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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-27
The Girls of the Blue Grass Reaion

Lexington (Ky.) Cincinnati News Journal.l
The women here have gorgeous ma
ture to build on and high art to improve
it with. When the Bona Dea, out of
her bounteousness, makes a blue grass
women she takes care never to spoil the
job. A soft, white, warm body, trans
lucent with divine light, and curving to
lines OF beauty so naturally as the ten
drills of the vine, Is the groundwork upon
which nature lmns the human angel.
Eyes softly bright, but LUMINOSITY in
tense; cheeks like the damask rose, with
buttercups of dimpIes, in whose hon
eyed heart sly Puck or Oberon might
sleep; lips like OK heart cherries at the
center, but flexible as smoke wreath,
ard fading away into the soft cheek like
the hearts blood of strawberry into
luscious cream; chin fairly fashioned as
the golden apple that blu8hing Paris
gave to Venus, who.trembled with delight
at taking it; the brow of Juno and the
bust of Hebe; the sea-nymphs pearly
ear, the wood nymph's springy step
these are few OF the charms that nature
gives the maiden OF the Blue Grass.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-27
The Horse who Clears the Track.
From the New York Tribune


A remarkable exhibition may be seen
daily at various points on several Of the
Brooklyn car routes. It is never wit
messed for the first time without eliciting
Explanations ofsurprise, and explanations
from the car conductors that the animal
has been doing the same thing regularly
for years. He is a small gray horse
nearly white in fact-about 10 years old
and is driven to a butchers wagon.
Many of the car routes in Brooklyn run
double tracks through streets too mar
row TO admit the passage of the cars
when an ordinary wagon is drawn up at
the sidewalk; and it happens that this
butchers delivery route is through
several of these narrow thoroughfares
near the ferries. When standing in
broad street this horse pays no atten-
ton to passing cars; but when III the
narrow ones he hears car approaching
he waits until it is within few feet OF
him, then deliberately looks around,
bows OF mods his head twice, turns IN
wide circle, drawing his wagon after
him. and after allowing the car to pass
returns to the place TO await his masters
coming. He never fails to do this in the
narrow streets, and never does it in th 2se
broad enough to admit of the passage of
the car. That he moves on when he
hears the car approach is perhaps not so
remarkable as that he makes the circle
of so great radius as not to upset the
wagon he draws.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-27
Giants in Those Days.
[From Demorest's Monthly.l


In digging recently at Rockaway, l..
l., number of bones were found, max
ing three almost complete skeletons. On
measuring them it was found they must
have belonged to a race of giants. One
was six feet eleven inches In height
The find was a most interesting one, as
the other scattered remains were also
evidently of q race of very tall human
beings. Some pottery was found near
the skeletons, some arrOw-heads, and
near by heaps Of oyster and clam
shells, showing that at the time the
bodies were buried the surface of the
land was far below what it is now. The
remains of the teeth and skull would
seem to indicate a somewhat lower men
tality and different eating habits from
the aboriginal race found in this coun-
try by the whites on their first landing,
When this continent has been thorough
ly explored, no doubt much light will be
thrown upon the early races 10y which it
was inhabited. Nations and tribes differ
in stature quite as lnuch as in habits and
mental development. There is to-day a
race of pigmy men in Central Africa, and
there have undoubtedly been tribes OF
very tall men among the savages who
peopled this as we'll as other continents.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-27
On the BRIDGE.
IFrom the New York Times. J


There are 81 officers, divided into
three watches of eight hours each, en-
ployed on the bridge now. When the
cars begin running their number will be
decreased to 81. They are required,
when they go on duty, to appear with
their shoes polished and their uniforms
carefully brushed. A residence across
from the Brooklyn entrance is used as
station-house. Most of the officers have
been supplied with uniforms. Crowds
respect their commands more than they
did when in citizens clothes. An Off
Ger stood at the Brooklyn entrance d.
recting people which way to 60. "The
Chinese" he said, ''make fine American
citizens when they go on the bridge. If
lot come IN crowd, and [ point for a
part to pay at one box and part at an
other, tney divide themselves like 'Meli-
can men When a lot of Italians show
up, dynamite couldn't separate 'em.
Each one pays for himself. It takes
every one about quarter of an hour to
find his cent, and they all wait until the
last one has paid. An Irishman, when
an officer points out where be wants
him to go, says: 'Phwat the divll's the
matter wild you? III 60 where I plsze.'
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-27

small experiments, she finds herself en-
barked upon most fascinating occupa-
| ton. What more delightful than to
build up an admirable appearance! Then,
! too, she huds that she has taken steps
which cannot be retraced. Once enam =
eled. always enameled. The protested
| beauty can only afford to be yellow,
"gray. and uncurled" in secret, She
finds herself precipitated on The down
ward path. It is Just as well, having
once begun to attend to the matter, to
perfect her beauty. Why not make use
of the matvels of modern inventiveness
remodel her ears. her nose, and her
fnger-tips? It is difficult to say why
she should not carry her theory out to
the full.
Only, it is impossible to disguise the
fact that beauty does not only lie III the
shape of the nose or the color
of the cheeks. The mysterious
charm of expression has more to do with
it than all the details of the toilet
put together. As one instinctvely dis
trusts the man who affects vlrtne
though he has it not, so one but doubt
fully admires the woman who processes
to be a beauty, though she is none.
The best of hypocrites, however great
au actor he may be, must always carry
about him something of Uriah Heep,
and the most admirably "made-up"
beauty has consciousness OF manner,
an artifciality of expression which tells
the tale of Der deceit, even II her art
should be sufficient to make cOncealment
perfect. In che end she will regret that
she did not keep to our grandmothers'
osmetics-May-d dew and June rain
water. She would have had fewer stares OF
admiration from the knights of the pave
ment: but she would have been better
liked and better loved. Her enamelers
call the work upon her face cart; " but
Richardson hath it that "artifice . is the
word to use ''where deception is intend
ed" Undoubtedly deception is the aim
in this work of skill. though it may not
always be attained; and there are few
men who would not like the woman they
admire to be even truer of face than OF
tongue. A living Venus de Medicis
would not keep many admirers, If her
| beauty Of limb were obtained, or main
tanned "by appliances. There is
strong desire in the human heart to
have the "real thing" and the men
who avowedly have a taste for fine
women will obstinately prefer to have
them grown rather than produced piece
meal by the enameler, artiticer, nose
machine maker, aud company.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-27
Why He Couldn't Have Her.

One of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards
daughters, who had some spirit or tenn
per of her own, had proposal of mar
riage. The youth was referred to her
father. "No," said that stern 1ndivid-
ual, "you can't have my daughter. y
"But love her, and she loves me, -
pleaded the young man. "Can't have
her, said the father. 81 am well-to-
do and can support her, explained the
youngman. "Can't have her, persisted
the old man. "May I ask" meekly in
quired the sutton; if you have heard any
thing against my character ?" emo, .
Numbered the obstinate parent, by this
time thoroughly aroused, 81 have heard
nothing against you. | think you a
promising young man, and that's why
you can't have her. She's got bad
temper, and you wouldn't be happy with
her" The lover, amazed, said: Why,
Mr. Edwards, I thought Emily was a
Christian, isn't she?" Certainly she
is" grovled the conscientious parent,
but, young man, when you grow older
you'll be able to understand that there
are some folks that the grace of God
can live With, but you can't.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-27

CHARLES GoUNoD, now about sixty
five years old, is a man of full medium
size, stout and vigorous. His face is
pale, his eyes large and luminous. his
hair grey and the top of his head en-
tirely bald, as it has been for many
years. His broad forehead is furrowed
with many wrinkles, his eyebrows are
heavy, but well formed, his gray beard
thick and long, and his lips pale, but
heavy and sensual. He lives in the
Place Malesherbes, Paris, close to the
homes of Bernhardt, MISSIONER, Munk-
acsy, Bastein Lepage, De Melville,
Alexander Dumas and host of other
famous people.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-27
The CHEMIST AND THE ROSE.
BY WALTER LEARNED.

Ihere was once chemist who found a rose,
DeWy and fresh in its fragrant bloom
q" wonder" quoth he show this fair flower grows
And from whence it gathers it's sweet perfume''
so he pluckad the rose in this belief:
" will carry it home and search out where
Deity hidden in petal or leaf,
Is this fragrance sweet that scents the air.
linen over his fire with alembie and still
he burned it up, and boiled it down
with acids and alkales, until
Inc rose and its sweet perfume were gone.
lis folly indeed that one should care
The sweets Of life to analyze
10 drink ones fill of the perfumed air
Is the only way to be truly wise
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-27

parallel rays. Parallel rays it can con-
verge on the retina, but divergent rays
require that extra retroactive power which
the aged eye has lost by the hardening
of the lens. Not as matter of disease,
then, but in the ordinary course of
years.. and in every eye alike, is the bod
lily sight gradually weaned from the
scrutiny of near objects around, and per-
mitted' to turn a clear vision only upon
things far off Chambers Journal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-27
A Cuff Button Astray.
From the Montreal lCanada,l witness

q TOM INC 9IOLlIIeaI KO4haua,J Wltness.I,
DR.. Henry Russell, of Quebec. per-
formed a surgical operation upon we'll
known SheIbrooke citizen, extracting
from the calf of his leg a cuff. but
ton which the latter supposed he had lost
some time ago. How the button got into
such singular position appears to be an
inscrutable mystery.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-27

ST. JOHN and Pontius Plate have sued
Salmi Morse, OF the passion Play" for
unpaid salaries, but Judas Iscariot APP
pears to have got his money in advance.
Sunny South.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-27
CURIOUS, USEFUL AND SCENT IFIC
A WEATHER PROPHET,

A Watertown, n. Y, man, who has
kept an account of the weather, claims
that it invariably repeats itself, and gives
the following as the result of his obser-
vations, VIZ: All years ending in 8, 0
or 1 are extremely dry; those ending in
2, 3, 4, or 6 are extremely wet; those
ending in 7 or are ordinarily well bal
anced; those ending in 6 have extremely
cold winters; those ending IN have an
early spring; those ending in l have
late spring; those ending in B OF are
subject to great floods.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-27
THE SHoDDY RECEPTION.
BTA SOCIETY R PORTER.

IN response to invitations
From the charming Mrs. Shoddy,
One OF those refined occasions
So enjoyed by everybody,
Brought together the elite
At her house on Greenback Street;
And the princely mansion shone
WITH a dazzling brilliancy.
Flow rs from the tropic zone,
Bric-a-brac which taste alone
Could suggest and wealth supply;
CRYSTAL glass and silver ware,
Gold-lined. antique and rare;
Wealth and splendor everywhere
While a sumptuous table groaned
Meath most superb collation.,
Where the hostess sat enthroned,
Fair and full-of animation
Unto this enchanting scene
Music lent its witching strains,
Led by Siguor Tamborine,
Which its excellence explains.
Here it was that Mrs. s.,
Full OF queenly graciousnesS,
Welcomed her distinguished guests
Half a thousand souls or more;
And among the many score
All were rich and none were poor;
All had faathered well their nests.
Elegant and recherche,
And select in every way:
Never did a poor nobody
Get card from Mrs. ShOddy.
Mrs. Moneybags was there,
Jewels flashing in her balr-
Robes of silk en- POmpGGOItT,
Bought on European tour;
Bias ruffle at the base
Couture Ia BordeIuiSe.
Also. Miss s. Truckit Ritche,
In lovely satin, which
Fell in graceful folds away,
Bosom cut dec0lJette,
Flowing skirt in demi-train
Diamonds and coiffure plain.
Handsome Mrs. Welles de Ole,
Had her hair in Grecian coil,
eros grain silk and grenadipe.
Trimmed with bands of pale sea-green,
Fair Miss Pinching Parvenu;
Velvet robe of navy blue;
B0ufdpt basque OF terra Gotta,
Bosom edged with fur of otter.
Many more deserve attention,
Quite too numerous TO mention
Costumes rich and elegant
Some TeUerS and some bOUBdHt-
Corsage high or very scant,
Black crepe liSse and antique na0ire-
POSTSCRIPT BY THE EDITOR:
PAPER had to 90 to press
Couldn't stand this beastly stuff
Killed the idiotic muff-
Made most unpleasant mess.
Green tomato knocked his brains out.
Office devil washed the stains out
He ven grant him sweet repose,
Writing up the ang Is clothes
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-09-15
Murder, or Murder and Suicide

Ashland, Pa, 14.-William Run
yon, a farmer, and mis- wife were
found dead in bed at their residence
in Melville. Columbia county, with
their threats cut from ear to ear,
They had apparently been dead
about a week. Some of the neigh
bors believe that Runyon killed his
wife and then himself. Others are
Of the opinion that the couple were
murdered by a party of trsmps. a
knife was found in bed. There
were no signs of a struggle having
taken place. The couple had lived
happily for. years. Ruuyon was
% years old; his wife 20.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-09-15
TELEH Ms.
Execution of q Woman.

Richmond, 1.-THE execution
took place in the jail yard, only
about 100 persons having witnessed
it though many hundreds had
applied for permission to witness
the novel spectacle of hanging a
woman. The trap was sprung at
1912. Henry Lee, her accomplice,
planned the murder, but failed to
execute when the time came, and
the woman took the AK from him
and Drained Miller while asleep.
Lee then carried the body to the
railroad, and several trains passed
over and mangled the corpse in a
horrible shape. 1t was thought the
victim was asleep on the track, and
the company had the expense of the
funeral, but subsequent suspicion
was aroused, and the culprits were
arrested and confessed their guilt.
Last night the sheriff, at Mrs.
Miller's dictation, wrote out another
confession, which she signed and
turned over to him to be made pub
lie after her death. In it she says:
That Lee had talked of killing her
husband in September last, but
nothing was done. In November
Lee had bought some poison,
which he put in some ginger tea
and gave it to Miller. 1t did not
have the intended effect, but on the
contrary seemed to have cured
Miller of pain in his side of which
he had been complaining. Sub
sequently, she says, she went to
Richmond and Lee told her he was
going to kill her husband before
She returned, but his courage failed
him and he did not do it. On the
night of February 23G it was finally
agreed that Miller must die. The
next morning Miller went out and
Lee followed him for thei pur-
pose, as she knew, of killing him
When Lee returned he had blood on
his clothing and she washed it OH.
She says Lee killed her husband at
her suggestion. If she and Lee had
not been arrested, they would nave
been married between that time
and Christmas. She said she was
willing to die for her crime,
as she was going to heaven.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-09-15
knights Of Labor.

Chicago, 14.-The Chicago del
egates to the secret convention of
the Knights Of Labor lately closed
in Cincinnati, have returned and
one of them said in an interview
this evening, that there were 1856
delegates present at the first roll
call and the number was increased
subsequently to 220. There were
representatives from a large num-
Der of States, including Texas
and Arkansas, though, of course,
there was large proportion
from the east and west. The gath
ering was entirely harmonious and
one or two socialistic resolutions
were introduced, but quietly put
down. There were several telegraph
operators in the convention and two
of them were elected to offices.
There were no signs of their with
drawal from the organization. The
convention let the telegraph ques-
ton severely alone, as the only way
to harmony. The telegraphers
were misled in going on their strike.
They supposed the knights of La
Dor would stand at the back of them
with 100000 to 100000. The
Knights Of Labor, he said, always
opposed strikes, unless forced into
them. After the operators struck
however, the body gave them its
moral support and some financial
aid. The headquarters of the or
ganiZation has been moved from
Pittsburg to Philadelphia, and the
next convention will be held
at the latter place on the
first Monday in September, 1884
New officers were elected as follows
Grand Il. v, Powderlee, of Scran-
ton; Worthy Foreman, Professor
Coffin. of Illinois; Grand Secretary
Frederick Turner, of Pennsylvania
secretary Of the Insurance board
n. r. McGraW, Pennsylvania, anC
Grand Treasurer, Richard Griffith
Illinois; General Statician, Mr.
Egan, Michigan; Executive Boar(
-McClelland, New Jersey; Camp
bell, Pennsylvania; Foster Massa-
chusetts; Paine, Michigan; Coop
erative board Boyer, kentucky
Belmont, New York; Sharpe, Mis-
souri,; Vale, Canada; HOlcombe
New Jersey; Turner, Pennsylvania
Murray, Ohio.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-09-15
The Labor Question.

New York, 1.-THE Senate sub
committee on labor and education
to- day received communications
from a number Of persons, giving
their views on the labor question.
Among these were Edward Akin
son, Kraus Kopf, dramatic author;
William Lawrence, president of the
Association of American EconOm-
lists, Washington the editor
of the Journal of Com.
nlerce, and J. A. Schmith, Of
the HolkS Zeitung. J. A. Emerson
(colored), once a resident of Kansas
but now living here, advocated
the adoption Of a system of
postal savings banks in this
country similar to those in
London. They would be beneficial
to the country and a boon to the
colored people of the south by at
fording means of laying up their
small earnings The greatest evil,
he said, which threatened the colOred
labor in the south was the store
system. What the south needed
was education, and all the troubles
arising from race distinction would
be overcome. There was no difi~
Guilty in supporting schools in the
south, as the people were willing to
contribute literally. Colonel Richard
L. Hinton, a Washington journalist,
said what this country needed was
a revolution in the law OF
equity in regard to corpora
tions and the distribution of
wealth. This was to be accom-
plished by gradual legislation, as
the present system was built up by
this means. Florence Elizabeth
Cole, principal Of the school of in
dustrisl art for women, of this city,
spoke ofthe employment she taught
as being admirably adapted to
women and very remunerative; de-
signing was required in the manu-
facture Of carpets, wall paper, gas fix.
lures, wood engraYings, silYer-Ware
etc., but the designers in this coun-
try, witness said, were Frenchmen
There were large industrial schools
in Paris where the most thorough
instructions could be obtained free
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-09-15
Retaken.

New York, IA. = According to
official advices from Hayti, the
towns of Bainet and Marigol, which
fell ith JacomeI into the hands of
the insurgents, has been retaken by
the government forces. The insur-
gents at Jacomel closely surrou ded
Communes Coles de Fer, where
General CleoYil Mode pronounced
against the government, and which
had been given over by the insur-
gents to pillage. The populace in
Voked governmental aid.
The bombardment of Morigoane
completely silenced the fire of the
insurgents. The city to-day is like
a metropolis. At Jacomel, the in
Surgents were so harassed by the
incessant fire Of the government
troops that in desperation they
threw themselves upon Fort Solo
mon and took possession of it, but
was Immediately retaken by the
Seventh regiment at the point of
the bayonet, and remains in pos
session Of the government. The
movement at Fort Liberte ended
in the flight of the instigator.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-09-15
..,.-.@ sgpAgD eniaI.' !.

3 Washington Z 14.-The surgeon
general OF the Marine aHospital
Service has received anYaflidavit,
sworn to by fifteen pilots on the
Pensacola bar, residing on the naval
reservation of Warrington and
Woolsey, adjoining the Pensacola
navy yard, denying the publication
of the charges that yellow fever had
been introduced into the Pensacola
navy yard through their negligence
They say they did not board vessels
with yellow fever on board they
did not order any vessels to the
quarantine station at Ship island,
and they have not done anything
by which the yellow fever might be
introduced to the naval reservation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-09-15
A $1,000 Fire

New York, IA fire at G o'clock
this morning destroyed the Brook
Ign felt works, owned by William
A. Berlin & Co., and the novelty
straw hat factory, owned by Charles
E. Everett, of Brooklyn. The loss
on the building is estimated at 500.
900; on the machinery, $4,000; on
stock, $4,000. The flames then ex-
tended to the novelty straw hat fac
tory adjoining, and pretty well
Quilted the place. Everett said his
loss on the building would be about
$4,000 and his loss on the stock and
machinery from $4,000 to $4,000.
They employed 200 hands.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-09-15
satisfactory Prosnects.

New York, 17.-R. G. Dun s. Co.
of the mercantile agency report that
The events of the week do not mar,
generally, the satisfactory prospects
for the business of the country.
The weather, though somewhat un-
seasODable, is favorable to the pro-
gress Of the fall trade, especially in
the dry goods business, which has
been very active during the week,
with q large movement. The mer-
chandise transactions, outside
of New York as in
dicatei by the bank exchanges
show considerable increase, with
g slight decrease in the city, owing,
probably, to exceptional causes.
The rumOrs as to the damage to the
corn crop had the effect Of slim
ulatIng speculation in that staple
and advancing prices. The same
remark applies to cotton, which is
active and higher Some improve
ment is noted in the iron trade, with
firmer prices. There is a better
feeling in oil, prices being well sup
ported and business active. The
grocery trade is satisfactory. Bus
mess at the stock exchange has
been large, with a general i'm
provement in prices. Securities
and money are plenty and at low
rates Altogether tie situation is
more satisfactory THAI last week
and the prospects for the coming
months appear excellent. Business
failures, while somewhat numer-
Gus, are with a few exceptions I'M
important. The number reported
during the week was 173 throughout
the United States and Canada.