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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-12-19
Whales and Cats.
Louisville Courier-JOurnal

We've got it. "There's millions in
1t ~ Whales? Yes, sir, whales We're
going to take the Ajax, fill her full of
live cats whales are fond of cats, 90 to
sea with them, and commence throw
ing 'em overheard, one at time. This
will make the whales follow the Ajax,
and Wen persuade 'em into the
Mississippi, through the jetties and up
the Ohio. The farther up the Ohio
river we get the more cats We'll throw
overheard, and the more willing the
whales will follow. When we can't 90
any farther with the boat load of cats,
for the want of water for the whales to
swim in, We'll stay where we stick, and
feed 'em on cats until the river falls
and the whales can't get out for low
water and sand-bars. Then we'll go for
whalebone and oil-see? We can save
the cats for bait for another trip out
through the jetties, for whale swol-
lows 'em alive, and it takes about 5000
cats to do good-sized whale any good.
The Ajax will carry about 10000 cats,
equal to twelve whales, and twelve me-
:diuln-sized whales will furnish oil and
whalebone to supply this country Cats
are cheap, and whales are easily coaxed
to follow u boat-load, if you'll throw
one overheard once in a while to let 'em
know you've got plenty of 'em. Cap
tain jim Watson furnishes the boat,
and we furnish the cats. He gets the
oil, and we get the whalebones. The
Ajax is " a whaler," and We'll cats 'en,.
There's millions in her cats mil
lions.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-12-19
THE MISSING SHIP.

Right gallantly, that morning hour,
From harbor she sailed forth;
Five hundred sunny hearts on board,
thousand bales of worth.
A little kingdom on the sea,
A little heaven of hopes,
And whistled merrily the winds.
And seamen at the ropes.
Oh, what a picture gallery
Was in those wooden walls
Each man was painting out his dream
OF woods and waterfalls.
Of corn fields bowling in the sun;
OF kline on sweet green sward:
These were to be. across the sea.
And he of all, the lord,
No wonder twas, though hard to part
From all beloved of yore,
That such a shout rang from the ship
And such shout from Shore
They went. They're gone from mortal ken
God only knoweth where:
Full many fathom deep, perchance,
Each with his dream so fair,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-12-19
What Kissing Really Is.
(From the Denver, Co.., Mirror. }

He was fresh from over the range
and had just stepped in to get the latest
news. He listened attentively to Jim
while relating his experience the night
previous with his "solid girl !" at a kiss
ing fray. when, with sheer of derision
he opened his mouth and said ooh
talk about kissing go away [ have
kissed in the North; [ have kissed in
the South; have repeated the soul
stirring operation East and West; !
have kissed in Texas and away down in
Maine; | have kissed at Long Branch
and at the Golden Gate-in fact, in
every state of the Union; in every
language and according to the manners
and customs of every nation; | have
kissed on the Mississippi and all its trib-
utaries; but, young man, for good, sound
kissing, give me a full-fedged Carbon
girl. When you feel the pegs drawn
right through the soles of your feet
from your boots, that's kissing, that is. y
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-12-19

A WONDERFUL feat in engine building
was recently accomplished at the Mi
chigan Central Railroad shops at Jack
son. Two gangs of fourteen men each
began at seven o'clock upon two sep
arate locomotives, the parts Of which
had been previously laid to hand, and
"set up" the two machines, each en-
ploying thousands of pieces, and start
ed them out of the yard under steam
in exactly two hours and fifty-fve
minutes.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-12-19

THE beautiful in heart is a million
times of more avail, as securing domes-
tic happiness than the BEAUTIFUL in per-
son.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01
Crooks Campaign.

During the recent campaign against
the Sioux Gen. Crooks troops have
marched $500 miles. the General and
his staff accompanying them from first
to last. Only seven months have been
actually consumed in accomplishing this
distance, which would make an average
of 472 niles per month. The spoils re-
sulting from the four principal battles
fought and from the Red Cloud agency
affair are 395 tepees captured and de.
stroyed, representing the homes of near.
~ 5000 Indians; about 5000 robes and
tons of other camp equipage; $50 indians
captured; estimated 800 killed and 45C
wounded, and 1850 ponies captured.
Gen. Crook has lost total of % mel
killed in battle and IS wounded, while
three have been lost by accident and dis
ease. Cheyenne San.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01

Jews, Protestants and Romanists all
agree in receiving as canonical the books
of our Old Testament. But as the
Romanists would add to these the
apocryphal books, SO the Jews insist on
adding their oral law. They say that
when the written law was given to
Moses, inscribed on two tables of stone,
God also gave another and verbal law
explanatory of the first, which he was
commanded not to commit to writing,
but to deliver down by oral tradition.
When Moses came down from the
mount, they tell us that he irst repeated
this or j law to Aaron and his sons, and
then to the seventy, and finally to all
the people, each of whom was obliged
to repeat it in his hearing to insure
it's correct remembrance. Just before
his death, they say, he spent month
and six days in repeating it to them
again; and then, they assert, he COM
mitted it in a special manner to
Joshua, through whom it was impaired
to Phineas, and so on through The long
line of prophets, and afterward of
teachers, down to the time of Judah
the Holy, who lived in the second
century, by whom it was committed to
writing lest it should be lost. This
work, consisting Of six books, is the
famous Mishna of the Jews, which,
with it's Gemara, or commentaries, con
stitutes their celebrated Talmud.-
Scri6ner.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01
published
Webster Reformed.

With view to the enlightenment of
unsophisticated and, therefore. fire.
quently puzzled perusers of party out
pourlngs, Mr.. Punch has prepared the
following definitions and explanations OF
some OF the chief words and phrases in
theA verbal armory of the party contro-
versiallst. The personal pronouns in
these cases will, of course, be understood
to refer to the person speaking or writ
ing:
All Remarkable and Respectable
People Ourselves.
Everybody-That portion of the COM
munity, small or great, which sides
with us.
Nobody-Eyerybody who holds or ex-
presses opinions antagonistic to onrs.
The Opinion of the Country-This is
arrived at by an exceedingly simple
aritbmetical process, namely, by sub
tracing the views of "Nobody" lin the
above sense) from those of Sc EVERYBODY
Gas before defned)
Common Sense-The opinion common
to all those who agree with us.
Blatant Conceit-The impression on
the part of our opponents that they have
a right, equally with ourselves, to opin-
ions of their own.
Well-meaning but Misguided People
Persons whom it may be desirable to
depreciate but impolite to abuse.
Pestilent and Pretentious Socialists
Persons of precisely the same way of
thinking or speaking, vino may be at
tackled with IMMUNITY.
Spouting-A depreciatory epithet for
all talk but our own.
Nostrum-The specific of a rival pre-
scriber.
Faction-Departure from our pet pro-
gramme.
The Herd-The world minus our
clique.
Imperial DEMONSTRATIONS selfish
ness-with big S.
Humanitarianism-A scornful syn
onym for any form of humanity that
happens to run counter to "imperial
interest"
Intelligent Public Spirit-Open advo-
cacy of our views.
Fatuous Fussiness-Public advocacy
Of any others.
Atrocit y-Venal errors on the part of
our clients.
Atrocity-The indignation of those
who dare to denounce them.
Sentiment-The root of all-political
evil.
Inverted Commas "A mechanical but
compendious and observation-disclosures
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of tacit perver-
sion and mute depreciation. What a
shrug is to the scandal monger inverted
commas are to superfne critic
Punch.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01
at Sea-.

"Why don't you talk, dear2 I never
knew that you were SO fond of the sea
before. (Here Henry sighed violently. J
But if you are, I don't see why we can t
take this trip often after we are married.
It's very healthful Henry breathed an
other sigh, and it's very cheap. Don't
you think we might, dear ?"
Henry did not reply, but again his
emotions overmastered him.
Why don't you answer me2 Oh,
don't shake your head. Can't you turn
around and look at me9 think you're
very unkind. If you don't answer me
declare that I'll never speak to you
again %
Then Henry, after another sigh,
looked at her with face as white as a
sheet of paper, and in weak voice said:
ssGreat julius Caesar, woman, don't
you see that I'm trying to throw up my
very toe-nails 81 Philadelphia But
Letin.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01
A Tremendous Clock.

The great clock at the south end Of
the Crystal Palace at Sydenham is now
in working order. It is almost coun-
terpart of the great Westminster clock,
with the exception of the striking and
Ginning apparatus /; and the dial is said
to be the largest ever constructed, being
forty feet IN diameter, or nearly 1900
square feet in area. The hands, with
their counterpoises, weigh nearly quar-
ter of a ton the minute hand measures
nineteen feet in length, and moves half
an inch at every beat of the pendulum.
The distance travelled by the point OF
the minute-hand is nearly four miles a
week. During seventeen days Of OBJ
servation the variation'was eight seconds
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01
It will be seen from the foregoing that

It will be seen from the foregoing that
the failures in this city were sixty-four
less last year than in 1875, while the
average liabilities fell from $51, 769 in
1875 to 1877, 479 in 1875, a difference in
each case of $14, 900.
1t would be interesting to refer to
other matters set forth in the circular
review, did space permit. Enough,
however, has been given to show that
the tide of disaster is lessening, and that
the country is making some approach
toward placing its business affairs on a
more sure and profitable basis. The
circular encouragingly says by way of
conclusion "The steady improvement
in the value of the currency, the stabil-
ity of the credit of Government is
sues, the approach to par Of gold and
other values by natural causes, the
steady demand at excellent prices for all
the products of the land, are all circum-
stances which point to healthy con-
dition."
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01
Australians Bid for Emigrants.

The problem in Europe is to get food
and employment for superintendent
population. In the new world it is to
obtain a population. Australia is the
latest bidder for an immigration of
stout, honest, industrious people. She
has sent $50, 900 to New York TO be spent
in obtaining emigrants, and a. similar
amount has gone to England. About
half the passage money will be paid out
of this fund, so that transportation viii
cost adults only about $40, and children
about $40.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01
The Nenosha Telegraph
KENOsHA, WIS, FEB. |, 1877.
q Ruf fOCracL

A Nut to Crack.
There was an old woman who lived in hut
About the size of hickory NUT
The walls were thick, and the ceiling low,
And seldom out doors did the old woman go.
She took no paper, and IN no book
o0f any sort was she seen to look,
And yet she imagined she knew much more
Than any man or woman had known before.
They talked in her hearing of wondrous things
Of the dazzling splendor Of Eastern kings,
of mountains covered with ice and snow
When all the valley lay green below.
They spoke of adventures by sea and land,
OF oceans and seas by a cable spanned,
OF buried treasures-but though she heard,
She said she didn't believe one word!
And still she lives in her little hut
About the size of a hickory nut,
AT peace with herself, and quite content
With the way in which her days are spent
Little it troubles her, suppose,
Because so very little she knows,
For, Keeping her doors and her windows shut,
She has shriyeled up in he1 hickory NUT
And you my dears, will no larger grow
If you rest contented with what you know;
But pitifnl object you " i'll dwell,
Shut up inside of your hirkory shell.
-WIde Awake.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01
Belgian Offer to Coin Silver for the
United States.

The Director Of the Mint at Brussels,
Belgium, has made proposition to coin
silver for the United States Govern
ment. He states thst the minis of Eu-
rope are closed against silver, and the
European market is in deplorable
condition. He thinks that by using his
bullion houses in Brussels, Paris, and
London for purchasing bullion and coin
ing it at his mint, great stability would
be given the silver market. and the
United States would thereby be able to
coin the trade-dollar to an extent sutfi-
cient to control the India and China ex-
changes. He is further of opinion that
the American silver-mining interests
would also be promoted if his PROPOSE
ton was accepted.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01
THE BUSINESS FAILURES OF 1876.

Evidence of the Country's Return to a
Sound and Healthy Financial Condi
ton.
From the New York World
The annual circular just issued by the
Mercantile Agency dun, Barlow 6 Co.
throws much light upon the business
casualties of the past year and the pros
poets of business in the near future.
Notwithstanding the financial disasters
of the past four years, and the gloom
and depression which have attended the
country from 1873 downward, there are
many things which should bring com
fort for the present and hope for the
future. The authors of the circular say
it is undeniable that the past year has
Witnessed q marked improvement in the
value of many leading staples, as COM
pared with the prevailing prices in 1875.
1t is equally fact that, in extent of
profitable trade, there has been per
ceptible gain, while in many branches
OF business, much larger number have,
in 1876, added to their available surplus
than during the year preceding. Nor
should it be forgotten that while the
year gone by shows an augmentation of
business failures, 1t also exhibits sat
isfactory increase in the wealth Of the
country. "Cotton, grain, sugar, to-
bacco, gold, silver, petroleum and nu-
merous other resources OF this great
continent have been produced in GUAM
titles sufficient to yield 81, 900, O0O." It
becomes matter OF sincere congratula-
ton that, while the producing power of
the nation has thus been exhibiting it.
self, the people have clearly demon
strated by lessening OF importations
and restricted purchases of both domes-
tic and foreign goods that they have
learned the lesson of wise economy.
Looking at the business failures of
1876, the circular shows the number to
have been 1852 greater than ir 1875,
but the liabilities are $40, 942, 567 less
in the former than in the latter year.
The failures were 1902 in 1876, as
against 7,740 in 1875. The liabilities
in 1876 aggregated $191, 1T, 1856, while
those of the year preceding amounted
to $201, 069,353. The following is an
exhibit of the financial disasters in bust
ness circles for the past four years
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01
Total. ,o92 $289, 054,527 $l,O56, So, e1a

J
80, 1850, to June 30, 1876, inclusive, the
net exports of gold were $702, 068, GA,
and of silver, $204, 083, ITO, making a
total of exports over imports of $780,
169,984. The total production having
been ST., O56, 631, 6l9, and the excess Of
exports over imports as above, we have
production in excess Of net experts of
$3.50, All ,635. The amount used in the
above seventeen years in the arts in this
country, according to estimates Ii the
census, has been $85, 100000. Subtract
ing this from the above surplus gives us
$65, 461, 635 as the increase in our stock
of the precious metals since 1860.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01
Symptoms of HydrOphObia.

From a recent lecture on this disease
by N. Bouley, French veterinary sur
geon, the following precautions and
hints for detecting hydrophobia in dogs
is extracted
Beware of dog which begins to be
sick. All sick dogs, as principle, must
be suspected.
Beware, especially, OF one which is
sad, morose, and seeks for solitude !;
which does not know where to rest !;
which goes and comes, rambles about,
snaps and barks without reason whose
looks are dull and gloomy, and whose
bright expression is lost
Beware of the dog which looks about
and attacks imaginary phantoms.
Beware Of one which is suddenly too
affectienate, asking for your caresses by
his pitiful and repeated cravings.
And thus you will protect yourselves
from danger to which you may be ex-
posed in your home from dogs kept as
family pets.
The bark of the mad dog is thorough
~ Characteristic; so much so, indeed,
that any one familiar with it can decide
with certainty the presence of rabid
dog when this barking is heard. 1t is
not necessary, either, that the ear be
long exercised to familiarity with the
sound to obtain this certainty of dag
nosis. Instead of the normal and sue
cessive barks, it is hoarse, lower in
tone, prolonged, and not SO strong.
After the first bark made at full
strength, series of five, six, seven or
eight others Immediately succeed, low
cred in strength, and thrown out from
%3,o %broo+
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01

ALEXANDER MITCHELL. the railway
king of Wisconsin, is building mag
nifcent bank building and safe depos-
tory in Milwaukee, and in the construc-
ton of his money vaults has hit upon
novel idea. He has made the floor,
walls and top of two thicknesses of rail
road rails, and has surrounded this
seemingly impregnable barrier against
thieves with very thick wall of stone.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01

"IF," says Mrs. Swisshelm, speaking
of the genus tramp, ''they die of cold
and hunger rather than use the industry
and forethought necessary to preserve
their lives, let them die and welcome !;
whose business is it but their own
The world will have good radiance,
and as for keeping their progeny alive,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01

setting sun. During late years thew
have seldom used light except in the
morning, and Mrs. Littlefeld THAT is
the name, Anthony and Mercy is never
in bed when day breaks.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01

Mr.. CLAY, grandson of Henry Clay,
possesses a quaint heirloom in the shape
of letter written by Daniel Boone.
The spelling is very original, this being
specimen 81 hope you Will Wright
me By the Bearer, Mr.. goe, how you
Com on With my Horsis-I Hear the
Indians have Killed Sum pepel near
Limestone.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01
A Rare Old COupIe.

A man and wife in Rock Island, Ill,
now more than 80 years of age, have
been married 81 years. Their habits of
life are as uniform and self-complacent
as though they expected to live always.
They occupy house alone, have no
servants, rise at o'clock, dine at 10 or
= nLelzo Of nnd rotiro With tho
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01

show this we give the number of pounds
Of homemade, with the number i'm
ported during the last five calendar
years. the quantity imported last De-
cember and November being estimated,
as the official figures have not yet been
III
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01

in town all through lonely Christmas
day. and eat commonplace dinner with
the housekeeper. And the Pink Parrot
| laughed. - Vide AaU0ke.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01

The largest sail in the world has been
made in Dublin. It is rectangular, and
measures $50 feet by go. Tt Is to be
aaco1 IN Yoic;y ~ c,,rlyo., vocco1c
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01
The Production of Gold and Silver
in the United States.

The Financial Chronicle gives the
following table of the production of the
precious metals since 1860:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01

Carefully prepared estimates of the
pig iron production of the United States
during 1875, compiled by the Secretary
OF the American Iron and Steel Assoei-
alton, show atotal of 2,050,0 900 tons pro-
duced. This estimate will be supple
mented subsequently by the exact fig
ures, but it is very nearly accurate.
There has been steady falling off in
the iron production of the country since
1878, as viii be seen by the following
table, giving the total pig iron product
for each of the last four years
Year. Tons Pig Iron
1873. 1855, 273
1914 ................'.. 6S9, 4lo
Some OF this decrease is attributable
to the increased tendency to substitute
old rails for pig iron but this by no
means accounts for the total decrease.
The decrease of stock in the hands of
producers is estimated at 100000 tons,
the amount on hand at the close of
1875 being 100000 tons, and at the
close of 1876, 100000. The only States
which have increased their iron product
in 1875 over the amount produced in
1876 are Pennsylvania, Alabama, Texas,
West Virginia, Missouri and illinois.
Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and
Michigan are the largest producers of
iron, the first making, in 1876, $4,000
tons, the second 383, 900, the third 49,.
900, the fourth 81, 00O-these quantities
being respectively 1926 per cent, 1877
per cent, 9 per cent. and Al per cent.
Of the total production of the whole
country.
The consumption of pig iron in the
United States in 1876 was undoubtedly
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01

According to the circular the business
disasters Of the past year have fallen
with greater heaviness upon the New
England and middle States than upon
other sections of the country. ''It is a
significant circumstance, says the re-
view, that the failures in the middle
States are one in every fifty names
reported in business. while i'll the West
ern States the proportion is one in every
seventy-two; but the comparison be-
tween the East and South is even more
significant, for in New England, with all
it's wealth and solidity, one in every
fifty-nine has yielded to the pressure
of the times, while in the South, with
all it's poverty, its political and other
disabilities, the percentage of failures
is only one i'll every sixty-four. The
following table will serve to make this
disparity plain
SECTIONAL FAILURES AND LIABILITIES, 1876.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01
Number PercentGg
offadlnreS. Of failures

Compared with the whole country the
failures and liabilities of New York city
have been as follows for the two years
ending Dec. 81, 1875: