The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-02-16

ing upward of two hundred pounds, and
dwelling in he house with young mar
red folks, are very apt to think that any
laughter or shy chatting among the lat
ter, is insidious abuse of them, and
naturally wish to be satisfied on
the subject. Such hyperbarytIc and
morbidly sensitive maiden, near Spring
! field, Ohio, is afflicted with Just such IA
pair of welded lovers. One evening, a
week or two ago, the couple sat by their
| fire with two friends, one gentleman
and the other lady, and all were laugh
ing and talking, as they had perfect
right to do. The maiden sheard the
sounds of innocent glee, mounted the gar
ret stairs, and provided with eager ear
among the beams above the party's head.
She was clad only in her ro6e de NUT.
She made q mis- step, her feet touched the
hath and plaster, the ceiling gave away,
and presently the maiden lady was dang
ling in mid air before four pair Of star.
ing eyes, struggling and screaming to be
free, bu. alas ! unable to extricate her
self How long she beat the air the chron-
icler neglccts to tell. II is improbable
that she fell through, for, had she done
so, her weight must have carried her
Through the flnor, and 90 she would have
| fallen successfully through all the ceiliEgs
TO the cellar, and we should have had Il
report OF frightful earthquake In Chi
INA. 1t is hard for a maiden to struggle
with the disadvantages of two hundred
pounds avoirdupois, and tn be sneered at,
but even thus. curiosity not the less de
serves punishment. She never smiled
again.
PREPARE YOUR Hot BEDs.-In the
course of few weeks from now-say
about the middle to the last of February,
hot beds shou d be flied with fresh stable
manure and seeds OF tomatoes, early cab
ltage, celery. pepper, lettuce, egg plant.
etc, soan, if you would have All early
supply of these veget ables. In order to
avoid depredations of rats, q pit should
be dug about two feet deep, and lined with
brick, stone, or s. out plank, running the
frame up about foot and . half above
ground in the rear, and about one foot
in front; bank up all around with dirt
firmly. In this pit, at the proper time
as above su gested, place your fresh ma
nure about two feet deep, pressing it firm
| ~ and if it is dry, wet it ali through
slightly. Over this put three inches Of
good, rich, light loan OF chip manure,
| finely sitted, and in three or four days
thereafter sow your seed and water lightly
immediately. Put on your SASH, and
every YARN, bright day, elevate the sash
little, and give your rapidly growing
plants pl, nty of air. Be sure, however,
to put down the sash tight before sun
down and If cold spell COMES ON, throw
straw or hay, or old cloths over the sash
until the weather moderates. Water is
required, and you will be Independent OF
the professional gardner or green house
proprietor, whose plants, too often, are
delicate and worthless W0odm1n, an
Burial Ne,o Yorker.
STEEL TYPE.-Some notice has already
appeared of \ recent French patent for
making steel type, which, even if not
liNely to be practically useful, is yet suf
| ficiently curious to make it subject of
interest to some of our readers. For this
purpose qnadranguisr wire, of the di
mensions Of the proposed type, is prepar-
ed of very SOFT iron, and this IS intro
duced into machine, which cuts it off
ut the proper length, and punches the
letters in the emf. The principal fea
lures of this machine are tie arrangement
for cutting off the proper lengths with
perfect accuracy, and stamp of hard
ened steel, which has sunk into it the
letters to be produced. After passing
I through the machine, the letters are
: freed from the bur, caused by the pressure
ofthe stamp, by means of quickly rota
ting disc OF STEEL and then CONVEX
ted into steel by concentration, making
them of sufficient hardness not to require
any further change Letters thus pro-
duced are said to be sharper and more
perfect than those of ordinary type metal
One machine, driven with one horse pow
er, will, it il asserted, manufacture So, 900
letters in twelve hours, the price of which
is much less than that of the ordinary
kind. The question still remains 10 he
solved, however, whether these letters,
in printing. will not cut through the pa
per, and be injuriously liable to rust.
Paper petticoats having come into
fashion, the follows advertisement where
of appears in England: MADAME Per
Gale begs leave to call the attention of
ladies about to visit the seaside to her
new and richly embroidered paper pet.
ticcats. at one shilling each. Each petit
coat contains an install lment of new
novel OF great uomcStlc INTEREST, Oy An
thony Trollope, entitled 'Tucks and
Frills' The stoIy will be completed in
fifty weekly petticoats."
DR.. Stephenson, of Hall county, Ga,
speaking OF the diamond discoveries in
that State, says that about forty diamonds
have been found in Hall county alone,
but the most valuable have been destroy.
ed or lost through ignorance of their
character and value. Some negroes
broke one worth, 100000 to pieces, to
see what it might be. A farmer describes
one which was given to him thirty Years