The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-01-19
THE OLDEST Known FOSSIL REMA1xs.-

mansions. which lived in communities and |
built up receptacles in the ocean in manner
analogous TO The present time. The lime |
stone owes It's colorIng TO an admixture of
serpentlne, and when properly shaded or
blended Is classified among the Verd ANTIQUE |
marbles. Inc specimens, says the Washing |
ton star, come from "a cutting on the Adir- |
ondack and Lake George Railroad, about
twenty five miles from Saratoga Warren |
County, near Thurman's Station, New York,
and therefore from the most soulherly por.
tion of the Adirondack Mountains. Natural u
lists and biologists may congra uate them
selves In having source of this curious fos-
sill within moderate distance, and where
they are abundant
This fossil owes its distinction to the fact
that 1t is found only in class OF rocks which
from their low position in the geological
scale had always been regarded as azoie, or
not inclosthg any evidences of organic lite at
the time when they were deposited, and as
belonging TO an age previous to he appear
ance of life upon the globe. 1t was first
made known to the scientific world by Sir
William Logan, the Director of the Canadian
Geological Survey, in 1858, at meeting of
he American Association OF Science, held at
Springfield, Mass 1t was first discovered by
Mr.. d M. Culloch on the Grand Calumet Is
land. in the river Ottawa, and has been OBJ
tanned from many other localities since in
different parts OF the Laurentian noun aims.
in Canada and the Adirondacks in the United
States.
GAs.HoLDER No at the Cincinnati Gas
works expioded Monday evening. with 49,.
90 cubic feet of gas The conclusion was
felt miles away. Persons within few
squares first noticed low rumhlng sound
with an oppressive condition of the atmos-
phere like that attending an earthquake
Suddenly the flames shot upward, illuminat-
ing the clouded heavens with red and white
light, revealing the outline clearly of the
Gil rrn inh INN i.n,1
umns that supported the holder were thrown
out and mainly broken into fragments. One
fell across the office, crushing in part of
the roof. The holder was erected over year
ago IN the place occupied by the one that ex
p,oded in the summer of 1869, from Nc. 10
guage iron, and was regarded as one of the
best in the Uni; ed States. It's capacity was
4oO,OO0 cubic teet. No one was hurt.
A cousin of Thackeray contributes to an
English magazine this little item "Thack-
eray's mother told my own mother that
when her SON thought of being painter he
used to lie awake for hours conceiving PIC
tures-he could conceive, hut he could not
execute, he said. The executive brilliancy
of his literary works, the extreme elabora-
ton and finish one recognizes therein, he
seemed to achieve with less trouble than
would have been necessary in the pictorial
department. But when he found that his
pen would not serve him well, he suformed
me that he was In the habit of sketchlng
those little illustrations which we find in his
booFs. They are great reliefto my mind >
he said; can always do them y
On one occasion Hood wrote to his butcher
that it was necessary, for the sake Of cheap
literature and the interest of the reading
public, that he should furnish him with meat
at very trl1ing percentage above cost price.
Mr.. Stokes, the butcher, replied: 6 Sir, res
pectin' your note, cheap literater be 5loaoed
Butchers must live as well as other pepel-|
and if so be you or the readin' public wants
to have meat at cost price, you must buy
your own beastes and kill yourselves. | re.
main, etc." Hood died composing a humor
Gus poem. He is said to have remarked that
he was dying out of charity to the undertake.
who wished to ~rm a hvely Hood.
A gentleman was seated with other per-
sons in room where country girl sat bolt
upright and utterly silent. Silence, indeed,
fell upon the entire party, and the gentleman
first alluded to said, in what he supposed to
be an almost inaudible tone of voice /" Aw-
ful pause ~ :" guess, Mister" exclaimed the
indignant country lass, jumping up, YOU'D
have awful paws, toe, if you had to do the
scrubbing that | do"
At a funeral at Newport, R. T., last week
instead OF hearse being used to convey the
remains to their last resting place, an ex-
press wagon, completely enveloped in ever
greens inside and out, was used for that DUR
pose. raised dias in the center of the wag-
ON, also covered with evergreens, sustained |
the coihn, which was 2rofusely decked with I
flowers. The novelty was in accordance with
the expressed wish of the deceased.
The Taruoro Carolinan reports a patriarch
in the North Carolina mountains, 143 years
Of age. He was thus 20 years old at Brad
locks defeat, and well started in life with a
wife and three children. He has always been
n moderate circumstances, eaten only vege-
tables. drank only water, enjoyed perfect /
health, and having worn out seven wives, the
asst of whom died sixty years ago, he now
feels lonely and wants to marry The total
abstinents and vegetarians will hail this tale
with joy, because it counts for them other
wise they wouldn't believe it any more than
the rest OF folks.
The fate of the United States steamer Sag
NAV has been defnately ascertained. She /
was wrecked on an Island in the Pacific.
October 49, Very few provisions were saved.
though the ship did not go to pieces until the
Ia of November On the 18th of November.
ner executive officer, Lieutenant Talbot, with
MS sub-oft1cers, started in boat for the Sand.
Wich Islands. After enduring incredible suf-
ferings they reached Kanai, December Is, but
all were so weak that Lieutenant Talbot, Pc
ter Frances, Quartermaster, and James
Muir, and John Arnold, sailors, were drown
ed in the surf in landing. The bodies have
been recovered. The American Minister at
Honolulu had sent vessel to the relief of
the wrecked crew remaining on the island
where the steamer waswrecked. It is hoped
that she will arrive in season to save the lives
of the wearted crew, ninety il number, all of
whom were ON quarter rations, the island
yield1n g nothing.
lodge of Good Templers advertise rec
ipe, or compound of drugs, as cure for
drunkenness. The substitute draught for |
liquor is merely collection of powerful arc. |
matte stimulants, and its continued use
would have almost as pernicious an effect up. |
on the brain. stomach and nerves, as that of |
the genuine :" old rye itself. We must be |
permitted to say that change of stimula-
ton is not a cure for drunkenness. That ter
rible vice can, we repeat, be cured only by
total abstinence from all stimulating drugs
and mixtures.