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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
More Than Fifty Years at the Case.

CErie Special to the New York SUM-
Western newspapers are bOastlng
over printer in the employ OF the San
Francisco Chronicle who has completed
half century of "sit" at the case.
There is a printer in Erie named
Michael j. Quinn, known among the
craft as Gather Quinn" who has a
longer string than the Golden Gate
man. Father Quinn was apprenticed
when lad to printer in the city OF
Waterford, Ireland, in 1880, and, after
serving his apprenticeship, got "sit''
on the London Times, and had several
STAT takes" of the account of the
Queens marriage hotice. Coming to
America, Mr.. Quinn got cases on the
New York Evening Post, which he held
for seven years. During that period he
had the personal acquaintance and con-
fidence of William Cullen Bryant,
Parke Goodwin, John Bigelow and
others. Turning his face westward, he
came to Erie and served nearly twenty
years on the Erie Despatch. He now
holds cases on the Erie Daily Herald,
and, although almost 70, uses his eyes
without the aid of glasses. Father
Quinn's years of toll present startling
features in the way of figures. For in
stance, assuming fair average rate of
speed, taken from his best, at 10000
ems, and his rate of 5000 ems at the
present day, giving $500 ems for an
average, it will be found that the
enormous amount of lis, 340,000 ems of
matter has been set up by this compos-
itor during the past half century or
more. In setting this it was necessary
to handle over 358,020,000 pieces of
metal twice over, including distribution.
It will further interest the reader to
know that the type SO set would weigh
$4,000 pounds, or ninety-four tons,
which this old man has lifted piece by
piece in the specified time. In setting
type the average distance over which
the hand travels is foot and a half, or
whereabouts. Consequently his hand
has travelled over 516,00O,000 feet, or a
matter of 97,727 miles; or within few
hundred feet of being four times the
circumference of the earth. This does
not include the distribution, which
would increase the distance to about
five and a half times around the globe.
Father Quinn's string" would fill
about 10,015 columns of space. IF
stretched out in a continuous line it
would form belt two inches wide and
over seven miles long of solid reading
matter. Put these lines in one continu-
GUS line, and it would extend 1853 miles.
Father Quinn expects to spend ten
years more at the case. He is quite
spry, and observes all the fast days and
st. Patrick's Day with great regularity
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
A Chinese SOciable Smoke.
From the st, Louis Post Dispatch. ]

A group of Cinnamon taking a socia
BILE smoke-tobacco, not opium : is
about the oldest sight that one can
witness. I walked into the rear of
laundry the other day and found the
force enjoying themselves. There may
be excitement and plenty of narcotic
effect in Chinese smoke, but it lacks
the repose and solid comfort attaching
to the pipe OF civilized shape. The pipes
were unique in style. Instead of the
stem being smaller than the pipe, the
pipe looked like small twig on ayoung
sapling trunk. The stems were pieces
of bamboo, about three feet long and
three inches in diameter, and the pipe
was slender iron tube, slightly en-
larged at the bowl and placed in the
stem a third of its length from the
lower end. The lower end was tightly
plugged and the large tube was filed
with water to point short distance
above, where the pipe was inserted. A
Chinanan does not ill his pipe and lie
back at ease to enjoy it, but it is re-
filed at every puff. He rests the lower
end of the stem on the floor, lights a
small torch, takes handful of long cut,
black tobacco from his pouch. and he
is ready to begin. He takes pinch Of
tobacco, inserts it in his pipe, lights it
with his torch and takes deep long
pull at the stem. His mouth is in
serted in the stem instead of the stem
being put in his mouth. One breath
consumes the entire contents of the
pipe, and volumes of smoke pour out of
his lungs through his mouth and nose,
while an expression of inefable salts
faction spreads over his face. The
skillful part of the operation lies in
emptying the pipe of the burned ref
use. It is done by q quick short puff,
which drives the water into the pipe
and throws out the ashes. An expert
smoker will fill his pipe, light it, smoke,
clean and refill it in about the time an
Irishman will take one puff at his clay.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
Twenty-four Ronrs to Live.

From John Kuhn, Lafayette, Ind, who
announces that he 1s now in 'perfect health,
we have the following: "One year ago was,
to all appearance, in the last stages of con-
sumption. Our best physicians gave my case
up. finally got so low that our doctor said
could not live twenty-four hours. My friends
then purchased a bottle of DR.. VIM. Halls
BaIsam for the Lungs, which benefited me.
continued until took nine bottles. I am now
in perfect health, having used no other medl-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
No. 10000.

This is the number actually reached
this week by the Mason & Hamlin
Organ and Piano Companyin the regu-
lar numbering of their world-renowned
cabinet organs. Having commenced
of organs produced per annum has been
5000, which IS 100 per week for the en-
tire 1900 weeks of their business
career. The Mason & Hamlin organs
have been SEM to every civilized coun-
try, and their sale never was greater
than at the present time, averaging
from 10000 to $4,000 organs per annum.
= Boston Journal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
You Can't Make $500 by Reading This,

even il you have chronic nasal catarrh in its
worst stages, for although this amount of re-
ward has for many years been offered by the
proprietors of DR.. Sages Catarrh Remedy, for
any case of catarrh they cannot cure yet not
withdrawing that thousands use the Remedy
they are seldom called upon to pay the reward,
and when they have been SO called upon they
have universally found that the failure to cure
was wholly due to some overlooked compiled
tions usually easily removed By slight modlfi-
cation of the treatment. Therefore, if this
should meet the eye of anybody who has made
faithful trial of this great and world famed
Remedy without receiving perfect and per-
manent cure thereform, that person will do vol
to either call upon or write to the proprietors,
the Worlds Dispsnsary Medical Association, of
Buffalo, N. Y, giving all the particulars and
symptoms in the case By return mail they viii
get good advice free Of all coats.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

The Pittsburg Dispatch, speaking of
Jane Gray Swisshelm's work, says that
before 1848 no married woman in Penn
sylvania could hold property IN her own
right or subject to her control. Never
theless the achievements of this lady
are, the Dispatch maintains, appre-
ciated and acknowledged by men only.
Women in the MAN," it says, "seem to
be unaware how vastly they are indebt-
ed to her as a pioneer in the way of
their advancement. It would be fitting,
we think, for the women of Pittsburg
to hold public memorial service in
her honor, and to publish her great
deeds for the instruction of those she
has done so much to benefit"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
A Greek Olive Oil Factory.
From Macmlllan's Magazine. ]

From Macmlllan's MagaZne.1
From the church our host took s to
inspect an olive-oil factory, of which
there are several in Pyrghi, so that the
stream which waters the village is brown
with olive juice, like water tinged with
peat in an Irish bog. Here they use no
machinery or modern appliances in
pressing the oil, merely the old print
tive wooden press. Women, or some
times mules, walk round and round re-
volving a wheel which brushes the
olives; in this condition they put them
into sacks and then into that "black-
faced heifer which devours oak wood, y
as the Chiotes, in their fgurative way,
are wont to describe their ovens. The
sacks are then placed one over the
other in the press, and two men turn a
post which pulls rope, which drags a
stick, which tightens the press, and the
oil oozes into the receptacle prepared
for it, with water inside. The oil and
water, of course, do not amalgamate. the
dregs sink to the bottom, and the pure
oil flows into jars prepared for it.
1t is impossible to realize the affection
the people have for olives in purely
olive-growing country. can olive with
kernel gives a boot to man" is a
true adage with them. 1t is the prin-
cipal fattening and sustaining food in a
country where hardly any meat is eaten.
It takes the place of the potato in Ire
land, and on the olive crop depends the
welfare of many. An olive yard is pre-
scented to the church by way of glebe,
and the peasants collect on a stated day
to gather these sacred olives, which
they buy from the church, and always
at the highest market value.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
Seven Wise Men Baff1ed.

The N. Y. Morning Journal, says
that Mrs. F. Ct. Kellogg, 30 E. 86th
ST., was partially paralyzed, and lay for
seven days in commissions. Physicians
we're engaged and discharged until
seven had failed to help or cure her.
She was unable to leave her bed, and
was as helpless as child. After using
all sorts of salves, ointments, lotions
and plasters, her case was given up as
hopeless. She was induced to try st.
Jacobs Oil as last chance. She began
to improve from the time the first APP
plication was made and by it's continued
use, she has completely recovered.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

SOME time last winter six men we're
arrested at campfire near Texarkana,
Ark, and taken before a magistrate,
charged with tramping. The parties
we're sent to backyard, where they
were made to work out fine of $50
days at Is cents day. Their time is
just out, and one of them has entered
suit against the brick-yard for $3.50 for
services, and threatens to sue the county
for $4,000 damages. Public sympathy
is with the alleged tramps.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
a KISS AT THE DOOR.
BY ]. NJ. L.

We were standing in the doorway,
NV little girl and l;
The nightingale was singing sweet,
And stars were in the sky;
Her pretty hand was on my arm,
What could / wish for more
Than the.loving glance of her blue eyes,
AS she kissed me at the door.
Let others wish for land or gold,
For fame or mighty power;
But give to me the happiness
Of that blessed evening hour.
I know she loves me as her life,
She says she loves me more,
And thought she did this evening
AS she kissed me at the door.
What if at times the clouds hangSdark
/ feel a joyous pride
In thoughts of happy days to come,
When she will be my bride.
And what if false friends prove untrue,
1 only think the more
Of her who waits my coming step
To kiss me at the door.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
ESCAPE.
BY LAURA M. MARQUAND.

Airy and light, drifting so slow,
Drifting softly, / see
Coming through air the feathery snow
Of the milk-weed unto me.
Scarcely l feel its touch so light;
See, It's waited away;
Grasp it 1 cannot in its fight;
IT'S far on the wind at play.
Like to love which the heart doth know
Within itself to be,
Swiftly cold reason pursues, and 10!
Love f1utters his wings and is tree.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
Caution to DairYmen.

Ask for Wells, Richardson & Co.'S. Improved
Butter Color, and take no other. Beware of all
limitations. and of all other oil colors, for every
other one is liable to become rancid and spoil
the butter into which it is put. If you cannot
get it write to us at Burlington, VT, to know
where and how to get it without extra expense.
Thousands of tests have been made, and they
always prove it the best.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
Young Men-Read This.

THE VoLTAIC BELT Co., of Marshall, Mich,
offer to send their celebrated ELECTRO oLTAIo
BFLT and other ELEClR'C APPLIANCES on trial
for thirty days, to men (young or old ofdicted
with nervous debility, loss of vitality and man
hood, and all kindred troubles Also for rheu-
matism. neuralgia, paralysis, and many other
diseases. Complete restoration to health, vlgor
and manhood guaranteed. No risk is incurred
as thirty days trial is allowed. Write them at
once for illustrated pamphlet free.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

81 SAW fight little way up the
street as / came down." observed the
Major as he entered the dining-room.
About what?" questioned the Colonel.
About two blocks" was the reply, and
neither of them spoke during the re-
mainder of the meal Boston Post.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
Shooting Around a Corner.

tFrom the New York Evening PostJ
Lieut.. Schuyler, of the Sixth Regi-
ment of the Pennsylvania militia,
recently performed the singular feat OF
shooting a man who was standing on
the opposite side of stone wall sixteen
feet high and half yard thick. He
was at the 5O0-yard range. After the
report from his rife, Sergt. Decker,
the marker, proceeded to swing the
signal and was about to slip out from
behind the wall when he became con-
scious that ne had been shot. The bull
let had missed the wall and gone to the
left of it, struck a tree and richochet-
ted, and in it's course struck the marker
IN the right shoulder. The wounded
man was at once taken to a doctor, who
cut the ball out. It had fractured the
shoulder blade, but the sergeant is now
out of danger.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

NEARLY all the handsome dark-colored
door knobs liz use in this country come
from the mountains of North Carolina.
They are made of ivy roots, which are
dug by the inhabitants and sold at the
railroad stations FOR from $40 to $12 q
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
Regulars.

One of the strongest proofs of the value of
Kidney Wort as a remedy for all diseases of the
Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, is the fact that it
is used and prescribed by Irregular" physicians.
"Take it all in all, it is the most successful
remedy have ever used"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

SENATOR EDMUNDs is living quietly
at his home in Burlington. VI, going
out but little and avoiding publicity.
The loss of his daughter weighs heavily
upon him.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

Mr.. GEORGE AIKEN, now rich man,
has returned from the West to Louis
vile, KY, in search of his only child,
whom poverty obliged him to leave in
an orphan asylum eight years ago.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
Throat and Lung Diseases

specially. Send two letter stamps for large
treatse giving self treatment. Address Worlds
Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
A Blood Purifier.

AS blood purifier the Compound Oxygen
Treatment of Drs. Starkey & Palen, 11O9 Girard
Street, Philadelphia, has no equal. 1t is taken
by inhalation, and gives larger supply of oxy-
gen to the lungs than is contained ia common
air, and SO readily purifes the blood and vital
ICES the whole system. Its action is gentle and
agreeable, and in perfect harmony with natural
laws Write for Treatise On Compound Oxy-
gen. 1t will be sent free.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

GyDo IT YOURSELF With Diamond Dyes
any lady can get as good results as the best
practical Dyer. Every dye warranted true to
name and samole, 10c. at druggists. Wells,
Richardson &C., Burlington VI
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

PURE Cod-Liyer Oil made from selected liv
ers, on the sea-shore, by Caswell, Hazard &
Co., New York. 1t is absolutely pure and
sweet. Patients who have once taken it prefer
1T to all others. Physicians have decided it
superior to any of the other oils in market.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

HAY-FEvER. One and one-half bottles of
Ely'S Cream Balm entirely cured me Of Hay
Fever of ten years standing. Have had no
trace of it for two years.-ALBERT A. PERRY,
Smithboro, N. Y. Price so cents.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

SKINNY Men, 'Wells Health Remover" re-
stores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, I'm
DOtence ST.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

CROUCH on Pain" Porous Plaster for Back
ache, pains in the chest, Rheumatism. 25c.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

MILLAIs' latest exhibition is sketchy
portrait of the young daughter of the
late Col. Thomas A. Scott, of Pennsyl-
vania.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

BEWARE of the incipient stages Of consum
ton. Take Piso's Cure in time.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

CHAPPED hands, face, plmples and rough skin
cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by
Caswel, Hazard & Co., New York.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

ALIENS IRON Tonic BITTERs strengthen the
system. All genuine bear the signature of J.
P. Allen, Druggist, ST. Paul, Mimi.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

The Frazer Axle Grease is the best and, in
trinsically, the cheapest.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

LYDIA E. PINKHAM's Vegetable Compound
cures all female and kidney complaints.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

HAY-FEvER. 1 was severely afflicted with
Hay-feVer for Is years. I tried Ely's Cream
Balm, and the effect was marveiOus. 1t is a
perfect cure.-WM T. CARR Presbyterian Pas
tor, Elizabeth, N. J. Price so cents.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

WHERE other remedies have failed Athlo-
phoros has been found to work like charm.
Jones q Bryan, of Lancaster, Wis, sold bottle
to an Old and respected citizen of that town,
VINO naylng vainly tried all other remedies.
was cured Of rheumatism by single bottle of
the new specific. Price 81 per bottle. II oul
Druggist hasn't it send to Arhlophoros Co., 122
Wall Street. n. Y.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

CROUCH on Dentlst Tooth Powder. Fine
Smooth, Cleansing, Refreshing, Preservative
15c
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

For a cold in the head, there is nothing 81
good as Piso's Remedy for Catarrh.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
HAY EEVER-

''RoUaH on Tooth Ache" Ask for it, In
slant relief, quick cure. 15c. Druggists.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
Patients
4" Almost dead or nearly dying .

For years, and given up by physicians eR
Brights and other kidney diseases. liver coA'
plants, severe coughs called consumption,
have been cured.
Women gone nearly crazyl
From agony on neuralgia, nervousness, wake
fitness and various diseases peculiar to women.
People drawn out of shape from excruciataag
pa, gs OF rheumatism,
scrofuIa!
kryEpelasl
Salt rheu1n, blood poisoning, dyspepsia, indiges.
hun, and in fact almost all diseases fran
Eagu- Ia heir
Have been cured by Hop Bitters, proof Of wh1oA
can be found in every nsighberhood in the known
world
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

IT is dyer necessity that makes fool
ish old man change the color of his
beard Picayune.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27

PILE tumors, rupture and fistulas,
radically cured by improved methods. Book
two letter stamps. Worlds Dispensary Med.
cal Association, Buffalo, N, Y.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
Horsford's Acid Phosphate

AS NERVE FOOD.
DR.. j. W. Smith, Wellington. O., says: SIN
impaired nervous supply have used it to adj
vantage"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
SOLD BY ALL DRUGG EsTs
CHAPTER L

Ask any or all Of the most eminent phys-
clans:
"Whatis the best and only remedy that can be
relied On to cure al diseases of the kidneys and
urinary organs; such as Bright's, disease dia-
betes, retention or inability toretsln urine, and
al the diseases and ailments peculiar to
Women.
g And they will tell you explicitly and ems
phatically, 'Buchu."
Ask the same physicians
tWhat IL. the most reliable and surest care
for oil liver diseases or dyspepsia, constipation,
indigestion, biliousness, malarial fever. agns,
dc" ard they Will tell you:
/" Mandrake! or DandeloA."
Hence, when these remedies are combined
with others equally valuable
And compounded into Hop Bitters. such
wonderful and mysterious curative power is de-
veloped which is SO varied in its operations that
no disease or i'll health possibly exist or re-
sist lts power, and yet it is
Harmless for the most frail woman, weakest
in' Aid or smallest child to use.
rukpTnR TT
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-12-13
How Cotton is Worked.

Here lie heaps Of snowy cotton wool
as it has been opened out of the bales in
which it was carried across the Atlantic.
Take up tuft of the wool and examine
it. The fi1ers lie in all directions and
are apparently In state of hopeless ell
tanglenent. It is evident that before
they can be formed into thread .shey
must be brought to something like par
allel order. Accordingly we find that
the first business to which the cotton
spinner applies himself is to give the
fibers the needful parallel arrangement.
This he does by means of machine
known as cardlng engine. This con-
sists of series of drums or cylinders,
covered with fine wire spikes. AS the
wool is passed through between the CYL
inders the spikes catch the fibers and
draw them straight. After this opera
ton has heen repeated sufficient num-
Der Of times the wool is drawn off in the
form of soft rope about the thickness
Of ones finger. As yet it has received
no twist. and consequently has to be
dealt with tenderly. The rope of fibers
having been wound upon large bobbins.
Is taken to the first Of the series Of
spinning machines, By which it Is
drawn out and slightly twisted into q
cord Of about the thickness Of quill.
This cord is then passed to another
machine: which draws it out still fur
Their, and gives it some more twist.
After it has been brought to the desired
degree Of fineness By operations such as
these, it receives the final drawing and
twisting on the spinning mule, 3 most
complicated piece Ct mechanism. So
far we have only got single yarn to-
ward the formation Of thread, and we
must follow that yarn TO the doubling
machine. Before being placed on the
machine, however, the yarn has to be
passed rapidly through q gas flame, in
order to burn Of the loose ends Of fibre.
We're this not done the finished thread
would have rough exterior, and would
not be 50 easy TO- deal with. Two lengths
Of yarn are now twisted together, and
then three Of these double filamenfs are
formed into 3 thread. The thread Is
reeled of into hanks, and in that form
IS either bleached - dyed As may be de.
sired. AL that is now necessary 10 do
j to polish the thread By passing il H.
tween rollers having peculiar motion.
and 70 wind i uDon the bobbfns On
which it = sent to market