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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-03-06
A RATS STOREHOUsE.


Sometimes animals take very odd fancies
about the stores they lay up. Are all famil-
lar with the thievish propensities of crows,
and rocks, and ravens how they will fly in
at dining-room window, and steal OFF table
any shining thing they may happen to see
bright thimbles, pencil cases, and even valu-
able diamond rings.
Often poor erVant girls have been charged
with these thefts, and very sad trouble result
ed from them
1t is not commonly supposed that rats car
ry off their plumber, or at least hoard up their
supplies but sometimes, when their nests
are overhauled, they display very odd col
lection. A rat in a gentleman's house had a
great fancy for bootstraps, and nibbled off
every one he could find. The incest food
was spread for him every night, carefully
mixed with poison, but though food and all
disappeared the depredations kept or. At
last his nest was found, and curious muse
um. it was.
Here in one corner was pile ofseeds, all
neatly arranged there q heap of grain.
Then came the bootstraps, piled up one
above the other. There too was the poison
ed bread and butter, all laid up as evenly as
if the house keeper had prepared them for
picnic sandwiches. No doubt his ratship
found food SO plenty he did not care to eat
any of these articles, and concluded to store
them up for time of need.
A friend of mine missed her young chick
ems every day, and at last caught sight of a
large gray rat, making off with one in broad
day light. He ran under loose board, and
her son quickly came out with gun, and
rising the board slightly, shot under it. The
ball took good effect. On removing the
board, there Icy the dead rat, and ranged
around him in semi-circle were twenty
three dead chickens. He had daintily nib
bled q wing, or some portion Of most OF
them but had taken only a taste from
each.
A cat once caught number of rats and
mice, and disabled them so they could not
run aWay-storing them in a safe place for
the use of hey young kittens, when they got
old enough to eat This was little in ad
vance of her ordinary cruelty in the treat
ment of her prisoners,
The instinct of animals is q very curious
study, and sometimes seems almost TO
amount to reason. -Pres5yterjan
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-03-06
MODERATE DRINKING.

The moderate drinker is giving the sane
ton Of his acts and the weight of his exam
pie, perhaps, to strengthen tendencies ne
has already communicated to the physical
system Of his child. Any ono may loosen the
stone from the hillside but once let 20,
he cannot call it back to his hand. And a
thoughtles5 parent may give the earliest i'm
pulse to the appetite of child, and be pow
erless, even with tears and groans and pray
ers, to check it when the child is mature and
inebrate. Oh parents, stop and think !
And, meantime God speed the men and the
society that are trying to form opinion, cor
rect errors, check vice, reclaim the fallen,
and save the endangered and who are doing
this under the cold contempt, sometimes, Of
those very persons who should have the deep
est interest in their success. It is a small
comfort to know that drinkers are victims
of q great system OF fraud and deception
two-thlrds Of the Madeira, champagne and
port being fraudulent, half that which is call
ed wine blushing lie, and great portion of
the so~called spirits the cheapest substitute
for alcohol. The mischief In the end is rome
the less dreadful. ''The DEVILS meat ac-
cording to the strong English proverb, eis
all BRAN" or, in the soberer denunciations Of
Scripture, there is "woe to the drunkards Of
Ephraim."
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-03-06

YOUTHFUL ELoQUENcE.--I istold Of Can
ming shat at the Clifford street Club, London
on one occasion when he was loudly denoun-
was brought in and placed before the presi
dent, he continued: rs
''To the steady eye of sagacious criti-
clsm the eioquence of Mirabeau will appear
to be as empty and vapid as his patriotism
1T is like the beverage that islands, sir, so in
vitingly before you-foamy and rrothy on
the top, heavy and muddy within"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-03-06
THE SEA OF GALILEE.


What the traveller Will sec when he catches
MS nrst glimpse of the limpid sheet of
water will be small oval-shaped lake. thir-
teen miles long aud six broad. II is evident.
~ OF volcanic origin, and the earthouakes
which have rent the walls Of Tiberius. as
we'll as the hot springs of several nIaces in
The Vaclnlty OF the lake, show that yolcani c
agencies are still at work. All along the cas-
tern sideruns green plain, which excepe one
spot (the probable scene of the destruction OF
the swine after the healing of the garden
demeniac,) is everywhere about quarter to
half a mile in width. Beyond this al ises. to
the height of about 1900 feet, an escarpment
of desolate' looking hills, sored by various
ravines, and having plateau at the top. AS
there are neither trees nor villages to be seen
on that side, and no signs of cultivation. the
view in THAI direction has a certain monoto-
my, but this Is atoned for by the air of mys-
terry derived from its very desolation, and the
fact even in our Lord S time il was so nm
frequented that He had but to visit it when
He required the refreshment Of solitude .Rg 1t
was of this lovely shore that we are remind
ed in the lines Of the beautiful hymn
"Come to desert place apart,
And rest little while
SO spa6e the Lord when mind and heart
Were faint and sick through toll"
1t was somewhere among these featureless
hills-probable toward the northeastern cor
ner of the lake that He fed the x OnO W n
had focked after him On foot it was some
where about those gray ravines that He
spent the night in prayer. And how many
times must his eye have rested with pleasure
on the dimpling surface of the inland sea
A sight delightful in any region of world, but
doubly refreshing and delicious in this sultry
land.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-03-06
Aver s
s q Z s a pari | | a

Is widely known
as one Of the most
efectUal Remedies
ever discovered for
cleansing the sys-
tenn and purifying
the blood. 1t has
stood the test q
years, with q con
stantly growing rep
utation, based on its
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-12
ARuddhist Disns,er.

A terrible disaster lately attended a
Buddhist ceremonial at Black Town
India. Religious professions had been
frequent in connection with the
yicunia paeathssi festival, and on
this occasion one Of them halted oppo-
site the temple. Attached to this
temple was richly adorned pan
dal. and underneath this the idols
we're carried, surrounded by tOrch-bea
ers and preceded BY dancing girls. A
crowd Of people bad assembled, some to
worship ald others merely from motives
of curiosity, when the throng became so
great that one Of the tordh-bearers, a
little boy, was pushed aside, and his
fambeau catching the fringe, a general
blaze ensued. Some persons rushed
toward ihe gateway Of the temple, but
e;hers who were near the pagoda
thought tue safest place for them was
inside Of H. In about half an hour the
FIRE was extinguisbej, but the entire
psnaal was destroyed, with the orna-
ments with which they were decorated.
TWeniy-six persons took refuge 10 the
pagoda, which was only eight feet By
ten and held q large idol in ia center,
but the smoke entered through small
holes 10 the door. and only five persons
we're found alive when the FIRE was put
out. fks uay 70 the pagods was Gov
cred with pieces o. broken globes aud
shades from the pandal, which seri-
ously iuterfered With the attempts Of The
az.iye police 20 rescue those who we're
inside. OF those Who lost their lives,
four were women, one a child Of Two
years Of age, one a girl ten years Old.
one boy, aud fourteen were men.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-12
The staircase nuisance.

This is a nuisance no one who has
attended parties this winter 10 Wash.
ineton can deny. The young ladies and
gentlemen seem to prefer sitting on the
stairs to dancing; at any rate except at
a german they divide their time between
the two. They Il rt outrageously in the
face of the assembled guests, being as il
were set up en- an elevation for that pur-
pose. But this is not the worst of it. A
staircase has legitimate use, and there
are people, welcome guests of the host
ess, who find it Unnecessary TO ascend and
descend the stairs during the evening,
the dressing-room being always on the
second or third floors. But the young
people won't bulge under any consider
alton. People may get up and down rs
they can, and if they josie ANY of the
flirting party they may expect to receive
a glare of defiance. Washington dearly
loves social gossip, and the bellies like
to be praised as charming, fascinating,
beautiful and the like, but when it comes
to receiving severe reproofs, which CON
science tells them are well merited for
making them disagreeable to large
company, they pout and grow very an.
cry at those vile papers" The rude
people here are fortunately in the min
ority, but some few specimens do exc
cution enough in their line to atone for
the remissness in this respect of the
whole of society.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-12
LEGAL.
Trustees Sale.

DY VIRTUE OF THE POWER GIVEN TO
ID me as trustee in a certain deed Of trust
executed By William &. Raylsy on the 23d day
of December, 1873. recorded in Record Book
No. 81. nage aOi. Registers office, 10 secure a
certain indebtedness in said trust deed men
toned. will, on . r...
Monday, the 9Th Day Of April, 1878,
on the premises. sell fag cash to the highest
bidder. the following real estate in Shelby
county; Situated on the northeast side Of Car
roll avenue. having 100 feet front on Carroll
avenue. running back between parallel lines
of Or. j. l.. Verscr and Mrs Jane Pitman.
being the same property formerly occupied bY
Joseph Odell as a residence.
The equity Of redemption Is waived In said
Mast aeea ne pt,e 70 ne property s Is be-
trustee only,
5-s2 GEO. CAN'T. Trustee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-12
NEWSPAPER:
HELENA, ARKANSAS,
Daily and Weekly World,
BURNETT & BURKE, Props.
aEWsPAPE

DEMOCRATIC, CONSERVATIVE
a NeWspaper; the best Advertising medium
in the STATE. An extensive cireulation
through al the rieh cotton-groWing counties.
The only Dafly Paper that Pub-
liahes Press Reports outside
OF Little Rock.
That portion Of the stats of vhieh Helena ii
The capital. the ealiaru raIt, lurrafsea At ne
lihert On point oi progress. hufiness ne1 ci
Memphis. hare q carr lcok % ne trade n
Helsls.
Rsisrf q Johnston A Vance, III. Wsde A Co.
=. A. EsrIon. Hil. Tern a Mitchell. -
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-12
The small DespOt of the Family.

| Welcome to the parents the puny
siruggler, strong in his weakness, his
little arms more irresistible than the
soldiers, his lips touched with persua-
sion, which Chatham and Pericles in
manhood had not. His unaffected
lamentations when he liftsup his voice
on high, or more beautiful, the sobbng
child-the face liquid grief as he tries
to swallow his vexation-softens all
hearts TO pity and to mrthful and clam
orOus compassion. The small despot
asks so little that all reason and all ma
ture are on his side. His ignorance is
more charming than all knowledge, and
his little sins more bewitching than any
virtue. His flesh is angels flesh all
alive. All day, between his three or
four sleeps he coos like pigeon house,
sputters and spars, and puts on q face
of importance; and when he fasts, the
| little Pharasee fails not to sound his
trumpet before him. Hy lamp light he
delights in shadows on the WALL day
light, in yellow and scarlet. Garry him
out of doors-he is overpowered by the
light apd by the extent of natural OBJ
iects, aud SILENT Then presently be-
gins the use OF his fingers, and he
studies power, the lesson of his race.
First it appears in no great harm, in ar
chitectural tastes, but Of blocks, thread
spools, cards and checkers, he will
build his pyramid with the gravity of
Palladio With an acoustic apparatus
of whistle and rattle he explores the
laws of sound. But chiefly like his
senior countrymen, the young American
studies new and speeder modes of trans
portation. Mistrdsting the cunning Of
his small legs, he wishes to ride on the
neck and shoulders of sll flesh. The
small enchanter nothing can withstand;
uncles, aunts, grandsires, grandams, fall
an easy prey; he conforms to nobody,
all conform to him; all csper and make
mouths and babble and chirrup TO him,
on the strongest shoulders he rides, and
pulls the hair of laureled heads, ,-R. ~
EDersOn
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-12
MEMPHIS TENN. WEDNESDAY EVENING. MARCH H. 1873
An Atrosious IIabit.

There is habit peculiar 10 many
walkers, which Punch, some years ago
touched upon satirically. but which
seems 10 have survived the testers ridi.
cule, Il is the custom Of stopping
friends on the street 10 whom we have
nothing TO communicate, but whom We
vmbarrass for no other purpose than
simply TO show our friendship. Jones
meets his friend Smith, whom he has
met on nearly the same locality but a
few hours before.
During that interval il is highly prob.
able that no event Of my importance TO
Smith, nor indeed to Jones, which, by a
friendly construction, Jones could imag.
inc Smith to be interested in, has occur
red, or is likely to occur. Yet both gen
tlemen stop and shake hands earnestly.
Well, how goes it2' remarks Smith,
with vague hope that something may
have happened So, so. How are
you knocking them2" replies the elo.
quent Jones, feeling intuitiyely the deep
vacuity of his friend answering to his
own.
A pause ensues, in which both gentle
men regard each other with an imbecile
smile and feryent pressure OF the
hand. Smith draws long breath and
looks up the street. Jones sighs heavily
and gazes down the street. Another
pause, in which Both gentlemen olsen
gage their respective hands and glance
anxiously around for some conventional
avenue Of escape. Finally Smith with
sudden assumption OF having forgot
ten an important engagement ejacu-
lates, "Well, j must be off PA remark
instantly echoed by the voluble Jones,
and these gentlemen separate, only to
repeat their miserable formula the next
day.
In the above example | have compass
sionately shortened the usual leave
taking which, in skillful hands, may be
protracted to length which shudder
to recall ! have sometimes, when an
active participant in these atrocions
transactions, fingered in the hope Of
saying something natural to my friend
feeling that he, too, was groping in the
may labyrinth Of his mind for simi-
lar expression), J, until have felt that we
ought to have been separated by po-
HCeuhH. II 10 aotOhionlue hoh ldI Tue
most wretched joke will go in these
emergencies, and how it viii, as IL were,
convulsively detach the two cellaring
particles.
l have laughed (albeit Historically at
some wttticism under cover of which ]
have escaped that FIVE minutes after
ward could not perceive possessed
single grain of humor. | would advise
any person who may fall into this plia-
BILE strait, that next to getting in the
way Of passing dray and being foreibly
disconnected, joke is the most efiica-
cious. A foreign phrase often may be
tried with success. l have sometimes
kRown au revoir pronounced " o-reeyer"
to have the effect, az IL ought, Of sever
ing friends.- Bret Harte LIZ Is Cs 4
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-12
NOW is THR TIME TO BUY
FISH,.
REEL REELE GOT LAKE
EPOT.
7s Beal Stu 'eet

uu an.llr .--tt r.rv
ALL VARIETIES OF RBELRos RE s'iiah az. =
"A fsh received daily. Also LaAe = fef rt-
tout, white fsh. bass and other safiet
csived daily 81 express and packets
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-12
ncnAN ID H .

fIssh aud ia reod condition. daily. -, -
Fish dressed for Immediate use kelt tsl, ~
sf1ntr on Hard, and dressed to order Nltleet
rrfrd charge, Orders for aressinE cneae- usA
rust Be ish before l2 eloct m.--.-.r- ~,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-12
Thursday, 1sth day Of March, 1873,

al the corner Of MashinEton ard fourth
Sfrecfr IN ~ citv cf Memphir. Isnuesses,
between lie hours Oh 10 o'clock an and 2
sirioef = N. proceed to sell. at public sale. 20
the hirheft bidder. for cash, The premises men
tened D. aid tut deed 20 gnich, iof more
49, Ii hsrrfv made. Right Of rodgm ption il
uTriref anf tks titls d believed % b perfect,
hnf Il eel aud CONVEX only ~ tr1ltee.
15-rri-ll JULIA NhkLAhs Trustee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-12

Csc Of ths best paying saw milk in
Green Bay d GEnei by q woman Who
Knocked tho head sawyer dom Ebsu be
proposed marriage 70 her.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-12
Expenses Receipts York for

sddsd gbat qasd % osy lsl. p -
~" n. H.C Astusy
Iu,ursr Al srtraoh for eHlsts
lI-0 n. A. LEETLErOE, - Hadfson street
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-12
the 9TH Day Of April, 1873,
Trustees Sale.

DN VIRTUE OF A TRUST DEED MADE
10 no BY Thomas s. Calan, on N9yemi3,er
q, 1852. recorded in Registers once Of Sheloy
county. Ienncssce. in book Is, pages - anu
50, 10 secure the payment Of q certain nets
therein described. which note 4 sph das and
unpaid. ! viii on
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1873-05-13
The Storm.

Last Thursday morning a cold
rain storm set in and continued the
whole day and night, with the
wind blowing gale from the east.
The wind was in the wrong direc-
tion to have very much good effect
upon the ice along the shore be-
tween this place and Tawas Bay,
as the ice had already accumulated
there in large quantities, entirely
cutting off the means of travel by
boat from Bay City north farther
than Tawas. 1t is said that the ice
was, in many places, from ten to
twenty-five feet high, and so wedg-
ed in that it was impossible for a
boat to get through. This is ac-
counted for by the wind being in
the northeast and east nearly all
the time for at least twenty days,
and a great portion Of the floating
ice on the lake was driven to Sag
NAV Bay and became wedged in
between the Charity Islands and
the main land. 9
During the night Thursday, q
heavy fog hung over the lake,
which continued till nearly noon
Friday, when it cleared up, and the
sun tried hard to cast q shadow,
but without effect.
Friday night it commenced rain
ing again, and about midnight the
wind changed to the west, and the
rain descended in torrents, q,
though The floodgstes Of the hcar
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1873-05-13
Odd Fellows Ball.

The invitations have been print
ed for an Odd Fellows Banquet and
Ball, TO be held at the Fletcher
House, on Thursday evening, June
9Th, next. The invitations will be
extensively circulated among the
different Lodges of the Order, who
will have the privilege of inviting
all, whether members or not they
desire, and it is expected that
very large delegation will be in at
tendance. Ample accommodations
will be made for all who attend
and no psines will be spared ia
make matters as agreeable as pos
sib,e.
Arrangements will be made with
the transportation companies be-
tween this city and Detroit and Bay
City to issue half fare tickets to all
excursionists.
AS the object is laudable one
we earnestly hope and expect the
members of the Order, and others
who favor such an object, will sec
that the Fletcher House, which j:
one of the finest i'm the State, is
filed to its utmost capacity.
The proceeds will be for the ben
eft of the Odd Fellows Institute al
Lansing. Tickets, So.
The music will be of the best
talent in the State, as well as thai
of our own enterprisiag city.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1873-05-13

will take her place as soon as she
can arrive. ~
r. ]. Kelley has removed his law
Office to the front room in Phelps
building, over b. Richard a. Cos
hardware store. va
The Common Council have auth
orized the opening of about -four
miles of new streets.
Mr.. Knoch, of the firm Of A. An
spach & Co., has gone east after an
other large stock of goods.
A boy named Whooley had
two of his fingers on his left hand
cut off by saw, at Cushman 81
Miller's mill, last Wednesday,
The Wenona arrived here again
last Friday with large load of
passengers and freight.
Last Saturday our devil attempt
ed to run his toe through the Cor
don Press. He thinks it made a
bad impression-on the toe.
Hon. J. X. Lockwood has re-
turned from Lansing. He arrived
home last Friday. 1-HT
One of the iron rod main stays
of the new bridge broke while the
bridge was closed last Saturday.
The steamer Lake Breeze went
back to Bay City again Saturday
morning, from Tawas.
The Fletcher House is now open
to the public.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1873-05-13
Council Proceedings.

A regular meeting of the Common
Council of the city of Alpena was held
at the Council room, Monday evening,
the 9Th day of May, 1873.
Present-A. w. Comstock, Mayor, #.
s. Dewey, Recorder; and Aid Knight,
Wall, Harshaw, Kimball and Camp
pell.
Minutes Of previous meeting read and
approved.
A petition from J. B. Tuttle and 9TH
ers, asking for the opening of Dunbar
street, was presented and referred to the
Committee on Streets and Sewers.
The Committee on Streets and Sewers
made report favoring the opening of
sundry streets, and the streets were or
dered opened.
The Recorder was authorized to al
vertise for sealed proposals for opening
streets.
ers reported in'favor Of a drain on First
and Chisholm streets, and the drain was
authorized to be dug.
The committee to whom was referred
the matter of opening Dunbar street
made their report, which was accepted
and adopted.
The Committee on Streets and Sewers
presented Il report relative TO laying side
walks, and the walks were ordered laid
The sidewalks on Dock street from
bridge 10 Oldleld street, and on Second
from bridge to Washington Avenue
were ordered eight feet wide.
Committee on Ways and Means re-
ported favorably on account of III. Baker
for 80 80, and the same was allowed.
The following accounts were presented
and allowed:
d. Scott, s75 OF
j. ID. Holmes, so on
]. Thompson, 70 OF
j. O'Neil, rs on
The resignation OF J. Thomson, as pc
liceman, was placed on file.
The Marshal Ewas comma nded to sum
mon jury to appear before the Mayor
on the 9th, to open Dunbar street accord
ing to law.
The Mayor was authorized to appoint
Iarbor Master.
A special committee was appointed tt
examine the bridge and see if the sam,
was built according to contract.
j. ID. Holmes was, OH notion employ
ed to defend the suit of the city in regarC
to opening First street.
The Marshal was authorized to caus,
a suitable house to be built on one of tn,
piers of the bridge, for the use of thu
bridge tender.
The Comptroller was instructed t
prepare list of persons liable to pol
tax, that said tax might be collected.
$13,250 was voted as the amount nee
essary for school purposes for the fisca
year of 1873 and 1874.
Adjourned.
f. s. DEWEY, Recorder.
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ANOTHER START.-At 2:30 yes
terday afternoon the Lake Breeze
made another start from Bay City,
to make an effort to reach this
place. This is the tenth time she
has made the attempt, and we Gin
cerely hope that this time she will
be successful, as our people are
very much in want of mail once
in o while.
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ems were let loose, and the water
allowed to descend in an immense
sheet.
Matters looked very favorably
for a boat from Bay City on Satur-
day, as the wind during the night
had q tendency to drive the ice
from the shore, thus opening up a
channel clear from the ice.