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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-05-27
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WATERFOWL. MIS-

SOME Texas newspaper men have
a peculiar way of getting even. When
they become angry with a prominent
man they coolly and deliberately
nominate him for some office Then
it is goodbye prominent man.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-05-27

Santana. Four hundred Guatemalan
troops crossed the frontier of Salvador
This invasion complexities matters, and
probably will result in reopening the whole
Central American question. 1t is expected
that the original alliance against Guate-
mala will be renewed
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-05-27
Indian Troubles in Mexico.

A dispatch of the 21st from Guaymas,
Mex, says Gen. Carlo had q bloody engage
ment with the Yoquis on the previous day.
Fifty-seven Mexicans were killed and many
wounded. The Yoquis' stronghold was
cantured
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-05-27

The deadlock in the Illinois Legislature
was broken, on the 10Th, by the election OF
John A. Logan to the vacant United States
senatOrShip,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-05-27

Victor Hugo Dead.
Logan Elected.

Victor Hugo died at his residence in PARIS
on the afternoon Of the 22d.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-05-27
Standing OF the Base Ball Clubs.

The tables below give the standing of the
various clubs in the different leagues on
Oath inst:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-05-27

LORD TENNYsON receives on an av
erage ST, 500 a year on royalties.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
With Uncovered Heads.
Detroit Free Press.

The most wonderful transformation scene I
ever saw In the matter of hats was on Fleet
street, London, after President Garfields death.
1t became known that tho Queen had ordered
the great bell of st. Pauls to be toled, an honor
never before accorded, except to the memory of
an English sovereign. Fleet street and Ludgate
Hill was one mass of hats-tall black, glistening
hats All traffic was suspended. The old phrase,
"a sea of hats" was most apt to this scene, and
this was literally the Black sea- Probably no one
in the thousands there had ever heard the
mcurnful sound of that great bell. The immense
crowd waited patiently for hours Then came
the first low, dull, sonorous stroke of the long
silent bell Instantly every hat was removed. and
the change from a sea of hats to a sea of heads
was most magical The English crowd stood
while that bell tolled, with uncovered heads, a
token of respect for the uncrowned monarch
who lay dead beyond the ocean.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS.
How the Tales Were Gathered and How
They Were Brought to Europe.
London Society.

London Society.
In letter written by the Rev. Robert Hall to
Sir j. Macintosh, in the third year of the pres
ent century, we read of gentleman who. before
the age OF seventeen, had made himself master
of Hebrew, Chaldee. Persian. Arabic and Turk
ish, besides Latin, and Greek and French and
Italian, and many other modern languages This
gentlemen who began Arabic at nine and Chi
nese at fourteen, who was devoted to the study of
music who was well skilled in horsemanship
and in the management of the scimitar and lance,
who had the eye and pencil of an artist
and deep rooted sense of religion in addition to
other physical and moral excelencies, was
Claudius James Rich 1t was he who gathered
together,w consul at Bagdad, that fine colec-
ton OF oriental manuscripts in over eight hun
dred volumes, which, having been purchased by
Parliament for the British Museum, now forms
portion of what is termed the Manuscript De-
partment of our National Library. OF this large
collection, Nos 7404 7405 and 7406 are the
three goddess, composed of Oriental paper, the
first small quarto and the other two l2mo., con-
tanning altogether some six hundred folios of
THE Arabian Nights" written in the Naskhi
character or that of modern Arabic by various
penmen, who are not on all occasiogs to be con-
graduated on the care bestowed on their writing
or the perspicuity of their meaning.
1.-The Arabian Nights isnot story emanating
from one person 1t is a vehicle for many tales
told by various story -telers with very different
degrees of ability Many of the stories in the
Rich MSS. present a remarkable similarity TO
Western anecdotes. Nor will any reader be sur
prised at this who remembers how closely con-
nected is the old history, first told by Galland in
a Western tongue, Of Schahriar and Schahzenan
with that of Astolfo and Giocondo in the twenty
eighth canto of Ariosto's "Orando,n or the genie
imprisoned in the brazen vessel in the story of
the Fisherman with the s'Diablo Conjuelo," in
phial of Luis de Guevara. or the Sleeper
Awakened" with the induction to 1.-THE Tanning
Of the Shrow;" or, 1.-THE Enchanted Horse with
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

He started for a moment, but controlled his
anger She saw it. yet felt no alarm.
'And not even," said he, s'when he was killed
by his own son and the son of the woman we're
talkin' aboutF The hate that was rising against
his brother was growing savage in his breast.
"Ryal, you've told me and you've told other
people that you hardly thought that Wiley
knew what he was about when he shot his pa;
ana that you was certain he wouldn't have done
such thing if he hadn't been drunk. Mr..
Jonikin says that when Wiley got TO the house
With Cousin Sally, he was SO drunk that ne
wouldn't believe aud could hardly be made to
understand that his pa was dead. But let that
all 60. Cousin Sally had nothing to do with
that; and yet it was his suspicious OF her that
made him sign such a will You knew it was,
Ryal. He loved Wiley more than he did you.
He told you so more than once, and before me.
The very night he stayed here he said he in
tended to leave Wiley all of Bob's family and
this place as long as Cousin Sally remained
widow and now he's left that out How it hap
pened don't know"
"Ryal looked at her for moment and seemed
to be considering how to reply.
Another thing, Ryal. When your mother died
you were sickly child. I've heard Mr.. Jonikin
and Mrs. Jonikn say that Cousin Sally though
she was scarcely grown when she married your
pa, yet, from the very day she married him, took
you, and nobody who didn't know better would
have believed but that you were her own child,
and she raised you and carried you through
years Of sickness, until you got over it, and that
even when Wiley was born did she ever make
any difference with you except to make Wiley
give way to you, which the boys always done
and does yet"
my Godamighty. Nancy What has that got
to do with It'll" he said with quivering voice.
~ don't know what it's got to do with you,
Ryal," she answered, looking him in the face
with dlated eye. But with me its got this,
that even if believed Wiley shot his father in
cold blood and with clear head and 1 haven't
doubt that it was an accident, for that boy
never could be murderer, drunk or sober-yet
for Cousin Sally's sake l could not go to that
house to live: no more-you hear me say it
again-than / could make my bed upon your
pas grave"
She left him Immediately and went off to bed.
Ryal sat up much later.
no BE CONTINUED NEXT SATURDAY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
BULL RUN.
Stonewall jackson at the First Battle of Bull
Run, Where He Was Wounded.

StOnewali j Jackson at the First Battle OF Bull
Run, Where He Was Wounded.
General Imboden, in May Century.
Several other batteries besides Imboden'sl
DON came into line SO that by the time Griffin
4 Ricketts, We're in position near the Henry
ouse, we had as now remember. twenty-six
esh guns ready for them. The fighting was
renewed, and was terrific jackson ordered me
to 60 from battery to battery and see that the
guns were rightly aimed and the fuses cut the
right length. This was the work of but few
minutes On returning to the left of the line of
guns, stopped to ask General Jackson's per-
mission to rejoin my battery. The fight was
just then hot enough to make him feel we'll His
eyes fairly blazed. He had way of throwing
up his left hand with the open palm towards the
person he was addressing He threw up his
flying missiles, and as he spoke he jerked down
his hand, and saw the blood streaming from it.
| exclaimed, General, you are wounded He
replied as he drew handkerchief from his
breast pocket, and began to bind it up. Only
scratch--a mere scratch, and he galloped away
along his line.
General Jackson's wound, received under the
circumstances | have described became very
serious when inflammation set in. On hearing,
three days after the fight, that he was suffering
with it, rode to his quarters in little farm
house near Centerville Although it was barely
sunrise, he was out under the trees bathing the
hand with spring water. 1T was much swollen
and very painful, but he bore himself stoicaly
His wife and baby had arrived the night before.
His little daughter, julia was still in long
dresses, and I remember tossing her, to her
great delight, while breakfast was being made
ready on a rude table under the trees. OF
course the battle was the only topic discussed at
breakfast l remarked in Mrs. Jackson's hear
ing, General, how is it that you can keep so
cool and appear so utterly insensiblc to danger
In such storm of shell and bullets as rained
about you when your hand was hitF He Instant
ly became grave and reverental in his manner
and answered in a low tone of great earnestness
Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel
as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the
time for my death. l do not concern myself
about that, but to be always ready, no matter
when it may oyertake me- He added, after a
pause, looking me full in the face: Captain,
men would be equally brave"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
Sealing Wax FlirtatiOns.

Phladephla T1mes
Flirt ations in sealing wax are the latest racket
The ordinary red wax signifies business and is
supposed to be used only for business letters
Black Isl of course, used for mourning and con.
dolence. Blue means love, and as we make four
five tnts of this color, each stage of the tender
passion can be accurately portrayed When
pink is used congratulation is intended. An in
vitation to wedding or other festivity is sealed
with white wax Variegated colors are supposed
to show conflicting emotions
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
A Cowboy in Sleeping-Car.

where do l Campo" he inquired, and was
shown the lower berth, next to me.
That's my pigeon hole, is it? AL right, old
son; just watch my motion, while file myself
away"
At this juncture, he was desired to turn over
his revolver to the reporter which he declined to
do in very spirited manner.
-" Old Dad ibis revolver and me always sleep
together, and we don't want no divorce che ex-
planned.
The conductor demonstrated, but was advised
not to try to braid this mules tail"
This here's sleepin car, ANT it2' he at
length inquired.
YES"
''Wel why in - don't you let people sleep,
then, when they've paid and gone into your
game? If you're aiming to keep people awake
and want company, just dance into the next car;
there's lots of folks there don't want to sleep,
no how. and II be glad to see you"
The conductor withdrew, and my friend pulled
off his boots and stretched himself, with many
comments in an undertone on the poverty Of tho
surroundings.
In about ten minutes this erratic person had
his head out in the aisle.
Say, you boy" to the porter.
''Well sah.'
''Come runnin,"
The porter drew near and was handed pillow
about as big as pin-cushon.
:, Take that gooseha'r thing away" commanded
the cowboy.
Don't you want pillow, sahl" asked the
porter.
THAT amt no pillow, and dent want it no
how; I'm afraid it'll get in my ear"
After this, silence, and for a short time slept.
l reused up, however at an exclamation on the
part of my neighbor
Hold on there, my son, jist drap them boots"
II was only jest gwine to black EN-, boss"
'Drap EN-"
They drapped.
jest gwine to pull them spurs reckon Now.
don't monkey around my camp, taking things no
more. If you want anything speak for IT. If
you can't speak make signs, and if you can't
make signs, shake bush You h'ar me2"
'.Yes, sah"
After this silence. The wheels and rails again
sang together, and the car again kept approving
time, and presently slept without interruption.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

THE makers of DIR. Prices Cream Baking Pow
der have established wide reputation for put
ting upon the market articles excellent in their
strength. purity and healthfulness Their con-
stantly increasing popularity renders it impos-
sibie for them to place before the public any
thing which is not found to be not only harmless
but positively beneficial.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09

The great red spot on Jupiter is disappearing
in curious way. An oval white spot now COW
ers all its central portion, leaving only q narrow
ring of the red substance visible around it's edge
The white spot is quite regular in form. and very
nearly concentric with the red spot which 1t APP
pears to be gradually covering up It's wilderness
is not very intense but about the Same as that
of the general surface of the planet near it so
that as soon as it covers the red ring still re-
naming, all traces Of the remarkable phenome-
non, which has been watched with so much in
terest for thu Last eight years. will be entirely
lost
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
CHAPTER. TIT

CHAPTER III.
They buried the old man behind the garden
The funeral service was short and constrained.
There was agitation in the public mind, but it
was silent What sympathy was expressed was
mostly for the widow, and next, strange as it
seemed, for Wiley, whose heart seemed broken
by remorse. Ryal was pale and fearless. He
gave minute directions about the burial. When
the grave was filed, he took spade from by
stander, smoothed it down from head to foot,
scraped the clods carefully away; then, after
looking at it for few moments, as if it were his
grave and nobody else had any interest in it,
turned away
Il can't think" said Ryal to Mr. Jonikin, in
presence of others of the neighbors that isl
don't like to think that Wiley done it o. purpose.
Wiley was drunk, you know, Mr.. Jonikin, and
for the onliest time, at least the onliest time
ever heard of, in his life. He were mighty mad
with pa, that's fact especially about somethn
pa said to ma Yesterday. So he said when we
got to him where he was a-layin down in the
road and pa called to him. He talk mighty
rough to pa, and pa talk mighty rough to him.
Wiley were mighty drunk and mighty mad.
When see hi,a raise his gun jumped to take
it from him, but was too late. Yit Wiley,
mad as he were, didn't seem to know exactly
what he was adoin', nor what he done To
save my lfe can't believe that Wiley knowed
fully what he were about. and it's my hopes
that the neighbors mayn't think So"
Wiley Towns was overwhelmed Yet he pro-
tested innocence of having shot his father inten-
tionally. He admitted TO have felt very great
indignation against him for certain treatment he
had inflicted upon his mother the previous day,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-09
Printed BY Special ArrasOemcns Nth the Antaor.
THE TOVNSES And THEIR COUSINS.
A Tale of Middle Georgia.
BY RICHARD MALCOLM JOHNSTON,

author Of 1.-THE Duke.boromgh Tales ia Harper's and
Century.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-02-20
Bny Jockeys on a spree.

Apropos OF deplorable sights, saw one
which disgraced the city in which it was
permitted. Some of the racing stables are
owned by millionaires for sport, others by
breeders for legitimate business. and still
others by professional gamblers for
sWindling. In all of them numerous boys
are employed as jockeys, and these young
sters are, as rule, growing up in ALSO
lutte ignorance of anything good They
live with the horses, and whatever of in
telligence they possess above their com
panion brutes is directed toward vice.
It was in a roadside inn near the jerome
Park course that l came upon a party of
five little jockeys. Their ages were from
10 to 10 years. They were out on spree.
All were drunk. Their language would
burn the paper on which it might be writ
ten They were playing pool for the
drinks, which were invariably whisky.
Precocious depravity surely never made
sadder showing. Nobody in the circle Of
adult spectators took the infaptile jewellers
by their ears and led them out. oh, the
scene was much too funny to be disturbed.
The blasphemy was so piquant when ut
tered by smooth lips, the coarse jests so
much more diverting than those of men,
and the drunkenness so jolly because the
inebriates were callow. A box was set
for lad to stand on in attempting a shot.
He missed the ball, lost his ba---ce and
fell under the table That raised roar of
laughter, so comical was it to see 10
wear old sot.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-02-20
III
Discovery of Colossal Statues.

An official communication received at
the navy department announces the dis"
CoverY on Rapanni or Easter island, on
the charts in longitude 10 west and lati-
tude 27 south. buried in the depth of the
vast wilderness of waters Of the south Pa
cific, of colossal statues and images rudely
carved in stone. This remarkable find
of archaolog ical remains on a small island
hundreds of miles away from any CONT
nent puzzles the learned scientists of the
Smith oman institution and the National
museum. Professor Baird says on the
subject: "In the present advanced state
of chronological science these monuments
axe Of the highest Importance. They will
throw light on the somewhat mysterious
manner in which this island received its
population.
The discoverers of these remarkable re
mains of prehistoric and an advanced
people in part Of the world synonymous
with cannibalism and savage life were the
officers of the German gun boat Hyena,
while on trip from Valparaiso to the
Samoan islands. The commander of this
vessel. while thus cruising in the south
Pacific, subsequently received orders from
his government to visit Easter island and
to secure these specimens. The accounts
received by our government indicate that
the vessel remained at the island but a few
days, but during that time the German
officers made considerable collection and
copious notes. The result of their pre-
liminary labors have been embraced in a
pamphlet, which is reported at the
Smithsonian institution to contain large
amount of valuable information.
1t is reported in the accounts given by
the German vessel that the island, which
is small, is strewn with large stone images
and sculptured tablets. The Smithsonian
has offered 81 each for Dre- historic skulls
with the lower jaw. The few people, of
Polynesian extraction, who inhabit the
island, know nothing about the sculptured
remains found in their midst, and even
tradition gives no account of people
living there when their ancestors arrived.
The study of these remains will add an
other valuable page to chronological re-
search The establishment of a connect
ing link between these remains and those
of America, Asia Minor, and Egypt would
indeed add to the mysteries Of the pre-
historic world
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-02-20
Inventing a Now CIaque.

Everybody who has been to the theatre
has felt more or less annoyance at the vo-
ciferous applause with which at some
theatres the attaches greet certain scenes
and the persistence with which they in
sist upon recalls. This is no part of an
attaches business, and the practice should
be forbidden in every well-regulated thea
ire
The custom, however has led witty
French paper to make this suggestion:
1.-THE claque is considered a necessary
though expensive adjunct to every French
theatre. A provincial manager has just
devised plan to save the expense by in
PRODUCING a mechanical claque under the
pit floor Four sets Of hammers, fixed at
distances apart, when put in motion serve
to initiate the knocking of sticks and UNI
brellas on the floor, while a couple of
large castanets, covered with parchment
and striking against each other by means
of a spring, form a capital substitute for
the clapping of hands. Strings and wires
lead from this apparatus to the cabinet of
the impresario, where they are connected
with six levers arranged like the keys of a
piano. The sound penetrates through
openings under the pit and stalls After
the touching passages in play the in
genious inventor sets the mechanism in
motion, thereby raising the audience to
the desired pitch of enthusiasm.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-02-20
New ENGLAND Pie.

Pie is the masterpiece of New England
home cookery. In Maine they still make
those deep apple pies-clove-flavored, gen
erous, ample pies that one can make a
flavorous meal of. But pie reaches its
apotheosis at the Union club in this city.
There an exquisite compound of pastry
and the noblest of fruits is brought to
tempt the stated appetites of the golden
bucks and epicurean judges. The Union
club apple-pie is the pie idealized, the
justification of Nine. Ewes plucking of
the immortal fruit If she tempted Adam
with this prince of pies, no wonder he
was willing to give up Eden for life on an
Asiatic ranch.
All Boston eateth of the pie. The
broker and banker climb the cafe stool
and bolt their pie and coffee. The shop
girl carries IL her lunch-boX from her
frowsy boarding house a triangle of pie.
The newsboy hath his pie in his mind as
he trudges through the storm. Our SUI
preme court judges eat pie with a gusto.
l sat beside a supreme judge a few weeks
ago at the MassasOit house in Springfield.
II my memory does not fail the learned
lawyer and ex-attorney general of the
United States ate both mince and peach
pie. The Indian in our Massachusetts
coat of arms holds a pie knife in his hand,
and our state motto, properly translated.
reads: We will have a piece of pie if
we have fight for it.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-02-20
Detecting the Dishonest.

A conductor on a Broadway horse-car
has adopted novel way of studying hui
man nature.
"Every trip 1 neglect to collect the
fare from some passengers, said the in
genious knight of the bell-punch.
II pass the person by as if l over
looked him. 1 generally choose some
one who has already taken the money out
of his pocket When l pass him, watch
and see him slip the money back again,
while he looks the picture of innocence
When he starts to get off the car | stop
him and ask for the fare l find that
nine times out of ten the passenger either
fatty claims that he has already paid, or
else asks if he had not already done So
1 find that not one person in twenty will
voluntarily tender their fare. OF that
number two-thirds are women. Of men,
laboring men give me the least trouble.
The best dressed people are generally the
ones who would like best to save their
fares
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-02-20
Natural History.

The most interesting plants are the dro-
sera, or sun-dew, and the Venus fy-trap
of North Carolina, that reverse the usual
order of things, and live on animal food
The most advanced" insect in the
world is the female spider that, immedi
atelv after marriage, devours its husband.
The most virtuous animal in the world
Is the frog. that outdoes the famous Ro-
man tribune, and lives in glass body.
The animal that causes the most fire.
ouent mistakes is the mule, from his close
resemblance to so many of our friends.