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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-07
COUNT JAUBERT, who recently died

COUNT JAUBERT, who recently died
once attacked Marshal Soult with
number of epigrams, and the Marshal,
meeting him at a reception of the court
of Louis Philippe, turned his back on
him just as the Count was coming for
ward to speak to him, and this in the
presence of thirty people. Monsieur
lie Marechal, said Jaubert, quietly, CT
have been told that you considered me
one of your enemies. I see with pleas
ure that it is not So. " Why not, sir ?"
said Soult. Because" said Jaubert,
"you are not in the habit of turning
your back to the enemy" The Marshal
held out his hand, and the Counts sue
cess was complete.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-07

A FAMINE INDEED. = An incident
which has occurred in the experience
of preceptor will occur repeatedly in
that of other preceptors. According
to book. "In the year 1S47-48, pota-
toes formed the sole food of the Irish
peasantry." A schoolboy read this
passage as follows : "In the year 1847,
forty eight potatoes formed the sole
food of the Irish peasantry." Be care
full in compiling school books.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-07

A COW, at Owen, KY, finding some
pigs at work on milk breakfast in a
trough, rendered them such an enter
tainment as she had to offer, and it was
accepted. Since then-and this was a
month ago-the pigs will not dine at
the trough as before, but discardine all
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-07
THE STAR AND THE WAITER LILY.
BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

The sun stepped down from his golden throne,
And lay in the silent sea,
AND the Lily hath folded her satin leaves,
For sleepy thing was she;
What is the LILY dreaming of?
Why crisp the waters blue?
4. See, see, she is lifting her vanished lid =
Her white leaves are glistening through =
The rose is cooling his burning cheek
In the lap of the GREATNESS tide:
The Lily hath sisters fresh and fair.
That would lie by the roses side
he would love her better than all the rest
and he would be fond and true:
But the Lily unfolded her weary lids
And looked at the sky so blue
Remember, remember, thou silly one
How fast will thy summer glide,
And wilt thou wither a virgin pale
Or flourish a blooming bride?
/" Oh, the rose is old and thorny and cold
And he lives on earth, !" said she:
" But the star is fair, and he lives in the air,
And he shall my bridegroom be-"
But what if the stormy cloud should come.
And ruffie the silver sea
Would he turn his eye from the distant skv
To smile on thing like thee?
Oh no, fair Lily, he would not send
One ray from his FAR off throne:
The winds shall blow and the waves shall flow
And thou wilt be left alone.
There is not leaf on the mountain top
Nor drop of evening dew,
Nor the golden sand on the sparkling shore.
Nor pearl on the waters blue,
That he has not cheered with his tickle smile.
And warmed with his falthless beam,
And will he be true to palid flower
That floats Oh the quiet stream?
Alas for the Lily she would not heed,
But turned to the skies afar, 't
And he barred her breast to the trembling ray
That shot from the rising star;
The cloud came over the darkened sky,
And over the waters wide:
She looked in vain through the beating rain
and sank in the stormy tide
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-07

ANDREW JOHNSON says he is going to
be the next Senator from Tennessee.
" l have been over the field, he said to
correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
maercial, "and / know pretty well what
to calculate on. I believe that my
worst enemies now acknowledge that
my chances are growing better every
day. A few weeks ago they tried to
convince the country that I had no
chance. Since the election they have
changed their minds" Gen. John G.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-07
Pith and Point.

Pith and Point.
TWISTED hemp cures feIons.
A WORD in Winter.
BAD suits to wear-Libel suits.
A RARE fower-The pink of polite
ness.
FRUITS of ballooning-Upper cur
rents.
TIMID blows do not tell much on anv
great work.
The place for proof-readers The
house of correction.
No QUORUM attends more meetings
than any other man.
WHAT is the only pane we make light
Of? A window-pane.
THE government will arm the Grow
Indians. Claws not stated.
WAvERLY, ILL.,, boasts spry Young
lady who can stand and Jump nine feet.
PHILOSOPHICAL paradox-When
youth has decided bent for any pur-
suit he is likely to keep straight at it.
OUR, having drawn map of the
world, was asked why he marked the
Polar regions "L. S." and he said,
because it is the place of the seal.
A CORRESPONDENT writes to us to learn
if deaf boy can become book-keeper.
Certainly. Is there not maxim of
6GIoof IN n 5Io10
IT is hardly necessary to deny the
rumor that ladies who attend our thea
tiers frequently turn an honest penny by
accepting from gentlemen behind them
pecun1ary inducements to sit bare
headed during the play.
A LITTLE boy once brought eggs for
the contribution-box. When asked
how he came by the offering. he con-
fessed to having tied up neighbours
hen to his bed-post-" and, said he,
triumphantly, them eggs is mine, for
she laid 'em IN my straw bed.
AN adroit thief who abstracted an o.
tentatiously displayed check for 81, 900
from the gifts at wedding the other
day, only to find that the old mans
balance in the bank was 81. so, thinks
there is no chance for honest industry
in this city.-Brooklyn argus.
Tom REID, of the Menasha Press, is
evidently working for position on the
Chicago Times. He says: The mis-
cradle, .cowardly, white-livered wretch
who has sent us an anonymous note,
making charges which we know to be
false as the gangrened heart from which
they emanated, if heWill uncover his
hyena countenance to us, we will spit
upon it for him."
WHEN the Rev. Dewitt Talmage
gets through with his theatrical sensa-
ton he had better turn his attention to
a Nevada Justice lately appealed to to
issue warrant for the arrest of three
card-monte men who had swindled q
traveller, and who refused to do so, say
ing that the offense came under the head
of Interpretations of Providence" and
that he hadn't Jurisdiction.
A MAN called upon lawyer, the other
day, and began to state his case in
rather abrupt manner. "Sir, [ have
come to you for advice I'm husband
in-law." GA what ?" spoke out the
learned counsel. "Husband-in-law,
sir - CT have never seen that defined
in domestic relations" "Don't you
know what husband-in-law is Sir,
you're no lawyer; you're an igno-
ramus II am husband-in-l0U, but
not in fact, Shiny wife's run off.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-07

ROBERT BONNER has purchased of
Remston, OF Lexington, KY, his famous
3-year-old mare Lady Stout. navino
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-07
LIFE.

What is life?
A twisted yarn-a tangled skein-
A mingled web of joy and pain
A glancing sunbeam, warm and bright
A hanging cloud more dark than night
A beauteous flower of sweetest scent
A murky cave where poisons pent-
A golden cup with nectar sweet
A blackened bowl where bitters meet
The lightest feather that can rise
heavy weight, REFRESHING signs
lucid stream with rapid flow
A stagnant pool where dark weeds grow
summer breeze that cools the air
hurricane that makes earth bare
Agift enjoyed with grateful heart
A load with which We long to part
And such is life!
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-07

A COMPULSORY educational law has
oeen enacted in twelve States of the
Union, Kansas being the last to adopt
he system.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-07
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

EXCUSE this notice Of Kalakaua, but
le declined private dinner given by
he colored men of Washington.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-07

PHILADELPHIA asserts that she has
more hnrsns than Nov Vel = n " go
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-07

FIVE thousand dollars and no ques-
ions asked. If that does not bring
Charlie Ross to light the conviction will
ettle down that he has passed beyond
he sight of mortal eyes and the sound
If mortal voice.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-26
Good Boys for Sailors.

A. B. Valentine, who has just erected
a chimney or "stack" over 80 feet in
height, was astonished a few days since
to see a boy on the top of it, and then
drop his hat over the wall and watch its
descent to the ground. Maj. Valentine
Immediately inquired into the phenom-
enon, and found that his young son
Wells, aged 9 years, and a son of Mr..
M. K. Whitney, aged II years, were tax
ing turns in climbing up the inside OF
the chimney, and tossing their hats out
of the top. Inside the "stack" there
are iron rods running across the wall on
n side, abut 8 feet apart, and the
youngsters in climbing Up to the dizzy
height, must have swung from one to
the other, catching by their knees. Mr..
Valentine inquired of the boys how
many times they had been up there.
They said they had lost the exact tally,
but it was about twenty times apiece /
Bennington VI Banner.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-26
The Armed Strength Of Europe.

A lecture was recently delivered be-
fore the Royal United Service Institu-
ton, London, in which a British officer
gave a detailed account of the standing
armies and reserves of all the nations
OF Europe. He said that, looking at
the armies of Europe from every point
of view, the rapidity with which they
can be modified, fed from reserves,
concentrated on any point and main
tanned on the field, he should divide
them into three classes, in the order of
their strength. The first class COM
prised Germany, Austria, Russia and
France ; the second, Italy and England |;
the third Belgium, Turkey, Sweden and
Norway, Holland, Denmark, Spain, Por-
tugal, Switzerland and Greece. There
are four armies of the first class, two of
the second, and nine of the third, with,
/ round numbers, q strength on paper
of 6,500,000 men and a combatant
strength of 5000, 900, with IL 5000 guns
and 1880, 00G horses. In navies Great
Britain is supreme, and then come in
order of strength France, Russia, Tur-
key, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain,
Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Nor
way and Portugal. The navies of all
these have an aggregate of 2,039 vessels,
of which 209 are iron-clad, the whole
being manned with 100000 men and
armed with Is, 900 cannons One hun
dred and ten ships of wal are now being
built, and of these fifty-six will be armor-
plated. The expenses of these forces
amount, according to this lecturers esti-
mates, to $3.50, 000, 900 per annum, of
which three-fifths go to the land forces.
The ornaments of Turkey and Austria
cost only about $3.50 a year per man
that of Great Britain at the most $500
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-26
Our National GamG.

The Curtis Street No-Stockings and
the North May Street Mutuals Second
nine) played an interesting game, yes
terday, on the street of the latter club.
Some very heaving batting wa done.
Smiley, of the No-Stockings, struck a
hot liner in the latter part Of the seventh
innings right over the right-feld's head
into a grocery window OIL which nineteen
home-runs were scored, one by each
member of the two mines, and N by
the score. They would have scored
twenty one, only a policeman who hap
pened to be passing, assisted by the
grocer's boy, made a brilliant double
play, and took in the other scorer and the
umpire. No decision has yet been given,
but the pmpire is expected to render
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-26
AN ILL WILL.
The Internal Regions Tapped by a Michi-
gan Man-His Farm and Crops Ruined by
the Eruption.

The Internal Regions Tapped by a Michi-
gan Man-His Farm and Crops Ruined by
the Eruption.
Port Huron NIich.) Cor. Chicago Times.l
Last week, MIR. Joseph Hahn, who
lives three or four miles west of Marine
City, In q small place called Cottreville,
was engaged in sinking an artesian well
for the purpose of supplying his stock
with water, and used for that purpose a
derrick, consisting of three pieces of
timber fastened together OF the top, in
the shape of a tripod. This derrick was
fastened by means of a heavy log chain
wound round the timbers at the top, at
tached to which was an auger for the
purpose of boring the well, which was
turned by horsepower. The first por-
ton of the well, for a distance of twenty
feet, had been carefully bricked up, and
the boring continued from there. The
diameter of the well is thirteen inches,
and on Monday night the augur had
penetrated q distance of 125 feet. The
next morning a gas chamber was pene-
trated, and upon the removal of the
augur the wooden tubing shot out of the
well, Immediately followed by a stream
OF gas, water, mud and stones that rose
to a distance of nearly 200 feet in the
air, while the ground shook a. If an
earthquake had convulsed it. Stones
weighing from tento twenty pounds were
projected in the air and fell in all direc-
tions, some of them crashing through
the roof of MI. Hahn's house and barn,
and compelling his family to seek an
other habitation. The heavy log-chain
binding the derrick was cut by the flying
missiles into a dozen pieces, and the
farm, upon which a stone could not have
been found previous to this phenomenon,
was literally covered with large and
small ones. The velocity of this dis
charge continued for eight or ten hours
without lntermission, when the monster
was found to have spent his fury, and
the stream and noise gradually subsidized.
The crops of Mr.. Hahn were completely
destroyed by the falling debris and the
streams of water, which ran in all direc-.
tions. Many people visited the well,
and many are still coming, and Mr..
Hahn, to restore as nearly rs possible
his legs-for he is a poor man-has in
closed the well within q rail fence. and
charges the moderate sum of five cents
for the satisfaction of individual curl
osity. The water, still bubbling, may
be seen at a great depth by the aid of q
mirror, viii, h reflects the suns rvys into
its depths. One remarkable fact is. that
the brick wall of the first twenty feet of
the well is entirely uninjured, and re-
manned intact during the great convul-
sion. The oriice below, however, is
somewhat enlarged. 1t is not appre-
hended that We will have another erup-
ton of this miniature YesuYius.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-26
Judging Horses.

The purchasers of horses for the
French army always endeavor to obtain
a first look at the animal when he is tran
quill and in the stable ; noting if the
animal supports itself equally well on all
its legs, and if one seems to yield, to
especially examine it. Attention is then
directed to the ~largeness of the pupil of
eye, which ought to be more exposed to
full light. After the animal has been led
out of the stable, the eye ought to be
again examined ; observe, has the pupil
contracted-if not, the sight is feeble.
Others, to test the power of vision, feign
to strike the forehead with the hand. If
the hollow over the eyes be profound and
temples gray, old age is to be concluded.
Wounds about the temples suggest at
tacks of staggers, and when the end of
the nose presents circular scars, it may
be concluded that the horse has been
twitched with a cord to insure his quiet
ness while being shod, or having to sub
NIT TO severe painful operations-Jour-
nal of Agriculture.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-26
Singular Occurrence.

A most singular circumstance occur.
red q few nights ago to the wife of Mr..
James Carr. Mrs. Carr has been visit
ing recently some friends at Underwater,
Ky. While there she became sick and
was confined to her bed. She was re-
CURED by her physician to take medi-
cine at certain hours during the night
1T the time referred to, and the vessel
containing it was placed in a chair be-
side the bed SO that she would not be
under the necessity of waking her
friends.
When the hour came for her to take a
dose of the medicine, she reached toward
the chair for the phial and spoon, but
they were not there. Mrs. Carr supposed
that they had by some means been
thrown to the floor and reached down
for them, when something struck her
on the hand, causing a slight singing
sensation.
The lady was frightened, and called
to her friends, who quickly arose and
made a light. When she told them what
had happened they looked under the
bed, and there found a large copper
head snake lying in his coil, with his
head erect, kissing, and ~protruding his
tongue In that defiant manne charao-
teristic of the venomous monster when
angry.
The only remedy in the house was a
part of a bottle Of whisky, which is con-
sidered the best of antidotes for O snake
bite. The lady drank all there was in
the bottle, and the. quantity was proba-
bly, sufficient to save her life, but not
enough to prevent very serious and fear
full effects.
As quickly as possible the family ply
stefan was called in, but he was unable
to arrest the inflammation which in
stantly commenced. On the following
morning. the lady was very sick. Her
arm was swollen almost as large as the
crown of a mans hat, and the hand
seemed as though it would burst. Every
thing known to the medical profession
was done to relieve her sufferings and
allay the irritation. After twenty-four
hours treatment she showed symptoms
of Improvement, and the strongest
hopes for her recovery were enter
tanned.
Mrs. Carr was brought to this city
yesterday, and is now at the residence
of her mother, Mrs. Daniel McAllister.
She is much improved, and it is thought
she will get well.-LouisviUe Courier
.TOnr,1nL
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-26

MIR. Stephen Green, a colored man
living on Spring street, has been sorely
troupled for months past by a colony Of
bed bugs that were in the habit of hold
ing a moonlight banquet in his house,
with MIR. Green for the victim of their
~sanguinary feasts. Last week he came
to the conclusion that he would not be a
quartermaster's department for raiding
bed bugs any longer, and so invested in
a box of vermin exterminator. On the
label of the box which was so big with
fate to un%numbared hosts OF the enemy,
were directions for the use o. the poison,
and among others n which directed it
to be rubbed in the CRACKS of the bed.
This puzzled Stephen. He could not
understand why the poison should be
ru bed in the cracks. He argued that
the bugs did not bite the cracks but
himself, and, therefore, if the poison
was to go anywhere it should be rubbed
over his body. So he Amounted himself
and turned in. The following morning,
when he awoke, the bed was fairly black
with the dead and dying, and a second
experiment tried the next night resulted
in the same way. And now all the sur
viving bugs have fled the fatal spot, and
MIR. Green is happy.-Lerington (Ky.)
Dispatch.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-26
The MOntana--Arriyal Of q Marine
Novelty.
TFrom the New York Herald


The new screw steamer Montana, of
the Williams & Guion line, which ar
rived at this port yesterday afternoon
after q passage of about eight days and
a half from Queenstown to Sandy
Hook, is, perhaps, the pioneer of a new
style of ocean-going passenger and
freight steamer. She is clipper built,
her sides being smooth, to offer the least
resistance to the water. Her model, de-
signed by Mr.. Stephen B. Guion, the
managing director of the line and the
superintendent engineer, is peculiar in
the formation of her ends and her sides,
she having q long, hollow bow, intended
to throw the water off instead of allow
ing it to come aboard the ship, while the
sides are, as nautical men term ii, "tum-
BILE home Sides" having a "fall in" OF
seven feet on each side from the turn OF
the bilge; this formation is calculated to
combine great strength with safety, as
the ship is much easier in a seaway than
| the usual model. The following are her
principal dimensions: Length over all,
495 feet; breadth of beam on main deck
As feet; depth of hold, SO feet. She has
four decks, including the hurricane deck.
She is brig rugged, and a show a large
amount of. canvas when she has her stay
sails and trysail set.
Her enthusiastic commander says she
can sail like q witch, and believes he can
beat anything crossing the Atlantic.
She INT across working her engines
at three-quarter speed, with an average
of fifty revolutions of her screw, which
gave a result of fourteen knots an hour.
With sixty revolutions, it is computed
she would make sixteen knots. Her
engines are of the direct acting com
pound class, with one high pressure
cylinder inverted, two low-pressure
cylinders horizontal, with surface con.
densers. One cylinder is of 60 inches
diameter, and two are of lib inches,
with 40 inches stroke. The engines are
of 900-horse power nominal, but may be
worked up to 1900. Her shaft is %
inches in diameter.
The saloon is situated forward of the
funnel, and is sumptuously fitted. She
can accommodate 70 saloon passengers,
1913 in the second cabin, and 1000 steer.
age passengers, and all the modern i'm
provements have been adopted for their
comfort.
|. The Montana on her return trip made
the voyage from New York to Queens
town in eight and one-half days.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-08-26
A
A Child Barely Rescued from the Jaws
of an Alligator.

of an Alligator.
IFrom the Handsboro QMss.) Democrat.l
Last Saturday, about shutdown, four
miles east of this place, on Biloxi bay, oc-
CURED a scene calculated to send a thrill
of horror through every human heart,
and to make even the boldest tremble
with fear. Two little girls, daughters of
MIR. Ella r. Blackwell, living on the
Back Bay of Biloxi, while bathing in the
bay Immediately in front of his dwell
ing, were attacked by IN enormous ali-
gator. The eldest, a girl of about seven
years OF age, was holding the youngest,
an infant of two years, in her hands, and
was quietly enjoying her bath, when
suddenly her little sister was snatched
from her, and borne swiftly from the
shore. Terrified beyond measure, and
unable to render any assistance to her
unfortunate sister, the elder girl uttered
a scream which was quickly caught by
the ear of the father, who happened, &C
~cidentally, to be passing within 80 or 40
rods of the spot where his daughters
were bathing. Realizing instantly, from
the tone of the voice, that his children
were in some peril, but unable to con-
lecture its exact nature, Mr.. Blackwell,
who is an active and athletic man, rushed
rapidly to their assistance, and arrived at
the spot Just in time to discover his little
daughter being borne out into the bay
by an alligator. Comprehending the
scene at once, and nerved to almost su-
perhuman effort by the desperate situa-
ton of his child, the agonized father
leaped madly into the water in pursuit
of the would-be destroyer of his daugh-
ter, which was then some 25 or 80 Yards
from shore. The water, for O distance
of 40 or so yards out into the bay from
the point where the children were bath
ing, ranges in depth from one and a half
to two feet, and then suddenly attains a
depth of 40 or so feet, and both the ami
NAL (Which by this time had discovered
the pursuit) and the father seemed to
realize that, the deep water Immediately
In front of them once reached, pursuit
and recovery would be alike impossible +:
both, therefore, redoubled their efforts,
the me to reach the point, the other to
prevent it. In this struggle, although
sinking to his waist in the soft mud at
the bottom at each bound, the father was
successful. He succeeded in grasping
his child by the arm about ten feet from
deep water. The alligator, which all the
while held the child's foot in its mouth,
perceiving itself %overtaken, and alarmed
and confused by the boldness of the as
sault, released its hold, and made its way
rapidly into the deep water in front of
it. The father, completely exhausted,
raised his child out of the water, and.
perceiving that itstn lived, by desperate
effort succeeded in regaining the shore
and depositing the child safely in the
hands of its mother. The little girl is
unhurt with the exception of a couple
of bruises on its foot, made by the teeth
of the monster.