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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-02
SUPERLATIVES.

The most expensive country to tele-
graph to from England is japan.
The largest ship that has ever been
through the Suez canal is the Grosser
Kurfurst, of 1000 tons.
The largest egg laid by any Euro
pean bird is that of the swan; the
smallest that of the golden-crested
wren.
The largest artesian well in the
world is IA inches in diameter and GAS
feet deep. It is at Cerritos, in Cali
fornia.
The largest ranch in Texas is called
the x II T ranch, in the Panhandle.
It embraces a half dozen counties, in
cludes 100000 acres and at present ac-
commodities 100000 cattle. The pas
ture fence extends 210 miles in one d.
rection and 25 miles in another, max
ing total of 5000 square miles.
The longest mail route controlled
by the United States government is to
be established December 1 between
Skagway and st. MichaePs to Dawson,
1903 miles, leaving Skagway the 6th
and 22d of each month until April. 1t
takes 60 days by dog teams. A branch
The steamboat mail service between
Seattle and Skagway begins November
1, three mails per month, time u
hours. Weight of mail limited to 900
pounds
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-02
OPAL MINING IN AUSTRALIA.

More than 1000 men in Australia
earn a hard and precarious living
digging these beautiful stones out
of the sun-baked clay.
A masked robber on a bicycle re-
Gently held up a stage coach near
White Cliffs, New South Wales, and
carried off the mails and a parcel
of opals worth $1,000. This is ex-
planned by the fact of White Cliffs
being the most important opal field
in Australia.
Recently lad from Sydney, who
had shaved and starved for nearly -
months without earning penny, left
his own shaft in despair and struck
into an abandoned claim alongside. In
half an hour he took out a stone for
which he got $500, and which was
probably worth double as much.
No sort of mining is more labor
ious or more purely speculative. The
digger tolls from morning till night
for six months or a year, perhaps,
in the heart-breaking desert, with
out finding trace of opal and then
suddenly he sees something glitter
ing and he may come on Jumps, or
rather layers, that make him a cap
italiSt in a few minutes.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-02
BRITISH BREVITIES.

Of the population of Britain 4,96s
were born at sea.
The London fire brigade uses H.
100000 gallons of water yearly.
British inhabitants drink $4,000, 900
bottles yearly of patent medicines.
Twenty-Five thousand dogs are kept
for hunting in the United Kingdom.
Of these nearly 10000 are foxhounds.
British ENCORE yields 20 per cent. of
metal; Belgian, the next best, only is
per cent.
About 616,000,OOO telephone mes
sages are sent yearly in Great Brit
ain.
John Bulls national credit is Els
for every one pound of his national
debt.
Five million pounds sterling is
spent yearly on funerals in the Brit
ish Isles.
During the last century 1854 pat
ents were taken out for furniture in
Great Britain.
There are 439 gas companies in
Great Britain, and 222 towns make
their own gas.
Four hundred British companies go
into liquidation yearly, costing their
shareholders in all e12,O 100000.
I. Sixty-six per 1000 of English people
leave property at death, So of every
1000 in Scotland, and 35 per 1000 in
Ireland.
All coins that are made in the
British mint are weighed before is
sue. Last year, 1,126,026 sovereigns
were found light and were remade.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-02
THE TEACHERS WIFE.

Clarissa, Mimi, Oct. 2Sth.-Mrs. Clara
Keys, wife of Chas. Keys, school teach
er of this place, tells a wonderful story.
For years her life was one of misery
Her back ached all the time, her head
ached all the time; neuralgia pains
drove her to desperation. She used
much medicine, but failed to get any
relief till she tried Dodd's Kidney Pills.
She says:
Every soon after I began using
Dodd's Kidney Pills all my aches and
pains vanished like the morning dew.
1 consider this remedy a Godsend to
suffering womanhood."
Encouraged by their success in her
own case, Mrs. Keys induced her
mother, an old lady of IA years, to
use Dodd's Kidney Pills for her many
aches and pains. Now both mother
and daughterrejoiceinpe perfect freedom
from illness or suffering which is some
thing neither had enjoyed for years
before.
There are 2,244 Spaniards in Eng
land, also 658 Portuguese.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-02
The Tai1or-Made Is
Being Elaborated x
They Are Becoming More Feminine in Appear
ance, and Are Used for More Purposes.

shape at the bust line. The lower
part of the vestis of velvet and made
tight-ftting. The upper half is of
white silk with lace applique. Strap
pings of velvet around the neck, and
to finish the loose bell-shaped sleeves.
Four large velvet buttons fasten the
coat over the bust, with small ones
on the lower part of the vest.
This is another of the tailor-made
gowns designed more for afternoon
wear than for the purposes to which
tailor-made gowns are usually put.
1t is in no sense shopping or street
gown.
Rough materials in light, delicate
blues and grays and biscuit tints make
some very stunning gowns. One in
pale blue, for example, has double
skirt effect, each edge trimmed with
one of the fancy silk braids in white
with black dots. By the way, it is
well to remember the fancy braids
this season, as they were never be-
fore so varied, never half so pretty as
they are now. There are all sorts of
mixtures, but nothing else is quite SO
fascinating as the black and white.
One very effective trimming in black
is silk serpentine braid in different
widths, each scallop widening almost
into point. All the braids are fex-
IDLE, soft and glossy, SO they are
easily arranged in any design. Some
thing called the new art braid is SO
pliable that you can give it different
shapes by stretching it in places.
Another feature of trimming shown
in the shops is an embroidery on both
black and white taffeta, which is cut
out in different designs on one edge
and embroidered by machine in imi
tation of hand work. White on black
and black on white are the rule. The
bands are not wide and the embroid-
cry is around the edges, with some
very small pattern scattered through
the center, but this does not conceal
the silk at all. These bands make
very pretty finish for the top of cir
cular fiounce where it is sewed on to
the upper skirt and for the front
edges of the bodice down either side
of the vest.
Black velvet ribbon is shown on a
soft red cloth bolero, worn with a
skirt of the same material, also
trimmed around the hem with velvet
ribbon. Galloon trimming, which
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-02

his evidence, the little Irish lad
turned till his eyes met those of
Stuyvesant, sitting pale, calm and
collected by the generals side, and
while the eyes of all men followed
those of Reilly they saw that, so far
from showing resentment or dismay,
the young gentleman bowed gravely
reassuringly, as though he would
have the witness know his testimony
was exactly what it should be and
that no blame or reproach attached
to him for the telling of what he had
seen.
Then DR.. Frank was called, and he
gave his brief testimony calmly and
clearly. He recognized it as one he
had seen and examined the previous
afternoon at Col. Brent's quarters on
the San Luis. 1t was lying on little
table in the front veranda. He had
closely examined it-could not be
mistaken about it, and when he left
it was still lying on that table. Who
were present when he left? "Other
than the immediate family, only
Lieut.. Stuyvesant." Had he again Wis
tied the coloneFs that evening? He
had. He returned an hour or so later
to dine. The ladies had then left
their seats in the veranda, and he
noticed that the pistol was no longer
on the table; presumed Miss Ray had
taken it with her to her room and
thought no more about it. As indi-
Gated by the inscription, the pistol
was her property.
Then Lieut.. Ray was called, but
there was no response. In low tone
the assistant provost marshal ex-
planned that the orderly sent to Pace
with message for Lieut.. Ray returned
with the reply that Mr.. Ray had two
days leave and was somewhere up
town. He as yet had not been found.
A young officer of artillery volun-
teered the information that late the
previous evening, somewhere about
ten, Mr.. Ray had called at the Guar
tel de Meysic, far over on the north
side. He was most anxious to find a
soldier named Connolly, who, he said.
was at the Preside at the time the
lieutenant's quarters were entered
and robbed, and Lieut.. Abercrombie
had taken Mr.. Ray off in search of
the soldier.
Ray not appearing, the examina-
ton of Assistant Surgeon Brick be-
gan. Brick was the first medical of
ficer to reach the scene of the MUIR
der. Benton was then stone dead,
and brief examination showed the
hole of a bullet of large caliber-
probably pistol, Alright over the
heart. The coarse blue uniform
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-02

this year than of last. There was
considerable variety of a certain kind
offered last winter, but after all every
garment had a decided resemblance to
every other garment, and there was
not sufficient latitude offered to secure
the desired variety. Then it was
stl-appings, and, while a variety of
ways were offered in which the strap
pings might be put on, yet they
looked very much the same in gen
eral way when it was done. In the
end it was strappings just the same.
This winter there is variety Of
fered in the cut of the gown; in the
ways of trimming and in the general
decoration. We have the tailormade
skirt, with one or more shaped
founces, or we have the plated
skirt, or the plain skirt. And the
ways of trimming are even more
variable than the ways of cutting.
The one thing that fashion demands
absolutely, in the tailor gown as well
as the evening or house gown, is a
decided fullness about the feet. For
this reason the shaped fiounce skirts,
or the plated skirts, made with the
plating underneath, are popular.
Given this one thing, and almost any
tailor gown will pass as a modish gar
ment, but this fullness it must have.
One very dainty, yet not overly
elaborate tailor gown, the design of
which comes to us from London, is
of brown Venetian cloth, trimmed
with velvet and satin to match. The
bodice is slightly full, with strap
pings over the shoulders of brown
velvet and satin. The velvet is edged
with a fine cream and gold braid.
The bodice is edged with mink-tail
fur where it opens over a vest of
white satin and a chemisette of real
lace. The sleeves are bell-shaped and
open below the elbow, with under
puffings of white silk. The wristband
and small shaped frill over the hands
are trimmed with brown velvet baby
ribbon. The skirt has graduated box
plaits at the foot, the plaits being
underneath, with trimming on each
of velvet edged with cream and gold
braid.
beautiful gown on the tailor-made
order, designed for wear either in the
afternoon or evening, is made of blue
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-02
Paradise for Sport.men.

To him who knows not where to go, there
can be no better place suggested than the
Pocono mountains, lying in the northeast.
ern part of Pennsylvania, along the beauti-
full Delaware river. Whether you go for
health, or sport, you can hardly experience
the latter without acquiring the former.
The elevation of the mountains varies from
1000 to 1000 feet, and are one dense growth
OF pine and fir trees. Deer, bear and other
large game are plentiful, and though the
region is visited by thousands of sportsmen
every year, there seems to be no noticeable
decrease in the attractions offered The
Pocono mountain hotels, camps and game
preserves are readily accessible by the
Lackawanna Railroad, the great trunk line
between New York and the Great Lakes.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-02
THE WARRIORS DEATH.

'fWhat is his bridge to Heaven?' they crleo'
And the warriors held their breath,
AS the grizzled king of hundred hghts
Went down to the river of death.
.What is his bridge to Heaven?" they cried,
.Ts If Fashioned with buckles and spears,
And girdled with the iron blades
OF battles of bygone years?
"And what are the voices he hears in his
dreams?
Are they the clamors of fight,
Or the echoes of splendid victories that
come
AS he stands by the river at night?"
may, nay and they stand by in wonder
and awe;
For all that he builds on there
Are a withered blossom, q baby's shoe,
And lock of woman's hair.
And the only voices he hears in his dreams,
AS the world dies out on his ears,
Are an old love-ballad, q baby's laugh,
And the sob of a dead wife's tears.
-Pearson's Magazine.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-02
WOMEN OF RANK IN TRADE.
Many Members of the English Aris-
tOcracy Are Earning Their
Pin Money,

The prejudice that for so long exist
ed among the English aristocracy
against those people of quality who
engaged in trade has been disappear
ing of late years, and there are now
numbers of women of patrician birth
who are following divers mercantile
occupations. Their former associates
feel the blue blood tingle in their veins
as they whisper to each other the
astounding news, but they dare not re-
fuse them the recognition due their
rank, for the social position of those
making this innovation is unassail-
able
The thing started with the tearooms.
A woman who had more title than
money dared and did. She opened one
ana 1t was success. Others who were
as much in need of pecuniary returns
took heart and followed her example.
NOW there are a number of London's
hrst-class tearooms which are doing a
DISK business under the supervision
OF the ladies of quality who run them.
But more than this, there is a ladies'
shirtmaker's firm in London. the mem
bers of which are all women of birth
and position. Their shirt waists have
made great hit. They fit so we'll that
the firm is swamped with orders.
Another woman, Miss Cockerell,
whose engagement is announced to
the son of Lady Auguset Noel, has been
IN the Jewelry business. She has made
a reputation for her necklaces and
CHAINS of uncut stones. Half the
smart set of London thronged her
ateller at Albert hall mansions, South
Kensington, with commissions.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-02
One Way to Get Even,

Cabbage again!" he exclaimed. at
seems to me we have had ca bbage near
ly every day for a week"
I'VE have" returned Mrs. Firstf1at,
but I'm going to make things disa-
greeable for the woman in the fat
above us if l have to cook cabbage
every day for a month. She's been
putting on airs, and 1 don't like it,
Chicago Post.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-02
Not Quite the Same.

you surprise me- said Mrs. Up
john, when you speak of Mrs. Playne
as a woman of rare charms. Il
Pardon me-" interrupted Rev. DIR.
Fourthly, "but I did not. I said she
was a woman of rare charm."-Chi-
cago Tribune.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-02
II D \
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quite mannish in appearance. They
are still plain, but it is plainness
that is more becoming to the average
woman than was the plainness of last
winter. In other words, it is femi-
nine rather than a masculine plain
ness. And what difference between
the two!
There is also greater variety Of
fered in the tailor-made garments of
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-02
More Cheap Excursions.

On the First and Third Tuesdays of Mo-
trip excursion tickets will be on sale to ali
points on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids &
Northern Ry. north of and including Alb
bott, Ia. These tickets bear 81 day limit,
thereby giving ample time to look the stu
alton over thoroughly. Call on nearest
agent for rates, etc, and see that your tick
&. Farmer Farm a,A A. t G. p + + A. a B. G. r. N.
Ry., Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-02
The Last Word.

Mrs. Jigsby (the discussion having become
somewhat personall- may talk till
doomsday, George Jigshy, but you'll never
get me to admit that wife is bound to do
as her husband tells her.
Mr. Jigsby-By gravy, madam, if outlive
you I'll have it engraved on your tombstone
that you were a good and obedient wife!-
Chicago Tribune.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-02
CompnratiyeIH Well Fixed

''Papa," said the beautiful girl,
George and I are two souls with but
a single thought"
ooh, well, don't let that discourage
you," replied her father, kindly.
.That's one more than your mother
and 1 had when we were married"
Town and Country.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-02
1t Waa-

Did you hear that drinking song OF
mine in the last act ?" asked the prima
donna.
l thought that was drinking
song" responded the low comedian,
because it was such high bawl."-
Baltimore American.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-02
The New Color

Ottinger-My new golf cap is going
to be of automobile blue.
Miss Henriques-I didn't know there
was any such shade as Automobile
blue"
'Oh, yes! That is the color the air
becomes around an automobile when
it breaks down with two gentlemen in
it."-Puck.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-02
Sea-sOnable Sentiment.

"a romantic country, that" Eyes"
"Sure. All along the coast the buoys are
hugging the shore!" HE might have added
heard now and then as the waves kissed the
beach, and that an arm of the sea half en-
circles sandy waste. but-)-Yale Record.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-02
PrObiur for Gold

"You say the child swallowed a FIVE
dollar gold piece, and you performed
an operation on him." said the caller
Yes replied the doctor; 81 needed
the money Yonkers Statesman.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-02

Ut a year ago and our tailor
made costumes were of the
decidedly plain nature. They
were but little trimmed, and
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-11-02

matches the color of the cloth, is the
feature of another gown tucked
around the hem and across the Shout
ders. The vest is of embroidered silk.
SARAH DAVIDSON.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-01-21
Dom Paul
&fA fXEA& in ScotIe-nd.

1t is not generally known that a
statue Of Dom Paul was quite recent
ly completed ia Aberdeen. Scotland It's
cost was over 100000. and il was at
first intended that the statue should
be delivered in Pretoria on Oct 10
last-Oom Pauls birthday unfortu-
nately it did not arrive there in time,
and is now waiting at the Cape pend
ing the end Of the war before it can
be delivered to its consignees. and just
now the chances Of its ever being de-
liyered OF erected do not seem very
propitious from a Boer point OF view.
But the curious thing in connection
With this statue is that. In Difference
TO Mrs. Kruger's wishes. the chimney
pot hat on the Presidents head has
been left roohess. SO that rain water
might collect and afford solace TO
thirsty birds" Even in Great Brit
ain statues adorned with "toppers'
are not quite so uncommon as many
people imagine, and at least one Is
further ornamented BY an umbrella
This is to be seen at Reading. Eng
land, and represents the late Mr..
George Palmer, OF biscuit fame. who.
besides wearing a bronze topper. car
ries In one hand an unfolded umbrel-
Ia One Of the most curious statues
in Scotland is that erected IN Glas-
gov to Mr. James Oswald. NJ. p. who
holds, upside down in HIS hand. an
enormous bronze hat. which success
sive generations OF Glasgow gamins
for the past forty-slx years have never
tired Of endeavoring to MI with stones.
A very remarkable statue IS 10 BE- seen
in Venice, representing Saint Theodore
standing on a crocodile on the top Of
a granite column. Both the figures
are beautifully carved in the finest
Greek marble but are joined togeth-
er in a rather curious manner with
bronze-coated iron. Saint Theodore
stands sixteen feet in height. while
the crocodile beneath him IS just
fourteen feet long. Few statues in the
far east are more striking than the
huge image OF a woman. dedicated 10
Hackman, the Goddess OF War. IN the
capital Of Japan. Il is made OF wood
and plaster. and is 81 feet high. The
interior Of the figure is partly hollow.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-01-21
Rabbit and
RArebit

Il Is high time that all lovers OF Eng
lish should unite in common protest
against that barharous collocatlon OF
words. Welsh rarebit." says the New
York Herald Every now and then in
the past some good man has raised his
voice in a plea fnr the right phrase.
Welsh rabbit and has then dlsap-
peared Such staccato protests have
proved unavailing. The word rareblt
has now insinnated itself upon % per
cent OF all the menus ia New York.
The small hotels caught the habit from
the greater ones. The French and
German hostelries Initiated their Am
erican contemporaries. Nor is this the
worst Owners Of chophouses and res
taurants aaunt the offensive word on
their gilded signboards In the very face
Of the public al large. Nov. why Is
this7 Not a dictionary Of today sane
tons the use Of -rarebit. though In a
temporary alteration OF judgment
Worcester and Webster once did. Per-
haps hotel men are too busy to consult
dictionaries. Then let them hearken
to the indirect reproog they are con-
tinuOusly receiving from their custom
ers. have been in many. many places
where the menus announce 'rarebits."
I have never heard anyone order any
thing else than a rabbit Nay. the very
waiter who repeats the order 70 the
cook says Welsh rabbit That ls. In
deed. one Of the most curious or an
pathological feats-that by which some
amateur etymologist Of the past forced
the wrongful substitution oe rareblt''
Tor rabbit" upon the world. II has
ever been common habit with the
etymologist Of this breed when the
meaning Of the word does not seem
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-01-21

and the head, which Is large enough 70
hold twenty people comfortably. is
reached by a winding staircase. In
one hand the figure grasPs q huge
wooden sword. and IN the other a ball.
twelve feet in diameter. A somewhat
similar statue 70 the one just men
toned IS that Of Cadillac the founder
Of Detroit, and It IS erected on the
Belle Isle. a small island ia the lake
just outside the city. The figure Is
250 feet high. and Is In reality great
building in the shape Of a man.
clothed In the style OF dress usually
worn By the Puritans Elevators run
from the base Of the structure through
the legs to the various floors IN the
interior Of the monument. which are
fitted up as art galleries, museums.
restaurants. etc. A very remarkable
monument has been erected over the
grave OF Lucas Douglas, Al Westheld
Cemetery. in the United States. He
was rather an eccentric man. and, In
stead OF bequeathing his property 10
his relatives. he arranged that prae-
tically all his estate. after paying his
debts. should be expended on an orna-
ment to be placed over his grave.
Four ears. each drawn By twenty
seven horses. drew the statue 20 the
cemetery. and as a safe precaution an
the bridges were strengthened over
which the load had 10 pass The statue
itself takes the form Of a sort Of glori-
ned representation Of the late Lucas
Douglas, all OF which and the coping
and ornamentations are made Of mar
bic. The base Of the statue alone
weighs over sixtheen tons. In the
parish church Of Yarmouth. Isle Of
Wight. Is a statue with a head that
does not belong 10 H. The statue n
question IS that OF Richard Holmes.
who fought under Prince Rupert. and
was governor OF the island from 1861
to 1852. The body OF the figure was
really intended 10 represent Louis
XIV. but during the war which was
being waged against him at that time
Holmes seized the statue from a ship
on its way TO France. and compelled
the sculptor. who was on board. 10 re-
place the head OF the, great Louis b.
one Of his own.