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

Amount of Last Years Wheat and Corn
on Hand-ImPOrtant Figures.
ST.. PAUL, Mimi, March 8.-The re-
port of the Minnesota State Statistical
Agent to the United States Agricultural
Department for March l shows that
corn on hand of the crop of 1883 to be
about 100, $50 bushels, or per cent. of
the entire crop. None of 1t has been
sold to go out of the state. About $780,
OOO bushels, or per cent. of the entire
crop, is reported TO have been good mer-
charitable corn, and the average value of
the crop on hand is given at 50 cents
per bushel for the good merchantable
corn and % cents per bushel for the
understandable No other injury
is reported to stock from feeding
Unsound corn than the death of
two horses, though several CORE
spondents state that it did not serve
to iatten either hogs or cattle, and that
the milk Of COWS fed upon it was unfit
for use. Very little of the unripe
corn was cribbed. being mostly fed
from the field. The reports of country
correspondents, In reply to the question,
"What proportion of your corn. as an
average of good and bad seasons for ten
years, would you estimate TO be sound
or merchantable?" return, IS per cent.
for the entire state OF the crop from
1874 to 1883, inclusive. The wheat srop
remaining on hand March ] is estimated
at 80 per cent. or about $4,000, 600
bushels, and % per cent. is stated to be
consumed within the state, II per cent.
being shipped outside as -four or grain.
The crop OF 1883 is reported to be con-
siderably better than an average, and
but little inferior TO the crop Of 1877.
The average weight is fifty-seVen pounds
per bushel. Many of the country cor
respondents say that farmers have held
their wheat from market because of the
low prices ruling. Considerable COM
plant, the agent says, is INDUCED in of
unfairness in grading and handling the
wheat
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-12

the party there were some petty German
mobiles, who are snobs of the first water.
Inc queen noticed this change of front
with some amusement, and when the
king rejoined ner she whispered some.
thlng into his ear, at which he nodded
and spoke no more. Soon after the
steamer stopped at a little station.
Three or four persons in full gala cos
tame stepped on board, went up to their
MAZE sites, bowed humbly, and crayed
that they would halt to see the celebrities
OF their town. Renewed surprise among
the circle of disputants, One of them
Frenchman, approached one OF the
dignitaries who had spoken to the sup
posed dentist, and asked, pointing to
the king: 'fMais, c'est vraiment lie pre-
mier dentiste d'AlIemagne?" "Oui
monsieur" GET lie mon?" "C'est Ie
Roi de SAKE" The CONSERVATION of the
snobbiSh little group can sooner be i'm
ag1ned than described.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-12
SPORTING.

ALBERT HAAIM has accepted George
e. Hosmer's challenge to row race for
$500 or upwards side.
TEE Cleveland wheeImen have organ
lied 8 track association, with a $4,000
capital, and have decided to publish a
twelve page paper for six months, with
an edition of 3, 600 copies per month. All
this in anticipation of the forthcoming
tournament.
AT the Croydon, England, March
meeting the grand international hur-
die race handicap was won by W. Greg
ory's gelding Chicard by four lengths;
Cannon's formerly Lorillard's) Sachem
second and Lord Howe's Frenzy third.
There were eleven starters.
HARRY VAUGHN, of New York, accepts
the challenge of William Edwards, the
champion heel-and-toe walker of Aus
tralia, now IN San Francisco, for a six
day walk IN New York, and has depos-
tied a forfeit of S250-the race to be q
sweepstake, 81, 900 for each man.
HANLAN's match with the Australian
sculler, Laycock, Is for $4,000. The
Toronto oarBman will receive 81, $50 for
expenses end one-third of the gate
money. Trickett, Rush and Edwards
are eager to meet the champion, but
their inducements were not as large as
Laycock's.
LOUIS K. HULL, last years captain of
the Yale boat crew, is coaching the men
IN an eight-oared barge. Appleton will
be the permanent stroke oar The
crews stroke this year is slower than
last year, and all the power seems to be
put IN the beginning, causing the boat
90 jerk forward.
The Oxford and Cambridge Univer-
sity crews are in active training. Their
total weights are 1893 and 1861 pounds
respectively. Curry, the Oxford stroke,
weighs only 139 pounds, and is the
lightest man IN the crew while Moore.
who fills the same position for Cam
bridge, tips the scale at 1877.
The Muidoon- Bauer Greco Roman
wrestling match took place in San Fran
cisco on the Sd, for 500 side. Bauer
won the first fall In eighteen minutes:
Muldoon the second in i've minutes and
twenty seconds; the third and the match
Muldoon in twelve minutes and ten sec
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-12
A REMARKABLE ESCAPE.
A Prisoner Feigns Death and Secures
Freedom.

A Prisoner Feigns Death and Secures
Freedom.
LENoIR, n. c., March 7.-One of the
most adroit escapes known in criminal
history was effected yesterday by Lucky
Joe Wilson, q famous chief of gang of
desperadoes infesting this state. Wilson
was after many fights caught, tried, and
sentenced to ten years IN the penlten-
tisry. Tuesday his counsel obtained an
appeal to the supreme court. EARLY
this morning the warden of the
jail entered his cell and found
Lucky Joe lying on his mattress
which was suffused with blood, as were
the prisoners shirt and mouth. His
eyes were open and staring, his jaws
fallen, and his limbs cold. Help was
summoned and the body was carried
from the cell into an clubhouse and laid
out for burial and placed in a plain
coffin. The mother and sister of the
deceased staid by the coffin and kept
watch over the remains. At dusk this
evening, when every one had left the
apartment save his sister, she was hor-
rifed to see the "corpse rise from the
coffin, put his hands ominously to his
lips, and bolt from the room into the
night. She screamed and tainted.
The ruse was not discovered until
an hour after, and Lucky Joe
had succeeded in eluding all pursuit. A
visit to his cell showed how artfully the
escape had been planned. Wilson had
killed a chicken and smeared himself
with the blood, and, ripping open the.
mattress, concealed the chicken in it.
He had scraped in lot of snow and ice
from the cell window and kept his hands
and feet well frozen in it up to the time
when he heard steps in the corridor,
when he had thrown 1t in a bucket,
therefore, when the iailor entered, he
found the mans feet and hands SO cold
as to leave no doubt of the prisoners
death
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-12
Tyndan on Rainb0Ws.

81 do set my bow IN the cloud, and it
shall be for G token of a covenant be-
tween me and the earth" The sublime
conception of the theologian exceeded
that desire for exact knowledge which
was characteristic of modern science.
Whatever the ultimate cause of q rain
bow might have been, the proximate
cause was physical principles. The ex-
animation of the rainbow was due to
Descartes. Descartes looked at the
drops Of rain; be pictured one q liquid
sphere fallingin the air; he pictured rays
of the sun falling upon liquid sphere;
he saw that certain portions of the light
would be refracted, would be driven to
the other side of the drop, back again,
and would be again refracted on their
emergence from the drop. He took a
pen in his hand and calculated the
entire course of the rays through the
drop and their direction after their emer-
gence from the drop. He found that
the vast body of the rays, after quitting
the drop, diverged at one particular
angle; they came out as q parallel sheaf.
There was a certain form of emotion
called intellectual pleasure. It might
be caused by poetry, literature, nature
or art, but he prof. TyndalD doubted
whether there was pleasure of the in
tellect more pure and concentrated than
that of scientific man, who, looking at
a difficulty that had challenged the
human mind for ages, saw that difficulty
melt before his eyes and recrystallize as
an illustration of law of nature. Such
pleasure, he thought, must have been
that of Descartes when he succeeded in
uncovering the laws which rule the ap-
pearance of the most brilliant meteor in
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-12
THE HUDSON BAY ROUTE.
A ManitOban Interviewed Concerning the
Proposed Hudson RaY Route

Manitoban Interviewed Concerning the
proposed Hudson Bay Route.
CHICAGO, March 8.-Amos Rowe,
proprietor of the Winnipeg Times, is in
the city on the way to Manitoba after
soJourn OF several weeks at the domin-
ion capital. He said upon being dues-
toned by representative of the Asso-
ciated Press In regard to the present
agitation in Manitoba and the demands
made by the legislature of that province,
that the dominion government had CON
coded the granting to company for the
construction of the Winnipeg & Hud-
son Bay Railway free subsidy of 12,-
300 acres per naile. The proposed line
is about 600 miles long. The charter
will be granted at this session of parlia-
ment and will provide for immediate con-
struction. The government has also
appropriated $3.50, 600 to provide for the
survey of Hudson Straits. A steamer
will soon start from New Foundland for
that purpose and a report on
the practicability of that route as an
outlet will soon be made. The distance
from the Hudson Bay coast to Liverpool
is much less than from New York TO
Liverpool. The dominion government
will also, IN all probability, grant to
Manitoba the proceeds of the sale OF
each alternate section of land in the
province yet unsold. At the capital these
are considered very fair propositions by
the leading politicians and Mr.. Rowe
said in conclusion that from the best OBJ
tainable information he could say that
these were all the demands the dominion
government would cOncede.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-12
Swiss Watches.
From the Boston Advertiser. !

The Philadelphia exhibition of 1876,
with its wonderful display of what the
American matchmaking companies
could do, gave, naturally, grave anxiety
to the Swiss watch-makers. But val
liable report from Mr.. Byers, our con-
sui in Zurich, shows that they are rapid
~ regaining the ground which, for a
tune, they lost. ''They improved their
own methods; they introduced machin-
cry where machinery was available, and
are now selling more watches to the
world than ever" Mr.. Byers says that
while the Swiss sold in 1882, thirteen
millions of francs worth of watches in
the United States, no American watches
are sold in Switzerland. He also says
that almost every American tourist
carries home from Switzerland good
Swiss watch. From the examination of
watches at the Melbourne exhibition By
ers copies a table which shows that, on an
examination made at the observatory of
the running rates of watches exhibited
there, one Swiss watch had the highest
possible rate-which in that competition
was 500. Other Swiss watches had 400,
480, 465, 455, and AS on the same scale.
Five English watches had 495, 480, 400,
$50, and 40. But the six Waltham
watches there exhibited gained only 43O,
42O, $50, 365, $40 and 325 points. The
Swiss average was 472.5, against 1917
of the Waltham watches. This only
shows that at that particular exhibition
there were som every good Swiss watches
and no very good Waltham watches.
But Mr.. Byers makes this text to
urge TO the American matchmaker the
necessity Of persevering care to insure
the running rate in the best quality of
watches as well as the cheapness of
common watches. The lowest point in
the expectation Of watches from Swift
zerland so the United States, in the
last twenty years, was reached in 1878,
when the watches exported were valued
only OF 3,569,9 francs. Since then the
expectation has steadily risen, until in
1882 the watches exported were valued
at 1928, 489 francs. Mr.. Byers, in
noticing the great exhibition in Zurich,
speaks of four silver watches which
hung in glass jar of water for several
weeks and yet kept perfect time.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-12

who had been running around trying to
find a passenger who didn't stick his
head out of the window. ''As near as I
can find out you've won, but why didn't
you let me stay in the car, where could
have seen them better?" "Just because
| was afraid you would be smart enough
to keep your snoot inside" replied the
late bowler, "Got caught on that last
week down at Springfield. "Wel,
that's pretty cute game" said a by
stander. eyes, replied the dru MINER
'its a nice racket, and isn't paying me
less than $i5 week right along"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-12
Extent Of the Oceans.

From an interesting work by DR..
Otto Krummel, of Gottingen, we learn
the extent of the different seas on our
globe. According to his calculations
the Atlantic Ocean has a superfcies of
40, 429, 1853 square miles; Indian Ocean,
As, 1852, 040 square miles; Pacific Ocean,
SO, 1897, GIT square miles. Thus the to-
tai superfcies of the three largest
oceans is 1874. 787, 425 square miles. The
Arctic Ocean has q superfcies of 9, 49,
294 square miles. In the Arctic Ocean
Hudson Bay has superfcies of 663, 249
square miles, and the White Sea 7,715
square miles; the Australian Sea, s.
49, square miles; Mediterranean,
1888, 029 square miles; Baltic, 257, $50
square miles; Red Sea, 273, 944 square
miles; Persian Gulf, 146, 1877 square
miles. Then comes the seas that DR..
Krummel calls coast seas, namely:
North Sea, 800, SIC square miles; Sea of
Great Britain, 1875, 290 square miles;
Sea of st. Laurent, ITO, 100 square
miles; China Sea, 761 ,632 square miles;
Japan Sea, CAT, ITO square miles; Sea of
Okhotsk, 934, UT square miles; Behr-
ings Sea, ], 440, 1913 square miles; Sea of
California, 1886 square miles. The
total superfcies of these coastal seas is
4, 523, 460 square miles. Adding the
Antartic Ocean, the superfcies Of which
are calculated at 1886, 236 square
miles, the total superfcies of all the
seas is 231, 915, 905 square miles, while
the total superfcies of the continents
and islands of the globe is only 81, 354,-
$50 square miles.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-12
A Lively Racket.
lFrom the Chicago Herald

''Bet you$ S. make every passenger
in this coach stick his head out of the
window before we get to Peoria, said a
lively drummer TO a companion the other
day, on 8 Wabash train. cob you're
Joking" "No, Imean business, an I'll
lay you the SIS and leave it to yourself,
sit go? All right" Soon the train
stopped at a way station, and the lively
drummer says to his companion;
''Now run around the coach
and see if you don't see every mans
head popping out of the window.
Then there came from beneath the car
unearthly eounds-shouting, crying,
wailing, cries Of t'help" and ''take him
off" and E'murder.
Instantly every passenger opened his
window and peered out. There wasn't
a head left in the car. In a few seconds
the noise ceased and the festive drum
mer came out from under the coach
with ten-penny smile on his broad face.
"Well, you've won your bet, [ guess,
said the discounted and breathless one,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-12
Blazing Abroad.
[From the Electrical Review.l


Electric lighting in Europe is ad-
vancing more rapidly than the American
public seem to realize. Gas is usually
far poorer in quality than here, and
modern improvements in making it are
slowly adopted. The Bon Marche, at
Paris, where l, 800 clerks are employed,
tried 400 electric lamps, and has now in
creased the order to 1000. The ST. La
zare railway station tried few lamps
in the vestibule, and will now extend
the system to the whole vast establish
ment, covering some twelve to fifteen
acres. The grand opera house at Paris,
with its /, 100 permanent employees, has
a gas bill Of 100000 year, and it has
been experimenting for the last two
years with almost every known system
of electric lighting, American or other
wise. In Milan the Manzoni thearer is
lighted by electricity, and the vast The
alter La Scala now has complete equip
ment Of engines, boilers, and dynamo
machines from New York, adequate to
10, 900 lamps in position under the
shadow Of the great cathedral, without
SO much as wire or a puff Of steam in
sight from the cathedral itself.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-12
A Royal AnecdOte.
From the London World
allure,


The death is announced from Florence
of Giambattista Giuliana, one of the
great Dante scholars of Italy-or Dan
tiste, as the Dante scholars love TO call
themselves. This denomination has led
to many an absurd guild pro quo, espe-
cialIy when printers have substituted an
for the a. Such guild pro gao forms
the theme of an excellent anecdote re-
garding the late king of Saxony, himself
q Dantiste, who wrote on the great Flor
entine and translated his works into
German under a pseudonym. The king
loved the 3"cOg2a5t0 IN any shape, and
often travelled thus with the queen.
Once when on board a Rhine steamer
as simple passengers, they overheard q
knot of civilians discussing some literary
theme. The king joined the circle, and
entered into the debate, displaying rich
and varied literary knowledge. After
some time he went away, and during his
absence one of the party addressed the
queen as to who her husband was, for
surely he was a man of literary note,
''O'est mon mari, said the queen, re-
plying 10 the language in which the
whole conversation had been carried on.
set mon mari est lie premier DanIist
d'Allemagne. There was almost a
scandal among the little circle at the
thought that they should have talked so
long and Familiarity with dentist, for of
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-12
The Gaudy House of Lords.

The correspondent of LIE Temps de-
scribes the house of lords: ''Never into
one room 500 square feet large was
crammed more gold raised up IN reliefs,
heraldic lions, fantastic uniforms, queer
shields, loud stained windows, and brio
abrac subjected to the galvanic battery.
And this hall dates from 1866! It is
plain that the architect, Sir Charles
Berry, was belated romancist who re-
jected nothing in the way of sham Gothic
ironmongery that offered itself. One
might almost ask whether his works did
not conceal satire on the institution,
ssuredly very Gothic, of hereditary
chamber. But, alas, it is only neces-
sary to examine from Westminster the
enormous edifce of the legislative place,
bristling with clock towers and turrets,
with details and concentrations that
escape the unaided eyesight, and even
the lorgnette, to make sure of the COM
plete simplicity of that worthy architect.
The same taste that permitted him to
raise in the nineteenth century, face to
face with 200 factory chimneys, that
prodigious bit of medieval candy work,
made it inevitable that he should intro
duce into the house of lords, veritable
cacophony of clashiug colors and forms
that betray conventional pre-Raph-
aelitism. One feels as if one had en-
tered dollar store of Bohemian glass.
On great days, when the gallery of peer
esses is filled with ladies in blue gowns,
yellow flowers, red fans, and apple
green feathers, one is liable to fancy
that the Bohemian glass shop has been
invaded by cargo of Brazilian
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-12
The Warmth Of a City.

From the New Hampshire GazetteI
Those who happen to live at q little
distance from the heart of the city must
frequently have noticed lack of accord
between readings of their own standard
thermometers and the published obser-
vations of the signal service observers
of their locality. The reason of this
discOrd is plain, VIZ, the perturbing
action of the heat which the city emits;
and however gratifying it may be to the
outsider to find himself superior to the
government observers, it is very little
credit to the weather bureau that this
particular source of error was not long
since recognized and avoided. The re-
marks of Prof Whitney on this sub
iect, as applied to observations made in
London, are pertinent and convincing.
He says: SIT is well-known fact that
cities are considerably warmer than the
more thinly inhabited country otherwise
under similar climatic conditions. Sta
tistics prove this to be true; and there
could be no doubt that such would be
the effect of an immediate aggregation
Of population within a limited space,
even If there were no statistics bearing
on this question. Many millions of tons
of coal are burned in and about big cities
during every year, and the whole mass
of brick of which the city is built is
heated during the entire winter, and
more or less in the summer, many de-
Qrees above the natural temperature.
There can be no question that conditions
such as here indicated vitiate all obser-
vations made in or near large cities with
a view to the determination of any pos
sible secular variation of the temper
allure,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-12
macaWs.

''No, Mr.. Slim, cannot be your wife.
Ny father has just failed in business,
and my first thoughts must be for him. -
ST hadn't heard of your fathers fail
ure," exclaimed Mr.. Slim, in great sur
prise and not little dismay. "When
did it occur?" "Only yesterday" she re-
piled. ''All our possessions are swept
away, and we are very poor indeed. |
do not hesitate in saying that were it
otherwise, your proffered love would be
very dear to me, but now my dear father
demands my undivided devotion. !"
"Noble girl" said Mr.. Slim, as he hur-
ried away.-PhjIadeiphi0 C0U.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-12
DISEASED ENGLISH CATTLE.
Their Importation Will Probably be Pro
hibitad.

IheIr Importation Will Probably be Pro
hibited.
New YORK, March 6.-Collector Rob
ertson has received a letter from the
treasury department stating that the
propriety of prohibiting the importation
of neat-cattle from Great Britain is IN
der consideration. It is officially stat
ed that dangerous foot-and- mouth
disease now prevails among neat~cattle
In England, and that it has al
ready been introduced into the cattle
quarantine grounds at Portland, Me.
Collector Robertson is requested to OBJ
tain such information as he can relative
to the prospective importation into this
country of English neat.cattle. he is
also asked to confer with cattle import
ers as to how such a prohibitory order
as the department contemplates will
affect the business of exporting and i'm
porting live cattle.