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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-11-19
Wealthy Iowa Hanker Ieioes Under.

Boone, Ia, Nov. 1.-John A. Nc
Farland, the oldest banker in Boone
County, has made an assignment. The
liabilities are SIS, 500, while the assets,
mostly in real estate, loot up $40, 900.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-11-19
Emperor William Puts Up.

Emperor William has summoned
Prof. Koch to an interview, in order to
personally learn the results that have
been obtained from the new consump-
ton cure. The Emperor has made a
personal gift Of S25O,000 to Prof. Koch,
and another of the same amount to en-
dow national institute for the produc-
ton of the lymph used in Koch's pro-
cess. The lymph is described as trans
parent yellow fluid, having a slight
smell of carbolic acid. Tne.patient who
was cured of lupus was girl of IL years.
The doctors who knew of the case were
deeply interested in the wonderful and
speedy results of the treatment.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-11-19
Will Not Handle Lottery Business.

The board Of managers of the Adams
Express Company held their first meet
ing since the passage of the anti-lottery
act, at New York on the 18th. The
board were unanimously of the opinion
that the provisions of such law were as
morally obligatory upon the company,
as they are legally binding upon the
postal authorities. The attention of
the board was called to the fact that the
post office department had issued regu-
iations to anits subordinates as to the
manner in which they should carry out
the provisions and intent of the act,
and the board adopted a resolution
making such regulations applicable to
the employees of the company.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-11-19
DEATH BY DYNAMITE.
Three Men Blown to Pieces by an Elk
plosion at Lima, 0.

LIMA, O., Nov. 14.-By premature
explosion of dynamite in Clusters stone
quarry, this morning, Charles Burkett,
Henry Wisecup and George Fisher
were blown to pieces, and Frank Fisher
and Samuel Watt seriously injured.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-11-19
Talking Reciprocity.

The Department of State has received
dispatch from Ramon o. Williams,
consul-general at Havana, enclosing a
translation of the announcement in the
official journal of the fact that the chair
man Of the Chamber of Commerce,
chairman of the Tobacco Growers and
Manufacturers Association, and the
chairman of the Board of Sugar
planters, of Havana, have been called to
the palace by instructions from Madrid,
and requested to appointa committee to
go to Madrid and report personally the
views of these corporations upon the
negotiation of a reciprocity treaty with
the United States. Mr.. Williams also
encloses the translation of an editorial
from La Lucha, leading paper of Ha-
vana, regarding the action of the Span
ish cabinet, in which it warns Premier
Canova that reciprocity with America
must be attained
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-11-19
Spotted Fever i'm Tennessee.

The dreadful spotted fever that made
it's appearance last March near Foun-
tainhead, about fifteen miles from Gal
latin, killing about 80 per cent. of the
victims, has reappeared. James Samp-
son, living in the infected section, lost
three grown sons in two days.
He has since moved within three
miles of Gallatin, and now his daugh-
ter has genuine case. The doctors do
not know know how to handle the dis
ease. Spotted fever is an epidemic
cerebro spinal meningitis and is dis
ease of the nineteenth century. The
death rate is so per cent. Its average
duration is about fourteen days, but
death often occurs in a few hours. AS
the disease is SO far away, no fear is an
ticipated of it's reaching Gallatin.
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Oceans Teeming with Life.

AT recent meeting of the Edinburg
Royal Society DR.. John Murray discussed
the question of the origin and ma
ture of the coral reefs and other carbon
ate of lime formations in recent seas.
He first referred to experiments which
have recently been made regarding So
erection and solution of carbonate of
lime. Carbonate of lime remains are
found in great abundance at the sea bot
tom in shallow waters, but the amount
steadily diminishes as the depth in
creases, until at 1000 fathoms almost
every trace has disappeared This is due
to solution, as the organisms slowly fall
to the bottom. Everywhere within 500
fathoms of the surface the ocean teens
with life. The Greeley expedition was
starving within ten feet of abundance of
food which might have been obtained
by breaking hole through the ice and
using shirt as a drag-net- DIR. Murray
then proceeded to discuss his theory of
the formation of coral reefs, bringing
forward, in reply to objections by Dana
and others, some recently obtained facts
regarding the existence of shallow re-
gions in what Is, ON the whole, deep
water. Ha showed that carbonate of
lime is continually produced in great
quantity in warm tropical water by the
action of sulphate of lime in solution on
effete products. This explains the great
growth of coral In tropical regions. The
absence of coral on certain shores in
tropical districts is explained by the up
rise of cold water due to winds blowing
off shore. His paper was illustrated by
an elaborate series of lime-light dia-
grams
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Louis Napoleon's Double

1t has been said that Ex-Empress
Eugene, in one of her mysterious visits
to Paris recently, was tempted to drive
out on the Bots in q closed carriage. AS
she glanced from the window at that
familiar landscape she loved SO well she
drew back with startled exclamation of
surprise. Her attendant gave a hurried
look at an object to which the Empress
was pointing with deep emotion.
On slight knoll ahead of them was
the exact counterpart of the late emperor
of the French, twirling his moustache
and walking up and down with that
peculiar stride of the Bonapartes.
Eugene made inquiries about this person
and sent him handsome present She
declines, however, any further rides in
the Bots. The old man is veteran of
the Algerian war, and, although proud
Of his accidental likeness, is in heart an
ardent republican and despises the name
of Bonaparte.
The mans face has been his fortune,
and he received unlimited pourboires
from Bonapartist sympathizers and he
bore the ignominy cheerfully He has
been missing for some time, and lies at
deaths door In his little home at Le VAL
lois Ferret, q suburb of Paris.
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Marx Twain ns He "a TODAY.

Mark Twain is close-knit, profuse.
haired man Of quiet manner, with
shaggy, protruding eyebrows and
dropping reddish n,oustache tinged with
gray. He speaks slowly and measuredly,
sometimes lingering over o word and
then accelerating the speed of the next
few, SO as to make up for the delay. He
wakes eloquent on the subject of inter
national copyright, and has habit,
when talking, of staring fixedly at some
imaginary object as If he had got hold
OF an idea and was determined to keep
In sight of 1t. He writes a youthful
iegible hand, but pigeon-holes story
some years after writing it, and is not
chary of his autograph when properly
asked for. He lives next door to Harriet
Beecher Stowe; takes long walk every
day; smokes corncob pipe is seldom
seen in New York, and can drive a bar
gain. He has more offers to lecture than
any other man in America, and an ac-
complished wife who is utterly at loss
to see any fun in his books. He is rising
five and fifty, doesn't look it, wears eye
glasses, and can get laugh out of a
grindstone or a civil engineer.
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Farmer 0erard's rroeSE.

a member of the lower house Of
the prerent French parliament, the
Chamber Of Deputies, M. Thivrier by
name, Is laborer by occupation, and
wears, when in his place in the chamber,
che blouse or frock ordinarily worn by
French workmen. He promised his con-
stituents, before his election, to wear the
blouse in the chamber, and keeps his
promise.
His case recalls that of farmer named
Gerard. who, in the year 1889, was
elected to the famous National Assembly
of France, from Rennes. Father Ge-
rard, as he was affectionately called IN
the assembly, never put off in the legis-
lative halls the farmers frock which he
had worn on his farm.
A historian of the period records the
fact that Father Gerard's frock was of
great service to him; for if he said
stupid thing, as all legislators may some
times do, his frock saved him.
at is only good Farmer Gerard, his
colleagues would say.
But when, on the other hand, he spoke
rSHSLOly anu AolCADA9S Ills HOIuS, AA0
Franklin's, gained in weight from the
simplicity Of his garb.
Returning, after his legislative service,
to his old friends and neighbors, he
brought them back, as he said, his frock
without any spots on it He had a
special grudge against the lawyers who
were members of the legislative body.
do you think, he said, that should
deem it an honor to wear one of the
black coats that those fellows have on?
Not bit of it, Why, those little law
yers and doctors that think they know
everything, they haven't got foot of
land of their own under the sum-"
In his opinion, none but farmers were
capable of making good laws. q
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them In novel way. She ran short OF
money and couldn't pay her rent The
landlord dunned her and finally sworU
out writ Of ejectment She heard OF
1t and made preparations accordingly.
The writ was given to constable to
serve. Hewent to the rooms and raped
on the door. There was no answer. and
he raped again. Then he tried the
door. 1t was unlocked and he walked
in. The woman was standing before the
mirror in dishabille.
II beg your pardon, madam, he said.
@Siri" she exclaimed, with several ex-
clamation points, "Do you'd intruder
Leave at once or shall call for help"
He left. He tried twice afterward to
serve the writ and was bluffed out Of It
in the same way both times Then he
gave it up as bad job, and shortly
afterward she paid.
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The American Bird.

On Saturday a bald-eagle attacked q
dog on the farm on which Mr.. Wallace
Fields lives, near Derwood, Md, and took
from 1t a piece of fresh beef. Mr.. Fields
attention was called to his dog. which was
about one hundred yards from the dwell
ing, by its piteous howlings. and advanced
in that direction Running toward the
house was the dog with the piece Of beef
in his mouth and the eagle apparently
riding on the dogs back and billing his
head until the blood was profusely flow
ing.
The dog dropped the meat and the eagle
seized 1t, Swimming the earth in its flight
The dog turned on the eagle again with
another dog that had come to his assis-
lance, and recovered the meat. The eagle
seemed ravenous in its appetite, and
attacked the dogs the second time, and
secured the meat, taking fight alighting
in a large tree on the premises. Mr..
Fields had loaned his gun out, and. before
his return from a neighbours with a gun
to shoot the eagle, 1t had taken its final
departure and has not been seen since.
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King Carlos, of Portugal. who pos
sesses sixteen Christian names, while his
younger brother answers to no less than
thirty, is personally one Of the most
amiable of monarchs. He is a handsome
blonde young man, who carries himself
with a military air. and is credited by
his personal friends with considerable
decision of character. He Is a devoted
sportsman, an accomplished musician.
speaks seven languages and paints in
water colors--in short, he is bit Of a
savant, like his relative, the unlucky ex-
Emperor Dom Pedro. The queen Is be-
lieved to be popular. She is tall and
handsome and was very carefully educa-
ted. She does not share her husbands
passion for music, but is a student of his
tory, delights in mathematics, and is q
clever sketcher. She speaks French.
Portuguese, English and German. She
is said to take deep and intelligent in
terest in public affairs and to be exceed
ingly fond Of her adopted country.
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@Bili Bowman watched his chance,
and every time his opponent stopped for
q potato another hit him in the side,
leaving wet spot on his clothes. Old
Bill hit the desperate about FIVE times,
and then the sixth potato struck him in
the short ribs, knocking the wind com
pletely out Of him and doubling him up
ON the grass.
The people were almost crazy with
laughter, but Bill Bowman looked as
fober as IL had just finished preaching a
funeral sermon. The Desperate was
taken home and put to bed, land there he
staid for more than week before he re-
covered from the effects of his Irish po-
tato duel.
The old men in Millersburg still talk
about that celebrated duel, but it was
the means of breaking up dueling in
that section.
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Emin Pasha.s Ysirth ana Percentage.

The certificate of the birth and bap-
tism OF Emin Pasha has been unearthed
by German newspaper. which, after
Emin's recent accident, thought it well
to collect some reliable facts and figures
for biographical sketch of the traveller.
The documents were found in the regis
ter kept at the Protestant church at
Neisse. where Eduard Karl Oscar Theo-
dor Schnitzer, alias Emin Pasha, and son
of the merchant Louis Sohnitzer, was
christened and confirmed The boys
parents were Jews, and he was only
christened at the age of six years.
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A Duel with Potatoes.

"This seems to be a year of daels, said
DIR. Morrison of the First Methodist
church to an Atlanta journal reporter,
"but notice there are far more duels
than blood. 1t reminds me of famous
duel fought in Kentucky in 1848.
"Bill Bowman was a noted preacher
who lived near Millersburg He was a
typical Kentuckian, tan, angular, and
muscular. Like Sam Jones, he always
said what he thought. In the midst of
a revival meeting well-known despe-
RADIO came into the church and began
making disturbance. With eyes fash
ing with indignation Bill Bowman arose
and in ringing voice publicly reproved
the desperate, who at once retired from
the church.
"The next morning the desperate sent
a challenge to Bowman to fight him a
duel. Bowman accepted the challenge,
and there was no four-column newspaper
correspondence, no railroad trips to an
adjoining state, nothing but two little
notes-one challenge and the other an
acceptance-and then all was ready for
the fight. The town was terribly ex-
cited, for such a thing as a preacher
fighting a duel had never been heard of
before.
"Old Bill Bowman being the chal-
lenged man had the choice of weapons.
He selected half-bushel of Irish pota-
toes as big as his fist for each man, and
stipulated that his opponent must stand
fifteen PAGES distant, and only one tuber
at time to be taken from the measure.
The town was wild with delight, for
everybody knew that Bill Bowman could
throw, with his long, muscular arms, as
straight and almost as swift as rife
could send bullet singing toward the
target.
"The desperate was furious at being
thus freshly insulted and made an indig-
nantprotect against snch fight, but Bill
Bowman insisted that he was the chal-
lenged man and had right to choose
his own weapons, and threatened to de-
nounce the desperate as coward if he
failed to come to time. AS there was no
way out of the box but to fight the des-
perado finally consented to face the
preacher.
"The fight took place on the outskirts
of the town. Everybody in Millersburg
was present to see the fun. The seconds
arranged the two men in position, by the
side of each being ahalf -bushel measure
filed with large Irish potatoes as hard as
a brick.
"Bill Bowman threw the first potato.
1t struck his opponent a central shot,
and flew into thousand pieces. A yell
of delight went up from the crowd,
which ratified the desperate, and his po-
tato flew wide of the tall, bony preacher.
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A New York Catch.

Miss Tessie Fair, who is one of the
most notable catches in the matrimon-
ial market, is seen great deal about the
theaters in New York. She dimes in the
Hoffman House restaurant with her
mother and sister every night, and her
table is gazed at by variety of profess
sional bachelors with faces more or less
Indicative of deep and earnest yearn-
ing. Whoever will marry Miss Fair will
come into possession of her original
dowry. together with the share which
she Is to have from her fathers estate,
the whole of which foots up to so many
millions that it is rather dazzling thing
to think of during this era of financial
depression. Miss Fair looks something
like Mrs. Randolph Churchill -[New
York Sun.
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A picture has recently been shown
around up town which represents Mr..
and Mrs Langtry as they appeared about
twelve years ago. 1t is cheap picture,
taken in small provincial town. and it
represents Mr.. Langtry sitting on bit
Of rock, with Mrs. Langtry leaning on
his shoulder. The Jersey Lily had not
then achieved any fame as beauty. In
the photograph she wears an Hitting
sacque. an awkward little walking hat,
and her gloves are wrinkled and bulky.
Mr.. Langtry Is fat, heavy-faced, and
solemn-looking man, who would be re-
garded as a fair type of the New York
cabman dressed In holiday attire He
looks ten years older than his wife, but
his face has lines of dignified persever-
ance and determination. - New York
Sun.
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"The idle Singer of an Empty Day"

William Morris, now the second OF
English living poets, might like Tenny-
son, and unlike Browning, be taken for
a poet by a man in the street Art, lit
erature, aud socialism are his three in
terests. He talks rapidly, eloquently,
suggestively, finds the need Of pacing
about the room when he gets warm with
his subject. Is entirely frank, unconven-
tional, and sincere, and shows a grand
manliness, simplicity, strength and di-
rectness Of mind. He is scholar to the
lips of him, without the scholars petty
love of detail. AS a speaker he has much
improved on the rough style of early
days, and is now fluent, and even grace
full, preferring to speak without notes.
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Toronto, with $4,000 people, has no
Sunday papers nor street cars.
The Moral Teachings OF Science.

What we want is clear and intelligi-
BILE basis ON which we can take our stand
in the work of life. If it were true that
selfishness is the universal law of pro-
gress. then the sooner we learn the truth
the better. But If this is not so, we need
have no fear that the study of natural
laws will mislead us into believing it.
With our limited knowledge we may
often be perplexed, but so long as we do
not overstrain the facts we shall not be
COMPOUNDED. II it be true that the In
sthcts which lead us to be just and mer-
ciful, honest and unselfish, pure and az
fectionate, to fear moral degradation
and to aspire to nobleness of character,
are inherent in the very laws of our
being, then we shall find the gradual
development of these qualities in the
groundwork of living nature. In a
word we shall find evidence that high
moral duties are not merely true because
all religions have taught them, but Mat
all religions have taught them because
they are true. If we can establish this
conclusion, though much must remain
uncertain, so long as our view is 30 linn
tied, yet we shall have found firm ground
upon which the scientific and religious
sanctions of morality meet, affording a
bulwark against the flood of scepticism
as to all things noble and good which
threatens to overwhelm u.s. Arabella
B. Buckley.
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The Khediys Love. His WIG.

The Khedive is much in love with hts
wife, who wears modern costume,
while their children dress like Ameri-
cans. The Khediveh, as she is called,
has her harem, or women servants, by
the score. She is accompanied when
ever she goes out to ride or drive by
some of her numerous eunuchs, and
she keeps up big establishment sepa-
rate from that of the king. Their love
for each other and the example of the
Khedive in having but one wife is catch
ing, and many of the older noble Arab
gentlemen are following it.
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Bucks Duel TO the Death.

One of the keepers in Bushey Park re-
Gently discovered two fine bucks, 6 and
7years old respectively, dead, their horns
being locked together in most remark
able manner. The right horn of the up
permost animal was firmly fixed in the
mouth of the lower the left horn of the
lower was as firmly fixed in the mouth
of the upper, and the other horns were
tightly locked together. The fight that
ended SO fatally must have been a
long and stubborn one, for both animals
had sustained severe body wounds. -
[Public Opinion.
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ont 20 flx upfor her Mttie granddaughter,
and. in Tunntng her band over It 70
bruah off ths tobacco crumbs, one OF har
fingers was siighiy scratched By pin
which fsstened . covering on the doll.
In short dime her hand and arm up to
the elbow began swelling and coloring
and wasvery painful. This was about
fourteen weeks ago, and IN that time her
arm has been lanced no less than eleven
times II Owingsville. KY, Outlook.
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The twenty-first verse of the second
chapter of Ezra contains every letter of
the alphabet, and is the only one thus
distinguished: "And, I, even /, Arta-
xerxes, the king, do make a decree to all
the treasurers which are beyond the
river, that whatsoever Ezra, the priest,
the scribe Of the law of the God of
heaven, shall require of You, is to be
done speedily.
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corne with shame and modification. had
eainted away in hin sisters srm&
And then and there ended all her
hopes of ever becoming mistress Of Sta
pleton park. Alas what radiant wis.,
ions little mistake" will sometimes
overthrow.
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VINO FEE WEE


Winx Tea Wee
WA svTsys Chtnee,
And she llYsd In the town Of Tao,
And her eyes were blue,
| And Der ouriAne cue
Hung dangling down her back,
ARA M fssi p love viii gay WIN 81
When he wrote hss icve on laundry bill
And oh. Tin Told
Was pirate bcia,
! And he sailed In Chinese junk;
| And he loved. ah, me.
Sweet Wing Tee Wee.
But his valiant heart had sunk;
So he downed his blues in tickle fizz,
AND vowed the maid would yet be bis.
So bold Tin Told
Showed all his gold
To the maid In the town of Tao,
4! And sweet Wing Tee Wee
" Eloped 70 sea
And never more came back,
Fot In far Chinee the maids are fair,
And the maids are false, a. everywhere
Harvard Lampoons
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Count Herbert Bismarck, during his
sojourn in the Orient, learned new
proverb, which he repeated in recent
speech: There are three things with
which no man should play; The fire, be-
cause it can burn him; the viper. be-
cause it can burn him; the viper, be-
cause she-can love him.
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a weekly paper asked Edward Bel
fanny to write an article on the question !:
"What can be done with the servant
girl?" And he answered the question by
asking another one, namely: What can
be done without her ?" "To this, l think,
he said, "the response may safely be,
every thing.