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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01

From the Chicago Hearld.


In any public place one should exer-
else due caution in making remarks
about people. A young lady who at
tended the dedicatory exercises at the
auditorium on Monday evening has
learned this lesson. She was visiting
her uncle, who resides in Chicago. Her
arrival had been unexpected, and the
party which was to occupy her uncle's
box had already been made up, but he
had two parquet seats for that night, and
he told her that if she could get an es-
court she could use them. A young
man called on her Sunday afternoon,
and TO him she explained the circum-
stances. He was OILY too glad to oc-
cupy the seats with her and he agreed
to call for her with carriage the next
evening. This he did, and after the
usual delay, they found their seats.
About O'Clock the young man hur-
riedly rushed the young lady into her
uncle's box. Both looked pale and
agitated. The uncle gave her his seat
and then accompanied the young man
out into the foyer to see what the
trouble was. It appears that some
time before the young lady's sister had
been taken seriously i'll while on a visit
here to this same uncle, and she had
formed great dislike to her uncle's
family physician, who had had charge
OF her case, on account of his gruff and
disagrt cable manner, When she re-
covered and returned home she tolu
this sister all aboutit. Well when the
latter was seated in the parquet Monday
evening, this same doctor came along
looking for his seat. Isn't that DIR.
-" she asked her escort. He re-
piled that it was. "Well," she said.
my sister says he is no gentleman"
At this the lady sitting to her left
turned upon her 81 d said in freezing
tones: "Mies, that gentleman you refer
TO is my husband" The young man
turned red and white by turns. He
knew all parties. To remain in those
seats was out of the question. SO they
ran for the uncle's box. In all that vast
gathering it was singular that the only
one who could be offended at the young
lady's chance remark was sitting at her
elbow She will never again criticise
anyone IL public place.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01
From the New York Sun.

from the new OrR sun
The blockade on the lower Broadway
was at its worst the other day when a
wagon loaded with brooms was stslled
in front of one loaded with iron beams
and drawn by an evidently hungry
team. During the wait the hungry team
began to lunch on the brooms. They
finished one dozen and were tearing the
paper away from the second bundle
when someone called the attention of
the driver of the broom wagon to what
was going on. He turned around, and,
getting an idea of the damage done,
sang out angrily:
"Kape your horses off there; don't
you know any better'n to let 'em ate
thin brooms?"
"Ab, phwat's the matter wild YEP"
retorted the driver of the iron wagon,
maxim such fuss over a lew ould
brooms; amt that load o. cotton in
front ye? Let yer own tame have
bit o. that an git squar fur the bit O.
broom corn I've had off o. ye."
The broom wagon man was starting
back over his load and active hostilities
were probable when the blockade was
broken. and both drivers were too busy
with their teams to keep up the quar-
rel
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01

indianapolis Corr. New York Times.

indianapolis Corr. New York Times.
At Baikrich, q town of Montgomery
County, lives John Work hurst, who is
the unfortunate possessOr of peculiar
physical traits. Workhurst is about 40
years old and farm laborer, employed
near Balkrich and i'll the neighbOrhood
Of Charlottesville. Three years ago he
began to experience peculiar sensations
in his right arm. The pains were not
particularly keen at first, but they grad
ually grew worse and were much like
those of rheumatism. The same pains
were felt in his right leg, though the
symptoms there developed less quickly
than in the arm. This continued sever
al months, and Workhurst. who had
been treated Tor rheumatism, expert
enced no relief.
After about four months change be-
gan to take place in the arm, being first
apparent in the hand. The member by
degrees changed from horny piece of
flesh end bone into a spongy substance
of peculiar character. This change
came about slowly. but gradually spread
to the elbow. The foot underwent SIM
liar changes, and the peculiar spongy
condition of flesh spread to the knee.
OF course, with his hand gone or inca
pacitated, WOrkhurst cannot labor, and
oi.o! consuming phy oAoi"ho "A'.ouC 70
ceiving any encouragement he is wait
ing to see what other freaks nature will
play with him.
The altered flesh is dark brown. In
perfect keeping with its spongy texture,
the hand and loot absorb water, though
in limited way, and the liquid can be
squeezed out. Workhurst's left arm
and leg remain normal. One of the oud
things about his condition is that he has
lost in weight considerably since the
changes took place. From his appear.
pearance he should weigh $50 pounds,
but his weight is lis. 1t is thought that
the disease, or whatever it is, has
worked upon him internally and caused
the reduction in weight. He walks
with limp, but is able to the lit strange
arm readily. though the fingers do not
move and cannot be controlled.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01
How to Whittle a Pencil.
From the New York Mail.

1T really makes me tired to see the
average man sharpen.a pencil" said an
old newspaper man in stationery store
yesterday. HE will cut his fingers,
cover them with dirt and blacken them
with lead and dust and still will not
sharpen the pencil.
There is but one wsy to sharpen q
lead pencil and that is to grasp it firmly
with the point from you and not toward
you. Take your knife in the other
hand and whittle away as though you
had lots of pencils to waste. By fol-
lowing these directions and turning the
pencil over you will soon have it neatly
and regularly sharpened, and yonr
fingers will be unsoiled and you will not
need any court plaster to put on the
wounds, because YOU cannot cut your
fingers when whiting from them.
This method Is the best whether the
kni is dull or sharp. IF the pencil is
a sharp one there is no Hense in sharp
ening the lead. Simply cut away the
wood, and in writing turn the pencil
over, thus writing with the sides of the
lead.
"Another disgusting and senseless
habit is in placing the pencil in the
mouth while writing. This is relic Of
the days when pencils were all hard as
flint and before the manufacturers
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01
A Bright Idea from Boston.
From the New York Sun.


It will be observed that the artistic
bootblack around town has within the
past few months taken to the plan of
using small piece of white flannel for
the purpose OF giving supplementary
polish to the boots on which he oper-
ates. Everybody will be interested in
knowing that this new idea in boot
blacking comes from Boston. which
must now be crowned with the credit
of refining and polishing the universe
in fashion hitherto unsupported. A
negro bootblack down town was asked
the other day who was responsible for
first using the flannel polisher. and he
answered very promptly: 1.-THE idea
comes from Boston. sab, just a little
while ago. A Boston man done invent
ed it and it is very good idea. sah."
AS a workman naturally knows some
thing of the origin OF the tools he uses
in his trade, this statement may be
taken as final.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01

sensations creeping up the spinal column,
hacking cough, variable or poor appetite,
feeble digestion, with gradual loss Of flesh,
cold feet, lassitude or general debility,
should admonish one that all is not right
You can't afford to fool away precious
time if suffering from any considerable
number of the above significant symptoms
OF approaching danger It's madness to
trife and experiment with uncertain means
of relief and cure when thus afflicted Don't
forget, at such a critical time, that the only
medicine possessed of such positive curative
properties as to warrant its manufacturers
in selling it, through druggists, under a
positive guarantee of its benef1ting or
curing an ere9'y case, is the world famed
. Golden Medical Discovery For all Bron-
chial, Throat and Lung Affections, Weak
Lungs, and kindred ailments, it is an une-
qualed remedy.
For a Complete Treatise on Blood and
Skin Diseases, or for one on Bronchial,
Throat and Lung Diseases, enclose ten cents
in stamps, state which book you want and
address, WORLDS DIsPENsARY MEDICAL.
ASSOCIATION, 663 Main St, Buffalo, ~ Y
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01
An Editors Little Snake stor,
From the Lancaster Gazette.

When we were student at GabIer,
over 55 years ago, q fellow student, (yet
living in Missouri) and ourself were
rambling in the woods below 1.-THE hill''
Que day, and in the course of our walh
came across what looked like a common
black snake about p feet in length,
lying extended straight upon the
ground. Its extraordinary thickness in
proportion to it's length, and its indis-
position to move, induced us to investi
gate. We killed it, slit open its body.
and took out brown woods snake, evil
IDENTITY just swallowed, which, when
laid beside the black snake, which had
swallowed it, was plainly both the
larger and longer of the two.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01
Deafness Can't Re Cured.

BY LEGAL application. as Il ey can not reach the
diseased portion of the ear There is only
one way to cure Deafn ess, and that is by con-
stitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an
intiamed condition OF the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this ube gets inf1amed
you have a rumbling sound or imperfect
nearing, and when it is entirely closed
Deafness 10 the result, and unless the i'm iamma-
tion can be taken out and this tube restored to
it's normal condition, hearing will be destroyed
forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by
catarrh, which is no hing but an infamed con-
dition Of the n1ucus surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
of Deafness caused by cat rrh) that we
not cure by taking Halls Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
E7- Sold By Druggists, 75c.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01
A Correct Diagnosis.

From the Oil City Blizzard.
1t Is told Of q Pittsburg doctor, who
SAYS he can diagnose ailments by ex-
amining single hair of the patient,
that two young men, as ajoke. took him
a hair from bay horse. The do ctor
wrote prescription, and said his fee
was $25, as the case was precarious.
They were staggered, but paid the fee,
and after they got out laughed all the
way to the apothecary's. The latter
quarts of water, stir well and give three
times day, and turn the animals cut to
grass J" Then the jokers stopped laugh
inr
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01

ONE of the reasons why SCOTS Emulsi on
has such large sale is, because it is the
best. DR.. w. H. Cameron. Halifax. N. s..
says: II have prescribed SCOTS Emulsion
OF Cod Liver oil. scith Hypopho sphites, for
the past two years, and found it moro agree
able to the stom ach and have better results
from its use than any other preparation of
the kind l have ever used" Sold by all
Druggists.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01

Seemingly, for certain wretched invali Is who
toddle feebly along, though always looking as if
they were going 10 die. but emitting to do it.
They dry up. wither, dwindle away finally, but
III the meantime never having robust health.
know nothing of the physical enjoyment, the
zest of that existence to which they cling with
such remarkable tenacity. They are always to
be found trying to mend by tinkerng at them
selves with some trashy relne6y, tonic or pick
me up TO give FLIP 10 digestion, or "help the
liver Ii such misguided folks would resort
and adhere TO Hostetters Stomach Bitters it
would be we'll with them. This superb inyieor-
ant supplies the stamina that the feeble require
by permanently reinforcing digestion and as
Sanitation. 1t overcomes nervousness, insomnia,
malaria, kidney complaints, biliousnts,, Consti-
patton, rheumatism and neuralgia.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01
Curious Form OF Cruelty.

From the Pittsburg Chronicle.
Shortly alter his marriage a young
Cincinnatian named Arndt began to
drink, and on several occasions threa-
tened to kill bis wife with razor and a
revolver. He 'braced up" for q
time and secured place in lead
ing medical college. He began to drink
again, and novel idea struck him to
torture his wife. He took one of the
skeletons in the medical college and
carried it home. He placed it in his
wlfe's bed and compelled her to sleep
With it every night for month, almost
frightening her to death. This is her
main plea for divorce.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01
Tonight and Tomorrow Night.

And each day and night during this week
you can get at all druggists Kemp's Balsam
Tor the Throat and Lungs, acknowledged to
be the most successful remedy ever
sold Tor the cure of Coughs, Group, Bron-
chitis, Whooping Cough, Asthma and Con-
sumption. Get bottle to-day and keep it
always in the house, so you can check your
cold at once. Price so cents and 81. Sam
pie bottle free.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01

IRON is rapidly increasing inits use for
houses. You can buy complete iron
house at the manufacturer and have it
sci. anywhere in pieces. A large num-
Der of iron villas have been sent from
England to the Riviera and put up there
upon plots of land purchased or leased,
with the provision that when the lease
expires the house can be taken away.
A com oltable house can readily be
built IN a month. The price of room
measuring 20 by Is feet is about $3.50.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01

were able to produce the smooth, soft
pencils that are W ed to-day. This con-
ii Iua. uampening of the lead will hard
en- even good graphite pencil and
make it hard and gritty. 1t is simply
habit, al yway, and most habits are bad
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01

NEARsIGHTEDNEss is overrunning the
French people as much as the Germans.
Among the senior boys in the different
French colleges more than 46 per cent.
are nearsighted.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01

Those who use Dobbins' Electric Soap
each week land U,eir name is legiOn)
save their clothes and strength, and let the
soap do the work Did yOU ever try it
If not. do so next Monday sure. Ask your
grocer for it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01

A PoCAHoNTAs COUNTY CIV. Va.) ghost
in the shape of o woman in white wear
ing belt stuck full of revolvers, turns
out to be nothing but the shadow of q
tree AS thrown against wall by street
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01

MASTER HENRY CoAKLEY, of Hemp
stead, l.. l., ran away from home, as he
explains, because his big sister made
him pump the Baptist Church organ
every day after school hours while she
practiced.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01
"WHY need it be % we say, and sigh
When loving mothers fade and die

'WHY need it be ?" we say, and sigh
When loving mothers fade and die.
And leave the little ones whose feet
They hoped to guide in pathways sweet.
1t need not be in many cases. All about
have been saved. 1t seems TO be a wide
spread opinion that when a woman is
slowly fading away with the diseases
which grow out of female weaknesses and
irregularities that there is no help for her.
She is doomed to death. But this is not
true. DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is
constantly restoring women afflicted with
diseases of this class to health and happi-
ness. 1t is the only medicine for their all
ments. sold by druggists, under positiue
guarantee from the manufacturers of its
giving satisfaction in every case, or money
paid for it will be refunded.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01

"THE woman of society who talks at
you but for the bystanders, is fatigu-
ing" saws Mrs. Grundy.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01

DIR. PIERCE's PELLETS, the original and
only genuine Little Liver Pills; % cents Il
vial: one dose.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01

KILowArTs is the term which is to be
used hereafter to express the power of
electric machines the word horse
power will be no loneer employed in
referring to the power of any electric
motor
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01

GoLLY, WHAT A PAPER is the name of 6
new London newspaper.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01

MANY initiate ''Tansllfs Punch" 5 cent
Cigar.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01

AN EXTENDED POPULARITY.-BrOw s
Bronchial TrocheS have for many years
been the most popular article in use for
relieving Coughs and Throat troubles.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-05-30

a Gladstone Cylinder yhat VIII BE Worth
the Weight OF It, Wax in Gold

- kSA@0MAOMG ~ ttMmGF tMAt VIII tkr NOfAh
the Weight OF Its Wax in Gold
A few lucky persons who have come to
know some Of Mr.. Edison's trusted lieu
tenants have heard the phonograph per-
form in a way that would astonish the
general public Many cylinders are
stored away with marvelousIy interest
ing records upon their waxen surfaces.
The Gladstone cylinder j. exhibited only
on rare occasions and to distinguished
guests. 1t Is already an extremely valu-
able record. and at Giadstone's death it
win probably be worth 81 900. Acylinder
containing few sentences By old General
Won Moltke. now 90 years Of age. il &C.
casionally set going. A less valuable
but no less curious cylinder gives the
choking sobs of German infant. whose
walls were caught in Berlin last Decem-
Der. Funny stories by Eli Perkins,
songs by well known singers. short
passages from current plays, and like
things, are all on storage in photograph
cylinders and brought out now and then.
These cylinders lose nothing in clear
ness and volume from lapse of years, but
Of course may be worn out by use. Mr..
Edison believes that record taken to-
day and carefully preserved can be re-
produced $50 years hence. II Pittsburg
Post.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-05-30
Jack the Ripper.

gg-Try Hodges IRON TONIC for
Weakness and General Debility.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-05-30
A Large Assortment Of
KITCHEN TINWARE

cheaper than ever, or viii make to erord
any desired tinwsre.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-05-30

The raising of kids for their skins is a
leading industry among Hhe French
mountaineers, who obtain no small part
Of their subsistence from this source.
Softness, delicacy of texture, and free
dom from Flemish are principal factors
in the value Of kid skins; and to secure
these essentials great pains are taken.
As soon as the young animal begins to
cat grass the value Of its skin declines,
for with grass diet its skin immedi-
atcly begins TO grow coarser and harder
in texture. and its Chief merit vanishes.
II 1t therefore kept closely penned, not
only 10 prevent il from eating grass, but
also TO secure its skin from accidental
injury from scratches or bruises, which
impair its value.
When the kids have reached certain
age, at which the skins are in the best
condition for the use OF the glover, they
arc killed, and the hides are sold to
travelling hawkers. through whom they
reach the great centers Of the tanning
industry at Annonay Milan, Paris, and
Grenoble
The superior quality of these kid skins,
due somewhat TO climatic causes, iswhat
has given France the supremacy in the
manufacture of the finest grades of real
kid gloves-a supremacy that will doubt
less be long maintained. inasmuch as
foreign manufacturers must in general
rest content with second-rate skins, UNI
less they maintain agents on the ground,
a policy that some English and Ameri-
can houses have found TO be necessary.
A.-You are so modest / don't see
how you ever came to propose to your
wife
B-That was very simple. | said
nothing and she said nothing, and so
ono worl brought on another. Il Texas
Siftings.
Jack the Ripper.
The excitement caused by this inhuman
monster IL scarcely equaled by that pro.
duced by the great discovery Of DR..
miles-the R0storatiee Ncrcine, Itspeed-
ily cures nervous prostration, change OF
life, pain, dizziness and confusion In head.
fits, sleeplessness, the blues, neuralgia.
palpitalion, monthly pains. etc. Mr..
John s. Wolf, druggist, of Hillsdale,
Mich; Talbot and Moss, OF Greensburg,
Ind. ard A w. Blackburn, of Wooster,
d say that The Ncrvinc sells batter
than anything we ever sold, aud gives
universal satisfaction" DIR. Miles ~ y
illustrated treatise on the Nerves Id
Heart and trial bottle free at the City
drug store.
gW-Try Hodges IRON TONIC for
Weakness and General Debility.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-05-30
15 ST. Paul Street,

1 Q ST. PalI S6E996,
Between Baltimore and Fayette Streets,
Where he viii be pleased to see his Annapolis
friends. He has in stock all the latest
Styles and Patterns, and will Cut and Make to
Order, Garments in the Latest Fashion
Over * 90 Different Patterns to select FROM
He solic;ts call from Annapolitans when in
Baltimore. $40
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-14
BIASS-MEETING.
Held by the Pheuix Republican Club at
Irving Ball.

Held by the Pheuix Republican Club at
Irving Ball.
A Republican mass-meeting was held in
Irving Hall last night under the auspices of
the Phoenix Club, j. b. Olsen presiding The
following gentlemen were on the Platform
j. c. Quian. W. S. Hinkle, Thomas McDermott.
DR.. John II. Healy, T.. E. Roberts, l.. T.
+. Dean. A. }. Dheiiig, T. j. SCHNEIDER, Ii. 7.
FIlgate and j. j. fiZ gerald.
The assembly filed the hall to the doors
and showed appreciation of the addresses
delivered by State Senator Frank MCGewan
of Humboldt and A. p. Van Duser. The
latter in speaking of the tariff, said that the
policy of the Democrats would protect the
interests of the country just as the policy of
a certain farmer in San Mateo County pro-
tected his crops. The farmer had a six
rallied stake-and-r fence around his field
of corn. With mistaken idea of economy
he removed enough rails to leave the fence
one-half its original height. The next morn
ing he found his neighbours cows had been
in the corn, and, he laughingly added, the
corn was in the cows. Laughter.
Mr.. Van DuZer then recited StaDZa
which he had written for the occasion:
Upon election morning the Democrats stood round;
Upon election evening no Democrats were found.
They all went swimming In Pond,
And all of them were drowned.
He was vigorously applauded when lie
stated that the reason why the Republicans
will sweep the State this wear is because
they have stopped talking about the war
aud have nominated man for Governor
who fought bravely during the war to main
tain the Union and the rights Of American
citizens.
Miss Hazel Montague gave a recitation
which was received with thunders of APP
plause, and she was forced to respond to an
encore. Ballenberg's string band also
added pleasantly to the entertainment.
The Chairman announced that the Phoenix
Club would hold series Of mass-meetIngs
at Irving Hall during the campaign. and
after three hearty cheers for the Republican
ticket the meeting closed.