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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-08-30
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Perhaps the most unusual way of de-
livering mails is that adopted for one of
the islands of the Tonga group in the
Pacific where the danger of approach
ing inshore renders it necessary for the
mail steamer to use a sky-rocket as
pOStman.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-08-30
Saved Train with Shirt.

Joseph Gassney OF Boston, 10 years
old, foiled an attempt to wreck a train
from Boston to Plymouth by pulling
OF his shirt and using it as a flag with
Which to signal the engineer. Seventy
nVe passengers were on the train
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-08-30

Two bottles Of Piso's Cure for Con.
sumption cured me Of a terrible cough
Fred Hermann, 200 Box avenue, Buffalo,
N. T., Sept. "a, 1901.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-08-30
In Pinch, Use Aliens Foot-Ease.

A powder to shake into your shoes 1t rests
the feet, Cures Corns Bunions, Swollen,
Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating feet
and 1ngrowing Nails Aliens Foot Ease
makes new tight shoes easy. Sold by
all Druggists and Shoe Stores, Csc. Sample
lie Roy, N. Y.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-08-30
PNEUMATIC CUE.
Pools or Billiards in Confined Places.

POOIS CT BIIIIaIdS IN COntned Places.
One of the disadvantages of the con-
ventional pool or billiard table is it's
large dimensions, which prohibit it's use
in q house of ordinary size. unless To-
Gated in the cellar, which generally does
not offer attractive surroundings. Real
ling this limitation. an indianapolis
man has conceived the idea o. construct
ing pneumatic cues, which are very
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-08-30

1t is estimated that if the paupers
Id Great Britain were arranged in q
procession four abreast the line WOuld
be nearly 100 miles in length
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-08-30
TO STROP THE RAZOR.
A Machine for the Assistance Of the ANA
teur Barber

The popular belief that the superior
shaving qualities of the professional bar
ber's razor is due to his skillful manipu-
lation of the blade upon the strop prob
ably has considerable foundation in fact.
Despite the average mans daily shave.
he rarely acquires that faculty with the
strop and hone that produce the smooth,
keen edge so much desired Many me-
chanical devices have been produced
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-08-30

Portraits of Charles I. and Queen
Henrietta Maria, by Sir Anthony van
Dyck, were sold recently at Christie's,
London, for $50, $50.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-08-30
THE TURN OF LIFE
Time When Women Are Susceptible to Many
Dread Diseases-lnteiligent Women Prepare
for 1t. Two Relate their Experience.

The "change of life"is
the most critical period
of a woman's existence,
and the anxiety felt by
women as it draws near
is not without reason.
Every woman who
neglects the care of her
health at this time in
vites disease and pain.
When her system is in
a deranged condition,
or she is predisposed to
apoplexy, or congestion
of any organ, the ten
dency is at this period
likely to become active
and with a host of ner-
vous irritations, make
life a burden. At this
time, also, cancers and
tumors are more liable
to form and begin their
destructive work.
Such warning symp-
toms as sense of suffo-
cation, hot flashes, head
aches backaches, dread
of impending evil, timid-
ity, sounds in the ears,
palpitation of the heart,
sparks before the eyes,
irregularities, constipa-
ton, variable appetite,
weakness and inquie-
tude, and dizziness. are
promptly needed by in
telligent women who are
approaching the period
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-08-30

Alexander King 30 years old, car
peLter, was killed by a fall from the
Orders of a storage building in course
of erection.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-08-30

MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP fol-
Children teething; softens the gums, reduces in
tammation allays pain, cures wind collie. %
cents a bottle.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-08-30

in Brazil, when an unmarried wOm-
an dies, the coffin, hearse and livery OF
the coachman are all scarlet.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-08-30

The Atlantic ocean has an average
depth of 10000 feet.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-08-30

OF the three national holidays in
Japan the greatest is February H.. the
anniversary of the coronation of the first
Emperor The other two are January /
and November 3, the birthday Of the
reigning Emperor.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-08-30

sfDr. David Kennedy's Favorite Rem
edy cured my wife of a terrible disease. With
pleasure / testify to its marvellous efficacy" j.
Sweet, Albany, n. Y.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-08-30

1" I wrote you for advice and commenced
! treatment with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound as you directed, and I am
happy to say that all those distressing symp-
toms left me and have passed safely through
the Change of Life, well woman. / am
recommending your medicine to all my
friends, Mrs Annie f. G. Hyland, Chester
town, Md.
Another WOman's Case.
"During change of life words cannot ex-
press what I suffered. Ny physician said
had cancerous condition of the womb. One
day Tread some of the testimonials of women
who had been cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, and decided to try it
and to write you for advice. Your medicine
made me well woman, and all my bad symp-
voms soon disappeared.
. advise every woman at this period or life
take your medicine and write you for adj
vice. Mrs Lizzie Hinkle, Salem, Ind
What Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound did for Mrs. Hyland and
Mrs. Hinkle it will do for any woman
at this time of life.
It has conquered pain, restored
health, and prolonged life in cases that
utterly baffied physicians.
txn,,ud c,,cooode Eu,n>aa N<hn<so Coil
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-22

various angular cuts resorted to in car
pentry may be expeditiously and easily
found and marked. The blade is SINH
lar in type to the ordinary hand-saw,
except that it must have straight
back and carries number of inscribed
lines to mark different angles, such as
fifteen degrees, twenty two and one
half degrees, thirty degrees, forty five
degrees, sixty degrees, etc. Other COR
related information, such as the
amount of rise per foot of run Of hori-
zontal measurement for any of the
angles within the scope of the saw Is
added. These marks considerably in
crease the sphere OF the tool and rem
der it unnecessary to employ the usual
inter when an angle cut is to be found
and marked, without in any way rem
derIng the tool cumbersome or interior
ing with its ordinary use. Moreover,
the Improvement does not add appreci-
ably to its cost Philadelphia Record.
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laSt
ESKIMO FOLKLORE.

u.ne most striking feature of Eskimo
folk lore is its thoroughly human char
acter, says a writer in the Interna-
tional Quarterly. In strict sense. of
the term the bulk Of Eskimo tradition
is not mythology, but hero-tales, which
reflect with remarkable faithfulness
the social condition and religious be-
tiefs OF the people. They treat of visits
of fabulous tribes, of murder and re-
venge, of mercy and recompense, of
feats OF shamanism and of witchcraft.
The supernatural enters into them.
but only as it enters into the every
day life of the people to whom witches,
guardian spirits Of shamans. giants
and dwarfs are existing realities. In
this sense most of the Eskimo tales
are true tales taken from life, and
show great lack of imaginative
power.
Setting aside this group Of hero-tales
there remain only few entirely dis
connected myths. One of them tells
how woman was mutilated by her
father. who cut of her finger joints
one after the other. From these joints
originated the mammals, and the
woman became their mistress. An
other myth tells Of the origin of sun
and moon. who in the beginning were
human beings, brother and a sister,
and who were taken up to the sky.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-22
CUTS The THREAD.

One Of those impressive little inven
tons that makes everyone with any
mechanical talent laugh at his own OBJ
tuseness and lack of observation is a
thread cutter for sewing machines thai
has just appeared to the credit of a
man hailing from Waltham, Mass. Any
one who is at all familiar with a sew.
ing machine must have been impressed
with, the multiplicity Of attachments
and conveniences that go with mod
ern up-to-date machine, and yet despite
the seeming abundance of contrivances
this fundamental attachment has long
been overlooked. On the work support
table, and extending from the needle
hole, there is a thread slot with con
verging edges, leading to thread-cut
ting device. The arrangement of the
needle-hole and slot is such that the
shuttle is securely gripped to facilitate
the ready cutting of the thread. When
it is remembered that the shipping
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-22
THE BIGGEST ELEPHANT TUskS
EVER FOUND.

This is picture of one of the two
largest tusks that ever came into the
ivory trade. Both came from the same
animal.
The specimen here supported by four
ivory carriers weighs 247 pounds.
Think Of carrying around to a very
venerable age a weight Of nearly 500
pounds in tusks alone No wonder
that an elephants neck is SO thick
and muscular.
One day about eight years ago a
party of black elephant hunters on a
slope of Mount Kiiimanjaro saw the
animal that was carrying these won
derful tusks around and killed it. The
villagers down below were much as
tonished when they saw four men
carrying the ivory down the mountain.
They had never seen tusk before that
was more than one-man load.
The tusks were taken to Zanzibar,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-22
HOW SWALLOWS Drunk.

OF course we know that swallows
drink as they skim over the surface Of
water. We have seen how here and
there the water ripples on pond
when swallows are gracefully skim
ming to and fro. One day sat down
beside a small pond where, every eve
ning, many barn swallows came to
oathe and drink on the surface of the
CLASSY water With sketch book and
pencil in hand, closely watched the
birds; and you may igamine my de-
light to see just how they managed to
touch and dip up the water as they
came within few steps of me. You
see, the swallow takes up water in its
lower bill, just as you would dip up
a little water in a spoon or in the hol-
low Of your hand while you glided
over the surface in boat. Only the
under half Of the open bill touches
the water; if the upper half were also
to touch, the water would be forced
out on either side instead Of being
scooped up into the bill.-St. Nicholas.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-22

bright, and they thought the flowers
were not pretty. and they did not like
the little fountain, and they were very
miserable, and did not know what to
do
So Alice walked back to see what
Bertha was doing. And what do you
suppose that WASP
Why, Bertha was walking back to
see what Alice was doing.
Just then little bird few down and
took bath in the fountain. He
splashed and splashed and splashed.
Alice clapped her hands and laughed.
And Bertha did, too.
Alice and Bertha looked at each other
and kept right on laughing and laugh
ing.
you may have your house by the
pink rose bush, Bertha" said Alice.
"Oh. no! You have yours there"
said Bertha.
II tell you what Alice said. eve
will have our house there together"
The dreadful quarrel was over at
last, and the two little sisters were
happy again.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-22

Two sons of Mr.. Henry Phipps, the
well-known millionaire, who is at pres
ent occupying Beaufort Castle, OBJ
served boat on the River Beauty on
recent Tuesday evening, and think
ing the occupants were poachers, one
OF them fired his gun in their direction.
The boat was rowed to the shore. and
three of the men decamped. but the
other, who proved to be a ''gillie," was
wounded in the face and seriously in
jured. The injured man was taken to
the castle, and medical aid summoned
when it was found necessary to remove
one of his eyes.-London Mail.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-22

it will spread out beneath it, allowing
you to look down the space in the mid
die. The reason is that the wire car
ries the heat away so rapidly that the
fame is pat out. This principle is used
in the miners safety lamp.
For your second experiment let the
candle burn until the wick is quite
long, having placed it where there is
no draught Now blow the candle out,
and a stream of smoke will rise from
it, This smoke is the gas, the burning
of which makes the fame. To show
that it is gas put lighted match to it
Immediately after blowing out the cam
die, and it will ignite and run down
and relight the candle. The match
should be held about half an inch
above the wick.
Again letting the candle burn until
the wick is long, and quickly blowing
out the fame as before, hold the wire
gauze down over the wick SO that the
smoke will rise through the meshes.
Apply a lighted match to the smoke
half an inch above the gauze, and the
gas of which the smoke is composed
will at once ignite, but the fame will
not go below the gauze, for the reason
that has already been given.
Still experimenting with that dark
spot in the middle of the candle fame,
take a good match and thrust the head
of it into the spot If you do it quickly
enough the match will not ignite as it
enters the fame, and when 1t gets into
the dark spot the head will melt. II
will not light because there is no air in
the spot to make combustion.
Now get a plate and bring 1t quickly
down into the fame of the candle, and
then raise it again. being very careful
to keep it in straight line, up and
down. You will find on the bottom OF
the plate ring of spot the centre be-
ing clear, because that part of the
flame leaves no deposit Of SCOT. By
using a lame plate and small candle
you may make the outlines of a gro
tesque face with rings of SCOT, one for
each eye, and for nose and mouth,
with number of them crossed and
entagled at the top for the hair over
the forehead.-New Y ork Evening Mail.
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tjnrfone Chinese News.

These characteristic news items APP
peared in the Pekin and Tientsin
Times:
NOW that the hot weather has set
in and sleepy Cinnamon look on the
railway sleepers as convenient bed,
with the rail for pillow, we may ex-
pect to have the usual loss &C life along
the line. The first head of the season
was cut of few days ago near
Weihui."
ut is reported that in trying to raise
an indemnity for the murder Of French
missionaries at Patang, mining conces-
sions instead of money have been asked
for But the Chinese properly point
out that mission work and commerce
are distinct and refuse the demand"
"Some rolls Of silk gauze and n fan
have been sent down to the viceroy
from the Empress Dowager, who is
most anxious that he should keep cool"
Chicago News.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-22
DINNER CAN IMPROVEMENT.

Even the dinner pail offers the stu
dent an opportunity to comment upor
the evolution that is inevitable ir
mans handiwork of the present day
and generation. The one-time universal
kettle bears but slight resemblance
to the modern adjustable dinner pail
with it's several receptacles to keeI
each of the articles carried in good
as well as attractive, condition. Ar
example, in which economy of space
is reduced to a science, is shown here
with, the happy thought of New
Yorker. 1t consists Of casing, oper
at the ends, and provided with sliding
covers. The interior is divided into s
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-22
BEEHIVE IN HER PARLoR.

In the heart of London over half a
hundred weight Of honey comb has just
been gathered, says the Montreal Her
aid. The bees responsible for this rich
harvest belong to Miss Baden-Powell,
sister of the hero of Mafeking.
These wonderful bees are the sub
jects of an Interesting experiments.
They had been removed from an old
residence in Piccadilly to Miss Baden
Poweli's new home at Princes Gate,
During their fifteen years in their old
quarters the bees never failed to store
up large quantities of honey, and were
quite content to live in the drawing
room where their specially constructed
hive. invented by Miss 3aden-Powell,
stood on a table near the window.
's.rhe mystery is where they fed in
order to make honey so excellent and
in such quantities. said Miss Baden
Powell, ''for there was no garden at
tached to the house." In their new
home at Princes Gate the bees come
and go through passage in the wall
as before, and Miss Baden-Powell is
watching. anxiously for signs Of dis
content, which she hopes will not be
shown.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-22
Letler seven Ysars on one WAY

That the Government is slow but
sure is evidenced by the fact that
Grandma Jones has just received a
letter from Miss Minnie Roger mailed
in a postoffice in Southern Oregon
seven years ago. Miss Roger, who il
now a resident of Gresham, remem-
bers writing the letter while visiting
friends in the southern part of the
State. The envelope is yellow with
age, but in good condition. Why it
has been so long on the road cannot be
told.-Gresham Record.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-22
Jewals Of Nota bios.

All people who possess jewels have
certain trinkets which they regard with
almost superstitious affection. Sarah
Bernhardt pins her faith to a necklace
Of old nuggets, a gift from the Cali
fornia miners, and the Duchess of Or
leans to set Of sapphires which be-
longed to Mary Antoinette. The sap
phire is the Queens fayorite stone.
She wears as brooch one Of great
size, given to her by the late Duke of
Coburg. But old Egyptian jewels are
considered the most potent guardians
Of fortune. Mrs. ST. John Brodrick
owns Egyptian gems of priceless value.
Mrs. Clarence Mackay has a weird
caRRelian necklace which hung once
upon the neck Of a daughter of the
Pharaohs. Mrs. George Keppel wears
q pendant Of emeralds, the most beau
tifu in the world.-London Tit-Bits.
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ONE OF THE Two LARGEST ELEPHANT TUsKs ON RECORD.

where they were the talk of the town
The bidding for them was spirited, and
naturally enough they were purchased
for the American trade. Both of them
came to New York, but one crossed
the ocean again and is now in the
British Museum.
The heaviest Asiatic tusks that are
known to have come into the market
weighed 100, 1o6 and 100 pounds. The
largest tusk Of mammoth yet dug
out Of the soil weighed 173 pounds.
So the old animal which was caught
on the side of Kilimanjaro takes the
palm, as far as the records go, in an
cient or modern times.
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A certain editor was visited in his
Office by Notwithstanding military
gentleman, who exclaimed, excitedly
as he entered THAT notice of my
death in your paper to-day is a lie, sir
I'll horsewhip you in public, sir, if YOU
don't apologize in your next ISSUE"
The next day the. editor inserted the
following apology:
I'VE extremely regret to announce
that the paragraph in our issue of yes
terday which stated that Colonel Brim-
stone was dead is without foundation
-Harpers Weekly.
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wHEN rHEY QUARRELEp.

Alice and Bertha played in the same
garden, because they were little sisters,
relates st. Nicholas.
They were always playing in the gar
den, and everybody who passed by
would say, "Hello, AliceP' and "Hello,
Berthar' and the little sisters would
run to the fence and say: Good morn
ingl Good morning!"
But one day very sad thing hap
pened. Alice and Bertha had a quar-
rel
Alice wanted to play that her house
was under the pink rose bush by the
fountain. But Bertha wanted to play
that her house was under the pink rose
bush by the fountain. So Alice said
taat she wouldn't play 1T all. And
Bertha said neither would she. They
each walked around the garden alone.
It was sad
They thought the sun did not seem
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in life when woman's great change
may be expected.
These symptoms are all just so many
calls from nature for help. The nerves
are crying out for assistance and the
cry should be needed in time.
Lydia e. PinlSham's Vegetable Com
pound was prepared to meet the needs
of woman's system at this trying
period of her life. 1t inyigorates and
strengthens the female organism and
builds up the weakened nervous system,
1t has carried thousands of women
safely through this crisis.
For special advice regarding this i'm
portant period women are invited to
write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn. Mass,
and it will be furnished absolutely free
of charge.
Read what Lydia E. Pinkham's Com
pound did for Mrs. Hyland and Mrs.
Hinkle:
Dear Mrs Pinkhan:--
had been suffering with falling of the
womb for years and was passing through the
Change of Life. My womb was badly swol-
len; my stomach was sore; / had dizzy spells,
sick headaches, and was very nervous.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Cor
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-22
IA CURIOUS PERCH.

A pigeon roostIng on the minute
hand of the town clock in the Cass
County Court House tower stopped
the clock at precisely 6.20, and caused
many people in Logansport to be an
hour late, says the Chicago Chronicle.
The electric light was turned on in
the tower, and, although the dial was
suddenly illuminated, the pigeon was
not in the least disturbed, and refused
to move. A janitor was obliged to
climb the dizzy height and "shoo" the
bird away. 1t was 715 o'clock when
the mechanism was again in motion.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-22
CANDLE CURIosITTEs.

Get for your experiments large tai
low candle with thick wick; this will
give better results than the ordinary
candle with slender wick You know
that in the dark spot in the middle Of
a candle fame there is no fire; that the
spot consists Of unburning gases. Here
is way for you to look right down
into that space, an empty space with
the fame surrounding it.
Take piece of wire netting, such as
is used for window screens or for MAX
ing strainers. and hold it down over the
fame. 1t might be supposed that the
fame would rise through the meshes
of the wire, but instead of doing that
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-22
I1s AEEAzland


" wrote you for advice and commenced
treatment with Lydia z. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound as you directed, and ann
happy to say that all those distressing symp-
toms left me and have passed safely through
the Change of Life, well woman. am
recommending your medicine to all my
friends Mrs Annie e. G. Hyland, Chester
town, Nd.
Another WOman's Case.
"During change of life words cannot ex-
press what suffered. My physician said I
had cancerons condition Of the womb. One
day read some Of the testimonials of women
who had been cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and decided to try it
and to write you for advice. Your medicine
made me a well woman, and all my bad symp-
toms soon disappeared
{" l advise every woman at this period OF life
to take your medicine and write you for adj
vice. Mrs Lizzie Hinkle, Salem, Ind.
What Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound did for Mrs. Hyland and
Mrs Hinkle it will do for any woman
at this time of life.
1t has conquered pain, restored
health, and prolonged life in cases that
utterly baffied physicians.
pound Succeeds Where others Fail