The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-01-08
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KENOsIA WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, JANUARY s, 1868.


although the recital of the scene in question
ALWAYS unnerves me. You doubtless observe
that looked in at t he window once or twice be
fore took my seat IN this carriage, and tina
even when had done so | regarded you tire
gentlemen with considerable distrusrt More
over. you may have seen me shudde occasion
ally as sentiments and actions of yours whic
may seemed innocent enough The reason o
this is, that | am morbidIy apPrehensive o
finding myself in the company OF any person
of insane mind Once in my life--an occasion
[ can never forget-I was the fellow travele
lin a railway carriage with a maniac Ih
narrator here took prolonged sDltr at TN
| vinagrette. He was powerful man, and ev
len if he had nor been mad, | should have hat
no chance with him. We We're alone together
II was the express train, and OF course there
we're % means of communicating with the guar'
Nj Edgar Poe himself could hardly have i'm
agined a set 0 + circumstances more appalling
Previous to the outbreak, am bound say
the gentleman conducted himself with prop'ie
! ~ He refused but with the utmost couite
business, my offer of Punch ana Times, ant
applied himself harmoniously enough, as L
seemed to he study of Bradshaw. Whether
excessive application to that abstruse volume
| he'd been The original cause OF his unhappy
malody. do not know, but TIL partieu ar treu
" of which was the miserable victim was
certainly excited by that work.
! Sir observed he with an air OF intellectual
jlanauor, 'can you assist an unhappy scholar t.
discover the hour at which this train arrives Al
Madagascar | am aware that we change car
iage- at the Exuator at 248 but beyond that
cannot trace cur route
! THEN knew. of course, at once that the man
had osc his senses. There was a cold maici'
ous glitter in his eye, Notwithstanding his soft
< pet ch, which made my hand shake as ! took
the preferred volume, and pretended to look
out for Madagascar, To hum0r him, and gan
time, were my only objects At what snail s
pace We seem to travel How | ervied the
country lads that waved their rugged hats i'll
the fields as the trains passed by how gladly
would have changed places with the milkman
in the meadow, or the carter with his team, OF
| the policeman standing by the ralside, with his
| All Righf flag NJ. ALI right, indeed. and II
tirst-class passenger about TO be torn limb from
limb perhaps by madmsn
Have you discovered Madagascar q asked
the maniac presently, with great imitation.
I was obnged to confess that had not a:
yet been SO fortunate; l had, however, still tc
explore the Scotch railways, and perhaps (said
u it might possibly be somewhere among them
/ don't think it likely observed my com
pArio. dirty Do you not observe those thick
]
drew his fingers with frightful energy across
his b oat-,just as one thinks one is coming
! TO ones Journey end That is the North Pole
The late lamented Dr. Scoresby chopped 1t IN
/ to small pieces for greater cOnverience. W.
can never be too thankful for its introduction
Let Us drank the health of the North POei lei
us compose an cde to its low Thermometership.
| Come, you begin
| Al this point, the narrator almost drained he
brandy flask in his nervous trepidatiOn. HIS
exciem was communicated. to ourselves,and
believe if the train had stopped anywhere dur
ing the enthsalng portion OF the story, each OF
US would rather have been carried beyond the
mark than missed the denOuement.
Come, you begin, repeatea the madman,
with lock Of extreme ferocity; Roll, roll,
North Pole, or something of that kind but nor
with your clothes ON. How dare you address
his Low Tbermomeier>hip in that unseemly
garb 2
In quarter OF minute my companion had
Invested himself Of every article of raiment ex
cept his shirt, and [ was doing my best TO fol
low his example. Hasten, cried he, 'insoienl
mnion, for Mad, Madder, Madagascar is draw
ing nigh
10 human beings, | suppose, ever presented
more astonishing spectacle than did we two
in our airy garments, kneeling upon the floor
of the railway carriage, aud apostrophizng the
North Pole. | felt my senses were fast desert
ing me through excess Of rerro' and that it the
plan "hlch now suggested itself should fail, 1t
wund indeed be ali over with me-.
WHAT exclaimed /, is it possible that you
venture to speak to North Pole without previ-
ously putting your head through he carriage
window.
In an instant, he had eaped up and darted
h,s head and neck through the pane AZ though
it had not been there. The sharp fragments of
the glass retained him that he conld lot
draw his head back without great pain and dit
hcu.ty, and in he meantime | had opened the
other door, and, at the hazand ot my lte,clam>
hered into the next carriage, where found a
stout gentleman asleep, who was almost hight
eped INTO ilts by my unexpected and horrible
appearance. He gave me however, his rail-
way rug 10 wrap around me, and was narrat-
ing 10 IN the d, eldtu events which had just
happ bod, when H. there was scrsmbling at
the open window, and then We behe d the ma
uIac bleeding from his wounded throat, MS
hair streaming like a meteor his shirt in thcuS-
and ribbons, his whole appearence calculated
to strike terror into the strongest mind. Il
WAS evidently his intention to get ill., The stout
gentleman, speecbleSs with terror, pointed 10
his umbrella, suspended III the cradle above the
seat iii wtIch had placed myself | seized
this weapon, and with the assistance Of my new
such violence, thar, after = tremendous strug-
gle, he was obigod TO lose his hold of the door
handle, aud seize the umbrella instead. Then
We instantly let go of it, and the wretChed man
tumb!ed backwards off the train.
| Here the narrator finished his story and the
/ brandy an water
! Then the poor mailman must, fear, have
met bis death 2 said l.
( 1T is impossible to say for certain" replied
/ he nervous passenger with shudder "A
skeleton, grasping the wires Of an UMBRELLA
was discovered years afterwards IN a peat bog
at the exact spot where the accident happened
but l never feel quite safe from meeting hin
AGAIN
( Que Of the solid men Of Boston-hs weight mus
be between four and five hundred was asked thu
otber day ifhe did not intend to get certificate
exemption from examining surgeon His ans
wer was a good one. mo, said he 81 acknowl
eoge / an a coward, but don't want to pay twt