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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04

docks at New York and the streets of
other cities have become SO crowded
that 1T is far more convenient to use
one horse that can move several tons
than some two or three which take
up so much more room.
The Aroostook region in Maine,
where great areas Of timber have been
burned over, is said to be a paradise
for hOney-bees. In this region the fire
weed fourisheS throughout July, Au-
gust and September, while wild rasp-
berry bloom is abundant in late June
and July. Both of these plants make
a clean, white honey, which captures
the premiums at all the fairs without
trouble
The real value of corn when esti-
mated by weight is almost as inaccu-
rate as that estimated by measure,
says the American Agriculturist. The
true worth of the grain is the actual
dry matter it contains. The moisture
varies at different periods after har-
vesting. Corn that contained 25 per
cent of water two months after har-
vesting has been known to contain
only 1 3 per cent. when one year old.
PROF. HENRY says: ~ would urge
that our farmers give more oats to
young stock, colts as well as calves
There is no food SO easily attainable
that will so well correct acidity of the
stomach, and keep the whole system
in good order. To those who wish to
raise calves on very little milk would
say, use oats and oil meal freely, and
by studying the wants of the calves
you will be able to raise fine animals
on q small allowance of milk"
THE ventilation OF cellars is a sub
Ject of great Importance, inasmuch as
| the foul gases which arise from the
decaying vegetable matter therein and
are allowed to pass to the rooms
above are very injurious to occupants.
To provide against this and to secure
proper ventilation, q pipe should be
constructed between the cellar and
the chimney, the upward draught of
which will remove all impure air.
PROF. A. E. BLOUNT. Of the Colorado
Agricultural College, reports that he is
testing $50 varieties of wheat, gath
cred from all parts of the world, be-
sides thirty-eight cross varieties, or
hybrids, some of which are far supe-
rior to their parents. He says that
so great are the changes made by the
soil, climate and his selection and
crossing, that hardly one variety in
ten can be recognised when shown to
the parties who sent the seed.
The Live Stock J Journal says "Colts
should not bepermitted to stand on a
plank, cement, paved, or any hard
floor the first year, as these are liable
to injuriously affect the feet and legs.
Unless the yard where colts run in the
winter has a sandy or fine, dry, gravelly
soil, it shuld be well Uttered, so as to
keep their feet dry. Mud, or soft, wet
fish ground is apt to make tender
hoOfs, no matter how well bred the
colt may be. One reason why the
horses in one district grow up superior
to those in another in hoof, bone,
muscle, and action, is because it has q
dry, limestone, or silicious soil"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
More Precious Than Gold
[From the Collierv Engineer l

From the Colliery Engineer
Following are the names of those
metals valued at over 81 900 an avoir-
dupois pound the figures given repre-
sent1ng the value per pound
Vanadlum-A white metal discover
ed in 1880, $4,000.
Rubidium-An alkaline metal, So
called for exhibiting dark red lines in
the spectrum analysis, SO, O7O.
Zirconium-A metal obtained from
the minerals zircon and hyacinth, in
the form of black powder, ST 200.
Lithuanian alkaline metal; the
lightest metal known, $1,000.
Glucinum-A metal in the form of q
grayish black powder, S., 400.
Calcium-The metallic base of lime,
ST. 800.
Strontium-A malleabIe metal of a
yellowish color, 81 200.
Terbium-Obtained from the miner
! al gadolinite, found in Sweden, "a, O8O.
Yttrlum-Discovered in 1928, is of
a grayish black color, and it's luster
perfectly metallic, $1,000.
Erbium- metal found assOciat-
ed with yttrNlm. So, 400.
Cerium-A metal of high specific
gravity, grayish white color, and a
lamellar texture, So, 400.
Didymium-A metal found associat-
ed with cerium, $4,000.
Ruthenium-Of a gray color, very
hard and brittle, extracted from the
ores Of platinum, 50, 400.
Rhodium-Of a white color and me-
tallic luster, and extremely hard and
brittle. 1t requires the strongest heat
that can be produced by a wind fur
mace for it's fusion, 50, 300
Niobium-Previously named column
binum, first discovered in an ore found
at New London, Conn, $4,000.
Barium-The metallic base of barry
ia, 81 800.
Palladium-A metal discovered in
1902 and found in very small grains,
of q steel gray color and fibrous
structure, 81 400.
Osmium-A. brittle, gray-colored
metal, found with platinum, 81, 800.
Iridium-Found native as an alloy
with osmium in lead-gray scales, and
is the heaviest of known substances,
S1 OQO
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
There Was Life In Tt.
from the Detroit Free Press. !

About eighteen miles above Central
la, ILL.,, the engineer began to blow
toot! foot! toot! and to slacken his
pace, and by and by the train came to
a standstill. The male passengers
rushed out, as in duty bound, and in
time to see man lying on the rails
in front of the engine, and another
man bending over him. When the
crowd, headed by the conductor,
reached the spot the man on his feet
explained:
II discovered him about ten minutes
ago, and as / didn't want the train to
run over him l gave you the signal"
"But why didn't you pull him off the
track?" asked the conductor
81 couldn't be hired to touch a dead
body" was the reply.
"What! is he dead?"
"Reckon he is that"
We examined the body and found
life in it. He vas a poorly dressed
man, seemingly in hard luck, and for
the matter of that so was the other
''I think" said the stranger who had
stopped the train, chat he's taken
pizen and laid down here to make
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
Spiriting or Juggling.
from the Philadelphia Ledger.


Credulity as to many Of the most
| astonishing manifestations" by pro-
| fessional spirit mediums must be get
ting some severe knocks about this
time. One expert magician" is ex-
hibibiting every night, among other
familiar tricks of slight such
performances as the slate-writing, the
banjo and bell-ringing from an appar-
entity empty cabinet, the phantom
faces and the forms floating in the air.
His tricks are modelled on those of
Maskelyne in London, who matches
by his art most, If not all, the sensa-
tiOnal performances attributed to
spiritist operators. The most refined
and earnest of theselast will no doubt
be greatly indebted to him for show
ing how far dexterity and some slight
apparatus for juggling will go in re
peating what has been held as mystic
rious, if not inexplicable, evidence Of
other than living agencies. The slate
writing trick, in particular, is cleverly
done, and IS the more entertaining be-
cause the apparently unWritten sur
face is sponged off, and the pair of
states handed, open to some RESPONSE
bic person in the audience to examine
closely and hold together, In full sight,
until the trick is done.
The writing that appears on one of
them, when unfastened, must either be
brought out by some chemical on the
upper slate, or else the first pair are
rapidly substituted by a prepared
second edition. Either way the mani
festation is an evident human trick
nd of L.
levers IN modern spiritism have
yielded to what appeared to be the
evidence OF their senses, and have been
convinced by seeing and hearing won
ders.
When this evidence is removed into
the region of the explainable and added
to the other decisions of sleight-of-
hand and jugglery, when raps and
knocks and table-tipping are produced
by the same machinery that brings
pigs out of borrowed hats and makes
an automaton cipher out cubes, and
squares, the advantages to true in
quiry are plain. The Seybert Investi-
eating Committee might add some such
aid to their number in secret seance,
with quite reasonable assurance that
he could demonstrate considerable
quackery and SO rid their subject
of unnecessary details for considera-
ton. Men of science, unless ex-
pert in prestidigitation, can hardly
be expected to penetrate all the
jugglery that the committee is still
bound to examine. And, if, beyond
mind-reading and prestidigitation,
both of which are accepted living facul-
ties, there shall be left a remainder
that is inexplicable in the manifesto
tions of spiritism, they will arrive
sooner at this by using all the ''train-
erS'' in the diScOVerable
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04

and Norman pretended to be satisfied.
The women acted with a great deal
more intelligence. They all came to see
me, and though [ did not give them all
credit for the very kindest of motives,
about my wedding trip, and showed
them my new things, and | dare say
the men talked everything over with
them afterWard.
But what most puzzled everybody
was that Stephen Barker came SO Of
ten to see us, and was SO friendly with
Norman. Some thought it very mean
spirited in him, and others remem-
bered that when he was very young he
had loved my mother dearly. Even
those who spoke kindly of him did not
give him credit for half the noble un-
selfshness he had shown; for he would
not let me tell any one that it was he
himself who had planned everything
about my property and my wedding.
"Just let them say you Tilted me.
Frances, if they please to do so. We
know better, and we will keep our
secret until Uncle Miles comes round -
Aunt and uncle both came round
sooner than we expected. When it
was known that Stephen spent so
much of his time with us Aunt Miles
considered the advantages of having
her daughter brought Familiarity in
contact with him, and for their sakes
she came to see me and gave me the
kiss of reconciliation.
But as far as catching Stephen IS
heart Gin the rebound" was concerned
she was just little too late Nor
man S sister, who was q teacher in one
of the public schools of New York,
and Stephen fell in love with her in a
way that convinced me that his love
for Frances Halliday had only been
the shadow of the love he had for her
mother Why, Norman himself never
behaved more foolishly about
me than Stephen about this little
plain Ruth Strong, for she is plain
every one must allow that.
And the preparations that are going
on for the marriage quite amuse me,
who might have been the bankers wife
myself. Dear me, | think Love must
laugh at the kind of people he comes
in contact with. But [ hope Stephen
will be happy, do indeed.
That is all have to say about my
marriage. | think it was rather pecul-
lar. Some women will doubtless say
that they don't believe such men as
Stephen exist. But let a girl, when
she discovers she does not like man,
tell him so, and ask his advice and
help, and ten to one she will find an
other Stephen. How can men be
chivalrous and self-denying if women
don't give them opportunities? |
think that is wrong, and [ intend to
give Norman every chance to cultivate
such noble qualities.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET.

With what anguish of mind I remember my
childhood
Recalled in the light of the knowledge since
gained:
The malarious farm; the wet, fungus-grow wild
wood:
The ehills then contracted that since have re-
mained
The scum-covered duck pond; the pig-sty close
by it;
The ditch where the sour-smelling house-drain
age fell:
The damp-shaded DWELLING the foul barnyard
nigh it;
But worse than all else was that terrible we'll.
Just think of it! Moss on the vessel that lifted
The water drank in the days called to mind
Ere knew what professors and scientists gifted
In the water of wells by analysis find.
The rotting wood fiber, the oxide of iron,
The alg8, the frogs of unusual size,
The water-impure as the verses OF Byron
Are the things | remember with tears IN my
And to tell the sad truth-though 1 shudder to
think it
l considered that water uncommonly clear,
And often at noon, when went to drink 1T,
] enjoyed it as much as now enjoy beer.
How ardent | seized it with hands that were
grimy,
And quick to the Undiscovered bottom it fell
Then soon with its nitrates, and nitrites and
Shiny
With matter organic, it rose from the well.
oh! had but realized in time to avoid them,
The dangers thatlurked in that pestilent draft
I'd have tested for organic germs, and destroyed
them
With potassic permanganateer ere had quaffed
Or, perchance, I'd have boiled it, and afterwarC
strained it
Through filters of charcoal and gravel com
bined;
Or, after distilling, condensed and regained it
In potable form, with its filth left behind.
How little knew of the dread typhoid fever
Which lurked in the water ventured to drink
But, since I've become devoted believer
In the teachings of science, | shudder to think
And now, far removed from the scenes I'm de
Scribing,
The story for warning to others tell
As memory reverts to my youthful imbibing,
And gag at the thought of that horrible well
And the old oaken bucket, the fungus grown
bucket
In fact, the slop-bucket that hung in the we'll
-Ne,U York World.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04

sure work of it. If you are a mind to
take MN on to Centralia I'll kind O
fuo nm into life and get doctor to
pump him out"
me conductor assented, and we lug
geo the body into the baggage car. The
case created considerable talk among
the passengers, and a purse of ST was
made up for the unfortunate. How
ever, as we slowed up for CentraIia.
and before the purse was presented
there was a great yelling from the bag
gage car, and we looked out TO see the
two tramps busting it across q field
1t was a game they had played to get
twenty-mile lift.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04

THE American Cultivator tells of a
dairyman who undertook to churn
his cream sweet, instead of allowing it
to ripen before churning: the result
was that the ''choice, aromatic, nutty
favored product" which had previ-
ously distinguished his dairy, was re-
placed with butter "devoid of flavor
or fragrance, having a dead, neutral
taste, and the weeks product sold at
thirty-tive cents per pound, instead OF
at seventy cents, the usual price for
previous consignments.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
Napoleon's Courtesy to Eugene
From the Albany J ournal. I

Among the stories relating to Ed
mund About which have been told
since his death, one illustrates the in
terest of the Empress Eugene in the
writer. When the empress was read
ing ''Trente ct Quarante" as a serial
she was SO absorbed in it that, having
reached the last chapter just as she
was setting out for Biarritz, she sent
down to the printing office for the de
sired chapter. The proofcould not be
obtained at a moments notice, and
the emperor obtained an opportunity
for doing very gallant thing. When
her majesty arrived at Biarritz LONG
telegram was handed her containing
the whole ofthelast chapter of About s
novel,
The owl is a very small bird for its
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
SIRLON OLE REEE.

Make batter in the proportion Of
four tablespoonful of flour to one
pint of milk and two eggs; butter a
deep dish, pour in the batter, which
must be very smooth, then take the
inside Of a sirloin of beef or any ten.
der part, cut in inch square pieces
bake one hour in moderately hot
oven.
CHEESE PUDDING.
Take dish about threeinches deep
first put thick layer of bread crumbs,
then thin layer of grated cheese, a
little pepper and salt, until your dish
be full, then pour in cup of milk, lay
bits of butter on the top and bake half
an hour.
BREAKFAST BISCUIT.
To one quart of flour add to tea
spoons of baking powder, one teaspoon
of salt, one heaping tablespoonful OF
lard; mix with milk-warm water or
sweet milk; knead as little as posi-
BILE and have the dough as soft as you
can handle.
PORK HASH.
Take any cold lean bits of pork you
may have left over, chop fine, add
some bits of fat, put in a skillet; chop
an onion fine; add salt and pepper
and a little hot water; boil till the
onion is cooked; then take two-thirds
of teacup of sweet milk and dissolve
tablespoonful Of flour in it and add
to the hash. Let it boil up good, and
serve.
DAT MEAL.
Soak a teacupful of oat meal over
night; next morning add one pint OF
boiling water; have it in a lineup or
bucket and set in a kettle of hot wa
ter; boil half an hour, then add salt
and half cupful of sweet milk. To
ter and sugar.
POTATO CAKES.
Take mashed potatoes, add a beat
en- egg and enough flour to roll; mix
well with the potatoes; make into
cakes with your hands; fry brown in
hot lard.
STEWED RABBIT.
Cut the rabbit into small pieces;
wash with salt and water; put it into
a gallon crock with q quarter of q
pound of salt pork, two large onions
pierced with cloves. Simmer slowly
for three hours, then add one teacup-
full of bread crumbs and salt and pep
per to taste.
POTATO PANCAKES.
Pare and CRATE ST large potatoes.
Chop fine one small onion and mix
with the potatoes; add two beaten
eggs, a pinch of salt, one pint of milk,
flour enough to- make a batter. and
one and one-half teaspoonfuls Of bak-
ing powder.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04

THERE lives at Louisville, Ky. an
old man named Asa Emerson, who
was born October %, 1873.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
CHEESE PUDDING.

Take a dish about hreeinches deep,
first put a thick layer of bread crumbs,
then a thin layer of grated cheese, a
little pepper and salt, until your dish
be full, then pour in a cup of milk, lay
bits of butter on the top and bake half
an bOur
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04

Pare and CRATE six large potatoes.
Chop fine one small onion and mix
with the potatoes; add two beaten
eggs, a pinch of salt, one pint of milk,
flour enough to- make a batter. and
one and one-half teaspoonfuls of bak-
ing powder
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-17

easy chair conscious that whom his
last proof-sheets were read his wor-
ries for the day were done, and was
enjoying the reflection that there was
no more mischief for HIM TO get into,
a messenger from the composing
room, wi!d-eyed and pale, rushed into
his presence. and, in a trembling
voice, announced, "Minneth has skip
pedp' Our most efficient, reliable
aud intelligent associate had gone,
aud never to return. 1t was too much,
and we were overcome. No more
are we TO see the bright-eyed youth
gliding the outer rim of q row, lead
ing the wild orgies of a Comanche
dance, lending his own peculiar grace
to dog-fght, punctuating earthly
events with his own points, and play.
ing the devil generally, as all efficient
devils do. Poor Minneth, may he
find another editor to serve him, the
toe of whose boot is as soft as ours
has ever been for the bright-eyed
boys who "shove the gallcys" ia al
well regulated printing offices, grea
or small. However, others may iinS
surcease in the arms ofanot..sr devil
we are convinced that for us there i
no more rest but In the bright be
yond.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-17


THE Houston Age, the great paint
ed war chief OF the democratic party,
Is now under the press of d well or
ganized boycott, and IN less than two
weeks Il has been deprived of its best
advertising patronage. People will
soon begin 10 learn that a boycott ex-
lists not alone in Denison
Labor.
The Denison paper does not need
10 distress itself about the Age. In
spite of the press of the '.well organ
lied boycotp the Age Is in robust
health, aud enjoys liberal aud grow
ing advertising patronage II expects.
after while, 10 publish the obituary
of the bQycoti.-iiouston Age. =
The Denison papers self-cougratn-
lations are premature in this case, as
well RS yengenII. IT had no direc.
interest In the withdrawal of patron
age from the Age. No amount Of
disaster TO the Age can possibly put a
nickel into the pockets Of the Deni-
son paper. II is only rejoicing over
the downfall Of self-eiected enemy. II
is premature, because the Age has
pow larger aud better paying adj
yeriising patronage than ever before.
This Is no country for the boycott.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-17

From the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
A special train conveying Battery
ID of the Filth artillery, went west
ward through Wyoming Territory on
Sunday at the rate of fifty miles an
hour, ana IL is understood that Gen
eral Howard is under orders TO send
more troops al n moments notice.
The war-like tone of the Mormon
press is certainly such as to justify
military preeantiOn OF this sort. Tho
church papers In Utah are doing all
they can 10 arouse the Mormons TO
violent resistance TO United States
authority. The promptness with
which former democratic admins
tration sent an armyon a long and
ioilsOme march across the plains 20
bring them TO terms, shouid teach
them TO beware OF inviting such at
tentions In these DAYS, when railroads
can take armies 10 Utah ut the rate of
fifty miles an hour. But the enforce
ment of the laws against Pologamy Is
driving the priesthood to desperation
aud IL Is probably wise preeaution
to send enough troops there 10 i'm
press the folly of resistance upon the
minds of the Mormon masses.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-17

wElike the suggestion ofthe States
man, as TO the high schools Of the
state becoming feeders for the uni
versity. We think it is the duty of
every Texas school to send its young
men either to Waco or the state uni
versity, rather than to outside schools,
to be finished. State love and patriot
ism may be shown this way as well as
any other. There is no reason why
Texas should send single child out
of the state, and so muth depends
upon our fostering and building up
our own institutions of learning.
The state university ought to equal
Harvard, Yale, Princeton or Wander
bilt, in ten years, and would, if every
child in the state was kept within lis
borders for education.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-17

TINS proposition TO lengthen the
presidential term TO six years Is a step
ahead, but II ought 10 be ten, instead
Of six. We have long been convinced
that one OF the most threatening of
the evils menacipg this government
Is fbe frequency OF the choice 4 chief
executiye--eae election constituting
q revolution By which the spirit and
poli-y OF the executive department Of
tbs government Is entirely rcyolu-
iionized, changed aud subyeried.
Any step taken By which these inter-
walls are heightened will he aprogres-
I'VE one in every way,