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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-01-10

A farmers son from near Reilly was in
town last week selling hogs, and ran Tito
an old acquaintance on the street.
What dye think, Bill? I'm mar
ried, said the Butler county youth.
"The deuce you are Well, I never
thought that of you, Sam. Who is she?''
cold Uncle Dan Farrel's daughter
Mary and I'll open your eyes a bit,
Bill. You won't believe it, maybe, but
it's honest gospel truth. didn't marry
that girl for neither love nor money
honest Tnjun," said Sam, with a smile
that made his face look as though his
eyes were about to be fenced in.
Bill leaned up against a lamp-post and
gave him q look of speechless amaze
ment for q second Or two, then whistled,
and slowly said:
swell, then, by the old Harry, I'd
like to know what you did marry her
for, anyway"
"Well, Bill, I'll tell you how it was
You see she's one of the best little work
ers in that part of the country, returned
Sam, with a double dose of the old
smile.
sob, that's how it comes, is it2" said
Bill. "Well, old John Robinson bought
a couple O. mules last week on that very
same recommendation"
Sam said he had to meet man at 3
o'clock, and hurried away Cincinnati
Breakfast Table.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-01-10

similar to the chocolate tablets, and
which, indeed, is the shape which the
chewing tobacco OF sailors and Yankees
takes, and we have a colossal pile worthy
OF being placed beside the third largest
Of the pyramids of Gizeh, that Of the
Mykerinos, and as massive and as high
as that old regal edifce. Let us grind
all the tobacco into snuff, and let us pic
ture to ourselves the sad case that SIN
evil equinoetial wind one fine morning
blows the snuff over the ocean, and
showers it on one of our German states.
we are certain more than one Of the Iili-
putian states would have much dificultyin
recovering its existence by shoveling
away the snuff. = ope's Tobacco Plant.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-01-10
About the Size of 1t.

The entire mass of tobacco which is
annually consumed in smoking, snufing
and in chewing on the earth is 4,000,-
900, 900 pounds anifestly too high an
estimate for from l, 200, 900, 900 to l, $780,
100000 of inhabitants. Let us take the
half as the more probable, and let us
suppose the tobacco leaves transformed
into roll tobacco, tobacco serpent is
created which, with a diameter of two
inches, and following the direction of
the equator, could wind itself around
the earth thirty times. Let us suppose
that the tobacco is formed into tablets
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-01-10
THE Err AVELER.

The beating blasts, III their winter wrath.
Sweep furious round my trembling form
Deep drifts OF snow obstruct my path,
Dark clouds proclaim an approaching storm.
A bood-red sun in an angry west
Sinks slowly down to his mighty resi-.
And darker shadows will gather soon.
And wilder yet shall the cold winds blow:
Far keener the frost in the cherries gloom.
ana deeper the drifts OF the binding snow.
Oh where, in the dasl1Sess of night so dread.
Can fainting traveller rest his head?
In the crowded city, where, clear and warm,
Ten thousand cheerful hearths glow bright,
NO refuge found from the clustering storm.
No shelter for me from the freezing night.
In vain turn to the peasants Goor,
am spurned from his threshold. Tn poor Ina
poor
Too wide are the rents in my garments old:
Exposed to the frost are my feet half bare;
Ny hands unprotected, and swollen with cold
And my limbs are benumbed by the chill,
damp air.
Oh gracious Heaven is it mine to die
On stormy night meath wintry sky?
How sweet to be laid IN an early tomb,
In my childhood's hour of peace and mirth,
o God! that this might have been nv doom
Long ere had tasted the bitters of earth!
"Twere joy had disease only DO, ne me away
IN the brighter hours of my younger day!
With pleasure look to that happy hour.
When my spirit rescued from pain and strife
ana summoned aloft by that unseen Power
VIII awake in the blaze of glorious life
MY spirit exuiting freer shall soar
10 the fairer realms OF that unknown shore!
MOUNT FOREST, Ill. EHS
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-01-10
Uncle Moses Lesson.

Uncle Moses the chief executive Of
suburban Sundoy-school. Last Sun
day, raising his black face with its
snowy fringe, he poered over lis ante
bellum " stock" and collar at the little
nigs, who were buzzing like bees in a
hive Just under his nose.
"Ordah ckillen, ordah ! Don't yer
heah me, chillen Leetle Jim Lump
kins, dere, hesh dat talking like a cum
sterile on lection day"
When Jimmie ceased his conversation
the chief executive resumed:
g [ calls de deten8hun 90 de school
ter de way youse been carryin' on dis
dressed day. Wot yer bin q doin' =?
Yer knows An dc way yer tongues is
bin carruscatin' is scan' Ious.' %
The black fingers pushed the tall col
lar back and pulled the black chin for
ward.
"Now, I puts it ter yer, an do yer all
hssen, and yer, too, Lie Mullins, I ak
yer dis question: How menny eyes you
chillens got?"
Chorus" Two"
8 How menny MOVIES yer got?"
Unanimously" One. "
/" Wot does Cat mean? It means yer
mus see twice es much es yer tells.
Now how menny yeres yer got?"
Chorus 1.-TWO"
can how nenny MOVIES e.
Gone"
"Dat means yer mus heah twice es
much as yer talks. Now, member dis
lesson, an you, Henry Giles, contribute
de papers 'roun' fore we iines in pra'r."
--Men222his AU0203ache.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-01-10

The deepest artesian well in the
world is now in progress at Pesth, and
has already reached q depth Of 951
metres (3,118 feet). The we'll at Paris,
which is SAT metres in depth, has hith-
erto held the first place in such a3hieve-
ments. The work, is carried on at the
expense of the city, which has granted a
sum equal to G40, 900 for the purpose,
with the intention OF obtaining an I'M
limited supply Of warm water for the
municipal establishments and public
baths. The water at present issuing has
a temperature Of 161 deg. Fair, and
the operations will be continued until
that of 178 deg. Fair. is obtained. About
IT'S, 900 gallons of the liquid stream out
daily, and rise to height of thirty five
feet. This amount will not only supply
all the wants Of the city, but is expected
to convert the surrounding district into
sort OF tropical garden, by the con-
slant evolution of heat. Since June
last, the boring has penetrated through
200 feet OF dalomite, and the preceding
strata passed through have supplied a
number Of interesting facts to the geolo-
gist, which have been noticed from time
to time in the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences. The difficulties to be over
come have given rise to many highly In
genious engineering devices, such as a
method for driving nails, at the enor-
nous depth above mentioned, and,
more, the means of drawing them (by
OF cutting off and pulling up
broken tubes, and, above all, available
mechanical apparatus by means of which
the water rising from the well is used as
a motive power, driving the drills at a
rate of speed double that previously i'm
parted from the mouth of the well.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-01-10
THE WESTERN METROPOLIS.
The Commerce and Industries of Chicago
A Favorable Exhibit for 1877.
rFrom the Chicago Journal

From the Chicago Journal
According to the Chicago TriBouse's
elaborate and carefully prepared annual
statement and review of the trade, man
ufactures and commerce of this city for
the past year, the grand total of Chica-
COS wholesale and jobbing trade for
1877 amounted to 1896, 600, 900 (gold
valuation) as against 1886, 800, 900 in 1875
increase in 1877, So, 100000. And this,
too, in spite of the fact that 1877 was q
terrible "hard times year.
During the past year $212, 163, 900
worth of produce, including grain, flour,
live stock, provisions, hides, butter,
ETC., was received and sold in this
market. In addition to this, SIS, 600, 900
of foreign and domestic green fruits
were sold here during the year, So, OGO,-
600 of dried fruit; ST 500, 900 cured fish,
$3.50, 900 fresh fish, So, 100000 oysters,
$500, 1000 OF canned goods, and $12, OO0,-
900 of tobacco and cigars.
Chieago's lumber trade in 1877 reached
1865, COS thousand feet, besides 529. 269
thousand shingles, The total receipts of
coal were 1,641, 488 tons. The years
sales OF building materials are estimated
at 81, 025,O00
The aggregate amount Of the sales of
wholesale grocery houses for 1877 is COM
puted at$73, 900, 900; wholesale dry goods
houses about $50, 100000; millinery
houses. 81, 10000 clothing houses,
$50, 000,000; hats, caps, and furs. 81
ESQ. 900; drugs and chemicals, S., $780,
600; crockery and glassware, So, 500, 900;
music, 81, $50, 900; jewelry, $4,85O, 600:
leather and leather products, Sill, 555, :
301; hardware, $50, 250,000.
The total of Chicago's manufactures
Of all kinds during the year is computed
at 1904, 100000, Of which $48, $50, 900
was i'll the packing of pork and beef;
1913, 40, 600 in the iron trade: $24, 055.-
900 in planning mills and other workers
in wood; 800, 800, 900 in agricultural i'm
plements, plows, carriages, ETC.; So. 933, :
600 in other metals than iron; ST., 039, 200
IN brick and stone; $i3, $500 in high
wines, beer, ETC.; So, 1898, 995 in cheni-
calls,
The grand total Of Chicagos whole
sale and jobbing trade in 1877 is COM
puted at 1892, 900, 900, divided as follows:
Produce, S2l2, 600, 900; wholesale houses,
$276, 100000; manufactures, $204, 000,-
600.
The aggregate value Of the cattle,
hogs and sheep received for the year
1877 is 800, 900, 900.
New buildings erected in Chicago dur
ing 1877, 1,348, with frontage of 49,
802 feet; total cost, $6,343, 800. We're
they to be placed side by side in q con-
tinuous line Of street, these new build
ings would extend to a distance OF six
and half miles.
The losses by fire in Chicago in 1877
foot up g total of $l:072, 700, which was
insured to the amount Of 81, 018, 921.
Net loss over insurance, only $63, ITO.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-01-10

THE shipment Of gold and silver from
San Fran isco to China the present year,
in aggregate, foots up $18 245 625. The
year previous it was $40, $50, 800.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-01-10
Extraordinary Coincidence.

Perhaps the most remarkable coinci-
dence ever known has taken place in
Allentown, Pa, where live Mr.. and Mrs.
Barney Ward, whe have been man and
wife since 1867. On the 4th If July,
1870, their first child vas born; a second
was born July 4. 1871, and third was
born July 4, 1872. Every succeeding
18th OF July has been celebrated by Mrs.
Wards presenting to her husband fine.
healthy child, and now the Ward family
contains eight children, born within as
many years, and all on the 4th of July.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-01-10
The largest bell in the world is in the

TIE laTBVs6 DeII IN the world Is In the
temple of Glars, in Kioto, Japan. I'm
like the great bells in Picking and Mos
COW it is whole, and it's tone is as per-
feet and as sweet as when first suspend
ed. Where and by whom it was cast is
not known. Chinese and Sanscrit char.
acters completely cover it, but they are
not trauslatable by Japanese scholars.
1t is twenty-four feet high, and sixteen
inches thick at the rim. It has no clap
per, but is struck by sort of wooden
battering ram on the outside.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-01-10

THE English newspapers buy their
paper by the mile Tue London Stand
ard recently advertised for 65.208 miles.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-10-11
Cheap Paints.

"E have a complete assortment OF LEW
w lS' C0LORS, also White Lead, Pure
Linseed Oil, Glass, Putty and Paint Brushes,
81 LOW PRICES.
s. d. HIGGINS a SON,
aug left Rockville, Nd.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-10-11
OLDFEE
ExCe1siOr Pump

A short notice.
Always on hand all kinds of Pump Fix
lures, of the very best quality.
Common Wooden Pumps mad e on the prem
Uses where they are to be placed, when desir-
ed, at so cents foot.
AllPumps constructed by the subscriber
are warranted for one year. After the first
year, they will be kept in order by him, for
ten years, for the moderate sum of$l pr year.
All Pumps put in and notproving satisfac-
tory, will be taken out and the money re-
funded.
Orders by mail, or in person, attended to
with promptness, and at moderate prices.
~ For anyfurther information, apply to
Mr.. J. BYERs, Montgomery House, Rockville,
Maryland.
WIN. OLDFIELD,
PUMP MAKER,
apl9-ly Fountain Green, Hartford G.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-10-11
70 FARMERS!
WHEAT SEEDING!
OFFICE OF R. C. DAVIDGE.
Manufacturer of Fertilizers,
:B6 w. Lombard ST..

BALTIMORE, Aug. 18th, 1878.
DEAR Sir: Our Agent, Mr.. H. G. TOWN
SEND, is about to call upon you. He will
offer our different grades of Fertilizers, at
prices fixed with view 10 ruling rates for
produce. Whilst we offer for Wheat Seeding
two articles at material difference in cost,
we would state that the more costly differs
from the other almost entirely in its stimulat-
ing NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. In other and
more lasting properties, such as Available
Phosphoric Acid. il is substantially the same.
Yours truly, re. DAVIDGE.
re- RAW and DISSOLVED BONES
Dissolved South Carolina Bone Phosphate,
Peruvian Guano, and all Fertilizing ingredi-
ents for home manufacture.
aug left
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-14
Ruined by Poker and Faro.

Col. VIM. H. Heath, formerly County
Auditor for two successive terms, and at
one time leading and influential citi-
zen, is accused of having sold his
household furniture to two different par
ties, and then taken it to an auction
house and obtained an advance upon it
of 5000 more. The furniture is said to
have cost $4,000 only few years ago.
A mania for poker and faro is said to be
the cause of Col. Heath's ruin, and the
source of deficiency of about $40, 900
in the school funds of the county, Of
which, as Auditor, he was custodian dur
ing four years. An Indictment was re-
turned against Col. Heath for embezzle-
ment about year ago, but it was found
defective, and the jury were instructed
by Judge Jones to acquit. Subsequent
" another Indictment was found.-&
Louis Post.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-14
Dramatic Lawyers.

Circuit Attorneys of st. Louis have a
favorite practice of bringing in some
horrible feature at almost every murder
trial. If nothing better, there is usually
waved before the jurors faces bloody
shirt. In most cases, however, the object
lesson is conveyed with something more
striking. On one occasion, that of the
trial of Anton Holm, the Circuit Attor-
ney came before the jury holding in his
hand the heart Of the woman who had
been killed. In fit Of jealous rage
Holm had plunged dirk into his wife's
breast, and the lawyer produced the heart,
which had been taken out at the inquest.
" to show where the blade penetrated. )"
This was done Notwithstanding the fact
that the defense admitted the killing.
In the Wieners case, where there was
no doubt about the homicide, the Coron-
er, at the call of the attorney, Mr.. Beach,
stepped blithely before the jury-box,
presenting in his hand portion Of poor
Mack Lawrence's vertebral column.
"This, gentlemen" remarked DR..
Auler, complacently, sis portion of
the vertebral column of the deceased.
On this touching one end of the row Of
bones) the head rested. This is the SEQ
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-14
The Search for the North Pole.

At a recent meeting of the American
Geographical Society in New York,
Capt. Howgate repeated his coloniza-
ton plans for the complete exploration
of the polar district, and affirmed his
determination to use every aid to be de-
rived from scientific sources in his expe-
dition. He will not only establish colo
nies with ample supplies of food and
clothing, drugs and apparatus for pre-
serving human life in cline in which
mercury freezes, but will connect the
colonies with telegraph wires and tele-
phones. More than this, he will prose-
cute his Arctic trip with the assistance
of balloons, having an experienced
French aeronaut, recommended by the
Paris Geographical Society, engaged for
these aerial experiments To save tele-
graph poles, he spoke of the new cop
per telegraph wire which carries a cur
rent without insulation, and can be
stretched carelessly on the dry snow and
ice of the Arctics without support and
yet be successfully worked, as proved
by late tests.
This subject of Arctic exploration, so
interesting to the attendants on the
New York meeting, is equally fascinat-
ing to hundreds of thousands outside,
and, while few are as sanguine of ad-
vanced results from the newly organ
lied exploring expeditions as are the
participants themselves, it is most salts.
tying to be permitted to know that so
much Of earnestness, enterprise and
common sense are associated with the
plans.
In addition to the Howgate expedi-
ton, which will probably receive $50, 900
from the United States Government,
there will be in the Arctic field the COM
ing summer Government expeditions
from England, Holland, Germany and
Russia, besides a few private enterprises
like the Barry expedition at present
forming in the East.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-14
A Horrible Death.

Mr.. Theodore Robinson, of Lansing.
N. Y, was engaged in his fathers grist-
mill, and, while attending to his duties,
his clothing became entangled in an up
right shaft running at the rate of 100
revolutions minute. A man named
Charles Humphrey, who was in another
part OF the mill, heard Robinson's cries
of pain, as he was whirled about by the
awful power that held him in it's cruel
grip, and rushed to him and endeavored
to extricate the form that was fast losing
human shape. In his attempts to re-
lease Robinson, Humphrey had his left
leg broken by blow from the boot of
the whirling man, and the sickening ride
was continued nearly fifteen minutes be-
fore the water was shut off and the great
wheel stopped. The mangled body of
the miller was then conveyed to house
some rods distant from the scene of the
accident and tenderly cared for. Not
withstanding that the poor man must
have been thrashed around in that fear
full manner at least many thousand times,
life did not leave the broken and limp
body until the day after the accident.
The force with which the shaft whirled
it's victim may be family imagined by
the marks made in the workbench by
his boots as they struck it from time to
time. There are at least + ixty indent-
ures in the wood that look as though
they had been made with heavy blow
from a hammer. The clothing was
stripped into ribbons, which woun1
about the man and held him fast to the
shaft SO that no force could get him
loose until after the machinery was
stopped. The boots, heavy and strong,
were ripped and torn to pieces in what
seemed to be minute after Robinson
got in the shaft.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-14
important Decision.

An interesting decision has just been
rendered by the United States Supreme
Court relative to the rights of colored
persons to the same privileges with
whites upon public conveyances. Jo-
sephine De CUR, of New Orleans, La,
a colored woman Of property, was re-
fused admission to the upper cabin on q
Mississippi-river steamboat, on the
ground that it was reserved for whites.
She sued the owner of the boat in the
Louisiana courts, and was awarded
81, 900 damages, but the United States
Supreme Court reverses the decision.
The court rules that the laws do not for
bid that steamers shall have separate
cabins and dining rooms for whites and
negroes, that equality does not mean
identity, and that acknowledgements
have a right to keep apart persons who
would be disagreeable to each other.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-14
A York State Farmer Who Loves to
Fish

In Chill there is an elderly farmer
who is passi -nately fond of sport-es-
pecially fishing and hunting and he has
a son who is chip of the old block in
that as well as in other respects.
One day last summer the old gentle
man left home, but before going set his
boy at job he was anxious to have
done. Returning sooner than he was
expected, he found that the boy was
missing.
"Where's Tom ?'' he growled, as he
entered the kitchen door.
"Gone fishing" said the girl.
Fishing the rascal; I'll fish him
when I catch him!'
And away the angry old fellow went
for the brook. Coming within hailing
distance Of his hopeful son, who was
bending eagerly over the stream, the
father yelled:
'Tom you scoundrel, Tom p
There was deprecating movement of
one hand on the part Of the boy, who
did not, however, turn his head. Still
more angry, the avenging parent came
nearer and bawled out:
Ill learn you to stay home and work
when"
Ssh sh !! sh ! father" said young
Izaak Walton; GIVE got bite.
The old fellows passion perceptibly
cooled at that announcement, and, luck
~ for the boy, the latter just then hauled
up handsome perch. This was too
much for dad, who sprung forward and
helped unlock the fish, and then:
"Tom, have you got another hook?"
Victory perched on the boys fish-line.
Sunday Herald.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-14
ROCK-A-BY, BABY.

Rock-a-by. baby; in the tree top,
When the wind blows the cradle will rock.
When the bough breaks the cradle viii fail
Down tumbles baby, and cradle and all.
Rock-a-by, baby; the meadows in bloom
Laugh at the sunbeans that dance in the room
Echo the birds with your own baby tune
Coo IN the sunshine and flowers of June.
Rock-a-by, baby; as softly it swings,
over thy cradle the mother-loye sings;
Broodlng and cooling at even or dawn,
What viii it do when the mother is gone?
Rock-a-oy, baby: SO cioudless the skies,
Blue as the depths of your own laughing eyes;
Sweet is the lullaby your nest
That tenderly sings little baby to rest.
Reck-a-by. baby; the blue eyes will dream
sweetest when mammals eyes over them beam;
Never again win the world seem so fair
Sleep, little baby-no cloud in the air
Rock-a-by, baby; the blue eyes will burn
And ache with that your manhood will learn:
swiftly the years come with sorrow and care
With burdens the wee dimpled shoulders must bear
&ock-a-by, baby; there's coming day
whose sorrows mothers lip can't kiss away:
DAYS when its song will be changed to a moan
crosses that baby must bear all alone.
Rock-a-by, baby; the meadows in bloom,
May never the frosts pail the beauty in gloom;
BE thy world ever bright as to-day it is seen,
hock-a-by, baby; thy cradle is green.
Huntington Haa0k-Eye