Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-12

horse down with that damp clover-hay
1t will give any morse in the world the
heaves Well driver, give him our stand
by, Days Horse and Cattle Powder. /
guess that will bring him around all
right"
Edward L. Stokes, who shot Jim Fisk
and served term in tho New York pen
| itentiary for the crime, and who is now
the keeper of gorgeous saloon in New
York city, is said. to be engaged to marry
the widow of Robert Packer. the Penn
sylvania millionaire.
David Dudley Field, of New York,
will be 80 years of age on the 18th OF
February next and has an income from
his law practice and his investments of
over 100000.
Owen Brown, the only survivor of the
old John Brown Harper's Ferry episode
of 1859, lives in the Jay Cooke island
mansion "Gibraltar," Put in-Bay Island.
Owen is now about 55 years old.
The Council of the Episcopa! Diocese
Of Nebraska met in Omaha Yesterday to
elect a successor to the late Bishop
Clarkson, and reelected Rev DIR. George
Worthington, of Detroit, to the Episco-
pate.
1t is stated that there arc 139 medical
schools in the United States and Can
ada, containing about 10000 students
viz, 10000 regular. 1,200 homeopathic.
/ $50 electric. and 30 physio-medical
students. The total numbers of doctors
is about 100, 900 or on an average one to
every 500 inhabitants.
The returns of the effective strength of
the British army for the last twenty years
(prepared by order of the field marshal
commanding in chief show that the low.
est total during that period was reached
last year, when it stood at 18i, ,227, as
against 216,7 On January 1st, 1884, or
a decrease of 1854.
Bears are unusually plentiful along the
coast of the Alaska peninsula this season
and also very feroci0us. A number OF
men have recently been killed and eat"n,
and women and children do not dare
take their usual share in the labor of
fishing along the river banks.
The students of the female college at
Greenvi!le, s. G. wear characteristic
uniforms. Their winter dress, in which
they have just appeared, is of blue black
cashmere It has a vest front CT velvet
and a plated overskirt and basque.
High crowned hats trimmed with velvet,
and tan-colored gloves, complete the
costume of these fair devotees of the
higher education in the Palmetto state.
The recently published sensational
case of Miss Sally Ragsdale, of Meridian,
Miss, whose father an influential citizen,
placed her in an insane asylum at Oxford,
Ohio, to keep her from ga lover and en-
deavored to pursue the same course With
his wife, to secure control of d 5000, 900
legacy, has had happy issue. The
father has been routed, and the young
couple were married Gn Monday.
The strange spectacle of a country
road on FIRE can be- witnessed in Upper
rary. Ireland. The embankments are
made of peat, upon which fir trees have
been planted. The peat having by some
means become ignite'i, hundreds of trees
have been destroyed, and Others, having
had their roots burned away, have fallen
across the road. There are no flames,
but the smoke and burning smell talnts
the atmosphere for miles around.
New York City, which has always been
under Democratic co1tro, il the worst
geveroed city in the United States. Its
debt is $1lO, 100000, or about one.
twentieth as large as the public debt Of
the United States, and it amounts to
nearly 800 each, for every man. woman
and child within its limits. New Orleaos
is nearly as badly off 1t is little city,
onc-third the size of Chicago, but its
debt is $4,000 900 or $S5 head
according to its population.
Herds of elephants usually consist cf
from thirty to fifty individuals. but much
larger numbers. even upward of 100, are
bv no means uncommon. A herd is
always led by female never by male.
In localities where fodder is scarce large
herd usuallysdivides into parties of from
} ten to twenty These remain at some
little distance from each other. but all
take part in any common movement, such
as march into another tract OF forest.
These separate parties are family groups,
consisting of old elephants with their
children and grandchildren
The work of putting telegraph wires
underground in Philadelphia promises to
be speedily Tu he'd forward. the city
ordinance having stimulated the activity
of the pr0prie!ors of the varieas lines.
The Western Union Company has
F already arranged with a contractor to lay
100 underg -ound wires on Chestnut St.,
between Third and Tenth, aud also
number frnm the former point to the
Kensington Station of the Pennsylvania
Railroad. at Front and Berks streets.
Black, the color always in demand for
felt hats presents the greatest difficulties
iu dyeing it properly. A technical
journal gives this method Generally
copper boiler is used, filled with pure
water and brou ,ht to boil Add five
pounds potassic dichromate, four and
three. fourths pounds cream of tartar and
three fourths round OF sulphuric acid.
Roll for Some time Enter the felt from