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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07
She Knew How to shinqIe.
[From the Lewiston (Me.) Journal.

lG1OL4 tuo 1LoWlstOu (hAe.) JOURNAL
The antagonists of modern advanced
education, if there be any, should have
heard a little lecture that a gentleman
gave on the street the other morning.
The question had arisen as to the tea
dency of modern advanced education to
create disgust for manual labor. The
gentleman told an anecdote. A young
lady who is very well known in Lewiston
and Auburn, and who has had liberal
education IN America. a course of study
in the German schools, and who has
since taught in some of the leading
schools of this state and others, came
home to her fathers farm this summer.
Thehours hung rather heavily. "Father,
our Office needs shingling." said she
one day. The next day the shingles
were on the spot, and the young lady
proposed to have some fun, and combine
it in legitimate way with solid work.
She built the stagings geometrically,
ran the lines after Euclid, and shingled
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07

Bruce, and Frank and mate, John Nay:
The teams are owned by j. keenan,, OF
Boston, and J. Earnestly & Co., of Prov
idence. Frank, who SO recently made
the mile in Oil under the same cond1-
tions, was the favorite, pools selling i've
to four. The race was won IN straight
heats by Winship; time, 2:l6, 2:1O3,
Oils, the fastest three heats ever trotted
in a race. The time In the second heat
excelled the record of 2:1l made by 1eI-
low Dock and mate last year. Between
the heats the chestnut Lambert stallion
Golden, owned by Il. B. Hammond, of
New York, and driven by w. 81. Van
Valkenburg, of Ogdensburg, trotted
against 2:30 for $500. He won the match
in the second heat in 2:2S2. Another
race has been arranged between the
same horses at Mystic Park, Boston, on
the 2Sth.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07
TOLD BY A SAILOR.
Interesting History of the Wrecked
as . Schooner Experiment.

The little wrecking schooner Expert
ment went ashore at Saugatuck, Mich.
on the 25th ult. This schooner has had q
most remarkable career for small vessel,
and many Of the older lake captains will
remember some of the facts concerning
it. She is now nearly 80 years old, but
has been rebuilt SO recently that she is
a very good little craft yet. She was
built in ST. Joseph, Mich, In 1855, by
a man who wished to use her in carrying
fruit. The name of the man can not be
learned, but 1t is sufficient to say
that he, with his wife and child,
lived aboard the vessel altogether. In
the fall of 1856, when the baby was a
little over year old, the Experiment
was sailing for st, Joseph from Mil
waukee, where she had a most success
full trip. When off st. Joe a white
squat struck the Experiment and she,
having all her canvas exposed was in
stantly capsized. The captain and his
two assistants were never heard of again,
and when the Experiment few days
later was cast upon the beach near st.
Joseph, with her bottom upward, it was
believed. that all on board had persisted.
Nevertheless a search was made of the
cabin, and the first man to get
under the vessel was alarmed to hear
cries which sounded as if they emanated
from q vigorous pair of infantile lungs.
The searcher listened to the crying for
an instant and then crawled in the di-
rection from which they came. He was
terrified while thus cropping along to
come upon the dead body of the wife of
the captain of the vessel lying on the
ceiling of the cabin. But he recovered
sufficiently to be alive to a sense of duty,
and after short search found the child
of the dead woman safely tucked away
on shelf above the water. But the in
fant's clothing was wet and the little
thing would undoubtedly soon have per-
ished but for the timely aid which
reached it. The baby was taken out,
and with careful attention was restored to
health, aud has since grown to be man.
The story was that the mother, after
battling with the water long time, and
finding the struggle hopeless, placed the
baby in as safe a position as possible,
and then resigned herself to the fate
that was inevitable. The Experiment
has since had many ups and downs, and
for number of years past has been
owned and commanded by Capt. Beffel
as wrecking vessel. She has expert
| enced good deal of trouble while en-
gagged in the wrecking business, and it
is thought that the present accident will
end her career.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07
A Voyage on the Nile.

On the next morning we started lit
tie after night from the myriad mosqui-
toes and sand-fies along the shore. At
7:30 we drew up at the left bank for a
fresh supply of fre-wood. Here oc-
Cured a typical piece of petty official
oppression. The place at which we
stopped was not regular fueling sta
ton, and consequently no wood was
ready. The captain, taking with him a
half-dozen of his black sailors and fire.
men, armed with Remington rifles and
others bearing axes, proceeded to vii
lage some hundred of yards inland, and
In spite of the protests and entreaties of
the women (for the men were absent
with their hocks), set about dragging
down the doorposts and rude timber
roofs of the mud huts. This wood the
unfortunate villagers were compelled to
carry to the rivers side, where it was
chopped up and shifted on board the
steamer. This was by no means the
only occasion on which, during the jour
ney up the Nile, such outrages were per-
petrated. Some of the military officers
on board the barges loudly reviled the
captain for his conduct, and threatened
to report his conduct at KhartOum.
One Turkish officer said he had no doubt
that it was the prevalence of such out
RACES by irresponsible minor officers
which had driven the Soudanees into
revolt. Whenever the village was
populous and the sheik, had the air of an
Intelligent man, the captain never dared
to demolish the houses, but was content
to pay for the wood brought down and
stacked on the river bank.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07
Agriculture in Alaska,

lCor. San Francisco Bulletin.]
The visitor to Alaska is at once struck
by the luXuriance of the vegetation, and
is apt to hastily draw the inference that
farming would be successful. But there
are twoobstacles in the way. In the
first place, the surface of southeastern
Alaska is exceedingly mountainous. At
Bartlett's bay, near the entrance of
Glacier bay, there is an extent of COM
paratively level land, but no experiments
have yet been made to ascertain its cap
abilities, But even were the lands all that
could be desired the climate would be
against the success of any such expert
ment. The average number of rainy
days Is 245, and the average rainfall is
IS inches. The rainfall is not confined
to any one portion of the year, but even
IN July or August ten consecutive days
of fair weather are exceptional. It will
be readily seen that fruit or crops have
no time to ripen. Near Juneau hay
has been raised this year, but even in
the latter part of July it was not ready
to be cut. Such vegetables as potatoes
and turnips have been raised with fair
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07
LOSS OF THE ONEIDA.
The Propeller Oneida Strikes Rock in
st. Lawrence River.

CHICAGO, November AT 2:45
o'clock yesterday morning the passenger
propeller Oneida, of the Chicago and
Ogdensburg Line, struck a rock In the
st. Lawrence River and sank in q feet
of water. There were no passengers on
board, the crew making their escape In
the propeller'syawl boats. The accident
occurred about five miles from Clayton,
n. Y, and about twenty-five
miles this side of her port of destination.
The Oneida left this port last week Mon
day at z o'clock in the evening Tor
Ogdensburg. Her cargo was partially
made up here, and consisted OF 70, O9O
bushels of corn and twenty-five barrels
of pork. She stopped at Milwaukee and
took on a deckload of miscellaneous
merchandise. OF her corn cargo
Reynolds Brothers SHIPPED 10000 bush
els and Gallup, Clark & Co. 15,0 900
bushels This was insured for $15, 200,
the pool having $4,000 and the Big
Four 50, 900. Her deck load of mer-
chandise was insured for 81, 600 In Cros-
by Dimmick's agency. There was an
insurance Of $25, 900 on the propeller as
follows: Boston Marine So, 600, West
ern Assurance So, 900, Exchange 81, 500,
Buffalo $4,000. A telegram from the
Buffalo underwriters states that Capt.
Mcleod, the wrecking master, had
left for Clayton to investigate the wreck.
The Oneida is owned by her master,
Capt. Charles McInnes, well-known
and exceedingly pos ular lake navigator,
who has been actively engaged on the
lakes for long term of years. The
propeller represents almost his entire
fortune, and is the representative of
many years honest industry and careful
accumulation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07
Starters for Stories,
From Puck.J


Slush, slush, slush
I first saw the light of day
"Push the eglantine aside, Hester"
It was night-night in the great city.
It was night-night on the lonely
downs.
The sun was rising on perfect day
A dull, drizzling day on the Cornish
coast. 49,.
It was Herbert Delancey's twenty
first birthday.
It was a beautiful afternoon toward
the close of August.
Godfrey Marmalade had been a
bachelor for many years.
Born of humble parents, John Gray
grew up to manhood
Yes, it was very hard for us all to part
with Lilith Jane; but
Only a gin-miller's daughter And
yet how fair-how wondrously fair she
was
On sultry day toward the close of
August, 18-, the heir of Jagshurst lay
dying. ...-
The birds were twittering sweetly
that morning in leafy June, when Clara
Montmorenci-
"No." The speaker was fair, pale
girl of some nineteen summers.
A bright, glowing fire, cheerful
room, books everywhere more
did Herbert Vane need to be happy?
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07

success at Sitka and Fort Wrangle, but
these places are still dependent upon the
more southern countries for supplies.
Salmonberries, blueberries, cranberries,
strawberries, whortleberries, and many
others grow abundantly in Alaska, and
some have been exported to San Fran
cisco.
The interior of Alaska is a large plain,
covered with wild grasses four or five
feet high. The country is well adapted
for grazing, if the herds can be well pro-
tected from the severe winters. Near
the coast several small herds of cattle
have grazed for several years, and are
found to do very well. A few years
ago Messrs. Falkner, Bell & Co. exper-
imented with sheep, but they were I'M
able to endure the long winter.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07
A Tartar Duel,

The forehead fight brutal COM
bat inherited from the old Turks, still
survives in some districts among the
Tartars of the Crimea. A duel of this
savage kind took place short time ago
IN Crimean village. The report of it
is given by a physician who was called
to attend the defeated combatant. The
fees take their stand at a measured dis
lance from each other, with their heads
bent forward; then at given signal they
rush at one another, butting forehead
against forehead like two goats. The
remainder of the duel is fought wholly
with the forehead; neither blows or
kicks are permitted, as the man who
uses any weapon except his forehead is
disgraced. In the recent case blood
streamed from the foreheads of both the
semi savages; nevertheless they contin-
ued butting at each other with ferocious
passion, until at length one of them fell
exhausted to the earth. He gathered
all his remaining strength to draw his
knife from his girdle, and with one de-
termined stroke he then cut wide cash
across his throat The physician states
that the act of suicide on the part of the
beaten man is to be regarded as direct
consequence of the injury done to the
brain by the fearful conclusions of the
Fl oht
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07
How TO choose a Wife.

ga place for everything and every
thing in its place." said the patriarch
to his daughter. "Select a wife, my
son, who will never step over a broom
stisk," is the sage advice given to the
son, and as the story goes, he was
obedient to the lesson. "Now," said
he pleasantly, on a gay May day, to one
of his companions, CT appoint that
broomstick TO choose me a wife. The
young girl who will not step over it shall
have the offer of my hand" They passed
from the saloon to the grove, laid the broom
over frequented path, and watched.
Soon the girls came trippingalong, some
tumbling over the broomstick and others
jumping over. At length young lady
stopped and put it in its place. The
promise was fulfilled; she became the
wife of an educated and wealthy young
man, and the husband obtained a pru-
dent, industrious young wife. He
brought fortune to her, and she knew
how to save one. It is not easy to decide
which was under the greatest obligation;
both were rich and each enriched the
other,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07
Newspaper Whcppers.

In some parts of Kentucky water is
used for drinking purposes.
a st. Louis editor has nose which is
not bit red, and never has been.
A Boston girl was recently asked a
question In Greek and she did not I'M
derstand it.
Barnum's fat woman staid at a Flori-
da hotel for two months, and being una
BILE to endure the scant diet any longer,
determined to leave without paying.
The landlord locked her in, but she
crawled through the key hole and got
away.
In San Francisco the other day the
question "Who was father of his coun-
try?" was answered by one half the
children, George Washington. The
other half yelled "Dennis Kearney."
This shows that Kearney's influence is
declining.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

CYRUS SARGENT, a wealthy Grant
County farmer, fell from a straw stack
and broke his neck.
d. J. KINNEY, of the town of Loyal,
Clark County, raised 216 bushels of
wheat on nine acres.
The Travellers House, MarshfeId,
was visited by burglars recently who
took $40 In cash from the clothes of
various boarders.
A MAN named W. A. Wood is under
arrest at Eau Claire on suspicion of
having been implicated in the robbery
Of $4,000 worth of jewelry from Du-
cumon's store In that place, recently.
THE barn of Herman Newbery, in the
town of Shelby, near La Crosse, was
burned by an incendiary on the night of
the 28th. It contained 900 bushels of
wheat and other grain and property.
A LARGE tract of marsh at the west
end of Devils Lake, near Baraboo, Is
being filled no by the Chicago and
North Western Railway Company. The
track is also being Strengthened at the
curve known as the devils Nose"
SCHUMACHER & SoHULzE's store at
Westfeld was visited by burglars on the
night of the 18th, who blew open the
safe and took 81. After lunching on
canned peaches and crackers from the
stock the craftsmen retired in disgust.
JOHANNES FALKENBERG, who left
Stoughton, Dane County, on the LIST of
| September for trip to his old home In
Norway was drowned in the North Sea
on the 28th of the same month while at
tempting to save the life of man who
had fallen overheard.
THE Durand Bridge Company has
filed articles of incorporation with the
secretary of state. The object of the
company is to construct and maintain
toll bridge across the Chippewa River at
Durand. The capital stock is $25, 900,
divided into Coo shares Of S25 each.
AFTER three days trial in the circuit
court at RichIand Center, before Judge
Clementson, William Liscomb, Frank
WallWorth, Al. Hamilton and Geo. Nc
Philters were acquitted of the charge of
burning and plundering the railroad
depot in that city on the night of o.
tober 7, 1882.
j. A. CHADWICK and Samuel West, of
Juda, have become the owners of the
fine stallion Athlete" The ami
nal was purchased in 1875, when 2
years old, of Capt Wilgus, of Licking
ton, KY, by DIR. Strong, of Beloit, for
So, 900 cash, and has proved to be as
horse all that was anticipated of him as
a colt.
A MAN named Grace, who was impli-
Gated with the notorious Jack Corners
in the robbery of Mrs. Ines Coates, of
Neenah, several years ago, but who dis
appeared Immediately after committing
the crime, has been captured at St. Vim
cent, MINI. Connors, it will be remem-
bered, pleaded guilty and was sent to
Waupun for ten years, but escaped dur
ing the past summer.
On the evening of the 26th the case
Of Herman Peschel, of Watertown,
against the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul Railway, in the Jefferson County
circuit court, was given to the jury, and
a verdict rendered in favor of the plain
tiff in the sum of $40, 800. Over one
year ago, at PlattGville, Pescbel had his
leg broken and back injuied while at
work for the company, erecting wind
mill, part of the frame of which fell
upon him. The railroad company will
appeal to the supreme court
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07
A Story of MiIIard Fillmore.

The New York Tribune says: The
contest now waglng In Buffalo in regard
to the will of Mrs. Willard Fillmore re-
calls an anecdote Of the ex-President
which has probably never before found
it's way into print. Some years since q
party of politicians were conversipg
about the public men of New York.
One Of them took occasion to speak of
Mr.. Fillmore, abiding particularly to the
benevolent cast of his countenance. [
imagine that Willard Fillmore was as
fine gentleman as ever trod shoe leath-
En-. l never knew him, but Ell tell you
what makes me think So In 1848 he
was comptroller of the state. [ was then
attending the Albany Academy, which
stand IN park just opposite the state
house. Well, one day lot of us school
boys we're playing ball in the park and
an unlucky hit sent the ball over the
railing through one OF the windows of
Mr.. Comptroller Fillmore's office. We
were we'll frightened, but we did not run
away. Pretty soon who should appear
on the steps of the state house but Mr..
Fillmore himself. he held the guilty
ball in his hand and we expected that
we were In for the awful scolding, even
if he didn't cross over to the academy
and report u.s. But to our delight and
admiration he did nothing of the kind.
He simply tossed the ball back into the
park-he tossed it gently-and then he
remarked with beaming smile, Boys,
please try to knock IN some other direc-
ton after this. Then he turned and
walked back to his Office. That's what
i call 8 fine gentleman Willard Fill
more may have had his faults, but he
was entitled to a benevolent cast of
countenance."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07
BLASTING with Lime,
From the Bismarck Tribune. ]

From the Bismarck Tribune.l
A genius, whose home is in Bismarck,
has been. occupying his time of late In
studying a new method of blasting rock,
mining coal, and blowing up tyrannical
rulers. He has come to the conclusion
that lime is far more powerful explo-
sive than powder, nitro glycerine or
dynamite. By boring a hole Ill a rock,
filling it up with lime, and pouring on
water with an elongated tube. the hard
est granite or jasper can be hurled into
pieces and the bowels of mountain un-
earthed. In mining coal this method of
blasting will also become very popular,
as a hole drilled through the vein from
the top and filled with the white expand
ing substance will do the work of hun
dred miners and be a great saving of
time. The communists, nihilists, So
cialists and Fenians will also be provided
with much better means of blowing an
occasional king or czar heavenward or
hellward, as the case may be. On cor
Onation days they can perfOrate the
street over which the uususpectipg
potentate is to ride, and with the lime
in proper condition, have an ascen-
sion battery prewared for his reception.
By saturating writing paper in lime
solution, so that it will dry with all it's
expanding properties, an enemy may be
annihiIated by presenting him with neat
box of gilt-edged note, for as soon as he
TONGUES the paper with ink, bif, bang
he goes into the illimitable space. It
may be we'll to guard this American
nihilist and serve ah Injunction on his
dangerously directed ingenuity. He is
liable to place some of the lime on the
walls of our brick block and blow them
to the four corners of the globe.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07

the Office as neatly and expeditiously as
the village professor of shingles himself
could have done. She pulled down the
staging and erected it again over the ell
to the house, and, in spite of parental
Injunction, shingled the ell and slop-
ing shed attached. She practiced music
for pleasure in the meantime, however,
and read German for q pastime.
" Nothing" added the gentleman,
"would be further from her own incli-
nation than notOrietY."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07
Record of a Mule

There is now in the stable of Mr.. Nc
Cormack, in Buffalo, mule, the prop
erty of Giles Case, that has probably
done more hard work than any four
Dotted creature extant. Here is his
record: Mr.. Case bought the mule in
1858 from an Ohio man for $50. the
beast being then 3 years old. He (the
mule) has been towing on the Erie Canal
ever since, and has never been disabled
or sick for an hour. He has towed on
an average 5000 miles per season since
1858, aggregating 125, 600 miles. He is
ready to start on another trip. What
better story of mules life well spent
can be written? His industry and in
domitable perseverance are worthy the
emulation of all his long -eared kisd, and
in their light his weaknesses can be for
given, for il is to be confessed the gen
eral character of our friend the mule is
pronounced by his drivers bad.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07

A LAW has been passed prohibiting
the manufacture of tenement-house ci.
CARS. Good enough; let's have 'em built
with bay windows and swell fronts, and
a hired girl to carry the ashes out
Burlington Free Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-10-11
Treatment Of Assesses.

The term ''abscesso applies to acol-
lection of pus or of other matter in a
limited cavity under an animals skin.
1t is the result of morbid process, and
may be induced by either an external
cause, such as brrfise, or the insertion
of a nail or thorn, or by some internal
cause, such as popularity of constitu-
ton, or impurity of blood. 1t differs
from an ulcer in this, that in the latter
the pus is formed from an exposed sur
face. While the abscess is forming the
skin is usually very tender, the whole
system is sometimes in a state of con-
siderable irritation, and the part imme-
diately affected is always the seat of
pain, swelling, and an unusual degree
of heat. A watery or dropsical swell
ing, on being pressed, retains for some
time the marks of the fingers; windy
swelling is even more yielding than the
watery tumor; but true abscess,
though also in some degree elastic or
impressible, resumes its former shape
the instant the pressure is removed.
Any abscess is bad in nearly hepropor-
ton of its hardness, redness and power
of resisting pressure. If any abscess,
in its earlier stages, be Welding and well
supplied with fluid, it soon softens and
points, diminishes in pain, and ap-
proaches a state of maturity. At the
time of the abscess pointing" the
matter of it can be felt more distinctly
at one particular part than in any other
part, and tendency appears at this
particular part to burst, and to let out
some or all of the collected matter.
The bursting, however, should not be
permitted; but at this stage the abscess
should be opened at the lowest part, OF
that which would admit most readily OF
its discharging itself. The opening
should be large, and no dressing viii be
required, accept continuance of the
fermentation. which should previously
be used. Country Gentleman.