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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06
The Man Who Sets His Own EditOrials-

The uuion men thou5Qt they hap had the
chronicle az Disadvantage because 9heG FROM
ply imaginep that the art s.rvR4ive of all arts
was one that coul not qe dracticed novices
They reckonep without their hosts however, as
this paragraph will pIove' we never sot type
before tonight, yetWe eau point droudly to this
effort as specimen Df clean composixou. The
thing looks SO we'll in the s4ick we almost
tended to issue challenge to the entire pro-
ffessou, Hereafter we shrll set our own edi-
4orials. Washington Chronicle.
This effort of Brother Harlan's at type
setting must not be too severely judged.
1t must be remembered that since he
first became known as a journalist he has
seen a great deal of life. He has been
successfully ciccrit-ridef in the Meth
odis Church, member of Congress, a
United States Senator, and Secretary Of
the Interior. On returning to his trade
and taking up bis stick, it is not surpris-
ing that he finds himself little rusty.
Courage, brother patience and perse-
verance will, In time, restore to you the
dexterity Of former days. Chicago Tri-
b2L12R = eft r.tts. r. 8a'
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written, that if you "Take care of the
pence, the pounds will take care of
themselves" Make the experiment.
Take pence (say three PENCE and place
them in your purse, and put your purse
in your pocket. Button your pocket, if
your pocket is buttonable or deposit
the three pence with your banker, or in
vest them in Canadian oil well. Next
take a sovereign (anybody's sovereign
will do) and place it carefully on the
pavement (the center of coal-plate is
not bad spot), and, after retiring up
the stage and assembling" observe
how that sovereign will take care of it.
sell. Punch.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06
Danger of PrOtracted SIeeD.

But here, as in so many other cases.
the evil of deficiency has its counterpart
in the evil Of excess. Sleep protracted
beyond the need of repair, and encroach
ing hab1tually upon the hours of waking
action, impairs more or less the func-
lions Of the brain, and with them all the
vital powers. This observation is as old
as the days of Hippocrates and Aretaus,
who severally and strongly comment
upon it. The sleep of infancy, however,
and that of old age, do not come under
this category of excess. These are
natural conditions, appertaining to the
respective periods of life, and to be dealt
with as such. In illness, moreover, all
ordinary rule and measure of sleep must
be put aside. Distinguishing it from
coma, there are very few cases in which
it is not an unequivocal good and even
In comatose state the brain, we believe,
gains more from repose than from any
artificial attempts to rouse it into action.
Edinburgh RevieaU.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06
Proverbs RAfutAd.

It has been said of old that GA bird in
the hand is worth two in the bush. Try
it. Take a bird (any bird will rdo) in
your hand, and hold it securely; then
take passage in the first vess ell you can
find. (any vessel will do and proceed to
the Antipodes, sill retaining the bird in
the hand, where the bush is supposed
to be. When you arrive, examine the
bird which you have in your hand and
compare it with any two birds you can
find in the bush. Estimate their relative
value. You will find that the proyerb
has led you astray.
Again. Tt has been said that g It is
the last straw that breaks the camel's
back" .Inapria1ais, how long would a
man go about until he had satisfied him
self that he had found the 'slast y
straw? But we will grant, for the sake
of argument, that the "last straw" has
been found. Now take your camel (any
camel will do) and cautiously deposit that
straw upon the back of the camel, and
carefully observe whether the spine OF
that quadruped is dislocated. It is to be
\ imagined not. How then this provorb {?
| Once more. 1t has been spoken, and
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06
Curious Story.

If story told by the ST.. Paul Dis
patch is authentic, the assassination of
Thomas a'Becket at the implied com
mand of Henry II. has parallel in the
very recent history of this country. The
Minnesota massacres, it will be remem-
bered, resulted in the execution of
thirty eight of the principle Sioux con-
cerned in them. Over 800 had been CON
demned to death by a military commits
sion, but it was finally decided to execute
only those who had been recognized as
active leaders in the butcheries. The
Dispatch now claims that the execution
was entirely without authority. A citi-
zen who accompanied the Minnesota del
egation sent to Washington to obtain the
Presidents signature to the death-war-
rant tells this story:
After the transaction of some minor
matters, Senator Ramsey drew from his
pocket telegram from Gen. EEL. H. Sib-
ley, asking for the Executive order to
execute thirty eight convicted savages.
After hurried reading Of the dispatch,
Mr.. Lincoln, turning nervously in his
seat, and showing his long, lank fingers
up through his hair, said: 'Oh! Oh /!
dear Senator and friends, this is too bad;
this calling upon me to give, in cold
blood, my official or formal sanction or ed
let to the execution Of thirty-eight human
beings! It seems to me there can be
nothing on record, no precedent from
any civilized ruler, nothing in. the his
tory OF the world like it, and I tremble
at Its contemplation. Mr.. Ramsey, why
why didn't Gen. Sibley first do the
hanging, and then, if necessary, ask me
to approve his action?'"
Acting upon this suggestion (f such a
construction could be placed upon it,,
Senator Ramsey said, "All right Mr..
Lincoln" and then telegraphed to Gen.
Sibley to go ahead with the hanging,
which he did Chicago Tribune.
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they were seated about her, on the vii
low stumps as usual She said:
DO you remember Gen. St, nv
dears, who once visited us in the school
rooms?"
ooh yesl" cried the children.
well, when he took tea with me on
that afternoon, he happened to say that
his boy had just been reading the Old
Curiosity Shop with great delight.
Now, as [ knew that the Generals
only son was blind, [ was not a little
puzzled. Probably Gen. St read
my feelings IN my face, for he added:
Did you never hear of Charles
Dickens visit to the blind asylum where
Benny was taught? He talked with the
cnlldren, and became so very much inter
ested In them, that he decided to have
an edition of tThe Old Curiosity Shop"
printed In raised letters for their use.
Bless their hearts They shall find
little Nell in the dark p he said. all
aglow. And so, in time, my boy was
bending over the story, as happy little
fellow as one could wish to see.
did he read it easily p I asked.
oh, yes, quite sol" said the General,
cheerfully. 'The letters, white as the
rest of the page, are raised, and are about
an eighth of an inch long. Benny runs
his finger along the lines one by one, and
understands every word. You would
think he had eyes in his fnger-tips. The
sense of feeling is very acute, you know,
when ones sight is gone"
" l like Dickens more than ever now,"
said one of the boys, when the school
mistress finished her story.
Sand SO do I, % said four of the chill
dren.-FTom slack IN the Pulpit" st.
Nicholas for May.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06
The UngratefuI Children.

1t is justly said that God, parents and
teachers can never be repaid for the
kindness they have bestowed on any one.
But alas in this world it goes too often
according to the well-known problem,
that father can easier support six chill
dren than six children one father. Here
we have such narration about a father
who, while living, gave all that he
owned to his children, and expected
them to support him afterward in his
old age. But when he had lived awhile
with his eldest son, the son became tired
OF him, and said Father, last night
my wife gave birth to son, and where
your arm chair stood the cradle must
now stand. Will you not move over to
my brother's? He has got more room
than [ have"
After awhile, the second son also be-
came tired of him, and said "Father,
you always liked warm room, and I
have the headache from it; would you
not like to go to my brother, who is a
baker; he can stand it BETTER
The father went, and after he had
stayed some time, the third son said
In my house we are always running in
and out, SO you can never get your
afternoon sleep; would you not rather
go to sister Elma, who lives outside the
city gate? You will be more quiet with
her" The old man looked at the clock
and said: C Very well, will go and try
and live with my daughters. A."
Women have generally a tenderer
heart than men. But, after he had
stayed while, the daughter became
anxious to get rid Of him also, and pre-
tended to be very much afraid whenever
her father had to pass down the high
stairway, either when going to church or
anywhere else, and said cat sister
Maria's you need not go down any steps.
as she lives on the first floor" The old
man admitted that she was right, in Or
der that everything should go on quiet
ly and peacefully, and went to his Sec
ond daughters.
When he had staid couple of days,
he became burden to her also, and She
gave him to understand, through third
person, that her house, being too near
the water, was too damp for a man who
suffered from rheumatism but her
sister who was married to the sexton of
st. Johns graveyard had dryer and
healthier house.
$50 he went to the house of the
youngest daughter, Laurina. He had
staid very short time, when her son
said to him
Mother told Aunt Hilda, yesterday,
that for you there were no better quar-
ters than such as father was digging in
the graveyard"
When the aged parent heard these
cruel words, his heart broke, and he fell
back into his armchair, and died. ST.
Johns graveyard received him, and
showed more mercy toward him than his
six children had shown there he can
sleep undisturbed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06
An Old Horse. :.

A correspondent of the Turf, Field
and Farm writes: :" I wrote you last
year of living curiosity that | saw at
Pittsburgh, and, as predicted, it is still
hving-a horse owned by Mr.. VIM.
Smith, of the National Pipe Foundry,
which is now AZ years old. He uses it
for the children to ride, and they have
no trouble with it till spring, when the
grass begins to shoot up it's sweet ten
drills. He longs for the green growth,
and all at once feigns lameness, so that
he has to be turned out. He has played
this trick each successive spring for the
last six years. Idon't think there is a
horse judge in America who could guess
within thirty five years of his age even
upon a critical examination, and M
knowledge of the circumstances. OF
course there are cases of greater lon
gevity, but they are rare"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06
Mirthlat MeaI-Time.

Everybody should plan to have pleas
ant conversational the table, justas they
have good food. A little storytelling
it may be of humorous things, anecdotes,
etc, - will often stimulate the joyous ele
ments of the mind and cause it, to act
vigorously and lealthfully. Think and
say something pleasant. Cultivate mirth,
and laugh when anything witty is said.
Ii possible, never eat aloneo Invite a
friend OF whom you are. fond, and try
and have good time. Friendship and
friendly intercourse at the table pro-
notes the flow OF animal spirits and aids
digestion. Think Of a srlky churl
munching, his, meat in logged temper.
lie will become dyspeptic. Never bring
q corroding growl or complaint to the
table. Is the pudding too salt? Was
the bread burnt? Do not mention it
especially at the table. Let that pass,
though you need not eat that which may
not be palatable or headthful, but polite
ly decline it. He who brings the most
happiness to the table is the best citizen.
Science of Health.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06
THE LITTLE FOLKS.
Helping Papa and Mamma.

Helping Papa and Mamma.
Planting the corn and potatoes.
Helping to scatter the seeds,
Feeding the hens and the chickens,
Freeing the garden from weeds,
Driving the COWS to the pasture,
Feeding the horse in the stall
We little children are busy Ssgsas
Sure, there is work for us all,
Helping papa.
Spreading the hay in the sunshine.
Raking it up when tits dry,
Picking the apples and peaches
Down in the orchard hard by,
Picking the grapes in the vineyard:
Gathering nuts in the fall
We little children are busy;
Yes, there is work for us all,
d Helping papa.
Sweeping, and washing the dishes,
Bringing the wood from the shed,
Ironing, sewing and knitting,
Helping to make up the bed;
Taking good care of the baby,
Watching her lest she should fall
We.little children are busy;
Or, there is work for us all,
Helping mamma.
Work makes us cheerful and happy,
Makes us both active and strong;
Play we enjoy all the better
When we have labored so long,
Gladly we help our kind parents,
Quickly we come at their call;
Children should love to be busy;
There is work for us all,
Helping papa and mamma.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06

number about $4,000 are from Illinois,
and quite as many from Indiana and
Missouri. Among them are patents
signed by every President from Monroe
to Lincoln. The reasons assigned for
the presence of these patents in the
Land Office is that many landowners
consider their title valid if they have the
Receivers duplicate receipt. This is not
the case, and the Land Office frequently
cancels these duplicate receipts and
issues the patents to new parties.
THE steamship Nova Scotia, which ar
rived at Baltimore from Liverpool last
week, reports having passed an immense
ice-feld which was skirted for four hours,
and hence must have been from fifty to
one hundred miles in length. In this
vast field half dozen vessels were firmly
frozen in without any prospect OF release
until after the ice field should melt
Doubtless these were whaling and seal
ing vessels, and they must have been
floating for many weeks, inasmueh as the
ice-feld unquestionably came from the
Artic regions. It is very seldom that ice
is met by Liverpool steamers SO early in
the season as April, and it is evident that
from now until next August ice-felds and
icebergs will be unusually abundant in
the North Atlantic.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06

Our revolutionary fathers used to see
tough times. An old Virginian book
tells how two of them received fifty
.lashes each for being absent from the
army roll call, and it speaks of another
who received 100 lashes for " misbeha-
vior." For one months pay, a soldier
in the patriot army received $3.50, 900, but
he paid $2, COCOA yard for cloth to make
a coat, and his buttons cost him 81, 800
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06

lis is the way the Louisville Courier
nal imprecates Cincinnati editor
called him thief "May Eli Per-
attend his funeral, and may cock
hes swarm on his grave
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06
FRESH TOPICS.

E "canal frauds" continue to be
chief theme of interest anG discus
among the politicians of York State.
Investigation is in progress.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06

The decrease is over 100, 900; but even
this does not embrace the whole truth :
there was large emigration from this
country back to Europe in 1874-larger.
perhaps, than was ever seen before
caused by the scarcity of work and the
general depression of industry.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06
Decrease of Immigration.

The immigration statistics for 1874
now made up show falling off of more
than one-third from 1873. The follow
ing is the comparison
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06

NEARLY one-third of the revenue Of
Italy is collected at Genoa. The imports
OF the kingdom for 1873 were 1.279. 000
francs and the exports l, 129, 100000.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06

Charles Dickens and the Blind Children.
Talking of the pretty school-mistress,
reminds me of something I heard her
telling her boys and girls one day when
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06

ON. EDWARDS PERREPoNT, the newly
ointed Acknowledgement, was one of
leading counsel for the prosecution
he Surratt trial. He is a man of large
It'll, and contributed $4,000 to the
paign fund at the last Presidential
ton.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06

We have been visited by Princes and
and Dukes and a Kanaka King, but
have never had a real Princess among
except the Princess Salm-Salm. Now,
viewer, it is announced that the Prin-
IS Louise of England, the very much
. better half of the Marquis Of Lorne,
II visit us next fall.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06

HE press on both sides of the British
mel is filed with enthusiastic notices
Capt. Paul Boyton's last maritime feat.
" regard even his failure as a success
demonstration of his undertaking to
IN across from Dover to Boulogne,
| as an immense triumph for humanity
| science.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06

A WASHINGTON dispatch states that
there are still remaining in the General
Land Office undelivered nearly 100000
patents for agricultural lands. Of this
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-02
Ona Efrect Of Bad Art,

One of the most obviously mis- schievous
effects Of bad art is that 1t leads US to
see nature falsely. ! have before me Q
very beautiful billy and wooded land
scape OF a peculiarly American type. I
saw it for the frst time not long ago,
and 1t has taken me several days OF OUT
door lite TO see 1t as 1t should be seen,
and not as the second-rate painters have
seen it-not with o taint upon it of the
conventional American landscape OF the
chrome order. Tue fact 10 that the
painting OF the chrome school does not
really look like nature, although the dis
tOrted presentation in it OF some one
phase OF b landscape gives . certain
false air of likeness and reflects through
the memory upon the original.
There was, last night, over these hills
a very beautiful mooniight. The moon
was at the full, the sky was OF deep
Llue, and the large clouds were tinged
With rich and mellow color. But the
peculiar quality Of the moonlight effects,
their yapOrous, uncertain masses and
oulline-this is the very quality curious
ly absent from most Of the pictures OF
moonlight effects that one sees IN the
salleries.-Th Old Cabinet; Scribner for
October.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-02
A Royal COurtship.

Napoleon l was always in too great Q
hurry. This characteristic quality espe-
ciauy showed itself when he set abous
committing that most protitless Of crimes
the divorce OF Josephine. He first
thought OF marrying the Grand Duchess
Anne, sister OF the Emperor of Russia.
Before Caulaincourt, the French Am-
bassador at st. Petersburgh, had had
time to sound the Gar on the subject,
Napoleon had changed his mind ana de-
cideu on an alliance with the House Of
Hapsburg. Such being the case, his
course was clear enough, viz: to instruct
CaulaincVurt not to press his suit too
eagerly, to show no disposition to
smoothe away dlfficulties, and to allow
The negotiation gradually to fall to the
ground.
Instead Of this Napoleon sent a letter,
probably without precedent in the an.
mails OF courtship, in which he ordered
his ambassador 70 present kind OF mat
rimonial ulLimatum TO the Car, de-
manding categorical answer, before
the expiration OF ten days, to his pr0po-
sal. Of course lhis was to ensure re-
fusal, and SO to set the Emperor at lib
erty, but at the cost of affronting the On-
ly monarch ON the continent OF Europe
whom Napoleon had reason to fear.
Three hundred thousand French soldiers
were TO pay with their lives for this
piece of brainless impertinence. But
such are the natural results OF lmperial-
ism. or the government of nation tor
the benefit OF an individual. Will France
return to this rulep-Grenyille Murray,
LII the Galaxy for October.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-02
What General Taylor Really Said.

Hon. l.. b. Miner, of Solano, Califor-
MIA, has spoiled that well-known Little
story about Gen. Taylor saying ut Bnena
Vista, "a little more grape, Captain
Bragg" Miner was at banquet OF
Mexican war veterans in San Francisco
the other evening, and made the follow
ing statement as TO what Gen.. Taylor
did say: "Holding the position Of an in
terpreler on the sLaH or Gen. Taylor,
was seated on my horse, Immediately
near him, when Captain Bragg dashed
hurriedly up, snluted the General, and
reported: General, shail have to fall
back with my battery, or lose it, SeV.
eral of his guns had already been dis
mounted, large portion Of his horses
killed aud about thirty Of his men were
PROSTATE Oh the heath. On receiving
the report, Gen. Taylor turned on his
morse and surveyed The situation for q
few seconds-he required no field glass,
Tor the scene of conflict was not Tar re-
moyed-and the reply was: "Captain
Bragg, IL is better " lose battery than
battle.' This was The interview on
whicn was based the famous slang
phrase that was never uttered by the
General to whom it was imputed. Capt.
Bragg returned to his battery with re-
newed determination, and, by the efforts
OF that gallant officer and his brave com.
mand, The tide ot battle was turned and
the greatest victory OF the war was won.
-COurier-Journal.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-02

When Henry Clay, stepping Into 9
Lexington bank one day, found that his
had all been mysterieusly paid, he ex.
claimed, with emotion, "Good heayenl
did ever q man have such friends and
such enemies as Henry Clayw The
Richmond Enquirer reports that the late
Dr. Mercer, OF New Orleans, was the
good angel who thus slyly paid Mr..
Clays debts. Since those days, how
ever, our country has passed through q
great reyulsion in customs, principles
and everything else; and now, instead
OF one man paying anothers debts, be
seldom paws his own.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-02
A STRAGGLER.

left the throng whose laughter made
That wide old woodland echo clear,
While forth they spread, 10 breezy shade,
Their plethoric hamperfuls Of cheer.
Along dark, moss -missed plank
Ny way in dreamy mood l took,
And crossed. from balmy bank 10 bank,
The impeJuous silver of the brook.
And wandering on, at last found
A shadowy, tranquil, glad like place,
Full Of mellifiuous leafy sound,
While midmost Of its grassy space
A lump Of rugged granite CLEANED,
A tawny- -lichened ledge OF gray,
And up among the boughs there beamed
One blue, delicious glimpse Of day!
In fitful faintness on my ear
The picnic's lightsome laughter fell,
And softly rs fingered here
Sweet fancy bound me with a spell.
In. some bland cline across the seas
Those merry tones seemed to mark.
While danes and gallants roamed at ease
The pathways Of some stately park.
And in that glimpse Of amethyst air
seemed TO watch, with mnsing eye,
The rich blue fragment, fresh and fair,
Or some dead summers morning skyl
And that rough mass of granite. too,
From graceless outlines gently waned,
And took the sculptured shape and hue
Ofdull old marble, deeply stained.
And then (most beauteous change Of all!)
Strewn DER Its mottled slab lay low
A glove, q lutte, a silken shawl,
A velium-boun Boccaccio!
Edgar Fawcett, in October Atlantic.