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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-05-16
a SHARP YOUTH.

On the eastern railway the other day a Jews
boy entered the car with number of dailies, and
accosted crusty old chap who sat crouched in a
seat near the stove:
Paper, sir? only five cents''
MOP growled the passenger But I'd give five
dollars ii there was fire in the stover
Did you say you would give five dollars If there
was fire in the stove said the boy turning back.
'Yes and darned quice too.
The boy in the twinkle of an eye opened the
stove, thrust IN his bundle of fresh newspapers,
touched lighed match to then, and demanded his
pay. The passengers who had been watching his
vancouver, shouted with laughter, and the old fell
low, after hesitating moment, sheepishly drew
FIVE dollars from his pocket, and paid the bill.
Sold out again quoth the sharp news boy, as
he went out after his basket Of confectic nery.
s1oKNEss.-The Chief Justice of the United
States of America in letter. dated April 9Th, 1872,
says:
My convictions are the same as yours. tina
slckness, rightly imp1oved,is among the greatest
blessings our Heavenly Father vouchsafes to us,
!tresults from SIM and stimulates to duty, CRATE
Iully thank God for Sickness
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-05-16
TAX NOTICE.

VENHE following is list of unredeemed lots, pie
IL ces or parcels of land, situate, lying and being
IN the County of Kenosha, in the State of wiscon-
SIN. which were sold by the County Treasurer of
said county and State aforesaid, the 10th day of
May, A, D. 1870, for the unpaid taxes and charges
due on the same for the year, 1862 and the amount
OF taxes, charges and interest calculated thereon,
up to the last day of redemption, due on each of
said pieces or parcels of land
Now, therefore, notice is hereby given, that un-
less such lots pieces parcels of land redeem
ed on or before the 10th day of May 1878, they will
be conveyed to the purchaser or purchasers there
of according to law
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-05-16

Society people in Washington
wonder why Kate Chase. wife of
Congressman Sprague, has not ap-
peared in society lately. We learn
that she is engaged in beating her
husband out of a quarter of million
dollars a year. This may seem
strange, but it is true. 1t appears
that for every child that makes its
appearance in the Sprague family,
Mr.. Sprague gives his wife $4,000,
and gives the child 100000. Kate
has already had four babies, which
has drawn on Sprague's pocket-b ook
for over million. Any person can
see that this is better than going in
to society inWashington, where she
couldn't lay up cent. Sensible af-
ter all.
Who is LEET. We begin to have
a suspicion that Leet, tbs Leet who
has been such a prominent figure in
the New York General Order ras-
calities which have excited so much
comment in the New York papers, is
no other than our own Leet-a citi-
zen Of Portage, in 1856 or 81 -
who, with Hall, built the bridge
across the Wisconsin river, at this
place. If not the same Leet, his In
itials are the same, and his actions
and ways are the same, and he ought
to be the same man. Two such
Leets are painful to contemplate; one
t will suffice. -Portage Register.
MARYLAND JEws.-By the laws
: of Maryland, a marriage in that state
is valid only when performed by E
minister Of the Gospel, ordained &C.
l cording to the rites and ceremonies
f of his or her church, or in such man.
ner as is used and practised by the
society Of the people called Quakers.' "
3 The result Of this enactment is thai
Maryland Jews are obliged to begin
their wedding trips without the usu.
) al ceremony, and get married some
; where outside the state. They are
naturally FESTIVE under such an alb,
, surdly unjust law, and are moving tc
obtain its repeal. i Evening Wis,
, c0nSln. So
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-05-16

A clergyman oaEechlzing the youths OF
his church, put the question in the catech-
SIN to q girl. 5 ,aa.9-sss X. s.,a.ygl
"What is your consolation in life and
death ?' 54iftitla4 ts*ega
The poor girl smiled, but no answer. The
teacher insisted ,.4<..,...l
SWELL" said she, s'since + must tell it I
one of the young printers on Main street. a
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-05-16
The genosha Gete9raph.
KENOSHA, WIS, MAY 10th 1872.
THE PUBLIC DEBT-$12. 5Ss, o8S DECREASE
IN APRIL.

The following is the official statement of the
limited States public debt for May:
Six per cent. Donus %l'ooo,l aI,dOO0O
Five per cent. bonds 4ls,ooi ,ooo
Total coin bonds s1,so3. s44 400
lawful money debt 2o,o2S UOU
Matured debt 1u,4o( 49,
Legal tender notes 337, 59OSTl
fractional currency 5,II9e0O
Coin certificates 20 .o94leO
Total debt 1891, orr s79
Total accrued interest 4S,ooS'oO
Oo InSh III treasury 1Os. 1853, 73s
Currency 1870 10y
Total in treasury l23,3ZS,9oo
Debt. less cash In treasury S,lJI l43'f 4O
Decrease during the month 1z5oo,ooo
Bonds issued to the Pacific RBllWay
Company, inter9sl payable IN lawful
princins1 outstanding g.. 62S, 5t2
Interest accrued and not yet paid wv az
Interest paid by he United States 1463l'o'o
mails e Gc'''O " ''"-Op s,611 1852
Ted Sfates 0'' pau - ' II, O21. us
The supplementary public debt statement Is
sued Thursday. shows the decrease in monthly in
terest charges since March, l8 SO, TO be 81 34O
Payments made from the treasury by warrants
during April, were as follows:
aTn>nses - S41S4 925
o1o
v ar Z,OO9,54S
NAVY 1441, 943
Interior pension, and Indians 055,26z
Total $8442. ora
The above does not include the payments maze
on account of the interest principal of the pub
tic debt
A PARADISE FOR SwINE.-One of the editors o
the Western RuraL is reliably informed that the
Soc. f. T. P. o. @. T. A, of New York, proposes
the erection near that city of a magnificent hogt
pen, furnished with all the modern i
including hot and cold water, steam, gas, etc.
The troughs gre to be cast from pig iron-duty
free-resting upon pig-nut hickory supports, and
finished with the patent combination Phelan
cushions. The library is to be furnished with
Cubb's Elementary Works, Golden on the Corn
Laws, the Descendants of Ham. etc., Hogg' Tales
and Poems. Hogdens Works Hog-arih's Analysis
of Beauty, Hog-endrops ON the Constitution
Swln-burn's Poems, Swin-den's Philosophy, but
Harris on the Pig will not be permitted place
as beng cruel to animals
Moral suasion alone is to be used but Buck
eye Hog amer is to be hung in a con$picio US
place, as terror to rOOters. ChlorOf0rm is 10 BIZ
administered 10 the pOrkers before bleeding, and
1ukewarm water only will be used in cleaning the
swine.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-05-16
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thence to beg, except 2 ntE
rods for track
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-05-16
FOR SALE.

TYNE VERY DESIRABLE PROPERTY on
l. Ann street, known as the EVANS PLAcE.
Will be sold at great bargain, with or without
the furniture. There is never failing we'll OF
water, good cistern nice barn, henery, &C., and
considerable fruit the place. and every thing in
good condition.
Title perfect, and terms of payment easy. For
particulars apply on the premises.
III P. j. OVERACRE.
Kerosha, January Goth, 1872. SmSS
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-05-16
Durkec's Western Addition.
city of acknowledgement

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of sec 81 14S II do
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-05-16
City of Kenosha-Flrst Ward.

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A PARADISE FOR SwINE.-One of the editors o
the Western RuraL, is reliably informed that the
Soc. F. IT. P. O. @. t. A, of New York, proposes
the erection near that city OF a magnificent hogN
pen, furnished with all the modern /
, 1872-03-20
THE 'AVIS."
Stris1iaa5le6, II, g5roix.
WEDNESDAY GOTH MARCH 1872.

Two of the 'four notorious thieves
who escaped from prison in October last
year, have again escaped. Their
are John Richard Darling and Assam.
That a prisoner may escape must be
expected even in the best regulated
prison, but that it should happen so of
ten as it does here, must be owing to some
thing very defective in our Prison regula-
lions 1t is generally believed that the
prisoners are made to do all kind of pri-
vate work, which may be very agreeable to
the "Drivers," who are supposed to reap
the benefit but if this running away of
prisoners can in any way be traced to this
source, it would seem strange that the
practice is kept up. 1t comes up so often
that our whole prison system is so defcc-
tive that a remedy might no doubt best be
found by a commission subjecting the
whole matter to a thorough investigation.
, 1872-03-20

TO the Editor Of the "St. CrOix Avis"
Sir,

GHD
The public is very much indebted to you
Tor the early publication of u resume of the
Proceedings in the meeting of the Colonial
Council on 4th inst, on the Budget. AS
was expected, the Budget was opposed and
has gone into Committee, and it is TO be
hoped that the Members of the Committee
Will boldly and fearlessly put the axe to the
tree, and cut down, as far as lies in their
power, the enormous amounts which are
posted for the expenditure for 1S72-73.
Member Rosenstand and Faber truly spoke
tue sentiments or the whole Island, In saw
ing, that the Budget was Disappointing,
and a" melancholy document. Governor
Bllle's argument that the deficiency in the
Budget could be met from the surplus of
last year, was a most unfortunate one in
most countries q surplus from one year is
used to reduce taxation ia another, but ac-
cordlng to His ExcelIency's views, u sur
Plus should be made use of to keep IN
taxation, by supplying deficiencies!
The people OF this Island had q rioht
to expect that Governor Billie would have
made r~etrenchments, but to their sorrow
they find that OficiAls' salaries are made
to figure at their highest, and the poor Tax
Payer is made to contribute as largely as
ever he did to keep up in the Island a Staff
OF Officials, drawing large salaries from
the Treasury, and in some instances keen
ing up appointments which are quite IN.
necessary. The public know the Difficult
ties with which His ExcelIency has to con.
tend, they were pointed out some time aeo
by a correspondent of your paper "a Tax
Payer" The Official class, with q few ex-
ceptlons, look only at matters in this Island
with one eye and that is, an eye to large
salaries, and eventually pensions-as q rule,
they own no property, and pay no direct
taxes, their interest is to keep matters as
they are, and to do every thing to hamper
the governor and the people in their work
OF reform. But with the property Own
ers and direct Tax Payers of the Island the
matter OF retrenchment in our administra-
ton expenses, is of the most vital import
ance, and therefore our only hope, as be-
fore mentioned, is, that the Committees
now sitting will without fear of offending
this or that official, work together as unani-
mously as possible and make as MANY re-
auctions as can be made both with regard
to salaries as we'll as with Offices. Now is
the time to do it. NOW OR NEVER.
The Home Government has heard our cries
frequently, asking for help and assistance.
and wouldn't it be ridiculous if we allowed
the commissions sent out to carry out re-
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-08-15
Plants i'm Rooms.

The Scientific American has some use>
full hints on the cultivation of plants In
rooms: 'Plants are frequently injured by
injudicious watering. Some person seems
to suppose that delugcs of water afford a
remedy for all the evils to which plants
are subject. This is a mistake. True,
they require a considerable amount of
moisture, but not oue-half the quantity
which is oftentimes applied. Evening is
the best time to water them, and in every
case, cold water from a cistcrn or pump
should be avoided. The water should be
warmed By exposure to the sun, or in
some other manner. up to the temperature
of the atmosphere before it is used. Many
plants are greatly retarded in their growth
by cold water being poured upon them.
The quantity to be supplied v,ries with
the size and nature of the flower the
ground should be thoroughly moistened,
but not soaked. If the leaves should be-
come infested with insects, some tobacco
juice, mixed with water, sprinkIed over
them. will soon destroy these. The great
feature in cuitivating plants to promote
their health is that which is equally efica-
cious with human beings-cleanliness.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-08-15
Thomas &

This firm has done a lively business this
season in the agricultural implement line.
We understand they contemplate going
into the manufacture of implements on a
large scale provided they a get up a
joint stock company for that purpose.
Such an establishment in this place would
not only be a paying investment to the
company, but would no doubt be worth
thousands of dollars to the citizens of the
county every year. 1t would furnish
employment to perhaps fifty hands. which
would make a demand for county produce,
and by having the Implements manufac-
tured at home. would put in circulation a
large amount of money that is sent North
every year for these goods. We hope
they may be successful.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-08-15
Rcproof.

To give a scholar needful reproof SO as
70 secure the correction of his fault and
retain his confidence, requires some skill
and more G acs, on the part # he teach
er. A slight reproof may be given in a
tone of voice and in a petulancy of names
that will arouse the opposition and hatred
of the child, tending to create greater evil
than the one it is sought to correct. A
severe rebuke may be administered in
mild tones and in a genial Christian spirit,
without giving offence and fully securing
the desired reform.
Upon this delicate point a recent En-
glish writer gives some useful hints l.
Ii is not well to make too much of small
offences, nor 70 reprove scholars for trifes
the teacher does not see. 2. Let the re-
proof be given in the most gentle and
delicate manner possible. 3. 1t should
be done without the slightest touch of
anger. and generally not in the presence
of others, to wound the scholars self-res-
pect. 4. The best, rebukes, after all, are
silent ones. The teachers example is
more potent than his words. Making an
apology for little things unintentionally
done by the teacher may overcome the
most stubborn Scholars. s. World.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-08-15
How to succeed.

Study the hdbils Of tie children out of
school. Women are better teachers of
elementary schools thar men. not so much.
on account of their greater patience,
sympathy, tact, and kindness. as because
their home-life has made them better ac-
quaintsd with the "ways of children"
We must study them out of school.
We can not study botany to advantage
in a hower-garden, for the most beautiful
flowers of the gardener are botanical
monstrosities. We see bat little of genu-
inc child nature in the ordinary school
room. Most of the specimens that we
see there are educational monstrosities-
very good in their way but not natural.
There seems to be something in the at
mosphere of many schools that changes
the very nature of the child that breathes
it, turning brightness into dullness. Curl
osity into Indifference, and restless energy
into .'masterly inactivity" A boy who
will learn a complicated game in half an
hour, sits in puzzled perplexity over a
problem in arithmetic for half a day. A
girl who writes a four-page letter to a dis
tant friend, without thinking of the
trouble, can not accomplish twenty lines
of a composition" without borrowing.
1t is only by studying the habits and abil-
tiles and temrers of children out of school
that we may expect them to do their best
in school. The process of learning is the
same in all minds and at all ages. True.
some learn rapidly and others slowly I;
some so rapidly that it looks like a flash
of intuition, and others so slowly that the
progression never terminates in what we
call progress. But the difference is essen
TALLY one of time just as a child takes an
hour to walk round a square which an ac-
tive man can 90 in FIVE minutes. Never
theless the same ground is traversed by
using the same muscles in the same way
in both cases. AS we grow older, we take
our mental steps SO rapidly that we can
not follow them readily as an expert
player on the piano runs over the keys so
quickly that the eye fails to keeps up
with the movement. But the same move
ments can be followed readily enough
when made by a beginner. Our best OPP
p~ortunity for studying the mental phenom-
ena that terminate in the acquisition o;
knowledge, is in the case of young child
rem before they attend school, and older
ones when they are removed from the re-
~straints of the scbool-room The problem
would be simpli6ed still further in theory
Though made more difficult in Practlce)
by a study of the methods by which the
deaf and dumb and the blind acquire
knowledge. In a similar way we slmpliy
many problems in mechanics by elimina-
ting. in the preliminary investigation, the
-roo &c the air. etc. The inveStlga-
tor who shall trace clearly and precisely
every step that the human mind takes IN
the acquisition of what we call knowledge;
will perform a greater service to mankind
than if he had discovered 'the Northwest
Passage" Here is room for original in
y-estigation and if the full solution Of the
nrobIem should not be obtained, there
will be enough of incidental advantage
arising from tie search to repay the teacher
for ali his trouble.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-08-15
Self study.

Make a careful and close study of your
Oaon mental operations. Look back, if
you can, on the time when you were YOUR
self a learner-the farther back the bet
ter If your memory is good Can you
remember ho,o you learned to spell and
read aud parse? Most likely not. You
know the general fact that you did learn
these things, but as to the mental processes
involved in the operation, not being ca pa
bic of making accurate observations at the
time, memory can not recall them. Some
thins. however, of Importance may be re-
covered, If you will think patiently and
investigate narrowly Let us hope that
you were not a smart boy (smart boys
rarely develop into patient teachers.) but
that you were reasonably slow and modera-
tely dull that you had a hard time over
your spelling book, and found s'multipli-
cation a vexation," and groaned Justify
over your English grammar. "a fellow
feeling makes us wondrous kind" If
you can only recall n few of the difficulties
that beset your path at this interesting
time of life, it will be fruitful of sugges,
tions in your present sphere of duty.
"Noac igaara mali, miscris succurrere
disco"
But, if memory is treacherous, and
you can find nothing useful after all your
rummaging in the old garnet, take up a
new study and a hard one, and as you
make slow and steady progress in your
search for knowledge, watch with patient
SCI utiny every step in the mental process,
from total ignorance to vague apprehen-
sion, clear comprehension, familiar know
ledge, absolute mastery. You will see,
among other things. that the beginnings
of knowledge are always misty, and that it
is only by patient waiting, ''by thinking
carefully t~hereunto," by holding up the
shadowy image for a sufficient length of
time before the mental gaze, that we get
out of the mist and into the sunlight.
You will learn that often your best efforts
will fail to extract any clear sense from
the words of an author, and afterward
when, without conscious effort the mean
ing has burst upon your mind, you will be
as.onished that you could possibly have
failed to see it at first. You will find
by experience that patience and kindliness
lie at the foundation of all right teaching
and solid learning audi you will acquire
such a sympathy with your ellow-learners
as will carry them and yoa over many a
rough place with minimum amount o:
ielting.-PuLlic School AdUOcdte.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-08-15

Our educators, nearly one and all, for
get that as the sun goes down-to use the
popular phrase-and night comes on.
schoolgirls should put away their books
and get themselves ready for sleep. This
is not only necessary true in the form In
which 1 state it, but it ought to be true
under a very liberal construction of the
statement. Schoolgirls should not only
not study during that part of the day in
which there is no light on that portion OF
the earth which they occupy, but they
should cease to study SO long before the
sun goes down as to enable them, by
change of intellectual activity, to get gu
of their brains the impressions which study
during the day has made. Brains,
like stomachs, should be empty when one
falls asleep. A brain loaded with men
tai impressions is almost sure to be a brain
loaded with blood. Sleep isa condition
of existence largely induced by, and in
the main dependent upon, a condition OF
the brain in which there is the least pos
sible quantity of blood in circulation con-
sistent with healthfnl organic life. If one
cannot contrive. by habit or manner of
life. to empty his brain to a certain degree
of the quantity of blood which flows
through it and induces thought, be cannot
with any degree of certainty have good,
sound health and refreshing sleep.-Laus
of Life.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-08-15

The COUNTRY SEEMS TO BE FILLED
WITH SPECIFIC-For the cure of Lung
Diseases, that one scarcely knows which to
use. for want of confidence in their medical
properties ;but FROM the remarkable cures
and the high order and extraordinary
efficacy of Aliens Lung Balsam, that we
are compelled to regard the evidences Of
our senses, and confidently state for Cough
and Cold, and that Hydra-headed Mon
ster Consumption, we think that prepar.
alton a safe and certain cure that is now
before the public.
For sale by all Medicine Dealers.