The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-05-21
Miscellaneous Items.


/ home some years ago to try his fortune i
= the Western Eldorado After the usua
Il ups and downs incidental to the life of a
emlgrant, he found himself the possessor G
a net sum Of 40, 900 francs, after calcuIa
ting the cost of his return to his nativ
land, and friends, where he might hope t.
spend the remnant of bis days above tn
reach of want. In Italy he soon learned
that his 1000 gold pieces we're worth 40,
oOO francs in paper, at the rate of 125 pei
cent, and lost no time in exchanging then
for notes of the National Bank. He was
living In Narese and when he had bartereo
ms napoleons for government paper, he laid
his wealth upon the table, and sailed forth,
perhaps to strike bargain for the purchase
OF small farm in the neighborhood, leaving
a little child at play in the room. When
he returned home, he found his hard earned
fortune, the fruit of years of anxious toll
and resolute self-denial, a mere shoulder
ing heap of ashes upon his own hearth.
The child, for want of better amusement,
had flung the pile of notes in the fire. In a
paroxysm of blind fury, the man stretched
the Innocent offender dead at his feet with
a single blow, and is now in Jail awaiting
his trial for murder.
Every good act is charity. Your smiling
in your brothers face is charity and ex
hortation OF your fellow man to virtuous
deeds is equal to almsgiving. Your putting
wanderer in the right road is charity. A
mans true wealth hereafter is the good he
does in this world to his fellow men. When
he dies people all ask, "What property has
he left behind hln?' But the angels who
examine him i'll the grave will ask, ''What
good deeds hast thou sent before thee?"
The above is Mahomet's definition of
charity, copied from the Koran
SOUTHERN CROPS AND LABoRERs
New Orleans Republican has the following
significant paragraph
Accounts from the country indicate that
agricultural interests were not neglected in
the excitement of the election. In very
many cases it is reported the men employed
on large plantations went in body at a
given hour to the polls, and after having
voted, returned at once to their work, and
kept at 1T till the close of the day. What
commentary is thus afforded upon the
ISLANDERS OF the rebel press against the char
acter OF the colored people of this State !"
Nature and history curiously approved
each others records in the case of an old
elm tree cut down in Boston the other dav.
The town record shows that the elm was
planted by vote Of the town of Boston in
the year l7S3-that is one hundred and
thlrty four years ago and the annual lay
ers or rings OF the tree, which were plainly
Visible after its trunk had been severed
were counted to the number of one hundred
and thirty four thus exactly corresponding
with the date at which it was planted.
HE APPLE TREE BoRER. VIM. Day, of
Morrlstown, N. j., tells how to kill the ap-
pie borer, through the New York observer.
The process is as follows; Dig out thorough
" and destroy every worm that can be
found, with a pocket or jack-knif chisel
and knitting kneedIe then in
the earliest possible time ia the spring, in
close the trunk of the tree with two thick
nesses OF hardware paper, dipped i'll whale
OIL soap or gas tar, partially dried twelve
or hfteen inches wide, from the roots up, and
loosely tied top and bottom with bass mat
ting This will require about twenty min
utes to tree, and will last one season
The Sheboygan, Wis, TIMES says that
the work on the Sheboygan and Fond du
Lac Railroad is going forward quite briskly.
Several gangs of hands have for some time
been at work cutting timber and corduroy
Ing the track across the Marsh field swamps
and getting out ties. Of the former over
three miles have been completed, the men
working at them some of the time in water
knee deep. This work is on a new route
surveyed during the winter and spring,
which is more direct aud level than the old
survey to the Taycheedah ledge.
The Liberal Christian is convinced that
more ministers fail for want of tact than
for want of talent. They have brain
enough and book enough, but bunge.
QUEEN VICTORIA is said to be very regu-
lar in attendance on divine service, and
notices the absence of any of her servants.
On one occasion, at Balmoral last season,
she asked one of her attendants on a
Monday morning, "Why were you not ct
the kirk yesterday" He answered ''Pease
your Majesty, the morning was wet ''Oh,
he, said the Queen, ''who could have ex
pected scotchman to plead that excuse
1t was not too wet for me-"
Omaha, though but village Of yester
day, is already city of 16, 600 inhabitants,
by whom 1900 dwellings and stores were
erected within year. 1t has three large
hotels. The sales of one grocer, last year,
amounted to million and half
Self-opening umbrellas are a new inven-
ton.
Fossil oysters have been found in the
Egyptian pyramids.
New Orleans possesses seventy miles Of
street railroad.
A colored man who died recently in New
York city, at the age Of seventy-one, was
the owner of eight houses and 500, 900 in
bonds. lie began life as house SER
want.
There are five papers published in the
Scandinavian language in the West, and, to
their honor be it recorded, that with one
dishonorable exception they are radical
Republican in their views.
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