The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-08-04


woman darted into a friends house, at a
distance from the flames, hugging something
in her arms and exclaiming, " Thank God,
I've saved my child! My plate is down In
the well, and that can be got at when the fire
is overs A piercing shrek immediately
followed, for, looking down, she found that
what she held in her arms was only her plate
tied up in a kerchief, and that in her bewilder-
ment and hurry she had thrown into the well
her own infant.
A French savant declares that seven per
cent. of the lunatics in certain asylum use
hair-dye, and says Foulness of breath
is one of the particular signs of insanity
driveling Stiffness. and finally total loss OF
memory, are among other symptoms. If he
were judge he would attach very little i'm
portance to the evidence ofany man or woman
In the habit of using hair-dye."
A red lead manufacturer of France has
discovered that the use of milk at their meals
which he has made obligatory on his work.
men to the extent OF one litre daily preserves
those employed in lead works free from any
symptoms OF lead disease. He voucheS for
the truth and correctness OF this communi-
cation.
A Western Judge, who alternated his
auctioneer, while plying this latter vocation
was derided by bidder, whom he there
upon fined $40 for contempt of court. To
the bidders demurring that the Judge was
not exercising Judicial functions at the time,
the Judge made lofty answer: wish you
TO understand that this court is always and
everywhere an object OF contempt. &C.,,
The Sporting Gazette announces the death
of the celebrated racing sire StockWell whose
success at the stud obtained for him the title
OF " The Emperor of Stations. - The cause
ofdeath was Inflammation of the inner Goa
ting OF the intestines. With view OF having
his skeleton set up hereafter Stockwell has
been buried in lime in Hooton Park.
Ina family in Middlesex, Vermont, there
are three mothers, two grandmothers, one
great grandmother, three daughters, two
two wives, one widow, two husbands, two
fathers, two sons-in law, one grandfather,
one son-in-law, and only six members in the
family.
A good story is told OF Tioga country
mere lant who agreed to take farmers oats
at forty cents bushel, If the latter would let
him ramp the measure when filed. The
farmer agreed to it. The buyer paid for
sixty bushels, and the next day went after
them The farmer filled the half bushel, and
then the merchant got in and trampled them
down Whereupon, the farmer poured the
oats so compressed into the bag. The mer
chan protested, and demanded that the
meas ure should be filed up after tramping.
The farmer informed him that there was no
agreement of the sort but that he might
tram down the oats to his hearts content
after they were measured.
A strange case Of superstition was last
week brought before the magistrates Of Win.
canton, in Somerset, England. A young
man named Lamb, fancying that a certain
youns woman. Mary Crees, has bewitched
him, rushed upon Der, seized her by the
Throat land, pulling out his penknife. attempt
ed to wound her. In reply to the Bench,
he sad, "She overlooks that's as true as
the hats in my hand, and wanted to draw
BLOOD to stop her," Two years ago he fell
down in q fit on seeing her.
A Young Partisan couple whose loves had
been forbid, resolved together to leave the
world They retired to bed in close room
with TWO fires of charcoal burning on the
floor After q short sleep Chloe aWoke and
air to relieve her headache. This awoke her
lover, who upbraided her with being afraid |
to die, stabbed her with a clasp-knife-and
bolted. Thus the course of true love never
did ran smooth.
A good story is told of an American trav-
cling in Paris. Having occasion to take a
wine bath, in the employ of the establish
ment there was 3 colored man whom he had
known in America, and of him he inquired
how hey could give wine bath for seventy
FIVE cents. " Why. massa, T" said the negro. !
g that wine has been in the bathroom for
one week, and you is the thirty-eighth per-
son hat bathed in it. +" '' Well, suppose
it. F" "Oh, no, master; they send 1t down
stairs for the poor people who battle for
twenty-flve cents " :. And then what do
they do with it 20 :" Bottle it up and send
it to America, where they sell it for French
wine. - 3
A very good story is told of DR.. Storrs and
Hen Ward Beecher. On some public occa-
sion Or. Storrs was to preach in Plymouth
Church. After the celebrities had got into
the pulpit, Mr.. Beecher said J: $ Brother
Storrs, directly under where you will stand
to p Zach is baptistry of the most approved
pattern. 1t was built by Jealous Baptist
and just the orthodox length and depth.
The platform is controlled by spring near
my Iot. There is at this time about three
feet IF water In the tank. When brother
prea hes for me, and Is very long and dry, 1
touch the spring and let HIM in"
A 3RLLIGHRBNT GHosT.-A ghost has been
bou harding house In Sadorus, Champaign
county. ILL.,, with big junk bottles. He also
DeltS the inmates of the house with stones
wherever they go. The people or the neigh
borbood have turned out en- Rsasse to search
for he perpstrator of these outrages, but
ther are constantly pelted with stones, clods
and brickoats--anG this, too, on open fields
Or rairies, where any sort of hiding place or
GOV is impossible. This be!igerent spirit
rem aims invisible, and has completely riddled
the house in question with his missiles.
The railroad men of the lines centering in
Bal more are discussing the feasibility of an
Underground route through that city. It's
cos is estimated at 81, 5S3, 900.
1t is said that there is danger of the total
extinction OF elephants, the hunters are kill
ing them of so fast.
Details of the massacre of foreigners at
Pelin are received. The first accounts did
no. exaggerate the horrors of the affair. Mel
ther age nor sex were spared, and some per-