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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08
A Dangerous Cradle.

Here is a true duck story: One of the
wild ducks that usually swim In the
pond near my pulpit had it from an elder
duck who has seen the cradle.
Away off at the north of the north
coast of Scotland, are the Shetland ISL
ands; so steep, cold, barren and lonely
that focks of seabirds go there at certain
seasons of the year to build their nests
and lay their eggs, thinking that they
will not be disturbed in such place.
But the eggs have their value; so the
few and poor inhabitants of the bleak
and rocky islands are willing to descend
the most dreadful precipices and
climb the most difficult heights to find
them.
Near the coast of one of the islands,
but separated from it by tempestuous
channel, stands a very high and nearly
perpendicular pillar of rock. Here, on
this steep and desolate height, the sea-
birds come in great numbers year after
year; but at last man, who could climb
even more dreadful precipices than the
hardest Shetlanders would dare to scale,
went in boat to the foot of the rock,
and climbed it's steep sides, carrying
with him pully and a very strong rope,
one end of which was already fastened on
the highest point of a neighboring island
on the side nearest the pillar. Arriving,
after much toll and danger, at the sum-
NIT of the pillar, the man managed to
get the rope through the handles of a
stout basket, and then fastened the pull
ley to the rock. Here, then, was a way
by which the islanders could get over to
the pillar. BY getting one at a time into
the basket, and swinging at this dizzy
height over the foaming channel, the
islanders could pull themselves across by
means of the rope and pulley to obtain
the ggs.-&. Nicholas for April
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08
THE BIRTH OF ST. PATRICK.


Prospecting the uncertainty of the birthday Of st.
many OF his countrymen, great wit, wrote the
following humorous account 4
On the eighth day of March it was some people say
mat st. Patrick at midnight he first saw the day,
Mhle otnefs declare twas the ninth he was born,
AND twas all mistake between midnight and
morn;
For mistakes will occur in hurry and shock,
ana some bland the baby and some bland the
clock
Till with all their crossquestions sure no one could
know,
If the child too fast-or the clock was too slow
Now the first faction fight in old Ireland they saw
Was all on account of st. Patrck's birthday,
Some fought for the eighth-for the ninth more
would die,
And who wouldn't see right, sure they blackened
his eye!
At last both the factions so positive grew,
That each kept birthday, so Pat then had tluo
Till Father Mulcahy, who showed them their SINS
Said, No one has two birthdays, without he was
twins"
Says he, "Boys, don't be fghtin' for eight or for
nine,
Don't be always dividin'-but sometimes combine:
Combine eight with nine-seventeen is the mark
So let that be his birthday" ''Amen :" says the
clark,
g II he wasn't t,cinS sure our history will show
That, at least, he's worth any tlco saints that
know!"
Then they all got blind dhrunk-which completed
their bliss,
And we keep up the practice from that day to this
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08
Shrinking of Seasoned Timber.

The various kinds of oak, and some
other kinds of valuable timber, will
shrink more or less every time the sur
face is dressed off even small fraction
of an inch. Wheelwrights, accustomed
to work in oak, are well aware of this
fact, and correct appreciation of it Of
ten enables them to turn out work of a
superior character even of ordinary ma
terials by first blocking out the pieces
roughly, then allowing the timber to
season, and afterward working the vari-
GUS parts by degrees, as the seasoning
process becomes more and more COM
plete.
White oak spoke timber, for example,
may be allowed to remain in rough state
for half score of years, under shelter,
without becoming seasoned so thorough
~ that the timber will not shrink after
havethe spokes been dressed out. Car
riage wheels have often been made of
the choicest quality of oak timber after
every spoke had been seasoned for sew
eral years, and, to the great surprise of
the wheelwright, every spoke would
work in the joints before the vehicle had
run three months. The defect in such
instances could not be attributed to in
ferior timber, nor to perfunctory work
manship, but simply to this one circum-
stance-that the parts of wheels were put
together before the timber had ceased to
shrink
To prove that the best quality of oak
will shrink, after a spoke is dressed out,
let tenon be made on one end, and be
driven Immediately into a mortise after
few days exposure in warm workshop
the spoke may be withdrawn with little
difficulty. The same fact will hold good
In the manufacture of woodwork of any
kind where oak is employed for lemons
In order to make joints that will never
start, the piece on which the lemons are
to be made should be dressed over sew
eral times, until the shrinking has ceased.
Then let the lemons be made. After
these have shrrnk while exposed to the
drying influence of warm workshop,
the spokes or other parts may be driven
into their respective places, with the as
surance Especially if they are dipped in
oil paint previous to driving) that the
timber will shrink no more
Many kinds of farming implements, in
the manufacture of which oak and ash
are employed, render very unsatisfactory
service, simply because the seasoned
timber was not allowed to shrink before
the lemons were driven into the NOR
tises. In like manner, oak chairs and
other oak furniture will frequently
shrink to such an extent that the pun
mels, rungs, dowel pins and banisters
will all work loose, if the precaution we
have described is not observed. -Ano.
Builder.
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Early RailrOading.
Builder.

The road between Utica and Science
tady, having been completed in 1886,
did no freight business until four
years subsequently. About the year
1910, agreeable to q special act of the
Legislature, this road was privileged to
transport freight after the close of navi-
cation on the Erie Canal in the fall until
the resumption of navigation in the
spring; the railroad company paying toll
on all freight transported the same
rates as were required by boatmen on
the Erie. The first freight ever trans
ported over the Utica and Schenectady
railroad consisted of the household eff
fects of a German family, which were
shipped from Palatine Bridge to Sche-
nectady, rather contrary to the wishes of
the Superintendent of the road, William
G. Young, of Schenectady, who was
averse to carrying freight on the road,
wishing the road to contine its business
strictly to the carrying of passengers.
This freight was taken the first day the
canal was closed, and no preparations
The company had prepared no way-bills
or rates of tariff, SO that when the freight
reached Schenectady, Hoel S. McE-
vain, who was in charge of the train,
made a rather exorbitant charge for its
transmission, amounting to $14, the first
money received by the company for car
rying freight. The freight business on
the road increased rapidly, and for sew
eral years before the consolidation OF the
roads between Albany and Buffalo, all
freight through the valley had to be
transferred at Schenectady for all points
east of there. In those early days but
two daily messenger trains passed through
the valley in the summer, each way.
They were known as the day trains and
the night trains. One left Schenectady
at o'clock in the morning for the West,
while at the same hour the eastward
bound train would leave Utica, and the
same plan was followed at the same hour
in the evening. Though the distance
between those points is but seventy
eight miles, the running time was seven
hours, or nearly five hours longer than
is the running time of the special ex-
press trains of to-day. 1t is said, how
ever that during an important trial in
the United States Court in 1916, at
Utica, the proceedings of which the
Albany dailies were anxious to publish,
a single engine carried special messen-
ger from Utica to Schenectady in the
remarkably short time of one hour and
forty-eight minutes. The locomotive
was known as the Saw engine, weighed
about four tons, and had driving wheels
six feet in height. Albany argus.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08
The Express Infany,

We spoke last week Of the tyranny of
the minority. A very striking instance
in proof of what we then uttered came to
light just after that paragraph was writ
ten. Lit seems that the postage on books
and miscellaneous mailable matter was,
by the law passed last July, quite too low
to suit the ideas of the express compan-
les. 1t therefore happened that just at
the end OF the session law was passed,
which quietly doubled the rates on mat
ter described as third-class which con-
sists OF books, transient newspapers, and
miscellaneous articles. There was no
discussion or ventilation of the act. The
public were left in entire ignorance of
the proposed change. It was a measure
neither required by the department nor
demanded by the people. No one had
asked for the law, and no one knew any
thing about the law, save and except GER
tain express companies. The tyrannical
minority sent on its behests to Washing
ton, and they were obeyed. Senators rep
resenting the States in the Upper
House, and members representing the
people IN the Lower House, surrendered
promptly the interest of their constitu-
encies to the demand of half dozen dis
contented autOcrats- surrendered with
out debate or investigation, and before
opportunity was vouchsafed the de-
throned majority to utter word or pro-
test upon the subject. But the agents
OF the express companies who dictated
this law were incautious. They have
made blunder that will surely bring ret
ribution upon them. It was undoubt-
eddy their intention simply to secure an
increase OF rates on parcels sent through
the mails; they had no objection
rants are not without their amiable in
tervals-to the low rates ON transient
newspapers. Express companies do not
forward single copies Of journals or peri
Odicals !; and hence a low rate for matter
OF this kind in no wise interfered with
their lordly prerogatives. But in thedr
haste and greed they forgot all about the
newspapers. The secrecy and haste
killed all debate, and so few important
facts were overlooked important, as
they will prove, even to those who were
playing the bold game. They did not
see that they were making it cost twice
as much postage to send a newspaper
from New York to New Haven as to send
one to England. Two cents is the post
age on an ordinary newspaper to the
above city four cents is the postage if
one mails it to Brooklyn or Boston. But
this little oversight is destined to be the
Nemesis in the matter. The public have
awakened in great establishment to the
facts Of the case. A wind is stirring that
will strengthen into gale ere the next
Congress meets, when the majority will
for once have something to say, and in
sist on being needed. The express com
panies, meanwhile, will have occasion to
earnestly wish they had not been the
hands to place this feather on the cancels
back. -Appleto9a' Journal.
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wretchedness- having brought to
your noble heart sorrow it has so little
deserved. =
"Part Dora? We must motive shall
not part -
He had drawn her to his breast. with
wild, impulsive movement. At the
same instant the door of the studio was
suddenly Enclosed, and woman's voice
cried out In clear, ringing tones, 'Mark
Dillon lies, Mrs. Austin, when he dares
to call himself your husband! L
wronged, deserted, outraged as I have
been, am none the less his lawfully
welded wife, married to him seven years
ago in Manchester. Let him deny it if
he dares. You need not scowl and glare
at me-" the woman went on, hotly;
"what speak is the truth, and do not
fear to utter it.
A low cry of rage escaped billions lips,
as he sprang toward the woman who had
spoken. But with blow of iron Mel
vile Austin hand hurled him backward.
For a moment the villain stared at his
wife's protector with tigerish fierceness
in his dark, dangerous eyes, and then,
like the coward he really was, skunk from
the apartment.
And from the house, too, never enter
ing it again. An hour afterward his
wife, Ellen Dillon, followed him, against
the earnest entreaty' of Melville and
Dora.
''He will beat me when I return to
him, perhaps, she said, with a mourn
full smile on her exquisite face, "but I
must 60, nevertheless. It seems like a
curse, sometimes, that in spite of his
brutality and wickedness, I cannot hate
Mark. But whenever [ think of our
child at home, I believe that this weak
ness is all for the best. / can guard him
against initiating his father and who
knows what sons influence may do in
future years 2"
Her sad words left Dora and Melville
grave and thoughtful for long time af
ter her departure.
"That woman loves him, Melville, :"
the wife murmured, at length, in slow,
musing tones" loves him in spite of
his villainous treatment. What q mar
velous mystery love is y
Marvellous, indeed, Dora p
"Did you really mean, Melville, that
nothing should part us-not even the
knowledge of being another's wife
when you spoke so passionately just be-
fore Ellen Dillon entered from the
stUdio?'
Her soft hand had stolen into his, her
fearful eyes were fixed upon his own,
with eager questioning in their blue
depths.
Melville Austin's answer was spoken
with unhesitating fondness 81 meant
that, if all the world had striven to sep
arate us, Dora, I should still have strug-
gled to regain you. Until to-day I
never have known the strength and
power of my love. "
His arms were clasped about her now,
and she was sobbing forth her thankful
ness upon his faithful breast.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08

IT is surprising how useful a man can
be if he tries, and that too in a small,
obscure way. The Rev. Hosea Z. Ballou,
of Wilmington, VT, is rs years old. He
has been forty-three years in the minis
try. He has attended 1850 funerals,
preaching sermons at most of them.
Aside from his religious duties, Mr. Bal
lou has been for seventeen years Town
Clerk, for fourteen years Justice of the
Peace, for two years member of the
Vermont Legislature, once delegate to
constitutional convention, and for
twenty-one years a Superintendent Of
Schools.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08

A LONDON manager was telling rather
a poor anecdote, without much point in
it, to the members of his company as
sembled in the green room. Most OF
them sycophants, they all laughed loudly
at the feeble jest beg pardon, all but
one The dull dog who refused to laugh,
and who looked profoundly miserable,
was at last nudged by his companion.
"Why don't you laugh, Tom why
don't you laugh Don't you see the
governor is looking at you p I" Let him
look, you fool" was the answer, "don't
you know I am going to leave on Satur
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08
InlDud0nSe.

Impudense liz that trait in an individ-
ual's karakter which prompts, he, she, or
it, to be openly sassy, or covertly insult
ing.
It IL allwuss an evidence ov ignorance,
and never IL found separated from cow
ardice.
Thare IL no CRATER evidence ov weak
ness, or inability, than to see a man anx-
ious to gain bi impudense what the world
never bestows only az the reward ov
modesty and merit.
Impudense liz sumtimes mistaken for
self-reliance and independence ov karak-
ter, but thare IL just az mulch difference
az thare IL between bravado and true
courage.
Tt requires sum little force of karakter
to be impudent- bullys hav it wel-de-
veloped, but hav seen loafers who had
got down even belo impudense.
No man ov good sense OF common hon
esty IL ever impudent; he knows ov a
surer way to gain hiz ends.
Too mulch self-assurance runs into i'm
pudense, and impudense soon runs
into common rudeness and sassyness,
and then we hav the disgusting loafer,
without self-respekt, dispized by all de-
cent people.
It il, perhaps, safe to say that almost
all the great, az well az the lesser enor-
mitys, that hay seourged the world can
be traced direcktly back to impudense.
A sassy boy soon bekums disobedient
one, and disobedience il an open gate
through which all manner ov crimes
march abreast. -JOsb BiLIi720s.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08
GO TO BED.

When I have lost all faith in man,
Or failed to consummate some plan;
When women fair are cool, unkind,
And things accord not with my mind
7 do not rashly seize my pen,
And in a furry there and then
Declare this gladstone world to be
One endless round of vanity
All, no! for this wer5 mockery-
go to bed.
When through my head there darts pain,
And life seems an increasing bane;
When friends their patronage withhold,
And creditors become too bold
I do not in seclusion mourn,
And curse the hour that I was born
go to bed.
When direful news comes DER the sea,
Or Smith and Jones cannot agree;
When bank securities decline,
And spurious stutfs are sold for wine
] do not with an awful sigh
Express the wish that might die
/ go to bed.
When boys refuse to study Greek,
Write moral essays, practice, speak;
When girls of fourteen flirt and lace,
And like frivolities embrace
I do not on high heaven call
For one to write our country's fall
Il 80 GO Ueus
When some D. D. deserts his creed,
And quacks their many victims bleed;
When editors write sharp replies,
And moneyed men keep back supplies
1 do not then in prose or verse
Implore the gods mankind to curse
go to bed.
When couples marry in great haste,
And servants pilfer, fret, and waste;
When general courts their terms prolong;
In short, when things get somewhat wrong
1 do not bite my lips, and scowl,
And at the children snap and growl-
I go to bed.
go to bed, and soundly sleep,
While friendly angels vigil keep;
But if, however, l awake
Before my ailments me forsake,
do not of my life complain,
But try the remedy again
1 back to bed.
Ye who have griefs-and who has not?-
Let past prescriptions be forgot.
My panacea for old and young
Is given in The English tongue.
1t hath to untold millions wrought
Sweetest relief, nor cost them aught.
And now if you, like these, would be
From every pain and trouble free,
Light a small lamp, and come with me-
l go to bed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08

The amount Of gold exported from
Melbourne, Australia, including New
Zealand gold exported via Melbourne,
during the year 1874, exclusive of the
month of December, was 914, O43 ounces.
n'Lo -rol.,a in round numbers was $12
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08
The Contest for the Speakership.

The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Journal telegraphs
Democratic politicians who are still
here say that the contest over the
Speakership of the next House, which is
being carried on secretly by the friends
of several candidates, is engendering a
good deal of rivalry, and rapidly assum-
ing bitter aspect. Those who are
aware of what is going on under the
surface say that the contest is virtually
narrowed down to two candidates-Ran-
dali, OF Pennsylvania, and Kerr, of In
diana. The former is said to be the most
active, and has been in communication
with nearly every Democratic Repre-
sentative in the South The extreme
Democrats are urging the election Of
Randall, on account Of his leadership in
opposing the Force bill, while the more
conservative members are said to prefer
Kerr, who at present seems to lead In
the race. Both Fernando Wood and
Sunset Cox are counted out of the fight
by the politicians who are watching it
closely"
DAVID PETERS, negro who is serving
out fifteen years SENTENCED In the Rhode
Island State Prison, is noted hnguist.
He has acquired Latin, Greek, Arabic,
German, French, italian and Spanish
during the six years he has already been
imprisoned, and is now at work upon
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08
BRAIN TISSUE

In Hungary it appears that even the
sheep chew tobacco, and thrive well on
it, if we may believe Professor Wright
son, who made a tour through that coun-
try last year for the purpose of collecting
information on the state of agriculture:
In his report, published in the @ journal
of the Royal Agricultural Society OF
England" speaking of the Thesis dis
trict, he says 81 found tobacco cult
waited on a large scale here, and learned
that sheep do very well upon tobacco in
a green state as forage crop. tits sown
in the middle of March in beds, well
watered and weeded, and planted out
when four or five inches high, the plants
being set as deep as the heart, or to
where the leaves branch off from the
STEM
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1875-09-10
GEN. j. S. WILLIAMS is a Granger
Wait to Richmond.

Eiif~ Interior Journal:
We made flying visit to Richmond, by
rail, last Saturday; to see the big Circus
and Menagerie, that were hauled over the
railroad through Maxville, Saturday morn
ing without stopping-every acquaintance
declared, who learned our destination; and
almost every one who observed our clean
buster and polished shoes, to say nothing
Of others Of the best articles Of our scanty
wardrobe, asked, "Where are you going?"
Our trip WAS to pay a visit to a relation,
and to see portion of Madison county and
her capitol, to which We were an utter
stranger; but We confess to having gone TO
the "show." How could We help it, when
the tents were spread within an easy stones
throw of our hosts residence? II was big
"show," good one, and We felt sad in the
realization that our dear friends, Art and
Dilsey, were not present to share our en-
joyment Of the rare witticisms of the
clown, which We feel safe in saying, don't
anledate the Coliseum.
The splendid country visible from the
ears ON Moran's Summit sustains the al
most extrayagant representations We have
heard OF Madison soil; and the slightly res
licences, substantial fences, and clean fence
corners, evnoe the thrift of their owners.
From Paint Lick on, the corn crop is
more promising than any we have seen in
Garrard, Boyle, Mercer or Lincoln, the
stalks not having exhibited that remarka-
BILE propensity to shout peculiar to the eoun-
ties mentioned. The Lowell, woodland pas
lures are oyergrown by as exhubaranl a
crop Of rag-woeds as ever distressed far
meT but the backs Of ponderous bull
locks visible above those weed, declare a
flourish, beneath,o of that best Of q asses, the
"blue." To make an original (l) applica-
ton Of the adjective in this connection, the
prospect from Moran Summit, is perfectly
esraiHg, and gloriously in contrast with
almost every view from a oar-window be-
tween Louisville and Richmond. We had
heard Of Richmond's BLESSINGS in dis
guiso,' the fires, and Of her gas-works, but
were not prepared to be ushered into a
burg az eitiiied, The rushing crowd, cries
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1875-09-10
s'rANrOuD. Ky ,
". r. walton, Editor and Proprietor.
=! n. Walton, Jr., Business Manager.

QUIrE a sensation was created in
Louisville few days ago by the rob.
berry Of the Planters National Bank Of
$4,000. Louis Rchm, the Teller
and book-kecper, who enjoyed the ut.
most confidence Of the officers Of the
bank committed the act, aud endeav'
ored by cutting and otherwise riaim.
ing himself to give plausibility to the
story that he had been chloroformed,
taken from home and by the robbers
compelled to open the bank under
threat of immediate death on lis re.
fusal. lie stood to the story for some
time, but got so wound up in q cross
examination that he finally broke down
and told the truth-that he had stolen
the money himself, and that he had
been driven to it by unfortunate spec.
ulations. lie was held for trial and
his bail fixed at $4,000. 1t has been
subsequently found out that he had
taken money at various times. Most
of the amount stolen the other night
he returned.