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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10
Startling Theories.
TFrom the New York Times.l

From the New York Times.l
Several medical men of prominence,
both here and in England, have lately
maintained that tuberculosis is often I'M
parted to human subjects by milk from
diseased COWS, and Prof. Otto Bollinger,
of the Munich university, one of the
highest authorities in Germany, has sus-
tanned their position in q paper recently
read in that city. He said that repeated
experiments show that the milk of a
tuberculous beast has q very decided,
contagious influence, and reproduces
the disease in various animals, and that
the noxious properties cannot be expell-
ed evenly boiling. While the tuber-
clllosis of man is not completely identical
with that of the COW, it is exactly similar,
hence, there is constant danger IN any
community when milk is freely used
The Professor enjoins upon farmers the
necessity of taking the strictest care of
their stock, and upon people generally
the greatest care as to the quality of
milk they use. Rigid measures should
be adopted everywhere to exclude dis
tempered cattle from the dairies. This
has been done in the associated dairy es-
tablished recently in Munich, and will,
it is believed, have excellent ny
gienic effect. All COWS are there kept
under the closest medical supervision,
and at the slightest symptom OF tuber-
culosis are Immediately removed. 1t is
estimated that nearly 10 per cent. Of the
COWS kept in towns are more or less dis
eased-a proportion which must be much
increased in New York, where in all
probability more unwholesome milk is
sold than in any city on the globe. If the
tuberculosis theory be true, it is sin
gular that one-half Of our population
has not unsound lungs.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10
EnuIand's FaiEinu Revenue,

The Statist points out that the revenue
for the current financial year received up
to date is EOS, 497, 900 against e67, 597,
900 in the corresponding period of last
year,-a elimination of e., 100000. A
falling off like this suggegts that there is
something materially wrong in the condi-
ton Of the country, but such conclu-
sion would be a mistake. The genuine
ness and strength of the present revival
of trade are beyond question. But, if
there is nothing wrong in the condition
of the country, the effect on the national
finances must be serious. Unless there
is great recovery in the next fewweeks,
the addition of the current financial year
to the accumulated defcit-even assum-
ing no addition to the cost of the Zulu
war, and that the Afghan war expendi-
ture is wholly kept out-may be between
80, 900, 900 and 93,000,000. The govern
ment may plead that in strictness there
is no deficit, as the chancellor of the ex-
chequer pointed out at Leeds, the charge
for the debt including large sum for re
payment; but the facts Will certainly be
awkward for them in popular estimation,
unless there is great turn for the better
in the next few weeks.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10

such stufs IS will keep it comfortable
when it is asleep. Questions have been
asked as to the use of baby-carriages for
infants. Their use is justified in thou
sand instances, and it is unnecessary to
state them, but to send out child even
of three years Of age of cold day in a
baby-carriage is cruelty. The body
may be warm, but the head and the ten
der ears, no matter how they are clad,
must suffer. It is just as bad, when it
is freezing, to air a child in carriage as
to expose it, without any shade, to the
sun when the thermometer is at 100
degrees Fahrenheit. The best nurse is
she who, having a child in carriage,
after half hours stroll, takes it out for
a while, moves its position, then puts
her charge back. The worst thing is to
believe that an infant is torpid crea-
ture The era of the baby-jumper has,
thank goodness, passed away, and with it
the number Of spawned children have
sensibly dim nished.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10
A Wonderful Find.

Here is curiosity for archeologists,
says the Athens Ca. Banner Of the 14th
inst. Yesterday we were assured by
Messrs. Autry and Edwards, well-borers,
that on the day before, while boring a
well on the farm of Mr.. Sherwood Wise,
some four or five miles from Athens, and
just beyond Middle Oconee river, they
took out from the middle of as hard a
blue granite rock as they had ever en-
countered, forty-six feet underground, a
complete iron wedge, such as is gener-
ally used in splitting rails of wood. The
iron wedge is in the possession of the
gentlemen who took it from the rock,
and it is apparently but little worn.
This certainly is most remarkable Incl
dent, and one we'll calculated to puzzle
our scientists, biologists and mineralo-
gists. This extraction of solid iron
wedge, in state of perfect keeping, from
hard blue granite rock forty-six feet
under the ground is truly the wonder OF
the age. It has attracted good deal Of
curiosity and comment.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10
An Interesting Bug.
IUrizaba, Mexico, Corr. N. Y. Tribune. ]

N. l.
The next morning the steamer lay to
again, and another committee came out
with q complimentary address to Gen.
Grant. The latter conversed for some
time with the gentlemen, asking ques-
tons as to the productions of the coun-
try, after which he returned quietly to
the perrlsal of his book, leaving John
Alexandra to entertain the strangers
The sailboats that came off for lard and
lager beer were an object of interest TO
the travellers. On one Of them tied by a
cord TO the mast was a queer little
domestic animal that looked at first like
an extraordinary cat. It proved to be q
little anteater, and when brought on
board the steamer began at once to search
every nook and Granny with its long, in
dustrIOus nose for insects. We were told
that these animals are domesticated IN
Yucatan, being kept to clean dwellings,
of the multitudinous insects that infest
the country. The chief object that at
tracted attention, however, was one Of
those great light brown beetles that are
worn as jewelry. 1t was tethered to the
left lapel of Mexican's coat by little
chain fastened to a gold band. This is
TIE h1uu OIL Dug 6ilitG CAUSED SUCH Il
sensation when it appeared as an orna-
ment in a lady's hair at a reception In
London. When the gold bands are set
in diamonds the bug makes very snowy
ornament, and lives about six months
after being chained, luxuriating on diet
of water administered drop at time
It is perfectly harmless. The natives
find them in the woods and bring them
to the port to sell to strangers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10
ENTERING IN.
BY JULIA C. II. DoRR.


The church was dim and silent
With the hush before the prayer.
Only the solemn trembling
Of the organ stirred the air;
Without the sweet, still sunshine,
Within. the holy calm,
Where priest and people waited
For the swelling of the psalm.
Slowly the door swung open
And little baby grl,
Brown-eycd, with brown hair falling
In many wavy curl,
With soft cheeks flushing hotly,
Shy glances downward thrown,
And small hands clasped before her,
Stood in the aisle alone;
stood half abashed, half frightened.
Unknowing where to go,
When like wind-rocked flower,
The form swayud to and fro;
And the changing color fiuttered
In the little troubled face,
AS from side to side she wayered
With mute, inploring grace.
1t was but for moment;
What wonder that we smiled,
BY such Il strange, sweet picture
For holy thoughts beguiied?
When up rose some one softly,
And many an eye grew dim,
As through the tender silence
He bore the child with him.
And II wondered DOSING
The sermon and the prayer)
If when sometime | enter
The "many man ions" fair,
And stand abashed and drooping
In the portals golden glow,
Our God will send an angel
To show me where to go!
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10
TN Creuehoyv co1,ntv Ala. the maj

In Crenshaw county, Ala, the mar
riage of young lady to very ardent
lover was opposed by her parent, who
sent her out of the county to live with a
friend for a season. The young man
procured license in Crenshaw county,
and going to the retreat of his betrothed
took her to the nearest point in that
county-the middle of the public high
way-where magistrate performed the
ceremony, while negro violinist played
a lively "wedding march,"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10

DIR. G. E. SHOEMAKER, the well-llnown aural
surgeon of Reading, Pa, offers to send by mail,
free of charge, valuable little book on deafness
and diseases of the ear-specially on running
giving references and testimonials that Will sat-
isfY the most skeptical Address as above.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10

An old physician retired from practice, having had
placed in his hands by East India missionary the
formula of simple vegetable remedy tol the speedy
and permanent cure for Consumption B1rhchltis, Ca-
tarrh Asthma and all Throat and Lung 1tu lions also
a positive and radical for Nervous DeDIty and all
Nervous Complaints after having tested Its wonderful
curative powers in thousands of Gases has felt it his
duty to make it known TO his suffering fellows Actu-
ated by this motive and desire to releye hGhan suei-
ing will send free of charge to Who desnc IT. this
recipe, in German French Era,nsh tut Cirec-
tons for preparing and using. Sent 10y address
ing with stamp, naming this papel, W W SHERAR
La Pn1YnrSi Elnck- Rnehnstnr- n Y
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10

"Do animals resist temptation y
asks Popular Science, and the editor
theories on the subject for three hours,
instead Of going out and making prac-
teal experiment by shaking red flag at
q Oat.-BOStOn Post.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10
A EUNEsSehOaSs Need.

A book ON the Liver it's diseases and their
treatment sent free. Including treatises upon
Liver Complaints, Torpid Liver, Jf undice,
Bilousness, Headache, Constipation Dyspepsia,
Malaria, etc. Address DR.. Sanford 1872 Broad
way, New York city, n Y
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10
Wanted.

Sherman & Co., Marshall, Mich, want an
agent in this county at once, at a salary Of 800
per month and expenses paid. For full partic-
ulars address as above.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10

Dr. MARCH ISIS UTERINE CAihOIICON will
positively Female Weakness such Falling of the
Womb Whites Chronic Inflammation liberation of
the Womb, Incidental Hemorrhage or Flooding, Panu
81: pressed and Irregular Nenstruation An OLD and
reliable remedy Send postal card for pamphlet, with
treatment. and certificates from physicians and
patients Howarth Ballard Utica, N. Y SOLD by all
DruCgists-9i 30 per bottle
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10

YARBRoUaH HOUSE, Raleigh, n. G.
have used DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup for my
children, servants and myself. and think it the
golden remedy Mrs DR.. BLACKWELL.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10

WHEN exhausted by mental labor take
Kidney-Wo to maintain healthy action
of all organs.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10

NERVOUS SuFFEKERs.-A dose of Vegetlne,
taken just before going to bed, will ensure a
comfortable nights rest to the nervous sufferer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10
Remarkable Cure OfSCrOfulous Face

WESTMINSTER, Conn, June 10, 1879.
Mr. III. r. STEVENS:
Dear Sir-I can testify to the good effect of your
MEDICINE. My little boy had scrofula sore break
out on his head a. large quarter of dollar, and
it went down his face, from to the other,
der bis neck, and solid mass of sore. Two
bottles of your valuable VEGETINE completely cured
him. Very respectfully,
MRS. G. r. THATCHER.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10

ONE pair of boots or shoes can be saved every
year by using Lyons Patent Heel Shfeners.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10

Which is answered in three words
Take Hop Bitters See other column
Express.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10
How to Get Sick.

Expose yourself day and night, eat toe
much without exercise; work too hard
without rest; doctor all the time; take
all the vile nostrums advertised; and
then YOU will want to know
uoxy IN Got Wall
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-06-24
Rights of the Road.

A legal authority, in an opinion as to
the rights of the road, says if a farm
deed is bounded by or upon the road, it
usual y extends to the middle of the
roadway. The farmer owns the soil of
halt the road, and may use grass, trees,
gravel, stones, sand, or anything Of value
to him, either on the land or beneath its
surface, subject only to the superior
rights of the public to travel over the
the road, and that of the highway sur
veyor to use such materials for the re-
pair of the road. These materials may
be cartcd away and used elsewhere on
the road. No other man has right to
feed his cattle there, or cut the grass or
trees, much less deposit his wood, old
carts, wagons or other things there.
The owner of drove of cattle that stops
to feed in front of your land, or drove
of pigs which root up your soil, is re-
sponsible to you at law, as much as if
they did the same thing inside the fence.
Nobodys children have right to pick
up the apples under your trees, although
the same are wholly outside of your
fence. No private person has right to
cut or lop off the limbs of your trees in
order to move his old barn or other
building along the highway, and no
traveller can hitch his horse to your
trees by the sidewalk, without being liable
if he gnaws tho bark or otherwise in
jures them. If your we'll stands partly
on your land and partly outside your
fence, no neighbor can use it without
your consent No man has right to
stand in front of your door and insult
you with abusive language without be-
ing liable to you fol- trespassing on your
land. He has right TO pass and re-
pass in an orderly manner, and a right
to use the road but not to abuse it
But, notwithstanding the farmer owns
the soil of the road, even he cannot use
it for any purpose which interferes with
the use of it by the public for travel.
He cannot put his pig-pen, wagons,
carts, wood and other things there, if
the highway surveyor orders them away
as obstructing the public travel. If he
leaves such things outside the fence, and
within the limits of the highway, and a
traveller runs into them in the night and
is injured, the owner is not only liable
to him for private damages but also fined
for obstructing public highway. And
if he has fence or wall along the high
way, be must place it all on his land,
and not half on the road, as in ths case
Of division fences between neighbors.
But as be owns the soil, if the road is
discontinued or located selsewhere, the
land reverts to him, and he may enclose
it to the center, and use it as q part of
his farm.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-06-24
About Parrots.

Parrots are SO very disagreeable to
most people who count themselves well
regulated that these probably have
no IDEA how many Of the squawking
birds are imported into the country for
SALE Thousands are disposed of an
nually and the demand is said to be
growing. In the large cities, like Bal
timore, New York, Philadelphia and
New Orleans, they find ready market,
and also in many of the minor towns
New England is reputed to have pre-
judice against parrots which is hardly
equalled by any other section.
The people of the Southern States
generally like them more than those of
the Northern Stat do, but they are far
greater favorites with foreigners, as o
rule, than they are with Americans
The best, or least bad, parrots are
brought hither from the Windward or
Southern Caribbee Islands. Tney build
their nests in the royal palmetto tree,
finding or digging hole there after the
manner Of the woodpecker, and SO en-
sconcing themselves that it is necessary
often to cut the tree down in order to
capture the young. These are put into
cages, fed on palmiche, suavs and ba-
mamma for few months, when they will
eat anything The breeding time is
May there are rarely more than three
to the nest, and they reach their full
growth in eight months.
Almost any parrot can learn to talk
if placed where it can hear talking
when young, for its power of imitation
is instructive. 1t seldom forgsts what
it has once been taught, popularity
which makes parrot that has been in
structed in profanity very undesirable
companion for pious family. Indeed,
its love for the improper and interdioted
seems to be so inbred that some people
have thought it endowed with human
attributes. The parrot is Indigenous to
warm parts Of America, Asii, Africa
and Australia The only clearly ascer-
tanned species within the boundaries of
the Republic is the Carolina parrot.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-06-24
specified quantities of definite kisses of

specified quantities Of definite kisses of
one kind or another, and would thus
have gained substantial victory. As
1t is, his triumph in his action for breach
of contract would doubtless bring him
only nominal sum by way of damages,
and would render it necessary for him
to institute fresh proceedings in order to
gain possession of the jewelry. Still, it
by no means follows that because he
may have remedy in equity he has no
remedy at law, and it is reasonably GER
tain that if there was contract bet Seen
himself and the defendant an action for
breach of it will lie.
There are many ignorant persons who
fancy that the law is dry, prosaic bus
mess. This action, however, proves the
contrary. The questions at issue in
Finch against Waters come home to
every mouth in the country. There is
at present most lamentable vagueness
Of belief as to what constitutes a kiss,
and as to its precise legal status. We
shall now have these questions decided,
and the social interests OF the community
cannot fail to be vastly benefited there
by.--New York Times
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-06-24
A Gent.

Mr.. Bartlett, in his Dictionary OF
Americanisms, gives gent as an abbrev'-
alton of gentlemen, but it has been re-
served for the slang dictionary to define
it's precise position i'll the scale Of de-
scent Gent is said by this authority to
be a contradict On of gentleman in more
senses than one-a dressy, snowy, fop-
pish man, with little mind, who vuI-
CARRIES the prevailing fashion. AS the
gent is thus product and represents
tive of certain social conditions, there il
a certain fitness in the word which char
acterizes him. Being only nominal
part of gentlemen, it is we'll to have
his name bear witness to that fact
Language, even in its corruptions, thus
becomes the guardian and vehicle Of
truth.
A witticish of Count d'Orsay illus
trates the significance of the word gent
better than some graver expositionA
The story is that he and Tom Allen
went to dine at the house of a Hebrew
millionaire, AMI on their arrival heard
one Of their hosts flunkies saying TO an
other, The gents are come" 'Gentsl"
echoed Allen, "what a wretched low
fellow It's only worthy public house"
81 beg your pardon, replied the Count
ait is quite correct The man Is Jew.
He means to say the Gentiles have A.
rived; gent is short tor Gentle" This
Jew d'esprit, as the narrator wickedly
calls it, had truth as well as Wit, for
Gentle, from the Latin gems, has the same
origin as gentleman. The word gent
formerly did duty as an adjective, old
English writers using it to express the
softer qualities of the female sex. A
"lady gent instead of being lady's
man or coxcomb, was an elegant or gen
tie lady. Doubtless an element of soft
ness is associated with gent as noun,
but being connected with the head
rather than the heart. the perpetuation
OF the quality can hardly be considered
osirable.-Atlantic for June.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-06-24

Mr.. Harvey d. Parker, owner of the
Parker House Boston, wants badly to
get the corner of School and fremont
streets to compete the symmetry OF his
hotel. 1t is owned by maiden lady,
we'll on in life, who inherited it and
lives there. Mr.. Parker has made her
tempting offers to part with it. One of
these is said to be the sum fixed by ret
erecs AS the valuation or the estate, with
a bonus Of $4,000. and with her own
room, in which she now lives, situated
in the second story, guaranteed to her
for life, with Parker III 'use board free
for her further comfort. She refuses all
offers and lives on after her own man
ner.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-06-24
Story of Robin Adair.

The hero of Robin Affair."" was well
known in the London fashionable cir
cles Of the last century by the sobriquet
of the " Fortunate Irishman," but his
parentage and the exact date OF his birth
is not known. He was brought up
surgeon, but "his detention in an early
amour drove him precipitately from
Dublin" to push his fortunes in Eng
land. Scarcely had he crossed the chan
mel when the chain of lucky events that
ultimately led him to fame and fortune
commenced. Near Holyhead, perceiv-
ing carriage overturned, he ran to rem
der assistance. The sole occupant OF
the vehicle was ''lady of fashion, well
known in polite circles" who received
Mr.. Adair's attentions with thanks, and
being slightly hurt and hearing that ne
was a surgeon, requested him to travel
with her in her carriage to London. On
their arrival in the metropolis, she pre-
scented him with fee of 100 guineas,
and gave him general invitation to her
home.
In after life Adair used to say it was
not so much the amount of this fee, but
the time it was given, that was of ser
vice to him, as he was then almost des-
titute. But the invi Ation to her house
was still greater service, for there he
met the person who decided his fate in
live. This was Lady Caroline Keppel,
daughter of the second Earl of Abe
marie apd of Lady Anne Lennox,
daughter Of the first Duke Of Rich
mond. Forgetting her high line
age, Lady Caroline, at the first
sight of the Irish surgeon, fell despeb
ately in love with him, and her emo
tons were so sudden and so violent a.
to attract the general attention of the
company. Adair, seeing his advantage,
lost no time in pursuing it, while the
Albenaire and Richmond families were
dismayed at the prospect of such terri
BILE mesalliance. Every means was
tried to induce the lady to alter her
mind, but without effect.
Adair's biographer tells US that
.'amusements," long journey, an ad-
vantageous offer, and other common
modes of shaking Oft what was consider
ed by the family an improper match,
were first tried but in vain. The health
of Lady Caroline was evidently i'm
paired, and the family at last confessed
with COED sense that reflects honor on
their understanding as we'll as their
hearts, that it was possible to prevent
but never to dissolve an attachment,
and that marriage was the honorable,
and, indeed, the only alternative that
could secure her happiness and life
When Lady Caroline was taken by her
friends from London to Bath. that she
might De separated from her lover, she
wrote, it is said the song of "Robin
Adair." and set it to plaintive Irish
tune that she had heard him sirg
Such is the story of this popular song