sunk low in the ground
into which the drainage of the surround
ing country flows. On the contrary, it
is above the level ground some fifteen or
twenty feet, as was demonstrated by
actual surveys. Instead of being a re-
ceptacle into which rivers and streams
enter and flow, it is, in reality, an i'm
mense reservoir that, In its vast sponge
like bulk, gathers the waters that falls
from the heavens and pours them into
five different rivers which flows onward
to the sea. Any one would imagine that
the "Dismal' was a veritable charnel
house that spreads its miasma through
out the country. On the contrary, it is
the healthiest place on the American con-
tinent. The swamp is formed entirely of
green timber. There is absolutely no
decompOsed wood; one sees trees lying
all around in the forests and swamps.
The two principal woods that grow in the
place are the juniper and cypress, which
never rot. They fall prone on the ground
like other trees, but instead of the wood
decomposing it turns into peat, and lies
indissoluble by air and water for ages
perfectly sound. There is nothing in
the swamp to create miasma; no rising
of the tides and decomposition Of rank
vegetables; no marshes exposed to the
burning rays of the sun. All is fresh
and sweet and the air is laden with as
sweet odors as the fragrant woods in
May, when the sweet odors of the flowers
mingle with the pungent scent of the
pine and dogwood. In the ante bell,tno
days all planters were anxious to hire
their slaves to shingle makers in the
swamp on account of it's health. Mr..
Reddick, well-known contractor, says
he worked a gang of fifty hands for fif-
teen years in the Dismal getting shingles
and in all that time there was not sim
gle case of ague and fever. have seen
numerous atfidavits of overseers and
agents who have lived in the swamp their
whole life time, and they never knew a
death caused by miasma or solitary in
stance of ague and fever. The air is pure
and sweet, and the water tinged to faint
wine hue by the juniper, is as potent a
medical drink as are the famous watering
places of the Virginia "mountain spas. %
It is often used by naval vessels going
on long foreign cruise, on account of
the healthful properties and also because
it keeps fresh and clear for years. 1t is
strong and invigorating tonic, with a
very pleasant taste.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26
A Devon Lane.
Mrs. John Lille in Harper's Magazine

Mrs. John Lille in Harpers Magazine.]
Who that has ever walked through
genuine English lane forgets its charm
About our moorland village we found
every variety, and studied the Devon
shire verdure and blossom in many as
poets. The roadways are generally mar
row; firm foot and wagon path, with
close hedge-rows diversified by bramble,
holly, woodbine, honeysuckle, and
clematis. Sometimes the tangle of
greenery hangs above rugged stone
wall or earthen embankment, sometimes
tall trees break the line, and sway across
the road with feathery branches through
which the sunshine filters slowly; some
times the branches are all deicately
fringed with maiden-hair and ferns, the
the long fern AID the broad-leafed grow
ing in rich profusion, with here and
there the color ofsome dainty wild flower.
In the spring time we saw these hedges
starred with primroses, and the lower
hedges plentifully colored with lenten
lilies and crOcuses and the bold "daf-
fadowndilies which flourish like gay
maidens In the heart of the west of Eng
land country. In the later summer,
when we went down to the moors, all the
bold glory had vanished; but there were
still rich blossoms foxglove with stems
of purple bells, blue flowers, narcissus
that lays its pure pale blossoms so softly
against the ferns, the CLEAN of sweet
robin here and there, dandelions, and the
tiny white howerth rests on the bosom
of the hedges, and even of the moors, in
spite of oil the fierce winds that sweep
across the furze and heather, and finally,
best of all, the intense glow of the scar
let poppy in fields and roadside, blazing
Like 1--we Goals in the deep, cool verdure.
Behind all this, far back against the
horizon, lay the rich dark coloring of the
moor, which can not be written down, or
even, think, done justice to in painting;
it formed the background for our little
village, its varied shades toning the per-
spective with so rich and dark a beauty
that all paler bloom seemed faded and
lustreless 10 comparison.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26
RALLY ONCE AGAIN.

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So will Grant, Sherman, Sheridan,
and the rest of the big boys.
MONDAY, June 7, is the opening day
of the reunion at Milwaukee.
The tents were shipped from Wash
ington on the 21st inst.
The guard house will be conspicuous
for its absence at the reunion.
Ten brass bands will vie with each
other in serving feast musicalef for "the
boys"
REUNION headquarters, sc Wisconsin
street, Milwaukee. Secretary Kasson al
ways on hand.
The Mansion Guards, with tents and
camp equipage, will attend the gather
ing at Milwaukee.
The star spangled banner will float
from staff $50 feet in height-the tall
est in the United States.
The La Crosse Light Guard to the
number of fifty have notified Secretary
Kasson that they will be on hand.
OCEANS of lemonade and mountains of
peanuts will be temptingly displayed to
stragglers along the road reunion week.
DETROIT, Michigan, parties are anx-
ious to bring steamer up to Milwaukee
for pleasure cruising during reunion
week.
IT is generally understand that the
Milwaukee Ladies Temperance Union
will be on hand with free lemonade for
the thirsty tsys in blue.
The rates for visitors to the reunion
from all points on the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul road will be cents a
mile for round trip tickets.
The boys will miss their usual ration
of sow-belly and hard tack, but the COM
missary department will see that good
substitute is provided therefor.
The host of ex-soldiers in and near
Hastings, Neb, will belargely represent
ed at the reunion. Letters of inquiry
are coming in daily from them.
The road to the reunion camp ground
at Milwaukee passes the site of old Camp
Reno, but the boys must rely on mem
ory's picture of the tented field, as beau
tiful residences now adorn the spot.
The camp being situated on the lake
bluff ex-soldiers, their wives and daugh-
tiers, will be able able to avail themselves
of the fotilla of pleasure boats at the
piers and enjoy ride on Milwaukee bay.
RATES on the Wisconsin Central road
for the round trip to Milwaukee and re-
turn during reunion week are: Green
Bay, $40; Depere, $3.50; Appleton,
$500; Menasha, $3.50. All other points
cents per mile for the round trip.
MAYOR BROWN, of Milwaukee, has is
sued a proclamation suggesting the pol
icy of reasonable rates to hotel keepers,
liverymen and others, and in general that
nothing be left undone to add to the
comfort and pleasure of reunion visitors.
Rev. SAMUEL FALLows, bishop of the
Reformed Episcopal church of the state
of Illinois, formerly colonel of the 49th
Wisconsin regiment, will deliver the
Grafton in commemoration of the dead at
the reunion camp, Friday afternoon,
June IL. It should be remembered that
Thursday, June 10, is legal holiday.
The reduced fare for visitors to Milwau-
kee from the 9Th to the 18th of June, in
Guiding reunion week, on the Milwau-
kee, Lake Shore and Western road are
From Port Washington 75c; Sheboygan,
SLIGO; Manitowoc, $2.35; Two Rivers,
$3.50; Kaukauna, 49, 90; Appleton, So. co.
Hortonville, $3.50; New London, So. co.
ChntOnville. Sd. rs.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26

issued garnishees on several of the COM
panies on Saturday, after their bills had
been presented and refused payment.
In view of these facts the company, we
believe, has decided to postpone further
arrangements for resuming work-de-
claring their inability to proceed unless
these proceedings are Withdrawn. This
we believe is fair statement of the way
the matter stands at present.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26
A Converted Father-in-Law,

A young lady was married in Boston
not long ago, and the father refused to
attend the wedding or to have anything
to say to her future husband. The
youthful couple settled down not great
distance from the paternal mansion and
began life in a modest way, not appar-
emily troubled by the stern decree which
barred one door against them. A few
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26
UNEQUAL SOULS,
MARY F. ROBINSON.

"nere eddyfng shocks of air and whirling light
Beat al their broken waves to mist, and fall
About the unseen, impenetrabIe wall
That girlles Heaven round, there strains in FIGHT
That tempest-baffied soul, whose eager sight
searches the upper sky, whose pintons small
slnVer % answer some imagined CALI
Bas cannot free them from the wind and night.
ARdfar away along the spiral track
Waereup, having passed their mortal period,
Flash perfecs souls to lose themselves falGod
one ssops, and cries for freedom, looking back
10 ier whose claiming love forbids him rise,
With Intellectual fight and d1rkening eyes.
London d thenee3tss
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26

DURING 1879 nearly a quarter of a
million head of live stock were exported
from the United States, aggregating in
value over $11, 100000. This is not a bad
showing for branch of trade which five
years ago could scarcely be said to have
an existence.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-26

Boston is full of buyers of Loots and
shoes.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-07-02
Tight Shoes.

The wearing of shoes which compress
and distort the feet is a sigularly injur-
ious custom. Suppose / said that nine
tenths of the feet were rendered mis-
shapen by the boots and shoes worn, the
statement would seem extreme, but it
would be within the truth The pointed
shoe or boot is the most signal instance
of mischievous instrument designed for
the torture Of feet. In this shoe the
great toe is forced out of its natural
line toward the other toes, giving
a reverse curve from what is natural to
the terminal part Of the inner side Of the
foot, while all the other toes are COM
pressed together toward the great toe,
the whole producing wedge-like form
of foot which is altogether apart from
the natural Such foot has lost its ex-
panse of tread; such a foot has lost its
elastic resistance; such foot has lost
the strength of its arch to a very consid-
erable degree; such foot, by the irregu-
lar and unusual pressure on certain
points of its surface, has become hard at
those points, and is easily affected with
corns and bunions. Lastly such foot
becomes badly noulished, and the pres
sure exerted upon it interferes with its
circulation and nutrition. 1t ceases to
be an instrument upon which the body
can sustain itself with grace and with
easiness Of movement, even in early life;
while in mature life and in old age it be-
comes foot which is absolutely unsafe,
and which causes much of that irregular,
hobbling tread which often renders so
peculiar the gait of persons who have
passed their meridian.
1t sometimes happens for time that
these mistakes in regard to the boot and
shoe are increased by the plan of raising
the heel, and letting it rest on raised
impediment of pointed shape. Any
thing more barbarous can scarcely be
conceived. By this means the body,
which should naturally be balanced on 9
most beautiful arch, is placed on an In,
cline plane, and is only prevented from
falling forward by the action of the mus
cles which counterbalance the mechani
cal error. But all this is at the expense
Of lost muscular effort along the whole
| line of the muscular track, from the heel
actually to the back of the head-a losi
Of force which is absolutely useless, and
as / have known in several cases, ex
hausting and painful. In addition t
these evils arising from the pointed
heeled boot, there are yet two more. II
the first place, the elastic spring of th'
arch being broken by the heel, til,
vibration produced by its contract witt
the earth at every step causes a concus
sion which extends along the whole O
the spinal column, and is sometimes yer,
acutely felt. In the second place, th
expanse Of the foot being limited, tn
seizure of the earth by the foot is incom
plete both in standing and in walking, s
that it becomes new art to learn hov
to stand erect or to walk with safety
Hdrper's Weekly.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-07-02
Spanish Securities.

Spaniards rate money at its extreme
value. their favorite motto being, No
friend save God and dollar in your
pocket" In old Spanish houses there
is generally very cleverly-contriyed
secret receptacle for money, akin TO the
"secret drawer" Of the old-fashioned
English desk; and even now this secret
cupboard is much used, the Spanish idea
of security being-(an idea founded on
bitter experience Of many years to
cage the windows in iron bars, lock up
the houses at night, in winter, draw
around one Of the family, look at the
money, and then: "Why, lam very safe;
all / love and all need is contained
within the four walls of my casa. ="
Their distrust Of banks and Government
securities is universal.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-07-02
Colonel Gardner Takes an Appetizer.

There lives in the vicinity of Wooster,
down in the wilds of Wayne County an
ancient veteran of the Mexican war who
is known as Colonel Gardner The
Colonel has in his declining years APP
piled himself very steadily to the task Of
paving off the national debt, and the tax
on the amount Of tangle-foot, consumed
by him in n year materially augments
the internal revenue receipts OF his dis
triet One warm day last summer, his
stock Of ardent having given out, the old
gentleman mounted his horse and rode to
the village drug store to replenish the
same. The proprietor Of the pill foundry
was absent at the time of his arrival, and
the assistant was a green country boy,
whose knowledge Of the drug business
was yet to be gained. The Colonel
ordered the young man to measure him
out quart of whisky. The youth took
down large iav, the contents Of which
resembled the desired article in appear
ance, and filed the bottle, with which
the Colonel ambled off home. On the
, return of the druggist about an hour
Mater, he took n look at his array Of Ii
guilds, and inquired Of his deputy the
hame of the person buying 30 much sui
phuric acid. II didn't sell any acid; the
only one in was Colonel Gardner, who
came after some whisky" replied the
boy !.
"What jar did you get it from?''
shrieked the excited maker OF pills
"That un, said the apprentice, point
ing to the nearly emptied jar of acid.
"Great gunsl you've pisoned him,
howled the drug store man, and, seizine
his hat, shot down the street toward the
Gardner mansion like special dispatch
On approaching the house he saw the
Colonel sitting on the veranda tanning
himself vigorously, and ruefully survey
ing the charred remnants OF a news
paper which were scattered about, while
the sweat which poured off him foImet
in little pools about him.
"Hello," gasped the warrior, "wha
kind of whisky was that you sold me to
day, johnson? never see such stuff.
brought it home and took couple o
drinks and sat down here to read tn
paper, and in about five minutes begal
to bile, and the next thing, I'm darned
my breath didn't set the paper afire; II
have to move my custom if you don
give me better brand. A man woul
have to copper line himself to stand tina
stuff.
Mr.. johnson took what was left Of tn
sulphuric acid and informed the soldie
that he would send him down bette
quality of liquor in return, and betoo
himself tc his store, marveling at tn
strength of practiced digestive organs
Cleveland Leader.