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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-06-24

rne Arabs believe that locusts bear on their wing
u Arabic characters words showing them to be I'll
lvengfng army of Allah. The following is a tran
alton of an old Eastern poem, with which some
lur readers may be acquainted:
A day of darkness and of gloom;
day of clouds at morning spread
In lllrid CLEANS, presaging doom,
Around the mountains stormy head.
And 10 people matchless, strongI
Rise DER the far horizons rim,
And sweep like fire the lands along,
Led by ayenging Seraphim.
Swift as an Arabs charger reels
In laundering fight DER desert ground
They come, while ring their chariot Wheels
And loud and shrill their trumpets sound.
Before their face the people mourn;
Before their breath the granary stored,
The field, the threshing-foor, the corn
Shrink from the army of the Lord.
Like mighty men they eager run;
Like men of war they climb the wall;
Each speeds his way, nor any one
Can break those ranks; and though they fall
Upon the sword they shall not die.
Yea, through the city shall they go
Like pestilence, and man shall fly
Before their wrath; God wills it so.
The earth shall quake beneath their tread,
And darkness shroud the stars and moon,
yIYhe heavens shall tremble as in dread;
Like blacklist night shall be the noon.
Then in the van the Lord shall cry,
Great is the Lord who is beside?
His armies fill the earth and sky;
His day what mortal shall abide
-NeS York Graphic.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-06-24
HOW HE SHOWED HER THE WAY.

e Can you tell me the way to Madison square ?"
Said a shy little maiden one day,
As she pushed back her curls of heavy brown hair,
Where some boys had their marbles at play.
One boy that was quicker than all of the rest
Looking into her sunny blue eyes,
Felt something go pit-a-pat under his vest,
And was first from his playmates to rise.
Il fear have lost my way, sir" she said
g 1 am sent on errand, you see.n
81 viii go with you there if you please, little maid,
And take you safe home then" said he.
So be showed her the way to Madison square,
And the way seemed to both very short;
He put back her rnglets of heavy brown hair
And-of course shall not tell you what
The years have gone by, and he blesses that day,
As he kisses his dear little wife,
For then he commenced to show her the way,
And will show her the way through life.
-lyeac York Graphic.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-06-24
Female M. DIS.

DR.. Mary Putnam jacob, of New
York, has recently received from Paris
the bronze medal awarded three years
ago by the Academy of Medicine for her
graduating thesis. This gives her rank
of from fifth to eighth In class of 300,
for of that number Of theses, four were
awarded gold and four bronze medals,
and seven more received honorable men
ton. It was she who knocked so loudly
at the doors of the venerable and con-
servative academy as to compel the adj
mission of her sex, for the first time, to
preliminary examination. After six
months of hard work she obtained the
necessary permission granted, it was said,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-06-24

A MAN BAKED TO DEATH. dispatch
from Nashville, Tenn, says: John
Woods, colored bartender ina saloon
at Christiana, was rescued from burn
ing building at that place, early yester-
day morning, in an insensible condition.
During the day his skin came off, and
death ended his woes at night. His
clothing was not even singed. The only
solution to his curious condition when
rescued is that he was baked, and had
reached the very brink of combustion,
and would have been consumed a few
moments later.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-06-24
Wit and Humcr.

WEARING off the green-Playing bill
iards.
"GoNE to meet his uncle on his
mothers side" Recent obituary..
A YOUNG student of a quiet disposition
wants to ''get bored in private family
'sBAH," said John Henry's hopeful to
a small boy who wanted to whip him
"you couldn't lick postage-stamp.
WARM weather helps one to be gooa.
That is, you don't care whether your
neighbor has big woodpile or small
one.
A WISCONSIN Judge has decided that
a husband is no relation to his wife.
Then he can be no relation to his mother
in-law.
BROOKLYN has Judge named Judge
Mott, and despite this plain Injunction
he keeps right on iudging.-Detroit
Free Press.
1T requires all woman's self-posses-
sion to calmly show her first baby,
halr-hpped one, to an old beau whom
she had Tilted for the sake of her present
husband.
A MAN rushed breathlessly into a law
yer's Office in st. Paul, and, approach
ing the legal luminary,s excitedly re-
marked, " A man has tied hoop to my
horses tail Can I do anything?"
eyes" replied the attorney ego and
unite it.
FRESH PRETZELS.
The way of the transcriber is hard.
A man on his last legs should walk
with great economy.
There is nothing seductive in the smile
of man who has bad teeth.
A mere street roomer-A man who
generally sleeps on the sidewalk.
The Providence youth who gave his
sweetheart an opera-glass worth $25, and
arriving at the home of the fair one ar
rayed in his visiting harness, with the
intention of sparkling her, received the
following cheerful news from his would
be mother-in-law Mary has gone to
the show with Bill Smith. It's kinder
givin' you away, but she would go"
! AN old Highlander, rather fond of his
teddy, was ordered by his physician,
during temporary illness, not to exceed
one ounce of spirits daily. The old
gentleman was dubious about the amount,
and asked his son, school-boy, how
much an ounce was. "Sixteen drachms,
was the reply. "Sixteen drains An
excellent doctor p replied the High
lander. ''Run and tell Donald Nc
lavish and big John to come down the
NIGHT"
All HANG, a Chinese laundryman in
Chicago, sis translating popular songs
into "pigeon English" Here is the
result of his labors on "Comin' Thro'
the Rye
Spose man lun slam-bang font of gal
Walkee though lie lye;
| Spose man make kissee pidgin gal,
! What TO- ely?
Evly man pickee up some gal,
Speakee all loun' no got mi;
All same lookee eyly gal loun' my way
l. Walkee tough lie I've.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-06-24

IN the hope and belief that she would
ultimately fail. The success of her thesis
against those of host of male competi-
tors is not pleasant to the Partisan med
ical journals, which have recently been
complaining that the admission of
women students at the academy has low
cred its standards. Mrs. jacob is now
laboring to collect fund for promoting
the higher medical education of women.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-06-24


The only civilized language inswhich
the problem of spelling offers any diff
culties is the English. The French, with
it's peculiar sounds and silent letters, ap-
pears hard to stranger !; but the CORE
spoAdence of sounds to combination OF
letters is fixed, and, the rules once
learned, the reorganization of the words
follows from the writing, and the man
ner of writing from the sound, without
variation. A writer on this subject says
that in other languages of Europe, be-
sides French, whether of Teutonic
Latin derivation, each letter has its
exact value, and mistakes, provided the
ear be correctly trained, are impossible.
Our language, as to its written forms,
must be classified with such primitive ton
guesas the ancient Assyrian, whose writing
has been pronounced the most comph-
Gated ever invented, and the Chinese, in
which every word is represented by its
independent character. 1t is a serious
disadvantage to our complicated and IT.
regular methods that so much time has
to be consumed in learning to spell.
What other people can learn in few
hours takes up the time of our schools
for years, and is never completely ac-
CURED. No rules will answer, but each
word must be learned by itself in detail.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-06-24

THE philosopher of the Boston Post
makes this difference between the sexes:
Men get mellow in their cups women
get tight In their cofsets.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-06-24
What Can Women Do?

Now, what is the reason women should
not select trades and professions just as
men do, and learn them, too Of course
we don't expect them to take to black
smithing, or become stevedores, hack
drivers, OF carpenters but there are
plenty of other vocations to adopt, If
they will only begin patiently at the
beginning. Suppose it never be-
comes necessary to work for living,
does it do body any harm to know
how? Isn't it better than gold deposit
in bank to have bread-winner .
always on hand? We must all strike out
into the great ocean of daily existence,
but it behooves us all to take our life
preservers along! Women never have
done so p No, they never have-they
have starved, and suffered, and persisted
quietly, and let us hope that this black
chapter in their history is approaching
it's end. They never have done so, but
it is high time they did. Let them leave
off leaning blindly on old-fashioned
manners and customs, and let them lean
boldly on their own right hand and cum
ming brains. People never know just
how much they can do until they have
tried.
Professional careers for women are by
no means as unusual as they once were.
We do not mean professional careers sab
rosa, for do we not know ministers
wives that write their husbands sermons.
and mathematician wives that make alb
struse calculations, and doctors wives
that have the whole pharmacopoeia at
their fingers ends2 We simply mean
the thing itself. Female professors are
beginning to occupy college chairs here
and there-females are heard of in coast
surveys, and females boldly enter the
list of authorship and editor land, ay,
and carry off laurels, too, from under
the very nose of wondering man. Why
shouldn't they p WaUerly Magazine.
An Imperturbable Witness.
Mr. Dallas, once Vice-President of
the United States, while practicing law,
was counsel in case in Philadelphia,
and Mr.. Scheerer, noted politician, was
called in as witness. The following
questions were put by Mr.. Dallas
g Mr. Scheerer, were you in Harrisburg
last June 2" s'Last June, did you say,
Mr.. Dallas 90 eyes, last June. Don't
repeat my question, but answer it. !"
After some minutes of study, the answer
came: q No, Mr.. Dallas 1 was not in
Harrisburg last June" sWere you in
Harrisburg last July?" Here he reflect
ed again, and slowly said : g No, Mr..
Dallas I was not in Harrisburg in
July" sWere you there last August,
Mr.. Scheerers'' The witness again med
itated, and said "No, Mr.. Dallas I
was not there in August" "Were you
there in September?" Here Mr.. Scheer-
er reflected longer than before, and re-
piled g No, Mr.. Dallas I was not in
Harrisburg in September. Mr.. Dallas
became tired of this barren result, and,
raising his voice, said MIR. Scheerer,
will you tell the court when you were in
Harrisburg?" "Mr. Dallas" said Mr..
Scheerer, CT never was in Harrisburg in
my life. .
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-01

Cars from ST. Louis, Cincinnati and Columbus
TO Washington and Baltimore without change
of cars.
Through tickets and further information can
be obtained at the principal Ticket Offices
throughout the West. Southwest and North
west. THOS. p. BARRY, Western Passenger
Agent, Cincinnati.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-01
CRIMINAL NOTES.

The city police made As arrests during
thespast mOn'h.
The police court fines amounted to only
SO yesterday morning.
Mike Gary was before Justice Creighton
yesterday on the charge of rObbing VIM. Z.
Watkins Of a small sum Of money. The
investigation resulted in the honorable &C
Quittal of the defendant.
Bud Perry, cOlored, charged with the
fraudulent appropriation Of a pistol, was
taken before Justice Campbell, yesterday,
and bound over for his appearance at nine
O'Clock next Monday morning.
Sis Messed was arrested yesterday by Of
icer Bolton on the charge Of stealing gold
watch aud chain, worth SIS, from Richard
Byrne. She was taken before Justice
Everett and committed to jail for trial at
the next tenn of the Criminal Court.
W. g. Geers, arrested last wednesday,
by Officer Frazier, on the charge Of carry
ing a pistol, was fined ten dollars in the
police court yesterday morning. BE left
his fathers house, three miles from Leba-
non, last Tuesday night with a fine mule,
which he brought 10 this city and disposed
Of for the sum of fifty-five dollars. When
taken into custody he had made away with
all the money except about eight dollars.
A dispatch was sent to his father, who
came here, paid his sons fine, refunded the
money received fO- the mule, and left for
home with the animal and his wayward
boy. Young Geers says he got himself in
to scrape, and that from this time he in
tends TO do better.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-01
THE HOG PRODUCE.
Another Estimate OF the Season
Packing

Packing.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 30.-The Cincinnati
Price CtTT'eHfs second preliminary report
of hOg-packing in the West will be publish
ed to morrow morning, but the lateness at
which a considerable number Of returns
were received, embracing some important
ones, has delayed the completion Of the
compilations necessary 10 arrive az an ex-
act conclusion, so that it is impossible
TO give tonight a complete summary Ofthe
report. IL is safe TO say that returns
have been received from over $40 packing
points, outside Of Cincinnati, Chicago, s..
Louis, Louisville, Milwaukee and Indian
arolis. AT these interior points, yhich
packed last season within about 10000 Of
all the hogs packed outside Of the six cities
named, the indications are that the packing
at the points which has closed, and the es-
Inmates for the season at the Others, show a
falling of in numbers amounting to about
100000 compared with last season.
Definite conclusions REGARDING weights
have not been arrived ar, but it appears evi-
dent that the later packing has been Of an
improved character as compared with the
earlier hogs, and there has been some re-
ductiOn in the amount Of average shortage
in wei -htf, as shown I'm the previous re-
Dort. The hogs vet to come forward are
expected % average heavier than for the
corresponding portion Of last season.
The packing at the six cities named is
reported az 2,325, COO, % this date, and the
packing at all points to the last of Deem
Der 8 approximately 100000, against a
similar number a year ago. Il may be re-
marked that the returns giving the esti-
mates for this report bear dates since
Dec. "a.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-01
New Advertisements.

Insur5 II the State Insurance Company.
Pleasant rooms with board can be OBJ
tanned in West Nashville.
Situation wanted as porter in a wholesale
house.
Country residence offered in exchange
for one in city.
The next gift concert Of the Public Ii
brary Of Kentucky takes place positively
Feb. p. See advertisement for list OF
prizes, etc.
See statement on third page Of the cura-
tive properties Of Dr. Schenck's medicines.
Attend the auction sale Of furniture at
John BateT's auti0n room on Saturday
morning.
The highest market price will be paid
for eggs by 5. G. Bradley, 145 South Mar
ket street.
For a fine picture in any style 90 to
P0Ole's gallery. His work is hard to peat.
L. Z. Winstead & Co. have made a re-
ductiOn in the price Of boots, shoes, satch-
els. etc. Call and see them at the Max
well House Shoe Etore.
The John 5. Bransford is the regular
Saturday packet for ILartsviIle, Burksyille
and Point Isabel.
The firm Of Cheatham & Woods. whole
sale dealers in imported and domestic IL
quOTs, wines, etc, mas been dissolved, r.
3. Cheatham retiring. The business will
be continued at the old stand. corner
Church and College streets, by r F. Woods
X Co. For the retiring member Of the old
firm the patrons Of the house viii cherish
the most friendly memories, and for the
leading member of the new firm, Mr.. r. +.
Woods, they viii feel Che same sentiment,
together with the assurance that their rela-
tiOns with the house Will continue as salts
factory as heretofore.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-01
JIM FIsK,s Estate.

New York Letter to the Chicago Tribune.
An inventory just made Of the Jim Fisk
estate, which at the time Of bis killing was
reckOned at millions, shows that, with all
claims paid aud suits settled, it is Sl7S,jOO
worse than nothing. The inventory put it
originally at 10000. Half a million
has been paid out in the settlement
of claims. The worthless stock found
in his possession aggregates Sl60,OOO
at par value. His widows legal expenses
have been enormous, aud only the
lawyers in the case appear to have got any
thing out Of the dead mans pocket. His
jewelry was valued at 5000. The lega-
cies to his father and mother, and the
Misses Morse, and TO Mrs. Hooker, his sis
ter, have been paid in part. Only 5000
went in hOrselesh, a single horse, too. Six
hundred thousand dollars are tied up in
lawsuits. His mistress, Josie Mansfield,
sues for $4,000, and mas Just recovered
S3j, 600, and hopes she may get It. Albert
Speyers, the broker whom Fisk, on Black
Friday, lefr, as Fisk put 1t, "to carry out
his corpse" sues Tor $4,000, which he
bought in for Fisk's account, and went
crazy about it when the margin was not
forthcoming. In short, the great estate has
"GOne where the WOOdbine tWineth.'
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-01
A nARVELOUs ESCAPE FROM
DEATH

The London Graphic tells rs that Monte
Christo's escape from the sack in which he
was flung into the sea from the Chateau DIFF
has been initiated by an ingenious Persian.
Having incurred the displeasure of high
functiOnary at ShiraZ, Mohammed Mira was
condemned to be fastened up in a sack with
a viper, a cock aud cat, and, after an hours
time, when the happy family had improved
their acquaintance, the sack and its con-
tents were to be thrown iutO the river.
Fortunately fo- MOhammed Mira, his exc
cuti0ners forgot to sedr,h his pOcket-
which contained a small knife. Directly
the mouth Of the sack was closed upon him
and his companions he cut in half the Vi
per, which was already encircling his leg,
the cock and the cat were next dis
patched, and orr Persian occupied the re-
mainder Of his hour by Stimulating a viO-
lent fight of the three animals, and giving
forth the most excrutiating cries Of agony.
In due time the sacs and all were consigned
to the water, and then Mohammed Mira,
speedily freeing himself from the prison,
gained the other side Of the river, and came
post haste to Europe, for the future vol
untary exile from his fatherland.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-01
A sLEEPING.CAR Episode.

Some few nights ago a lady passenger
on the COnnellsgille route, engaged a
beth in one Of the palace sleeping-cnaches.
When she was ready to retire she took
from her satchel a gum-bed, which she in
flated and placed upon the regular bed in
the berth she was TO occupy. IL happened
that her berth was very close to the stove,
and the night being rather cold, the porter
fred u2 pretty li-ely. The heat from The
stove caused the gum-bed TO expand until
the pressure got 50 great that il collapsed
gith a tremendous shock, similar 10 the
report Of a cannon, and the passengers
Jumped out Of their berths in their night
clothes, thinking there was collision.
The force of the collapse threw the lady
against tie ceIling Of the berth, but did
not hurt her beyond a slight bruise- When
The real state Of affairs was known, and the
lady was found to be Unhur,, the thing
created considerable merrimen. among the
passengers, and the lady vows she will
never take any more Cum-bads with her
when she goes a-trageling.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-01-01
ALL OVER THE CITY.
| happy New Year 70 all.

A happy New Year 70 all.
Six weddings viii take place to-day in
and near the city.
The passenger trains coming in yester-
day were crowded.
Several serenading parties were making
the rounds last night.
Last night, the hotels were crowded with
new arrivals, and the cry is still they come.
There was talk among the cotton men
yesterday Of closing their business houses
to-day.
Officer Allison starts out this morning
with l36 warrants against delinques water
tax payers.
A big coal train consisting Of ten fiat
cars, packed brim full, arrived at the Louis
vile depot yesterday.
The Central Baptist Mite Society will
meet at the residence of James Ferguson,
No. 33l South Cherry street, tonight.
The posi-Ofice will be kept open today
only from $50 to $50 A. N. Carriers will
deliver al their room in the postoffiee build
ing on Cherry street.
a gentleman who lately s'swore off," now
says that he quit too soon, because he has
never before known free drinks in Nash
vile to be more plentiful.
The Edgeield municipal election, which
takes place tomorrow, is all the talk over
there, and is even exciting some interest on
this side of the Cumberland.
During The year just closed 1893 marriage
licenses were issued by the clerks Of the
County Court Of Davidson. Another ap-
plicatiOn was still pending at a late hour
last evening.
The dog law goes into effect to-day and
parties would do well to call on the Re
cOrder and procure the medals which the
law requires shall be attached to the necks
Of all CANNES.
Three penitentiaTy cOnvicts, two of whom
are white men, came down last night on
the Chattanooga train from Shell Mound,
their terms having expired. They will be
released to-day.
A juvenile vagrant, whose term Of con-
fiRement in the city prison expired yester-
day, said he preferred to remain there be-
cause he had no where to go and nothing
to do. He was allowed to remain for the
present as the best means Of keeping him
out Of mischief.
The famous Mary Burlington, who seems
to be proof against poison, was released
yesterday from the city prison, and resO-
lutely departed on an afternoon train for
unpa5ed districts, where mOrphia and
other noxiOus drugs are not known.
Patrick McGlen, Of indianapolis, who was
sent TO the wOrk-hOuse three weeks ago, on
the charge Of vagrancy, was released yester-
day by Recorder Duling, on account Of
sickness and good behavior. lie expresses
his gratitude to the Recorder and officers
offhe prison for the kindness they have
shown him.