The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-07-20


There is boy in Florida, fourteen years
Did, named Ju6son Blount, who saved manyj
ives the other day. He discovered a place
IN q railroad where The rains had undermined
,he road bed, and ran a mile and half up
me road to warn passenger train. As with
rs precious trelghtit came laundering down
,he grade, the boy waved his hat. The engi |
leer only looked wonderingly at him, and
ae then took off his coat and waved that. OF
course, IL was all done in moment but the
engineer realized that something was wrong,
= stopped ms train inseason to escape q
fatal catastrophe. kH#Fk
4 Inc Waukesha village fathers, desiring to
squad $1,000 of the peoples money for
the sole purpose of draining few worthless
lots tor the benefit of certangindividuals,
called a special election for the purpose
OF testing the opinion of the voters on that
question, and the project was voted down by
more Than a two thirds vote. They next
called an extra meeting of the board, and
resolved to expend $1,000 in this enterprise,
regardless of the expressed will offthe peo-
pie. How is that for high ST."
boy at Stoughton, in attempting to jump
on the cars and steal ride, fell between the
cars: de attempted to crawl out across the
track, astthe cars were in motion. hut he was
fortunately thrown back by brake, when a
and remain where he was, the train passing
over nun, when he made speedy trip to the
patternal roof
A lecturer undertook to explain to vii
lage audience the word phenomenon.
Maybe you don't know What phenomenon
is. Well, I'll tell you. You have seen a
COW, no doubt. Well, cow is not phe-
nomenon.6 You haYeN seen an apple tree.
Well, an apple tree is not phenomenon.
ha nrOt ba oil
foremost, topick the apples, it is a phenom-
enon."
A newly fedged Philadelphia doctor re-
Gently settled in. Havana, III and the firstIcase
he mad was boy, who, while Smelling pop
corn, got kernel in his windpipe. The
doctor examined the case carefully, looked
at the patients tongue, and then told the
father OF the boy to build up q hot fire.
When that was done, the doctor told them
to take the boy and hold him over the fire
until the kernel got hot enough to pop
out" The old man Went up stairs and got
his shotgun, but while he was loading it
he doctor escaped.
HUMoRs OF THE FRoNTIER.-"OId Trot-
ter" is an eccentric. genius who drives the
first stage cut of Fort Kearney westward
and whose deeds and sayings will, in future,
become historical The following is related
road who drove miserable team of sick and
aged little mules, and with the ejaculation,
Look a here pilgrim, / know a man who
would give $500 if he could see them mules ,
Why exclaimed the man, startled by such
an unexpected prospect of luck, 'yeou daon't
say so. Who is he He a blind man, said
Trotter; 'g'lang.'''
An exchange says that it knows of boy
who accidentally swallowed silver half dol
lar. They gave him warm water and tartar
emetic, and antimonial wine, aud poked their
fingers down his throat until,the boy thought
he would throw up his toe,nails. After a
While doctor came along who understood
such cases He administered a small dose of
patent medicine, and in less than ten minutes
the boy threw up the halt dollar in five cent
pieces. Science is great thing.
machine has recently been perfected in
London, with which a writer, using pen in
the usual manner, can at the same time pro-
duce duplicate SO small as to be invisible to
the naked eye, yet so so distinct that mi
croscope will reveal every line and dot. A
most useful application OF the apparatus will
be for prevention of forgery, as private marks
can be made, on notes and securities, legible
under n croscopic power, Sut which no ini-
tator could see or suspect the presence of.
A Florida journal says that while lady of
jacksonville was dressing fish recently,
preparatory to cooking, she discovered, en-
bedded in its flesh, small stone, resembling
glass, and nearly the size of northern white
bean The stone resembles diamond, cuts
glass freely, and is very transparent and re-
tractlve, Should this prove to be diamond
It's value is estimated at four Or FIVE thousand
dollars should it be otherwise, the stone is
at least Variable to mount as an ornament.
The lady has already beef offered one hun
dred dollars for it,
correspondent Of the Bangor Wing writes
that horse and COW had a pitched battle
Sunday in field The cow hooked the horse
making wound four inches in length the
morse kicked the COW in the head, instantly
killing her.
On Tuesday the Cape Ann Granite Com
pany, with blest OF seven kegs of powder,
started block of granite in their quarry at
Bay View, 122 feet in length As feed wide, "a nd
30 feet deep, containing about 100000 cubic
feet, and weighing over ID, 900 tons-supposed
to be the largest block ever quarried IN this
or any other country. A&G s43
Mr.. Brown of Sangamon county, ILL.,,
President of the State Agricultural Society,
is doing something really extraordinary His
wheat harvest occurred so early this year that.
after it was over, and the wheat had been
removed from the field where it grew, he at
once plowed under the stabble and planted
the ground in corn, which is now up. and
and some six inches high, and he is hopeful
of gathering bountiful crop of corn there
from this tail. This is remarkable-a crop of
corn from the same ground in one season.
A slick mine at Lantern Hill, Mystic, Conn.,,
has been in active operation for nearly year.
and is now making profitable returns. The
fnest of the slick brings forty dollars a ton.
The two mills of the Company turn out an
average daily product of twenty tons. Nine
heavy teams are employed in carting it to
Mystic Bridge, where three coopers find oc-
cupation in setting up barrels to transport it
in. 1t is principally sold to glass manufac-
lures, but the coarser grades are used for the
manufacture of sand soaps.