Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-07-15


aid. He is the feeder; aye, and the gar
menter, virtually, Of the race. Cities
spring from their traffic in the products
of his industry. Commerce is born at
his bequest. Of the State, he is the
irst estate. Lord of the land; no man
has firmer hold the essential title of
nobility. And he need be no pldder,
because he is farmer. The day is past
when the soil-tiller was confounded
with the clod turner by his pillow. The
soil is his servitor; he smites it, and the
harvest comes forth. The hoe and sick
lie makes him music drawer than the dull
cmers, and sound the march of triumph,
grand as it is peaceful and blessed. But
1T Is not forever in the furrow. For him
are honors linked to beauties and wis
doms; for him periods of communion
and rapture, of which the birds, the
flowers, the streams, the stars, and all
wondrous things of the universe NAV
bear him witness. st.
How HE SAVED HIS SOMA writer in
the Charleston Courier furnishes an es-
say upon the shark, and in connection
Herewith relates the following Incl.
dent: III 5 3ss.tae
The well known fact that the flesh of
a negro is exceedingly grateful to the
palate OF ashark, enhances our admira-
ton of this fellows courage. When he
has tie opportunity of dining on white
man or negro, he shows decided pref
erence for the latter. 1t is related that
captain did once avail himself of this
preference In rather questionable way.
While his vessel was moving slowly, his
son fell overheard He saw huge
shark making with all speed toward the
little fellow, who was bravely working
hands and legs to keep his head above
water. Selling a negro child who was
toddling over the deck, he threw it into
the sea. The shark was attracted by
the richer color; the infant disappeared,
and the captains darling was saved.
AN OCEAN TRIP IN A BALLooN.-J.
Steiner, of Harrisburg, Pa, proposes to
cross the Atlantic in balloon, 100 feet
in diameter. He says, in a letter to the
Telegraph :-''I am satisfied in my own
mind that with such an apparatus I
could cross the Atlantic in Is hours,
and the whole cost would not be more
than $4,000. The balloon, net work
and valve would weigh about 1000
pounds, and the boat and rigging tons
and a half-this will leave about tons
ascending power, for provisions, passen-
gers and ballast. 1t would require
three good ocean navigators and one
astronomer, besides myself. / would
suggest New York as the starting point
and | am certain / would strike within
200 miles of any given distance in Eur
ope. | would suggest May as the time
for making the experiment, and would
make the attempt in 1859, if could get
the government or others to assist me. -
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The EFFECTS OF MooNLIGHT.-Pro
fessor Piazza Smith, the Astronomer
Royal for Scotland, in his interesting
account of a recent scientific expedition
made by him to the Peak of Tenerife.
has set at rest the vexed question ofthe
heat of the moonlight. He says that his
thernometrical instruments were sensi-
bly, affected by the moons rays, even at
the lowest of two stations occupied by
him at different elevations In tropical
climates, meat which is exposed to the
moonlight rapidly becomes putrid and
in the Indies, the negroes who will lie
swelterlng and uncovered beneath the
tull glare of tropical sun, carefully
mufie their heads and faces when ex-
posed to the moonbeams, which they
believe will cause swelling and distor-
ton OF the features, and sometimes even
blindness.-Scie'atjfc Aneerican.
~ The printing office has indeed
proved better college to many a boy;
has graduated more useful and conspic-
lous members of society, has brought
more intellect out and turned into prac-
teal, useful channels, awakened more
mind, generated more active and eleya-
ted thought, than many of the literary
colleges OF the country. A boy who
commences in such school as the
printing office, will have his talents and
ideas brought cut; and if he is a careful
observer, experience in his profession
will contribute more toward an educa-
ton than can be obtained in almost any
other manner.-E.c.
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,Ry-On the boundaries of Central In
dia there is unique bird called semenda
III the beak of which there are, as it
were, several distinct pipes with seve-
raj openings. When death approaches,
this bird collects quantity of dry wood
in his nest, and sitting upon it, sings so
sweet with all it's pipes that it attracts
and sooths the hearers to a marvellous
degree; then lighting the wood by flap
ping it's wings fit allows itself to be
burnt to death. s..:so.-
INDUSTRIOUS SUPERSTITION A BROTH
er of Little Soldier, chief of the Snake
Utah) Indians, died few days since.
His relatives, in addition to the killing
of his favorite horse over his grave, bu-
ried with him, alive, little boy, of
whom he was very fond, in order that
he might accompany him to the spirit
land. They wrapped the boy up, alive,
in blanket, and placing him in the
grave with the corpse, buried them to-
gether. ae @
MONEY AND HEALTH.-There is this
difference between those two temporal
blessings, health and money. Moneyis
the most envied, but the least enjoyed.
Health is the most enjoyed, but the least
enyied; and this superiority of the lat
ter is still more obvious; when we reflect
that the poorest man would not part
with health for money, but that the rich
est would gladly part with all their mo-
ney for health.-Folton.