davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-22
Dogs i'm Tennessee.

Dr. Redfeld, of the Cincinnati Com
naercial, in a letter from Chattanooga,
Tennessee, says: The poverty of the
State to-day is due in no small degree to
the multitude of worthless ours. which
consume as much as the hogs and cost as
much as the schools, and produce moth
ing. In the rural districts there are
nearly as many dogs as people, showing
Of itself state of civilization not the
highest. Not long ago plaintive appeal
was sent to Nashville from 143 colored
people OF Rutherford county, saying that
last years dry weather cut off the crop
and that they were in starving condi-
ton. Some one went through one of the
poverty-stricken districts of that county,
and his business being to enumerate the
population, he enumerated the dogs also,
and found more dogs than people. What
was fed the dogs would have fattened
enough hogs to have furnished the pop
ulation with reasonable amount of
meat.
Curse the worthless dogs Where
ever you find them in great numbers.
you find the people correspondingly poor
c"AAA oAAO OOuhOlJ W4OOChCu. i WISH GIlO
tax was twenty-five dollars on each dog,
and the proceeds given to encouraging
the raising of sheep. Here is a great
central State, adapted by nature to the
production of wool, and wool, too, of
such superior quality that it has taken
the premium more than once at the
Worlds fair, yet ON account of the myri-
ads of worthless ours which prey upon
the sheep, there is not one-quarter
enough wool produced for home con-
sumption.
In twenty-seven counties of this State,
average counties, the dogs last year killed
IL, 469 sheep. In the one county of Giles
they got away with |, 750.
A northern farmer who settled in Cot
fee county was telling me few days ago
of the fine location he had for sheep rails
ing as compared with the North. It cost
only one-quarter as much to winter sheep
here as in the North. The cold weather
never killed his lambs, no matter what
month of the year they were born. But
there was one drawback that spoiled all
that was promising and fine. The worth
less dogs killed his sheep and destroyed
all the profits of wool growing. He was
powerless to remedy the matter. The
country was fairly alive with dogs, every
family having from two to a dozen, the
poorer and more wretched and ignorant
and worthless the family, the more dogs
they kept.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-22
Rubber Cement.

There are several kinds of India rubber
cement. The best known is "marine
glue. 3" A cheaper cement and one that
is highly recommended, is made by cut
ting quantity of pure India rubber, in
in it's natural state, into small pieces,
putting them into wide-mouthed bottle
and filling it about half full of the
purest benzine; the rubber will swell up
almost Immediately, and if we'll shaken
will in few days assume the consistency
of honey. IF the rubber does not dis
solve add more benzine. If, when dis
solved, the cement is too thin, add more
gum. A piece of rubber one inch in
diameter will make a pint of cement.
This dries in few minutes, and is very
useful in uniting pieces of leather, as it
is both elastic and durable. In mend
ing rubber goods put patch of rubber
over the place to be mended and cement
it on with the solution, which fastens
the patch firmly.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-22
The Cardinals Hat.

Anne Brewster writes from Rome to
the Philadelphia Bulletin: "The Car
dinal's hat, that is the cGppelIone, is
never worn on the head it only APP
pears on great occasions, such as fiesta
for canonization, the opening of the
Porta Santa in the year of Jubilee, and
on the festival of Corpus Domini, when
it is carried by the Cardinals
chief officer. After the death of
a Cardinal it is often suspended
over his tomb. In the thirteenth CEN
fury it was worn, and, by the way, it was
first bestowed on Cardinals at the Thir-
teenth Gcumenical Council, 1915, held
at Lyons. Pipini, the chronicler, tells
a dron story about it. He says Coun-
tess. of Flanders gave the first suggestion
Tor the costume that distinguishes the
princes of the Church. The Pope of
that date was Innocent ~. (the Geno-
ese Fieschi); he reproached the Countess
for failing to greet a Cardinal with
proper ceremony whom she had met in
public while she treated lordly Abbot
who was with his Eminence with great
respect Her reply was that as there
was HO 0lab1uCu1Ou VI u0SS Sic COnc1uu0u
that the Abbot was the greater person
age of the two. The Pope then con-
cluded to give the Cardinals an especial
dress. When his Holiness Innocent ".
bestowed on them the red hat he made a
little speech in which he informed the
Cardinals that the red color implied that
they should be ready to shed their blood
for tha Church Tn 1877 the Cardinals
were first allowed to wear scarlet (por-
pora). Legates alone had worn the
scarlet up to that date. -
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-22
stranger took the stock-certifcates, and

stranger took the tock-certifcates, and
Sllas placed SIX new, crisp bank notes in
his wallet, and the two then separated.
Elated and excited over his good fortune,
Silas paid his hotel bill at once, and set
out for the depot just in time for home
ward train.
And when he reached home what a
sensation his story produced Every
body in the little village talked and won
dered, and strangely enough, too, Silas
was the only one of the "Great Union
Petroleum Oil Company" who realized
anything on the stock. People wondered
about that, too, and Judge Fay explained
it by denying the statement Of Silas
altogether. Indeed, In moment of .ex-
element, the Judge forgot his usual
caution and gave his reasons. He said,
firstly, the "Great Petroleum had not
struck oil /; secondly, the company had
not commenced to dig yet; and, thirdly,
the "Great Petroleum p" didn't own any
land in Pennsylvania, nor anywhere else;
therefore Silass story must be false. But
then Silas had the money, and how did
he get tit?
Between you and me, gentle reader,
[ have my theory. L am inclined to
think when the stranger placed his GER
tifcates on the table to compare with
those of Silas, and then went away SO
suddenly, in his haste he accidently
made an exchange and took away with
him the ''Great Petroleum certificates.
Silas, of course, was innocent in the
transaction, and sold the genuine article
to the speculator. Be the case as it may,
Silas never heard anything more about
the matter; neither, under Maria's care
full management, did he thereafter in
vest in any more oil-stock. Hearth and
Home.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-22
Parallel to the Tichborne Case.

A curious parallel to the story told by
the Tichborne claiment has recently
come to light in England. 1t is said to
be an actual occurrence, which took
place in the very neighborhood IN Aus
tralia where the claimant first appeared.
A young English nobleman having fallen
into dissipation left England, sailed
about the world, and finally reached Aus
tralia. There he took service as shep-
herd, and for several years kept sheep
for farmer. One day, while packing
up something in a piece of an English
newspaper, his eye was caught by an
advertisement stating that his father had
died, the title and property falling to
himself, and offering e200 for his dis
.covery. This shepherd-lord actually
managed to get the money offered for the
discovery Of himself, drank it up, but
has refused to leave Australia. Knowing
the family banker, he sends pretty regu-
larly for money, but he has never, like
the claimant now in prison, sent to diff
ferent banker from the one which he
himself had ordered his money to be de-
posted.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-22
THE TWO THRUSHES.
a EARLE FROM THP sp.p,su

H.
A thrush, whose venerable age
Had served to make him shrewd and sage.
His callow grandson thus addressed:
"Come! leave awhile your idle nest.
And try your wings, for once with me.
Such luscious grapes as you shall see
Will surely give you great delight.
Come on It's but moments flight
To where an ancient vineyard lies,
Whose wondrous wealth will glad your ewes.
I'll show you, lad, the very vines
Whence Bacchus draws his choicest wines y.
Away they f1y-the eager pair
Till lighting vineyard where
The grapes in purple clusters hung,
As fine as ever poet sung.
"Fie!" sneered the youngster, g do you cali
Such things as these, so poor and small,
Worth looking at =? Just come with me,
A little space, and you shall see,
grape of such prodigious size
Twill surely fill you with surprise
So large that one, upon my oath,
VIII make dinner for us both!'
With that he quickly led the way
To where common garden lay.
" See there ~ he cries, and proudly shows,
What wondrous thing, do you suppose?
A cGLtrbdSh-which, all-agape,
The fool had taken for grape!
MORAL.
The silly thrush was just as wise
AS those who deem volumes size,
Despite ITS literary dearth,)
The real measure of its worth.
John @. SAGE
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-22
% HER LETTER. y
BY BRET HARTE.

ann sitting alone by the fire,
Dressed just as I came from the dance,
IN a robe even you would admire
1t cost a cool thousand in France.
I'm bedlamoned out of all reason,
My hair is done up in cue
In short, sir, the belle of the season
Is wasting an hour on you.
A dozen engagements I've broken,
left in the middle of a set,
Likewise proposal half spoken,
That waits on the stairs for me yet.
They say he'll be rich when he grows up,
And then he adores me indeed,
And you, sir, are turning your nose up,
Three thousand miles off as you read
And how do you like my position?
And what do you think of New York?
And now in my higher ambition
With whom do 1 waltz, firt, or talk?
And isn't it nice to have riches,
And diamonds, and silks, and all that?
And amt it a change from the bitches
And tunnels of Poverty Flat?
Well, yes, If you saw us out driving,
Each day In the park, four in hand;
If you saw poor dear mamma continuing,
To look systematically grand
If you saw papa's picture, as taken
BY Brady, and tinted at that,
You'd never suspect he sold bacon
And -four at Poverty Flat!
And yet Just this moment, when sitting
In the glare of the grand chandelier,
In the hustle and glitter BETTING
The finest SOiree of the year,
In the midst of gauge de chG1nbeTY,
And the hum of the smallest of talk,
Somehow, Joe, thought of the Ferry,
And the dance that we had on the Fork.
OF Harrison's barn, with its muster,
Of flag festooned over the wall,
OF the candles that shed their soft luster
And tallow on head dress and shawl,
OF the steps that we took to the fiddle,
OF the dress of my queer UiS-G-viS,
And how once I went down the middle,
With the man that shot Sandy MCGEE.
OF the moon that was quietly sleeping
On the hill, when the time came to go,
OF the few baby peaks that were peeping
From under their bed clothes of snow:
Of that ride that to me was the rarest;
Of the something you said at the gate;
All Joe, then l wasn't an heiress
To the best paying lead in the State.
Well, well, it's all past-yet It's funny
To think, as I stood in the glare
vi fashion, and beauty, and money,
That l should be thinking right there
OF some one who breasted high water,
And swan the North Fork, and all that, i,
Just to dance with old Folinbee's daughter
" The Lily of Poverty Flat"
Good night-here's the end of my paper,
Good night-if the longitude please
For may be, while wasting my taper,
Your suns climbing over the trees.
You know, if you haven't got riches
And are poor, dearest Joe, and all that,
That my hearts somewhere in the bitches,
And you've struck it on Poverty Flat.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-22
A Little Absent Minded.

Shortly after the Southern Canada
train from Toledo to Detroit pulled out
yesterday afternoon the conductor came
into the front car on his accustomed
round. His face wore it's usual bland
expression, but there was a far-off look
in his eyes, and he gazed over the heads
of his passengers as he smiled to himself
and muttered uninteligible things. But
when he punched hole in SIS green
back and stuck so cent scrip in mans
hat band, the question Of his sanity was
seriously considered among the specta-
tors. The matter, however, was ex-
planned when lady asked what time the
train reached Detroit, and Murray
beamingly replied, "Eight pounds and
a half, ma'am" AS it is Murray's first
daughter, a little absence of mind is GER
tainly excusable in view Of the happy
event. Toledo Blade.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-22

On THE WAY.-It was night. A DO
iceman was pacing his lonely beat,
wondering if it would ever be his luck to
find fat wallet when no one was around.
Through the gloom and darkness a boy
appeared, some bread and meat under
one arm, an old army blanket under the
other and butcher-knife in his belt.
" Whither?" growled the officer as he
halted.
And through the dark shadows which
we're hiding the boy from sight came the
answer:
'sOf for the Black ills. "-Detroit
Free Press.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-14
Dagu, rre's Invention

There is an element of interest in the
often-repeateI story of Daguerre's first
invention, that makes DIR. Vogel's ac-
count of it an attractive passage-es-
pecially that part of it where he de-
scribes the chemists accidental discov-
cry of the means of making new power
available for Notwithstanding
which his first plates did not permit,
their preparation requiring a long ex-
pOsure to light, so that one desiring his
likeness upon them "would have been
obliged to remain motionless for hours
to obtain it. "
zone day Daguerre placed aside as
useless, in a closet in which were some
chemical substances, several plates that
had been exposed too short time to
the light, and therefore as yet showed
no image. After some time he looked
by accident at the plates, and was not
little astOnished to see an image upon
them. He Immediately OWNED that
this must have arisen through the oper-
alton on the plates of some chemical sub
stance which was lyingin the closet. He
therefore proceeded to take one chemi-
cal out of the closet after the other,
placed in it plates recently exposed to
the light, when, after remaining there
some hours, images were again produced
upon them. At length he had removed
in succession all the chemical substances
from the closet, and still images
were produced upon the plates that had
been exposed to the light. He was now
on the point of believing the closet to be
Dewitched, when he discovered on the
floor a shell containing quicksilver,
which he had hitherto overlooked. He
conceived the notion that the vaper from
this substance-for mercury gives off
Vapor even at an ordinary temperature
must have been the magic power which
produced the image. To test the accu-
,acy of this suppOsition, he again took a
plate that had been exposed to light for
l short time in the camera Ob8curG, and
IN which no image was yet visible. He
exposed this plate to the vapor of quick
silver, and, to his intense delight, an
mage appeared, and the world was again
by one of its most beautiful
discoveries.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-14
IsmaiI PaSha.

The movements of Ismail Pasha, the
viceroy of Egypt, are becoming of great
interest to Americans, from the fact
that this progressive ruler has drawn
largely from the United States for his
brain power to aid him in his vast
schemes of improvement. While Ismail
Pasha is, in name, a viceroy of the sub
lime porte, he is an absolute ruler, and
could. if necessary, turn around and
whip the Turkish government into a
slavish submission to himself. The
khediye now has an army of 100, 900
men under frst-class officers, many of
them being Americans, who have gone
through the civil war. This army is
being daily increased by CONSUMPTION
railroads are in process of construction
for hundreds of miles up the ancient
valley of the Nile; careful surveys have
been made of the whole country new
and valuable territory has been added
new avenues of trade have been opened,
and every agent of modern civilization
is being rapidly introduced. In fact
Egypt is becoming powerful state, and
the vast enterprises of the khedive, the
constant strengthening of his power,
regardless of expense, leads naturally
to the supposition that he proposes to |
remain an independent monarch, which |
on the whole will be better for the |
Egyptians, heavily taxed as they are to
keep up the magnificent government of |
the khedive. Land is taxed at the rate
of fifteen dollars per acre, and the rea-
son of the high rate is obvious from the |
fact that besides the expensive army
and harem of the khedive, and many
public works, he has built
sixteen large sugar factories, one of
which cost $1,000,00O The employees
of these mills are nearly all foreigners,
who are paid large salaries. The public
debt of Egypt is $500, 100000, but as
the khedive is rapidly extending his
trade and territory in Africa, the tribute
from this source must soon be enor-
nous. In the meantime, whatever may
be the designs of Ismail Pasha, whether
of an African empire, the
dream of the old dynasties, or the SIM
pie maintenance of his government in
oriental splendor, hundreds of talented
men from Europe and the United States
are finding position and influence there
and an extensive field for the exeI else
Of their talents.-CO COxrier-Jour7laI.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-14
Paper Costume Balls.

A New York letter says: "a curious
fancy has sprung up recently for his
torical costume parties, the dresses for
which are copied accurately in paper.
Last Saturday evening William Cullen
BRYANT gave one, and since then two
others have been given. The dresses
for two of these parties were strictly
copied in satin, silver, gilt. velvet, It's
sue, and brocade paper. The designs
are cut first in thin paper muslin, and
the paper carefully pasted on, then they
are put together, and the trimmings
and ornaments added, like any ordinary
dress. Incroyable costumes, costumes
of the time of Francis the First,
Charles the Second, ana Louis Four
teenth are the ones usually selected,
and are really striking and picturesque;
quite as much so as when made in real
fabrics. Trade in paper fashions has
scarcely heretofore risen to the rank of
ordinary business. 1t represents no
value in its stock, and has, therefore,
been generally considered to require no
capital, and exert no influence. But
whatever may have been the case in
times past, this is not true to-day. One
house alone has a thousand agencies
extending all over America, into Canada,
Cuba, the Sandwich Islands, and Chill,
and even over the seas to Germany,
Dublin, in Ireland, and Glasgow, in
Scotland. This same house orders five
thousand reams of paper at time, and
two millions of envelopes, in which the
tissue patterns are placed. Its com
missions to one agent alone amounted
for one week TO seven hundred and fifty
dollars. Paper must indeed be looking
up when it paves so broadly a highway
to fortune"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-14
The Appian Way.

This road was built three hundred
and thirteen years before Christ was
born. It commenced in the heart of
the CITY. passed under the Porto Cape
ma. extended and extends through
Capua, Terraciua, Beneventum on to
Brundusium. Here and there, it is
covered up by the neglected accumula-
ton of ages, but miles upon miles OF it
remain, solid, clean, smooth, safe to
horse and man as the day it was fin
ished.
The Roman Stranahan who built this
road, was a park maker. He was the
man who wanted to drain the POntine
Marshes, that Garibaldi wants to drain
to .dav and he wanted to make pleas
ure grounds of them for the people.
The cost of this road, of course was
enormous. But it nevertheless was the
cheapest road in the end that man ever
built,
The way that road was built was as
follows: In the first place a good sub
structure was dug down to, from this
all loose soil was carefully removed:
Then strata after strata cemented with
lime. was raised on this, and on the
last of these was laid the pavement.
The pavement consisted of blocks of
stone, Joined together with exceeding
care and nicely of dovetailing, no inter-
stices being apparent. There are none
apparent on it to-day, after a worlds
travel over it for a decade of centuries.
The best part of it yet visible is near
ing Terracina. Over that road marched
the heavy legions of the Caesars,
with their cumbrous wagons, and their
pondrous catapults, and over it the
male and female charioteers drove their
fours in hand to the sunny Adriatie sea,
as we our fast teams to Sheepshead
Bay. They not even marked its sur
facet
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-14
Brigham YOuDg's Dominion.

The new tabernacle was completed in
1868. It is perhaps the largest building
in the world of single span roOf-sup-
ported by neither column nor pillar.
1t is $50 feet long by $50 wide, and the
ceiling is 60 feet from the floor. The
roof is dome-shaped and surmounted
by a flagstaff twenty feet high, from
the pinnacle of which the stars and
stripes are flung to the polygamous
breeze during the session of the confer
ence, The inside of the tabernacle has
the appearance more of an amphitheatre
or the mechanics fair building in San
Francisco than place of worship. The
seats are arranged in tiers-the most
orthodox brethren occupy the "par-
ouette" and "dress circle" nearest the
rostrum. from which all Mormon bless
seats and go up in the "gaIlery" The
rostrum is an elevated platform running
almost the entire width of the taber-
nacle, upon which the bishops, priests,
elders and amen brethren sit. In the
center of this platform or stage are
three semi circular speakers stands,
about four feet in front of and slightly
elevated one above the other. As the
spirit of Brigham moves them, the
apostles, elders, ETC., pop up and speak
from this stand, according to rank. To
the right of and adjoining this platform
is the big organ.
This is the third largest organ in the
United States, and the largest ever built
in this country, those at Boston and
Brooklyn having been brought from
Europe. All the wood and other nla-
lerisl used in the construction of this
huge wind concern were obtained in this
territory, except the metal pipes, of
which there are two thousand. This
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-14
A Wonderful and Valuable Weed.

There is a weed growing in one or
two gardens of this place, which is DOS
sessed of wonderful and valuable cura-
tive properties as regards that terrible
disease, gravel in the bladder. IL is
claimed by those who have given il
thorough test, and know whereof they
speak, that it will cure the worst case OF
gre vel in twelve to twenty-four hours;
that it will give almost instant relief,
and will dissolve the worst gravel in
twelve houls; that it has been tried
in hundreds of cases, and was never
known to fail in effecting a speedy and
permanent cure. In one Gaze in this
county, when it was administered, and
under the observation of an old and
regular practicing physician, it passed
from the bladder of a patient, within
twelve hours after it was given, three
tablespoonfuls of gravel and sand.
It is good alike for man and beast, and
is a splendid diuretic. There is a
goodly quantity growing in the garden
of Mr.. l.. w. Barrett in this place. IL
is known here by no other name than
the ''gravel weed" and was brought TO
this county in the summer of 1894, from
Morgan county, Ala, by Mr.. Thomas
Knott, an old citizen of this county, and
who now resides near this place.-Shet-
byVjLte (Ien1l.) GazeHe.