The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-10-20

: husk his corn this fall without saving al
the time or before, the seed that is to be
used next season; and let our illustration
be the model to work to and for and
1cease MOI in making selections until Q
variety that viii give perfect ear at each
joint is produced. t sn q
Il The Bath Times tells very touching tenn
. perance story. Il is about one OF the mem
Il bers of the Bunker Hill Hose Company which
4 was in Lewistowu q few days since. His
boots. being tight, panied him to snch an ex'
tent that he could scarcely move, and move
he must. Accordingly he stepped into q
} shop. and, buying glass Of the ardent, tur.
!, ned it into his boot, and proceeded about his
journey. In ietIs that two hours that whiskey
EG) had eaten Its way out, and as he was boot
less, he found no trouble in locomotion.
/ Fifteen guns of the United States frigate
/ Cumberland, sunk In Hampton. Roads in
April, 1862, By the Confederate iron-clad
Merrinae. having been cotton up, were
brought to Richmond Thursday last. They
will be taken to the Tredegar Works. where
they were originally cast, and turned into
railroad iron and car wheels. #HH
| A Madison QLd.) physician recently re-
moved tumor, twenty-five inches In circum-
subject. A block of ice, carved SO as to
conform to the shape the tuner and the
incisiOns to be made, was faced with salt, and
the application, for brief period, rendered
the parts perfectly insensible to the knife.
1 A gentlemen, who at the beginning OF the
| war, was In Paris. visited the American
Embassy one day, and there found German,
English, French, Italian, Turk, Spaniard,
Mexican, Malay, Kanaka. Negro. Chinese
men from all quarters of the globe, whom
chance had thrown together in that city, and
who had como to claim citizenship and sue
cor from the great Republic. 8
Professor Tyndal says that there are the
strongest reasons for believing that death
from lightning must be, u painless. The
nervous system requires certain interval OF
time to become conscious of pain. The
time OF an electric discharge is but . small
fraction of the interval hence, as an appar-
atus of feeling, the nervous system Is proba-
bly, destroyed before consciousness can set
In. Il axlgg YT ,,- #l
The Western women fell into the ways Of
voting with great facility. A participant Of
the Wyoming election says: 3ga7lIo 81
$ i walked up to the polls and voted q.
though ] had been to the manor born. You
ought to have seen the hats lifted and the
crowds fall back when the woman came up
were filed with those living at a distance
from the polling places. The gentlemen
were remarkably polite the Democrats
thought we would vote their ticket, and the
Republicans thought we would vote the Re-
publican ticket. Toward evening the Dem
ocrats got desperate, and three carriages
came in turn for my aoashertOonaGn.
PHoToGRAPHING THE SUN. Prof. Win.
lock is now engaged in taking pictures OF
the sun of a somewhat noval plan. He uses a
single lens object glass, ~ inches In diane
ter, having focal length of 40 inches. made
! by Clark, of crown glass, and corrected for
spherical alteration by means of an artificial
star. The tube of the telescope points to the
North and the image of the sun is thrown in
by means of a plate-glass reflector. This
glass is notroughened or abiackened on one
side. because when that was done the heat of
the sun distorted thep ane surface. The slit
is at the object-glass end ofthe TELESCOPES, so
that when 1t is thrown across no dust is
shaken on the plate, as frequently isthe case
In the usual way of working.
The st. Joseph (Mich) Herald has the
following " Whoever has walked on the
shore Of Lake Michigan has observed large
numbers of the Colorado potato beetle
crawling from the water. Many have
doubted the source whence they came. II
seems from the following that they fly and
swim from the western shore OF Lake Mich
igan: Captain John Boyne, of the Lizzie
Doak reports finding his deck and sails in
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Chicago to st. Joseph at night. Not bug
was on deck when the schooner left Chica-
CO."
ADubuque grocer having had an unpre-
eedented demand for vinegar for several days
/ bottles, mugs, basins, teapots and other pots
| have been constantly coming for supply
of the acid fluid, was tempted to try its
quality for himself, when he discovered that
he had tapped wrong cask and sold q
4 ho of n ROnrbnn a nt q
quart. go4s
It is the opinion of many persons that the
late unprecedented freshet in the James and
Shenandoah rivers was not caused by con-
tinual rain, but by something like the burst
ing of waterspout on or about their head
waters, and their sources are not very great
distance apart. The flood came down 10 the
Shenandoah in great waves, succeeding each
other rapidly.
The liberal papers of Germany clamor for a
change of the national colors. They say that
the black, white and red banner has no
longer any significance. War was declared
lGermany generously fastened to the assis-
u tanee oftheir Northern Brethren. In view OF
this noble conduct, 1t is an insult to them to
carry any longer sectional banner, banner
4 almost hostile to their brave allies. They
i demand the restoration of the old Imperial
i banner of Germany, black, red and gold
which alone should be the symbol of united
tGermany.
ST never shot a bird in my life, p said G
friend to an Trishmana; who replied, &c
'lnever shot anything in the shape of biri
but squirrel, which | killed with ste re
! when it fell into the river and got drowned
This story of a spunky widow comes from {
local journal /: Mrs. Arnold is a widow il
Malone, N. Y, who tills her farm with he
T own hands, whose barn was accidentally
!, burned, and who proposed to havea new on
E bnilt. In consequence ofthe advice of {
friend. she varied from the usual custom
She sunplied coffee, tea and good eatables Il