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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-01-24
Vernon.

reception was given Simon Knoll anC
bride last evening at the Downey house
Mr.. Knoll has been clerk i'm w. ID. tS A.
Garrls0n's store for number of years and
he was missed while away OH his brida
trip. The many friends of the couple wish
them all the happiness of a happy married
couple.
Miss Jennie Jewell, who lived two miles
west of Newburg. was buried here yester.
day.
a young child of Mr.. Martin Long was
buried i'm the Union cemetery yesterday.
Ward Bryant was home last week on q
vacation. and is now in charge of the night
telegraph Office in Linden.
A little son of J, G. Whitcomb, former
Vernon pastor, died at the home of his
grandparents Sunday morning. Mr.. Whit
comb came Tuesday morning to take the
remains to his home near Port Huron for
burial.
Emery Wilkinson buried little child
here to-day.
Miss Ida Christian, of Fowlerville. is Wis
iting friends here for few days.
1t has been rumOred about town that
some OF the young men left their windows
open some frosty night. We think Dame
Rumor is about right this time for the fnzz
which heretofore covered the boys upper
lips Is minus and leaves space which looks
very much as though it was frost bitten.
LA Grippe" is having full swing and
everyone gets hit, knows it and don't care
for second turn with it.
New firm in town. Henry Clark, of Vernon
and M. X. Clark, of Durand, has bought the
stock of drygoods and groceries formerly
belonging to II. p. Nichols, and will contin.
tie business i'm the old stand of the late A.
w. Nichols.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-01-24
Bancroft.

Dr. Bradt has again returned to Bancroft
from st. Charles and reports his family
much improved. This time he brings with
him son and informs me that he expects TO
bring his family here very soon and locate
permanently.
Martin V. B. Wxom is suffering with Ia
grippe, and has been confined to the house
for nearly two weeks.
VIM. Herrick and Fred Chandler are i'm
OwOssO for "ElectrO Magnetic" treatment
under the care of Prof. f. Cooper, and are
reported very much improved.
Postmaster Parker has very much inn
proved the looks and convenience of the
Post-Office by changing so the Office runs
across instead of lengthwise of the building.
Odel Chapman was in town yesterday
looking over the interest of William f. Wat
son d Brother, in a suit in the Justice
court before Sanders J. Gumey, Justice of
the Peace.
Amos Jones has vacated the "UniOn
House" and has taken temporary quarters in
the ZONES House" north of the Railroad,
and in the meantime, we are Informed, he is
negotiating for the ''Sager House" in Nor
rice.
The examination of Robert Schirmer' who
was charged with breaking into the store OF
William T.. Watson d Bro. which was to
come off before justice Gurney, yesterday,
failed to materialize, the Prosecuting Attor-
ney and the complaining witness not appear
ing, the prisoner was discharged.
Mrs. DR.. Wheelock is suffering from dph-
liberia as will be seen by the red card at
tached TO the outside of the house.
Mrs. Matthewson, wife of Omer Matthew
son. living just south of the village, died of
diphtheria last Thursday and was buried Fri
day afternoon. Mrs. Matthewson was a
very estimable woman and many friends
mourn her loss. She leaves q husband and
six small children, the oldest being n boy
about twelve years old.
The social for the benefit of the Ladies'
Band held at the residence of Roger Sher-
man OH Friday evening last was quite well
attended. and good time was reported.
From financial point, am sorry to say it
could hardly be called success.
A new boarder at Glib Fellows. Ii Is a
boy and came to stay. Family are doing
well.
Henry NJ. Billings is now in Washington,
having been called there to report for duty
under his appointment as Collector of Cen
sus for the Southern States.
Zero weather last night and now the
weather prophets are combining TO have q
cold February. We have one consolation,
however, we have had q warm winter so far
and no weather prophet can beat us out OF
that. Jones.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-01-24
Perry.

The Rev. o. c. Bailey has been very sick
several days with la grippe. His pulpit
was occupied Sunday evening by the Rev.
Mr.. Halstead who filled the Congregational
pulpit Sunday morning.
VIM. Watkins of the intermediate depart
ment was sick Monday and Tuesday with la
grippe, and ii. j. McEwen of the high
school laid by last Friday for the same reas-
on.
Mrs. Chas. Calkins passed away at three
o'clock this wednesday, morning. Mrs.
Calkins has been i'm feeble health for several
years. She leaves husband and one
daughter to mourn her loss. The funeral
will occur tomorrow at the Congregational
church.
Loren Watkins and Lena Cudney are both
out of school this week OH account of la
grippe.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-01-24
North Venice.

The roads are frozen and are very rough.
The funeral of Mr.. J. Stevens will be
held to-day at the school house i'm district
No. 2. He is the father of Mr.. Geo. Ste
vens, with whom he has resided for the past
few months. The family of Mr.. Stevens
have the sympathy of the community. Fu-
neral services were conducted by the Rev.
Mr.. Goss, of Corunna. The remains will
be inferred in the Wilkinson cemetery.
There was no church last Sunday on ac-
count of quarterly meeting at Juddville.
En-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-02
Paper Pillows.

During the Franco-German wal the
ladies of England were busy making
paper cushions, which they semi to
France to be used for the wounded in
the hospitals. Hundreds of thousands
of these cushions were sent, and were
of great service. Now all England is
crazy on the subject of paper pillows
again. They tear the paper into very
small pieces. not bigger than ones
finger nail, and then put them into a
pillow sack of drilling or light ticking.
They are very cool for hot climates,
and much superior to feather pillows.
Newspaper is not nice to use, as there
is a d~isagreeable odor from printers
ink; but brown or white paper and old
letters and envelopes are the best. AS
they are torn stuff them into an old
pillow case, and you can see when you
have enough. The easiest way is to
tear or cut the paper in strips about
half ar inch wide, and then tear or cut
it across. The finer it is the lighter it
makes the pillows.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-02
FASHION AND DRESS ABROAD.

SAILORS hats should have two bands OF
inch-wide velvet, with a little bow at
one side. The black and colored straw
hats are SO open and lacy that ribbons are
run in and out Of brims, pulling them
up in a most purposeless and erratlc
name
Paris is unusually gay just now with
balls, dinners, and entertainments of all
kinds, and new modes succeed each
other with magic precipitancy. The
chief noticeable generality is the mar
row, flat, close-ftting skirt, revealing
the outlines of the body, making its
wearers strangely suggestive of sculp-
tors models swathed In damp linen.
CoRsELErs form a pleasing addition to
many new gowns, either In gold or Sill
yer arabeseues; with collar and cuffs to
correspond. Lightly V corslets OF
gold or silver filigree make a pretty I'm
ish to white evening dresses cut IN the
ed metal set with jewels are very strlk-
ing worn with black lace gowns, though
somewhat theatrical in effect.
IT has been bodices that tailors and
modistes have dreamed owe Those
whose ~fastenings are mostlntrlcate, II
whose decorations are most unique n
altogether incomprehensible, are the
greatest artistic triumphs. Not a hint
must be given of how fastening is ac-
complished, and the modiste who can
plan a seamless bodice to show the few
est plaits al the waist is the queen of de-
signers.
COLLARS, if collars are worn, should
match the sleeves and are made higher
than ever-either straight or round and
enlarging toward the top funnel wise
Narrow, bright-hued ribbons are tied
outside these high, straight collars, and
may be seen in the shops prepared for
that purpose in pompadour designs ana
tintings, plaids and gay %colors, in suita-
bic lengths and with fringed ends.
SKIRTS are frequently hemmed up on
the right side with a row of feather
stitching and mounted on the bodice
about an inch below the waist, or have
the back breadths closely gathered and
sewn to the round bodice, while the
fronts are folded over it and draped
slightely on the hips. Sometimes the
back of the bodice is finished off in a
little jockey basque, and the division
between the front and the tabliar is
concealed by a belt, either shaped to
the figure and pinned down in a point,
or else fastened with a rosette on one
side. Sashes are very fashionable for
evening gowns, and for light summer
fabrics the founce put on in pleats or
gathers. and with a little beading.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-02
Reckless Cycling,
From the London Graphic.

During the last fortnight there have
been quite a number of accidents
some attended by fatal consequences
through people being ridden over by
cyclists. In all of these cases the evil
dence goes to indicate excessive speed
as the prime cause. There is a pace,
especially when going down hill, which
practically deprives the rider of all con-
troll over his machine. He can guide it,
but that is all. As for pulling up quick
ly, as we'll might the engine-driver of
an express train attempt to do so. Nor
even in the matter of guiding has the
cycist a free hand. Any large devia-
ton from the straight line of his course
would, if he were pelting along at the
rate of eighteen or twenty miles an
hour, inevitably cause an upset. He
has nothing for it, therefore, but to
trust to luck and the chapter of acct
dents, which he does with a sang
froid that would be truly admir-
able were it not SO largely
tinctured with recklessness. When he
mounts to the brow of a steep hill, and
looks down at the decline stretching out
before him, he knows perfectly we'll
that if he once allows his steel steed to
take charge" there can be no attempt
to pull UP until the bottom is reached.
Equally aware is he that, by timely APP
plication of the brake, and by "back-
~pedalling." the machine car be kept at
a moderate pace, admitting of guidance
and of stopping. But because it is a
pleasant rush down hill at the speed Of
a racer, without any exertion, he takes
his feet off the pedals, sets his teeth
tight, and, to use his own expression,
"lets her slide" The result is that if
any pedestrian chances to block his way
being, perhaps, too deaf to hear the
warming bella fearful collision takes
place, and one or the other is killed.
Cyclists have yet to learn, apparently,
that the responsibility of keeping clear
Vehicles.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-02
Electric Railways.

Prof. Elihu Thompson, in speaking on
sHThe Problems of the Future" SAYS:
"In the near future railways will be run
by electricity; not the small roads, /
mean, but really the large one connect
ing cities, and there is no reason why
we should not expect higher speed than
we can attain at present with our steam
locomotives. There we have reciprocal
ting parts that must be put in motion,
stopped and reversed continually, while
in the electric locomotive we have the
simple rotary motion, which makes it
possible accordingly to run at a much
higher rate of speed. Although the
steam locomotive has been very much
improved, yet it can hardly compare
with the economy of stationary engines,
placed where they can have abundant
water supply for c~ondeEsing purposes.
We can, therefore, by employing sta
tionary engines and electric roads, do
way with a great deal of unnecessary
weight, and, the moving parts beings SYM
metrical, we can attain a much higher
speed, say 100 miles an hour This
would be q grand step forward, which
would save us a great deal of time. It
might even be possible to reach a speed
of 100 miles an hour; it simply depends
upon finding the method of applying
sufficient power, and building the
locomotives to suit, arrangements be-
ing adopted to keep the cars on the
track -
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-02

was evidently a visitor from out of
town; and, when the stage stopped for
her to alight at her destination, she
looked timidly this way and that, as if
fearful she might lose her footing on
the slippery stone pavements, and be
run down in the crush Of moving We
hicles. In an instant a young man who
had been reading his newspaper sprang
up, alighted, held open the door, and
helped the old woman down, escorted
her to the sidewalk in safety, ran after
the stage and caught it, jumped aboard
again, and resumed his reading as if he
had done only the most natural thing in
the world. A thrill went through me
as | felt that l was once more in the
country where, even though polish of
manner was sometimes lacking, the real
essence of politeness was deeply seated
in the national heart. Oh, yes, We do
have the Great Human Hog here-no-
BODY denies that-but he's the rare ex-
cpptiOn. not the rule.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-02
a Speech.

Philadelphia Telegraph's Washington Letter.
1t may look like a very easy thing for
a member, having his speech written,
to deliver it during the course of an
hour in the House, but it is not such an
easy thing as it looks. The average
speaker gets a deal of athletic exercise
in the course of an hours speech.
There are some members in the House
who can stand and read q speech with
out lifting a hand except to turn the
pages, and almost without changing
positions; and there are others who
can talk ali day without getting tired;
but the average speaker p%erspires as if
he were saving wood. An oft-hand
speech of ten minutes does not count,
but the man who throws his arms in
the air as if wEArling Indian clubs, ham
mers his desk like a blacksmith and
dances all around the place for an hour
ormore, is taking very violent exercise.
Experience has taught some of them
that it is not safe to make such a speech
without taking extra precaution against
cooling off too quickly afterwards.
/ know several men who take extraor-
binary precautions. They do not speak
often. They know for weeks before
hand that they are to speak, n after
all preparations are made for d speech
1tSoII, ana the Gay comes lOT Tie cHOrI,
they have a servant bring a complete
change of linen and underwear and a
heavy overcoat to the capitol, and wait
with these things at hand until the
speech is ended. Then the speaker,
with the perspiration pouring off him,
rushes to the cloak-room, where the SER
want stands with the coat ready, and
throws it over his shoulders as soon as
he comes within reach. Next, the
member, with the collar of his overcoat
turned up high, tucks his dry under
clothing under his arm and makes for
the bathrooms. There he enters the
waiting-room, where the temperature is
high and there can be no dranght, be-
ing underground, and waits to cool off a
little preparatory to a bath. There is
no more work for him in the House that
day. When he has got his bath he
makes for his lodgings as fast as he can,
and stays there until thoroughly rested.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-02
Marie Bashkirtseff's Queer Grave.
From the Pail Mall Gazette.

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
Close to the entrance of the pretty,
still, rural cemetery of Passy has Mad
anne Bashkirtseff chosen to place the
in a conspicuous place." dreamt of by
Marie the year before her death. Usual
as it is to see some little object, dear to
the dead who lie below, carefully pre-
served on their tombstones or set into
the crosses erected above their graves
"a wedding veil or wreath, for instance
Nine. Bashkirtsef9s monument to heI
daughters memory provoked consider
able comment at the time of its erection,
and it is rarely that a day passes by
without bringing one or two visitors to
Marie Bashkirtseff7s last resting-place,
made by a mothers loving hands more
like a home than a grave.
The monument is divided into two
parts-the basement or vault, and a
chapel above. The latter, which can
only be seen by the ordinary visitor
through a glass door, has been fitted up
like a corner of the studio we have just
quilted. Her rocking-chair, little table,
something grotesquely horrible and vet
pathetic in the sight. On the walls, in
scribed in letters of gold, are the titles
of her paintings. lie Meeting" now in
the Luxembourg Gallery, Spring" etc.
There, also, are the verses written by
Coppee, and several of his brother po-
cts, in remembrance of the young Rus
sian girl who SO loved France. A short
fight Of marble stairs leads to the vault
where stands the sarcophagus. A life
size, startlingly lifelike portrait of Ma
RE, done in oils, stands opposite the
tlo~Wer-coVered bier, before which a
light is kept always burning.
"When Nine. Bashkirtsef is in
Paris" remarks the sacristan, "she
spends much of her time here. They
say that this chapel cost as much as a
house-100,0 900 francs Ito build and ar
range in this fashion. But then, you
see, it is the finest monument in Paris.
Pere Lachaise has nothing to show like
it, nothing" And he carefully takes
half-boudoir above, and through into
the free, fresh air of Passy once more.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-02
Worn-Out Shoes Have Their Uses.

From the New York Tribune.
WORKOUT shoes have their uses. The
Italian scavenger who rakes up your
ash-barrel and sends the dust flying
over your doorstep knows tnis well,
and his black eyes glisten at the sight of
old leather. If the shoes are not worn
to shreds, he sells them to a second
hand dealer, and they are patched up
and resold; but if they are past mending,
he takes them home to his cellar and
rips them all apart, or his wife and chill
dren do. The pieces he sells to a manu-
facturer. From the larger pieces, after
being soaked till soft, the uppers of
children's shoes are cut. The soles are
cut into small pieces to make up the
layers of the heels of other shoes, the
iron pegs that are not bent can be used
over again, and the little scraps that are
left after all this are subjected to a
treatment that makes them all one
pli9ble mass from which a kind of artis-
tic leather is rolled out. This is used
for covering chairs, books, trunks, boxes,
etc. Many fancy patterns are stamped
on it, and the trade in this kind of Gem
bossed' leather in the United States is
a Well-established one.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-02
American
From Kate Fields Washington

from kdl6 FlelQ 5 NdSu1uStOu-
The swinish ~propensities of the hui
man race are confined to no nationality,
sect or color. | have met with them in
England, France and Germany quite as
often as in America. Indeed, | am far
from sure that, take him with all his
faults, the American has not a larger
share of the generous virtues than the
man of any other country. [ remem-
Der once returning from an extended
tour abroad, during which | had seen
women sickened with cigarette smoke
in close railway carriages; standing on
decks Of the Rhine steamers while
their welded lords enjoyed the scenery
and the Baler-bier on the few chairs in
sight; and wading through eas of mud
at street crossings, while a gallant Gaul,
perched on the only dry spot, barred his
head in Difference to their sex as they
passed by.
The day I landed in New York, / rode
once down and up Broadway in an om-
nibus, to see how the city had changed
in my absence. The street was in a
vile condition, as usual. Next me sat
an elderly woman of the middle class,
very plainly, but respectfully clad. She
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-02
Not Sick

1t has often been declared thatmoney
is a very good measure of emotion. The
story is an old one of the man who,
When a case of destitution was under
discussion, remarked to the meeting, 81
am sorry to- the extent of $40. Howser-
ry are the rest of your" The Home
Journal tells a good story of a dear little
girl, who has her own bright wayso of do
ing things for others, but who never
ceases to show childhood's simplicity.
One morning Elsie's mother felt very
i'll, and could not be induced to eat any
breakfast, and the child thought she
might possibly drink her coffee if she
could have it in a new and pretty cup.
There was but one step from thought
to action. She put on her hat and a
out to a china store. There she saw a
beautiful cupin the window, and going
in, found a clerk impatient to serve, her.
She told him the whole story of mann
mas illness and her own idea about the
cup, and the sympathetic clerk at once
took down the pretty bit of china. FL
sic examined it.
Eyes" said she, III think this is just
the right thing. How much is it
"Twenty-seven dollars" replied the
clerk.
"Oh,". cried the child, hastily, "my
mamma is not as sick as thatp'
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-02
Fun at Table.
From Texas Siftings.

An Austin man read in q paper that
the family table should always be the
scene of laughter and merriment, and
that no meal should be passed in the
moody silence that 20 often character
ICES those occasions. The idea struck
him so favorably that when his family
was gathered around the table that
evening he said:
"Now, this sort o. thing of keeping SO
blamed mum at meals has got to stop.
You hear me? You girls, put in an
tell stories, an keep up agreeable sort
O. talk, like, an you boys, laugh and be
jolly, or I'll take and dust your jackets
with a grapevine till you can't stand.
Now begin! !"
The glare he sent around the table
made the family as happy as a funeral.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-02
If About to Travel or Emigrate.

The voyager cannot be provided with a safer
remedy and protective medicine than Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters. Abundant testimony ex-
list to prove that it ~nu1lifies hurtful climatic in
fuences and the effects of exposure, that it rec
onciles the stomach to unaccustomed food, and
prevents injurious results from impure water.
Mariners, tourists, emigrants and miners have
all contributed their quota of testimony in it's
behalf, and its protective influence has been
most effectually demonstrated in regions and
unde- conditions where, if not really effective,
that fact would long since have been exposed.
In no class of disorders have its remedial and
preventive properties been more conspicuously
shown than in cases of malarial fevers, maladies
tor which it is the most popular specific in ex-
lstence. both here and in the tropics, where its
reputation is scarcely second to that which it
enjoys on this continent. 1t is, moreover, a most
agreeable appetizer and nerYine.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-02

The old-fashioned organdies are COM
ing in again, silk chine borderings APP
pear on many of the woolens, and some
of the newest nuns veilings have seal
loped borders edged with fringe, for
fringe is to be much worn. Pretty
lowered foulards, lowered d~elaines, the
new lowered ~piquesin cream and white,
are being made up in quantities. Spots
thinner materials, and spotted sun
shades to correspond are correct adj
.juncts to these toilets.