The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-11-30

dies who saw the feat, and it was SO long be-
tore he came to the surface, far in the rear OF
the vessel, that the cooler ones looking for
his temperance feared he had struck some
of the sunken rocks in the lchannel Finally
he came up, swan after and picked up his
hat, Whichawas floating away, and was then
taken aboard the tug. His reason for this
apparently fool-hardy act is mystery.
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The College OF Cardinals at Rome is in a
bad way. Three of it's members have had
strokes of apOpleXy, another has the gOut
four are in their dOtage, or too much en-
feebled to work; while Cardinal Milesi, the
youngest member, is dying, at fifty five years
| OF consumption. In all, twelve Cardinals
are past their usefulness, and there are TWEEN
| ty-four vacant hats besides, leaving only
| thirty four persons for active labor. The
Pope is said not to be sorry at this condition
OF affairs, and it will enable the Jesuits more
| certainly to elect their candidate, Cardinal
| Capalti, as his successor. The POntiff is him
self In his eightieth, or according to some au-
thorities, i'll his eighty second year, and is
still quite healthy for man of his years.
Pins, found in the ruins OF the Thebes,
made, 5000 years ago, have been placed in
the Louvre Museum. We venture to declare
they were not found in pin cushion. We
never found one there. Look on the floor
the mantle, or the table you may find them
sticking in the window curtains the wall
paper, lying loose in bureau drawers, the
book case, stuck to the head in the pillows,
artistically stitched in the table cloth, and
bed clothes, between the leaves Of books, ard
we once found one in a-pudding, but never
look in pin cushion for q pin, if there is a
girl in the house-neveri
NOVEL CURE FOR DRUNKENNEss.-Au in
} veterate drunkard once asked o Quaker
whether he knew of method whereby he
could cure himself eof his dominant vice.
: " Friend,' answered BrOGdbrim, 6 it is aa
easy as keeping thine hand open" " How
= can that be " said he drunkard "eVery
| man can keep his hand open, but IS to ab-
: staining from liquor, that's quite different
! thing" | will tell thee, friend" quoth the
G Quaker. when thee Ehas gotten glass Of
gin in thine hand, and before thee dost raise
the tempting liquor to thy lips open thine
: hand-dnG Keep IL open. Thee breakfast
the glass, but thee breakfast not the laws o
4 sobriety."
t FUNNY.-The Pueblo (Colorado) ChieftGi,
a gives funny account of a Chicago newspa
r. per man, who stopped in the fourishing young
- city Of Greeley, and being athirst, tried il
r. vain to get square drink. " He went VI
IS one street and down another, he turned cor
ners of alleys, he sprung over bitches, he eX
lplored sheds and Out-houses, but the fui
&c for which his soul yealned could not b
I, found. He went hap-hazard into one build
!. ing which he thought might be saloon an
k encountered prayer meeting. II anothe
IS hall he found Farmers Club. Finally b
G. received trustworthy informationtha ''ther
S. was not drop of liquor in the place" Il
r. lett and wrote in his journal that the town {
2, Greeley was without inhabitants, without'rc
sources, and without commerce.
rs The Mobile Register thus writes the obitr
la airy notice OF q Chicagoan, forgetting that tn
N fire may have been responsible for the ba
Ne taste he displayed. "a citizen of Chicago RI
D. Gently shot himself on the Kansas Pacif
TO Railroad. He had been playing three-car
4l,<a5%, ofsro%
will play three card monte when il is just 6
of easy to play poker, ought to shoot himself.
\ An immense sarcophagus, q present frol
Sc the Viceroy Of Egypt to the museum Tin Ger
IL trail Park, was received in New York fe
ne days ago. 1t is eight feet long, four feet wild
as four feet in depth, and weighs between tire
q and four tons. 1t is almost entirely cOvere
with Egyptian hieroglyphics. recumbent Fl!
to ureS Of males and females and carved Wlnge
G, monsters.
~ A TRULY CONSCIENTIOUS MAN.-The TO
nc lowing good story is taken from the last nun
Is Der of HGrpers MGgaSiDe:
N' The Democracy have had clear wOrkin
. majority in, Illinois, for q number of year
or But when the Fifteenth Amendment wei
,d into effect it enfranchsed so many Of OF
l. "cullud brethren " as to make it apparer
le to the party leaders that, unless good man
@ black votes could be bought up, the Reput
W licans world carry the city election. Az
cordingly advances were made to the Rev
70 Brother, whose influence it was though
~ desirable to secure, inasmuch as he was Gel
~ tain to control the votes of his entire church
= He was found "open to conviction" an
- arrangements progressed satisfactorily unit
:; IL was asked how much money would b
= necessary to secure his influence,
- With an air of Offended dignity Brother
= replied;
!, NOW, gemmen, as regular awdainet
= minister OF de Baptist Church, dis ting ha
n IN 1l1xx,
u but gemmen, my son aosU call rom to see yo
i1a de a7loT7aiTs.'