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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-23


ment. If the former it showed an ignor-
ance of constitutional law in obliging a
person to express an opinion whether she
has one or no, and if the latter the taste
is at least of questionable nature.
A bill relating to the compensation of
sherifs passed the Senate to-day. 1t pro-
vides that the county board of Supervi-
sors Of any county may by resolution fix
the salary of sheriff, which shall be in
lieu of all fees and compensation for the
sheriff, under sheriff, and deputy sheriffs
for services rendered by such officers with
in the limits of such county for which the
county is liable, except compensation for
keeping and maintaining prisoners in
the common jail The counties pay the
fees Of the sheriffs in criminal or state
cases and there can be NJ objection to
giving them fixed salaries for such SER
vices. A few counties in this state are
working under special acts similar to the
general law which has passed the Senate
and they consider the change great i'm
prCvement over the old fee system in
many respects.
The numberless bills relating to illumin-
ating oils which are before the legisla-
ture have come up in one way or another
the past week. Petitions for the repeal
of the oil law have been presented from
different parts of the state at almost every
session. The law has many warm friends
and quite as many cordial enemies. The
different oil bills have been made the
special order for Friday evening, Feb.
25th, in the Assembly. There will pro-
badly be some amendments made to
the law changing the test, but the indi-
cations now are that it will not be repeal
ed altogether.
Col Burchard, of Fl Atkinson, the
governors private secretary, has pre-
pared scheme for apportioning Jeffer-
county into Assembly districts. Accord
ing to his plan the first district is COM
posed of the towns of Concord, Farming
ton, Ixonia, Milfoa, Watertown, Water
loo and the city Of Watertown, except the
9Th and 9th wards, with population of
1908. The democratic majority accord
ing to the vote of last fall in this assem-
bly, district is 1922. The second district
will include the towns of Aztalan, Cold
Spring, Hebron, Jefferson, Koshkonong,
Lake Mills, Oakland, Palmyra, Sullivan,
and Sumner with population of 1902.
The second district is republican district
according to the vote of last November,
by 159 majority. In population, territory
and in every other respect this seems to
be fair and equitable division of Jeffer-
son county in to Assembly districts, and it
is quite probable that Col Burchard's
plan will be adopted by the apportion-
ment committee,
The amendment to Union School
law of the city of Watertown has passed
both houses of the legislature and only
lacks the signature of the governor to be-
come law.
Many ofthe Legislators wives have par
ticipated in the festivities of the capitol
city the past week, among them Mrs. J.
d. Bullock, of Johnson's Creek, and Mrs
McFetridge, of Beaver Dam K.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-23
LitteIl's liVinn Ace.

In 1881 THE LIVING AGE enters upon It's thirty
eighth year, admittedly unrivalled and continu-
ously successful. During the year it will furnish
to its readers the productions of the most emf
nent authors, above named and many
others: embracing the choicest Serial and
Short Stories by the Leading Foreign Nov
eifst, and an amount
UNAPPR0ACHED BY ANY OTHER PERIODICAL
in the world of the most valued Literary and
Scientific matter Of the day, from the Pens of the
foremost Essaytsts, Scientists, Critics,
Discoverers. and Editors, representing
every department. of knowledge and Progress
THE LIVING AGE weekly magazine giving more
than
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-23
The NesU Bi6Ee.-OuicE W0yE

The new version of the New Tesla
ment, which has been so many years in
course of translation, which is unques-
tionably the most important literary en-
terprlse this century has seen, is being
waited for with curiosity and anxiety by
hundreds of thousands. 1t is not gener-
ally known that first edition of $780,
900 copies has already been manufacture
eG in England, and 100000 copies are
said to be already in New York City. not
one of them permitted to be sold. They
are awaiting telegram from the authori-
ties ir England authorizing to ISSUE The
first copies can. only be had at the extrav
agant price Oslo per copy. The Liter
AIRY Revolution proposes fully to meet
the demands which its army of friends
are making upon it by doing probably
the quickest work in book-making which
has everyet been accomplished. Arrange
ments have been fnllyssmade to put the en-
tire book into type inside of "a hours
from the time a printed copy of the Eng
lish edition can be procured, and within
three days at least 10000 copies will be
bound ready for delivery to waiting pur-
chasers and at least 5000 copies Will be
manufactured every day thereafter, unsil
the demand is met. 1t will be printed
in large, beautiful type, neatly and strong
ly bound in cloth, in volume of about
900 pages, and sold at the nominal price
of 80 cents. A fine edition in half Rus
STA, gilt top, will be soldsold for so cents.
and one In full Turkep morocco, gilt
edges, for $1.25. Of course, the popular
demand will be enormous Orders will
be filled in the order in which they are
received, with remittance. American
Book Exchange, New York.
Edward Holden, of Oshkosh, super
intendent of Neville & Holden's whole
sale carriage and sleigh works, has been
spending few days in our city looking
after business interests in this locality.
The Neville & Holden Mandatory turns
out some of the best work in the country,
and has received first prizes from sever
al exhibitions in the state. Some of
their carriages are IN use in this city and
have given perfect satisfaction for beauty
Of finish, light running and durability.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-23
Dissolution.

The cOpartnerSIlp heretofore existing betWeen
John Habhegger and CIV. Schultz, Jr..
will be dissolved by mutual consent on the fiji
teenth day of March next.
In order to facilitate the dissolution by reduc-
ing their large stock, they will sell from the
first day of February all their goods at greatly
reduced prices
All debts due to the said firm must be paid be-
fore March first, and ALL to whom the firm is in
debted win please present their accounts foT
settlement
J. HABHEGGER & co.
WatertoNns an. 25th 1881. 15fs
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ABLESTLlvING WRITER'S,

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ing world" -Episc0pdl Register Philadelphia.
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way of foreign periodical literature"-The Ad-
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''Its frequent issue and ample space enable it
to give all that the very ablest of living writers
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tory biography, philosophy. poetry theology
politics and to add this the full complement Of
the best that there is in fiction. The Interior
Chicago.
"Gives the best of all at the price of one."-
NeY York Independent.
Teens with the choicest literature of the
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SIT is, by all odds, the best eclectic published
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sit enables the reader, at trifing expense,
considering the quantity and quality of the read
ing furnished, to keep pace with the best thought
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-23

"A Temple of Honor was Instituted
in jefferson last week with the following
officers
w. G. T.-R. Hoe.
w. V. T,-Dr. E. J. Gibson.
w. R.-W. III. Hake.
w. A. IA. A. Dumas.
w. f. R.-Thomas Conan.
w. T.-E. S. Kellogg.
w. U.-J. w. johnson.
w. d. U.-H. P Martin.
w. CIV. F. Dengel.
w. SO. ID. P. Chaplin.
P. W. c. TO. F. Stoppenbach.
W. Chaplain.-Rey. j.. T. Boynton.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-23

The GREATEST LIVING AUTHORS, such a,
Prof Max Miller, Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Jas.
A. Froude, Prof Huxley, r. A. Proctor, Edw.
A. Freeman, Prof. Tyndall, DR.. w B. Carpenter,
Frances Power Cobbe, Prof Goodwin Smith,
The Duke ofArgyll, VIM. Black, Miss Thackerays
Mrs. Muloch Craik Geo. Macdonald Mrs Oil
plant Jean Ingelow, Thos. Hardy Mathew Ar
mold, Henry Kingsley, w. w. Story, Turguenief,
Carlyle, Ruskin, Tennyson, Browning, and many
others. are reDreSented in the napes of
The Osceola times., 1881-09-24
The Only Pretty Girl.

Moscow Correspondence Of the London Times.
There is much good, l do believe, in
the Russian character. They are labo.
rious, long suffering, easily contented
people. But they are, on the whole, and
with rare exceptions, in the low ranks OF
life, an i'll favored race, small and puny,
with remarkably plain features, and
dingy, sallow complexion. Very strict
orthodox. dare say, but ugly Christians
withal: ugly men. uglier womenl One
may walk about these streets day after
day and never meet what in other coun.
.sies would he called pretty face. And
1t was the same in st. Petersburg, where
the only splendid type Of girl ] met was
at the railway terminus when ON the
point Of starting for Moscow, and even
she, fauitiess as she was as 10 face and
figure, had a milk white complexion
without shade of that pink which
would so naturally have become her
early yonth.
The Osceola times., 1881-09-24
How Long "A Man Can Live,

How long man can live is question
that has been widely discussed. Ameri
cans are generally reckoned TO be short
lived compared with European nations,
and they may have been in the past; but
they are steadily gaining, in respect TO
age as their material conditions impro- j..
and the laws of health are better ~ ,Jar,
stood and observed. Several -ns,ancas
have been recorded recenu- 90 noraon.
in the state of New Yorb uLo H. 5jall 5jaJ
at lO7, los, and ever no II il main,
tanned, however, ~ men who have maid
special attehuo'. to longevity, that there
is no well' ccredited instance Of anv
man man OF "Jman living beyond l06-that
tliat the maximum possibility of hu-
M n endurance. 1t is more reasonable
20 suppose that there ia mistake in
calculation than that the mentioned lin.
il has been exceeded. In Europe it is a
subject ofdispute as to what nation lives
longest. The distinction has been
claimed in turn by the English, French
Germans, Spanish, Italians and Rus
slams. Late statistics prove that the
number of people in Europe who are up
ward Of 30 years old is lO2 S0i, Of whom
more than 10000 are women. OF those
beyond 100, there are 9ll women and l6l
men in Italy; 229 women and 524 men
in Hungary. The percentage Of old peo-
pie is found TO be much higher among
the Germans than the slavos. Investi-
CATION goes to show that human life has
been lengthening in the last twenty
years throughout the civilized world.
The Osceola times., 1881-09-24
Postal Privileges.

The September number Of the iaifei
Suites O6ciai Postal Guide renders an
opinion which will be Of ir .terest TO those
who have been persecuW Il by the pesky
postal card. 10 is as fob uws:
When any one is U,noyed or expects
10 be annoyed by p0 stall cards sent from
any particular PLACE, or from any known
person, he may direct the Postmaster at
the point named to destroy all postal
cards addressed 10 him, or cards from any
person named SO addressed: and as far
as the discharge of the duties of the
office permit sufficient examination, the
Postmaster should comply with the re
quest. The same request NAV be made
the receiving Postmaster The dire.
ton To the Postmaster should be in writ
ilp, and should be filed for presentation,
The privileges connected with the
sending of iunrh-class matter are defined
as follows:
h9j. Section 23l. z. l.. a H., provides
that the sender of any package of matter
OF the iourth-class may write or print
upon, or attach 10 any such articles, by
tag or label, n mark, number, name, or
letter for the purpose Of identification.
Therefore, when Il package of iunrth class
matter is submitted for mailing with
number written thereon, such rs l.20 or
l24, Il is entitled ta pass as fourih-class
matter. So, also, ii it has a name or q
letter instead of a number. But should
there be two numbers or two letters, or a
number and a letter, or name and a
number or letter, it would not be Untitled
TO pass rs fourlh-class matter. In other
words, the conjunction cor" employed in
the statute, restricts that which may be
written or printed 10 one thing, be il
mark, number, name, or letter.
The Osceola times., 1881-09-24

elsewhere in Greece and Asia Minor
those at Ostia, in the Forum, at Pompeii,
and at Herdulaneum are Of an import
ance which can be oyer-estimated. They
exceed in artistic value the discoveries
at Egyptian Thebes. The Egyptian anti
quities, however, have more than an
ralistic value. They expose the course
aud features Of Egyptian life and thought
as yividly as they could have been dis
PLAYED by art and literature 10 ancient
Egyptians themselves. So far as ancien
Egypt had literature it probably is full,
and perfectly exemplified in the relic
SO bountilully distributed among Europ
can museums. For the facts of history
for the actual conclusions even of tbs
spiritual observations of the mind, M
records could be more satisfying than
those the Pharaohs have bequeathed To
the modern world. In them the modern
intelligence reads to what effect the
ancient intelligence labored. Could th'
stroke Of the pick-ax at Herculaneuu-
break an entrance into some poor booi
cupboard of lettered Roman, new king
doIns might be illuminated in the mod
ern intelligence itself An inclination
ariesea TO regard almost jeelously th'
description OF those four papyri hundreds
of feet in length when it is thought how
no larger space of vellum or papyrus at
Pompeii might have given back to man
kind long dranghts of the lovely fancy
of Athenian dramatists, vanished specu-
speculations of Plato and Aristotle, the
burning eloquence of Cicero, the lost
book OF the histories of Tacitus. 1t ii
some consolation to feel that at the rate
archaeological enterprise has been re-
Gently moving, if there be still any stories
of classical literature to reclaim they
will stay much longer hidden.
The Osceola times., 1881-09-24
WAR rAslrs

Farner tislo visit Europe,
study Art awhile IN iionle.
Paint. pcrilap-s = dozen piriurcs,
Ges yonF name up and come home.
Then 10 have the neighlors ask you
Nhcn they see your masterpiece.
"pn,.s the knaek II painting picture
Take much time and elbow grease
And it Is 90 write a poem
Glowing with poetic fire.
fiill oi passion, and the longing
AMER something better. higher.
some time read % 10 the neiglibors,
Aud then feeling Ike "A fool,
Hear one say. Il wrote such verses
Nefy 0flcn while IN school"
Fame It Is TO keep ON painting.
Keep ON writing ifinclined,
Till the world that lies beyond YOU
Your position has defined.
II islabor till your pictures
Are exchanged for so much gold,
Till your poems like potatoes,
In the market can be sold.
AMER you have climbed the ladder,
From the very lowest round,
Then the neigkbors psi your shoulder.
And your fulsome praises sound,
Aud, having, with your talent,
Learned the money making art,
Then they say, We always loved you
Always said that you were smart
Boston I0guscfiQ
The Osceola times., 1881-09-24
Pront. Rl.aOO.

10 sum II up, six long years Of be,,-
ridden Sickness, costing 500 per yesr.
tDfni 81 ao1 all OF this expense was stnppsd 4
by1hree bottles Of Hop Bitiers. taken by
nav wife She hss done her own housework
or year since, without the loss of day,
aud ! want eseryboiy 10 know il, for their
benefit - A. n Faoaer.
The Osceola times., 1881-09-24

Nashville American.

There is a public impression that Mt.
Washington is the highest mountain east
of the Sierras. Several peaks Of the
Black, in North Carolina, are higher.
There are five or six peaks in the south
western part of the Alleehenies, in Ten.
nessee, which are higher, and the knob
of the grand Roam mountain, in Carter
county, is higher than Mt. Washington
by several feet The Roam rises 6,306
feet above the sea, while Mt. Washing
ton is I, ,29S feet high. The temperature
of the Roam sometimes, though rarely.
reaches frost in August.
The Osceola times., 1881-09-24

THg Hasiy Pudding Club Of Harvard
College has building fund of $3.50
The Osceola times., 1881-09-24

DROWNED while at Work" is New
York Tribune headline. The proof.reader
had probably just stepped out.
The Osceola times., 1881-09-24

A hihbed apron is worn flower on
bunting expeditions.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-11
A Mine for Sale, and Why.

from the Laramie City Boomerang.1
We have decided to sell our claim in
the North Park, known as the NewkJ cru
salem mine, owing to the press of other
work and the fact that the capital stock
of the concern is needed for other pur-
poses.
The mine is situated near the apex of
the continental divide, at an altitude
of 10, 900 feet above the level of the sea-
The claim is good deal higher than the
price we hold it at.
We have never successfully developed
the claim for several reasons. In the
first place the winters are so severe at
that elevation that a shaft sunk in the
summer season is CLEARED out" so to
speak, every spring. This is discourae-
ing. No man wants to dig q 3O-foot
shaft in a claim only to find the next
spring that it has been squeezed out of
the ground, or is sticking thirty feet up
into the atmosphere.
Again, there is an avalanche of snow
and loose rock that starts from this point
every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday,
when on time, and it fills the shaft full.
You can work all day Sunday and Mon
day freeing the shaft of snow and debris,
and on Tuesday morning before break
fast there is yourregular avalanche piled
in there again and waiting to be dug
out.
This becomes at last wearisome and
unsatisfactory. 1t tends to discourage
ment and loss of confidence. Besides, if
the avalanche isn't on time and is re-
ported a couple of hours late, suppose
she should make up an hour and reach
the claim while the superintendent was
down in the shaft.
This has happened several times al
ready, and superintendent are getting
seldom.
There are very few men who possess
the required agility to climb up a
thirty-foot shaft in time to skip an avail
anche.
Three superintendent of the New Je-
rusalem,, mine will be thrown in with the
property. They are down in the bottom
of the shaft now. They didn't shut
work soon enough. One of them was
delayed about getting out, and when the
avalanche had passed the second one
started In to dig him out, and had Just
got down pretty near him when another
premature avalanche came past. Then
the third one started in to dig out the
other two. He didn't calculate just
right, and he is there too.
This has given the mine bad reputa-
ton and prejudiced people against it.
One advantage of the claim, however,
is that no one can ever successfully Jump
it. A mine at an altitude of 10000 feet
is very difficult thing to Jump. A man
would have to run two miles and Jump
off a spring-board in order to get velocity
enough to Jump claim at that altitude.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-11
A Talented Family.

CFrom the Galveston News.l
The McSpilkins family is one of the
most fashionable in Galveston. The
old man, however, is not as nice as he
ought to be, but the rest of the family
are highly accomplished. Somebody
was speaking of them the other day,
and he remarked how they all played on
some instrument
"What does the old lady play ?" asked
a bystander.
''She plays on the piano"
g And the youngest daughter?'
"She plays on the harp"
"And the next daughter ?'
"She is very proficient on the guitar. !"
"And the boy?"
"He plays on the fddle.''
"Well, does the old man play ?''
"Yeu bet he does. He PLAYS the
stavinest game of draw poker on Gal
weston island"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-11
Bro. Gardner on Croakinu.

{" I can't pick up paper" said Bro.
Gardner at the opening of the last
meeting of the Lime Kiln club, 'swid-
ont bein' startled by be announcement
dat we eat too much, sleep too little,
sit up too late, go to bed too airly,
dress too warm or too cold-walk too
much or too little. De croakers am
constantly at work to put de rest of us
on de ragged aige of anxiety. One day
we hear that consumpshun has become
our nashunal complaint. Mex day it
am predicted dat de fewel supply of de
world am runnin' short. Oars nuthin'
bein' hunted up an shot off at us
cherry day in de var, an it has got to
dat pass dat de man who lies down at
night breads dat he may neber see de
moon again.
81 has bin fnkin' ober. I has bin
worried an harassed an half scarf to
death ober de drift period, de predicted
climatic changes, de astronomical
changes, an de sudden diskiveries dat
human life am shortenin' up like an
ole clothes line on rainy day. I has
got to dat pitch dat I'm goin' to sot
down in my cabin wild pan of apples
on de right han and pan of pop corn
Oh de left an let de world turn bottom
up an be hanged to her. If white folks
want to go on worryin' ober science an
philosophy an predickshunsa an prophe-
cies, let 'em do it, but my advice to de
Guild race am to worry ober muffin
higher'n de roof of house or deeper
down dan de bottom of cellar. When
your days work am dun, sot down in de
big cheer, light yer pipe, an let de
chiPen an de dog loosefu good time. -
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-11
RESCUED FROm nEATs.

william j. Coughlin, of Somerville Mass, says: In
the fall OF 1876 was taken with bleeding of the lungs
followed by severe cough. lost my appetite and flesh
and confined to my bed In 1877 was admitted to
the hospital The doctors said had hole in my lung
as big as half dollar. At one time a report went
around that was dead. gave up hope but friend
LUNGS. got bottle, when to my surprise, COM
menced to feel better and to-day feel better than for
three years past write this hoping every afflicted
with diseased lungs will take DIR. WILLIAM HALLS
BALsAM, and be convinced that CONSUMPTION CAN BE
CURED can positively say has done good than
all the other medicines have taken since INV sickness
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-11

fifty. The hens are allowed with the
young ducklings for two or three weeks.
They are tied by the leg with a cord two
or three feet long in warm well-venti-
lated pen Uttered with straw. The young
ducks can run out and into an open pen
for food and sunshine. The food con-
sists of boiled dogs meat, beefs' liver
mixed with shorts, barley meal and
little boiled rice. Mr.. Monk finds a
ready sale for his ducks ia the London
market
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-11

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