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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
A War Ship Sent for a Trunk.
From the London Truth.

From the London Truth.
When the Duke and Duchess of Edin-
burgh went recently, to Greece it was
discovered, on arriving at Athens, that
trunk, containing certain indispensable
articles Of attire belonging to the Ouch
ess, had been left behind at Malta. A
telegram ordering the said trunk to be
sent by the next days steamer would
have been the cheapest and readiest
way of obtaining it, but the. Duke of
Edinburgh actually dispatched one
of the vessels of his squadron all the
way to Malta to bring back the trunk
and its contents, thereby saving him-
self about sovereign for kilograms and
carriage by steamer. The trip of her
Majesty s ship must have involved a cost
to the taxpayers of some hundreds of
pounds. The transaction is altogether
a scandalous one. What is the use. I
should like to know, of the pudding
economies in the dock yards, when a
royal admiral is suffered wantonly to
waste large some of money in this
idiotic fashion
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
Partisan Funerals.

The funerals of Paris, France, are in
charge of a company, whose monopoly
is regulated by law. is vast enterprise,
possessed of exceptional resources, an
immense number of horses and car
riages, a numerous and well disciplined
personnel. Every year it takes charge
of about $4,000 funerals. about half of
which are those of the poor. The adj
ministration of the Pompes Funebres is
situated in the Que d. Aubervilliers. 1t
is big, heavy. white stone building,
built round a glass-roofed courtyard.
Beneath the vast building of the
Pompes Funebres are cellars dimlv
lighted with gas jets and full of rows and
rows of collins of all sizes and qualities.
This cellar contains stock of Is, 900 cof-
fins ready for use.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
The Invalid's View of Things.
From Harper's Magazine.


The invalid, like the poet. and like all
acute, sensitive beings, is remarkable
not for seeing differently. but for seeing
more than do the rest of the world. He
endows everything about him with per-
sonality. Cold, hard substances are his
avowed enemies. The soft, the yield
ing, the woody, fill him with gratitude
and delight, The arm chair invites and
embraces him. The tiny teapot and
ever are eager to do him service and
the Cruel bowl displays fairly maternal
solicitude. His cane is Fidus Achates,
his pet pillow a Nancy or whatever his
chlldhOod's nurse was named. AS to
the bottles arranged on his table, only
the doctors who prescribed them can
surpass their marked and individual in
terest IN their charge. A glow of gen.
uine affection fills me when glance at
Tonic, SO many times has he proved
worthy of the confidence Yeposed in him
when the lamp of life burned low"
Liniment's unctuous sides are nearly
bursting with officious good nature.
Fine Old Bourbon has an irresistible
bacchanalian leer. Stout Camphor needs
only spectacles and bag to make an
old fogy of him. Sly little Morphine,
hiding behind the rest, has a SIMS
ter, suggestive, Mephistophelian look,
which at once attracts and repels.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
New Hotel SwindIing Scheme.

A fellow with an English accent work
ed a new racket on New York hotel
man the other day. He registered, got
a good room and threw down two rail-
way checks for 'shis luggage which he
ssom ordered sent up stairs to him, After
hours spent in looking for the trunks
the clerk reported that they could not
be found. This threw the Englishman
into towering rage, and he was with
difficulty persuaded that no doubt they
could be found by next morning. Next
morning he went himself to complain
at the station about the trunks, and
never came back The checks were
bogus and had secured for the scamp two
meals and bed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
Love, Law and Husbands.
From the Manchester Union.

There is something inconsistent in
the connection of love. law and hus-
bands. If woman:s husband is killed
in a railroad accident she can only re-
ceive So 900 for his life as compensation
for loss OF companion, support and
the other good things husband is sup
posed to represent. But if IN year or
SO afterward some gay deceiver trihes
with the dear creatures affections, gets
her consent to again enter the marriage
state and then fits her, S25, 600 is de
manded and sometimes granted to heal
her wounds. All this goes to show that
a sound expectancy is much more val
liable than a mangled and dead hus-
band to the ordinary woman.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
Good Manners.
G. w. Curtis in Harper's Magazine

G. w. Curtis in Harper's Magazine.
But fine manners no code >can teach.
If they are conscious they become arti-
fetal and are fine no longer. A man,
indeed. may be taught to avoid gross
ness and impudence and not to mistake
them for ease. The youth who puffs a
cigarette when he is walking with a
lady, who is free and easy instead of
scrupulously courteous in his address
and tone, may be told that he is merely
ungentlemanly and vulgar; and if be
choose he may correct his behavior
certainly be would correct if the lady
showed him that she required the cor
rection. The impudence of young men
generally reflects the weakness of young
women. lfthey required courtesy there
would be little insolent freedom of be-
havior upon the part of their cavaliers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09

London Corr. New York Sun.


Here is glory for temperance, Sir
Morville w. III. Wraxall, sixth baronet
of that name, has made temperance
advocating his profession. He announces
that he has assumed hepost of Sec
rotary TO the Tower Hamlets Temper
ance Mission, and will be glad to go to
any part of the country lecturing, and,
of course, collecting. Sir Morville,
though an aristocrat, is not what you
might call an out-and-out one. He was
educated at workhouse school in
Brighton, served as a pawnbroker' S
assistant for some time, and then joined
the army. Sir Morville declares that
he has been driven to preach temper
ance by observing the effects of drink
in his own family. he and his collection
Of brothers having been educated at a
workhcuse and his grandfather having
died IN a lunatic asylum after having
lived in the same workhouse for a long
Tima
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
A Bay State Samson.
From the Boston Globe. /

There is a broad shou1dered, dark
complexioned man in Chelsea, who, it
is claimed. is the strongest man in the
county, it notin the state. He has been
a PHYSICAL giant from boyhood. When a
mere youth he used to amuse himself
by lifting a barrel of flour, putting it on
hisshou lder and carrying it around the
block. Later he would shoulder bar
rellof sugar and carry it up two flights
of stairs and bring it down again, just
for the fun of it.
brated his coming Of age by lifting a set
of quarry cart-wheels, including axle
and pole, and Juggling the whole lot,
weighing I,10O pounds, quarter of q
mile. After that his feats of strength
were numerous. He held two men,
weighing 100 pounds each, at arms
length, holding one on each hand.
Bending big crowbars and pulling up
sapling trees Six inches through by the
roots were ordinary pastimes for this
young Samson.
The browning feat OF his life happened
few years ago, when he was a carpen-
ter and worked on new block then
building up in Chelsea. The workman
had been trying 70 hoist big iron grid
er into its place on the second story
Ihe g1rder had square edges and
weighed 800 pounds. The ropes which
had been placed around it were cut in
two by the sharp edges as soon as the
tackle was hauled taut Finally, in des-
peration, the foreman sent for chain.
While the man was gone, Mr.. Houston
shouldered the girder and took it up the
ladder and placed it in position.
1t hurt my shoulder some," said he,
when telling of his performance, "but
! have never lifted in harness and do
not know how much / could take up,
but / have an idea that | could lift as
much as DIR. Winship ever did if I tried.
/ am a workingman and have no time
for such fooling." His muscles are as
hard as knots, and he looks the picture
OF manly strength and muscular perfec
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
Roger Q. Mills Right Hand Man
From the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

A st. Paul gentleman who was in
Texas several years ago remembers how
Congressman William 81. Grain looked
at that time. Grain was a struggling
lawyer then. He was engaged as pros
ecuting attorney in a murder trial at
Indianola and succeeded in convicting
the murderer. After the trial was over
a knot of people gathered near the
courthouse to talk over the circum-
stances Of the trial. 81 told you, boys"
remarked venerable Texan who was
in the group, Hthat are Grain is one o.
the rising young men of this state;
mark my words on that" And the old
mans judgment was correct. Grain is
now the trusted lieutenant of Roger @.
Mills, and, next to Mills, is the most
prominent congressman from the Lone
Star State. At the time referred to
bove he was young man, with a
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09

COULDN'T Attend to Such Details
"I've got complaint to Make" said an
Office boy to his employer. ''What is
it ?" ''The book keeper kicked me,
sir. I don't want no book-keeper to
kick me-" "Of course he kicked you.
You don't expect me to attend to every
thing, do you? I can't look after all the
little details of the business myself. p
Exchange.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
Catarrh Cured.

A clergyman, after years of suffering from
that loathsome disease, Catarrh, and vainly
trying every known remedy, at last found {
recipe which completely cured and saved
him from death. Any sufferer from thi:
dreadful disease sending a self-addressec
stamped envelope to Prof J. A. Lawrence
IS Warren Street, New York City, will re
ceive the recipe free of CHARGE
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
Forgotten Days-"Pa," inc

Force aTEN Days-sPa," inquired
Bobby, what's the meaning of E
pluribus unum?'' ooh, it's a Latin
phrase, Bobby. | used to know when I
was at college, but man ia apt to forget
most that he learned at college when he
gets to be as old as / am" Just then a
procession of college students passed
the door shouting vociferously, "Rah.
Rah, Rah p sTiger," yelled the old
man, and he broke both suspenders be-
fore he reached the gate.--NeaO York
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09

'tMR. BEIEF, I want to sue Miss Jones
for breach of promise" Gall right-but
what was the promise ?' ''Well, you
see, we were off at picnic in August,
ject me; but hang it, sir, though she
promised not to, she accepted me the
first chance she got. "-Hdrper's Bazar.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09

shock of fiery red hair and a red mus
tache, and wore a suit of navy blue.
AS my informant expresses it, he was
raw young attorney and looked as if he
didn't know anything at all. The .vio-
lent contrastof color in his clothes and
hair was the most striking thing there
was about him.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
Cancer Cured.

DR.. T. L. Pond is having wonderful sue
cess in the treatment and cure Of cancer at
the cancer hospital at Aurora, H. There
are numbers of cures recently made by him
which are truly wonderful Those afflicted
should not hesitate, but should go there for
treatment at once. For information, adj
dress DIR. T. L. Pond Aurora Ill
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
NEW MUSIC FOR THE NEW YEAR!

Now is the time for good resolutions. Resolve
to lose no time in procuring one of DitsOn &
Co.'s excellent Music Books all first-class, and
these among the best. For ONE DOLLAR
you can secure The new
POPULAR SONG COLLECTION. 81 songs;
or POPULAR PIANO COLLECTN. p piano pes;
or POPULAR DANCE MUSIC COLLIN. 60 pieces;
or CLASSICAL PIANIST. AZ classical pieces;
or PIANO CLASSICS A classical pieces;
or YOUNG PEOPLES CLASSICS. 50 easy pcs;
or SONG CLASSICS so songs for Soprano;
or SONG CLASSICS FOR LOW VOICE At songs;
or CLASSIC TENOR SONGS. So songs
or CLASSIC BARITONE AND BASS SONGS. &c.
or ChOICE VOCAL DUETS Tie newest Duets
or COLLEGE SONGS FOR BANJO. Two pop
or COLLEGE SONGS FOR GUITAR. ular books
or EMMANUEL. Trowbridge; Oratorio
or RUTH AND NAOMI Damrosch; and Can
or JOSEPH'S BONDAGE Chadwick tatas for
or FALL OF yERUSAL'M. Parkhurst dusical
or HOLY CITY. Gaul; Societies
or EMERSQNS PART SONGS AND GLEES.
or EMERSONS CONCERT SELECTIONS
or GOOD OLD SONGS WE USED TO SING.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
A Radical Cure for Epileptic Fit

To the Editor-Please inform your readers
that I have positive remedy for the above
named disease which l warrant to cure the
worst cases. So strong is my faith IN the
virtues of this medicine that will send free
a sample bottle and valuable treatise to any
sufferer who will give me his P. O. and Elk
press address My remedy has cured thou
sands of hopeless cases.
II. G. ROOT, NJ. c., 1S3 Pearl Street, New
York
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
HOW TO BE HAPPY.

The woman who relies on tears,
You may depend upon 1t,
viii vainly try for years and years
To get new fall bennett.
But she who wears smiling face
$50 all wise men tell us1
Will get new b0nnets trimmed with lace,
And make her neighbors jealous
So, ladies' if you want to wear,
Fine laces. silks and ruff1es,
Remember, tears make husbands swear,
And never have the snuff1es.
-SonaeruSIle Journal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
That Cantankerous Old Woman

IHdC OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OIU w OIudN
Described in the nursery ballad, who "lived
upon nothing but victuals and drink and yet
would never be quiet" was undoubtedly
troubled with chronic indigestion. Her victuals,
like those of many other elderly persons whose
digestive powers have become impaired. didn't
agree with her. This was before the era of Hos
letters Stomach Bitters or some one of her nu-
merous friends and relatives would undoubtedly
have persuaded her to try the great specific for
dyt pepsia constipation and biliousness This
would have beer a measure OF self protection on
their part for she would soon have been cured
and ceased TO disturb them with her clsmor.
The most obstinate cases of indigestion, with its
attendant heartburn, tiatulence. constant IN
easiness OF the stomach and of the nerves, are
completely overcome by this sovereign remedy.
Chilis ana fever aud bilious remittent, rheuma-
tsm and kidney troubles ale also relieved by It.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09

MoRALIsT- is an expensive
habit and never did anybody any good.
Man-with- the-Henry-C lay-O, I beg to
differ with you, sir. Does smoking
benefit you any ~ 'Most certainly il
does, sir. I'm the proprietor of cigar
store - Y0nEers lStntesrnnn
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09

WILLIAM YoUNKIN, Custer, Neb. saws:
VI have used Wizard Oil for the past five
years and find it invaluable I would as
soon give up my Winchester as to go on
the range without bottle of Wizard Oil
with men
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09

"SAY, ma" remarked the small boy,
"isn't it funny that rybody calls my
little brother bouncing baby ?" "Why
do you think it is funny, William ?" re-
turned his mother. Because, when I
dropped him on the floor this morning
he didn't bounce a bit.n-C hicaao Nears.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
ST. Paul and St. Petersburg.

From the New YORK sun.
st. Paul is trying to raise" Chicago
at the culture game. In the St. Paul
Chamber OF Commerce, last night, there
was a Russian evening"" which seems
suited to the Minnesota climate. A Rus
sian lectured on Russian literature. a
seance with samovars followed, vodka
and water was served, and the Hon.
Ignisfatuus Donnelly wound up pleas
ant entertainment by reading paper
showing that Tolstoi's works are the
production Of NJ. de Giers When St.
Paul gets started she makes the iur fly
in way to make ST. Petersburg fatigued.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
He wanted Another Election.
From the Detroit Journal.

From the Detroit Journal
Mamma, I'm awful glad Gen. Har.
rison was elected" said Third Avenue
lad after repeating his prayers last even
ing, ''and / hope he'll get elected
again.
Why. dear"
5 $50 we can 60 to grandpa's.'
SIS go to grandpa's?" return the moth
er, quizzingly.
Yes; you know what you told papa. y
II don't know what you mean, child.
Why, you do remember the night
papa came home with his clothes all
mud and his hat over his face, and he
couldn't talk straight. You asked him
Harrison's elected then you said,
John, if this happens again I'll take the
children and go to my fathers and you
were SO glad that you cried. Now you
remember. don't Won. mamma? ?"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09

Sc IT'S very queer" said a country lass,
(" how much all soldiers are alike; you
can only tell them by their faces."-
Courier du MIDI.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09

:" Browns BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs are ex-
cellent for the relief of Hoarseness or Sore
Throat. They are exceedingly efective."-
Christian World, london Eng.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09

Their reputation as first-class cutters and
tallors is we'll known in our city and we
have no doubt that some of our citizens will
take advantage of this great opportunity
and thus be benefited while they have the
chance.
STRAIGHTEN your old boots and shoes
with Lyons Heel Stiffners, and wear them
again.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
Good News.

We respectfully inform our citizens that
Silverstone Bros. Merchant Tailors, of Mil
waukee Wis, 420 and 422 East Water
Street, have reduced their goods to an ex-
room for large and most elegant stock of
spring and summer goods.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09
Interested People.

Advertising patent medicine in the pc
culiar way in which the proprietor Of
Kemp's Balsam for Coughs and Colds does,
it is indeed wonderful. He authorizes all
druggists to give those who call for it a
sample bottle Free, that they may try it be-
fore purchasing. The Large Bottles are SOC
and 81. We certainly would advise a trial.
1t may save you from consumption.
IT is said that "a Dakota girl ate TWEEN
ty ears of green corn for supper and
then went to party and danced all
night" We should think she would.
Eight ears of corn are enough to make
some people dance all highland howl,
too. -Norristown Herald.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09

Woman Whose Shopping is q Matter
of Much nbarrassment.
Boston Corr New York World
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-01-09

AT DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS.
THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.. Baltimore. Nd.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-02-23

I scratched % year,. body covered with
scales, Scratched all the time, sutisr,
ing endless and without relief, Cured
by tho CutICura Rsmedles, Skin now
a. clear ns q baby'a.
IL had known Of tho cUTlcuRA REMEDIES
~tvSnly.elght years ago, It would have saved mo
$4,000 Qwo hundred dOllap) aud an immense
amount Of suffering, Ny disease tpaoFla''sl eop''
uspccd on my head In q spot not larger than .
cent, 1t spread rapidly all over my pouy aha g0'
under my nails, Tho Scalca would drop OIL OF INC
all tho time, and my suffering was endless, anu
without relief. Ono thousand dollars would not
tempt mo TO have this disease over AEaln' am q
ROOF man, but feel rich to DO relieved OF what some
Of tho doctors said waA lCProsy' some worn
PSORIASIS, Vlc, / took +. : and ; saFAaPaH'AA
over ono year and a half, but no cure. went to
Two or three doctors, and no curv. eannot praise
Tho CuTIruRA REMEDIES too much have
made my skin rs clear and FREQ from ssa'cH IS .
baby's, All / used u them was three bOAe4 OF
CuFIcURA. and three botllosOi CUTICulA REsuLN'
INT, and two cakes Of CuTlcuHA soar II you
had been hcrp and said you would have cured nc
for $4,000, you would have had the man'y, !
looked like tho picture In your book Of psoFlal'a
(pIe.ure number two, " How to Cure sG'n DIS
saasos"j but now l am rs clear % any pcrton ever
vas. Through force 0 thabiI, I rubin ~ hands over
my arms and lcgS to scratch once In Q WHILE bu'
10 no purpose. l lam all well, lHsTaIchcd twenty
OIsht yOars, and It got to DO a kind Of SocOud nature
10 mo, THANK you a thousand llmes' Anything
moro that YOU want TO know, write mo, or any one
who reads this may write TO mo, Rad will an
DENNIS DOWNING
WATERBURY, VI, Jan. 30, 1851.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-02-23
MOrNpSYILLE
MarriaESs-MuulGipAi ElSOtlOn-ThO II.
q, Wreck-The Holiday,

Observation-Disclosures kleOtiOn-ThO Il.
o. wrsck-The Holiday.
Hon. II. T.. White was In town yesterday,
Miss Make Mcclure wuln Wheeling yesterday
superintendent Robertson Il home from
Charleston,
Mr. Frank Ciigg hM moved Into tho sohu
tnACkOt property,
A supper and festival was given at Tho Christ
Ian church Thursday night
MuConkey'I cofnOl band rendered some chOlCC
music on tic streets night before last,
Mrs. Harry ghimp OilhO third ward, fell dowt
a liRlfWGy yesterday aud sustained painful IN
IuriGA
There Wa no school At the public schools yOs
tOFdAy, and the tHaChefs went IN q body 10 vlLlI
the Wheeling schools.
Nj, Geotgo Krali and Miss Kate Y. Cochran,
both Of MOuhdBVlllO, wOfO married THURSDAY
afternoon BY ROy, Father BohtlON'
WRhhing.6nis birthday was observed Al the
penligntlary ~. giving lhg pfiaOngt1 . holiday,
with AOmU choice music.
The ApeclAi services u The Simpson n. 4.
Church cdnllnuO 10 grow In Interest, Thurs.
day niphi about twenty were forward al lhe
altar Gtpilnr religion aud lhBf0 wBtO several
conversions, The church wa crowded 10 he III.
most capacity
Sit, Moutoe Tlmblln, Of HEAVIER county, H.,
aud Mis- 8afAh Mcfarland ~ this county, were
many friends here, several d whom N dSd SS
WediloE, AmVtRJhS number were Misses Hello
ii6ilI and Clara lAkef, and Mrs., |, ], Potts And
Mn. Charles liOrnbfoOk.
The wreck on the baltimore 4 Ohio has been
away, The englleof had 4 very marrow
and tho fact tlat he waA not hurt SetHii
a ,hn w HnSiN w" NY, !, .egh rgw bady