Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-03

from all healthy horses, give him Days
Horse and Cattle Powder and a generous
diet until cured.
Ireland's population is now 5, 100, ,0O0-
8, 100000 less than in 1841
The Chinese make candles of wax
furnished by insects, which are especially
raised for that purpose by Chinese ingen-
uity.
There are 2S5 miles of telegraph and
telephone wires laid underground in
Washington city. No trouble is expert
enced in working them.
The French are trying 10 acclimate
sponges cn the coast of Al lgeria by trans.
planting sponge plants from the coast of
Syria. 1t is not an easy task
Mr. Hendricks has always prided him.
self on his popularity in Indiana, especi.
ally on bis ability as candidate to 'run
ahead Of his ticket. But the official
returns of the Hoosiar State, which show
that the Presidential ticket polled 1000
votes less than the gubernatorial, must
be somewhrt notifying to him.
High etiquette says that ladies who
are still single and reached 25 have their
own cards, bat previous to this independ.
dent state their names are written on the
calling cards of their mother.
The Methodist Conference in Dakota
declares solemnly that it will never ICON.
sent to the adoption OF a cons titution
for the future state of Dakota which
does not contain constitutional prohibi-
ton.
We would advise people to cut out and
preserve Blaine's Augusta speech. 1t
will constitute the basis of the Republic
an platform from this time forward. It
is ringing key note, and sparkles with
intelligence and justice. = Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
Says an Albany letter to the Baltimore
American: "All these stories about
Grover Cleveland's prospective marriage
are without foundation. There are some
old maids and designing widows who are
probably anxious for an alliance with a
president, but NJ. Cleveland has no
inclination for marriage"
The New York World (Dem.) after
making a careful analysis of the vote of
New York City, acknowledges that Mr..
Blaine's claim that he had received a
large Irish vote which had heretofore
been Democratic, is maintained, and that
it reached "many thousands
The discovery that over two hundred
tons of giant powder and twenty tons of
dynamite are stored just outside the city
limits of Cleveland has thrown The in
habitants into panic. Were this ma.
terlal to explode it would destroy the
city.
President-elect Cleveland has five
sisters, all married but one-Mrs. n. B..
Bacon, OF Toledo, Ohio; Mrs. Hasting, a
missionery in Ceylon. India; Mrs. Hoyt,
OF Fayetteville, n. Y: Mrs L. T. Yoe-
mans, of Walworth, near Rochester, N.
Y, and Miss r. A. Cleveland, the
youngest, who is now with her brother,
the President elect, at Albany. 1t is
thought that this lady will be the
lady Of literary tastes-a sort of blue
stocking. it is alleged
A suit for divorce began in Oshkosh,
yester1 lay, by Mrs. Merriam P Kempster
against DR.. Kempster, who prior to Aug
/, was Superintendent of the Wisconsin
Northern Hospital for the Insane, The
grounds for divorce are faiidre to support
and cruelty. Mrs Kempster, who is in
poor health, together with her two daugh-
ters, occupy a suit of rooms iu the back
part of a small tenement in Oshkosh,
supported by small weekly allowance
from the doctor and by what she is able
to earn by sowing and her daughters in
canvassing for books.
Mr.. Gladstone's me..nod Of shaking
hands is graphically described as follows
The PRIMER performs the operation oil
Misunderstanding in three stages. First, he
takes your cutstsetched member softly in
his grasp, so that the fork of your stump
and the fork of his are in the closest
possible contact and alliance Then you
learn that the PRIMERS hand is cool, soft
and elastic; full of tiny muscles and
bones, and all alive as it were. There is
reinsurance, invitation and interrogation,
cordiality, zest and confidence. And
now comes the grip, which is the second
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i've, and lasts as long as it takes the
Premier to inquire after your health, and
to welcome you, if you are welcome,
|. Lastly, you are released with sorrowful
clutch, that delays the departure of your
finger tips to the last fraction of second.
The next President will be An impor.
tant man for the army, because he will
have the appointment of TIVE major gen.
erals and six brigadier- generals. .Briga-
dier-General Augur, who now commands
the department of Missouri. retires next
July, and it will depend wholly upon the
personal wish of the president, after being
advised by the secretary of war, and the
lieutenant-general, what colonel shall
succeed him. A year later will occur
the retirement of Gen. Pope, and then
the question Will be whether Gen. Terry
or Gen. Howard shall be the next major.
general. Whoever ia appointed, there,
will be a vacant brigadier-g generalcy.
Maj Gen. Hancock will retire February,
1888, opening the way to the promotion
of still another brigadier-general. In