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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-05
THE ORIGIN OF MOSQUITOES.

The Indians have very satisfactory
occount of the origin of the Montezuma
mosquitoes. yThe legend runs thus:
There were in times of old, many moons
ago, two feathered monsters permitted
by the Manitou to descend from the sky
and alight on the banks of the Seneca
river. Their form was exactly that Of
the mosquito. They were SO large that
they darkened the sun like cloud as
they flew toward the earth. Standing
on either bank they guarded the river,
and stretching their long necks into the
canoes of the Indians, as they attempted
to paddle along the stream, gobbled
them up, as the stork king in the fable
gobbled up the frogs. The destruction
of life was SO great that not an Indian
could pass without being devoured in
the attempt. It was long before the
monsters could be exterminated, and
then only by the combined efforts OF all
the warriors ofthe Cayuga and Onondaga
nations. The battle was terrible, bu
the warriors finally triumphed, and the
mammoth mosquitoes were slain and
left unburisd. For this neglect the
Indians had to pay dearly. The car
casses decomposed and the particles, viv-
fled by the sun, few off in clouds OF
mosquitoes, which have filed the coun-
try ever sinee.-Aanhettan for FsBrs-
agy.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-05
GDaer 21eiohbors.
JEFFERSON.

Will Mole, son of John Mole, took his
departure for parts unknown last week,
and simultaneous with his disappearance
about two hundred dollars belonging to
the old man were discovered missing,
which fact has caused some to draw in
ferences not altogether complimentary to
that young man.
The bridge across Crawfsh river west
of the city is now complete. and travel is
resumed on the old road.
VIM. Stamm, landlord of the Jefferson
House, is quite sick with heart trouble.
Col. Geo. w. Bird has been suffering
with rheumatic fever the past week, but
is rapidly lecovering.-Bdnner.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-05

Cansl-rearing is not as important an
industry in Russia nowadays as it was in
years gone by, the goat ranches having
superseded it. There are only about
100000 camels there now, while there
are ever 100000 goats. The latter ia
now the principal occupation in the
mountainous portions OF the Caucasus,
and it brought in over 100000 20 the
people sassgsd in it in 1877.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-05
Dan, E. Liefeld.
Continued from last 1Oeek.)
How Watch Cases are Mqde.

1t is fact not generally known that the
James Boss Gold Watch Cases really con-
tain more pure gold than many solid"
gold cases The demand for these watch
cases has led to the manufacture of very
poor grade of solid gold watch cases
low In quality, and deficient in quantity.
These cases are made from 4s8 to 10 Iarats,
and or 6 karat case is often sold for II
or IA karats. It is NOT economy to buy a
watch case SO poor in quality that it viii
soon lose its color, or one SO soft that it viii
lose its shape and fail to shut tight, thus
letting in dust and damaging the works, or
one SO thin that slight blow viii break
the crystal, and perhaps the movement.
1t is economy to buy James Boss Gold
Watch Case, in which NONE of these things
ever occur. This watch case is not ON expert
naent-it has been made nearly thirty gears
HAzLEToN, Pa, Oct. q, 1882.
I sold two James Boss Gold Watch Cases thirty
years ago, when they first came out, and they il
good condition yet. One Of them is carried by
shows the wear in one or two places; the other by
MI Bowman Of Cunningham, Pa; and can pCo-
duce one or both Of these cases at any time.
SYLVEsTER ENGLE. JetoeleT.
stamp Keystone watch Case Factories Pkie
delphia. Pa for handsome illustrated Pamphlet showing hoU
dAAes Boss and Keystone Watch Cases made.
ITO be ConItiHUe1.1
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-05
PALMYRA.

Messrs. Austin & Loewe will run their
creamery and cheese factory the coming
season. They will have an increase OF
patronage.
The ruins of Palmyra from the late fire
is no longer a novelty, but still leaves
traces of sadness depicted on the coun-
tenances of it peoples.
VIM. Trewyn had his shoulder dislo-
Gated on Thursday last while leading his
horses from the barn.
Frank Farnum had two ribs broken in
some way, while working to save proper
ty from being destroyed during the fire
on Wednesday night.
Mr.. Gilman the late manager of the
Stewart House in this village, removed
with his family and effects, to Eagle on
Wednesday last. They vacated the
premises Just in time to escape the mis- .
lortune of being burned out, the burning
of the Stewart House occurring the night
following their departure. Enterprise.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-05
ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA.

HE FEELS LIKE A NEW MAN.
81 have had Dyspepsia, with Constipa-
kinds of pills, and TUFTS are the first
that have done me any good. They have
cleaned me out nicely. by appetite In
splendid, food dfgests readily, and now
have natural passages. / feel like @ new
man." w. d. EDWARDS, Palmyra, o.
Sold deverywhere, ,25c. Office, A Murray NY.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-05
". G. SPALDING.

Physician and Surgeon ana 15 hN@nli1 Of Watertowr
for Pensions Office over BANK Vi
building, up stairs.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-05
VOL. XIV
EDITOR AND pRoPRIETo.

~ IL. L. N OR64S7
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-01
ORIENTAL DIVERS.

There are doubtless many of my
young readers who consider themselves
expert swimmers and divers, but won
der ii any of them can equal the men
and women that surround the steamers
in many Oriental ports, in the hope of
earning little money by the display of
their skill and activity.
NV first experience with these divers
was in the harbor of Singapore. They
were all about the steamer to the num-
Der of hundred or more. some in little
boats hewn from logs and just large
enough to hold one person, while 9TH
ers were in boats containing all the way
from two to dozen. The smallest Of
the boats was not more than foot wide,
and the occupant was crouched on the
bottom OF it in very uncomfortable po-
sition; the slightest leaning to one side
or the other was sure to upset him, and
he took advantage of this fact when it
came his turn to dive. IL a coin were
thrown so that it fell near him, he in
stantlv doubled and leaned over the
side; the boat turned and dropped him
out, and away he went into the water
and out of sight The divers from the
larger boati sprang over the side and
went down with the rapidity of fishes;
some of item aid not return to their
boats after their first dive, but remained
swimming or floating about until ready
TO go under again.
The water was about thirty feet deep,
and so transparent that the bottom
could be seen with ease. Nine times
out of ten the coins were caught before
they had gone dozen feet below the
surface; the only way we could manage
to have the divers 60 deeply was to pre-
tend to throw the money in one direc'
ton and then toss it the other way
thus giving it good start Even then
they would generally seze the prize
while it was on its way, and, having
done so, would come to the surface al
most as rapidly as they went down
Most of them had assistants to whom
they deliveyed the money, but thos'
who were working entirely by them
selves carried the money in their mouth
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-01
Old Tin Cans.

Almost every housekeeper has a coli
lection of tin friit-cans that have been
accommodating from time to time, and
have been turned TO various uses, from
plant-poIs to cooking-dishes, but the
bottoms rust out or they become unsol-
dered, and they are In the way again.
Here is way to dispose of them:
Take seven tin cans all of size Q
used quarts); hunt up your cast-otf
stockings and cut the legs about two
inches longer than the height of the
cans; draw them over the cans and with
needle and stout Irvine gather the
ends of the stockings as you would cover
button; fasten them firmly so as they
can not slip or fall out. When they are
all covered take one for the middle and
place the six around it, then sew them
together firmly on both ends. Take a,
piece of pasteboard, the top or bottom
of cast-off rubber or shoe-box, set the
cans on it and mark around them exact
so as to get the precise form. Cut out the
pasteboard. Cover one side with enam-.
eled cloth, cambria silesia or any dark
remnant On the upper end of the cans
make thick, rounding cushion of odds
and ends, thicker in the center than at
the edges 1 bought remnant of yard,
wide three-ply carpeting; yard will
make two. Cut a strip off the sides the
width of the cans and sew it over and
over on the edge of the cloth with which
you lined the pasteboard bottom. Sew
it on the wrong side; let the seam come
near the inside OF the scallop so as not
to be seen. When sewed turn it and
place the cans in 1t, exactly true. Now
! basic on the carpeting for the top. If
there is a set flower in the carpet have
il come in the center of the cushion.
Bring up the selvage of the side strip
and sew it on the cover; use strong
thread and hide the stitches as much as
possible. The selvage edge gives the
appearance OF cord set around. Now
it is completed, unless you wish to sew
on a cord or tassel to lift it by; and L
think you will decide that you have as
pretty hassock or foot-rest as you
ever saw.-Farmer's IPye, ia Country
Gentleman.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-01
HIS GIRL.

Whether she opens her blue eye
To match its color with the sky.
Or ner hair catches all the gold
That the great sun himself can hold:
Or If her face be brunette.
Her eyes and hair as back as lot,
Yet still her heart must be n b onde,
With the white snow TO correspond.
All the FIVE senses good and sound,
In my girl surely must be found,
And as q natural consequence,
Also the sixth one, commonsense.
Chest must be broad enough to hold
The heart and lungs by health controlled:
Her waist not pinched up like wasp,
Squeezed in the corset's bony grasp.
And neither must she pinch her foot
By wearing but halfsized boot;
Or thrust the heel, to cap the whole,
Into the middle of her sole.
She must be measured by her mind,
And unto book lore much inclined;
Play the piano, il she like,
Or the guitar strings sweetly strike.
But, although well versed in her book,
She must, and shall, be good cook:
Is a mans heart the seat of bliss
When a mans stomach empty Is?
Dear editor, whore can find
This girl, just suited to my mind?
Amid New York's vast din and whirl,
Pray, have you ever seen My Girl?
"A Wisconsin 3dchelor, in ". Y. Sun.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-01
Humming Birds and Feathers.

Humming birds are extremely popu-
lar, and some of the handsomest orna-
ments of the season consist OF the head
and body of a ruby throat mounted
with wings and tail OF cut steel. or
tinted metal, which glitlers like gems.
When such an ornament is set in the
folds of velvet on turban in black or
dark blue velvet the effect is captivat-
ing, and no other trimming is required.
A high crowned velvet hat with mar
row straight brim has for trimming
three narrow velvet bands around the
crown, and in front a jabot arrange
ment of velvet, with eight small wings
stuck in the folds OF the velvet. The
feather montures are quite large, and
cover the whole front of the hat some
times curling over tie crown also.
Braids and galloons. not unlike those
used for furniture, and similar in APP
pearance to those sold for dress garni-
lures, figure among the millinery goods
of the season. Some are in open meshes
| of chenille or satin cord, while others
are closely woven of flat strands. A
very attractive white poke bonnet has
the peaked brim faced with handsome
Irish guipure, turned up on the edge,
while the crown is encircled by broad
braid of white silk and silver. folded To
fit the arch, and held in place by small
silver pins. A full cluster of white vel
vet leaves framed in lace forms the
monture in front. philadelphia Press.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-01
III.

All, but over yonder, more than fifty
miles away, that Sunday morning, a
slender little woman had climbed into
an old rickety, open buggy. have
told you that i never saw her face, but
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-11-01

On account of the extreme age and
feebleness Of witness in an equity case
at Concord, N. H., Judge Allen. of the
Supreme Court, went to farm house in
the country and held a court session.
Several distinguished lawyers appeared
as counsel.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-02-01
Mrs. A. S. Duniway, of Portland,

Mrs. A. S. Duniway, of Portland,
Oregon, has written letter to the
Oregonian denying that she is an as
pirant for the gubernatorial chair OF
Washington Territory, and says that
all her efforts just now are devoted to
the cause of equal suffrage in Ore
gon. This is regarded by many as a
huge joke at the expense Of that res
olute lady, but the same woman has
clamored with tongue and pen so per-
sistently for woman''s rights, and has
in conjunction with her sons, display
ed such executive ability in the man
agement of her newspaper that the
joke is too serious to be regarded as
a laughing matter. At all events she
would prove an infinitely superior
person to Newell, the present helms
man. Sunday Star.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-02-01

'Why did you attempt to kill the
MANI" asked judge of a man who
was arraigned before an Arkansaw
court. because | had right to,
Judge. He is a slanderer. odd
he speak i'll of your wife ?" 'sNo sir. "
"Slandered your children, suppose?"
"No, Judge; he said that my bay
mare couldn't beat Spiggle's filly in a
quarter dash, and | thought his time
for dyin' had come, SO slugged him."
"Yon served him right, sir You are
at liberty Mr.. Sheriff, call the next
case"
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-02-01

The telephone system of London
includes seventeen stations and $500
subscribers. There are 10000 tele-
phones in use in the United Kingdom.
There is some talk of the government
taking hold of the telephone business
as branch of the postal service.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-02-01

The sins of the father shall be WIS.,
tied upon the children. Two of Brig
ham Young's sons have died drunk
ards, two of his daughters are married
to the same husband, and another son
writes poetry Norristown Herald.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-02-01


president of the Northern Pacific.
He was formerly connected with the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
road.
The pet bear in Hot Springs, Mon
tana, has gone to sleep for the winter
in his hole, and when they have drag
ged him out he has merely yawned,
rubbed his eyes, and crept back.
The National Temperance Society
has issued an address to the National
parties urging the nomination of a
President and Vice President favor
ing the prohibition of the liquor traffic.
The Dallas Herald says that the
longest line of fence in the world will
be that from the Indian Territory
west across the Texas Panhandle and
thirty miles into New Mexico. 1t
will be over two hundred miles long.
A wild man, who has been carrying
off sheep and pigs and committing
petty thefts for several weeks, is con-
fined in jail at Steubenville, Ohio.
He is described as the most brutal
specimen of animal creation, seem
ingly human, ever seen.
After the electrical exhibition in
Paris number of French electricians
formed themselves into club, which
met once month for dinner. From
this small beginning there has devel-
oped an international society of cleo
tricians. The society numbers more
than 900 members of twenty nation
alities.
The learned Professor, Bernard,
Astronomer for the Vanderbilt Uni
versity, at Nashville, Tennessee, re-
ports remarkable changes in Brooks
comet, on the nights of the Goth and
21st. On Sunday night the nucleus
was surrounded by faint envelop,
and numerous dark riffs were visible
in the tail, which, on Monday night
separated into three distinct branches.
The Northern Pacific land sales for
the Montana district during the month
of December amounted to ,3l2 acres
for which was received $6,61S, and
four town lots for 5000. This makes
the total sales for the month r0,O17
acres for 1922, 16S; town lots, $3,272.
The Oregon & Transcontinental sales
for December were eleven lots for
S1,29..
The Denver and New Orleans Rail
road Company has filed complaint
in the United States court against
the Union Pacific Railway Company
for 100000 damages, claiming the
latter road refuses to exchange pas
sengers and freight, and has entered
into a compact with the Denver and
RIO Grande Company to break it
down.
While resisting arrest, A. A. Alex
ander, cowboy and noted desperate
was shot and killed on the reservation
at Peno Colorado, Texas, recently, by
a detachment of soldiers. Alexander
has been terrorizing the neighborhood
and threatened to wipe out the mill
tary. One soldier named Ross was
killed and two Others slightly wound
ed before AleXander's Winchester
was silenced.
The rolling stock equipment of the
Northern Pacific comprises $50 loco
motives, 1874 passenger coaches, II
emigrant sleepers, IA dining cars, %
sleeping cars, business cars, l paw
car, 5 observation cars, l oombina-
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-02-01

Our Cash Prices.
% ID Crushed Sugar for. 49,. 81 90
Is per 100 Ii 16 c. per ib
6 fb G. Sugar for | 90
" $ per 100 1b 14cts per ib
) tb old Gov. Java coffee for 90
A 6 6 Costa RIGA do. i" l 90
4 " A No. roasted do " | 90
5 cans vegetables Z" | 90
Tobaccos all brands from rs to 90
cents per fb. In quantities we will
sell above goods for less. Everything
else in our line at very low rates. Our
sugars are pure California refined su-
gars' and not Eastern sugars which
contain 40 per cent. glucose.
MYEE & SMITH,
Idaho City and Placerville.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-02-01
VALENTINES DAY,
FEBRUARY IA, 1884.

= - - - - - - - -
COMMITTEE OF ENTs
IDAHO CITY.
JOHN GARRECHT A. STRAUs
CENTERYILLE,
c. G, HAvIRD DAN. JONES.
GARDEN VALLEY.
HUGH CRAIG. JAMES YURIN.
PLACERNILLE.
w, III. DAWSON. CHRIS. SPEIGEL.
GRANITE CREEK
HANS. Benson. CHRIs. ANDERSON.
PIONEERVILLE.
Ben, WILSON. MATT RYAN.
HORSESHOE BEND.
H. II. CLARK. b. PLAsAMouR.
QUARTZBURG.
WILLIAM FRAYME. r. G. ALLEN.
FLOOR. MANAGERS
JAMES MCDEvrrT. W. A. CoUGuNAuR.
Good music will be provided, and a good
time assured to all.
A general invitation is extended.
TICK ETS............ ss5 90
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-27

There was a little group in the cabin
door. The husband looking through
the hollow Of his hands, the wife with
a baby in her erme, and children peer
ing ont from behind her dress. AS the
woman looked ii seemed to her that
great black specter that called to mind
IN some way things her scared childish
fancy had pictured when she pored
over Ali Bahia and Shehecezade swept
out of the darkness above, howled past
them and vanished into the darkness
below. She pressed her babe closer to
her and looked anxiously into her hus-
bands eyes.
1T was the Slide" he whispered,
awesomely. "and if it hadn't turned
somehow up there there'd be none of
us left now to tell the talel"
Providence turned it, said the wom-
an, 'for this is Christmas eve"
The Providence that moves in mys-
terious way, that interlinks each way
ing leaf, each futtering snowflake, each
breath of wind, each act and thought
into the changeless law that never
swer7es, nor falters, nor delays; the
Providence that helps the helpless and
turns the impulses of death itself to
work its saving end. And 1t was
Christmas eve
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-27
FARM, GARDEN AND HOME.
Out to Old Aunt hiary's. "

BY JAMES WHITCoAB RILEY.
Wasn't Ii pleasant O brother NINE
In those old days of the lost sunshine
OF youth--when the Saturdays chores were
through,
And the sundays wood" I'm the kitchen, too,
And we went visiting, and YOU.
Out TO old Aunt Marys?
II all comes back so clear to-day
Though | am as bald as you are gray
Out by the barn lot and down the lane
We patter along III the dust again,
As liz hit as the tips of the drops of the rain,
Out 10 old Aunt MaTy's.
We cross the pasture and through the wood
Where the old gray snag OF the poplar stood,
Where the hammering redheads hoped away,
And the buzzar1 raised IN the open sky
And loled and circled rs we went by
Out to old Aunt Mary's.
And then in the dust of the road again,
And the teams we met aud the countTymen;
And the long highway with the sunshine spread
As thick as butter on country bread,
And our cares behind and our hearts ahead
Out to old Aunt Mary's.
/ see her now in the open door
where the little gOurds grew up the sides and DER
The capbnaTd roof. And her face-Oh, met
Wasn't 1t good tor boy to see?
And wasn't il good for boy 10 be
out to old Aunt Marys
Anu oh, my brother, so far away
This is TO tell you she waits to-day
To welcome us. Aunt Mary fell
Asleep this morning, whispering, "Tell
The BOYS to comet" And all is well
Out to Old Aunt Mary's.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-12-27
Farmers the Most Independent

Farmers the Most Independent
The whole country is complaining of
an oyer-stock, not only of grain but Of
manufactured articles. A financial
speaker recently stated that there is a
three years supply OF iron, and of sever.
al other products. This is bosh; there
is not half years supply of any manu-
featured articles. But there is an ex-
cess of many things, because the pro-
ductlon Is constantly going on, nearly
up TO the customary rates, though not
quite.
The thought, however, we would i'm
press here is, the comparative independ-
ence of farmers as Il class. Take an il
Illustration. In the manufacturing towns
1t through a surplus, and low prices and
few buyers, the machinery is suspended,
both employers and employees must
suffer, it not starve. But III Kansas, for
example, owing to the general surplus,
corn Is hard to part with at Is cents a
bushel. Well, suppose nobody will take
the corn. Some Of it can be eaten
some OF it will produce lat pork TO
grease it down." and some of it will
make very good fuel to cook the corn
bread and the pork, and to keep off the
frost. The families that have corn on
hand can draw themselves with their
own shells, so to speak, keep fed, keep
warm, wear out the old clothes,
and wait for better times. A few, deep
~ IN debt to hard creditors, will Dos
sibly lose their homes; but not many.
In such times creditors are not likely to
sleze upon property they cannot dis
pose OF, whether grain or land; and, as
a rule, they are wise enough to give the
debtors chance to pay in full in the
future, rather than to exterminate the
golden egg laying biped, feathered or
unfeathered.
Aside from those pressed with enor-
nous debts, farmers are in these times
the most independent class in the realm.
All over the country they can hold on
to their wheat and corn, or be turn ing the
latter into hog products that viii keep.
The purchase of hoped for new articles
OF dress, Of ornament, of luxury, of
comfort, can be put of this year, and
another If need be. Coarse WOODEN
goods to keep out the cold are relatively
nearly as cheap as grain. A small stock
of these for the winter, and some coal
when it is cheaper than corn for fuel,
viii carry the family through the winter,
and the soil will yield food, at least, for
next year.
Now is a good time for farmers to
feel, to assert, and to show their indie
pendence; to live within their means,
within themselves. This course pur-
sued a while, and there will be suppliants
at their doors offering gold for their
boarded food.