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Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-09-18

NEW CLOTHING OF ALL KINDS, JUST
~ received WM. n. SMITH X CO.'S.
NHUNkS OF ALI. KINDS TRAVELLING
i Bags of all kinds, at
WIN. n. SMITH 4 CO.'S
INhiCOT Sacks at WIN. N. SMITH cos.
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-09-18

E0R SPING STYLES OF PANTS AND VEST
IL call at VIM. n. SMITH 4 COS
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(tArS FOR SpRINn JUST RECEIVED AT
" WIN. n. SMITH q cos.
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- UBBER Coats, all kinds, at
III WM. n. SMITH &CO'S.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-12-31
A Widow in Southern Nevada.

The chief boarding house in fact the
hotel-of Hyko City is kept by comely
young Norwegian widow, who is celebra-
ted for the excellence of her table,and for
having refused more offers than any other
woman in Nevada. About four years ago
her husband died in Kansas. She remain
ed there long enough to pay from her own
earnings every cent of his indebtedness,
then came West to try fortune in a newer
country. Inferior cooks have been paid
500 monthin this region, and wretched
hired girls about SO week so our widow
does herself all the labor pertaining to
supplying the inner man of from twenty
to thirty boarders, assisted only by an In
dian or two III some of the simple drudg-
cry. She milks her own cow, does her own
washing, and finds time in the crush of
all this reutine,to Gene out every evening
in neat toilet. Women are scarce in Ne
) yada-such women are scarce everywhere
land report says there is not q bachelor
within q hundred miles who has not
sought the hand of the fair widow She
lodges politely but firmly prefers single
independence, and put one voice ofau-
thority in the business she has built up.
Her conduct is unexceptionable and if !
have taken unwarrantable liberty in this
paragraph, it is to show what an unpro
tected female may do for herself in wild
eountry, if she has the energy and pluck.
Cincinnati Com.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-12-31

AGAssIZ AND THE GLACIERS
Agassiz said some interesting things con-
corning his pet glacial theory at the Am
herst agricultural meeting last week. He
declared that all the materials on which
agricultural processes depend are decom-
posed rocks; not so much rocks thai uder-
lie the soil, but those on the surface and
brought from considerable distances and
ground to powder by the rasp of the gla-
cier. Ice, all over the continent, is the
agent that has ground out more soil than
all other agencies together. The penetra-
ton of water in rocks frost, running water
and baking suns have done something,
but the glacier more. Ina former age the
whole United States was covered with ice
several thousand feet thick, and
this ice, moving from North to
South by the attraction Of trop-
lcal warmth, or pressing weight of ice
and snow behind, ground the rocks over
which it passed into paste we call the
soil. These masses of ice can be tracked
as surely as game IS tracked by the hun
ter lie had made a study of them in this
country as far south as Alabama, but had
observed the same phenomenon particu-
larly In Italy, where, among the Alps, gla-
ciers are now in progress. The stones and
rocks ground and polished by the glaciers
can easily be distinguished from those
scratched by running water The angular
boulders found in meadows and the terra
ces on our rivers not now reached by wa
ter, can be accounted for only in this way.
He urged new survey of the surface ge-
ology of the state, as helpto understand
ing its constituent elements and paid a.
high tribute to the memory of the lat
President Hitchcock.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-12-31
Making the Sun Drive Machin-
cry.

One of Captain Ericssons latest and
most startling announcements relates to
the suns heat He has contriyed to con-
-centrate its rays SO as to keep steam en-
gine in full play, with as much ease and
more economy than it could be kept go
ing with coal In short, by mathematical
exactness, that extraordinary man exhibits
Just how much of the suns surface may be
used by lenses, and what will be the de-
gree of heat thus obtained for keeping
even thousands of steam-engines in mo-
tion< independent ef1any other kind Of
fuel IA q AtfAt.a LA4
Captain Ericsson calculates period
when all the coal-felds of Europe will be
exhausted At that eventful epoch, man
ufa cturers may fall back on the centre of
the solar system for potent substitute,
which can never give out till the universe
itself is blotted out of existence. Instead
of ridiculing his announcement, or critici-
sing his calculations on caloric force to be
thus obtained, let philosophers take up
the subject in sober earnest in devising
ways for profting by this great discovery
Of the most remarkable engineer who has
appeared in this or any other country
since the DAYS OF Archimedes.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-12-31
The First Steam Train in
America.

In the Superintendent office at the
Providence Railroad station it this city, is
picture of the first steam railroad train
in America, run from Albany to-Schenec-
tady, over the Mohawk and Hudson Rail
road in 1881 The train consisted of 10
connective, tender and two cars The loco
motive named the "John Bull and i'm
ported from England, was of very simple
and uncouth construction, and might be
mistaken in these days for pile-driver.
It's cylinders were 1-2inchcs in diamiter
having Is inches stroke, and the connect
ing rods worked on double cranks on the
front axle. 1t weighed four tuns John
Hampden, an Englishman, was the engi-
neer The tender was simple frame with
a platform, upon which swere placed a
heap of wood used for fuel and two crates
filled with similar combustibles. This
vehicle also had a passenger Car in the
rear The cars were patterned after the
old stage coaches still used in England and
were coupled with three links instead of
one as at present. Twelve passengers oc-
cupied the inside seats, and three were
seated outside. Among them were Mr..
Thurlow Weed and ex- Gov. Yates. Their
portraits,and those Of their fellow passen-
gers, which the picture gives in sombre
and sharply defined silhouette, would
hardly be recognized by any one acquaint-
ed with them when they made the excur-
sion. The picture is photographed by
Messrs. J. L. Howard s. Co, OF Springfield,
from the original in the possession of the
Connecticut Historical Society-Boston
Adcertiser
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-12-31
From the Prairie Farmer.
How TO MAKEHENs LAY1N WINTER

How TO MAKE HENS LAY IN WINTER
Let me inform your readers ola plan to
get hens to lay in winter, that learned
from Kansas man, something over year
ago, and which ] tried last winter with
good success. 4.s es
He told me if i would let my hens hud-
die together in some warm corner, and not
let them roost, i should get plenty of eggs.
ii had about twenty hens; my hen-hous
was q rough shed, eight feet square, with
a small window and door on the east. l
took down all the roosting-poles, leaving
the nest boxes only. With few short
boards | made a small shed, about four
feet square, on the south side of the larg-
er one, and covered it with corn fodder.
(Straw is better. l made hole for the
hens to pass from the large house into the
small one The result was, my hens con
tinued to lay all through the cold wetier.
You will have to drive them in few
times at first; they will soon learn to 90 in
the nselyes. Put in wood ashes occasion
ally to keep them free from vermin There
are great many who are not able to build
al expensive hennery, but any one can fix
up a place like this in an hour or two,
with very little expense.
MACoUPIN Co., ILL. j. L. PEABODY.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-12-31
Sowing Salt with Whe t.

81 have tried ashes and salt sowed broad
cast on the wheat in March, with the best
results. The last harvest proved to me
that salt, especially can be used with great
advantage. | sowed three. bushels of salt
on different parts of my field, and on diff
erent varieties ofwheat, at the rate oftwo
bushels per acre. and at harvest the bright
straw and plump berry showed where the
salt was sown The adjoining wheat was
rusty. ] have already sown some on the
wheat and shall sow more at different
times, from now till May; but think the
better way to use it would be to have a
separate box on the drill, and sow it with
the wheat. I'believe it will not only help
it to come up sooner-which is of great
Importance, for when the seed lies 200
long in the ground, it generally comes up
feeble and uneven but also protect the
young plants from the insects, in their
tender state; being impregnated with the
brine, it becomes unpleasant to them. /
advise wheat growers to experiment with
a few bushels at first, and SOW it on the
dry st ard wettest portions Of their fields
Madison Go, Ill. a $4
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-12-31
Paw Your Small Bills.

Money is said to be scarce. New York
dispatches say it is close there. Several
millions in currency are shipped every
week to the West 1t is also scarce in
Third street. Currency is constantly 90.
ing to the country. Soon this currency
must begin to return to the cities. 1t
would be returning now quite freely if
people who receive it in exchange for pro-
.duce were prompt in paying their debts.
Instead Of using it in thisEway, however,
there is disposition to hoard-to keep
the greenbacks for a while to look at them.
This is the cause of the present scarcity of
money. The same cause operates to large
extent in the city Here there is a scare
about the scarcity of money, and those
who have engagements in the future are
disposed to hold on to the money that
comes into their hands. Thus creditors
who have small bills are put off from day
to day. This increases the scare. at is
impossible to collect money" is the gener-
al remark. Said a banker to us yesterday,
"Urge the people to pay their small bills.
Five thousand dollars let loose would paw
all the small bills floating about the city;
and would make money comparatively
easy" If one man will pay, that will en-
able another 70 pay, and SO on to the end
of the chapter alff $3.50 -
There is plenty of money, if people
would use what they have got in paying
their debts. Pay your small bills. and
thus the means will be furnished for pay
ing large ones
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-12-31

The consumption OF ale and beer has be-
come SO great in this country that there Is
net barley enough grown on the continent TO
supply the demand. Canada has been
drained of all her surplus barley, and yet the
cry is FOR more. A brewery firm near Ciscin-
natl are buying barley in Germany, havisg
received few Gays since, 500 bushels direct
frem Rheinpfatz. German barley weighs
eight pounds more to the Dushel than that
grown in this county.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-12-31

The consolidation of the American and
Merchants Union Express Companies win
reduce the expenses Of the new company
fully 81, OO0,0O0a year. Prospects for the
new company are favorable, but the Ad-
ans threatens another fight.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-12-31
fTstf fFfls@f+ - 81 W HEAT-tIRONER.
60
Who Should Go to California

"CarletOn"'Aln his letter from Sc II Fran
cisco to the Boston Journal, says
Farmers, laborers, carpenters, black
smiths, nlachinists- men who are ready
and willing to do physical labor-to pillow,
hoe, shovel, hammer, can be sure of work
and good pay; but clerks, book keepers,
counter jumpers, lawyers and doctors, will
find a crowd already here waiting for
something TO turn up. At the present pri-
ces of farming lands we do not think that
farmers can afford to come here. Specu-
lation in land runs high. People have the
idea that the opening of the railroad next
year will flood the State with emigrants.
Shrewd observers think. differently. One
of the shrewdest capitalists of the State
gave me his opinion that San Francisco
would have rapid growth, but that land
generally was held SO high throughout the
State that prices must recede before there
could be much influx Of country popula-
ton
The city is advancing with great rapid
Iity, immense blocks of stores, solid ,substan-
tal structures, with iron fronts,and dwell
ing houses by the thousand. Rents are
very high and on the rise
MAsCUA4NE EFlQUETPE.-l. 06nLL6men
walking should keep their hands in their
pockets. It shows their figure to adyan-
|tage, keeps their hand warm, and out of
other peoples pockets. .
2. In the afternoon eongregate in front
|of the saloons and hotels. Then upon the
ladies passing set up an equine catchina-
ton (tranlated horse laugh) This will
give them an exalted opinion of your taste
and refinement,
s Keep the centre of the sidewalk
Their, persons meeting you,will know which
side to pass when they attempts it, step
in the same direction with them. This az
fords an agreeable variety ina promiuade
4. If you see person on the opposite
side OF the street you wish to interrupt
tcry as loud as possible to him. "Ho
Jones !" Of course, Jones will 'Hol and
you will show passers by that you take {
great interest in the state of Jones Z
I 8. When turning corner, walk rapid,
with your eyes in an opposite direction
You ray meet somebody, and give then
an opportunity to study astronomy b,
daylight
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-12-31

A suit for breach of promise has just
been closed in the Common Pleas Court
of Muskingum county, the plaintiff being
a widow named Bryant, sixty years of age
and the defendant man namsd Caleb
Baker aged fifty-fve years. The jury
awarded the fair widow damages In the
sum of $500
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-12-31

Roosevelt 5. Burrows, Esq, of Albion,
n. y has just made noble donation to
the Baptist Theological Seminary, at Roch
ester, VIZ: 100000. It is problble he
will increase it to $4,000. The semiE,
airy will have the name of the liberal
donor "a Asssy 8 E Ea
One of Josh Billings maxims: Rise
early, work hard and late, live on what you
kant sell give nothing away and if
you don't die rich and go to the devil, you
may sue me for damages
Recently, fine quarry of pink aud
marble, susceptible of very high polish,
was found at Batavia, III.
They have q thief at Cleyelsnd who
makes business of helping old ladies off
the cars and stealing their money while
he does it, b-a5
The New York and Newark carriage
makers are hard pushed with orders for
velecipedes, and they claim already to be
making better article than the French
or English Use. They are now sold at
from $65 to 800, and will probably be
considerably lower.
A man sentenced for life to the ohio
Penetentiary has been sued by his LAWYER
to recover ~ 800, of which $4,000 is for
the defense during the trial for murder.
Near Chatauqua Lake, New York, is a
barn, from one side of the roof of which
water flows to the Ohio river, and the
Mississippi, and the other side to river ST
Lawrence and the Atlantic ocean
| Sixty divorces were granted in Adams
County, Ill, at the last term of the Cir
cult Court. 3a sf ~
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-12-31

Profanity is punished in Virginia, ac-
|cording to Law, by a fine of eighty-th
cents.
The New York herald., 1868-12-15

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