Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30

LYDIA E. PMKHAMs Vegetable Compound,
the great medicine for the cure Of oil female
complaints, is the greatest strengthened of the
back, stomach, nerves, kidneys, urinary and
genital organs of man and woman ever known.
Send for circulars to Lydia E. Pinkham, lynn.
Mass.
A FELLOW who stole a church contri-
button box containing only twenty cents,
at Canandaigua, n. Y, has been sent to
state prison for ten years, being one year
for every two cents stolen.
P. NJ. BAGas has purchased for $10,-
900 the two hundred acre farm at Bemis
Heights, near Saltwater, where the bat
tie of Saratoga was fought and the indie
pendence of America assured.
SOCRATES, at an extreme old age learned to
play on musical instruments. Cato, at so years
of age, learned the Greek language, Plutarch,
when between sixty and seventy, began the
study of Latin. DR.. johnson applied himself
his death; Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham was nearly
fifty years of age when she discovered her Veg
etable Compound. By these facts we see that
it is never too late to learn.
MIR. SALTER, a stonemason of Sher-
wood, Quebec, flew into a passion be-
cause something was lacking on his table,
went to restaurant for his supper and
choked to death with piece of beef
steak.
IT is impossible for a woman, after faithful
course of treatment with Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, to continue to suffer from
weakness, druggists say.
The reason for changing the name of
the 8" dead letter" Office In London to the
" returned letter" Office was that so
many people misunderstood its meaning,
and were constantly inquiring for dead
or missing people.
Two hundred thousand bushels of
beets raised In Saratoga and Schenec-
tady Counties, New York, are being
shipped to Wilmington, Del, for the
manufacture of sugar. Twenty-Five
canal boats will be required for the pur-
pose.
MILTON received $25 for paradise Lost, :"
Pope $4,000 for his translation of Homer,
" The Raven" TennysOn So, 600 for o single
poem. Shakespeare received only $25 for
Hamlet" while Lydia E. Pinkham receives
$50, 900 per month from the sales of her Vege-
table Compound, Liver Pills and Blood Purifier.
SOME time ago there was published
twenty-six different renderings of Gray
Elegiac line, "Homeward the plough
man plods his weary way" and Wash
ington man writes it 1876 different ways,
all grammatical, but some of them little
involved.
THERE was killed near Hot Springs,
Ark, few days since buck that had
twerty-seven points on one beam of
making in all forty-six. AS these points
are supposed to appear not exceeding
one each year on one beam, the deer
must have been twenty years old.
TIE physical ills which are peculiar to women
are seldom mentioned, either in conversation
or through the press, through false modesty;
and yet the percentage of these diseases are on
the increase. Thousands of women to-day
cherish grateful remembrance of the Vegeta-
BILE Compound which is prepared by Mrs. Lydia
E. Pinkham of this city. We learn that more
of this preparation is sold in this city than is
sold of any other medicine; and all the world
should know of its curative effects. See adver-
tisement In another column. Transcript.
A PARTY of ladies and gentlemen were
sailing on the Potomac, near Piney
Point, when one of the ladies felt her hat
jerked from her head, and turning round
saw it in the jaws of shark. The fish
was attracted by long ribbon hanging
over the side of the boat, and luckily
took the hat and not the head.
AMONG recent inventions in this coun-
try is the manufacture of barrels of
pulped wood-one kind for fruit, -four
and other dry substances, and the other
for oils, beef, pork and liquids. They
are SO strong that they may be dropped
from wagon without harm. Each bar
rel is made in one piece, of coarse wood
pulp, subjected to pressure of 400
tons, and LIZ light, strong and cheap.
A REMEDY that will successfully relieve female
weakness cannot fail to be popular with women,
and when meritorious article is placed on the
market it meets with ready sale. Among the
most reliable of this class is Lydia f. Pinkhams
Vegetable Compound, which is guaranteed to
cure all diseases of female weakness. This
preparation is fast taking the place of all
others as a sure and reliable remedy, and is en-
dorsed by druggists and others wherever it has
been introduced. Rockland. ILL.,, Argus. See
advertisement IN another column.
BRYANT IVES, anew Yorker, paid $15,-
900 for an Illuminated missal the other
day not too large to slip into an overcoat
pocket if, like those in Mr.. George Ban
croft's overcOat, the pocket is made big
enough to take in an octave volume.
This is probably the largest price ever
paid in this country for one book. In
England $36, 900, paid for Gutenberg
Bible on paper. is the high-water mark
in book prices.
LYDIA E. PNKHAM's Vegetable Compound
cures all female complaints. The following is
the sort of testimony which Mrs. Pinkham re-
ceiVes: had been troubled with female weak
ness for seventeen years. The three last years
was great sufferer, fourteen months Of the
time not able to leave my bed. Many RENE
dies from many physicians were tried BY me
but to no avail. am now well and work at ny
trade, dressmaking. was cured by taking six
bottles of Mrs. Pnkham's Vegetable Compound.
Mrs. l.. L. DUNBRACK, corner Pine and Boyn-
ton Streets, Swamscott, Mass.
GREAT POND, between Asbury Park
and Deal Beach, on the New Jersey
coast, has been very full for several
months. The other night the high
tides cut away the sand-bar between the
ocean and the pond, and the next morn