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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-09-28

NEWSPAPER BoRRowERs.-Th This wretched
class Of small parasites'is again hit off by one
of our exchanges, as follows: "Of ali things
contemplate, q man who will read a paner At
his neighbours expense is the most contemp.
tiblc especially if that man esteems If his
duty to lower papers collectively, and editors
generally. They always meet the carrier
first, snatch the paper, and after greediiy de.
vouring every morsel of news It contains.
throw it aside, saying with q contemptuous
curl of the lipl: what trash; it ia really fit
after day they seem as anxious to gain pos.
session of the paper, and as disappointed al
its non-arriYal as the good paying subscriber
who ever welcomes it as pleasant visitor
Strange world this.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-09-28

ward hope ana help in the dstan.e. A,az
wealicd nature could bear no.mDre and
she sank down under the shadow 81 atta,
| oy The roadside. Even then nut forrpt
ing tp shield her poor child uni,r IN
thread-bare, sean,y garments from the
cutting blasts. They tell asleep. She i
sleeping stll in the dear ola church war;
yonder. The little boy whom she warm.
ga IN her last embrace was spared ~
rt"Moence to grow up TO he he old man
WHO now stands before you G. ID seat
me 80 Kind aud benevolent friends (r.m
'Ilotg yo.t In hose terrible DAYS f ah
VerSty. Flo" Say life, my eduet lu nav
Whoie character, have To tha,,k those Of
you Glld there may be some h.rc u,ll,rs,
member the incident) Who, took me in
thef Keeping, and pr"vlding orn.eu,il,
III an ungratefui day, | stole away e, Ike
my way alone in the wide, wide void
g. My friends, it has been hard loro
journey Tor these forty years. have sen
disease carry me to The verge of a tomb
To which had previously consigned all
whom loved Storms and wal und 9th.
q mlSfnrtunts have, zine and time agaln,
leAt me all but impoverished. Yet. |
nave come oe5 unscathed, carrying with
me through IL ali tue rem, inoiant,. Of
That uupretending tombstone in yonf,r
ehnrch-yard, and he consciousness ofDna
Slemn, imperative duty before 7 d..
ghaI duty, by Gods win, | shall ,.,.nloht
discharge. Nevermore, II | can nos y,
shall ',oor, Struggling mother pcrlsa IN
Ec''u anu want ly your E'adSlle, Never
7uaIl you-yolr pohr, Your sick, YOUR
/ rII6 nt Ehrs fDrE =
See this building which / have caused
10 be erected-do you know what it is
tor? For me, do you think 3? | expect
ne0er TO enter 1t again. 1t /, for your poor
aud SICK and destitute. | have butt it"
and here the old gentleman nervou>lv
pulled document from bis pocket. "See
here Is "a copy 0f Il deed by WIN have
transferred this house and ground entire
tn the proper authorities tor this PURPOSE.
In doing this act realize the dream, the
ambition OF the greater part Of nv lite. [
thank God that be has enabled me to real
ne 1t. And now IN conclusion. my friends.
L will say that you will find music IA
ready In the Other room for an OLD FASH
loned nee, and good supper hen
you want 1t. Make yourselves as happy
as you can, but doubt Whether at tue
height of your 9lee, there will be one
among you who is half as happy as old
John Thompson.
Amid tears and cheers, and countless
wrlngings of his withered hands, the old
gentleman descended from his chair, and
was lost in the crowd. He came 10 tho
surface once more in the first jig, dancing
1T ii furious rate with the prettlest buxnn
lassle in the room, and tuen disappeared.
The asting and dancing went on until
morning; but when daylight stole inland
he guests negan to ask TOR Mr.. Tnomp-
son, to bid him goodbye" nobody had
seen him-he had shot away behind some
juggling sleigh bells in the night, and has
never since been back To W
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-09-28

young man Danced McGuIre, who re-
Gently came into possession Of some prop
erty IN jackson, Is as induced Ivy sharper
III X ,Iamaz0o, to consent to trade for a
arm n "Plalto cnuoty-uut West" Nc.
CURE started to view the land, leaving
he papers transferring he jackson prop
trty with an acquaintance, with orders to
hand them over to the Kalamazoo man
on receipt of letter from Mcclure stat
ing that he was satisfied Wi h the "Pialto
county" lands. While Mcclure was alb
sent his trading friend frrged a letter,
purporting to come from Chicago, order.
ing the giving up of the deeds With
these in his possession, the Kalamazoo
man went to Jackson and borrowed ST.
600 on the properly, and was about to ne
gotiate further loan, when McGuire's
unexpected arrival from his fruitless
search for "Piaito county" caused Kala-
mazoo to run away. The jackson Patriot
says the latter has been arrested and
tha5 Mcclure will get his property
back
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-09-28

The Queen of Belgium is so devoted to
horses and riding that she has altogether
neglected. her mind, and consequently
is represented as deplorably ignorant.
She has number of trained horses, and
recently awoke the personal enthusiasm
of Ernest REM, famous circus rider Of
Brussels, by showing him her steeds. He
declared them to be much better educated
than herself
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-09-28

SUNNY ROOMs.-Every woman who is wise
enough and careful enough ought to Sc
cure for house plants every bit of availa.
hle sunshine during the cold winter
months. Great care is taken to get south
ern aspect from them. Indeed, if one can
secure no other than north wind for her
plants, she has too much love for the un-
conscious, inanimate things to keep them
at all. She would rather leave them in
the cold to die outright than linger a
martyr existence in the shade.
Humanity needs sunshine quite as much
as plants. Men and women having fair
degree of strength, and the use OF their
limbs, can obtain an outdoor glimpse of
the sunshine, now and then; and if they
choose to do so, let them live in rooms
with only a north exposure. But if it is
possible, let US secure rooms into which
every ray of sunshine that falls in winter
may ente1-for the little babies who are
shut mp in the house, invalids who cannot
leave their rooms, and aged people who
are too infrm to get out of doors.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-09-28

There can hardly be greater sign of
property in a community than a dispo-
ssiton to help one another--to lift little
when neighbor's wheel gets stuck in the
mud. Where this spirit prevails there is
sure to be progress in place, even if all
improvements are in their infancy. PEG.
pie will like to come and settle in place
which bears such a good name. Now, if
you desire to see your place growing,
popular one, do what you can to show
yourself a good neighbor, especially to
those who need little extra help. Help
the sick, especially if they are poor; for
poverty and illness are indeed a heavy
burden. Perform all acts of loving char
ity which fall day by day in your path,
remember who it is that has said, "ye
shall in no wise lose your reward"
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-18
Starvation in the Midst of Plenty.

living manls continually exerting mechanical force
and giving of heat and in proportion he continually
undergoing a loss of weght-that is to say a
lOssi Of substance. This lifelong production of
heat and mechanical force is not suspended
during sleep, Not go farther sleep does not in
terrupt respraton-a clearly mechanical function As
to the generation of heat it is unnecessary insist
is plain that this ceaseess manifestng of vital force with
its accompanying and strictly proportional could
not continue forever The man would dwIndle to moth
ing. But long before the effects of this gradual dminu
ton become apparent, they felt in the form of the
two imperious sensatlons-hunger and thirst. To still
these cravings to the lost weight to put the
man in a position still to keep on losing weight las the
price of keeping on producing heat and mechanical
force it is necessary that he should be supplied
three things-air, water and food. Now simply receiv
ing food into the stomach is not truly receiving food
the system. Strictly speaking food yngin stomach
is IA truly wihoW and not ithR the body, food
held in the hollow of the closed hand Only when II has
been thoroughly dgested and assmllated can be said
that it is really received into the system how sell
dom is the organism in position thoroughly to assmi-
late sufficient food What the consequences? The
outcome exceeds the income and the bodily strength
fails because the system longer keep up the mu
tually balancing waste and renovation Here 1t is that
tonic stimuant such DIR. Fischs Bters) proves so
benehcal-it might almost be SAID, so indispensable
SIS deOp&wlw
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-18

ADDITIONAL DELEGATEs.-Cauc were
held, Saturday evening, in Northampton, Tx
bridge, Athol, and some other places. In
Northampton, six anti-Butler delegates were
chosen, by vote of 297 TO 157 for the Butler
ticket. Their names are given as follows: S. I.
Spalding A. T, Lilly, j. c. Arms, IL. NJ. Abbott,
J. L. Otis, and J. w. Hoxe. The report adds
at is reported that five will vote for Washburn
and one for Jewell"
In Athol, Geo, II. Hoyt, A. NJ. Sawyer, and
Rev. Z. L. McCurdy, were chosen. 1t is stated
that they are all Butler men, and this is proba-
bly, correct. In Uxbridge, two Washburn men
were chosen, In Grafton, three anti-Butler del
egates have been chosen, and three also in Mill
bury. The three delegates elected in the new town
of Aver have been reported as ''Butler men,
We learn that this is not correct. A gentleman
residing in Clinton, who is sure to be well
informed, understands that they are all anti
Butler. He has conversed with one of them
since the caucus, and found him very decidedly
opposed to Butler and he is sure that this man
is a specimen of the whole delegation.
Easthampton, Westhampton, Williamsburg
and New Salem have all elected Washbun dele
gates, the whole number from all these towns
being eight. Brdgewater has elected three
auti-Butler delegates.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-18

MoHANMEDANs IN BRAZILIAN interesting
contribution to modern travels is furnished by
a little work by Abdurrahman Efiendi, called
Tourney to Brazil" and written in Arabic. A
few years ago, before the existence of the Suez
canal, the Turkish government had occasion to
dispatch a man-oi-war to BaSsra, which thus
had TO make the long journey through the Med
iterranean and the Atlantic, round the cape,
through the Indian ocean and the Persian gulf
The vessel was forced by stress of weather to
run in for shelter at Rio de Janeiro. There, to
the surprise of the author, number of Moham-
medans were found among the black population
of the capital. Their Islamism had indeed sul-
fered greatly by the length of time and the dis
lance from their cO-religiOnists. Thus, they no
longer tasted in the Ramadhan, but in the
month Shaban; they knew nothing as to the
times of prayer; none of them knew Arabic;
their marriages and their funerals were conse-
Grated by Catholic priests, by whom also their
children were baptized. Strangely enough,
these priests did not seem to care for anything
further. Thus in their place of worship they
had Jew from Tangiers to officiate for them,
who wore high turban, and therefore called
himself an Imaum. This man also served as
Interpreter between his flock and Abdurrah-
man, to whom he told without any cere-
mony that from what he had seen in his
youth at Morocco, he felt fully c0mpe-
tent to serve as lmaum. Nor was the
astonishment all on the side of the new corners.
The black Mohammedans were not a little sur
prised to see any faithful of a white complexion.
According to their experience, all the white peo-
pie were Christians, while all the Mohamme-
dams were black. With the permission of his
authorities, Sheik Abdurrahman now left his
vessel and soiOurned for some years at Rio de
Janeiro, Bahia, and Pernambuco, in order to in
struct his coreligiOnists there in the elements of
their common faith, and to educate some of
them sufficiently to enable them TO read the Ko-
ran in the original and to serve as teachers and
lmaums to their black countrymen. He fur
ther made them give up pork and wine, and
their wives had to veil themselves before stran-
gers There is a good deal Of curious infOrma-
ton also of the Munchausen type to be found in
the little volume written by the missionary at
his return, but he only tells what he has been
told himself He also proves learnedly that
wilchcraft is wicked and contrary to the laws of
Islam; but the inhabitants of these regions are,
in spite OF all his efforts, yet very much given to
that practice, as well as TO prophecy. The num-
Der of these black Mussulmans at Rio he esti-
mates at less than 10000; but we fear, in any
thing approaching to numbers or exact Scien-
titic information, our author is not exactly the
best guide imaginable.-PdH Mall Gazette.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-18

A MAGNIFICENT PARK.-Brusses has an In
stltution of great merit in the Bots de Cambre,
winch Is magnificent park in the suburbs,
formed out of the edge of the celebrated forest
OF solgnies. 1t is very surprising that in the
midst oil country as densey populated as Bel
gum, and scarcely mile from city which has
been Tor many centuries the capital of an indie
pendent nation-lor the dukes of Brabant were
pfacucaily kings hundreds of years before the
present kingdom of Belgium was thought of
there should exist a forest as dense as those of
America. Yet so it is; and in this Brussels park
there are to be found little woodland paths 10
which the sun never penetrates, and where the
yearner after solitude may find it to his hearts
content, with the admirable supplementary adj
vantage Of being within ten minutes walk of
an excellent cafe restaurant. Those who have
laid out the park have been careful to avoid the
formal stiffness which is generally characteristic
Of European pleasure grounds; and the noble
old trees are allowed to remain unpruned, save
in those places where they have been thinned
out to allow of smooth lawns, to which the pub
lie is as freely admitted as to the winding paths.
In one place a natural bridge" has been built
over rayine, but it is so large, and so skifully
constructed that it would easily deceive the un-
| wary; and the same may be said of a rill which
nIehles over picturesque rocks and among
| order '-''' "0'' '--' "
me bois de Cambre is not, however, the park
proPgI ol brussels. That lies in the middle of
/ - 10 "tph tiio mug palace at one end, and
the chamDer OF representatives at the other,
1t is not only the park proper, but an eminently
proper park beng MI nd out in formal straight
| an hour, and adorned with mytboloSicaI sta '
ues, at which no human being in even tbe sn.
| preme stages of ennui ever pauses to look II
has, moreover, concert-room and theatre
and restaurant; and vigilant policemen
armed with sabres, guard the grass from the
pollution Of human foot, as the, angel with the
flaming sword guarded the garden Of Eden,
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-18

A NOVEL AQUARIUM.-The geological gar
dens at Brussels contain something which is
without parallel in Europe, and might be intro
duced advantageously in the Central park at
New York. 1t is an immense aquarium on
novel principle, In large artificial cave, which
contains number of winling passages, is
adorned with stalactites and is altogether qnite
as interesting as if it were natural besides being
drcr and more airy-in this quiet and cool re-
treat are fitted up number of glass reservoirs,
lighted by gas Jets above, and supplied with an
unusual variety of inny inmates. Standing be-
fore one of these reservoirs, the habits and
motions of the fish can be observed with perfect
case The spectator, if at the bottom of n
river could not enjoy better advantages for
archaeological investigation. Pressing his nose
against the glass, carp and bass will calmly
seem to rub their sides against it, Huge cells
will glide sinuously out of rocky hooks and
hout it with their tails; a sullen dog-tish,
hideous 10 behold will stare at it with stOlid in
difference; and stupid fish of divers kinds will
pause before it in placid imbeclty. In other
compartments seal and crOcodiles dispOrt;
while CertainS tanks are devoted TO those curl
Gus creatures of the wave which seem to be half
flower and half fish, and which have been bur-
dened so by naturalsts with most unnatural
Latin names. Half franc is the price of adj
mission TO this curious display, which Brussels
claims as the finest of the kind in existence.
AT Cherbourg in France something of the sort
was recently projected, but there bit Of the
genuine old ocean was to have been captured
and fitted only with those sCay beings which
can live in salt water. Here both salt and
fresh water fish abound.