The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-01-12


| sleep during the night. The marigold goes
| 10 bed with the sun, and with him rises
| weeping Many plants are so sensitive that
| their leaves close during the passing of
cloud. The dandelion opens at five or six in
/ the morning, and shuts at nine in the even
| Ing. Inc goat s-beard wakes at three in the
morning, and shuts at five or six in theseven.
ing. The common daisy shurs pits blossom
IN the evening, and opens It's :" days eye''t
to meet the early beam of the morning sun.
| The crocus, tulip and many others close their
blossoms at different hours toward evening
| The Ivy leaVed lettuce opens at eight in the
morning, and closes forever at four in the
afternoon. The night-fiov ering cereus turns
night into day. 1t begins 10 expand its mag
nifcent, sweet scented blossom in the twl-
| light, and is full bloom at midnight, and
closes never to open again with the dawn OF
| me day La cloyer-field not a leaf opens
TIL after sunrise. So says celebrated Eng.
/ lIsh author, who has devoted much time TO
| the study OF plants, and often watched them
during their quiet slumbers. Those plants
which seem to be awake all night he styles
the bats and owls of the vegetable king
DOM"
How Nilsson came to sing Fosters ballad.
The Old Folks at home" is thus explained:
g She was visiting Mrs. Parke Goodwin,
| daughter of the poet Bryant, at her New
| England home. little daughter of Mrs.
| Goodwin was the possessor of banjo, and
| Miss Nilsson invited her to play and sing.
She did so, singing the Old Folks at
| Home TIE Swedish songstress, being her
self far from the old folks at home was
touched with the melody and the sentiment.
She at once sought the piece, learned it,
and has since sung it at her concerts"
| According to a recent letter from Tien- Tsin
| Mr.. Stewards pleasuring in China is the re-
verse of agreeable, and is even accompanied
with sufficient spice of danger to give it
He o.rir ~ :.
stated, created more merriment among the
Celestials than any event since the massacre
| as the Christians" The party succeeded
after consider able difficulty in procuring a
passport to Pekin, anG started in small boats
up the Peho river, their departure being
witnessed by at least twenty thousand Chi
nese, whose imprecations at the western
barharians" were fierce and bitter. Two
mandarins of high rank accompanied them
for protection.
kind physician, living near Boston, wish
ing to smooth the last hours of poor woman
whom he was attending, asked her if there
was anything he could do for her before she
died The poor soul, Looking up, replied
/" Doctor, | have always thought l should
| like to have glass butterdish before died.
Persons who prefer oysters cooked in their
own liquor may be interested in knowing
what the fluid contains. The Journal of NJ
eroscop9 says: Open an oyster. retain the
liquor in the lower or deep shell, and, if view
ed through microscope, it will be found t y
contain multitudes of small oysters, covered
with shells, and swimming nimbly about
one hundred and twenty OF which extend but
one inch Besides these young oysters, the
liquor contains variety OF anmalcule and
myriads of three distinct species of worms
Sometimes their light represents blush star
about thescentre of the shell, which will be
beautifully luminous in dark room"
A company Of responsible Parkersburg gen
tlemen have leased a tract of land near the
lett fork of Sandy, in jackson county, West
| Virginia, on which there is spring strongly
impregnated with arsenic. The company
have employed a competent man to mine tor
that article at the spring, who will commence
| operations Immediately. Prof. Noble, dis
tingnlshed scientific gentleman of New Jer-
sey, having analysed the water of the spring,
pronounces it rich in arsenic. Mr.. Summer
vile. the proprietor, has kept fence around
It for years to prevent the cattle from drink
ing the water and thereby poisoning them
selves to death. Great results are anticipat-
ed from the new enterprise.
| A young railroad employe in Bavaria was
recently arrested, having excited suspicion
/ by offering valuable diamonds for sale. Up
on being searched, several 80 carat weight
rose diamonds, worth, collectively, So, 500 !;
other stones, worth $500 to 50, 500 each, one
large diamord OF 1888 carats weight, valued
at $500, and also quantity of trinkets and
seals, engraved with the Persian words NaD25
Shah were found on him. The diamonds,
from their cutting, are thought to be very
old, and it is surmised that they have been
taken from diadem belonging to some orr.
entail dignitary. Up to recent date no com
plant OF such robbery has been made.
The new method of supplying water to the
Continental Hotel. in Philadelphia, by means
of the artesian we'll, has, after a trial of sew
en- weeks, proved satisfactory. The well is
two hundred feet deep, one hundred and fif-
ty five of which was bored through solid rock.
The bore is eight inches in diameter Fifty
thousand gallons of water can be obtained
for use every day. The cost for the work
was three thousand dollars. The water OBJ
tanned is softer, purer, ard much healthier
for cooking and drinking purposes. The uni
form temperature is ffty-five degrees.
/ james Scott of Detroit intended to build
an elegant block on his lot in the heart Of
the city, repossessing for that purpose a strip
of land formerly his which the city had taken
for an alley His neighbors declared they
would enjoin him from that proceeding, and
Scott, in revenge, will put up a two,story
brick, with small. old fashioned windows and
panes, paint it jet black, aud inscribe upon il
in large letters, Scott Injunction Block ),
On the roof he will erect an old fashioned
belfry, and in the same suspend bell max
ing 1T obligatory in his contract with the
tenant to toll this bell regularly twice q day,
Maine sends the following bear story: Mr.
Samuel Kimball, of Fatten, finding an old
pine log in the woods, cut into it to see if il
were sound. He found that it was not sound
but he heard sound inside, and had hardy
time to get to the eud of the log before he
saw an old she bear just coming out. IL
gave her blow on the head with his ak. and
was about pulling her out when he was snr
prised to see two large cubs just back Of tbei,
mother. He pulled the old one out and was
dispatching the cubs, when out jumped an
other old bear, which, before Mr.. Kimball
could finish the cubs, made good his escape
An old herdsman, named Voeltker. was
lgored to death the other day. near Fransbure