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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-03-26
Protecting Apple Trees from Mice

With the beginning of snow will come
the danger OF mice girdling young apple
trees. They are driven to this by hun
ger, but after beginning soon acquire a
relish for the sweet bark, and will
speedily make circle around the tree.
Dirt packed around the trunk to the
heighth OF foot or so is the best pr o.
lection. Mice will not climb on this TO r
fear of cats and owls, their natural en- :
emies, and they will rarely work around
the tree unless there is snow enough to
hide them. Snow packed closely
around frees will keep them off, but it
needs to be sharply watched, SO that
mice cannot make an entrance beneath
the ice, and work without danger of dis
cOVory
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-03-26

The kind of hogs that require three
Or four years to mature, and in that
time will attain enormous size and
weight, are going out of fashion. We
do not see SO many extra heavyweights
reported in the local papers as we used
to. Instead, the laudable ambition of
most farmers is to get pigs that at eight
or nine months old will give pound of
pork for each day of the animals life.
TO do this requires good feeding, not
alternate starving and then surfeiting
with corn. 1t is the pork made by con-
tinuous growth at all times that is most
palatable and healthtul, and is most in
demand in the market.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-03-26
Still at Large.
r ON the Washington Post.

ON the Was h1ngtOn Post.
There is man at large who ought to
be taken charge of. He will be readily
recognized by the following dialogue,
which conveys an accurate description
of him:
'Ah, good morning. / just come
across something very funny. AS I was
walking along the street l saw man
slip on a banana peel"
Eyes"
'.And all the bystanders set up peal
of laughter"
'Did they?"
"Of course. Don't you see? Stepped
on a peel, you know, and peal of
laughter-probablv because it appealed
to their risibilities, SO they 'riz' right up
and laughed, by means, of course, OF
their liabilities"
sob, yes; ha, ha. I see."
Nov, can you tell me what is the diff
ference between a couple of bound boys
and needy man who made an artesian
well?"
81 don't know"
''Why, the first worked for board, and
the second bored for work"
"Uh-huh,"
"Do you know why men who swear
never say anything of real depth? ?"
Because their remarks are cursory."
Now, why is"
Il don't know, and I don't care: if
YOU want this room you can have it.
I've got to 60 away, and when YOU
leave please tack card on the outside
OF the door saying that you've gone"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-03-26

para" asked Johnny, "where do
politicians come from ?'
well, my son." replied the father,
with the confidence of positive informa-
ton from reliable sources, ''they come
all the way from 80 to $4,000, accord
ing to the pull they have. - Washington
Star.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-03-26

Tue mucilage maker is q gluemy indi-
York Morning Journal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-03-26

The new manager of the great Tellico
Company was in his private office. A
lady entered, and he looked up from
his morning paper, then inquired
briefly:
"Well, ma'am, what can [ do for
you?"
The lady pushed aside her vel. The
manager looked at her more closely,
then rose and offered her a chair. He
was short and stout, with heavy, red
moustache, close-clinped hair. and keen
gray eyes.
'You have advertised for a type
writer" she said. II should like to
apply for the position"
The manager still gazed at her curl
ously, but he only asked:
How long have you worked at type
writing?'
81 have only just learned it at the
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-03-26

Gre {he gold and purple of sunset has faded
and turned to gray,
Re wise on, friend of my heart, and turn your
eyes away.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15

pay everybody but the Lord. and they come Tn at the last to pay the Lord in his church, aad frown ss they say: "Therc Lord, it IS; ii you will have it. take it-now take it, take 1t ; send me receipt in full, and don't bother me soon again!
 out of thousand that appreciates what the church Is. Where are the souls that put aside one-tenth for Christian institutions one-tenth of their income? Where are those who. having put aside that one-tenth, draw upon it cheerfully? Why, it is pull and drag, and hold on and grab and clutch, and giving is an infliction to most people, when it ought to be an Xhi'aration and rapture. Oh, that God would remodel our souls on this subject, and that we might appreciate the house of God as the great refuge. If your children are to come up to lives of virtue and happiness, they will come up under the shadow of the church. If the church does not get them, the world win.
 said to widowed mother after she had buried her only son-months after said to her: ''How do you get along nowadays!' well except when the sun shines" I said :: "What do you mean by that P when she said !: ''I can't bear to see the sun shine; my heart is so dark that all the brightness of the natural world seems mockery to me-" o, darkened soul, o, broken-hearted man, broken-hearted woman, why do you not come into the shelter? ? I swing the door wide open. Iswing it from wall to wall. Come in Come in! You want a place where your troubles shall be in- terpreted, where your burdens shall be un- strapped, where your tears shall be wiped away.
 God grant that all this audience, the young est, the eldest, the worst. the best, may fnd their safe and glorious hiding place where Joash found it-in the temple.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15
MAINE FARMERS' INSTITUTE.
The Weather Interferes with Attendance
 but Interesting Sessions Are Held.

The Weather 1nterferes with Attendance,
 but Interesting Sessions Are Held.
 The severity of the weather sadly interfered with the attendance at the Farmers Institute at Pennington, Me-, Jan. 10, still there were good audiences at the three sessions, all of which were interesting and profitable. S. R. Leland of Pennington, member of the Maine Board of Agriculture, called the meeting to order in Savings Bank Hall, after which Sec retary z. A. Gilbert of Greene gave an inter- esting talk on ''Corn Cuture.'' He thinks corn can be raised as che,ply here as at the West, and of better quality. .
 President R. w. Ellis followed upon the same topic. He believed it more profitable to raise sweet corn and buy feed than to raise yellow corn. At the afternoon session Presi, dent Ellis spoke on ''Dairying as a Busincss.'' The essentials to making such business sue cessful were good stock, clean, warm qti:lr- ters in winter, judicious feeding, perfect cleanliness and regularity in everything. With these it W ill be profitable every time. l.. M. Blossom, Esq.,, of Turner followed upon Associated Dairying,' and made abe arguments in favor of it. Butter factories i'll Maine, wherever there is union, are sue cesses, he said. He was followed by Secre- tary Gilbert, who spoke forcibly and clo- quently upon "Fi, c Points in Butter-mak- ing" He advised farmers 10 stop making beef to sell at cents a pound and go to mak- ing butter at 20 cents pound. This evening Abel F. Stevens of Wellesley, Mass, deliv- cred an instructive lecture before good- sized audience upon "Gleanings from Plant Life." ..
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15
Blood Oranges.

The blood orange is mere variety of the sweet orange, obtained by culti- vation, and appears first to have been raised by the Spanish gardeners in the Philippine Islands, from the capital of which (Manila) 1t, together with the well-known cigars, formed at one time one of the chief articles of export On it's first appearance in Europe 1t excited considerable sensation, and in the last century very high prices were demanded for the trees which bore the wonderful fruit. None, how ever, now come to us from Manila. our supply being derived almost en- tirely from Malta, where great pains and attention are bestowed upon their cultivation. It was for a long time supposed, and indeed the idea is not yet quite extinct, that blood oranges were produced by the grating of the orange with the pomeganate, but there is not the slightest foundation for this belief
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15
Clean in the Faith.

'.Yas, sah, Mir. George" said an old negro, i've got ter keep clean; we got ter keep clean, sah, or dar ain't nu hope O de salvation"
 ''Why, then, don't you go and wash yourselfp"
 .'Whar-whar-whu sah? Wy doan' go wash merse'fp"
 '.Yes, and put on a clean shirt. You are as dirty as you can be-"
 'Oh, now, yere, 1 ain't talkin' bout dat sorter keepin' clean. wuz talkin' bout keepin' clean in de faif, sah-in de faif. I ain't got no time ter fool erlong wid de waters O dis yere life. What I mean is ter keep yer sperit clean, washed in de dewdrops O de new Jerusalem; means, ez l tell you, dat we mus keep clean in de faif, sah keep clean in de faif. f."-Arkansaw Traveller.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15
The Tonnage of Gloucester.

The tonnage of the district of Gloucester, included 472 vessels, aggregating 33,214. .7i tons, of which 45 vessels, 4141.77 tons, are under permanent registers, and vessels, 1267.6o tons, under temporary register; 347 vessels, 9, 5,6OS.11 tons, 8 steamers, 1.92 tons, and 1 barge, .64 tons, under perma- nent enrolment 2 vessels, 1126.59 tons, un- der temporary enrolment, and GA boats, 66S.41 tons, and steamers, 6S.67 tons, under lfcenses Of the enrolled vessels 314, aggre- gating 22,1S1.42 tons, are employed in the hshing; A vessels, 4795. 20 tons, in the coast ing trade. and vessels, 165.Io tons, as yaIhts; and of the boats under licenses 57, sxxregating 615.06 tons, and steamers. 6S.S7 tons, are employed in fishing; boats, 73.35 tons, and 5 steamers, 6S.67 tons, in the coast ing trade. Six vessels, 557.47 tons, have been built during the quarter, and 2 vessels, tl0.30 tons, reported lost st sea.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15
A BIG BLOW.
St. Louis Struck by a Cy-
 clone.
Humanity Mingled, Buildings Wrecked
 and Trees Torn Up.
Severe Blizzard in Kansas, Missouri and
 Nebraska-Snow Fall.

About 4.3O, Jan. 12, a cyclone struck the southwestern section of St. Louis and swept on through to the northern limits, marking a pathway nearly quarter of mile wide, and leaving death and desolation in its tracks. The only announcement of the approach and progress of the storm was a dull, sullen roar, quickly followed bv q torrent of rain, which in turn succeeded by sleet, and before the victims could realize what had happened the storm had swept by and on, leaving wreckage and mangled humanity in it's path way. Trees were torn up by the roots and broken of. telegraph poles swept down as though mere sticks, while the roofs of build ings were lifted from their moorings like feathers and tossed into the streets.
 The list of victims secured is as follows:
 Dead-Mrs. Maggie ConnorS. aged 40; Bernard Mcconnell. 40: Joe Weaver, 9.
 Injured-Teresa Weaver, aged 6, both legs broken, wiil probably die; Mrs. Charles Miller, seriously cut and bruised; Annie Connors, Maggie Connors, Francis COnnors, badly hurt.
 In addition to dozens of dwellings and stores in the southern, central and northern sections of the city more or less wrecked. many big buildings were damaged. The losses on property are roughly estimated at &10O,00O, but will probably prove more.
 A messenger from the east side of the river says that the storm in St. Clair county, Illinois, was unusually severe. In Brooklyn, a village of about 800 people, largely colOred, a number of dwellings are in ruins. The Baptist church is entirey demolished, and the Methodist Episcopal church, a frame building, unroofed and turned clear around on its foundations.
 At Belleyille, Illinois, several public build ings were unrOOfed.
 Litchfield, Ill.,, is also reported as having suffered severely by the storm.
 A severe blizzard ragged Jan. II and 12 in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. Dispatches from points in Kansas say that the storm is by far the worst of the season, and some points report that it is the most severe ever experienced. The result of this storm there has been disastrous. On the average the snow fell about inches on the level, but the strong wind drifted it badly, and many trains on the railroads have been abandoned or greatly delayed.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15
PORTUGAL GIVES IN.
Might Is Stronger than Right sh

Might Is Stronger than Right She Says.
 Glynn Petre, the English Minister, Jan. II imparted to Sennor Comes, Minister of For eign Affairs of Portugal, England's ultima tum, demanding the recall of the Portuguese forces, ofi cials and expeditions of every kind from the banks of the Shire, beyond the con huenee of the Ruo and south of the Zambesi and from Mashonaland. If Portugal failed to reply in A hours the British Legation would board the Enchantress and await a reply at Vigo. The Portuguese Government replied to Minister Glynn Petre that Portugal, yielding to strong pressure from power of the first rank, being too weak to withstand it, would order the withdrawal of the Portuguese while reserving all rights to the Portuguese Crown in those territories. It is asserted that this decision was further influenced by reports of an intention on the part of the British to make naval demonstrations at Ouillimane, Delagoa Bay and St. Vincent.
 A mob, composed of students and others, shouting, "Down with the Ministryw att tackled the British Legation building in Lis bon, Jan. F. They demolished the escutche- on on the building and smashed the win- dows. The police were powerless to control them. They then broke the windows of the residences of various members of the Minis try, after which they dispersed.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15
LA GRIPPE WANING,
Number of Deaths Falling off in Ne .,"@ England.

Number of Deaths Falling off in New ..:@ England.
 The "Grippe" is really waning, the sani- tary authorities think.
 The total number of deaths reported to the Boston board of health for the week ending at noon, Jan. II. was 416, against 1s0 in 1889, PA in 1888, POT ill 1887, and 1S1 in 1886. Thus the mortality of the week is about 100 per cent. more than the average mortality of the corresponding week during the past four years, and an actual increase of 236 over the deaths for the corresponding week last year. The death rate for the week is 515 These figures show how serious has been the effect of the epidemic of influenza. During the week in New York City 625 more persons died than were born. Reports from all over New England show that the disease is de- creasin1.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15
Vermont Musical Festival

The thirtieth annual festival of the Orleans County Musical Association closed at New port, Vt., Jan. 10. The chorus of 200 did eX- ceptonally fine work in RossinTs ''Stabat Master'' and Costa's ''Damascus Triomphe March," greatly improving under H. G. BlaisdelPs efficient directorship. Blaisdelps orchestra maintained it's enviable reputation by good work. Messrs. Meyers and Jenni- son gave fine solos, Martha Dana Shepard was a grand success, as usual, and Miss Fanny Adley fully sustained her popularity of the previous evening. The soloists, Messrs. L. l.. Gillett, c. s. Conant, Harry H. May and Miss Hattie McLain, performed their parts in superior manner. The Harmonic Quartette of Sherbrooke, rendered valuable assistance. Attendance 1000 at the concert. The convention has been grand success. The President for the ensuing year is J. E.. Dwinnell of Glover. ENE
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15

Born in Philadelphia April 12, 1874, his first work was as q copy reader ill a printing office. This proving uncongenal, he was ap- prenticed to a jeweer and served the seven years required by the custom of those times About 1885 he came to Boston, and here as a journeyman jeweler, worked at his trade for two or three years in shop in Court avenue.
 Entering the Thirty-seventh Congress from Pennsylvania, after having served as dele gate to the National Republican convention of 1860 at Chicago, he was returned at each subsequent election by the same constitu- ency, the Fourth District, covering six wards of Philadelphia, and he advocated his favor ite cause of protection to the satisfaction of all adherents.
 EXacting abolitionist as he was, no man went farther than Judge Kelley to promote the practical reconciliation of the divided sec tions of the nation after the war, and the South, as well as the North, has reason to re- gret his death.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15
SOUND STEAMER ASHORE.
City of Worcester Strikes in Fog-Passe
 gers and Crew Safe.

OrCcSCcr
 gers and Crew Safe.
 Steamer City of Worcester of the Norwich Line, from New York for New London, Conn.,, is on the rocks about one-third of a mile northwest of Bartlett's Reef Lightship. She struck at 1 o'clock morning of Jan. 12 during a dense fog. Captain Ward, the first and second pilots and the quartermaster were in the pilot house at the time, and the four say they did not hear the Lightship bell. The boat struck thick fog off New Haven, and slowed down under one bell, or half speed, which was continued until she struck on the rocks. Souudings were made and IT feet of water registered. The lead registered 9 feet just before she struck. The steamer went on Il Q o.ks With a succession of shocks, and then stuck fast: The steamer lies easily. She rests on round boulders, her bow slightly raised. There is a marine insurance of $40,- 900 on the Worcester. Wrecker Scott has not the necessary appliances on hand to float the steamer, and the Merritt Wrecking Com pany of New York will undertake the work. The City of Worcester is an iron boat, built about 1876, at Wilmington, Del, superbly fitted in hard woods, electric lights and steam heat in the state rooms, etc,
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15
FATHER OF THE HOUSE DEAD.
Judge Kelley of Pennsylvania Ends Long Career of Congressional Usefulness.

Judge Kelley of Pennsylvania Ends 8
 Long Career of Congregational Usefulness.
 When Congress met on the first Monday in December, 1861, Washington city was vast citadel. A cordon of forts surrounded it, and about the Capitol building one could constantly hear the music of bands and the shrill notes of drums and flies as they rang out the emusic of the Union." At that time William D. Kelley of Pennsylvania was on the threshold of long career of parliament ary usefulness. Jan. 9, in his modest rooms in Washington, he died an honored man. In all that long range of years Mir. Kelley has been the peoples friend. He will be mourned by statesmen who admire sincerity and by the American laborer, whose toll he did so much to dignify and honor. Judge Kelley lived long enough to outlive opposition and envy. Nobody questioned his rare and varied capacity
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15

WHILE the slave trade in Africa has never been more active than at pres- ent, the destination of this human property has long been mystery. Where and into what countries the thousands taken out of Africa were sold was source of wonder. A Turkish gentleman, writing to the London News, reveals the fact that Constanti- nople is the great slave market of the world.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15

PLANS for giving England and France better means of communica- tion than by water have always been impeded by England's jealous regard for it's insular situation. This senti- ment now shows itself in oppo sition to the bridge which engineers of both na- tions propose to build across the Eng fish Channel
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15

VARIOUS causes have been assigned for the financial failure of the late Mari time Exhibition. We attribute it to mismanagement, which was painfully apparent to every journalist who IS familiar with the past history of such undertakings.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15

TIE bloody Apaches, now supposed to be prisoners at Mt Vernon barracks under guard of United States soldiers, continue to stab and steal and gamble and get drunk and lead licentious life just as they did while roaming the wilds of Arizona unrestrained.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15

ever date 8 document without using the figure 9. It now stands on the ex- treme right, 1889. Next year it will be in the third place, where it will re- main ten years. It will then move up to the second place. 1900, and there it will rest 100 years.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15
Through to Europe in Cars.

A proposition is to be made to the govern ment to permit the running of cattle through from Chicago and other western cities in Streets patent American cattle cars, the cars to be put on vessels at Montreal, in bond, and shipped to Europe It is a part of the plan that isolated stock yards, under govern- ment supervision, would De provided at LOnQue Point.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15

THE trouble in this country is that we have too many colleges, and many young men are induced to attend them who might better be devoting the years to preparation for employ for which collegiate education is not necessary or even desirable, and for which alone their aptitudes and capaci- ties fit them.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15
Some Arc That Way.

Mir. Lamb, of Portland, On. was walking out for his health, when man asked him the price of mutton. MT Lamb sheepishly repaired to the courts, began suit for slander, and the result was that he pulled e60O worth of wool from his traducer's wallet Lamb chops are now rare dish in Portland.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15

ONE of the superstitions is that the senators take snuff, but the fact is that few of them use tobacco in this form.
 When they do the government furnish es it. They get it from two little black boxes on either side of the presidents platform. The boxes are fastened firmly in niches between the wall
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15

OUR generation needs to learn that ignorance is not innocence, and that knowledge is not only not guilt, but is not provicative of guilt. The evil facts of life and of human nature are known to every human being who has passed beyond infancy.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15

IMITATION is the sircerest flattery. It is said that at least six novels by popular writers of fiction are to be writ ten this year, based, like Ben Hur" on scenes and incidents in the Bible. Joshua, David, St John, St. Paul and other Bible worthies are to figure in theSa nnve1S
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15
New England Fires.

A large wooden building at the head of Browns wharf, Portland, Me-, was burned Brown heirs. Loss s5ooO; insured.
 Three frame buildings on Main street, Con- cord, N. H., owned by Stevens & Dunklee, the two larger being occupied by them as . stove and .tinware store and the other occu- pied by F. A. Bates as saloon, were partly burned Jan. 12. Steven & Dunklee's loss on building and stock by fire and water will be $1O,OO0; Bates loss $50O. Each is covered by ins surance.
 The Congregational parsonage at St. Johns- bury East, Vt., was burned Jan. II with barn and outbuildings. Loss $2O00; insured for $lOOO,
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15

OTHER things being equal. if a man wishes thorough education he must begin by going through college course, though it is true that many of the best educated minds have never received collegiate or university training. Buts they have spent in study the time such course would re- n1,ira
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15

As OUR thoughts follow close in the dawn we are impressed with the same ness of the human lot, which never alters in the main heading of it's his- tory-hunger and labor, seed time and harvest, love and death.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15

A NEW process for burning coal without smoke h lately been dis covered. It consists in sprinkling water containing special preparation of resin over the coal, and the result is that there is no smoke, and the glow is as intense as coke.