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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23
A VINEGAR SPRING.
An Important New Enterprise Established
in Tennessee.

in Tennessee.
A new enterprise is being promoted in
ObiOn county, Tenn, which will be one
of the most wonderful in the world. 1t
comes with the discovery Of a vinegar
spring on the famous Reelfoot lake by
Pete Bennett of Paducah, Ky, while on
a hunting expedition. This was prob
ably six months ago. and Mr. Bennett
seeing the vast possibilities in such q
spring, kept the matter a profound Sc
cret until he could get sufficient capital
interested in order to make its develop
ment assured. He was successful in
getting Sir William Binceford, a multi
millionaire of London, interested, and
the organize ton of the Vinegar Spring
and Picking company, with Mr.. Bennett
as president and S. D. Cochran, on
whose land the spring is, as secretary
and treasurer, is complete.
1t is proposed by this company that
they make garden spot of several thou
sand acres of the fine land that sur
rounds this spring and plant the whole
of it in cucumbers. The vines will be
trained to run in trenches between the
rows of hills, and when about half
grown, by means of irrigation, the VINE
gar from this spring will be uurned
through the trenches and kept On the
vines until the cucumbers are grown,
when it will be turned off and the finest
of the pickles will be gathered and bar
relied for shipment. The company Will
then buy 5000 head of hogs to eat the
pickles refused for shipment and to
wade in the vinegar marsh, so shat at
time of slaughter they will not only ship
bacon, shoulders, hams, ETC., but can fill
all orders for picked pigs feet on short
five-barrel lots.-Memphis Commercial
ADnaal
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23
A BOYS TENACITY OF LIFE.
Frank Richards Walked Quarter Mile
After Bullet Pierced His Heart.


Alter "a Bullet Pierced His Heart.
In connection with the death at Hart
ford, Conn.,, of Frank Richards, 9-year-
old boy who was shot with rifle, there
was developed a remarkable fact. The
lad lived ten minutes, and was able to
walk to his home after his heart had
been pierced by the ball. Young Rich
ards and a companion of about the same
age had been amusing themselves in the
afternoon with the rifle, in an open field
near his home, after having returned
from hunt IN the woods. He had placed
the weapon, which was cooked, carelessly
on the ground, and was scrambling about
the lot with his playmate when, in an
inexplca BILE way, it was discharged, and
the ball ploughed through the boys neck.
1t passed into his chest and pierced his
heart. Without assistance and without
an outcry young Richards leaped to his
feet and ran about quarter of a mile
to his fathers house. with the leaden
missile in his heart. Arriving at home,
he was still strong enough to walk to a
couch. He sank doyn on it, and died a
few minutes later, before the arrival of
Dr. j. S. Johnson. The doctor said he
had never met with a parallel case ex-
hibiting so great tenacity of life. At
first he could hardly believe that the boy
had returned unaided after being shot.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23
HAD ONE MOUSE TO EAT.
Terrible Experience of Edward Dou1l in !
Idaho Blizzard.

Terrible Experience of Edward Douu in
Idaho Blizzard.
Mouse flesh is not generally regarded as
tOothsome dainty. nor is one of the little
house pests of size to crafty starved
mans yearning for food, writes CORES
pendent from Grays, Ida, TO the Salt
Lake Tribune. Yet upon mouse Ed
ward Doull subsisted for seven days
while lost during a storm in the Cariboo
mountains. During this week his suffer
ings were terrible. Not only was he
compelled to endure the pangs of hunger,
but the anguish of exposure to the in
tense cold of the winter-clad mountains.
When found, DOuu was in a pitiful con-
ditiOn. His feet were frozen badly and he
was so weak from continued exposure
that he could not have survived another
night.
On November q Doull, who is an en-
plOye of the American Placer company,
left Grays to return over the CaribOo
mountains to the company's ground on
the northeast side Of the range. He pro-
ceeded RAPIDLY and in safety until he
reached the summit of the mountain.
Then binding snOwstOrm began. Doull
lost his way. When the storm ended the
snow had changed the contour of the
mountains so that Doull was unable to
tell his whereabouts The thermometer
remained almost stationary at Is degrees
below zero while Doull was wandering
hopelessly among the hills. On the third
day he found a deserted cabin and in it
he captured a mouse, almost as hungry
and cold as himself. 1t furnished the on
ly meal Doull had during his week of
wandering. The head and toes he did
not eat, because, as he said, he feared
the claws would scratch him while being
swallowed, and the head might interfere
with his digestion. Afterward he re-
GREETED leaving these morsels behind. On
November 81 he was found by James
Sibbet, Jr.. a citizen of Gray's and taken
to the latter's house. where for a time he
lay in a critical condition. He is now
beginning slowly to recover.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23
&1Oo Reward. 500.

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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

An insurance agent recently applied
when canvassing, to a woman in the
Midland capital, to induce her to get her
husbands life insured.
''Will l be sure to get the money if my
husband dies right off,"
Certainly, madam"
But" said she, will you give me an
assurance that he will die right OFF,
''No. madam; we cannot do that
'Well, then, what good will it be
TO me to insure his life if he doesn't die?
[ knew there was some catch about this
insurance business!'
And with that remark she warned"
the agent off and slammed the door,
London Answers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23
SPINNING WHEEL.
JINGLES AND JESTS.
POLLY.

POLLY.
Though Polly has patrician ways,
And taste no critic dare impeach,
She shuns formalities of phrase
And prim proprieties of speech.
If at the play Bob Acres" wit
Arouses tumults of delight,
Or Lady Teazle scores hit,
She gurgles, ooh, it's out of sight
At musiciales and picture shows,
Where aesthetics rave in phrases pat
Ger Wagner's airs and pale Corots.
She blandly asks, Where am atF'
OF fads and follies, toilets, balls,
She chats away, as chirpS linnet,
But wOmans rights her heart appalls-
Thank goodness, Tom, | am not in 1t.
1 sought her hanL. with tender signs;
Ny heart kept A,0ing pit-a-pat:
With laughter twinkling in her eyes.
She cried, You're talking through your
hat!'' Puck.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23
SWALLOW SENTINELS.
Gave Warning o. a Cholera Outbreak on
Three Occasions.

Respecting the utility of swallows as
messengers of intelligence-c0uld we but
understand their language and their signs
"a correspondent of the London Tele-
graph writes:
lon this point l can give the expert
ence OF an English gentleman who served
under Said Pasha in Egypt. He OBJ
served that whole colony of swallows
had suddenly left the town in which he
lived, and noted the fact TO friend who
had been located there some years. Yes,
said the latter, we shall have cholera
break out in less than week Twice
before have | seen the same thing And
so ii did on this occasion. Nor did the
little winged messenger return until
clean bill of health was apparent. The
pestilential atmosphere must have been
scented or tasted by the swallow, who
lives in the air.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

Around Dallas Or, the hop industry
is said to be reyiving. There seems to
be a general desire among hopgrowers
to operate all the yards they can get
hold of the coming season. However,
not many of the yards that were plowed
up will be replanted at present.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

1t is estimated that % acres of land
are necessary to sustain one man on
fresh meat. The same space of land, if
devoted TO wheat culture, would feed AZ
people: if to oats, SO; potatoes, Indian
corn and rice, 176. and if to plantain or
bread-tree, over 5000 people,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

she came across n simple card with the
plain inscription Hermann Berger"
In vain the lady asked who Hermann
Berger was. None of the servants could
give her any other information than that
the individual was remarkably hand
some young man. The lady's curiosity
became excited, and she gave orders to
admit the stranger if he should call
again.
The order was punctually obeyed, and
on the following day she received real
ly charming young man, dressed in the
most exquisite style, who evidently APP
peared greatly embarrassed at the honor
of a tete-a-tete with the still brilliant,
though somewhat faded, beauty.
Il can hardly find Words said the
lady, with blush, 'to thank you for
the sympathy which you have manifested
for a stranger.
81 beg your pardon, gracious lady"
stammered the dandy; but | am the
agent for Messrs- A. B., the under
takers. Chicago Times-Herald.
-:O-:
A lady had issued invitations for
party of twelve, and, OH the morning Of
the appointed day, when comforting with
the foOtman, she discovered that one of
the twelve silver shells i'll which scallOped
oysters were to be served had been mis-
placed. Rigid search tor the missing az
Ilclo udNluS proven uudNUllilS, TIE ldQy
decided that. sooner than give up that
particular course, she would simply de-
cline oysters when they were handed her,
and SO the eleven shells would be sufii-
cient.
1t happened that, when the oysters
were served at dinner, the hostess was
engaged in a very animated conversation
with one or two of her neighbOrs, and,
forgetting her determine ton, took one of
the shells of oysters and set it before
herself
If the servants heart fell in cOnsterna-
ton at this, he gave no external sign of
it, but, speaking in tones distinct though
low, said. respectfully:
Excuse me, madam, but yON said /
was to remind you that the doctor for
babe your eating oysters. '-Tid-Bits
A country rector complained to a we'll
known dignitary of the church that he
had received only f5 for preaching
sermon at Oxford.
Five pounds!" calculated the digni-
tary. why. l would not have preached
that sermon for fftyr-Tid-Bits
at is indeed hard" said the mean-
choly gentleman, "to lose ones rela-
tives." Hard Gnorted the gentleman
of wealth-"hard. 1t is impossible" =
Cincinnati Enquirer.
And you broke off the engagement? 2"
said one young man. Ies-not brutal
ly. You know But l managed it"
How" Told her what my salary is"
washington Star.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

Lightning struck a football team as
it was about to play a match at Liver
pool, Eng, recently, killing one man and
badly injuring another.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

The export of cheese from the United
States ten years ago was about lis, OOO,-
600 pounds, and from Canada S0,000,-
coo. In 1894 Canada exported 154, 977,-
600 pounds and the United States only
7S $40 GOO
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

Piso's Cure for Consumption is our
only medicine for coughs and colds
Mrs. G. Beltz. 439 9Th ave-, Denver,
Col, Nov %. '95.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

There is a clerk in Marine, France,
who has made seventeen unsuccessful
attempts to commit suicide.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

"A London Daily Mail representative
says the Queen has been total abstainer
from alcoholic liquors for the last three
years
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

Why rub, and TOLL and aoear out yourself and your
clothes on washday, when ever since 1865 DObbins
Electric Soap has been offered purpose to tighten
grocer has it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

Coughing Leads to Consumption.
Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at
once. Go to your druggist today and get
a sample bottle free. Sold in % and 80
cent bottles. Go &c once; delays are
dangerous
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

The Republic of Hawaii was formal
ly inaugurated and Sanford B. Dole
proclaimed President on July 4, 1894.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

Now that the football season is ended
the players might keep in training by
assisting their mammals and sisters to
Philadelphia Record.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

/ Mr.. Kato. the secretary of the Japan
csc legation in Paris, has just been APP
pointed commissioners general Of Japan at
the exposition of 1900.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

Louis XIII. took to amateur barber
ing and the courtiers had to suffer ia
consequence.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

"A conference of delegates from the
colleges and preparatory schools of the
Middle states will be held in the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania on Friday and
Saturday. The first conference met in
1887, and the association has now more
than eighty institutions in its member
ship. Each year some practical topic
germane to education is discussed, the
tonic for this year being the standard of
requiem ent for entrance into college
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23
Horne Down with Intirmities

tonic aid afforded by Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, which counteracts rheumatic and
malarial tendencies, relieves growing mac
edy extant for disorders Of the stomach
liver and bowels. Nervousness, too. with
which old people are very apt to be af-
ficted is promptly relieved by it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

M Nicolini and Nine Patti-Nicolini
have returned to Craig-y-nos castle
They will leave England shortly after
Christmas for the Riviera
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

If you desire a luxurious growth of
healthy hair of natural color, natures
browning ornament of both sexes, use
only Halls Vegetable Sicilian Hair Re-
newer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

During a confirmation tour in the do
cese of Peterborough, DR.. Creighton put
up one evening in an old manor-house,
and slept in room supposed to be haunt
ed Next morning, at breakfast, the
bishop was asked whether he had seen
the ghost "Yes," he replied, with great
solemnity, ''but | have laid the spirit;
it will never trouble you again" On be-
ing further Intercepted as to what he
had done, the bishop said: 90 The ghost
instantly vanished when asked for a
subscription towards the restoration of
Peterborough cathedral" = Household
Words.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

Sun spots are believed to be open
ings in the suns photosphere, or luminous
envelope through which the orb is seen.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23
The Same
Old Sarsaparilla.

That's Ayers The same old sarsaparilla as it was
made and sold so gears ago. In the laboratory it is
different There modern appliances lend speed to skill
and experience But the sarsaparilla is the old
sarsaparla that made the reeqrd5o gears Of cares
condition of the Bishop and the raspberry: Doubt
less" he said God might have made better berry
better the sarsaparlla? We can't We are using the
same old plant that cured the Indians and the
Spaniards 1t has not been bettered. And since aOe
make sarsapara compound out of sarsaparila plant
way of Improvement. OF course, If we were
making some secret chemical compound, might -.
But we're not. We're making the old sarsaparilla
to cure the old diseases You can tell it's the
old cares. It's the sovereign blood purifier and
it's Ayer'S.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

Mrs. WinsEOw's SOOTHING SYRUP for chill
dren teething, sotens the gums, reduces inHam-
nation ,allays pain, cures wind collie. 25ca bottle
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23
Lanes Family Medicine

Moves the bowels each day. In or
der to be healthy this is necessary.
Acts gently on the liver and kidneys.
Cures sick headache. Price % and SOC.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

-Supt. James Nevin of the Wisconsin
state fish commission is authority for
the statement that there is on hand now
at the Bayfield, hatchery some eighty
bushels of lake trout eggs. The spawn
averages 250.00O eggs to the bushel,
which makes a grand total of 20,0OO,O00
eggs.
On Nov Both the John A. Salzer Seed
Co., La Crosse Wis, the largest seed
potato growers in the world, received
an order for three thousand bushels of
seed potatoes from one firm in Texas.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

A country rector complained to we'll
known dignitary of the church that he
had received only 20 for preaching
sermon at Oxford.
give pounds!' calculated the digni-
tary. ''Why. | would not have preached
that sermon for fifty!'-TidBits
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

at is indeed hard" said the melan-
choly gentleman, ito lose ones rela-
tives.' Hard &norted the gentleman
of wealth-"hard. 1t is impossible. =
Cincinnati ENQUIRER
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

A Vienna paper relates an amusing in
cident which occurred to a great lady
who had just recovered from a long and
severe illness. Seated in her boudoir,
she was looking over the cards of condo
lence that had been left for her while i'll.
Among the names of counts. barons and
other aristocratic sympathizers embla-
zoned with coronets and coats-of-arms.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

Darkest Africa.-"And how did you
like my predecessor, King Totem %
asked the missionary
"He was very nice,' returned the Can,
nibal King, Though little stringyr'
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

One of the best-known stories in con-
nection with the late Sir Benjamin Ward
Richardson's advocacy of temperance
tells how he had been on a visit to one
of the three or four small towns in Eng
land which have no public house AL
though there were 1000 people there, the
doctor was nearly starving. One day
a young medical man came to Sir Ben
iamin for advice as to taking the prac-
tice. and Sir Benjamin, placing his hands
on the young doctors shoulders, said:
Take my advice, and don't. Those
wretched teetOtalers not only shirk acct
dents, but, when wounded, heal SO fast
that there is neither pleasure nor profit
after the first dressing. Westminster
Gazette.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

Mrs Northside was talking one day
with her newly acquired help, an Irish
girl, who had been in this country less
than a year, and who was always pining
for the Emerald isle. Why" said
Bridget "whin l fust kim to this cOun-
try Oh cuddent ate anything. The fud
was so quare.' 1T was different from
what you had been accustomed 70. was
it," 1T was, num-" What did you
have to eat in Ireland?" "Oh, we had
petaties, an billed cabbage, an-frut."
''What kind of fruit. Bridget? go, in
yuns an SIGH, mum. ''-Pittsburg Chron-
icle-Telegraph.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

and you broke off the engagement 2"
said one young man. 'Ies-not brutal
ly. You know. But l managed it."
:" How Told her what my salary is"
Washington Star
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

DR.. Brewer, in his Dictionary of
Phrase and Fable" tells the following
story: 1t is said that Sourgeon used to
practice his students III extempore
preaching from a text only disclosed in
the pulpit and that one of his young
men, on reaching the desk and opening
the note containing his text, read the
single word ''Zaccheus." He thought for
a minute or two, and then delivered
himself thus "Zaccheus was little
man, so am /: Zaccheus was up a tree,
so am l; Zaccheus made haste and came
down, and so do t. He suited the ac-
ton to the word.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23
A Snide Game.

Sold by Druggists. 75c.
The herald., 1896-05-10
A COMPLETE FAILURE
Porter Brothers Turn Over Their Business
to the Trustees

SAN FRANCISCO, May 9-The finan-
cial embarrassment OF Porter Bros. &
&C., commission merchants, has become
a complete failure. Realizing that they
were unable to carry out the agreement
made with their creditors last December,
the pioneer fruit men nave turned over
their business to the trustees of the cred
itors. A. B. Paul, jr, has been placed
in charge of Porter Brothers store here
and the two Porter brothers have entire
ly withdrawn from connection with
their former interests.
December 26th last Porter Bros an
nounced to their creditors that they were
unable to meet their obligations. A
statement showed their liabilities to
be $122, ,96252 and their assets $3.50. .l7O17.
About half of the assets We're in fruit
farms. A compromise was effected by
which Porter Bros. turned over all their
assets but their store to j. w. Wilson
Of the Sather banking company and S. e.
Riddle of the bank of Hanford, two of the
largest creditors, who acted as trustees
for all creditors. They also gave four
notes for the entire amount of their ir-
Gebtedness. The first was payable in
June, 1896, the second six months later
the third twelve and the fourth eighteen
months later.
Porter Bros. continued their business
uninterruptedly until Monday last, wher
il was decided it would be better for all
concerned to have the firm turn it's en-
tire business over to the trustees, SC
that the creditors might settle up the
affairs of the bankrupts to the best ad-
vantage. This was done, the Porter bro
theirs surrendering their store to Mr..
PanI