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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01
Hunting the Sea Otter in Alaska.

The Saanack islets and reefs constitute
the great sea-otter ground of Alaska, and
hither come native hunting parties from
Oonalaska on the west, and Belcovskie
to the north, where they camp on the
main island, and venture out in their
bidarkies fifteen and twenty miles in
every direction to sea. Fires are never
built here unless the wind is from the
south, and food refuse is never scattered
on the beaches. The suferings to which
the native hunters subject themselves
every winter on. this island, going for
many weeks without fires, even for cook
ing, with the thermometer down to zero
in northerly gale Of wind, are better
imagined than described; while the va
rious shrewd and skillful articles by
which they outwit the otter in capturing
it would make a long chapter, if fully
enumerated, for this animal, of all wild
animals, seems to be possessed of the
greatest aversion to or dread of the pres
ence, or even proximity, of man. The
natives, when they go from O0nalaska
to Saanak on hunting trip of this char
acter, usually make up party of from
forty to fifty men. They travel in their
light skin bidarkies, two men in each,
and are gone usually three to four
months at time before returning to
their families; they haul their kyacks
out from the water every night as they
bivouac along the coast, and sleep in
gales of wind, which are always loaded
with rain, sleet and fog, without the
least covering, and almost invariably
without fire. All rude indeed is the
country of the Aleut, but he is as rugged,
and the bleak, precipitous islands
stamped with his name are all the world
to him. He wants no other, and he is
happy where we would be supremely
miserable. -Harper's Magazine for
November. .. - -.t..- -
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dared to go? Do you know you have
run the risk of losing your character
you, a married woman, going to a place
of public entertainment with man who
is almost stranger to you? Edith
have you any idea of what you have
done ?"
She turned her face, pale enough now,
to him.
"Harry, have you any idea of what
you have done? Night after night 1
have stayed here by myself, until won
der I did not run away and go home.
begged you to stay, or let me go some
times-not always, and you laughed at
me. And, then, when I found some one
who paid me the attention you should
have done, you talk to me this way
will tell you, honestly, the gentleman
who took me in is very, very dearto me.
I love him There! And if you won't
be good to me, he will !"
Forrest stood dumbfounded.
Edith, do you know what you say
Oh, Edith, wife are you mad that you
dare speak such awful words9 You love
him /"
He staggered to chair, pale as death.
This, then, was the end of all.
For moment Edith kept her ground;
then her lips began to culver, and hel
eyes filled with tears; then she went UP
to him and knelt beside him.
. Harry, Harry darling, I do love him,
but not as do you! He is my brother
Phil, HaTy-the one you never saw. He
came here several weeks ago, and-we
planned it all to make you love me
more, DEAR"
And the lesson had it's effect, for Harry
Forrest remembers what agony Of mino
he suffered when he feared the worst
And he realizes that it might all have
been as he feared.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01
Some Account of a Tornado.

A natural scientist and amateur sig
nal-service observer went down to Mount
Carmel the other day, armed with por-
tentous list of questions concerning the
natural history and habits of tornadoes.
Accosting a prominent citizen, whose
property had been dispersed over sew
eral Congressional districts, he asked
him, in the high and holy name of sci
ence, from what direction the tornado
approached, its rate of velocity, its
shape, whether the current of cloud re-
volved in the same direction as the hands
of a watch, and several other questions
of a similar nature. The citizen of
Mount Carmel gazed upon him for a
few moments, spat redectively upon his
hands, pulled off his coat, and replied
Stranger, if you had been sitting on
your front stoop and suddenly seen a
brazen, fiery whirlwind scooting along
like fast-mail train which was a year
behind time, and the next thing you
knew your wife was sailing over the
Third Presbyterian Church, and your
house had taken to itself wings and flown
into the uttermost parts OF the earth,
you wouldn't be such an 1rretrievable
by-and-large idiot as to go and ask
whether things flew around from left to
right, or vice verso.
So saying he fell upon the scientist,
and when that scientist got home and
his wife opened the door for him, she
exclaimed:
"Oh, Eliakim, there has been another
tornado, and you got caught in it !"--
Chicago Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01
Safety of Ocean Travel.

The truth is, there is no trip so safe
as that from New York to Liverpool. It
has its dangers, of course, but there are
dangers in crossing the Brooklyn ferry
and in walking down Broadway. The
chances of danger are less en- the ocean
than in any other form of travel. We
have to thank the bold and skillful men
who make the steamers and sail them
for having achieved this complete COM
forting measure..of safety, and, as Chris
tan people, we have also to thank Di-
vine Providence that the season now
ending has been one of unvarying sue
cess, leaving no tale of disaster to mar
sunny memories of European lands
Nea0 York Herald.
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Was it for these their pale king stole away
IL From pomp and revelry FL &c.
To that green dell where, by the fountains bri1,
His dewy-sandaled love kept tryst with him !? E6
All, but the place sweet
About her messy seat
Breathed spicy fern and dark, delicious bloom
Of violets; sweeter to his soul her kiss,
Her arms that clasped him in the fragrant gloom,
Her sigh of timid bliss !! FL 49, 90 Z
Discrowned awhile, his brow upon her breast ~ q
Forgot its burden dear he was and blessed. 81 D.
Perchance she whispered this e.
Twas all she knew I; and yet no king more wise
Than he lives sceptred in mems memories!
--Nary KeeIy Boutelte, in Apptetons'.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01
The Advantages of a Tunnel.

They were what the world calls zen
gagged" and they were going to visit
some of her relatives thirty miles dis
tant. Two railroads ran to the home of
the latter, and the lovers were undecid-
ed which one to take. "There is a
long, dark tunnel on the Q . road,
isn't there ?" she innocently asked. He
said there was. 'sAnd none on the
B line ?" she further inquired. He
said there was not. "Then let us 60
by way of the O. road" she softly
murmured. And they went.-NorTis-
tOaU7s Herald.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01
e All, cHAsMs AND CLIFFS OF SNOW

All, chasms and cliffs of snow!
Down the dim path many feet have beaten
Need it be hard to go?
From bitter bread, from fruit the frost has eaten
From bloom the rain has shaken,
From wings the winds have taken?
few gold grains of corn
To plant in that strange SOIL some hil-brd's
feather.
A broken branch of thorn
From some dead tree where two have watched to-
gether;
These, for the hearts close keeping
Through waking or through sleeping!
One means with homesick breath.
Here, for cold crag and cloud, where wales are
sunny; 'gep 4a. Secs.
What then, if after death
zone thirst for water having milk and honey?
Sweeter divine regretting
Were than divine forgetting
= MRS. S. M. B. Pratt, IN Atlantic Monthly.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01
A DOLLAR OR TWO.

With cautious steps we tread our way through
This intricate world as other folks do,
May we still on our journey be able to view
The benevolent face of dollar or two!
For an excellent thing is a dollar or two;
No friend is so true as a dollar or two
Through country and town,
AS we pass up and down,
No passports so good as dollar or two.
Would you read yourself out of bachelor crew,
And the hand of a female divinity sue?
You must always be ready the handsome" to do,
Although it should cost you dollar or two.
Loves arrows are tipped With dollar or two,
And affection is gained by dollar or two.
The best aid you can meet,
In advancing your suit,
lis the eloquent clink of q dollar or two.
--HGrper.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01
POETIC PEARLS.
Guided frou the November Magazines.

Guided from the November Magazines.
A STUDY.
May. sweet we shah not drown in you. I say
What none before, perchance, have SAD 70 you
Yes. you've good eyes, know how to use them,
You 60 o little down a doubtful way,
We scarcely follow, knowing all is play
But, sweet, for all that you can ever 90,
YOU win not made one heart your lasting prey.
just think how 1t will be in au au I1alaaa'
when cold turns gray, and Time has scanned your
brow! g !+{<E4 FL
For pity could almost disavow LIS.
What have said entreat you as my bride,
-ro rive the poor life shelter at the last
---EfdyDeT.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01
WIT AND HUMOR.
MATCHES are still on a strike.


A MATTER of form-Fitting dress.
THE center of observation-disclosures.
The sun is the Oldest and best tanner.
A RIFLE team-A gang of burglars.
IT was backward debtor who said:
The dues you say.
BETTER to have loved short girl than
never to have loved tall.
This is the time to roast chestnuts and
pop corn and the question.
GIVE us the dollars of anybody-what's
the use of being particular?
Is A man who accepts free ticket to
a party necessarily ball d'eadhead?
A HOUSEHOLDER advertises rooms to
let to gentlemen furnished with gas.
ABOUT the most uncomfortable seat
man can have, in the long run, is self
conceit
eyes" said the old reprobate, 81 al
ways recognize water when I see tit
looks just like gin"
Ten years from now stealing will have
become a thing Of the past. There will
be nothing left to steal.
"MY child, what is an erring man?"
said a clergyman at school examination
to the brightest pupil. "The fsh-mong-
er, sir, was the reply.
A GRAVE old man told his son that if
he did not grow less dissipated he would
shorten his days. "Then, dad, said
the boy, 81 shall lengthen my nights"
IT was observed of philosopher who
was drowned in the Red sea that "his
taste would be suited, for he was man
of deep thinking, and always liked to go
10 the bottom"
THE Oil City Derrick says: owe don't
care cent what becomes of the last
man, or the first one either. It is what
is to become of the intermediate fellows
that interests us.
WHY" asked Pat, one day, "why
was BALKAN first class astronomer 2"
The other gave it up, of course. "Shure,
said Pat, "'twas he had no trouble in
finding an ass to roid."
THE COssACKs LAMENT.
Oh, Kara me back to Old Bulgary,
.. TO Old Bulgary's shore;
feel quite strange in this Balkan range,
And want to go home, what's more.
On the Danube strand I'd like to stand,
I'm sick and tired Of the war;
Then Kara me back to Old Bulgary,
To Old Bulgarys shore.
-NeaU York Commercial.
"MY dear boy" said mother to her
son, as he handed round his plate for
more turkey, "that is the fourth time
you've been helped" 81 know, moth
er, replied the boy, "but that turkey
pecked at me once, and [ want to get
square with him.
Chow WOULD you make a believer of
an incredulous man?" asked one gentle
man of another not long since. "I
think the surest way would be to set him
over beehive, was the reply; "and [
calculate that after he'd been stung once
or twice he would become bee leaver
in earnest.
A MEDICAL student who got very drunk
one evening told his father next day that
he was suffering from cephalalgy in
duced by the ductility of glandiferous
stopper placed in the mouth of a vitreous
vessel containing distilled grain" The
old man gave him an order for new suit
of clothes, to still further encourage
him in his studies.
A SCHOOL Board Inspector asked a
small pupil of what the surface OF the
earth consists, and was promptly an
swered: Gland and water" He varied
the question slightly, that the fact might
be impressed on the boys mind, and
asked: "What, then, do land and water
make?" To which came the immediate
response: "Mud!'
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01

TO ONE WHO HAD CALLED A WOMAN
&N&A III BUTTERFLY.
49,. Do We not comprehend that we are worms,
&'ABorn to bring forth the angelic butterfly
e, That fieth unto Judgment without screen? 2"
.fy b. Dante.
Thou, in thy scorn, hast given her name
9li' Far better than was meant; f.fI
1t hints of highest glory, not of shame;
She ought to be content!
Groveling in care, a creeping worm thou art,
80 She bursts her chrysalis;
The emblem Of our beings deathless part
n e. Whatnobler name than this!
Charlotte r! Bates, IN Scr5b9ser.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01
EGERIA.

What whispered she to him
Beside the water dim,
Beneath the misty shade of leaves that chung
SO thick about the fountain? Dark and sweet
The summer night in silence DER them hung;
No sound of wandering feet
Nor etealthy step of sylvan creature stirred
Among the wood-paths; far away he heard
Rome's midnight pulses beat,
/; But needed not. What whispered she to him
Beneath the leaves beside the water dim?
Some secret dread and old
From mortals OVERLOAD
Hid by the high and jealous gods away
Some rune of things that were or things to be,
Or sage enchantment wherewith princes sway
The round earth and the sea,
And happy hearts OF men-s0 legends say
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01
1875, inclusive:
BbEs. of

The average daily product Of this re-
gion from the discovery Of petroleum to
Jan. l, 1876, has been nearly IL, 900 bar
rels. The average daily product in
1878, 1874, 1875 and 1876 has been
about 80, 900 barrels per day. This year
there has been considerable increase, the
product for July and August having av
eraged SO, 900 barrels per day.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01
Wholesale Destruction of SQUIRRELS

The irrepressible squirrel has at last
met conquerer in the person of Mr..
Brayant, who, if report be true, kills
them by the score. It seems that this
squirrel destroyer was for long time
an invalid. He captured lot of squir-
rels, and day and night, to while away
the tedium of disease, he studied their
habits and discovered their special weak
ness. He then compounded a pellet,
the base of which was a deadly drug,
and sugar coated it with something es-
pecially attractive to the squirrel tribe.
His success surpassed expectation, and
he is now travelling over the country
taking contracts to kill all the squirrels
on farm for so much an acres cents
in the mountains and Scents in the val
leys. He passes by their burrows, drops
a few grains of his exterminator, and in
few moments the squirrels lie dead in
all directions. It is said that one will
eat grain containing the poison, pick
up another and die with it in his paws.
Green Valley (Solano county, farmers
tell us that heaps of squirrels lie piled
up in that valley, attesting the skill Of
the greatest squirrel-killer of this or
any other country. The farmers of San
Joaquin county will be happy to make
the acquaintance of this Individual, with
his little pills. -Stocktoa (Cal) hide
49e92Gent. l.
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. IN THE OLD SOUTH CHURCH.
Boston, 1877.
BY JOHN G. WHITTIER,


she came and stood in the Old South Church,
wonder and a sign,
With the look the old-tiIne sibyls wore
Half erazed and half divine.
Save the mournful sackcloth about her wound.
Unclothed as the primal mother
with limbs that trembled and ewes that burned
With fire she dared not smother ~
Loose on her shoulders fell her hair
4 With sprinkled ashes gray; rsH
She stood in the broad aisle, strange and weird
As soul at the judgment day!
And the minister paused in his sermons midst.
And the people held their breath; e.,
For these were the words the maiden spoke
Through lips as pale as death:
'Repent, repent! ere the Lord shall speak
In thunder and breaking seals
Let all men worship Him in the way e-' Do
That his light within reveals.
+. Thus saith the Lord with equal feet
All men my courts shall tread .ul-s. .t.
And priest and ruler no more shall eat
My people up like bread 7"
She shook the dust from her naked feet,
And her sackcoth closer drew;
And into the porch of the awe-hushed church
She passed like ghost from view.
They whipped her away at the tail o. the cart
(Sman blame to the angry townD,
But the words she uttered that day nor fire
Could burn ncr water drown.
To-day the aisles of the ancient church
By equal feet are trod;
And the bell that swings in its belfry rings
Freedom to worship God,
And now, whenever wrong is done,
1t thrills the conscious walls
The stone from the basement cries aloud,
And the beam from the timber calls.
There are steeple-houses on every hand,
And pulpits that bless and ban
And the Lord will not grudge the single church
That is set apart for man.
For in two commandments are all the law
And the prophets under the sun,
And the first is last, and the last is first,
And the twain verify one.
So, long as Boston shall Boston be-
And her bay tides rise and fall,
Shall freedom stand in the Old South Church
And plead for the rights of all
Atlantic Monthly for NOvember.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01
SONG.

Sweet wind that blows DER sunny isles
The softness of the sea
Blow thou across these moving miles
News Of my love to me. $e E
SSlpples her hair like waves that weep
About this pleasant shore
Her eyes are bluer than the deep 81 ~ 81
Round rocky Appledore.
aHer sweet breast shames the scattered spray,
Soft kissed by early light:
Il dream she is the dawn of day.
That lifts me out of night
Oscar LGightoa, IN Ldpptnc0t.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01
TO A sCHOOL-GIRL,

Well, is it worth the winning earnest eyes,
This learning that the late, age offers you2
Win it make bluer any winter skies,
If Schopenhauer, and not Paul, is true?
VIII ever rule that Euclid finds complete
Bid parallels of JOY and duty meet?
Or can it charm woman's pain to know
How Josephine and Juliet and the rest
Laid their sweet heads upon some fateful breast,
And drank a lovers poison long ago?
bird watch is singing on her nest,
Because no bird has taught her winds can blow.
Your pardon, dear, some royal height is meant,
Since One, wide-seeing, is the One content
Harper.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01
PEACE.

The king encountered of his crown,
70 In cot content, can lay it down
The bird far faring from her nest,
Some kindly spray may rock to rest
The lark led on through upper air,
At eve forgets his journey there;
And tn eagles eyes on glories far,
Ere long recede from sun and star.
The leaves which people lofty trees
The snow-shed foam of tn over seas;
The rain that rings along the sky
Together meet and lowly lie.
Thou, too, Soul, striving to soar
Each fight beyond the flight before,
Shalt, past the vexed years that yearn,
TO humber haunts of Peace return
John VGrce Cheney, an Scribner.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01
Catching Sharks in Florida.

A. correspondent sends us the follow
ing novel and effective method of CAP
turing sharks, as practiced successfully
at Mayport, a watering place at the
mouth of the St. Johns: st procured
tight half-barrel, around which was
dashed strong rope, to which was at
tached three feet of chain and shark
hook, baited with fat mullet. Secur-
ing my line to the apparatus, I moored
it just outside of the breakers, and re-
turned in my boat to the shore. Sharks
are numerous and hungry in this section,
and [ did not have to wait long for a
customer. Tt would done your heart
good, Col. Thompson, to have witnessed
the extraordinary gambols performed by
that barrel. It appeared to have been
imbued with life, and rolled, tossed and
pitched in the most fantastic manner.
Anon the blade-like dorsal fin of the
monster would cleave the surface, while
his muscular tail would lash the water
into foam. I awaited the result with
composure, feeling assured that the vio-
lent efforts of my captive would soon ex-
haust his powers. Finally his strength
succumbed, and I drew him on to the
shore with scarcely any exertion. The
specimen was a fine one, and weighed
between 200 and 800 pounds. I caught
smaller one six feet long the same af-
ternoon, and hooked tarpon,' which
escaped by leaping clear out of the water,
thereby detaching the hook. My method
has stood the test of experiment, and I
hereby give notice that I shall apply for
patent "-S0U03a2.0b NeaUs.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01
Yield of the Pennsylvania Oil Wells.

The following table will give the read
er some idea OF the vast amount of pc
troleum which has been yielded by the
Pennsylvania oil regions alone from 1860
to 1878. inclusive:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01
LOVE.

I asked the Sun,
"Canst tell me what love is ?"
He answered only by smile
Of golden light
prayed the flowers,
Oh, tell me, what is love?"
Only a fragrant sigh was waited
ar Thro' the night.
gt. tFs kt&tf Al'tE .t't t. =
rs love the souls true life,
Or is it but the sport 8.
Of idle summer hours 2" asked
Of Heaven above.
N'- In answer, God sent thee,
Sweetheart, to me! r
And nolonger question,
"What is love ?"
The GGIa1y
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01
a SONG,

What time the violets bloom, my dear,
In ways that you and regret, -.-~
L saw your gray eyes first grow clear H.
With love cannot fathom yet,
But never. may forget, my dear VI -
But never may forget! t<<f
What time the winds blows fresh, my dear
fragrant balm was blown to me;
felt the blossom-tine draw near;
My blood, like sap infiower or tree tea
Sweiled for the fruit to be, my dear
The hope of fruit to be!
What time the violets fade, my dear,
What time the winds blow chill and wet,
Through changeful seasons year on year,
Though moons may wane and suns may set,
Oh, say you won't forget, my dear esgs@
Oh, say you won't forgetl
Journal. IS tx
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01
MAKING IT SKIP.

'EI'n make it skip!" rhgS
Dried Charley, Selling a bit Of stone,.
And, in trice, from our Charley's hand,
.4 With scarce dip, 49,
Oyer the water it danced alone,
While we were watching it from the land
Skip! skip skip grs -F.rys
aGs7,a ~ 3 e '.,- Nr4s .sf sAa b s&s
"I1l make it skip!"
Now, somehow, that is our Charley way; FF'
b He takes little troubles that vex one SO, ]
Not worth flip,
And makes them seem to frolic and play
Just by his way of making them go ~
Skip skip skip
,--,Joey Stacy, IN st. Nicholas. ..,t, -r,.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-10-26
Revival Of BusTne.s.

AS an instance of the revival OF
business, the following converse
ton, which occurred yesterday be-
tween DIR. Lynch and p. J. Pauly,
is given:
well, Pauly, how is business p
Business is reviving; have
more orders than l can fill, and ]
avn about to rent the car wheel
works down there on your ground"
''l'm glad to hear that business il
so brisk, see the streets are full OF
people and vehicles, and the hotels
are crowded.
eyes, 1 am over run, and 1 must
have more room"
"By the way, Pauly, what is your
business? l have forgotten"
making jails. st. Louis Globe
Democrat.