Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-11-22

EXTRAORDINARY HUMAN CURIosITIEs "A
Mr.. s. B. Knox has brought to Boston, boy and
a girl of the kaanas, tribe of an almost extinct
race of South America. They are described in
the papers of that city as most singular looking
creatures. The boy is thirty-two inches in
height, and weighs sixteen pounds and about ten
| years of age. The girl is twenty-eight inches
| in height, weighs fourteen pounds, and is suppo-
sed to be about fourteen years of age Their
heads are not larger than newborn infants and
they are almost destitute of foreheads, while their
noses are finely developed straight and long
and project at we'll defined angle. Their eyes
are full, dark and lustrous. Their heads are COW
cred with strong dark hair which descends for
ward nearly to the eyebrows. The face is very
sharp, the upper lip projecting and the chin re-
cedng in corresponding degree. Notwith-
! standing the almost entire absence of forehead
there is not in the profile view the least resem-
blance to the Simmia tribe. They are said to
belong to the surviving remnant of an ancient
order of priesthood called Kaanas which by con-
slant interrnarriage within its own caste has
dWindled down to few individuals, diminutive
in stature, and imbecie in intellect. Their heads
and faces resemble exactly the figures on the
bas-reef on the temple ruins described in Ste
vens, Central America. They are orphans and
at the close of war between two OF the Aztec
tribes, fell into the hands of traveller named
Hammond. They are lively, playful and affec-
tionate, but all attempts to teach them word Of
English have thus far proved unsuccessful; they
occasionally utter few gbberish sounds.
TELEGRAPH UNDER THE ATLANTIC.
writer in the Scientific American II. L
Stuart, Esq, Civil Engineer, takes strong ground
in favor of the praetbility OF a submarine tele-
graph between America and Europe. He pro-
poses to coat four separate wires in solid Gutta
Percha cord, one and three-fourth's of an inch in
diameter: and to sink this, by means of anchors,
as was done between Calais and Dover. He
urges, however, that the anchors should be heav-
Ter than those used on that OCCASION In having
down the line he thinks that fifteen ships of
thousand tons would be required, with at least
four steamers as tenders. The distance between
Cape Clear, in Ireland, to point about one hun
dred miles above Halifax is sixteen hundred
miles. A line of this length, such as it is
proposed to employ, would weigh nearly eight
thousands tons, and require six hundped anchors
The cost of every thin :, when in complete work.
ing order is estimated by Mr.. Stuart at not over
three millions of dollars. The wire could be
laid down in twenty days, and would last one
hundred years. The line would be sunk beow
all anchorage, and below all action of the water
A submarine telegraph of this description, has
been projected between England and Ireland !;
and, if it should succeed, the attempt will be
made in the broad Atlantic.
| APPALLING William McGinnis,
who has Just arrived here from California, brings
the news of the death of James Middlemiss and
N. Brandon, two OF our citizens who left this
place last spring. 1t appears, that when on the
western side OF the mountains, the train to which
how Iola L. e -
which had been thrown away by some of the
companies in advance. Messrs. Middlemiss and
Brandon placed slow match to it for the pur-
pose of producing an explosion, and retired some
distance so as to be out of danger. After wait
lug awhile they concluded the fire to the match
had gone out, and started towards the key but
when they had got nearly to the powder it explo-
ded, mutlla:ing them in the most shocking man
ner Both of these unfortunate men leave large
circles of friends to lament their sad fate
aa ~ joliet Signal.
TRANSFORMATION OF FUGITIVE SLAvEs.-A
Boston paper publishes correspondence between
citizen ofthat place and the president of the Bos
ton and Worcester Railroad Company concern
ing the passage over their railway of fugitive
slaves who have been recaptured and are being
conveyed back to the place from which they es-
capped. Some of the stockholders of the road are
scrupulous of being accessory in any manner to
rendering back to servitude one who has Soon
quered his freedom by force of flight" The
President answers that railroad corporation is
public nstitution-a creature of the law, for the
purpose of public accommodation, as highway,
and that among the duties which it engages, and
is bound to perform, is that of carrying all pas
sengers who pay the established fare and comply
with established reasonable rules.
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A LOUD ANNoUYCEMENT.-Ane editor out west
thus acknowledge the receipt of an heir-a four
teen FOUNDER, and boy at that:
81 am this day multiplied by two--I am du-
! pcate-l am number one Of an indefinite Sc
ries, and there is my continuation And you OBJ
serve it is not block, nor blockhead nor pain
ting, nor bust, nor a fragment of anything, how
ever beautiful, but combination of all the arts
and sciences in one-painting, sculpture, music,
| (hear him cry) mneraogy, mechanics, (see him
kick , geography and the use of globes, (see him
nurse y And withal he is perpetual motion
time-piece that will never run down! And who
wound him up?'
All but the editor out 1oest 1t was an editor
down east who made the announcement, as any
can see by referring to an old file of the Knick-
erbocker Magazine. 1t is but brief extract from
beautiful article.
GREAT HAUL OF CoUNTEFEIT MONEY
ARREST OF THE CoUNTERFEITERs.- officer
Best not satisfied with nabbing on Saturday, a
robber who was stepping off the steamer Empire,
with $500 of stolen money, took it into his head
yesterday to do little something with the coun-
terfeiters. Information having come to him that
there were certain persons in town whose bust
ness was the manufacturing of spurious notes,
he set himself at work, and in few hours sue
ceeded in obtaining possession both Of the artists
themselves, and seuen thousand seuen hundred
and ffty dollars in counterfeit notes. These notes