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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-08-25
Roof Life in New York.
From the Providence Journal. !

The roofs of New York are very in
teresting. Much that would not be
suspected by stranger in the streets
goes on upon these aerial platforms
above the heads of the masses. From
the Brooklyn bridge / have seen that
topmost stratum of the city fairly
alive with people on fine autumn
evening. On one roof were to be seen
some shop girls Waiting to the music
of a concertina in the hands of young
man seated on the raised Wall-top be-
tween that house and the next. On
another was q merry party of children
filling the upper air with the melody
of their singing. Over yonder were
two lovers, hand in nand talking
earnestly; and so in one place after
another were to be seen persons wiser
than their fellows, seeking the quiet
and comparatively pure air above the
uprOar and stagnant atmosphere Of
the lower stories and the streets.
A year or two ago, being invited to
dine with some Cubans [ had met in
their own land, went to their address
in the neighborhood of the Central
Park, and was shown up by the SER
vant-where do you suppose? To the
roof. The Cubans understand the sci
ence of taking every advantage of the
open air. If they did not do so on
their native isle they would all cook,
like so many loaves in bakers oven.
/ found the roof where this family had
gathered a place unique among the
housetops of New York. An iron
framework enclosed the great sheet of
tin, and from it's posts was hung
pretty awning of blue and white
striped canvas. In hanging baskets
and in great pots were broad.leaved
tropic plants, and two or three birds
in pretty cages swung among the
flowers A complete set of furniture,
all of cane or wicker work, except the
table, completed the appointments.
There were rockers and easy chairs
and settees of split cane in which to
loll and lounge and read and sew.
There, in delightful breeze that kept
the ribbons of the ladies all a futter-
ing, we ate dinner that | would not
have exchanged for any that was
served in any hot and stuffy dining
room IN the city on that night.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-08-25
FOR THE HOUSEWIFE
RASPBERRY VINEGAR,

RASPBERRY VINEGAR
Three pounds of fruit, one quart OF
cold cider vinegar, one pint OF Juice.
one pound of sugar. In a. deep earthen
pan place the berries and vinegar, let
them stand for three days and mash
them thoroughly. Ladle them out
into a pointed flannel bag; let
it drip as much asst will without shak-
ing or pressing. Whenit will no longer
drip measure tbe juice into a preserv-
ing kettle. Do not stir, but when boil.
ing hard stir in rapidly the sugar until
dissolved. Let the whole boilfor three
minutes, remove from the fire and
when cool bottle it. To pour it for
drink, fill q wine-glass one-third with
vinegar and fill it up with water; stir
till thoroughly mixed.
RED RASPBERRY sHoRTCAKE.
One quart of prepared -four, two
tablespoonful of butter, three table
spoonfuls of powdered sugar, IL cup
fuls OF milk, two eggs, whipped cream
one cupful; cream the butter and
sugar, beat in the whipped eggs, the
milk and lastly the flour; bake in g.
square or Oblong pan; when cold cut
In three pieces, cover one with red or
yellow raspberries, sprinkle with sugar,
lay another third on this, more ber-
ries and more sugar, then the final
layer; slit sugar on it and spread thick
with the whipped cream; stick the
finest berries thickly in the snowy cap
ping and send around LIQUID cream to
eat with it. You will admire and en-
Joy this dessert, says Marion Har-
land.
CHOCOLATE PUDDING.
Half cake of chocolate broken in
one quart of milk and put on the
range until it reaches boiling point; re-
move the mixture from the fire, strain
and then return to the range; add four
tablespoonful of cornstarch mixed
with yolks of three eggs and one and
one half cups of sugar; stir constant
ly, until thick; remove from the fire
and flavor with vanilla; pour the mix
ture in g. baking dish; beat the whites
OF the three eggs to stiff froth and
add a little sugar; cover the top of the
pudding with the meringue and set in
the oven until a light brown. Serve
hot.
WATER ICE.
One cup of loaf sugar, with the Juice
Of six lemons squeezed over it. hall
pint OF water, and a syrup made by
boiling three quarters of q pound of
sugar in a little less than pint of wa
ter; let this stand in a. large earthen
jar Or dish for an hour and half, then
mix the lemon, ETC., with it; strain it
and freeze. Ii you wish to make this
q pretty dish DIS well as pleasing to the
taste, add the whites of eggs beaten to
froth with powdered sugar mixed
with them; put this on the opof each
glass.
POTTED FISH.
Cut fish twelve inches in length in
to TOUR equal parts; rub little salt
on the end Of each piece and place the
pieces in an earthen pot; add whole
spices and cider vinegar to cover the
fish when the pot is nearly full. Tie
on q paper cover and over this put an
earthen cover to keep in all the steam.
Bake In a moderate oven for three
hours. Fish cooked in this way is de-
licious and will keep two weeks in a
cool place and longer in g refrigerator.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-08-25
A strOnony.

Astronomy was first studied by the
Moors, and was then introduced into
Europe in 1901. The rapid progress
of modern astronomy dates from the
time of Copernicus. Books of as
tronomy and geometry were destroyed.
as infected with magic, in England
under the reign OF Edward VI, in
1862.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-08-25
Harvesting Fallen Oats.

When an oat crop is down from it's
own weight it is much more difficult to
harvest then when it is beaten down
by winds. Thelatter will mostly bend
the stalks in one direction, and, tax
ing advantage Of this, the reaper may
be run against the Bonded straw, pick
ing it up and saving nearly all. To do
this the reaper can only be run one
way, carrying theswath, as it is called.
which doubles the time and labor re-
quired to cut the piece. The self-bind-
er will pick up fallen grain well enough,
but it is impossible for a machine,
any more than for a man with a cra-
die, to lay the grain in good, well.
shaped bundles. Many of the heads
will be found in the butt, and in such
case, especially in wet time, it is bet
ter, perhaps, not to try to bind it.
With g. mower, fallen grain may be cut
lower than with reaper, and being
left spread over the ground as it nat
Urally falls, it dries out quickly and
can soon be put in cock, ready for
drawing in the barn. There is a little
more labor by this method, but in a
harvest which has much catching
weather it secures fallen grain more
perfectly than by trying to put it in
bundles. Farmer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-08-25

BISHOP G. III. FOWLER, OF the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, formerly a
popular preacher of Chicago, and SUBJ
seQuently president of the North
western University, has just returned
from a tour OF Central and South
America.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-08-25
DESERTED NESTS.
BY ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS.

ID ELIZA BETH STUART PHELPbs
Ia rather see an empty bough.
oreary, weary Dough. that hung
as Dougns Will hang within whose arms
No mated bird ever sung,
Far rather than to see or touch
Ihe sadness Of an empty nest,
"nsre Joy mas been, but is lot now:
Where love has been, but is NOT blest
There is no sadness in the world,
No other like it here or there
The sadness Of deserted homes
In nests, or hearts, or anywhere.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-08-25
Farm Notes.

MILK sold at three cents g. quart pays
about the same net as butter sold for
twenty-eight cents g. pound, says an
Eastern expert.
LET your onions grow until the tops
fall, then pull them up. They should
be allowed to become dry and be
stored in g. cool place.
As soon as the ears have been taken
from the sweet corn the stalks should
be cut up and fed TO the cows in as
green condition as possible.
To kill moles, an Illinois farmer puts
strychnine in pieces of liver the size OF
hickorynut, placing the pieces at
different points in their runs.
SHEEP will eat nearly all kinds of
weeds, and may be made to do good
service in some fields. They should,
however, always be given feed of
grain at night.
DESTROYING a beetle is equal to kill
ing fifty grubs. When meadows be-
come infested, it is well to turn in the
hogs and let them root. They will de-
stroy thousands of grubs.
A FEW trees, evergreens and flower
ing shrubs planted among the hives
help to remove the sameness of the
scene, and in summer give grateful
shade to the bees and their keeper.
In buying pigs for breeding stock the
best is the cheapest, though it cost g.
little more money. The reason why
breeders justify themselves in saving
runts, is because some men are
thoughtless enough to buy them at q
low price.
ALL small apples and others defec-
tive in form or damaged by worms
have their best market on the farm as
food for animals. II packed with
sound fruit, even in small proportion,
they reduce the price of all even to the
point of loss.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-08-25
How MIX is Spoiled.

Milk will absorb odors at one time
when 1t would not at another. 1t
readily takes In vapors and doors
from the air when it is at the same
temperature or colder than the air
which surrounds it, but parts with it's
own OdOrs when warmer than the air
with which it is in contact. When
cold air touches warm milk the air ex-
pands and becomes lighter and rises.
As it expands it's capacity for holding
vapors, gases or odors is so much in
creased all it that it is not only ableto
hold contained before but to take in
more.
Thus cold air, even if it is not quite
as pure as one might desire it for
breathing, does not contaminate warm
milk, but on the contrary actually be-
comes an aid in purifying it. A pail
of freshly-drawn milk, SO long as it re-
mains much warmer than the air in
the stable, may stand in the stable un-
harmed, providing nothing but the air,
or what is in the air, touches it. II g.
vessel of cold milk is placed in warm
air the effect will be reversed. When
warm air touches the cold milk the
ty for holding moisture and odors is
SO much diminished that it becomes
unable to retain the load it was car
rying, and is forced to deposit it's bur-
den upon the surface of the milk, to be
absorbed and held in the milk, or it's
cream, In the same way that the air
on a. hot day unburdens itself on the
surface of the vessel Of ice water, be-
coming apparent in the form of dew.
II pail of warm milk and one of
cold milk are placed side by side in the
same stable one may be growing purer
and the other more foul at the same
time. Under the law of diffusion of
gases, aeriform bodies will, to some
extent, force themselves into liquids
like milk or water when ali are at the
same temperature. But that law is
largely controlled by relative temporal
lures.
Stable odors get into the milk large
" through the breath of the COW.
Standing in stable filled with foul air
a cow cannot avoid taking in at every
breath the odors with which it is load
ed. Upon entering the lungs they are
forced at once into circulation. The
blood becomes charged with them,
and the milk, which always receives
all unloading of the blood of it's impur-
tiles, as we'll as it's nutriment, also be-
comes loaded with the odors inten-
sifed, greatly to the disgust of those
who use the milk.
Foreign odors, good or bad, are
taken into milk in the air breathed by
milk-giving COWS. An account was re-
Gently published OF milk spoiled by be-
ing saturated with the odor of onions,
from lettering COW to the leeward OF
an onion patch. Again, twelve COWS,
in passing to and from their pasture,
were subjected tG the scent of g. dead
calf lying twenty rods from the lane
through which they travelled. The ex-
posure to this tainted air did not ex-
coed one minute at each passage, and
vet these animals inhaled Injection
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-08-25

THE late w. E. Forster, of England,
left 100000 to his wife.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-08-25

q,
and to nearly spoil, for cheese making,
the milk of eighty-fve COWS, with
which their milk was mixed. When
the cause was discovered, Incomplete
burial of the calf terminated the ef-
feet.
In several instances it is known that
cheese was materially injured in cheese
factories from the COWS of one Of the
diaries inhaling air scented from dead
calves lying about the barn in state
OF decay. Foul air is one of the read
lest modes of communicating milk. It
will injure milk sooner than bad food.
Whatever is taken into the stomach
may be, and often is, to large extent
neutralized by digestion, but injection
taken into the lungs is at once, and
without change, forced into circula-
ton.
There is no surer way of befouling
milk than by forcing COWS to breathe
the confined air of their stables, satu-
rated with the fumes of their perspira-
ton and excrement. The consequence
OF breathing such odors is so plain that
it should not be permitted for one
moment, The assumption SO COM
monty made that the milk absorbs the
scent after it is drawn is doubtless one
Of the prominent causes. Dairymen
should appreciate the fact that if they
are TO have pure-smelling and pure
favored milk when the COWS are in the
barn, they must contrive to keep the
odors of the stable from the nostrils
of their COWS, and give them pure air
to breathe. Hurrying the milk out of
the barn may be good thing to do,
but it will not remove the common
cause and frequent occurrence of stable
odors in milk.-Prachcaz Farmer.
Preserved Potato Fruit.
A German contemporary, as q new
idea, states that potato culture is like
ly to receive q new impetus there,
since the plan of selling them peeled,
sliced and dried, like certain fruits,
seems to hit the tastes of the export
market. The drying of the potatoes
can follow the period of the desicca-
ton of fruits. The method obviates
decay and termination of the tuDer, land
occupying q less volume, transport
will be cheaper and less difficult. The
potatoes are peeled by machinery,
next carefully washed, sliced into
rounds and left for twenty minutes in
strong solution of salt. The brine
induces frmness in the slices and pre-
vents their changing color-thus Sc
curing what sulphur does for fruits.
Later the cuttings are left to drain,
placed in the drying apparatus on
hurdle shelves, and submitted to
temperature varying from 1760 to 1940
Fahrenheit. They must remain lit
tie longer in this hot bath than fruit.
Before using, the slices have to be
stepped twelve to fifteen hours in
water, when they will become as fresh
and favory as new potatoes.
1t seems strange that SO practical
people as the Germans should saturate
with salt before drying, necessitating
soaking before cooking. If they had
our best Yankee evaporators the dry
ing could be successfully carried out
without sailing. Salt-saturated vege-
tables or fruits, and the salt again
soaked out of them, no longer retain
their favor.-Ffe7d, Farm and Stock
man.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-08-25
Care of an Orchard.

w. A. London says in the Rural
Messenger: / find that lime, wood
ashes, and old iron put around the
roots of declining trees, have q bene-
fetal effect. These fertilizers restore
the trees to healthy condition, and
also greatly improve the fruit in
quantity. / made the application
early last spring, BIS an experiment,
on a Winesap and Neverfail; about
half a bushel mixed lime and ashes to
each, and dug it in with q hoe some
six feet around the trunk, and put the
old iron Immediately around the base
Of each. The tree put forth with re-
newed yigor, bloomed abundantly,
and yielded good crop of fruit. An
excellent wash for trees may be
madethus: Heat an ounce of salsoda
to redress in an iron pot, and dissolve
it in one gallon of water, and while
warm apply it on the trunk. After
one application the moss and old bark
will drop off and the trunk will be
quite smooth. This wash has quite
recuperative properties, making old
trees bear anew. | have tried soft
soap as q wash with good results, also
coating of lime in the spring season,
which is q fine specific for cid trees.
The question is often asked if it is best
to manure trees in the fall or spring.
l have found the summer season to be
a good time; have great faith in mulch
ing, especially young trees, for several
reasons, after they are planted. APP
pie trees have two growths during the
season-the secondary growth takes
place after midsummer; hence it is
that a top dressing of manure, and
also coarse litter, facilitates the late
growth, and often produces very
marked results in the habit and forma-
ton of the tree. The good effect that
p1ulching has to young trees, is that
it wards off the intense heat of the sun
from the tender roots, and also has a
tendency to hold moisture. A good
top-dressing of stable manure in the
fall around young trees, with good
many corn cobs cast over the surface
OF the soil, gives satisfactory results.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-18
phnaaelphla Munioipai Election.

PHILADELrHIA, pa, Feb. 1.-THE cleo.
ton for members of the city council and
for minor ward Offices was held yester-
day. Except in a few wards, where
there were factionGl fights, there was
very little interest taken In the result.
The Republicans will again have good
working majority in both select and
common councils. AT one polling-place,
where there was split among the Demo
cratic ward leaders,a gang OF roughs, with
revolyers andikniyes, attacked the Judges
after the polls were closed and demand
ed the surrender of the boxes. Police
assistance, however, arrived In time and
the count was completed at the nearest
station.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-18
undieested FOOD

In the stomach develops an acid which
stiugs the upper part of the throat and
palate, causing "heartburn." 1t also
evolves a gas which produces "wind on
the stomach" and feeling and appear
ance of distension in that organ after
eating. For both this acidity and swell
ing Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is a
much better remedy than alkaline salts,
like hartshorn and carbonate OF soda. A
wineglassful of the Bitters, after or before
dinner, win be found TO act as reliable
carminative or preventive This fine spe-
cinc for dyspepsia, both in its acute aud
chronic form, also prevents and cures
malarial fever, constipation, liver COM
plant, kidney troubles, nervousness and
debility. Persons who observe in them
selves decline of vigor should use this
fine tonic without delay.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-18


NEw YORK, Feb. i5.--FlOnr--i.0w Grades
firm; medium and choiee qualities duh
Wheat-tirn aud higher, epot No. 2 red nsc,
February MRrcn 90togi Sc, closing az a0Aci
April mA@c. closing at s2c May @'s Sef'sc
q sing 9tAc,
Corn--spot l@i 80 higher, closing weakeraep,
lions opened 20 fc hmher, CLOSING adyauco
March alaGhltc closing nc 5iNe; Aprh 10
40 Nc, cls,ing az SOSc, May taii 9ieAi, clos
PROVISIONS, Eru
Cohcc-Spot II M, Rio dull nc Sl9S{c,
sales, 90 bags; February 50 ias Marcn 20 a
sugar--nuli and weak refined dull; confes.
icetlooers' 1Nc susarod 0Nci granulated
Gic
sIolasscs-Dun; sales were AT ssc for %
test
Eicc-steady aud qulct
Tallow-firm
ROsin-Steady.
Turpcntnc--fi rm at iac.
Pork-Fiun aud moderately active old ness
$40 boa 10 70. new Sal iddia 90.
Cut mcAts-flrm,
lard Higher and moro active: spot 81 500
6 SIS March 80 29d6 G3. April 81 S1dU 40
LlvE STOCK,
Heeycs- ReCcip,s l2i car loads, all for the
ca Ter feeling prevailed be ore he close and
several err loads icmali unHold ENtremt'
for steers was - S5aG % general sales 81 iaa
10 /, bulls aud dry cows Ruld mainly al - Odd
4 co. no export demand
sheep Receipts 100; firm at full prices NJ
TO near close, when thc demand Tell of ant
clearance could not be made Common TO good
= 1900 %; poor 60 prime yearling lamhe a
81 hDfs 90
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-18
ase. strawberries. ~. 81 %; blackborrics,
l 20 green gagea, sri cage condemned max,


case. strawberries. -. 81 %; blaokberies,
3 S. sss' s'''A S'S''' F's'' '''''
EGGs--Ii cents per dozen.
FIOUH-neHt patents 50 - per 10 ~, hiui
GKAIS-Oaotation arc based on the cost Of
grain on track w ear lots. Dealers selling nom
store Of elevator AIS from = nNe'n'a plRnNl'
Corn alaSl3sc
Barley S5c
RYE GOc.
JANE onis0n I0al8e antelope l0s ~
auaii 6oa7 Sc Der doz; Wild turke,s a6a7sc Wild
ducks DaBOc, squirrels l0c apicto
nIDE- AID skiNn No. heAyf y. Y. hlde'
Zoe per y No. Heavy 1896 NO Hshl 1871 no.
rs sailed ne, bull hldes &c; glue 10,
green seliod 7c; butchers grocn bhoi sheep
1 FKuiTs and VEGETABLES Oranges. PEI
bOx, s6a4 hleegina lemqps,per boz, a oo9t ~
California & ~ RpploH, northern, PEI pDia
ii % 10 saeksj early rose 81 70; onions, Gait.
lornia, Skc PEI D navy beans 3 seet medium
bbis sci large Lima iiei ANAL butter 3ac
II COAL 90 per bushcl turaips 100 per buhhel
/ carrots. California, 81 10 per huthul patsnips
California, y Z, per Oushel beet, tniiipihia
/ 81 80 per bunhei onion seif per bushcl " q.
kKAUT-goriy ghL bpl, 81 29-sai. halt. bbl
M0L.AssEs-- Choice Louisiana tOasgs tncs
CROP, fair 10 good S5c; core nyrup l3c.
SAiLs-s3 Is HEX. basis l6d--BuLden hore'
1 shoe Dor Neg, IS Perklna DO 1870; Walker d'
s5,bO; burden IsuIo 81, Northwestern hors.
/ shoe nails, No B0c, No. 2 PIC, No. . 2Sc, No.
3 ne, No. 7 2Oc. No. \ 1865 AusaDie do, No. ~
No. 8 2fc, No. D 1ic. No. 100. No. . isc,
/ NuTs--PcaauIsc choice 7ae new pocane0 fc
| Brazil mia iec; aimOnd8 zoe PEI h.
PROVISIONS We quote on me basis Of ca
I lots.
Mcat--sugar. cured hams lokc; sugar cufe'
! breakfast bacon eHci short clear bacon 80
! short clear dry halt ~.
Fkh.- tlnolserel, 10. 4 kits 40, 4. o00, No.
40 half ibis 80. ~ ~; No. "A o1i fdeo hcr
I. rings per pOx t0c cod iiet &C.
LalFd-~11ofce ri 50. y cans 1tfci ~ m enn
/ Ike, 10 n rams 51<n y cans 55fc; s = eAiie Hc
fea-lmperiai tpat0c, Runpowdef eTrsQ
Z saii--CoaFse IN tege53i ~ ~ tae " veg
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-18
wonderful Cures.

w. d. Xoyt & Co., wholesale and retail
druggistsof Rome. Ga, say: We have
been selling DR.. Kings New Discovery,
Electric Bitters and Bucklen's Arnica
Salye for two years. Have never handled
remedies that sell as well, or give such
universal satisfaction. There have been
some wonderful cures effected by these
medicines in this city. Several cases oil
pronounced Consumption have been en-
tirely cured by use of few bottles OF DR..
Kings New Discovery, taken in connec-
tlon with Electric Bitters. we guaran-
tee them always. Sold by II, w VII
liams & Co