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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-01

The new French method of admin
istering chloroform with water is
found to insure g. far greater degree of
safety in the use of that anasthetic.
For this purpose, there are used ten
grg ms of chloroform vaporized in q
hundred litres of sir, dose agreeable
TO some and to none disagreeable.
The most trying effects of the anas-
thetic, those felt in the period of re-
pulsion, are by this means almost en-
tirely removed. The period of excite
ment is not great, and only lasts from
one to two minutes, while in the case
of more than one-third of the adults it
is entirely absent; the pulse is little
accelerated during the period of excite
ment, but remains perfectly normal
and regular during sleep. Complete
insensibility is produced in from six to
eight minutes and is maintained dur
ing the whole time OF respiration; after
the patient becomes insensible, the
quantity of cbloroform is reduced to
eight grams, and later to six. Pain
full operations, it is said, have no ef-
feet, except that the respiratory
movements are slightly accelerated;
there is no nauseation, and the
amount of chloroform administered
is not enough to cause oisoning, while
there can be no fear of asphyxia, for
the amount of oxygen is reduced only
by g. hundredth. Indeed it is asserted
that, with the exception of cerebral
congestion and Paintings, none of the
ordinary dangers need be feared.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-01
Pretty but Wicked.
From the Chicago World. /

From the Chicago World
Lieut.. Schumacher OF the East Chi
cago Avenue station, arrested a young
woman named Mary Fitzpatrick, with
any quantity of aliases, and locked
her up, charged with obtaining money
under false pretenses. A search Of her
person by the matrop at the station
revealed q new phase of criminal clev-
erness which is as bold as it is ingen-
ious. The young woman was arrayed
in the garments of q lightning change
artist, and could, without the removal
of an article change her dress into four
distinct styles. When the prisoner
saw that her trick was discovered she
did not hesitate to Illustrate it's oper-
alton for the entertainment of her
captors. When arrested she wore a.
black cashmere dress, g. tight bodice of
the same color and material, and hat
with wide brim. A swift displace-
ment of hooks, eyes and buttons, q
crushing squeeze of the hat, and the
lady stood with brown wooden
dress, with corded front bodice and q
neat little turban upon her head. An
other manipulation and the dress was
transformed into gown, the turban
gave place to q cap, @ chaplet fell from
the girdle, and the woman stood ar
rayed as q brown nun. Once more,
presto; change, g. tug OF the skirt, g.
yank at the cap and waist, flash OF
hands every where at once, ard the nun
was transformed into young lady of
fashion in bright colored alpaca and
the original wide-brimmed hat.
Miss Fitzpatrick is q pretty but de-
PRAYED young woman. During the
past few weeks she has been going
about in the various CARDS she can
so readily assume begging money for
Father Dorsey's church, as she
claimed. She has reaped g. rich har-
vest from the wealthy and liberal
Catholics on the North Side. The po-
lice have been on her trail for more
than week, but Der many guises BAT
fled detection.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-01
s~ dian Burial.

Until within comparatively short
time, among the Indians of the Six Ma
tions on the reservation in Allegheny
and Cattaraugus Counties, New York,
the habit has been to sew the body up
in a blanket, not forgetting to place
inside a generous supply of meat for
food, wampum for ferriage over the
Styx, and bow and arrow for use in
the happy hunting grounds. But when
Billy McBale, one of thefavorite chiefs,
died, with view of doing his memory
especial honor, the bucks bought 6. cof-
fin and inferred the remains in pale
face fashion. Since then the aborigi-
nal methods of disposing of the bodies
of the dead has well-nigh become obso-
lete, and now the weather. Indians
buy caskets and employ undertakers.
It is a mistaken notion that the West
ern New York Indians have ever
placed the bodies of the dead on ele-
waited platforms, at least for many
years past. The practice formerly
was to scoop out g. shallow grave and
tumble the remains in, giving them a
scanty covering of earth.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-01
Live Stock in Decambe1.

No animal does as we'll as it should
that is not comfortable. Study the
comfort of all kinds of live stock.
Regular feeding, wholesome feed, pure
water and comfortable Iairs are essen
tial. Horses need fresh air. without
draughts, and light. These are less
important for neat stock. Sheep re-
quire pure air, but light is less import
ant, and darkness is favorable for the
quiet and rapid fattening of ruminat-
ing animals. Warmth is especially inn
portant for all kinds of stock which
nave been fed for slaughter, and which
are being held for better market pros
poets. Poultry-Give winter fowls g.
chance to "roost' on the manure pile;
keep them warm; provide busting
boxes; if possible, light, close, we'll
ventilated quarters and sunshine;
run under sunny sheds; variety of
food; warm feed, like boiled potatoes
mashed warm. with meal mixed
through it, at noon daily; gravel,
crushed bone and oyster shells, or
other form of lime, and pure water re-
newed daily, and eggs will be abund-
ant, even in zero weather.-American
ApricUlfuriSt
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-01
The Flowing of erase Land.


The slow system OF farming, by which
we mean more seeding to grass and
blowing less for crops to be made by
the use OF purchased fertilizers, is likely
to come In vogue again. 1t is the
forced result of two Or three years OF
low prices which will not pay the ex-
penses of extensive cropping for only
moderate yields. The commercial fer
tilizers will be less used, or if not they
will be proportionably less a reliance
for securing good crops. More stock
will be kept, more land will be seeded,
and when once In grass many farmers
will avoid blowing it as long as prac-
ticable. Some of these changes are in
the line ofconservative progress. They
are reversion to practices formerly
common, but which have lately been
out OF use. 1t we increase the amount
and value Of homemade manure the
soil will be enriched to such an extent
that crops can be grown at low prices
with profit.
More extended seeding with clover
and the grasses is also in the line of
improvement. But much depends on
how the grass seeding is treated, how
long it is kept up and the rotation for
bringing it under the pillow again. Our
climate is not adapted to permanent
seeding with grass, as is that of En-
gland. Where a permanent seeding
with anything is attempted it is usual
ly q mistake. After @ few years. the
valuable grasses disappear, and their
place is occupied in moist soil with
wild grass and moss and on uplands
with weeds. Unless extraordinary
care is taken grass lands wills be-
gin to deteriorate in three or four
years. They can be kept up by top
dressing with manure and occasional
ly narrowing the surface in the spring
Where blowing is not convenient Or de-
sirable these means may avail for q
time, yet it is generally at q loss of
profit as compared with more frequent
reseeding, and greater loss in soil fer
tility.
When q very old sod comes at last
to be plowed most farmers entertain
greatly exaggerated ideas as to it's
crop producing powers. The land
may be fertile, but being in grass for a
long term of years Is no proof that it
is so. With sod roots which only &C.
cupy two or three inches of the surface
the land becomes hide-bound, and even
on hillsides shows the presence OF ex-
cessive moisture by covering of
MOSES. To suppose that such fields
can be fitted for seed bed by blowing
and cultivating in spring is generally a
mistake. The deep furrow is apt to
turn up soil that needs an entire years
influence of sun, frost and rains to fit
it for crops. Fall blowing such land
lightly and early enough to allow some
rotting of the sod, will Go much to-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-01

When the snow is knee deep and
everything sealed with ice, hens will
require the best of care A hen is as
helpless in the snow as though she had
no legs at. all. She must have some
place, however, where food, water and
the dust-bath are accessible, for she
will not lay if compelled to crouch on
the floor beneath the roosts. With
snow on the ground the world is q
wilderness to hens; they have no in
ducement to lay, and will quickly de-
fer egg production, until spring invites
them to begin. The food at such times
should be given warm and on boards.
A clean place should be made for
them, and the house rendered as com
Portable as possible. The main factor
in. egg production in winter is warmth
and dryness. 1t may involve labor to
remove enough snow to afford them
room, but it must be done, or there
will be no eggs. The value of a good,
warm shed will be more appreciat ed
by the hens when snow is on the
ground, for they prefer to be in the
open air during the day time, and their
health is greatly improved thereby
american Agriculturist.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-01
Gold in New Hampshire.

The first placer mining operations in
New Hampshire, and in fact the first
nearer than South Carolina, have been
begun at Warren, under the superin-
tendence of Jonathan Miller, of Bos-
ton. 1t has been known for years
that gold could be obtained in that
section, but as experiments proved
that the metal would cost more than
it was worth, no regular mining was
ever attempted. Mr.. Miller began ex-
perimentiDg in that section about g.
year ago, says the Concord Monitor,
and became convinced that placer
mining would be profitable if properly
conducted. Accordingly he obtained
from Joseph Clement and Claustin
Ciough a bonded title to 400 acres of
land on Hurricane Brook, located one
mile south from Warren Sta ton, and
began operations. The works, which
were completed about three weeks
ago, consist Of a substantial dam on
Hurricane Brook, a pipe line2 400 feet
long, giving head of 1872 feet, and a.
plank sluice $50 feet long. A steam
derrick is also a part of the outfit, be-
ing used for removing large rocks
which may be washed out in the min
ing operations. The method of OBJ
tanning the gold is that usually en-
ployed In placer mines. A hose is
attached to the pipe line, the water
turned on. and the steam directed
against the bank of earth containing
the gold. The earth is washed into
the sluice, through which it all passes
with the exception of the magnetic
iron, or black sand, as it is commonly
called. The latter contains the gold,
and is caught by magnetic riffles-an
invention of Mr.. Miller's which are
placed at intervals in the sluice. The
earth shows about SO cents per yard,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-01

and from few colors, or specks, up
to 80 cents have been found in single
pan. In addition to this the black
sand contains $40 per ton in fixed
gold, independent ofthe freegold which
can be washed out.
Underneath the surface earth is a.
ledge of mica schist, in the seams of
which more loose gold is found than in
the dirt. The gold is of fine quality,
and it is claimed that enough has
been found already to pay the entire
cost of the works up to the present
date. The mine has been visited dur
ing the summer by hundreds Of sum-
mer tourists, and by the inhabitants
for miles around. The washing out of
the bank will be continued until freez-
ing weather compels q cessation of
work, and will be begun again at the
earliest possible date in the spring.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-01
FARM AND HOME.
The School Marin.

The School Marin.
oh, School Marin
Thou who teachest the young idea
How to scoOt, and spa nkest the erstwhile
Festive small boy with hand that taketh the
trick;
Who also lameth him with hickory SWITCH
And crowneth him by laying the weight
Of a ruler upon his shoulders
Oh!
Thou art a daisy
Thou makest him the national emblem
Red, white and blue
Thou furnisheth the stripes gg
And he seeth the stars
Oh, School Marm
We couldn't do without thee,
And we don't want to try ! -.
Thou art lovely and accomplished
Aboveall women and if thou art
Not married, 1t is because thou art
Too smart to be caught in that way
All school marrns are women.
But all women are not school marmS
And, angels pedagogic,
That's where thou hast the bulge on thy sisters
Oh School Marin
Thou mayest not get much pay here below,
But cheap education is a national speciality,
And thou Wiltget thy reward in heaven;
The only drawback being that thou stayest
there
When thou goest after it, and we
Who remain here below for our reward,
Miss you like thunder.
School Marin, if there Is anything we can do for
you
Call on lis
Apply early and avoid the rush.
Office hours from A NJ. to p NJ!
We were q schoolboy once ourself.
And can show the marks of it
- WASHINGTON Critic
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-01
Farm Notes.

IT is useless to hope to destroy the
acidity OF certain soils by the applica-
ton of lime and other supposed cor
receives; only drainage will accomplish
it.
WHERE wire-fencing is not easily OBJ
tanned, the poultry yards may be
fenced with laths, which will last two
seasons. Laths make q cheap fence,
but the wire-netting Is more durable.
WELLDRAINED and deeply titled
land stores warmth to such an extent
as to proiopg the season of growth and
obviate risks of frost thai otherwise
might reduce profits Of cultivation ma
terially.
In storing potatoes the first con-
sideration is to keep them In perfect
darkness; the next is that the bins
should not be too deep, nor over three
feet, else it produces warmth and causes
them to sprout.
The best drugfor poultry is carbolic
acid. Get q pint Of the crudest, for
fifty cents, put it at once into q gallon
of water and sprinkle it with q broom
all over the chieken-house and it's FUR
niture once month.
Fowls are so provided that they can
grind any kind OF food eaten. Grind
ing the food for them is therefore not
necessary, unless for the purpose Of
feeding mixture or variety that can
not be given them in any other shape.
They should always have plenty of
gravel for grinding purposes.
WESTERN farmers have taken to
growing Hubbard squashes among
hoed crops, and find them moye profit
able than the old-fashioned pumpkin,
and quite as reliable. They require,
or at least will pay, for some extra
manuring and watering in a dry time.
One of the advantages of growing
Hubbard equashes with field crops is
that many hills escape any visitation
from the bugs.
FREQUENTLY in preparing a piece of
clayey ground for seed, when it is de-
sirable to have the surface quite fine,
much trouble is experienced IN reduc-
ing the hard Jumps to the proper de-
gree of fneness. If the humps are
quite dry much labor and vexation
may be avoided and the work greatly
FASTENED by giving the ground q mod
crate sprinkling of water from q hose
or watering.pot. AS soon as the soil
can beraked without its sticking to and
clogging the rake the lamps will be
found quite friable.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-01
Growing Pains Cured.
From Good Housekeeping

From Good Housekeeping.l
Following in our mother footsteps,
we have routed night after night from
our warm quarters, in the dead of win
ter, to kindle fires and fill frosty ket-
ties from waterfalls thickly crusted
with ice, that we might get the writhing
pedal extremities OF our little heir into
a tub of water as quickly as possible.
But lately we have learned that all
this work and exposure is needless.
We simply wiring O. towel from sailed
water-a bowl OF it standing in our
sleeping room, ready for such an emer-
gency-wrap the limb in it from the
ankle to the knee, without taking the
child from his bed, and then swathe
with dry fannels, thick and warm,
Jucking the blankets about him q lit
tie closer and relief is sure.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-01
A Queer Legal kink.

From the Springfield (Mss@l Republican,
There is an odd and expensive hitch
in the superior court docket just now
that will cost the county g good bit of
money to get over. I'm the Indictment
against Eugene S. Taylor, OF Deer6eld,
for murder, the word strychnine was
mispelled by one letter. That mistake,
however, was enough to cause the
grand jury to be resummoned to-mor-
row to correct it. Fees mileage and
notices will count up pretty sum
enough to buy O. dictionary apiece for
the worthy grand Jurors.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-01
YHE FRESHET.
BY WILLIAM H. HAYNE.

The river rolls as if it came
Out of far ocean caves,
With echoes of a storm song caught
From the wild cant of waves
The mighty current sweeps along
Unbridled in its flow;
Spurred by keen, restless wind,
And eloquent of woe.
Why should the curbless water come
Unlicensed o er the land, a.
And bring, in mournf1l moGkery,
The music of the strand2
Because the angry rain has made
Inc river deep and wide;
The wind, a strong equestrian, sits
Upon the turbid tidel
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-01

wards httlng 1T to crop the following
year. Some time must be lost after
the pillow is put in before seed can fol-
low. 1t is better to lose it from fell
until spring than to pillow them, expect
ing q crop the same season, cultivate
oil summer and fail at last.
The obstacles to cropping old sod
land are generally the vitality of grass
roots and the presence of grubs and
worms which undisturbed soil is apt
to harbor. The white grub is q great
pest on clover seeding after the second
year. 1t is the larva of the May beetle
which finds in young clover the condi-
tlons for depositing it's eggs in the soil
beneath. In some places it is almost
impossible to grow corn on clover sod
because OF the ravages of the grub. On
old grass land the wire worm is equally
destructive, though usually the first
and sometimes the second crop escapes,
the worm working on the roots of the
sod. Where quack and June grass
prevail there is little danger that their
roots will be destroyed the first or
even second year after blowing. On
fields that have become hide-bound
with these grasses they thrive better
for turning the sod upside down and
leveling the surface. In wet season g.
field OF quack spring plowed will, if left
| alone, be as green in q month after as
1T was before blowing. By midsum-
mer this obstinate weed will be large
enough to be mown and perhaps yield
as much as if the pillow had not trou-
bled It.
Under ordinary circumstances fre-
quent seeding and frequent blowing
are best. There is g. greater increase
In Fertility in q field the first two years
after it has been seeded with clover
than there is at any after period. The
total amount Of fertility may increase
slightly, but it's availability is much
less. Fields left too long in sod are
apt to become foul with weeds, which
make the labor of cultivating much
greater when the land has finally to
be plowed.
The depth to which sod land may
be most profitably plowed depends
greatly on the character of the grasses.
and somewhat on the time when plow-
ing is done. Years, ago, for wheat,
farmers used to break up clover sod to
q depth OF eight inches or more. With
@ mass Of green heritage turned under
it was thought important to bring up
some of the subsoil to furnish due pro-
portion Of mineral fertilizers, phos-
phate and potash. Wheat will thrive
under deeper blowing than any other
grain, partly because the blowing for
wheat is done in warm weather and in
part from theneed ofmineral manures
for this grain, which deep blowing helps
to furnish. Since farmers have taken
to using phosphate manures they do
not pillow as deeply for wheat as they
used to do. When blowing any other
than s. clover sod deep turning of the
soil is not best even for wheat. One
of the largest crops of wheat ever
grown, averaging fifty-four bushels per
acre, was from timothy sod plowed
in June not to exceed five inches deep
and summer fallowed. 1t had light
dressing of phosphate, and with this
was probably better for not having
more of the subsoil turned to the su:-
face.-PracticaI Farmer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-01

/. A TWENTY-THREE-PoUN cat is on ex-
hibition at Boston, Mass.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-01

CHARLES A. DANA estimates the
value of an adult to society at $3.50.
, 1886-07-30

Ell PAso, Tex, July 29.-Prcparationi
for The final trial of Cutting are in pro
gress in Paso del Norte. 1t was given
out several days ago that the case had
been transferred to a higher court. Ii
was never intended to do so. The rumoi
was merely spread to gain time and divert
attention. The trial will come off before
the same petty official, Judge Castanada,
who has from the beginning been with
Medina, the instigator Of the whole affair.
He is a bitter enemy Of the prison, r, be
cause the latter always treated him with
marked lack of respect. The trial will
commence within three days at the far
thest. Counsel has been assigned Cut
ting against his desire. The lawyer who
was thus assigned is said to be inexpe.
rienced and ignorant. Well informed
Mexicans. who are thoroughly conversant
with the criminal p~.a:tice of their coun-
try, say the sentence will be pretty apt to
be two years imprisonment.
1t is not definitely known whether any
demand for Cuttings surrender has been
made by the government at Washington.
IL it has been made it has been treated
with marked neglect. A great many pa
pers have lately published articles derog-
atory to Cuttings character. He pub
lished to day in an Ell Paso paper a reply
to these attacks, in which he takes strong
ground against the Typographical Union
Of the country, which he has been antag
o~nizing for twenty years, and with mem
bers of which he has had many a personal
warfare in which frequently he came out
second best. He says Yes, as news
paper foreman and proprietor for twenty
years, / am proud Of my record. If
placed again in the same position, | would
unhesitatingly do as | have done before.
The newspaper proprietors who are spread
ing my %unenviable record, are a class of
men whose interests | have always defend
ed. Were Hart X Hamilton, of the FL
Paso Times, or Geo. b. Loving. of the
Tribune, or the proprietor of the Albu-
queraue Journal, or John Atkins, of the
Denver Neirs, or Frank Woodbury. of the
Denver Times, to write me as did Roger
W. Woodbury., then proprietor of the
Denver Times in 1880, ] would as cheer
fully respond and take off my coat, set
type, make up forms, etc, etc.
, 1886-07-30
Additional Appointments.

LONDON, July 29.-The following ad-
ditlonal appointments are officially an
nounced: Lord president of the council,
.Viscount Cranbrook; president Of the
board Of trade. Ri. Hon. Edward Stan
hope; first commissioner Of works Rt.
Hon. David Plunkettj postmaster general.
Lord John Manner; lord chancellor of
Ireland, Lord Ashbourne. Ri. Hon.
Cecil Raikes has declined to accept the
office of home secretary, which Lord
Salisbury pressed him to take. He will
probably be nominated by the Conserva-
tives for the office of deputy speaker and
chairman of the committee in the house of
commons in opposition to Leonard Henry
Courtney (radicaD Liberal candidate.