The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-02-11

which the chapeau is safe from injury
There is a tiger near Chintagoonta
Madras who has within year or two eater :.
more than 200 natives, and is SILL at IL
TRIM Your WIcKs.-The coal on
fluid is killing its victims constantly
Anything which will avert the Danger
should be known. The Burlington argus
says;
The explosion is caused by practice OF
neolectinp to cut offthe charred portions
of The wick when the lamp is filled
Observation will show that in few days,
use the wick becomes charcoal In COM
position for an inch below the top OF the
tube containing it, and after the lamp has
burned a short time the heated tube hres
all the charred portion of the wick inside
and that sets the oil on fire below. This
NAV be prevented by cutting offa sufficient
portion of the charred wick each day
after using the lamp.
How TO STOP USING ToBACCo.-In Il re-
Gently published pamphlet, Rev. Mir.
Trask gives the following advice to tobacco
chewers:
2. Make the most of your will. Drop
tobacco, and resolve never to use it again
an any form.
2. Go to an apothecary, and buy ten
cents worth of gentian root, very coarsely
ground
g. Take as much of it after each meal,
or oftener, as amounts to common quld
of 'ine-cut" or "cavendish."
4. Chew it well, and swallow all the
saliva.
5. Continue this a few weeks, and you
will come off conqueror; then thank God,
and thank u.s.
PROGRESS OF FREE CoNIMUNIoN-Th
Week of Prayer closed in Newport, r. l.,
last Sunday evening, with united com
munion service held in the Congregational
church. About twelve hundred persons
we're present. -Four churches the Second
Baptist, the Congregational, and two
Me5hodisU-Were represented. Revs DR..
Thayer, pastor of the Congregational
church, and Rev. G. II. Macolm, pastor of
the Baptist church, together administer
ed the bread and Rev. Messrs. Hamlen
and Bodfish, pastors of the Methodist;
churches administered the cup Six
deacons-re the Baptist, Con
gregational, Methodist, and Moravian
minations-distribute the elements.
NJ Y independents
About one year ago a cooperative
foundry was established in Rochester, N
Y. 1t has proved great success, Only
trifle over $4,000 were paid in. The pro
fits for the six months ending December
10 were $8,39583 A dividend of 10 per
&C mt, on the stock has been declared, pay
able in stock, and the balance has been
divided pro rita among the employees,
makingto them 20 3-10per cent upon their
earnings.
A German editor asserts that new
metal has been discovered, the compo-
nent parts which are water, glass and
copper. 1t is of a deep orange hue, can
be melted and cast, wrought under the
hammer and rolled Files will not
scratch it. 1t is translucent and capable
Of being wrought into ornaments of rare
beauty.
A young man in Mobile threatened to
shoot himself because a young lady re-
fused to marry him. She told him it
would make no difference to her, but when
he declared that it "would make a great
difference, for he intended to wallop her
first" she appealed to thctpolice for pro-
lection.
The Fontanelle Qowa) Register says
that on the road from Des Moinesto Casey,
and just beyond the "big slough" is the
only post or stake one sees for several
miles That post has long been the undis
pdted property of large white owl, who
sits there exiled from his mate like Alex
auder Selkirk, and, like Alexander, is
monarch of all he surveys" until some
teamster frightens him from his perch. 1t
is a singular fact that this owl is always
seen by persons travelling on this road and
no matter at what time of day, always
seated upon his post.
Five hundred and sixty-fve thousand
and three hundred hogs is the number
packed in Chicago this season to date.
A bill has been introduced in the Kan
sas Legislat ure to regulate fare and
freights on railroads. 1t fixes the fare at
cents per mile freights, irst-class, so
cents each 100 pounds per hundred miles;
second class, 10 cents third class,30 cents
for less distance, 10 to 20 per cent is
added,
A report on the operations of the va
rious cooperative associations in Massa-
chusetts, it is stated, will soon be present
ed to the Legislature. The financial con
dition of about twenty-five societies is
given, and list of the members of each
The associations, it is reported, present
the most varied results in their different
statement Their capital stock varies
from one thousand to ten thousand dollars
and the small associations are generally
more successful than the large ones.