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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-16

AMONG those recently examined by
the Tariff Commission, at Long Branch,
was w. A. Carsey, of New York, ex
President of the Knights of Labor, and
organizer of strikes. He confessed that,
as rule, strikes are a mistake and
failure, and argued that the interests
of American workmen can best beipro-
tected by high protective tariff.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-16
,Ehe RepnbIirau>
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST Is. 1882.

Iowa, at the coming October election,
elects eleven Congressman, Secretary,
Auditor and Treasurer of State; also a
Judge, Clerk and Reporter ofthe Supreme
Court
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-16

ORIGIN OF THE Polka DoT.-The
origin of the polka dot" one of the pres
ent fashionable manias, is declared by
The Philadelphia Record to go back to
classic times. 1t is copy of the ancient
chryso ci0Uus or gold nail-head, which in
early church times was one of the en-
blematic ornaments embroidered in &C.
nIesiastical yestments and robes and la
ter 2 purple patch, like broad naii-head,
was worn upon the outer garments by
the old Roman dignitaries. At first it
was observed as mark Of dignity, and
"clavi'' of gold on rich silken textiles of
Tyrian dye could be worn only by the
mobiles. Imbued by spirit of emula-
ton, the wealthy then demanded silken
stuffs sprinkled all over with large round
spots; and so from the sacred cmpSocloz.
us, or golden nail-head, we have come in
modern times to strew our cotton frocks
with polka dots. The Record does not
give any information as to how the old
Roman husbands-or the young ones,
for that matter-felt when the bills came
in.-Bufialo Express.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-16

A CATFISH THAT SWALLOWED A CALF.
About two weeks ago Mr.. Smith, liv-
ing few miles from Calhoun, Georgia,
On the Oostanaula River, lost yearling
heifer about three years old, and as it was
fine stock made diligent search, but could
not find it. A few days ago party OF
young men fishing on the river were at
tracted by the smell of q dead carcass
and upon examing the cause, 10 and be
hold, they found monster catfish, which
had swallowed the calf, and the horns OF
the calf becoming entangled in the fsh's
gills had drowned the fish. The fish
measured exactly twenty-three feet ano
seven inches in length, and was five feet
eight and one-quarter inches across the
head, and from the length of its whiskers
supposed to be III years old.
A MONSTER TIME-PIECE.-A large
clock at English House of Parliament is
the largest one in the world The foul
dials in this clock are twenty-five feet il
diameter Every half-minute the min
ute hand moves nearly seven inches
| The clock will go eight days anc
a half, and will only strike for seven ano
half, thus indicating any neglect il
winding it up. The winding up of the
| striking apparatus takes two hours. TIL,
pendulum is fifteen feet long; the wheels
cast iron; the hour-bell is eight feet high
and nine feet in diameter, weighin,
nearly fifteen tons, and the hammer alon
weighs more than 400 pounds, Thi
clock strikes the quarter hours, and b,
its striking the shorthand reporters regu
late their labors. At every strike a ney
reporter takes the place of the old one
while the first retires to write out th
/ notes that he has taken during the prt
vious fifteen minutes.
| The great sympathetic and musculs
| system, on which full and healthful d.
velopment depends, kept from CROWN
| flabby and inactive by using Brown
Iron Bitters.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-16

They relieve the engOzwed lives, cleanse
Ghe BlO0d RrOm pOasOnOus humOrn, n@@
cause tine bowels to mCG naturally WzG6~
0aa which nO ONE cam feel we'll
Try this remedy fAarly. and y9u waM ga1m
RIOGd. 6ar0n@ Nerves. @m0 u Sound LIVER
Wr8ee. 9S Gents. O4aee. 3D. Murray 49, Ns II
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Oh111a and Fever.

OK14AAS &N1AG& - - " 0&0
e. RIVAL a Planter at Bayou Sara, La. says:
My plantation Is In ma1arta1 district. For
several years could not make half q crop on
account OF bilious diseases and chillS. Was
nearly discouraged when began the use OF
TUFTS PILLS. The result was marvellous
my laborers soon became hearty and robust
and have had no further trouble.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-04
THE RISKS OF MINING.

The time is likely to come, says the
New York Times, when the history of
mining in this country will be written,
for the material which could be collected
for such a work is abundant and of a
most varied character. The increase Of
scientific knowledge has in few depart
ments of industry been productive of
better results. A mining expert at the
present time is almost at loss to COM
prehend what induced men to sink shafts
and build mills in some of the extreme
western states and territories. Money
was spent in this way to the amount of
millions of dollars, and in some of the
abandoned mining towns west of the
Rocky Mountains theruins of former es-
Establishments stand as a lingering evil
dence OF misdireeted industry. A great
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-04
OUR WASTE OF FOOD.

Mr.. Edward Atkinson writes to the
Boston Advertiser: In the recent report
of the commissioners of prisons l find q
statement of the cost of provisions per
week per prisoner in the year 1881. By
this statement it appears that in the
prisons and houses of correction in which
any considerable number of prisoners
are detained, the cost of provisions per
week ranges from sixty-one cents to 81.
In regard 70 at least one Of the larger
houses of detention, where very few put
adults are held, the cost is less than
eighty cents per week per prisoner, less
than. twelve cents per day for all the
food consumed. In this case the best
-four is bought and made into bread and
the beef served consists of the coarse
pieces of the very best beeves, from
which the sirloins and choicest parts
have been sold to the principal hotels in
Boston. [ think it is safe to say that
the food served in this prison is of better
quality and better prepared than in the
average workman's family in the state of
Massachusetts, and think the question
of waste on the part of the average mem
Der OF the community may be sustained
by reference to the proverbial frying
pan, pale pie and half-baked bread raised
with saleratus or some similar abomina-
ton. Even the average Englishman
knows how to make better use of beef
than we do. The best pieces, sirloin and
the like, command higher prices in Bos-
ton than they do in London, while the
coarse pieces command much less. It
pays to export beef to England even
though the sirloins sell for less; because
the people know better how to make use
of the rest of the carcass. Few people
know even how to cook the sirloin.
They roast it flank and all, while they
ought to cut offthe flank and keep it for
the savory stew for Mondays dinner.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-04
Daring RQbberieSs

On the night of the Both ult., while a pasen-
ger train was side-tracked near Granada, Col,
two men mounted the engine with drawn rWol-
vers, AMI compelled the engineer to pull the
train a mile and half out of town. Here fif-
teen armed men took possession of it and pro-
ceeded to ransack the express car They Sc
cured $15, 800 in money and departed alter
forcing the engineer to start his train ull
speed. A safe containing $40, 900 was not NO
Tested.
Shortly after the doors we're opened at tie
Cincinnati exposition building on the 18th uI,
$4,000 worth of diamonds and valuable
jewely were stolen from the exhibit of T.
Oskamp. The show case was insecurity Locked
and was left unguarded. Two men entered the
booth and lelsurely opened the case and Sc
cured the treasure. Those who observed them
supposed they were the owners.
Three male shop-lifters despOiled Cook &
Soss iewelry store at Louisville, Ky., of S., 600
worth of stock
Two strangers entered the National Bank OF
Baltimore, at Baltimore on the 18th, and sue
cessfully distracted $4,000 in bonds from s
table where a clerk was engaged in clipping
coupons. At the First National Bank, in the
same city, man was detected in the act OF
picking So, 500 from the pocket of bank mes.
senger. The would-be-thief and bis confederate
were allowed to escape.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-04
A DaddY's Bio Mistake.

Pittsburg special to the Cincinnati
Commercial: A strange story is related
by the Sharon. (Pa.) correspondent of
the Dispatch. Just thirty days ago the
funeral sermon of Eddie Sanborn. of
Sharon, was preached at his fathers
home in that town. Eddie, lad of six
teen, disappeared about the time the
iron strike was inaugurated, and he
worked in mill with his father. Nine
weeks later his father advertised that his
son had been enticed from home by
tramp, and described marks by which he
could be identified. On July Both,
the father read the story of the return Of
boy mourned for as dead, to his home
in Bristol, near Philadelphia. This boy
had strayed away, and his father had
identified the remains of boy killed by
the cars at Johnstown as that of his son,
took them home to Bristol and buried
them. His son subsequently returned
alive and well. Seeing the story, Mr.
Sanboru wrote to Bristol, and finally
went there on the 17t6 of August, i.ad
the body disinterred, identified it posi-
lively as that of his son by certain in
dellble scars, and greatly relieved rein
tered the remains at Bristol, changed
the name on the gravestone, and on the
Goth Of August Presbyterian minister
repreached memorial sermon for little
Eddie. This evening Eddie Sanborn, as
large as life but a trife shabby, jumped
from a train at Sharon and reached out
his hand to the first boy acquaintance
he knew. The boy was terrified, and
soon spread the news. Eddie's father
heard it, ran for the crowd in the street,
pushed through it and caught hold of his
son, At first he was doubtful, but his
doubts were soon dispelled and an affect
ing scene ensued. He fairly carried the
boy to his mother, who wept for JOY.
The grave in the Bristol church-yard
will have to be marked " Unknown -
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-04
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER A, 1892,
"THE LAND OF THE GENERAL READER y

Mr.. Edward A. Freeman, the English
historian, who tried hard during his
recent tour of this country to convince
himself and others that the United
States had no political points distinct
lively it's own, has gone home and con-
Enued his line of reasoning in the pages
of the Fortnightly Review. He admits
something good of us though, for he
SAYS America strikes him as "the land
of the general reader" and this reader,
Mr.. Freeman says, he is not disposed to
scorn, which is very kind of him. He
says: sit seemed to me that in Ameri-
ca, the reading class, the class OF those
who read widely, who read as far as they
go intelligently, but who do not read
deeply-the class of those who, without
being professed scholars, read enough
and know enough to be quite worth
talking to-form a larger proportion of
mankind In America than they do ID
England" This is praise enough for it
is the mass of general readers, not the
few special students, who have the
power as well as the will to apply &C
auired knowledge to the benefit Of the
community.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-04
The Lion of the Puniah.

Certainly there is an air of romance
and of tragedy about the story of Dhu-
leep Singh, who, it is announced, in.
tends now to seek election to the British
House of Commons. He began life at
the Maharaiah of the Punjab, possessor
OF the Kohinoor and other almost bound
less wealth. After ruinous wars and
equally ruinous treaties, he now bids
fair to close his career in the position of
Squire of Elveden, a quiet English
country gentleman, without the Kohin-
DOR, or any of his former vast posses
sions, save an annuity from the govern
ment OF $125,OOO, which, by his luxuri-
Gus habits, he has already reduced to
$65, 900 per annum. True, he has puf-
chased estates and built magnificent pal
aces in England, Elveden Hall having
cost $500, 900, but by act of parliament
all these must be sold at his death. leav-
ing his heir only the name and the mem
DRY of the son of "the Lion of the Pun
lab
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-04

His memory will always be a sweet
and unfading recollection These words
were copied from the letter sent to the
sorrowiDg mother by MIR. Miller. the
English gentleman who cared for the
son IN his last illness, and closed his eyes
when he ceased to breathe"
HE ignorance of some Americans
about the history of their country should
make them modest in taking foreigners
to task for unfamlIiarity with it. A
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, man, in driv-
ing an Altoona man about the town,
showed him the former home Of James
Buchanan. Who's James Buchanan !"
said the Altoona man. &c Is it possible
you never heard that he was once presi-
dent of the United States ?" asked his
friend. "Oh, yes, I had forgotten.
said the Altoona man; "what's he do
ing now ?"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-04
The Razor-Back.
from the Texas Siftings. ]

To the traveller through Texas one of
the strangest and most peculiar features
of landscape is the razor back hog. He
is of Swiss cottage style of architec-
ture. His physical outline is angular to
degree unknown outside of textbook
on the science of geometry. The country
razor-back prowls around in the woods
and lives on acorns, pecan nuts and
roots, when he has time he climbs under
his owners fence and assists him in
harvesting the corn crop. In this re-
spect he is neighborly to fault and,
when his duty to his owners crop will
allow, be will readily turn in and assist
the neighbors, even working at night
rather than see his crop spoil for want of
attention. Crossing the razor-back with
the blue-blooded stock makes but little
Improvement. The only effective way to
improve him is to cross him with rail
road train. He then becomes an import
ed Berkshire or Poland China hog, and
if he does not knock the train off the
track the railroad pays for him at the
rate of one dollar pound, for which
they are allowed the mournful privilege
of shoveling the remains off the track.
The ham of the country razor back is
more juicy than the hind leg of an
IRON fire-dog, but not quite so fat as
pine KNOB.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-04
Work OF the Flames

Carriers block and three frame buildings fel
prey TO flames at Maquoketa, Ia, on the 18tl
inst. The loss foots up 1916, 1000, The Masonic
lodges and Tancred Connmandery Knights Tenn
plar, lost their effects.
Seventeen of the principal places in En-
porium, Pa, including two printing offices, a
bank and hotel were reduced to ashes on the
29th. Loss $4,000.
Eighteen stores were destroyed hv fire at
Parnonburg, Mo-. on the night of the 26th
Loss $50, 600.
Woods manufacturing establishment at WINS
low, N. c., burned on the 9th. Loss $50 500.
Richardson's grain warehouse. Kingston,
Ont. was swept away by fire on the 9th. Loss
$4,000
An extensive hosiery factory at Balbriggan,
near Dublin. Ireland, was DESTROYED by fire on
the evening of the Goth. Three hundred EN-
ployes are thrown out of employment.
Fires on the Goth: Frame Bros Lock
Works, Lancaster. Pa, $4,000; dry goods Of
Wallin & Phillips tannery Saugatuck. Mich.
$780, Maltby, Stevens d Curtis silver plate
factory. Birmingham, Conn.,, $3.50, 600; an in
cendiary blaze at Davenport, Ia. 1876, 600.
Bergenthal's Meadow Springs Distillery, near
Milwaukee, Wis, was swept away by fire on the
18th. Loss $4,000; insurance ST., 800
The Franklin Sugar Refinery, valued at
about $1,0G0,00 was devoured by flames on
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part of this work was carried on in good
faith, in the belief that gold or silver in
paying quantities would be found; but
mining engineer at the present time
would decide, under like conditions,
that the results were altogether too I'M
certain to warrant the expenditure of
money. Gold and silver mining is a
very uncertain undertaking even now;
but the risks are now appreciably less
than they were a generation ago, for the
reason that those in the business I'M
derstand better where and when not to
work. Enterprises are, however, car
ried on now and brought to successful
conclusion that In other days would have
been abandoned. An instance of this is
given in the experience of the owners of
profitable gold mine on what is termed
the Mother Lode In California, so called
because it is supposed to be the original
source of all of the gold-bearing quartz
veins in that state. A peculiarly about
this lode is that it is covered by cap
formed of iron pyrites of variable
thickness, with which the gold
bearing quartz is combined The min
eral in the upper portion of this cap has
been disintegrated by the action of the
elements, and is workable, but that in
the lower part cannot be converted with
out great expense. Those who first en-
tered on this work were so well contented
with the results obtained from the early
digging that they put all of their money
into machinery, and hence, when the
range of disintegrated stone was passed,
they had no money to sink their shafts
deeper, and were forced to abandon the
undertaking. One of these abandoned
mines was bought up by a cympany of
men who, after carefully studying the
subject, were convinced that the shaft
had only to be carried downward to strike
the lode In one of it's widest parts. The
average depth of the iron cap has been
about 400 feet, but in this instance the
shaft was sunk more than 1000 feet,
those interested pledging and borrowing
wherever they could after their own
| funds had been exhausted. It was a
brilliant example of nerve when based
on scientific judgment. Less well-in-
formed men would have abandoned the
attempt; but when, after long waiting,
the quartz lode was struck, it proved to
be one of the richest mines in California.
The experience of those who projected
the work or the Calumet and Hecla cop
per mine is a somewhat similar instance
of scientific courage. The plan in
volved spending a very large sum,
amounting to more than a million dol
lars, before any returns could be OBJ
tanned. The warrant for the expendi-
ture was scientific Judgment, since there
was no means of obtaining positive proof.
The risk was taken, and the result has
been mine more remarkable in many
ways than any other in the country.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-04
Making a Passenger Git"
TFrom the Detroit Free Press.l

From the Detroit Free Press.]
A Justice Of the peace in the interior
of Michigan had a case before him some
days ago III which the defendant. who
had been arrested as a suspicious char
acter, and plead guilty of vagrancy, was
sent to the Detroit house of correction
for SIX months. A constable took him
in charge to deliver him here, and as the
man seemed rather pleased at the idea of
securing board and lodgings for SIX
months, he was not handcuffed. As the
train was ready to go the constable
moved across the aisle to talk politics
with frieno, and pretty soon they were
having it hot and heavy. When the con-
ductor came II for tickets he held out
his hand to the prisoner, and the latter
shook his head and replied:
81 don't pay fare. F"
"Aha! You don't, en-? Well, now,
you pay or git!
II won't pay !"
Then you'll git When we slow up
at the crossing you jump off. IF I find
you on the train after we pass there I'll
give you bounce that you won't for
get p
III two minutes the train began to
slow, and the prisoner walked to the
door and picked soft spot and dropped
off, When the train had made another
mile the conductor held out his hand to
the constable and received two tickets.
who is the extra ticket for?" he
asked.
'For that prisoner over there.
"What prisoner ?"
Why, that Ell"
Then there was raving and crashing
OF teeth and hurrying up and down, but
it was no use.
''Sorry," said the conductor as he
passed along, "but when a passenger
says he wont pay fare on my train l
give him the drop. The only thing that
surprised me. was to see how willingly
he obeyed orders.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-04
POPULATION OF THE WORLD.

most carefully prepared report of the
population of the various countries of the
world is that issued from time to time by
Drs. Benin and Wagner. A new addi-
ton OF this publication has just appeared,
the previous one having been issued two
years. Within this interval censuses
have been taken IN large number OF
countries, and the results of these are
embodied in this work. But In the case
of some countries no official statistics
are to be had, and for such countries the
figures presented are necessarily the re-
suit of computation or even conjecture
The report of the population of China,
for instance, is but an estimate, while
that of Central America can be little bet
ter than a guess. The results given by
Benin and Wagner are, however, eener-
ally accepted as the most trustworthy
published
The total population of the globe is
now reported by them at 1, 433, 500, 900.
According to their last report it was
I,455, 900 900. The difference would
Indicate decrease of %, 900, 600, but as
a matter of fact there has, according to
these authorities been an increase of
more than 100000. This is explained
by the fact that the population of China
has been very much over estimated here
tofore. In the last issue of this work Il
was given at 4S4, 900, 600; it is now put
at 379, 900, 900. La fact, in those coun-
tries alone In which censuses have been
taken the official returns show an aggre-
gate increase of 100000 during the
preceding interval of ten years. The
number of people inhabiting the larger
divisions of the globe, as given by Benin
and Wagner, are as follows: Europe,
327, 743. 600; Asia, 795, 591, 900; Africa,
205, 823. 900; America, 100, Ale, 900; Aus
trala and Polynesis, 4, 232, 900; Polar
regions, $4,000. Russia is credited with
$4,000, 900 inhabitants; China, 379, 00O,-
900; Japan, $4,000, 900, and British In
Ola 252, 100000.