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National Republican., 1886-12-04

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duce them. II you want one send at once TO Mon
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National Republican., 1886-12-04
Mems Umbrellas.

Largest stock and best variety we
have ever carried. We can please
you in style and price without the
slightest difficulty.
National Republican., 1886-12-04

THE CENTURY ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY
MAGAZINE, December Century Company,
Union Square, New York. From the pub
fishers.
At the opening, Henry Clay" in the
latter time of his life, just as we knew
him, just as we saw him, almost daily, dur
Ing the sessions Of Congress. "Ashand, -
his home, follows. This article, by j, o.
National Republican., 1886-12-04
Men, Handkerc'fS

We sell no cotton-and-
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stock is made up of "All-
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linen, excepting Silk Hand
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White and Fancy All-Llnen Handkerchief
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Mems silk Handkerchiefs in stripes plaid,
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Mems Fancy Cashmere Mufiers, 80, 621, %,
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Mems Scarlet
ear.

At least a dozen different
makes and qualities.
To-day we call attention to the best grade OF
Scarlet Medicated Atwood Underwear ever
offered at 81 25 per garment: we unloaded a
manufacturer who was anxious to sell at II great
discount.
and full fashiontd selffaced and bound in
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regular way we would be- obliged to charge you
Sl.62lq but as 1t Is, we are enabled 70 sell them
at the extremely low price Of Sl.2j per gar
ment
We believe 1t to BE- to your advantage to see
US on underwear
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Men S Underwear.
Gray Mixed Drawers.

Customers DESTROYS of making q selection
from the above lines will readily perceive that
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National Republican., 1886-12-04
Gold Headings.

2S-inch Gloria Cloth Umbrellas, q and si.36.
2s.inch All silk Umbrellas, $3.50 and &s2.
National Republican., 1886-12-04
White Shirts.

Size. "a ~ 40 AZ a Is 20
riCe. 81 50 / 90 IS l 20 u 50 "
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Natural Wood Handles.

26-inch Gloria Cloth Umbrellas, $3.50 and
$3.50.
2s.inch Gloria Cloth Umbrellas, 81, 81, and
$3.50.
26-lnch All silk Umbrellas, 81 and $3.50.
2sinch All silk Umbrellas, 81.
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White Drawers.

1e..m. 2s 80 sc IS ~ 46 IS
-
I ice 81 50 ! 81 ! e. 20 50 ! 70 IS
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ThNTTNO , " TThLls a JUUTTIHI UT UNIV
ization. Nov. a. Ten cents. New York,
Harper & Brothers, From the publishers,
Most desirable, OF course. The large
portrait OF the late Chester Alan Arthur
brings him before our memory as he lived
IN the white house No touch, we think,
could improve it. Many excellent engrav-
ings adorn the paper, some In colors, and
the reading has the usual interest, for the
Weeklyis always side by side with the times.
National Republican., 1886-12-04

Sterling Silver Headings.
2S-inch Gloria Cloth Umbrellas, 81 and 81.
2d-inch All Silk Umbrellas, $3.50.
.2s-inch All silk Umbrellas, 50, $780, and
&.62.
26.inch Puritan silk and linen Umbrellas,
$3.50.
2s-inch Puritan silk and linen) Umbrellas.
s.25 aud s..
National Republican., 1886-12-04

THE ECLECTIC MAGAZINE OF FOREIGN
LITERATURE. December, New York; T..
X, Pelton, 25 Bond street. From the pub
National Republican., 1886-12-04

, York 80 Lafayette Place. From the pub
fishers.
A number Of interesting articles and H.
lustrations, particularly those OF Zone
, New England Thanksgiving and "The
Swamp Angel" The text is valuable
throughout.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-24
A Judicial Joke.

1t has long been the custom of the
courts that when judge makes joke,
good, bad, Or Indifferent, the bar and
the general public should express their
satisfaction by 'sroars of laughter"
When the late lamented Vice Chancel-
lor Mains narrowly escaped the con-
tact of rotten egg, buried at him by
some disappointed sutton, his lordship
sagaciously remarked that it must
have been meant for his brother,
Bacon. This sally can hardly have had
better reception than that accorded
to remark let fall yesterday morn
ing by Justice Chitty. An incident
occurred which was very suggestive OF
the early days when an effort was
made to transact judicial business in
the new law courts before they were
quite ready for use. In the course OF
O. case noise was heard from the
roof, followed by a fall of plaster,
causing some inconvenience to those
who were on the floor of the court.
But the eminent chancery judge was
quite equal to the occasion. "Fiat
justitia," he said, "ruat coelum, which
was met with the usual tribute. The
frequenters of thu law courts must be
very thankful for even small addi-
tions to their stock of jokes. Sir
Joseph Chitty has quite qualified him
self for the post OF wit of the bench,
whenever it falls vacant by the retire
ment of it's Oldest member.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-24
Not Good Country 60 Live In.

Anderson II. Jones, a colored man,
who went to Liberia six months ago
from Missouri, writes home from
Brewersville, q village fifteen miles
from Monrovia, giving some account
of the country. He says that there
are no horses, no mules, and no oxen
in the whole settlement. All the farm
work is done with the hoe, the rake
and the ak. He says: 81 have been
all over the settlement, and found
the largest number of people in a suf
fering condition for something to eat
and for clothes to wear. There isn't
any doctor in this settlement-thes SET
Element is too poor to support one.
Calico is 25 cents per yard. A COM
mon laborer, when he can get any
work to do, is paid Is cents per day.
Picked pork is Is cents per pound;
shoulder meat 25 cents per pound.
All the -four and meat used here is i'm
ported from England and America
Cornmeal is 10 cents per quart. Com
mon flour is $15 per barrel. The only
slow way the settlers have to make
money here is by raising and selling
| coffee. 1t will take O. newcomer like
myself from five to six years to get g.
coffee farm in trim for selling coffee.
The public schools are poor. There is
a class of people over here who do not
want the true condition of things writ
ten back home"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-24
Greed of the Texan Cowboy
From a letter in the Chicago Times

From Letter in the Chicago Times.
He looks on courage in a man to be
what chastity is to a woman, and he
sums up this article of his creed in the
laconic dictum "God hates towards. :"
Unlike the cowboy, against whom he
is pitted on occasions when the latter
runs a-muck, or cuts barbed-wire
fences with his patent nippers, contra
nv to the statute in such cases made
and provided, he drinks but seldom,
and never to excess. Like soldiers.
the rangers always 60 in twos, but al
lude to their second self in frontier par
lance as "my partner" They have
very hazy notions of international law,
and will follow thieves and murderers
miles into the neighboring republic of
Mexico, and corral" them, and bring
them back across the Rio Grande
without extradition or any other pa
pers, and with the most sublime con-
tempt for the treaty Of Guadalupe
Hidalgo. Indeed, if the rangers cared
much for the nice points Of interna-
tional law the Americans living on the
Texas side of the border would be de-
fenseless against the raids from Mexi-
can robbers who, half across the river,
would be safe in their own country.
The respectable Mexicans do not OBJ
ject to this virtual ignoring of the
boundary line by the rangers, and
there is only one instance On record
where it gave rise to diplomatic re-
monstrance on the part of the Mexi-
can government.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-24
An American Princess.
lWashington Correspondence.1

Washington Correspondence
Society has had recently notable
addition in the shape of an Indian
princess Of the Zuni tribe. This is
Princess Wewa. She is the guest of
the wife of Col. Stevenson, of the geo.
logical survey. Princess Wewa goes
about everywhere at all the receptions
and teas of Washington wearing her
native dress. The princess has very
large, round, heavy face. Her black,
thick, long hair is parted upon the
side and combed with q statesman
like carelessness across her broad,
brown brow. The princess dress is
made of gray red blanket stuff trimmed
with beads. From underneath her
short skirts are seen stout ankles and
small feet, covered with buckskin leg
gins and moccasins. Thegeneral style
of the princess is massive. Her broad
face, her stearn features and the pecul-
lar parting of her hair give her q mas
culine look among the pale-faced socie-
ty ladies. One prominent society lady
the other day who saw the princess
for the first time was charmed because
the princess gave her a sweet smile
and a low bow without the formality
of an introduction. She said to
friend: ST always knew that these In
dian chieftains were remarkable for
their taste.' She was Gisgusted when
she found that the "chieftain" was
member of the other sex.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-24
A New Light.

Some stir has recently been occa-
stoned by the interesting invention Of
DR.. Auer, the Viennese chemist, consist
ing of a new burner, which, whilst giving
apowerful and beautiful light, is said to
effect q great saving in gas. DR.. Auer
uses an improved so-called Bunsen
burner, which is provided with q regu-
lator, by which air is conducted to an
ordinary gaslight. A hood of muslin
like tissue, fixed by means of plati-
mum wire to a copper frame, is sus-
pended over the burner. AS soon as
the gas is lighted, the white muslin-like
mantle surrounding the flame is heated
to q white heat, so as to act like q per-
feet glow light. The tissue is saturat-
ed with preparation which is at
present the secret of the inventor, and
which causes the white heat when the
cotton tissue is carbonized. It is
stated that by the use of this in
candescent mantle. which is said to
last from 500 to 1000 hours, two
litres (O.O7 cubic feet) of gas give g.
light of from fifteen to 2O-candlepo power
for an hour, whilst at present five litres
(O.205 cubic feet) produce per hour g.
dies only. With the exception of the
hood of muslin-like tissue, which may
or may not be magnesia or asbestos,
there appears to be no novelty what
ever in DR.. Auer's invention. Three
incandescent gaslights on a similar
principle were to be seen In the Inter
national Electrical and Gas Exhibit
ton at the Crystal Palace of 1882-S3.
The first of these was the Lewis burn
er, in which cap of fine platinum
wire gauze was used, gas being supplied
in the ordinary way, but the air under
slight pressure, by which means an in
creased brilliancy and greater economy
resulted, as against air at the normal
pressure. The second was that OF
Victor Popp, of Paris, in which gas
and compressed air were also burned
with a platinum gauze cap. The third
was the diamond system, in which gas
and air under pressure were burned
with a cap made of threads of mag
nesia woven into basket-like form.
In all these cases a brilliant and steady
glow light was produced.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-24
Interesting Surgical Operation.

From New Bedford (Mass.) Special
An interesting surgical operation was
performed in this city Monday upon
Edward K. Russell. Seventeen years
ago Mr.. Russell severed the tendons in
one of his Eggs while raising a moving
machine, and since then has been with
out the use of the limb. The opera
ton was performed by New Bedford
surgeon, and was witnessed by num-
Der Of physicians of Boston. It con-
sisted OF transplanting two tendons
five inches in length, which were OBJ
tanned from dog eGherized for the
purpose, to Mr.. Russell's leg, where
they were united with the severed ten
dons. This is the first time the opera
ton has been performed upon human
subject, though it's success has been
demonstrated the past year by Ger
man scientists who have secured good
results in transplanting the tendons of
one animal to another of different
species. Mr.. Russell was doing well
this evening, and if the operation
proves successful will recover the use
of his leg, though it will be some time
before the result of the operation can
be determined.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-24
Level-Headed, Though Tipsy.
from the Boston Courier. I

from the Boston Courier.l
Wife-"This is nice time ofnight to
come home-ain't you ashamed OF
YOURSELF"
Husband pulling Off his boots and
putting them carefully on the bureau)
-"Don't-er-scold. Couldn't get
ay-er-moment sooner. Had a.
hic-big argument"
Wife-"Big fddlesticks.
Husband-"Fact / sure you.
Whadcher think? All-er-boys Of the
lodge in it. Queshun was which of us
had er-most amiable and-er-
beautiful wife. I beat 'em all. De-
scribed you-hic-beautiful eyes, silky
hair, cheeks-hic-roses teeth pearls,
lips cherries t. mper-er bic like
angel. Offered to fight 'em if they
wouldn't admit it. They gave in, n
here [ am-late, late-er-victorious,
finest wife in-er-world"
Wife with a sweet smile)-"You are
a sad fellow, John. Pm afraid you'll
never be anything better. Let me help
you take off your coat, dear"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-24
Put the Tub Over the Dog.

From the Leavenworth (Kas.) Timesl
The heroic conduct of Miss Lubinsky,
who lives between Newton and Nc
Pherson, in saving the lives of two
children last Thursday, who were at
tackled by a mad dog, is worthy of
two little girls were going along, the
young woman carrying a washtub,
when they were met by, the dog, which
first attacked one of the children. The
young woman ran to the child's assist
ance and drove the dog away. It
then jumped at the other child and the
young woman went to it's rescue, when
the dog attacked her. She, with great
presence of mind, managed to get the
dog down on the ground and the wash
tub over and upon him, and SO held
him until some men came to her assist
ance and killed the animal. It was
marrow escape for the entire party.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-24
Magnetic Sitting Of Meteorites.

from the Gentleman's Magazine.l
The meteorites that fall upon the
earth are composed chiefly of iron.
Signor Bombicci suggests an explana-
ton of this. The earth is big mag
net, as shown by the proceedings OF
bar of steel freely suspended and &C.
curately balanced on its center. So
long as it remains unmagnetized the
bar remains horizontal, and will
rest in any direction, but ifmagnetized
in England it becomes apparently
heavier at one end; this end dips and
points little to the west or north,
and when carried about over different
parts of the earth continues to behave
in a. manner showing til at the earth is
magnetically polarized like itself, and
therefore, like itself, capable of at
tracing small particles of iron or
steel toward its two opposite polar ex-
tremities. Bombicci's idea is that
this big terrestrial magnet, when rush
ing through space containing meteoric
particles, exerts selective attraction
for those which are ferruginous. The
fact that so many masses of meteoric
iron have been found IN the Arctic re-
gions, so far as it goes, supports this
theory. What may have happened in
the region Of the other pole we cannot
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-24
Created q Stampede.

A special from East st. Louis, H.,
says: For some time past police Off
GERS have been on the lookout for two
sharpers who have been victimizing
people at the relay depot. At q late
hour Tuesday evening, as the Louis
vile & Nashville train was pulling
out, two officers saw these men get on
board. They ran after the train,
jumped on and pulled the bell-rope.
The train came to g. standstill, and
the two officers then entered the rear
car with their revolvers in hand. When
the passengers caught sight of the
glistening weapons, they thought that
the officers were train robbers, and
the women began to shrek, while men
jumped from their seats and endeav-
ored to escape out of theforward door.
The intelligence that train robbers
were aboard was soon communicated
to the passengers in the forward cars,
and the stampede became general.
The parties whom the officers were
after took advantage of the general
connection to escape from the cars.
Two passengers who jumped from the
train and started to run were just
about to cross the track at the rear
end of the train, when the officers
caught sight of them, and, thinking
they were the two men they wanted,
gave chase. The men did not stop
until several shots had been fired after
them. When the officers saw they had
not secured the men they were after,
they concluded to place the strangers
under arrest any way, supposing they
were members Of the gang. The mis-
take was not discovered for several
hours. Some of the lady passengers
suffered severely from fright.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-24
The Pastor of the House.

From the New York Americana
Every morning about 11:3O q gray
bearded gentleman, the cut of whose
garments is Enthusiastically clerical, en-.
ters the lobby of the House directly in
the rear of the speakers desk. Ac-
companying him is a lady, upon whose
arm he leans. The gentleman is the
Rev. w. III. Milburn, the blind chap
lain Of the House. The lady is his pri-
vate secretary. Forty years ago DR..
Milburn oficiated one term as chap
lain of the House.
A decade later he was appointed for
second time. Another interval of
thirty years finds him filling this office
again. No chaplain within the memo
ry of the Oldest representative has
commanded the respect and affection
of the unruly body as DR.. Milburn
does. His predecess ors were, without
exception, tlresome and slow. The
morning prayer was invariably in g.
sing-songy fashion, and the whole per-
Torrance bore the perfunctory air of g.
man trying to earn his salary with as
little effort as possible. DR.. Milburn's
daily invocation is eloquent and brief.
The full, rich tones of his voice fill the
chamber and the adjoining cloak
rooms. Every word can be distinctly
heard. During the delivery of his
prayer the members rise to their feet
and remain in that position, reverently
and respectfully, until it's conclusion.
Such action on the part of the mem
bers is all the more remarkable when
it is remembered that in former times
no more attention was paid to the
chaplain, or his utterances, than if he
were a thousand miles away. DIR. Mil
burn visits the members of the House
precisely as other pastors visit their
parishioners. He makes no distinc-
tions on account of politics or religious
differences. With the Roman Catho-
lies, of whom there are quite O. number
in the present House, he is in every
way as popular as he is with the most
orthodox of Protestants. It is very
evident that the reverend doctor has
made a profound impression upon the
rather unusual congregation over
which he is called to preside, and that
he may be regarded as q fixture so
long, at least, as the Democrats shall
remain in control of the House.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-24
BrummeIl's Impertinence.
from the Saturday Review.l

From the Saturday Review.l
A certain Mr.. Jones, an English resi-
dent at Caen, was to give q dinner.
Brummell. in whose philosophy q din
ner had by this time become the sole
ambition, determined to go to it. On
his way from Paris he had purchased
a pate de foie gras, which was I'M
touched. This he dispatched to Mr..
Jones, with a polite note offering the
pate as contribution to the coming
entertainment. The result was an IN
vitation. So far there is nothing
which calls for comment. But now
comes the inconceivable part of the
story. The pate did not appear, and
Brummell making private inquiries
through his servant Isidore, found that
it had been reserved for the birthday
of his hosts son. Thereupon he sent
Isidore to the kitchen, asked to be al
lowed to see it, and calmly ate it him.
self for breakfast! It may, however,
be said that this exploit belongs to
his decline-to the period when, as one
of his contemporaries puts it, "the
seat of his heart was in his stomach"
Here, then, is another, the delicate
conception of his youth. At the Duke
Of Bedford's, at Belvoir Castle, was a
great bell, used only in case of fire.
One night it was heard tolling, and the
hall was immediately crowded by the
terrified inmates of the house in every
variety of nocturnal costume. There
upon Brummell appeared in an upper
gallery, and placidly explained that
his valet had forgotten his hot water,
or, as other accounts have it, his bar.
ley water. A somewhat similar story
is told OF that Partisan genius and
gamin, Francois de Montcorbier,
otherwise Villon, who once reused a
household with cries of "Fire!" only
to point them to his parched and
burning throat. But there was a
certain humor in the poor scarecrow's
reckless escapade which, in Brummells
hands, is simply brutal impertinence.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-24

Thinking that what interested the
boys who had gathered around in g.
group watching this blind worker
would interest the boy readers of this
paper, the writer stopped and watched
MIN make several, SO as to be able to
describe to the boys (who possess q
lack-knlfe) how this ingenious fan is
made, IN order that they may be able
TO make them for their own use or to
present to their friends.
First, obtain piece of soft, white
pine, free from knots, II inches long,
z inches wide, and & of an inch thick.
Make an incision on each side of the
wood 81 inches from one end to the
the center of the missions, and leave
the wood 4 Of an inch thick between
them. Now split the shorter end of
the wood downward as far as the two
missions into sections lie of inch
thick. Twenty-four parts or blades
are needed to make O. well-propor-
TONED fan. Cut off the surplus ones,
halt from each side, before making the
handle.
The longer part of the wood is
thlnned down into a handle, any shape
the maker desires. Now make three
more missions on the same fiat sides
as the first were made, beginning three
quarters Of an inch above the handle.
These missions should be about a
quarter of an inch deep, three-eighths
wide, with a quarter OF an inch of the
Hat surface left between each incision.
Before bending the blades into shape
the wood must he thOrOuOhlv soaked
in water, or they will snap off while
being bent.
When the wood is we'll saturated, be-
gin to bend the blades on one side, un-
til the center is reached. Overlap the
shoulder (made by the top incision)
on the left side of each blade with the
right of each succeeding blade. When
one-half Of the blades are in position,
turn the fan to the other side and
bend them in the same way.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-24

head. l remarked casually that I
would leave it to him, when he un-
rolled a long wallet and handed me
SIS, and very greasy old bill it was.
There was nobody around to kick me,
SO | kicked myself. But the next
morning the able agriculturist came
hopping up stairs as lively as g. 2-year-
old Hambletonian. He slapped down
crisp 800 bill on my table with the
remark:
''Hello, docl What I paid you yes
terday was for dom it. This little
balance is for KNOWN how"