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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Lost AT Sen.

The French tishing-boat Emil Ernestine was
sunk off the coast of New Brunswick, by col
lision with a bark, and six Of her crew were
drowned.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-06
Washington GOSsfn.

Sir Edward Thornton presented to the presi-
dent ON the Both ult. his letter of recall, and
in doing so he alluded to the pleasant relations
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-06

AN acre of water at Griffin, Ca, con-
tains l ,000,0 carp.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25

Miss Mary Hamnett, progresses
ing young woman of Allegheny, Pa, is
clerk in dry-goods shop. One even
ing, just as the shop. was shutting up,
she went back into it to get something
which she had forgotten. The book
keeper did not know that she was inside.
and locked up the door and left. Miss
Hamnett tried all the doors and win
dows, but could find no way of getting
out. She ratified on the windows, but
the passers by paid no attention to her,
and thus two hours passed. Then she
went to the telephone, but did not un-
derstand how to work it. She fooled
around it and in some manner gave a
signal to the central Office. Answer
was sent back, of course, by ringing the
signal bells. The captive girl, who was
not well informed about the telephone,
got it into her head that the ringing of
the bells was caused by fire in the build
ing, and she screamed and shrieked un-
til she was hoarse. She made another
examination of the telephone, and final
ly mastered the manner of working the
instrument. She got the central Office
and told the operator of her condition.
1t was then rather late at night, and
word was sent to member of the firm,
by whom man was sent with a key to
iberate her.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25

Since the preservation of fruits by
the process of canning has became so
general. it is desirable to know which
varieties are best adapted to the pur-
pose. AS a rule, those whose taste is
sweet or insipid are not desirable. while
those that have decided flavor are to
be preferred. Black cap raspberries;
sweet cherries and blueberries are
among the poorest small fruits for can
ming, as their flavor is insipid when they
are ia their best estate, and is impaired
by the operation of heating. Strawber-
ries, though most delicious when fresh,
become somewhat insipid when cooked.
Red raspberries are excellent when
canned, but they should, to preserve
their flavor and aroma, be put up as
soon as they are gathered. Black
berries are inferior to red raspber-
ries, but if canned shortly after they are
picked they will come out in very good
condition and be well relished. Red
and white currants contain too many
seeds to be very desirable. 1t is better
to extract their juice and to convert it
into jelly. All who relish black cur
rants when fresh will like them after
they have been canned. They form an
excellent sauce without further cook
ing, and are in good condition to use in
pies and tarts. Gooseberries, if gath
cred before their skins become tough.
are excellent after they are canned.
They are especially desirable for eating
during the spring. when the appetite
Graves acid fruits. Early Richmond
cherries, all things considered, are the
best of all the small fruits for canning.
If managed with skill they will retain
the color, form, flavor and aroma they
had when freshly picked from the tree.
Most kinds of plums are good, but ow-
ing to their size and the firmness of
their flesh they require more cooking.
Of the sweet fruits there is none better
than pears. Even the inferior varieties
are excellent when canned. The ounce
is admirably adapted for canning pur-
poses, being almost the only kind OF
fruit that is improved by cooking. Be-
ing scarce and expensive, there IS econ
omy in putting them in the same jars
that contain apples or pears of inferior
flavor. The larger varieties of crab
apples form valuable addition to the
stock Of canned fruits. = Chicago Times
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25
New York Union.J
MA Wul- nA~a

Mr.. Charles h Bauer, editor of the above
paper and Notary Public, in a late issue mem
tons the following: Patrick Kenny, Esq.
some time ago, suffered much from rheuma-
tism and tried almost every means to rid
himself OF this painful evil, but in vain. He
was advised to use St. Jacobs OIL. which he
did so successfully, that all pain has left him
and he is as healthy and strong - ever be-
fore. Mr.. Kenny is an enthusiastic advocate
Of St Jacobs OIL, and 1t has done him good.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25
Flowers ct Eight Times Their Weight
in Gold.


The cut-aower business, another phase
OF horticulture, is perhaps greater in the
United States than in any other part of
the world. Certainly the use Of cut
flowers in New York, for bouquets,
baskets and other designs, is far greater
than in either London or Paris, and the
taste shown in their arrangement here is
vastly superior. 1t is estimated that
three millions of dollars were paid for
cut.iowers in New York in 1880, one
third of which was for rose-buds. Inn
mense glass structures are erected in the
suburbs for the special purpose of grow
ing cut-iowers to supply the bouquet
makers of the city. Not less than twen-
ty acres of glass surface is devoted to
the purpose Of forcing roses alone, DUR
ing the winter months. At some sea-
sons the prices paid for these forced
rose buds are perfectly astounding. One
grower, of Madison, New Jersey, took
into New York three hundred buds of
the crimson rose known as General
Jacqueminot," for which he received, at
wholesale, three hundred dollars, and
which, no doubt, were retailed at dol
lar and fifty cents to two dollars each.
A fiower-dealer in Fourteenth Street,
few days before Christmas, received the
only four of this same variety of rose
that were offered in the city, and found
customer for them at sixty dollars, or
fifteen dollars apiece, or eight times the
value of their weight in gold.
Henderson, in Scribner.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25

The good old lady kept private bottle
from which she refreshed herself from time
to time, as she felt the need, though none of
the family knew it. One evening her daugh-
ter In rummsging through the pantry for
doughnuts for ner beau, spied the bottle and
had the curiosity TO draw the cork and apply
her nose to the aperture. at which moment
the Old lady hove in sight and angrily d.
manded: We'll, are you any wiser than you
were! What do you suppose it isf' don't
shrinking maiden, shut 1t smells just like
Char les mustache-"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25

GSheboygan Fails, Sheboygan Co.. News.I
We never saw any one joyous when suffer
ing from pain;-neuralgia for instance. In
relation to this malady Mr.. George Guyett,
Prop. Guyett House, thus informed our rep
resentatve: / have used St. Jacobs Oil for
neuralgia, and can confidently recommend 1T
to any one similarly affected.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25
WorthIes. atuG.

Not so fast my friend: IL you could see the
strong healthy, blooming men, women and
children that have been raised from beds Of
sickness. suffering and almost death, by the
use Of Hop Bitters, you would say "Glorious
and invaluable remedy" See other column.
-Philadelphia Prep.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25

"PAPA-"That picture shows the story of
Prometheus aRd the vulture that fed on his
liver Every day the vulture devoured it,
and every night It grew for him 10 eat it
aga ~ sympathetic Child-"Poor. dear
old vniture! How sick he must have been OF
LIVER every dayp'
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25

= An inmate of the female depart
ment in the jail at Racine, Wis.,, made
her escape recently by burning through
the floor with the handle of coal shovel.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25

Dyspepsia, bilious attacks, headache, ana
many other Ills can only be cured by remov-
ing their cause. Kidney Wort has been
proved to be the most effectual remedy for
these and for habitual costiveness which so
afflicts millions of the American people
Farm and Fireids.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25

Henry. Lucy OF course gave 1t up. "When
1t Is little forward" said Henry. rAnl
SUPP ose II is like young gentleman because
il is the vernal season." repl ed Lucy. Tab
lcau.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25

YoUNo SWELL: ! should like to have my
mustache dyed" Polite barber: Certainly,
did you bring it with youl"-CoueQ Journal
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25

A FIJI Is said to have 16, 600 eyes. No won
der he is careless as to where he leaves his
specs.-Louisville CowsieT-JournaI
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25

Fowls are gluttonous; they take peck al
every moutlful.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25

SPECIMEN OF SIGN LANGUAGE-"Walk inn
" Shut the door;;n If you don't see what you
want ask for II"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25

CIRCUS MEN turn everything to their own
advantage-even Handspring. -Boston Tran-
scriDf.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25

"A PAYING business-the cashiers Dstroa
Free Press.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25

Jon was doubtless the first humorous par
agrapher.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25

YOUNG lady weighed herself in the early
morning and again after dinner, when she
found she had gained forty pounds. She ate
yery sparingly. 1t was not that She had all
her hairpfns In position. That was all.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25

ONE Of Maud SIS colts has been sold for
t60U. The little de&rl
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25

If fine feathers don't make fine birds, VIII
.sn't crow As handsome a. peacockl-Ds
I!roif Fro Press.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25

II you would shine in the world, be a boot
black
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25

Good Watches ak Low Praces.
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Cheaper than ever; write for illustrated cata-
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REDDNG's RUSSIA sALvE, the most wonder
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ALI grocers sell National Yeast. Try II.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25

deadly wound that he died before he
could be removed to the hospital. As
this was the third case within few
months of the shooting of unarmed cit
liens by the armed German patrols it
has created lively feeling of indigna-
ton in Strasburg. Such incidents do
more to retard the process of German
ization than all that the suppression of
French insurance companies can do in
the other direction.
"A German gentleman, formerly in
the Hanoverian civil service, writes of
the late King; :" He had. when boy,
injured one Of his eyes. The other,
sympathetically affected. grew worse.
Crate Gather of the still more cele-
brated sony in 1910 cut right through
the optic nerve by an accidental slip of
the hand. This made the King utterly
blind. and Crate died of chagrin in q
tragical manner. The dreadful mis-
fortune Of blindness failed in any wise
TO embitter the King, who seems to have
been the most extraordinary contrast to
his odious father | remember, when
one day working with him, he sent me
to my house for a paper. When came
hack he was on his knees beside the
sofa he had been sitting on, with his
head resting on his folded hands and
his blind eyes turned upward, and so
deeply absorbed in prayer that he did
not hear my entrance. / quietly with
drew. and, returning, found him sitting
on the sofa, his whole countenance
beaming with calm joy. Tears, Twill
confess, came into my eyes"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-01-07
Cremation in Italy.

The Italians are resolved to make the
system of cremation as perfect as posi-.
bic. The headquarters of the institu-
ton at Milan have recently received a
very singular addition. It's customers
were confronted with difficulty which
al first had not been anticipated. The
difficulty was to know what they were
to do with the ashes of their deceased
relatives. 1t seemed improper that
ordinary sepulture should follow so I'M
usual process as cremation. The
management of Milan has at last found
its way out of the difficulty. Incinera-
ton is, after all, but revival of an old
fashion, and it was only necessary to
follow out the usages of its originators
in order to cause all difficulty to dis
appear. The crematory temple at
Milan is to have an annex, which will,
in fact, be cemetery. The municipal
ity has already selected its architect and
approved the plans which he has fur
nished. The cemetery, when com.
pleted, will differ as widely from an or
dinary graveyard as cremation differs
from ordinary sepulture. 1t will be an
Etruscan building, thirty-six feet high
by about twenty feet long, and will be
furnished with recesses, 100 in number,
according to the present design, in
which several cinerary urns can be
placed. The authorities are so confident
of the success of the undertaking that
they have ordered vaults or catacombs
to be constructed under the nave, and
these will become the private property
of families. The practice of cremation
seems to have made more way in Italy
than in Germany, to which two coun-
tries of Europe it has as yet been almost
entirely confined London News.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-01-07
Jack.

slack " would at first sight appear to
he o familiar abbreviation of John, and to
be applied in that sense. 1t occurs in
iack-tar, roasting jack, hook jack, jack
of-all-trades, jackey (gin); jack, part of
the machinery of lock and of a piano.
forte; jack, an engine for raising heavy
weights; jack-knife, jack-towel, brick
Jack. In some instances where the word
occurs, such as jackass, jackdaw, jack
an-apes, jack-a-lent, iack-pudding, it is
manifestly derived from Jack, the famil-
lar name of John; but in the examples
above cited the true etymology is to be
found in the Celtic or Gaelic deagh Id
before the vowels and is pronounced
j, deac Tor jeagh), the cymbric da signi-
ties good, fit, appropriate. excellent,
well.
A jack-tar is good sailor; roasting
jack is an instrument fit, appropriate or
good for the purpose of roasting. A
jack-of-all-trades is one fit to turn his
hand to anything useful; jack-knife is
q good, useful and large knife; boot
jack is good to pull Off boots. Jackey,
q slang word for English gin, means,
also, strong ale, and among children a
species of sweetmeat, and in all these
cases synonymous with something
good, as the French call a sweetmeat a
bonbon, or Us the Scotch call them
goodies, Blackjack is an old name for
a large bottle of black leather, good to
hold beer or other liquors. Beaumont
ana Fletcher have preserved the words:
"There is dead sea of drink in the
cellar, in which goodly vessels lie
wrecked, and in the middle of this
deluge appear the tops of fagons and
black jacks, like churches drowned in
the marshes. All the Year Round.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-01-07


CRACKER PUDDING.-Pour one quart
boiling water over six soft crackers, lie,
stand until very soft; add three or four
eggs, one cup of raisins, one-fourtb
spoonful salt, sweeten, flavor or spice
bake.
EGG PATTIEs. some eggs hard,
let them cool, line some patty pans with
pull paste, partly bake, fill with the eggs.
chopped small, pour over little cream,
seasoned with salt, white pepper and
powdered mace; cover with q thin
crust, bake and serve hot.
LADY FNGERs.-Rub half a pound of
butter into one pound of flour, add hall
pound OF sugar; crate in the rinds OF
two lemons and the Juice of one; then
add three well beaten eggs. Make into
rolls the size of the middle finger; bake
quickly. When done, dip in chocolate
frosting.
OUNCE PUDDING.-One pint and a hall
OF milk, four ounces of bread crumbs,
four eggs, two ounces of butter, the
rind OF lemon, loaf sugar to taste;
boil the milk, and pour it over the bread
crumbs and lemon peel before it is cold
pour in the yolks Of the eggs; beat the
whites till they are firm, mix them with
he rest and bake at once.
RUsKs.-One and half pints -four.
hall teaspoonful salt, two tablespoon.
fuis sugar, two teaspoonfuls baking
powder. two tablespoonfuls lard, one
teaspoonful each extract nutmeg and
cinnamon and one pint milk. Silt
together the flour, salt, sugar and pow
der; rub in the lard cold; add the milk
beaten eggs and extracts; mix into q
dough soft enough to handle; turn out
on the board. give quick turn or two
to complete its smoothness; break of
into small pieces; roll them under the
hand into small balls, round and about
as large as a small egg; lay in a well.
creased shallow baking pan very close
together; wash over with a little
melted butter and milk; bake in moder.
ate oven about thirty minutes; when
done sift tine.white sugar over them.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-01-07
How Chickens Are Born.

Take an egg ont of nest on which
hen has had her full time, carefully
holding it to the ear; turning it around,
you will find the exact spot which the
little fellow is picking ON the inside OF
the shell; this he will do until the inside
shell is perforated, and then the shell is
forced outward as a small scale, leaving
hole. low, if you will take ono of the
eggs in this condition from under the
hen, remove it to the house or other suit
able place, put it in box or nest, keep.
ing it warm and moist, as near the tenn.
perature of the hen as possible (which
may be done by laying it between two
bottles OF warm water upon some cotton
or wool, and lay glass over the box OF
nest, then you can sit or stand, as is
most convenient, and witness the true
modus operandi. Now watch the little
fellow work his way into the world, and
you will be amused and instructed as we
have often been. After he has got his
opening he commences nibbling
motion with the point of the upper bill
on the outside of the shell, always work
ing to the right (if you have the large
end of the egg from you, and the hole
upward), until he has worked his way
almost around, say with one-half of an
inch in perfect circle; he then forces
the cap or butt end of the shell of, and
then has chance to stiaighten his neck,
thereby loosening his legs somewhat,
and SO, by their help, forcing tho body
from the shell.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-01-07
The Sleep Disease.

Nj. Talmy has presented a note to tho
French academy in which hc calls atten-
ton to the analogy which exists letweeii
the sleep disease" aud chicken
cholera. The sleep disease is q rsr1
affection, which, M 10 the present Time,
has been met with only among tho
negroes of the west coast of Ahisa. r.
was first made known bv Enelish phys
sicians in 1919, but was not accua stlv
observed until many Years aftcrwar1 p
1862 by the French ply icars,
DaugaiN, Nichols, Guerin and vcrv re-
Gently by Core. In this curious aatc-
ion the person attacked keeps his cvcs
half closed, as il he were unabln To open
them wide and is frequently seized With
profound desire to sleep. Later On he
sleeps continuously, and has to be
awakened to take nouisliment-v which
he does with pleasure ii he is awakened .
sufficiently Death approaches voiy
gradually but surely, and the ,ictira
passes away at length without suntrihg
any pain. The disease is always htaf. =
no cure yet being known for it. From .
the symptoms given by the abovo-men-
toned physicians and from the symp-
toms of chicken cholera as studied by
Moritz, PeIToncito, Toussaint, and more
recently by Pasteur, M. Talmy believes :
That the two diseases are Of similar
character. and both due to a like cause.