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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-24
The Wild WeIoh Coast.
IWirt Skies in Harpers MonthIv.l

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Nearly three-f0urths Of the entire
circuit of Wales is seacoast. A gr eat
part Of this coast Is rugged and danger
Gus, but there are frequently recurring
harbors Of refuge easily and safely en-
tered. Steep and forbidding cliffs, with
fronts Of IRON, black, jagged, frowning.
receive. the AtlantiC's rudest bufetings
grimly. The southern shore of Wales,
from a point just below the Cardiff to
the extreme WesternmOst reach of land
at st. Dayid's Head, is washed by az
ocean whose free sweep is unbroken
straight across to the coast of New
foundland. At various points the cruel
cliffs are made still more cruel by huge
disjected rocks scattered about at dis
lance from the mainland, as if'the shore
were showing its teeth in warning to
the mariner. Where this frown-
ing front is broken occur
bights and bays of exquisite
beauty, with long reaches of tawny
sands, which the waves lap lazily of a
summer afternoon, or across which wild
winds howl III storm. It is q striking
line of coast, full of fascination in itself
to the lover Of the picturesque; but
more: on every GROWING summit stands
castle Olden, looking seward, with its
hoary and battlemented towers-per-
haps inhabited, perhaps crumbling still
slowly away, as 1t has been crumbling
for centuries. At every lovely harbor is
an Old-World village, or a great town
with clanking hammers, the one rich,
the other poor, but both lowered with
those aspects OF antiquity which are so
dear to the eyes of the cultured Ameri-
can. There are villages along the wild
Welsh coast of an ancientness to be
equalIed hardly anywhere else in Britain
villages which IN some cases have I'M
dergone little change of aspect during
the past five hundred years. Remote
from railroads, primitive in all their
ways, they are of the old world,
oIden. Time has hardly dis
turbed them since the days when Lon
don was a village too, with matched
roofs and winding lanes. In the caves
and chasms hewed in the cliffs by the
long rollers of the Atlantic thundering
IN q thousand storms have been found
traces of primeval man-his bones. his
implements, the bones of the beasts he
ate-in great abundance. The very land
is older than the land of the English,
Scotch and Irish. Ages before the solid
parts of earth on which the rest of
Britain was built, had risep above the
wide waste Of waters covering the world,
THIS land, now called Wales, stood alone
Ia its glory, an island by itself, where
strange monsters dwelt, and missbapen
birds and reptiles, wandering, left the
tracks of their feet, which are found to-
day in the solid rock where they were
imprinted countless ages ago.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-24

dazzling brilliancy, which would have
put to shame any kaleidoscope ever
made. Every instant the beautiful PIC
ture changed; now wonderful design in
reds and yellows, looking like q tea
store chrome of an italian sunset; then
shifting to a swarm of peacocks' tails, or
a pantomIme transformation scene
struck by lightning, ard as suddenly
changed to s0mbre view In blue or
purple, or a rainbow dancing waltz.
After showing several Of these pictures
the lecturer proceeded to show the effects
OF sound upon the soap bubble. A
couplet was sung into photograph, the
mouth piece of which was placed against
the mOuthpiece of the phoneidoscope,
and the crank was turned. As the sound
issued forth q curious effect was pro-
duced upon the picture. Geometrlcal
figures IN black appeared upon it, small
and distinct when the notes were high,
large and less clearly cut when the notes
were low. Around and among these
black figures whirled the always chang
ing colors, red, blue, green and yellow,
IN all their varying shades, melting into
one another too quickly for their blend
ing to be followed by the eye. Human
voices also sang to the soap. bubble, and
with equally curious results. 1t is pro-
posed TO exhibit this experiment on a
verp large scale as soon as the new Ian
tern microscope now being made for the
institution is finished. = PhilddeIphi0
RecOTd
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-24

either side OF her. As yet she foated
unframed. The peril was great, but
the direction of the moving ice might
change, and she might yet be free. Still,
On It came with terrific foice, and [ fan
oied could hear the edges already
grinding together The ice closed on
the ill-fated ship She was probably as
totally unprepared TO resist its pressure
as we were. At first | thought that 1t
lifted her bodily up; but it was not so, L
suspect: she was too deep IN the water
for that. Her sides were crushed III,
her stout timbers were rent into thou
sand fragments, her tall masts tottered
and fell, though still attached
to the bull. For an instant |
concluded that the ice must have sep
arated, or, perhaps, the edges broken
with the force of the shock, for as l
gazed the wrecked mass of hull and
spars and canvas seemed drawn sud-
denly downward with irresistible force,
and q few fragments, which had been
hurled to distance IN the terrible con-
cussion were all that remained Of the
hapless vessel. Not soul Of her crew
could have had time to escape to the
ice. I looked anxiously; not speck
could be seen stirring near the spot.
Such, thought I, may be the fate OF the
four hundred and forty human beings
on board this ship ere many minutes
are over, But we escaped.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-24

withered old woman, who orders the ter
rlble Louise about as "M0 petite" and
whose orders are instantly and scrupul-
ously obeyed. Her passionate love for
her old mother is the one human trait in
this cold, implacable petroteeb8e. When,
on her return from the galleys, great
banquet was given to her, she slipped
away from it by back door 10 find the
poor old woman in her attic; and now,
when she is writing out her plans of
wholesale bloodshed, she will throw
down the pen and fly to bring the soupe
maoigre, or Cruel, and to pet la pnuvre
nedmaGm. God" says the Arab
proverb, "has set His sign-manua4
somewhere on the worst of men,"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-24
" Solid Leather"

An English tourist on the continent,
reaching the town of Sesto Calende on
the Austrian frontier, had brief en-
counter with the baggage examiner that
gave him something to laugh over. The
tourists name was not written plainly
on either his passport or his portman-
teau and the German official could not
read it so as to insert it In the copy he
was oliged to make, according to regu-
Iation, to be handed over to the courier.
He took the passport to It's owner and
pointing to the words Sam1 Leader,
inscribed in rather blind, running hand,
= asked if that was his name. Recelv-
ing an affirmative reply, he requested
Mr.. Leader TO pronounce 1t,
which he did. The receiver OF
customs was still as much In the dark as
ever, and Struggling his shoulders, in
Weighed, with a few Teutouic execra-
tions, against the hieroglyphic character
of the English running hand, and be-
gan to examine the outside of the port
manteau OF which he had overhauled
| the interior. The courier meanwhile
| (who protested he was bound to minute
| tlme) was beseeching him to make short
work of it, aud hand him up the new
way-biIl containing all his passengers
names. Just at this moment the Aus
trian, who had been stopping over the
lock of the portmanteau, sprang up,
ran into his little smoky Office, added
some writing to the way-bill, and came
! out all sunshine and smiles to place the
passport in Mr.. Leaders hand and the
way-bi1 In the courier's, exclaiming,
"AlLeS recht!" Gall right and wishing
him a safe journey onwar. He even
nodded ia etiously to Mr.. l., and
seemed to chuckle over something very
satisfactory to his feelings, assuming
the aspect of man who had proved
himself more knowing than his company
| thought him to be. When the mail
stopped to change cars at Gallarate,
Mr. Leader asked the courier to show
him the new way-bill. 81 should like
to see" said he, "what mark or remark
that bothering fellow put against my
name, after all the demur he made al
SestO Calende." The courier handed
over TO him the way-blll, and Mr.
Leader found himself included in the
list OF passengers to Milan under the
name Of Solid Leather! The Austrian
| official had discovered the makers brand
somewhere on the metal mountings O
the portmanteau, and Jumped at the
| conclusion that it was the owners name
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-24
Louise Michel,
From Youths Companion

Private letters from Paris describe
Louise Michel, the communist, as one
of the most dramatic figures ia that city
of strong contrasts in human types. An
American lately gained admission to a
meeting of anarchists, and states that
the disorderly mob became suddenly
silent, as if magnetized, when delicate
little woman, dressed in black, walked
forward on the platform and made a
gentle motion of appeal for quiet. She
had a pale, immobile face, without a
trace of excitement in it. She spoke
with her eyes closed, her hands clasped
hanging before her. Her voice was low
and soft, and she kept time to its mono
tonous cadence by a slow rocking to and
fro of her body. In this gentle, even
monotone she poured out vindlctive de-
nunciations of her enemies and those
fierce adJuratlOns to murder that appall
even the most brutal of her associates.
This woman is the high-priestess of
murder in France. Whatever we may
think of the truth or falsity of her
political convictions, there is no doubt
as to the enginery with which she would
propel them; it is assassination, pure
and simple. She lives, 1t is stated, in a
filthy garnet, where, wrapped in a man. S
surtout, both ragged and dirty, she sits
7riting, surrounded by disorderly heaps
of books and papers. There is, how
ever, one corner Of the garnet which is
carefully scrubbed and busted. There,
on little bed, white and clean, lies q
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-24
Coffee in Dancer.

The Bombay Gazette brings the alarm
ing intelligence that there is serious
danger of the gradual determination of
the coffee tree. A small fungus-ike
growth appears on one or more OF the
leaves, gradually spreading 10 all, when
the tree losses all it's vitality and dies.
Several plantations have thus been de-
stroyed IN Ceylon, and the disease has
also appeared III Java and the surround
ing islands. The government of the
FIJI Islands has adopted prompt meas
ures to arrest the spread of the disease
in their country by buying up the plant
'ations in which it has already made it's
appearance and burning them 10 the
ground.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-24
Crushed in the Ice.

From TiIlOtson's Z" Adventures in Icer
AS the Light increased, we saw, at a
distance OF three miles to the westward,
another ship in far worse predicament
than we were. She had discovered her
peril, and We saw her signal of distress
hoisted and heard her guns fired; but
until we got clear ourselves We could do
nothing TO aid her. 1t was very dread
Jul to watch the stranger In her help
lessness, and feel that we were helpless
ourselves. All hands were at the braces
ready to trIs the sails should the wind
head US, for IN that case we should have
to beat out Of the channel, which was
every instant growing narrower and mar
rover. The captain stood at the weather
gangway eonaIng the ship. When he
saw the zoe closing on US, he ordered
every stitch of canvas the ship would
carry to be set on her, IN hopes of carry
ing her est before this should Occur.
1t was chance whether or not we
should be nipped. However, [ was
not 50 mueh occupied with our own
danger rs Eet TO keep an eye on the
stranger, a0d feel deep interest In her
fate. [ wss st the mizzen top, and as /
possessed spy-glass, L could see clear
~ all that occurred. The water on
which the unfortunate ship foated was
nearly smooth, though covered with
foam. eaHsad by the masses of ice as
they approached each other. | looked;
she had but few fathoms of water ON
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-24
A Pntatn Story

A curiosity in the potato line Is from
the cellar of E. Meeker, OF PRyallup,
Oregon. A sack of potatoes thrown into
barrel had become withered, and were
about to be thrown out, when it was dis
covered that in each one of tkera was q
hill of young potatoes, sone OF which,
pink-colored and fresh as a rose, were
bursting through the skin of the parent
potato, and all this, apparently, without
external sproutiug. These young ones
are in clusters and in all sizes less than
that of a walnut.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-24
TIE TWO GATEWAVS,
BY EDWIN ARNOLD.

When God fashioned Paradise,
Spake He unto Gabriel;
ssSee THE place which We create,
Where the justified will dwell
Gabriel said. /" Ny Lordl swear
BY Thy glory, none of men
Ever of its joys shall hear
But will strive to enter IN"
Round about His Paradise
God set SORROWS and denials.
Laid the pathway steep and straight,
Hard to find and full of trials.
ssIook againln God said; and he
Looked, and came, and sadly speke'
ssBy Thy glorious majesty,
Not one man will entrance make!"
Then che Lord created Hell,
Set ablaze its ache and grieving;
Saying unto Gabriel,
''This is for the unbelieving."
Gabriel looked and said, 81 swear
BY Thy splendor, net a mortal,
When of hell-fire he shall hear,
Ever viii approach its portal"
Bound about those awful gates
Allah set soft sins and pleasures;
Made the pathway broad and plain,
Rich with joys and gifts and treasures.
Look again, f" said God; and he
Saw; and spake, "Save by thy blessing,
Omy Lord! there will not be
One that must not love transgressing."
Lord of the two-fold roads, we pray,
Lead us upon the rightful way.
Pearls of the Faith
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-24

BUILDING lots in the suburbs of Mont
gomery, Ala, which not long ago were
offered for S., 900, sold few days since
for 50, 900.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-24
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

The question, How long is it neces-
sary to keep children from school after
an infectious disease ?" was ans wered re-
Gently by the Academy of Medicine of
Paris. With scarlet fever, diphtheria,
measles, smallpox, isolation should be
maintained forty days. Chicken pox and
mumps lose their contagious power after
twenty-five days.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-24
THE HOME DOCTOR.
SUNBURN AND FRECKLES.

SUNBUhN AND FhEUhbE5,
Put a quantity of elder flowers into a
jug, pour boiling water on them, let the
mixture stand for twenty four hours, and
strain through muslin. Wash the face
every morning with the decoction. It
will remove sunburn and freckles, and
will beautify the skin.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1883-08-23
The Peoples Money.

There are nearly four million dollars
lying idle in the State Treasury. No, it
is not idle. The Allegheny National
Bank (Magee's) has $500, $500; Farm
ers and Mechanics National Bank, of
Philadelphia, $500, 972.l Peoples Bank
of Philadelphia, (Kemble'sl has 1927.
S5G.l0; and Baily's bank, at Uniontown,
has $2Sj,O0O Millions for the bosses !
not one dollar for the people. The
Democratic State platform declares;
"rhe long continued abuses and
spolation of the State Treasury and the
defiance of law by its management
make essential radical reform, so that
large funds shall not be accumulated
by taxation Of the people to be distri.
buted among the favored depositors OF
State officials, but that all surplus in
excess of the immediate necessities of
the state government shall be invested
in interest hearing State or Federal
securities until it may be applied to the
extinguishment of the State debt"
After copying the foregoing from the
Lancaster hh'LJtncsr the Doylestown
Dfmocrg, states that in its opinion, long
entertained the only way to prevent
the "long continued abuses and spolia
tion of the State Treasury" is to create
an "Independent Treasury system for
the State. Then the State will keep its
own money, and there will not be any
opportunity for "spolition.' The truth
Is, both parties seem afraid to put the
State Treasury entirely out OF reach Of
party influence. 1t is very convenient,
at times, to have few hundred thou
sand Of public money in bank, on which
contribution can be laid for political
purposes. rs long as there is a chance
for the peoples money to be used in
elections, there will be no earnest effort
to change the system of keeping it.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1883-08-23
INSTRUCTORS
Mrs. L. NJ. ROBERTS.
Teacher Of the Primary Department.
MISS SENNIE VI. GEHRET,
Teacher Of Latin.

The Principal will take charge Of thS
Young GeuiIemcn's Room and give in
siruction in Greek and Malhomatics
Pupils will be prepared Carefully and
Thoroughly for Business or for College.
Special attention will be given hy the In
structors to the Moral and Religious Cul-
turc Of the Students
Boarlors, either young ladies or Young
gentlemen, will be charged for boarding
and tuition s. per week This includes all
ordinary expenses except washing.
3l-lm. J.P. HUGHES.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1883-08-23
ONE LOT or SUITS ALL WOOL
Lot Of Dark Light oil Wool Cashmere Sus lrd Do,
Uc drcO OrcrsOckeR



CO.
few uue 81, q W a un cleo
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1883-08-23

The Democrats at Harrisburg yestcr.
day were even more harmonious than
the Republicans were some weeks ago.
The platform is forcibIe document,
and relates mainly to State affairs and
politics, protesting against notorious
and long continued abuses by the lie
publicans, approving Democratic reform
under Governor Pattison and asking for
still more in the same direction. The
platform is a very good one the Re
publican platform IS very bad one
and independent voters in Pcnnsyl-
vania ought this year to support the
Democrats without question or hesita
tion.-N. J.. HraR.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1883-08-23
Williams & Brother
DEALERS rs.
WALL PAPER, PAINTS, &c, &c.
90
PAINTING AND PAPER ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
siiIP-TlIE BEsT, ,rRICBs-THE LOWEST
PROHPTNEss AND DISPATCH,
Corner Ttah AMI Water Street.
90

We take This method Of Infarmip, ovsryt.7siv -
lst That We have ia stock tho largest and Gnest
relcct0u of Wall Paper outside of pbiladefphja 81
Fiats satins Blacks aud BrUrns Besralfsl Iigricrs
in gfest variety
~ That We have just received frou New Yort fred
Beoks Sow BOOK 81 telling Designs. can furnish
and put 40 a. fine and elaborate Cclnn Der,tirs -
are put ~ aHywhere.
r. That We invite all who intend paperiHe 10 call
aud see our line u Gops before ordering elsewhere
ith. We have iu our employ hrstclass pauer.ITang-
ers and Painters, and ara prepared 20 take ol,a II
Painting. draining sign-WHtng and Papar-IIsns.
ng, large OF small, aud complete the work wth neat
legs and Dispatch
Trade from tho country solicited.
WILLIAMS 4 BROTHER,
lS-lm Bollefante. IA
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-12-29

Twenty years ago there was an old
farmer living about 100 miles from New
York, who took forty pounds of dried
apples to the village merchant, and was
told that the price was cents per
pound. ''l'll be darned if l submit to
this extortion any longerl" he exclaimed
"Why. they are quoted in Horace
Greeley's paper ut 7 centsT Hadn't
you better take EN- to New York;
"I'll be kicked il l don't" And he did.
When be came home and figured up,
he said to his wife. "Wall, Hammer, it
cost me IS to come and go, 50 tavern
bill, and may be little extra for
tobacco" "rheu, You lost by the
trip" Eyes, kinder lost in one way, but
gained in a4othcr; got my tea for
cents pound less than Jackson sells ii,
and tell you cents don't grow on
every ihistler'
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-12-29
The Age of the Orange Tree



The great age to which the orange tree
lives and bears is an important consider
alton for the colonist, who might, by a
little self.denial, and through judicious
first selection and expenditure upon an
orange grove, virtually endow his pos
terify with an annually increasing in
come. Risso, in the work already al.
luded to, mentions that in the Convent
Of St. Sabina at Rome there is an orange
tree said to be six hundred years old, and
at Nice, 1889, there was another which
usually bore 5000 and 5000 oranges; its
trunk took two men to encircle it, its
crown was more than fifty feet from the
ground, and its age was lost in antiquity.
Even in England, orange rearing; during
considerable part of the year in the
open air. has no. been attended with
much difficulty, as witness the Bedding
ton orchard in Surrey. of which Bishop
Gibson in his contributions to Camden's
Britannia, Gays il twas one hundred
years old in 1885," the Hampton Court
orange trees, some of which are stated
to be more than three hundred years old;
and various gardens inSouth Devonshire,
where. trained against the walls, and
only protected with straw mats during
Winter, ''are specimens which have
hourished for at least a century.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-12-29
FOR RENT.

Furnished or Unfurnished, Forty-three rooms
in yalla Block. corner d Los Angeles and First
streets All front rooms with two windows, suit
store room suitable for restaurant Splendid To-
cation Inquire Of L. D. Roughly, II Commercial
street. DDS 1w
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-12-29
LATE TELEGRAMS.
SPECIAL TO THE HERALD. j
The O'Brien Jury Disagree
Opium Seixed-POstsi Tire atty
with Hawaiian Islands.

SAN Francisco, Dec. 2S.--The jury
in the second trial Of John j. O'Brien,
ex-Assistant Secretary Of the Harbor
Commissioners, charged with Altering u
stub receipt from 5000 to 500, announce
thai they cannot agree on a verdict and
ask 10 be discharged.
Customs authorities lave seized 1908
pounds Of crude opium, valued at $4,000,
brought here ON the steamer Granada
from Panama. The Surveyor ordered
it seized on the grounds that it is a
prohibited article Of import under treaty
with China proclaimed October 5. 1881.
Postal money order system has been
established between the United States
and the Hawaiian Islands to go int,
effect January first next.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-12-29
HOMES
IN THE
Santa Ana Valley,
Good Business Chance.

Nineteen furnished rooms within three minutes
walk Of the Court House; rooms now are occupied;
will net to the party purchasing this bargain $3.50
per month. Enquire Of
RENNE, FINNEy & KNOX,
oc4tf % First street
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-12-29

SHILOH'S CATARRH REMEDY
a positive cure for Catarrh, Diptheria
and Canker Mouth. Sold by C. F..
Heinzeman, l22 North Main street.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-12-29

VALLEJO, Dec. IA short time ago
Austin Stevenson accepted on offer which
Hanlan made to give any oarsman $1,000
who would beat him in three mile race.
Hanlan has now requested Stevenson TO
release him from the engagement, aud
he has consented. No reasons for the
request are assigned,
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-12-29

The heat of the Colorado desert the
present season has been greater than in
any previous year, the thermometer
daily remaining at 1907.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-12-29
TO LET
FURNISHED ROOMS,

FINE LARGE STORES to let in Arcadia
I'm jn2s RoBT. s. BAKER
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-12-29

The Therapeutic Repie,o says: Methyl
saiicylate Toll Of wintergreen) mixed
with an equal quantity of olive oil or
iinimentum saponis applied externally
20 infiamed joints affected with rheuma-
tism affords instant relief, and being Of a
pleasant odor it's use Il agreeable
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-12-29

Pleasantly located and neatly furnished,
TO LET, SINGLE OR EN- SUITE,
Corner Fort and Franklin streets, one block from
postofice d3ltf