Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-12-14

President Arthur's sleeping chamber in
| the White House is an intense sky blue,
even the wood work about the walls, doors
and windows being Of the vivid hue. The
walls are papered with silver, delicately
| fowered in gold. The furniture, curtains
and lambrequins are blue satin damask,
with very small gold flower on it. The
private Office adjoining is one of the
prettiest rooms in the house. Its walls
are paneled in pale pink and French
gray, with a pale blue border and gil
mouldings.
Miss Anna Holland, daughter of the
late DR.. J. G.. Holland, the poet and
writer, is engaged to Mr.. John Wood, of
Troy, n. Y, and Theodore Holland, his
son, to Miss Dresser, of Columbus, 0.
Isaac Bassett, the Doorkeeper of the
United States Senate completed fifty years
of public service on the 5th instant, he
having been employed as page, on the
recommendation of Daniel Webster, on
the 9Th of December, 1880.
DON'T THROW UP THE SPoNGE.-When
suffering humanity are enduring the hor-
rors of dyspepsia, indigestion, or nervous
and general debility, they are too often
inclined to throw up the sponge and re-
sign themselves to fate. We say, don't
do it. Take Burdock Blood Bitters the
10 cents. Sold by Fl. T. Eberle.
LOVE Your NEIGHBoR. your
friend or neighbor is laboring under bodi-
ly affliction, indigestion, biliousness, con-
stipation, caused by inpurity of the
blood, or disorders of the kidneys or liver
don't fail to recommend Burdock Blood
Bitters a sure and safe remedy. Price
$1.OO, trial size 10 cents. Sold by H. T.
Eberle
The New York Tribune says: "Mr.
Theodore Thomas has returned from Wis
its to Cincinnati and Chicago, where he
held rehearsals preparatory to the Music
Festivals which are to be given under
his direction next May. In Chicago Mr..
! Thomas found the Festival chorus, which
had been organized two months before,
to number between 700 and 800 voices,
and to be very we'll disciplined The
music sang was The Messiah and Bach's
Cantata Ein'feste Burg which Mr..
Thomas scored for the Cincinnati Festi-
val of May, $780,"
No SUCH WORD AS FAIL.-'G have
used your Spring Blossom for dyspepsia,
headache, and constipation, and find it
has done me great deal ofgood. [ shall
recommend it to my friends.
'FHENRY BERToLETI,
"May 24th. 96 Main ST., Buffalo"
Price so cents, trial bottles 10 cents.
Sold by Ell. t. Eberle.
A little Ohio girl, making a contribu-
ton to the Garfield Monument Fund, adj
dressed quaint letter to "Mr Commit
tee,'' in which she said: 81 am a little
girl Z years old, and live five miles from
Hiram, our dear Presidents former home
Now, my uncle Oscar, living in Cleve-
land, said [ could not spell hippopotamus.
He bet me a dollar. | won the bet. It
is the first dollar I ever earned, and I
wonld like you to please accept this as q
token of love to our beloved President
Garfield" The little girls name is Eva
May Folder, and her home is in Mantua,
O..
Since 1867 no fewer than $500 houses
in Edinburgh that were pronounced unfit
to live in have been pulled down, more
than So, 100000 was at the same time
spent in city improvements. The result
of this on the death rate is interesting
and instructive In 1863 it was twenty
six in a thousand; now it is twenty in a
thousand.
Mr. William R. Seymour, of Columbus,
O., writes: II attended a course of lect>
Medical College, of Cincinna ito. There
[ was tanght that Iron is a prominent
element in the physical organism of man
kind; without it life is an impossibility.
A vast percentage of the diseased and
premature deaths to which the race is sub
iect, is caused, or at least made possible by
a weakening of the body in consequence
of lack of Iron in the blood. Having
suffered from i'll health, poor digestion
and urinary troubles ever since lrecov-
cred from typhoid fever, complicated with
malarial fever, determined to give Iron
a trial. From investigation | learned
that Browns Iron Bitters were the best,
and that they did not blacken the teeth,
so [ concluded to make use Of them.
They have acted like a charm. never
before felt so robust, hearty, and strong"
AS tonic and nervine for debilitated
women nothing surpasses DR.. Pierce's
"Favorite Prescription" By druggists.
DIR. Pierce's pleasant Purgative Pei
Iets' are sugar-coated and inclosed in glass
bottles, their virtues being thereby pre-
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