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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-31
TALES OF A GANDFATHER

>Giddy girls, you may laugh at your grandpa
.4.. pa now, .....H. ~ a..
And emily putting pins IN his chair,
Doubled up is this figure, and turrowed this
brow, -.
Very scant are these teeth and this hair
You may speak of me still, In your soft pref
ty way, ~tH
AS the quaintess old image unhung;
But fond recollection survives my decay
was very good looking when young.
Half century does make sort of kind
Ofa difference, mark you, my dears.
And the brief way TO reckon my age up, l
find,
Is In tens or in dozens of years.
must be about eighty or so, by the clock,
But my mind is little unstrung,
And my talent tor counting has come to q
block
was brilliant at figures when young.
In the push-along hard-living Regency days
was prince OF the fashion and style,
When [ drove in the Park with my carriage
and bays
Even Brummel bent low at my smile.
Whas was gold? a mere nothing. In pleas
. ure and play
Far and wide it got scattered and flung -
For, though now i'll the parish, proudly can
say
was rolling in riches when young.
oh, the flirting and frolic and fun that we
had! .t.
was called an Adonis in curls.
Where was many feminine heart very sad
When | married your grandmother, girls.
! had rivals; but what was a rival to me,
With my figure, my face, and my tongue
All, believe me, the squaid old pauper yor
see ... f..
Was dashiug Don Juan when young
.. s.. Fun
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A SONG OF NOON.
BY II. II.

We DO not think Of any words ..., a.
We do not even long for kisses
We will not jar our ecstacy
BIZ even sweetest minor blisses,
When we can lie, just for the asking,
Ia beloved presence basking, agH lJ.
Silent basklng,
In simple, subtle presence basking.
oh, midday sky, your vanished birds
Are drinking all the moons great rapture
Oh, glowing air, your fsintest thrill
Some folded wing will feel and capture
Each stIrless leaf is shading, masking,
Some mute, glad, tiny creature basking,
Silent basking,
, In simple, subtle presence basking. N
Oh, secret greater than Loves words!
oh, secret greatest of Loves blisses
Your sacredness no sign betrays Rh @Jt
No noon its vanished songsters misses,
And careless men dream not of asking
Ii lovers love when they lie bssking, tal
Silent basking,
Lie simply in each other basking. 1853
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-31
THE CARNATION SEEN THROUGH
A MICROSCOPE.

It is well known that the examination
of flowers and vegetables of every de-
Fscription. by the microscope, opens new
and interesting field of wonders to the
ipquiring naturalist. Sir JohnsHlll has
given the following curious account of
what appeared on MS examining carna-
ton: 'The principal flower in an elegant
bouquet was carnation: the fragrance
OF this led me TO enjoy it frequently and
near The sense of smelling was not
the only enc affected on these occasions;
while that was satiated with the power
full sweet. the ear was constantly assalled
by an extremely soft, but agreeable muir
muring sound. II was easy to know that
some animal within the covert must be
the musician, and that the little noise
must come from some little creature suit
ed 10 produce it. instantly distended
the lower part of the flower. and plac ng
it in full light, could discover troops
Of little insects frisking, with wild iollity,
among the narrow pedestals that support
ed its leaves, and the little threads that
occupied It's centre. What a fragrant
world for their habitation What per
feet security from all annoyance, in the
dusky husk that surrounded the scene of
action! Adapting microscope to take
in, at one view, the whole base of the
flower, l gave myself an opportunity
OF contemplating what they were about,
and this tor many days together, without
giving them the least dis. urbance. Thus
| could discover their economy, their
passions, and their enjoyments. The
microscope on this OF casion had given
what nature seemed to have denied to
the objects of contemplation. The base
of he flower extended itself under its
influence to vast plane; the slender
stems of its leaves became trunks of so
many stately cedars; the threads in the
middle seemed columns of massy struc-
lures, supporting at the top their several
ornaments; and the narrow spaces be-
tween were enlarged in walks parterres
and terraces. On the polished bottom
of these, brighter than Parian marble,
walked IN pairs, alone, or in large COM
panies, the winged inhabitants these,
from little dusky fies-for such only the
naked eye would have shown them
were raised to glorious, glittering ami
mails, stained with living purple. and
with a glittering gold, that would make
all the labors of lhe loom contemplate
IN the comparison. l could, at leisure,
as they walked together, admire their
elegant limbs, their velvet shoulders, and
their silken .wings-their backs vying
with the empyraan j n It's blue, and their
eyes, each formed Of thousand others,
outglittering tie little plains GU bril-
| liant
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-31

DEATH

Out Of the shadow Of sadness,
Into the sunshine of gadness,
Into the land of the bIest
Out of the land of the drearY,
Out of the world of the weary.
Into the rapture of rest.
Out of to-day's sin and sorrow,
Into the bilssful tomorrow,
Into day without gloom
Out OF a land filled with signing
Land of the dead and the dying
Into land without tomb.
Out of life of connection,
Tempest swept oft as an oc can,
Dark with the waves drifting DER,
Into land calm and quiet,
Never a atorm cometh nigh it
Never wreck on the shore.
Out of a land in whose powers
Perish and fade all the flowers
Out OF the land of decay;
into the eden where fairest
Of flowers, and sweetest and rarest,
Never shall wither away.
Out of the world of the wailing,
Tnronged with the anguish and ailing,
Out OF the world of the sad
Into the world that rejoices-
World Of bright visions and voices
Into the world of the glad.
Out of life ever lornful,
Out of the land ever mournful,
Where in bleak exile we roam;
Into a joyland above us,
Where there's Father to love u.s.
Into "Our home. sweet, sweet home.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-31
SOME VARIETIES OF EYES.

Birds of lofty flight as the condor
eagles. vultures and carrion. seeking
providers of the feathered race, have
telescope vision, and thus they are
enabled to look down and discover their
unsuspecting victims. AS they approach
noiselessly from above, the axis of vision
change shortening, so that they see
just as distinctly within one foot of the
ground as when at an elevation of one
mile in the air. This fact explains the
balancing of fsh-hawk on it's pinions
half mile above a still pond, watching
for fish. When one is selected, down the
savage hunter plunges, the focal axis
varying as the square of the distance,
gi ing the hawka distant view Of its
intended prey always. AS they ascend,
then the axis is elongated bya curious
muscular arrangement So as to see far
again. Snails have their keen eyes at the
extremity of flexible horns, which they
can protrude or draw in at pleasure. BY
winding the instrument round the edge
of leaf or small stalk they can see how
matters stand on the opposite side. The
hammer headed shark has It's wicked,
looking eyes nearly two feet apart. II
can bent the edgings of the head or
which the organs are located so as to ex
anime the two sides Of an object the size
ola fully grown Goldfish. Flies have I'm,
movable eyes. They stand out from tht
head like half an apple, exceedingly
prominent. Instead of being smooth
hemispheres, they have an immense
number of facets resembling old-hshion
ed glass watch seals, each che directing
the light directly to the optic retina
That explains why they cannot be ap
preached in any direction without seeing
what is coming.-NeaO York Mail.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-31
RESULT OF SURPRISING EXCRE
TONS OF THE SKIN.

Experiments have been tried by Soco-
loft as to the effect of suppressing the
excretions of the skin, by shaving rab-
bits and painting the skin over with
some material impervious to the passage
Of vapor. 1t was found that this ALWAYS,
sooner or later, produced fatal results,
the animals a few hours before death
exhibiting intermittent cramps and con-
vulsions, while the temperature in the
rectum fell to a considerable extent.
Even wrapping the animal in cotton
failed to produce any mater inl increase of
the temperature ofathe intestines or 20
delay death! The inhalation of oxygen
was equally powerIess in preserving life.
Ulcers, arising from deep seated extrav-
asations, were found in the stomach.
Albumen made its appearance in the
urine shortly after the animal had been
vanished. Whatever the substance used
for coating the animal, whether simply a
Gelatine, gum, or regular varnish, infam
ma'ion OF The kidneys was the result,
sometimes accompanied by enlargement
Of the cell elements, and sometimes by
their fatty egeneration.-EaS IScie7
tifc Record, IN Harper's Magazine for Au-
gust.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-31

A correspondent of the Country Gen.
tleman records the successful adoption of
a device for stra:g htening large ounce
tree which had grown crooked. The
subject Of the experiment was crooked
nearly in elbow form. Three saw kerfs
were cut into the convex side of the bend
the trunk being sawed halfway through
at each kerf. The trunk was then forced
back by an attendant, and the saw was
passed second time through each kerf.
The process was continued until the
trunk could be held erect. Three blocks
of 2by4 scantling were then applied to
it, each block having previously had
groove cut in one of it's sides, to fit the
curvature OF the trunk. One block was
applied near the base of the trunk, and on
the concave side !; second near the fork
of the branches, and on the concave side
while the third, which was about eight
inches long, was applied to the convex
side at the place where the kerfs had
been sawn. This middle block had
grooves sawn transversely across it, cor
responding with the positions of the
kerfs. A piece of scaDtling was then
placed against the outer fiat side of tie
central block, and its lower end was
dashed to,the lower block by piece of
rope.
The upper end of the scantling was
laahed in the same manner to the upper
block. Lastly, some strips Of cloth. COW
cred with grating wax. were introduced
through the transverse grooves of the
middle block, and tied upon the trunk SO
as to cover the kerfs, and keep out the
weather.
The result is. that the tree now stands
erect, and is as nice looking tree as one
could have.
:.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-31

tradition says Of the minstrel Blondel
and the happy maiden.
| Many, many years after the events
which we have described, and on another
summer day, gray haired cavalier rode
over the same mountain pass, where the
king had been sought and found.
Here" murmured he, "here have
felt in days gone by the highest bliss
and the deepest woe of my life! !" Slowly
he rode on till he had reached the little
inn. 8g1f @F 6
Az he looked into the face of the land
lord he discovered the features of the
young shepherd-boy. With an almost
tender interest the two Zone of whom was
BlondeD talked of the past.
In tears the Old minstrel learned the
sad fate of the castelar, and his niece
He was killed by some hidden hand soon
after the flight of Richard was discovered
The broken hearted maiden entered a
convent near Baden, where henceforth
her life and history were lost to the
world.
None can visit this ancient ruin OF
Triefels without a melancholy interest as
they recall the dreary prison-life of the
great King Richard; the touching
romance of the minstrel knight, Blondel'
and the lovely loving maiden over whose
story centuries have now rolled.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-31

The story is told of woman who freely
used her tongue to the scandal of others,
and made confession to the priest of
what she had done. He gave her ripe
thistle top, and told her to go out in
various directions and scatter the seeds,
one by one. Wondering at the penancs,
she obeyed, and then returned and told
her confessor. To her amazement, he
bade,her go back and gathered the scat
tered seeds and when she objected that
it would be impossible, he replied that
it would be still more difficult to gather
up and destroy all eyilreports which she
had circulated about others. Any
thoughtless, careless child can scatter q
handful of thistle-seed before the wind
in moment, but the strongest and
wisest man cannot gather them again.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-31

The fount the Spaniard sought In vain
Through all the lands OF flowers
Leaps glittering from tie sandy plain
Our classic grove embowers; .t.
Here youth, unchanging, blooms ard smiles
Here dwells eternal spring. sg5 pc
And warm from Hopes elysian isles
The winds their perfume bring.
Here every leaf is in the bud,
Each singing throat in tuae, y
And bright DER evenings silver flood
Shines the young crescent moon.
What wonder age torgets his staff
And lays mis- glasses down, ..sl~o.
And gray ,haired grandshires look and laugh
As when their locks were brown.
With ears grown dull and eyes grown dim
They greet the joyous day +"
that calls them - the fountains brlm
To wash their years away.
What change has clothed the ancient sire ..
In sudden youth For 10
The Judge, the doctor and the squire
Are Jack and Bill and Joe.
And be his titles what they WILL
In spite of mani ood's claim $50
The graybeard is q school.boy still
IS And loves his school-boY name; lit" .E
It Gains the rdier's stormy breast T
Whom hurrying care pursues,
And brings a sense Of peace and rest,
Like slippers after shoes. #uI
And what are all the prizes won psi.
To youths enchanted view I-......
And what is all the man has done sr
To what the boy may do! g"l|
o blessed fount, whose waters how
Alike for sire and son,
That melts our winters frost and snow,
And makes all ayes one
pledge the sparkling fountains tide,
That filings its golden shower tr..t.
With age TO fill and youth to guide, .r
Still fresh in lmorEing flower " 81.
Glow on with ever widening stream,
In ever Frightening morn
Our story's pride, our futures dream,
The hope OF times unborn
E. ns G.l-Fron the Atlantic for August
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-31
RIGHT POSTURE IN STUDY.

Or. Liebreich has written an imDortan
paper on the evil effects produced by the
ordinary posture of children during the
hours devoted to study. lie demonstrates
thaF the two evils of permanent short
sight and curative of the spine both so
much more frequent among the educated
than the uneddcated classes of society are
developed by the unnatural posture usual.
" enforced in schools
During childhood the eye possesses
great power of accommodating itself to
distance, and if, in reading and writing,
the desks ara SO arranged that the eye,
instead of being twelve or fifteen inches
distant is kept at seven or eight inches
from the book or paper, the eye adapts
!tseif to the near object, and permanent
snort sight is the result Moreover, as
the predisposition to the disease is hered-
ltary, short sight is constantly on the IN
crease in highly civilized countries.
The bad posture adopted at writing
desks is also the chief cause of lateral
curvature of the spine. In extreme
cases, says DR.. LiebreIch the copy~book
is pushed forward, So that It's lower Dor.
der is inclined at an angle of forty five
degrees with the edge of the table. The
head is lowered, and SD much twisted
that the left eye is only few inches dis
,tant from the book the left cheek al.
most touches the left hand or even learns
upon it {; the rios of the left side are
pressed against the edge of the desk, and
the taller children slip backward ON the
forms, SO that only the lower part of the
thighs rest on the narrow bench. In
many schools the pupils maintain this
unnatural position for several hours dali
~, until at last the muscles are overtired.
and permanent distortion of the spine is
the inevitable result.
To avoid these evils, desks should be
SO constructed that when the pupil IS
seated the shoulders should be even, the
spine straight, the head balanced on the
top of the spine, the elbows on a level
with each other, and oulv the hands and
part of the forearm resting on the desk.
In order to effect this, Dr.. Liebreich re-
commends desk in which the
angle is twenty degrees from writing,
and which by turning up flap, gives an
angle of forty degrees for supporting a
book for reading. He strongly con-
dennis the alb urd unanatomical notion
that straight spines can be Insured by
making children sit up straight without
support for the back, thus fatiguing the
muscles, and producing the very effect
desired TO be avoided.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-31
COUNTING NEW GREENBACKS.

Years of experience have made the
counters who have been longest employed
marvellously expert and almost intalllble
their fingers passing from one note TO
another with the celebrity and regularity
of some wonderful machine The lady
who sits nearest to the chief of the room
and who has ccme to be considered sort
Of assistant TO him, having sometimes
performed his duties during his absence
has been engaged in the division ever
since its organization in 1862. On many
occasions she has counted fifty thousand
notes in one day This is at the rate OF
nine thousand aud ninety notes every
hour, one hundred and fifty every minute
and two and half every second The
lady informs US that il is no unusual
feat for her to "pick up a bundle con-
tanning four thousand legal-tender notes
in twenty minutes. There are other
ladies who are almost as rapid and accu-
rate.
Through this division and under these
skilful fingers has passed every note,
whether legal-tender or fractional, which
has been issued by the United States since
the beginning of the Rebellion-every
note which we have ever handled or seen
las we'll as all the gold-notes, and many
millions of imperfect bonds and notes
which were never put in circulation. The
Total value of the money which had been
counted in this division previously to the
first day of July, 1872, was. according 10
the Treasurer's last annual report, nearly
two thousand nine hundred million dol.
lars-more than two hundred and twenty
three millions of which consisted of postal
and fractional currency.-Scri6nt1's
A friend at a pinch-one who shares his
snnff. bOX with Won
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THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.

rResd at the meeting OF the Harvard Alum
nj Association June 25, 1878.
BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-31

A friend at pinch-one who shares hi
snuff-box with you.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-31

Clerical loans-Lent sermons.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-06-26
Farming as q Business.

"A man who iH smart enough to run q
store is not smart enough to run farm.
Farmers ars not to be made out of what
is left after lawyers, doctors, ministers,
and merchants are sorted and picked
out. And if man fails on farm, he
is not likely 70 succeed in a store, for it
requires more talent to be a thriving
farmer than to be an average merchant.
The one great failure is the dispropor-
ton between mans farm and his CAPT.
tai. A.farmer's capital is skill, labor and
his money: If he has little cash he
must have no more land than he can
thoroughly manage by his personal labor.
Every acre beyond that is an encum-
brance. One acre well worked is more
profitable than twenty acres SKINNED
over. 1t is this greed of land by farm
ers that have not the capital to work it,
that keeps 30 many poor. Small farms
are better than large ones, simply be-
cause they are better suited to the CAPT.
tai of comm on farmers.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-06-26

and Seth Amity was cleared in the eyes
of all men and what he cared most, in
those of Mary Fenton. Dana had told
her that he had robbed the bank, and
the officials had proof of his villainy, and
she was strong enough to cast off the
man she believed to be villain. She
made ample atonement for those mo-
ments of doubt. for she is now his wife,
ard will love him the better because she
sinned against him for an hour.
The stolen property was nearly all re-
covered and returned to the bank. Dana
was sent to Sing Sing, where he was
found dead in his cell six months after.
the prison door closed bshind him.
Whether he died by his own hand or
conflicting passions of his own heart no
man knows.
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The reporter does not like vanity in
clothes, and seldom misses an occasion
to remove any exuberance of sartorial
pride that may come under his notice.
Referring to a peculiarly vain person
age, he describes as follows an imagina-
ny accident which has befallen him:
Mr.. - lately sought to remove a
greese. spot from his coat-tail by the free
use of 5eazine, and then stood close to
the stove that the odor might evaporate
more quickly. He was quite correct in
his theory, but unfortunate in his prac-
tice, for hewas soon turning cart-wheels
through the window, and there was not
enough coss=ullleft to make 'weskit'
for doll baby. He does not ride horse
back now, and sleeps on all tours like a
ule.-RoaUelF Reporter.
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A widows Letter.

A bereaved and stricken widow in Gin
cinnati thus writes to lady friend. How
sweet and tender are its delicate proofs
of congenial affection:
DEAREST LOUISA Darling John
died last night. Congestion of the lung.
Our loss is his gain, will join him on
the other shore L have ordered the
loveliest mohair for the funeral--made
with polonaise and trimmed with rea
point lace. Loss covered by insurance
on the ten year plan will be paid il
sixty days. | know you sorrow with
me. We had four doctors at So visit
Aunt Maria will not 60 into mourning
because she has just bought her white
things. Her bonnet is of straw. Their,
is balm in Giiead, but my heart i
nearly broken. Send me a cut pape
pattern of that sacque of yours.
Your devoted,
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Life I'm Nebraska.

A citizen of Nebraska thus posts up
Eastern Correspondent who spered va
riety of questions at him as to the terri
ritory and life there
What kind of a country do you live
in?
Mixed and extensive. 1t is made up
of land and water.
What kind of weather?
Long spells of water are frequent ?
Our sunshine comes off principally dur
ing the day time.
Have you plenty of water, and how
got?
A good deal of water scatters here and
there, and generally got in pals Of
whisky.
Is it hard?
Rather SO, when you have to 60 half a
mile, and wade in mud knee deep to get
at it.
What kind of buildings?
Allegoric, Ionic, Anti-Baioric, Log
ana SLABS. Ihe buildings are chiefly
out of doors, and so low between the
joints that the chimneys all stick out
thr ough the roofs.
What kind of Society?
Good, bad, hateful, Indifferent and
mixed.
What do your people do for living
mostly?
Some work. some laze around; and
some drink whisky.
Is it cheap living there?
Only five cents a glass, and water
thrown in.
Any taste for music?
Stong. Buzz and buc-saws in the day
time, and wolf-howling and cat-fshing Al
night.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-06-26
SARAH.

AN Eastern editor begins a descrip-
ton of the scenery of his happy boy.
hood: It was on one of those magni.
cent Maine farms with solid granite
foundation slate roof, and ornamated
with young mountains two or three rods
apart. Spruce gum was our only sure
crop, and we used to raise few of the
largest red horse potatoes common tt
New England soil. These potatoes, with
Goldfish, are the staple commodities OIL
the cost of Maine.