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Nebraska advertiser., 1882-02-09
A Chinese Negro.

A reporter OF the NcWs, who CHANGED
10 he at the Union Depot yesterday
when the train from Cheyenne arrived,
had opportunity for observing speci-
men of humanity, very rare, which was
nothing less than ~ Chinese negro
black and woody haired, but dressed in
the garb of the Chinese lower classes,
wearing the shirt-like coat. baggy
trowsers and box-shoes of the inhabit-
ants of the Celestial kingdom. The
man, for such in sex the person was, at
once attracted considerable attention
from those standing about the depot.
He was with party Of half dozen new
arrivals from the Orient, and was jab-
boring away with the others in what
seemed to be pure Chinese chatter. He
was found TO be entirely unable 10 talk
English, but said in Spanish that he un-
dcrstood something of that language.
The majority of the bystanders consid-
cred this portion of his talk as merely u
continuation Of his Chinese talk, but one
man in the crowd heard the remark and
understood i'll As his knowledge of
the Spanish was but little better than
that of the Africo- Mongolan, but little
could be made of the narrative.
Enough was. however, understood to
know that the man was about forty
years of age, and that he had been born
in Spain. When ten years of age he
went To sea as the servant of an officer
on privateer. In those days the Chi
nese waters were not pleasant quarters
for outside craft, and pirates even took
i. IL 10. -. a h..
This particular vessel ventured In. how
ever, and boldly entered the Strait Of
Formosa. The result was that she got
into unknown waters, and, a storm com
ing up, she was wrecked. The people
living along the shores promptly took
possession of all valuables, and of the
sailors themselves. who were not liber-
ated for some eighteen months. The
officer of the vessel continued TO make a
servant of his colored boy after his cap
tivity. The Chinese observed that he
was slave and a very intelligent one,
and consequently when the sailors were
liberated they refused TO permit the col
ored boy TO 90. Hence, he continued
in China, the slave of one of the leading
men of the town where he landed.
tntiC nt ltlllilltu lOl NOIllt bWtub1
seven years, serving his master, as he
could not get away. He gradually be-
came habtuated to Chinese life, learned
the Chinese language, and, per force,
adopted Chinese customs and costumes,
and was not anxious to make change.
a year ago he came to San Francisco
with his master. He had been in
America but three months when he
made the discovery that there were no
slaves here, and he determined no Ion
ger to serve another. For the past
nine months he has been free man,
but has continued to live with the
Chinese, because he understands and is
used to their mode of life. He came to
Colorado with party of them and goes
with them TO work in the mines neal
Como. The fellow appears to be mar
of natural intelligence. He is rs blacl
as coal and thoroughly African in ap
pearance. His Spanish name is Mon
toya and his Chinese cognomen Ona
Fung Yu.--Denvey Ne,OS.
Nebraska advertiser., 1882-02-09
Rat-Catching Extraordinary.

Picking up rats with the naked hands
was the attraction last night at the
"Champion's Rest" the programme be-
ing that Frank Carroll, who has had
considerable experience in the business,
and Mark Smith, well-known sporting
man of West Philadelphia, We're to pick
up 100 rats each, the one accomplishing
ii in the shorter time To become the pos
SCISSOR of stakes amounting to fifty dol
lars and the entire gate money. Car
roll was the first to enter the pit, and,
getting the rats into heap, plunged
his bare arms into them ready
for the call of time. In the first lett he
placed nearly two-score into the barrel,
which was placed in the center of the
pit, and rs quick as a flash Carroll made
another dive and was as successful as in
the first attempt. The trouble now
commenced, as the rats became sepa-
rated. Regardless of position, Carroll
grabbed them, and, after the expiration
of thirty-four seconds, the last one had
been picked from the pit. Smith made
a good attempt TO defeat his opponent
but the rats broke after the first lift, and
thirty-nine and three-quarter second,
were required before the last rat wa.
placed in the barrel. Previous attempt:
had been made to pick up the sam,
number of rats, but the complement hai
always fallen short. This is said /,
have been the only Legitimate match O
the kind ever held in America. Patio
! detIhtd Cor. Chicago Tribune.
Nebraska advertiser., 1882-02-09
Child AcrObats.

One of the most striking traits of our
age is its humanity. In every direction
attention is being paid, and relief given,
ITO the hardshiPs OF the poor and the UNI
fortunate. The severe treatment which
used to be visited upon the insane has
: been relaxed. The prisons have been
robbed of their more harsh and odious
features. Societies, not only for the
prevention OF cruelty to animals and TO
children, but established to carry ale
Walton and comfort to every form OF
Nebraska advertiser., 1882-02-09
Time Testers and Burden Bearers.

From time immemoral the horse hasrHen
mans best friend. But few years back we can
all remember the comparatively little attention
paid to this most indispensable OF animals; We
say comparatively little attention, for the horse
was as well groomed, and certainly as well fed as
now and lat those great gatherings-ag agricultural
shows--you would see the pride of the county
and State stables and farms assembled But
there was n conspicuous want of noble draught
horses and as for speeders-well. $40 was the
great ultimate limit that owners In those days
desired TO strive for. But now q $40 animal is
deserve the name when they can shade the first
quarter of the third minute. There have been i'm.
mense strides forward in the right Development OF
horseAesh in the civilized countries ofthe world,
as shown BY the time-records OF the racers and
Nebraska advertiser., 1882-02-09

draught capacity of the humber, but really more
useful, work horse. Many things have conspired
TO effect this desirable end, chief among whiQh
have been the intelligent care and consideration
bestowed upon the animal in his every relation
in word, upon the breeding. And this has
not failed to include a very serious modification
of the old methods of treatment, doing away, in
many cases, with the inhuman and really savage
plans pursued in the eradication of even simple
disorders and ailments, and substituting rational
measures of relief instead. A prominent factor
of this reform, and one Endorsed by owners,
breeders, farnersa and stockmen the country over,
is ST. JACOBS OIL, recognized by all who have
used 1t as an exceptionally good remedy for the
ailments of the horse and stock generally, meet
ing more indications for It's use and efIccing far
better results than any article of a curative or
remedial nature ever introduced. Such breeders
ana hoTsemen as Aristides WEIGH. ESQ., of Erden-
helm, near Philadelphia; Mike Goodin, ESQ,
Belmont Park, Pa; Calvin NJ. Priest formerly in
charge of Mr.. Robert Bonners stock, New York;
and thousands of others throughout the country
who could be named, are on the list of unourii,
he'd endorsers ofthe efficacy Of ST. JACOBS Or
Nebraska advertiser., 1882-02-09

"A New York stone-cutter received
the following epitaph from German,
to be cut upon the tombstone of his
wife. Mine wife Susan is dead, II
she had lived till next Friday, she'd
been dead shust two weeks. AS tree
fall so must it stand.'"
Nebraska advertiser., 1882-02-09

Thou has all seasons for thy own, o.
poverty.-N Y. Nc,oS
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-01
A Sensitive DarkeY.
pUn2On.
from Texas Siftinps. !


ct tells yer, Sam, dat dar's heap in
dat sayin about the arly bird cotches the
wum. Dis morning got up just about
day to get me tonic at de saloon, and
de fust objec' I sot eyes on when [ got
outen in de street was a portmania.
"What new disease am dat are ?"
GA portmania, you cussed fool, am a
money puss with SIC in hit.
"Dat's de berry puss dar's a dollar
reward offered for in de newspaper
office"
"I know hit, Sam, but Use not gwine
ter take hit dar, bekase den all my
friends will say dat I returned dat puss
just to hab folks say dar was one honest
niggah in Austin; dat wanted to get
myself pulled in de papers and hab de
folks talk about my honesty-dat I was
boastful niggah. Raider den hab my
motives misunderstood by dis heah Aus
tin public I'll squander de las dollar of
dat money in rioutous ibin."
"Ill do al I kin, Sam, ter help yer
outen yer dilemmer."
They disappear to slow music in the
direction of d barrel house saloon.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-01

assistance of few soldiers from Fort
Independence, they sailed forth, swear
ing vengeance on the murderers of
their associates and friends. On a sum-
mer day, after series of strategic move
ments on both sides, the warriors OF the
tribe were brought to bay at point be-
tween the Sierras and the western shore
of the lake, with no chance of retreat
to the mountains. The Indians were
steadily pressed to the shores of the
lake, where they made stand for life,
and fought for time with desperate
courage. Finally, frenzied by the
deadly fire poured upon them, and
hoping for no quarter at the hands of
their Infatuated pursuers, with a COM
mon impulse they plunged into the wa
tiers of tie lake and were all drowned af-
ter frantic efforts to swim beyond the
aim of the deadly rifles, whose line of
fire shut them from the shore. The sun
of that clear day set upon a broken
tribe, its braves floating dead upon the
waters of the lake. Two alone of that
fighting band, the flower of their tribe,
escaped to tell the tale. For months
the bleaching bones, strewing the shore
and shining in the sun, remained as
grim reminders of that eventful day.
This region was in after years the
scene of a second and more awful trag-
edy. It came with the spasm and shock
of the great earthquake of 1873, which
had for its center this immediate region.
Human language has no phases of hor-
ror to describe the agony of thatsupreme
hour of peril, that night when amid
deep darkness the valley rose and fell in
mighty pillows, and the mountain ranges
reeled like drunken men. The waters of
the lake rushed from their bed in solid
mass far into the valley. The river was
shaken from its course, and its affrighted
waters refused to flow, while the falling
dwellings of Lone Pine crushed under
their ruins twenty-three human lives.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-01
Florence NiehtingaIe's Observations.

Miss Nightingale says the mental
state of the dying depends on their physi-
cal condition. As rule, in acute cases
interest in their own danger is rarely
felt. Indifference, excepting with re-
gard to bodily suffering, or to some duty
the dying man desired to perform, is the
far more usual state. But patient who
die of consumption very frequently die
in a state of seraphic Joy and peace; the
countenance almost expresses rapture.
Patients who die of cholera, peritonitis,
etc., on the contrary, often die in a state
approaching despair. In dysentery di-
arrhea, or fever, the patient often dies
in state of indifference. On the battle
field the expression or the faces of those
who have died of gunshot wounds is one
of agony, while the dead by sword have
a calmer look. A rapid death by steel
is almost painless, the nerves are divided
so quickly, while bullet lacerates.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-01
What Makes the Blaze.

That house will be kept in turmoil
where there is no liberation for each
others errors. IF you lay single piece
of wood on the CRATE and apply the fire
to it it will go out; put ON another stick
and they will burn. Add half dozen
and you will have a blaze. If one mem
Der of the family gets into a passion and
is let alone he will cool down, and may
possibly be ashamed and repent. But
oppose temper to temper, pile on all the
fuel, draw in another of the group, and
let one harsh answer be followed by the
others, and there will soon be blaze
that will enwrap them all.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-01
TOLERANCE.
BY EDGAR FAwcETT.

He rs not great whose work or word,
BY fiery indignation stirred,
Would Judge all evil hearts that live
With no relenting palliative.
Nor he that by too neat skill
Would axiomate the human will,
And bid our fettered minds declare
Responsibility snare
Nor he that seems, for those who list,
An 10y intellectualist,
Cramping morality's wide span
In bounds unitarian.
Nor he that mercy's form would dress
In tinselled robes of mawkishness,
And give to crimes of worst intent
His facile tears for nutriment.
Nor he (nay, least of those alive y
Who speaks of sins eternal gyve,
And deems that by some dark decree
Man is what man must ever be i.
But he Is great who fronts all shame
And dares to name it by its name,
Yet feels his breast burn warm for those
Hard-struggling in temptations throes
Who rates at full dreary worth
The bitter despotism of birth,
Where tyrant ignorance controls
Hex loyal tens of Thousand soulsl
Who sees how vice her venom wreaks
On the frail babe before it speaks,
And how heredity enslaves
Like ghostly hands that reach from graves
Whe well has pored on life, and thence
Deduced sublime experience;
Who pities error since he must
Though still his pity leaves him justI
Whom random ire, whom sudden ruth,
Can turn not from the vital truth,
Nor once retard, nor once advance
His ealm and regal tolerance!
Ah. such as he should walk afar
With Plato in some purer star,
And mark the grand Greek muse and drea1t
In ssme new deathless academic!
Youths Companion
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-01

A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Post says that ''the cod subsists
largely on the sea cherry" Those who
have not had the pleasure of seeing the
Goldfish climb the sea cherry tree in
search of food, Or clubbing the fruit
from the heavily laden branches with
chunks of coral, have missed very fine
sight. The Goldfish, when at home ram
bling through the submarine forests,
does not wear his vest unbuttoned, as he
does while loafng around the grocery
stores of the United States. Laramie
Boomerang.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-01
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
CORN BREAD.

Corn bread can be made without eggs,
though two eggs added to the quantity
of batter mentioned here improves it
very much: Two cups of corn meal,
sifted; one cup of -four; two cups OF
sweet milk; two tablespoonfuls of melted
butter; one heaping one of sugar; two
tablespoonfuls of baking powder.
HAM COOKED IN CIDER.
Put pint of cider and a cup of brown
sugar into the water to cover the ham;
boil three hours, or until the skin will
peel off easily. Remove the skin, cover
the ham with a crust of sugar, and bake
in a slow oven three hours. Dissolve a
cup of sugar IN pint of cider and haste
the ham frequently while baking. If the
cider is very sweet, use. less sugar.
ECONOMICAL INDIAN PUDDING.
Scald quart of sweet milk, into it
stir rounded tablespoonfuls of Indian
meal, l teacup of brown sugar, or 5
tablespoonfuls of molasses, 1 teaspoon
full of ginger and little salt; put in a
moderate oven to bake, and In half an
hour stir in l cupful of cold, rich milk
bake two hours. This is improved by
adding a teacupful of stoned raisins
when the cold milk is added. Serve
with cream Or hot sauce.
TOMATO JELLY.
Take as many nice, ripe tomatoes as
you judge will make the amount of jelly
you are to prepare; peel them and cut
them In halves crosswise; take out the
seeds and cut the tomatoes In very small
of "a
pulp allow one of sugar, and one lemon,
cut In slices with every seed removed.
Boil in a porcelain kettle until quite
thick, watching it carefully to prevent
its burning.
GOOD SOUP.
An excellent soup is made by boiling 8
small beef soup bone for two hours, ad
ing while there is time for them to cook
tender, three onions, two carrots, two
small round turnips, little cabbage and
celery; chop these all very fine: little
cream is an agreeable addition to this
soup. Many cooks serve this with the
vegetables and rolled crackers; others
strain the soup and thicken slightly with
little corn-starch or -four stirred in the
cream or milk. It is simply matter of
taste.
COOKING MEAT.
In roasting meat have the pan hot
when you put the meat In. IF it is beef,
put it in the hot pan and let it stand a
moment and then turn it over, thus scar
ing both sides and preventing the juices
from running SO quickly. Do not pnt
the salt and pepper On the meat, but put
it in the pan with the water and then
haste the meat every three or four
minutes. You will find the meat will be
thoroughly seasoned and will be much
more juicy and tender, than by the old
way of rubbing the salt on the meat;
putting the salt direct on the meat draws
the juice out and toughens it. Roast
fowls in the same way; also fish; not
putting any butter or grease near them
until almost done; then rub little but
ter over them to give them nice crisp
outside. Those who will use this way OF
roasting meats, fowl and fish, using no
grease or fat, but skimming it all off,
will like it much better than the old way
of using SO much grease.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-01

necticut, has had q rife before the
United States army board that delivered
81 shots a minute when used as single
shot loader, and IN the two minute test
for rapidity with aiming Spencer him
self fred 81 shots in two minutes at a
target 100 feet off, 56 shots of which
were counted within a center of small
radius. The so cal. Springfield is fast
becoming an obsolete arm.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-01
A FROG fell into a pail of milk in

A FROG fell into a pail of milk in a
Connecticut town one night recently,
and in the morning was found sitting
upon roll of fresh butter. A local
paper says that the sole explanation is
that, in trying to extricate himself, he
had by d1iigent and continuous strokes
OF his long legs churned the milk into
butter-BO8tOYa Globe.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-01

A LADY who had invited a small COM
pany to parslmonious dinner was apol-
ogizing for the chicken and said she re-
GREETED having no time to stuff it. "It's
tough enough as it is l assure you, " re-
piled guest unexpectedly.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-01
TRANSFORMATION.
BY RICHARD REALF.

She kissed me, my beautiful darling,
L drank the delight of her lips;
The universe melted together,
Mortality stood in eclipse.
A Spirit of Light stood before me,
heard a far rustic of wings:
The kings Of the earth we're as beggars-
And the beggars of earth were as kings.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-01

PEOPLE who do not object to fat
printers and legatees.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-01
RECENT LEGAL DECISIONS.
TFrOm BradEtraetla !

The tenant of A, a trespasser on the
land of B, built house thereon. Al
this time B had already brought sui
against A to recover his land, and this
the tenant knew. B recovered judgmen
and then the tenant undertook to remove
the building, but the supreme court Of
Texas restrained him, in Henderson VS.
Ownby, decided at it's present term, OF
the ground that the house was attached
to the land, and was, therefore, fixture
and that as the landlord could not re-
move fixtures, neither could his tenan
do so.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-01
AMERICAN RIFLES.

The rife of the future is apparently to
be the repeating magazine rife, of not
more than As calibre. The Hotchkiss re-
peating rife, as well as the machine gun
of his make, has already created SEN
sation upon the other side of the Allan
tic, the latter having by actual expert
ment fired so to 80 shells per minute at
ranges varying from 5000 to $500
yards, and of sufficient power to pene-
trate the torpedo boat up to 8, 900 yards.
Such is the demand for them that Mr..
Hotchkiss, the great ordnance inventor
of the United States, as he is termed in
Europe. has established factory near
Paris, France, for the manufacture of his
revolving cannon and other guns, en-
ploing more than 1000 men, and has
orders for some years ahead. The Ger
man army has new magazine gun,
1000 of which are in the hands of the
troops to test their merits. Mr.. Spen-
Ger, the great rife manufacturer of Con-
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-04-26

SOWING SEEUs.-Joseph Harris Of
Rochester, in his new seed catalogue,
gives his young customers some good
directions about sowing garden seeds. lie
says they should be covered only deep
enough 10 keep moist, aud that small
seeds, such as lettuce, radish, Drummond
phlox, aster, verbena and pansy need not
be covered deeper than sheet Of writing
paper is thick. If pressed into the soil
and kept moist they need not be covered
at all. Petunia seeds are easily covered
so deep that they will not grow. while
peas will grow if covered two or three
inches deep. We may add TO the above
that for out door planting it is good rule
10 cover seeds to depth of three TO five
times their diameter. and no more, so that
large seeds like corn and peas will be
many times deeper than the minute seeds
of the portulaca. All must have the three
requisites of warmth, moisture and air.
(but not light.) and if buried too deep the
air will he excluded. Peter Henderson
finds great benefit in covering the seed,
after pressing it into tho soil; with thin
coat Of finely pulverized moss, evenly sifted
on and watercd with fine Country
Gentleman.