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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-03-30
Co. Sup't. of Schools.

WHAT CONSTITUTES SCHOOL MONTH.
Our legislature has finally answered
this question. AS we now understand
it, unless different number of days is
specified in the teachers contract, TWEEN
ty two days constitutes school month
for oil purposes. Saturday schools are
prohibited. If time is lost, correspond
ing amount of the teachers salary must
be forfeited, or the lost time must be
made mp at the end of the term This is
right. While the policy of requiring
more than twenty days for a school month
in the estimation of teachers wages is
questioned BY many eminent educators
all are agreed that matter about which
there has been so much controversy
should be definitely settled by law
Teachers and district boards will bear in
mind that henceforth three months means
sixty-six days, unless different number
of days is specified, in the aoritten con
tract, a verbal agreement to the contrary
notwithstanding.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-03-30


hands the strongest reprobation and
speedy punishment, and that no man can
be invested with rights and franchises
who have sought to procure them by
criminal MEANS IF this Is not done,
every honest man will tremble for
the future legislation of the State.
1t Is to be regretted that this measure
may come again before the legislature,
should you concur in the views herein
expressed. But if it so come no man will
dare to attempt to secure it's passage or
defeat by improper means. 1t is to be
regretted that the interest of any man or
set OF men may suffer by the action |
feel compelled to take on this bill. But it
is better that laudable enterprises should
fail than that any ground should be given
for the belief that leg Station in this
State can be bought with a price. I'm
scrupulous men should be taught that any
measure submitted to the law making
powers will be imperrilied, and not ad-
yanced when corrupt practices are resort
ed to in order to secure it's passage.
This is no lightmatter, and rises far
higher in Importance than the well being
eft any man, or set Of men, or any locality
Evory man in the State is interested IN
keeping our halls oflegislation untainted
by even the approach of those who dare
offer bIbe. / make no objection to
the bill in regard to its merits. Any
other bill presented to me under similar
circumstances would be returned for like
reason.
| have patiently heard and carefully
considered all the argument which have
been offered against the action have
here taken. | know they have been ur-
ged in all sincerity and friendship. But,
without violence to my highest convic-
lions of duty, cannot let this occasion
pass without administering to those who
have thus sought to stain the honor of
the Stale the rebuke which they deserve
LUCIUs FAIRCHILD. !
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-03-30
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70 TIE WUhhING CLAOS.-We are now pre-
Pared tofurnish all classes with consta nj employ
ment at home, the whole of the time or for the
spare moments, Business new light and profit
able: Persons of either sex easily earn from SOC
TO 20 an evening and proportional sum by de-
voting their whole time to the business Bows
and girls earn nearly much as men. That an
who see this notice may send their address, and
test the business, we make the unparalleled offer
To such as are not we'll satisfied, we will send 81
to pay for thetrouble of writing Full particulars,
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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-03-30

Commencing with the next winter
term, the law requires the Constitutions of
Wisconsin and the United States, to be
taught in every district school in the
state. Teachers must be examined in
the above, and pass the required percent
age, in order to obtain certificates. We
give this notice, so that all may be pre-
pared.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-03-30

Undoubtedly the attendance of Mr.. w.
G. SpeDce's school averages for the entire
term, higher than any other school in
the county. In no month has it fallen
lower than SO per cent, and for 1fps months
at has essraged ninety-eight and three
tenths per cent. We challenge the state
to show better attendance at common
district school.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-03-30


JENNY LIND GoLDsCHMIDT AND HER
HusBAND.-The following letter, written
by an American lady in London, and
published in the Home Journal, sets at
rest a current SANDER:
Will you kindly give corner in your
valuable journal to lady who feels deep
ly a gross injustice done to the husband
of one who has been delight and also
blessing to the world in many ways
Madame Jenny Lind Goldschmidt Hav-
ing known her and her husband for MANY
years, and in my intamacy with them
having seen Mr. Goldschmidt's devotion
to her, and his excellence both as hus-
band and father, l am indignant at the
base calumnies which have, from time to
time, been heaped upon him. Jenny
Lind Goldschmidt should be as one sa.
cred, for she had used her great gifts
from God for the benefit of many less fog.
tunate than herself. To my knowledge
large sums have been freely poured fourth
with heartful generosity, without thought
Of herself OF Of her future. Should not
such noble kindness have protected her
and hers forever from injustice? The
husband she loves, the father Of her
children, is now, and has been traduced
without the slightest foundation for he
is highly honorable, good man, respec-
ted as such by his family and his
friends. One SO truely, unobtrusively,
considerate of the happiness IF his wife
and children, | have seldom known.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-03-30
ROLL OF HONOR. "

Sd month.
No. 9, Somers; Lena Ozanne, teacher:
Julia Stetson, Grosvnor Stetson, Lousia
Thomas, Josephine Thomas, G.. Thomas,
J. Thomas, J. Sheer, James Moran, John
Moran, Ellen Moran, Mary Moran, James
Wells, Martha Wells, Joseph Wells, Ellen
Murphy, Anna Gibson Attendance, S8
perct
No. 8, Salem; w. E. McVicar, teacher:
A Grant, w. Grant, Flora Cornwell, Dora
Cornwell, Martha Jones, g. Crowley,
Eliza Prosser, Eva Loescher, II. Grow.
Attendance 95 per cent.
4tt month.
No. g. Bristol; J. B. Jackson, teacher ::
Ebert Larrabee, Russell Larabee, Bode
Tourtelotte, Frank Dorsh. Attendance
80 per ct.
No. 9, Somers; Lena Ozanne, teacher
Julia Stetson, G. Stetson, Joseph Thomas,
G.. Thomas, Louisa Thomas, Josephine
Thomas, Ellen Murphy, Anna Gibson, w.
Schwarz, r. Schwarz, Minnie Schwarz
James Moran, John Moran, James Wells
Attendance SO per ct.
No. 8, Brighton; A. D Smith, teacher:
w. Dardis, Emma Smith, H. Wadsworth,
Alice Wadsworth. Attendance so per
cent
No. 2, Brighton Ella Hillyer, teacher:
Willie Gull, Charley Gull, Mary Gull,
Frank Hartnell, Frances Hartnell, Clar-
ence Hartnell Attendance SO per ct.
No 4, Paris; w. G.. Smith, teacher
Mary FADE; Mary J, Lizzie, Florence and
Julia Metheringham, Nancy, Martha and
Mary Murgatroyd Minnie and Alice
Grifiths, Mary and Jennie Goldworthy
Attendance SO per ct.
No 1, Wheatland &C. Weismann, teach
er: Willie Beumer. Attendance So per
cent
No. II, Wheatland Fannie j. Bsh-
op, teacher: Maria Hardness, Agnes
Hardness, ]. Pennefeather, Sarah Patter-
son, Ida Patterson, Anna, Emma and
John Mcdonald, Alice Allen Attend
ance Sc per ct.
No 6, Salem; L. A. Pease, teacher
John Moran, Frank Bailey, H. Hoskins,
Maggie Moran, Mary Coyne, Johnnie
Coyne. Attendance 70 per ct.
No. 8, Pl Prairie Julia Brennan
teacher James, jeremiah, Maggie and
Alice McCarron, Frank Rafferty,, John
Mulligan, Thomas Mulligan. Attend
ance 90 per Ct.
No. 3, Brighton; NJ. L. Smith, teacher:
Anna Dixon, Mary j., Barbara and John
McMaster, Lizzie Clayton, Martha ard
Walter Emmett, Maggie Porter, Carrie
Burton, Isabel Burton, Alice, Mary,
Martha and Willie Leach, Jamie Wads-
worth, Frank Rhodes, Thomas Dixon,
Charlie Burton. Attendance SO per ct.
No. 5, Somers W. G. Spence, teacher
David Gibbon, Sherman Gibbon, Willie
Holmes, Frank Petrie, Walter Spencer,
Kittie Spencer Alice Porter, Minnie Glib
bon. Attendance 9s4 per ct.
HOSEA BARNS.
Co. Sup't. of Schools.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-03-30

CARE OF THE FEET.-Concerning this
subject the Scientific american very truly
says: Many are careless in the keeping
of the feet. If they wash them once a
week they think they are doing we'll
They do not consider that the largest
pores of the system are located in the
bottom of the foot, and that the most Of
fensive matter is discharged through the
pores. They wear stockings from the
beginning 60 the end of the week without
change, which become completely saturat-
ed with offensive matter.
Ill health is generated by such treat
ment of the feet. The pores are not
repellants, but absorbents, and this fetid
matter, to greater or less extent,is taken
back into the system. The feet should be
washed every day with pure water, and
stockings should not be worn more than
day or two at time"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-03-30

To YOUNG MEN.-Let the business of every
one alone and attend to your own. Don't
buy what you don't want. Use every hour
to advantage, and study to make leisure
hour usful. Look over your books regularly
If a stroke of misfortune comes upon your
business, retrench, work harder but never fly
the track. Confront difficulties with unfinch-
ing perseverance, and you will be honored !;
but shirk, and you will be despised. Seek to
acquire the power of continuous application,
without which you cannot expect success. If
you do this, you will be able to perceive the
difference which it creates between you and
those who have not such habits. You will
not count yourself, nor will they count you,
as one of them. Thus you will find yourself
emerging into the highest regions of intellec-
tual and earnest men-men who are capable
of making place for themselves, instead of
idly &c ping, desiring place.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-03-30
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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-03-30

The Cuban cable was examined for repairs,
recently, because of the frequent Interrupt
in numerous places in the depths where the
great loggerhead turtles abound. The con-
clusion is that these creatures with their
powerful jaws, which SO easily crunch the
shells of the conches on which they feed have
been playing with the cable. The company
are to lay a stronger one.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-29
Seasoning and Elasticity of Wood.


The results of experiments on the re-
sistance of material by Messrs. Chevan-
dier and Wcrtliem, have brought ont the
following conclusions. The density of
wood appears to vary but little with age.
The co-cfiicient of elasticity diminishes,
on the contrary, beyond a certain age. IL
depends also upon the dryness and ex-
posure of the soil in which the trees were
grown. Trees grown upon a northern,
northeastern, or northwestern exposure
and in dry soil, have the co-efficient
higher, in proportion as these two CON
ditions are united, and trees grown in wet
soils are not so elastic or firm.
Age and exposure influence cohesion ;
and cohesion and elasticity are affected
by the soil in which the trees grow. The
thickness of the layers of wood appears to
have an influence on its elasticity except
in case of the fir tree. In this il is greater
as the layers are thinner.
Trees cut in full sap, and those cut be-
fore the sap starts, have not presented any
sensible difference in relation to elasticity.
In these experiments the value of the
limit of elasticity was the load under
which it produced only a small permanent
elongation.
Practical men have long known that
timber grown on dry soils possessed
greater elasticity and strength than that
grown on wet and spongy soils; and those
woods were strong also when grown on
soils containing fair amount of lex.
The cutting Of timber in a proper stage
of its growth is one of great importance to
farmers, and in this connection the ques-
ton of seasoning comes in. We think
that timber should always be felled when
the sap is matured-say after August and
before March--and dried as quickly as
possible under shelter where it may not
become wet and dry alternately. If thor
Oughly soaked in water before seasoning,
it will dry much quicker than if not pre-
viously soaked, but always at the expense
of the tenacity of the timber. On the
other hand, severe and quick kiln drying
has not been found to answer the ends
that were desired.
The thorough seasoning of timber will
always pay, especially if to be used in the
arts, and now that the better qualities of
timber are getting scarce and high, the
importance of the subject will warrant
the arboriculturist in using every means
in his power, not only to grow such sorts
as command high price, and upon soils
best suited to them, but also to pay par
ticular attention to proper seasoning for
use.
Another thing in this connection is i'm
pOrtant. Lumber soaked in water and
then thoroughly dried, it is held, is not
affected by the weather-will not expand
or shrink in wet and dry seasons.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-29

stricken with paralysis at one p. m. on tho
Goth, at the Covington Post Office. He fell
| to the floor and remained insensible for ar
hour, after which he was removed 10 his resi-
/ dcnce. lie was better in the evening, having
so far recovered as TO sit up and talk with
some of his friends.
! A Toronto, Ont, dispatch Of the 2lst says
the weather throughout the Dominion fol
the previous thirty-six hours had been in
tensely cold, ranging, according to locality
from sixteen TO forty degrees below zero.
John Kenny has been found guilty Of fraud
ulent voting at the last election in Brooklyn
and sentenced to fine and imprisonment
The Illinois House of Representatives has
passed bill making liquor sellers liable for
damages for the benefit Of drunkards' fam
| lilies.
The Kentucky Legislature met in joint
session on the 2lst, and elected Hon. T. c.
McCreery as United States Senator to succeed
Mr.. Davis.
A special dispatch to the Louisville Courier
JoWrnai.of the 21st confirms previous report
that mob Of negroes had taken John IL
Saunders, Jasper Dugan and Curtis Garret from
Jail in Lake Village, Chicot County, Arkansas
where they we're confined for the murder Of 4
negro lawyer r'named Wynne, and shot then
to death. After killing the prisoners, the
mob took possession Of the town, which they
still held, and many citizens had fed foI
safety
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-29

before, and at that moment, from that
very gap, down jumped Soft Billy, and
in his hand he brandished a rcaping- hook.
The dream, In ell its horrors, sceiled on
the verge of fulfillment; but my great
grandmother was u strong-minded woman,
and though her heart was throbbing with
terror, she neither tainted nor screamed (;
she walked straight up to the idiot, and
gave him kindly greeting. 81 am glad
to see you, Billy am walking to the
end of the lane, and now you shall take
care of me-" The lad, highly fattered,
was meek and amiable in a moment, and
they walked the rest of the way together,
she keeping up an inccssant chatter in her
most CHEEKY tones, though her heart was
doubtless beating at every swing of the
ungainly figure, and every flourish of the
deadly weapon in the poor, purposelcss
fingers. At the cottage door she thanked
him, and wished him good-by; and it
will readily be believed that she procured
another escort for her walk home,
Now for my last story, which I had
from the lips of a venerable old Presby-
terian minister, the last man to indulge
his imagination.
He was In the habit of going every Sun
day afternoon to conduct the worship at
little village on the coast Of Scotland.
One Saturday night he dreamed vivid
dream. He saw the village, and the bay,
the waves tossing and beating in a storm,
and he saw pleasure-boat upset, and
dashed to pieces against the rocks. Two
men were 6ufleting with the water, fight
ing for their lives one a fair, slight youth,
the other a middle-aged sailor. As the
dreamer looked he saw them both clutch
at, and cling to floating spar it swayed
and sank under the double weight, and,
while the thought passed through his mind,
1T can never support them both, :" he saw
the sailor deliberately raise his fist, and
strike his'companion blow which stunned
him. The young man loosed his hold, and,
as he sank into the sea, the sleeper awoke.
few Sundays afterwards he was greeted
with the news that pleasure boat had
been upset, that the body of a young Eng
lish traveller had been washed on shore,
and that an elderly seaman was the only
survivor The man was good deal in
1ured, and was in bed at a public.house,
to which the corpse of the poor young
traveller had also been conveyed. The
ministerial once begged to be taken thither,
and so strongly was he impressed with the
conviction that his dream had had literal
fI1fillment, that he entered the room OF
the sick man with the fullest intention of
taxing him with murder But when he
approached the bed he saw face totally
unlike the one which had haunted his
sleep, and every feature of which was
vividly impressed on his memory His
visit to the poor dead youth had like
result.
These stories are actual facts, for the
truth of which can vouch will leave
all speculations on the subject to those
who read them, ,-E'Dery Saturday.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-29

Recent authentic advces from Yeddo say
that an Embassy which was to sail from
Yokohama on the nth, due at San Francisco
January IL, isthe most important that ever
left the Oriental nation for America or
Europe. II is sent out by order OF the
japanese Parliament and Yeddo, that the rul
ing classes may study for themselves Western
civilization, and not depend on reports of
interiors as hitherto.
1t was officially announced at London on
the 18th that the Prince of Wales had passed
a quiet night, and was satisfactorily pro-
crossing toward recovery.
At Geneva, Switzerland, on the 18th. the
Commissioners for the arbitration Of the Al
ALBANIA claims held formal meeting. Count
Zlopis, the italian member Of the board was
chosen President, and the Commission ad-
journed until the 18th OF June.
A special dispatch to the New York HeIuld
from the City of Mexico on the 18th,
says the backbone of the rebellion iIu
Mexico was broken. The revolutionary
General Diaz was losing favor with his
adherents, and many of the military com
manders who were considered doubtful had
recognized President Juarcz, and would yield
obedience to the government.
A Paris dispatch of the 10Th states that the
French Academy had received the following
from the eclipse expedition "The spectrum
of the corona attcsts the existence of matter
in the space beyond the atmosphere Of the
sun"
The Duke D'Aumale and Prince de Joinvilc
took their seats in the French National Assem-
bly, ON the 10Th. They sat in the center of the
members of the Right. Their appearance
created no sensation in that body
On the Goth, deputation Of French Pro-
testants had an ip:eTsiew with Thiers, who
received them with aifability, and promised
that religious equality should be maintained.
A London dispatch of the 2lst says the
celebrated Tichborne trial had reached
another stage. The plaintiffs case closed
that day, and a further hearing was post
poned until January 15.
The st. Petersburg Messenger of the 21st,
the official organ of the Russian Govern
ment, announces for the first time the reno
val of Minister Catacazy from Washington,
owing, il says, TO personal difficulties which
might prejudice the good relations existing
between Russia and the United States.
Bismark recently sent dispatch TO Baron
Won Arnim, German Representative at Paris,
setting forth the feeling OF evaporation
caused in Germany by the outrages perpe-
trated on her soldiers in France, and threat
ening retaliation unless the alleged outrages
ceased, or the perpetrators thereof are de-
livered up to the German officers.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-29
An Extraordinary Game of Ministerial
Euchre.

Near late New Jersey camp meeting,
two clergymen, a Baptist and Metho-
dist, were walking, when they saw little
girl sitting on stone, who was weeping
bitterly. "What is the matter, my little
girl?' asked the Baptist, kindly. My
my father was killed on the railroad
few days ago, and has just been buried,
sir and my mother is sick abed and can't
work, and we haven't nothing to eat and
don't know what to do" sobbed the little
girl, crying as if her heart would break.
"A truly lamentable case; do indeed
pity YOU" said the Baptist, rigidly, as if
he were plying some ice-cream he could
not eat. ''IIow much do you pity her,
Brother c. ?" II pity her 50" yelled the
Methodist, as he threw V into the girls
hap,
II double your pile, Brother P.," the
Baptist brother said, as he slowly placed
an X over the V. II go you one better"
the Methodist bawled, as he put Ten on
the other money. Il cover your stake,
Brother p, and the Baptist clergyman's
expression showed he was getting excited,
as a t,oenty from his purse was put on the
rapidly-increasing pile.
"I'Il top the spoons with q fifty" howled
Brother p, as he drew out his last note
and placed the sum with the others, glar
ing savagely at his companion, "IIere's
hundred-dollar note, little girl" said the
Baptist, quite blandly, now that he had
got ahead of his brother; "yOu may
rake in the spoils, for you've cleaned
out and 'euchred' both my friend and my
self, and left us both dead broke. >" Then
they walked off humming hymn. Now
what we would like to know is, what did
those clergymen do before they were con
VertnI
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-12-29
4 Great Waste of Time.

THE greatest everyday want that most
men feel is that of time. The laboring
classes ask for fewer hours Of work, that
they may have more time for themselves
and families. Business and professional
men find their employments so engrossing
that they borrow time from their hours Of
rest and recreation, and thereby are hurried
to their graves. The educational problem
of the day depends upon considerations Of
time. There is more to be learned than
there used to be, and the work of a better
educatiou is not to decide what may best
be left unlearned, but by what improved
methods of instruction it shall be made as
easy to learn much now as it once was to
master little If time is SO valuable,
why are we not more careful about chill
dren's waste of i'll
We are apt to regard their time as a
matter of little importance and if they
keep out of mischief and do their daily
tasks, trouble ourselves very little about
it. Nay, are those parents rare who think
the first requirement in the training of
children is to find something to take up
their time, no matter what, if IT be not