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4 congre--man Uho our sIeep.

q Congressman Hho Cant sleep.
Some strange stories are told Of
Hewitt. which would be very amusing
II they did not relate to his malady.
insomnia, says a Washington letter TO
the Philadelphia Times. IL is proba-
bic he sleeps fewer hours than any
man in America. lie is gradually
dying for want ofsleep. One year he
had quarters near Welckers, and was
driven wild. or imagined he was, by
the early growing Of a cock. He had
complained Of Il for some time. but
the cock crowed all thu same. Final.
ly, in Aft Of desperation, he told
Welckers colored man. John. that he
would he I'D If he could stand il
any longer, and he would give So for
that ROSTERS head. John is thrifty
lad Of few words. lie left the threat
ening presence at once and sought the
owner OF the cock. lie had no diff
Guilty IL buying the fowl for 20 cents,
and the wringing of his neck was
quick work. lie placed the head
upon a salver, like John the Baptist's,
and presented himself before the Con-
gresham, salyer in hand. This made
Hewitt laugh, but he paid the IS.
John next sold the dead cock to Mr..
Welcker for 90 cents, and cleared 81.
% for his mornings work.
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A gentleman recently about to pay
his doctors bill. said: "Well. Doctor,
as my little boy gave the measles to
all my neighbors' children, and as
they were attended by you, | think
you can afford at the very least, to
deduct ten per centum from the amt
of my bill for the increase Of business
we gave you" N
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paper, sirs" asked the uewsboy.
"No, | never read was the blunt an
swer. eli, boys, come here" called
out the gamin, "here's a man as is
practisin tor the jury"
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As spirituous liquors will injure
men, so opium or morphia will harm
fully affect the baby. DIR. Bulls Syr-
up is he remedy for the baby. 1t is
free from opium. Price 25 cents. &
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DO you know that il costs as much
to keep a dog as it does 10 feed doz-
en- hens, aud that you can get enough
eggs from the hens to keep a small
family, besides raising good many
chickensg Try it once, and you will
be satisfied that dog is poor proper
~ as compared to nice, healthy hens.
Dogs, agaunt
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~ mars Uhf HUffft v" " h"Nffff" 7
An incident occurred in the battle
Of franklin which | have never seen
in print That sanguinary battle was
at lis height, and now and then there
was y soldier who would not face the
music, and holding TO the idea that
distance lends enchantment," on all
such occasions would exhibit his faith
in the idea by taking ''leg.bail' for the
rear. These cases were getting too
numerous toward the close Of the hat
tie, and Col. B, A. A. G.. Of one
brigade, was sent back to the rear to
intercept these seekers for safety and
return them to their respective posts
Of duty. Col. B. said he hailed one
fellow who was making tracks for
safety with the energy Of despair;
"Flalt say, and return to your
command J"
The flying son Of Mars took no no.
tice Of the command.
"lIalt say, aud 60 back to your
postl Y
The soldier paid no attention TO
him, and the Colonel now became ex.
asperated and yelled out
"lf you don't turn and go back to
you command, III shoot you, sir !"
Without pausing in his fight, the
soldier yelled back to him
"Shoot and be id What's one
bullet toa basketful ?"
Col. b. let him 60, aud after the
battle told the incident rs a good Joke.
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Contentment is pearl of great
price, and whoever procures ii at the
expense Of ten thousand desires makes
wise and a happy purchase.
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Ashes make splendid manure for
potatoes, aud every particle made on
the farm should be saved Cor this pur-
pose.
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A year of pleasure passes like a
floating breeze, but moment OF mis-
for seems an age of pain.
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An extract from Judge Buckner's
speech before the Bar Meeting at
Frankfort: 1.-The old murder law
should be revised. Experience shows
that the greater the enormity of the
crime and the greater the popular IN.
dignation, the poorer is the material
Of which the jury is composed. All
intelligent men now read the newspa-
pers. This dehars them from acting
as jurors, and as consequence the
jurors are elected from a stratum be-
low the intelligent citizens who read
the papers"
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Why is a merchant who does a
strictly cash business never at resty--
Because his work is never dun.
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The elephant is a cautious animal
He never loses sight OF his trunk.
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A gentleman wishing TO send City
cents to a Iowa City party, bored
hole through a silver half dollar, tbro
which he passed string aud tied il
10 a tag containing the address and
stamp. IL arrived safely.
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We can never bridge the styx with
the span Of life.
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Regular advertisers viii hud our rates 20 20 o.
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ID. HOWARD SMITH.

81 oven County, Is Candidate Tor rc-eection as
sIAih AUDITOR, subject 70 the action OF the
heinocraiic party. Election In ls7a
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CANDIDATES.
FAYETTE HEWITT,

Oi Hardin Co., Il Candidate Cor the Democratic
as AUDITOR Of PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
August Election, 1879.
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ON MONDAY, SEPT. 2. 1878.

And continue iorty weeks, Uith d NneHiion OF cue
Week Al Christmas.
The i0rmer Principal y 100 ptiiiuuc in rhara. Doe
be has associated aiih himself PM. ltnulnf., uI
charge Of eias'es in the Anrirui and .Aisarf lau-
suages.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23

Mr.. JOHN WREN, of Cleveland, Ohio,
has just recovered from 4,OOO-mile
drunk. He went to London, England,
some weeks ago to visit son, got very
drunk at wine party and vanished.
When next heard of it was at the depot
in Cleveland, where he was found under
the influence of liquor and armed with
two big bottles of whisky. They took
him to the hospital, where, after some
days delirium, he recovered his senses,
abused his English friends for deserving
him in strange place, and asked for
paper to write home to Cleveland for
money to return to America. My
God have crossed the Atlantic ocean
drunkw he exclaimed, when at last they
convinced him that he was in Ohio, not
in England. <t
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23

The perils Of mining are well illustra-
ted by the report Of the deaths and &C
cidents during last year in the eastern
district Of the Wyoming coal fields. The
report shows that the number of per-
sons killed in the mines was SO the
number injured by non-fatal acct
dents 189, and that by these deaths Is
widows and 68 orphans were left unpro-
vided for. During 1877, 40 men were
killed in the mines of the district, leav-
ing 20 widows and 1874 orphans. In the
same year 174 persons were injured in
various ways. The number of casual
ties has been materially diminished by
the strict enforcement of the act rela-
tive to the ventilation of mines. but
they are still much greater than they
should be, and all possible precautions
which experience may suggest should
be adopted by mineowners for the pro-
lection Of the lives of those who pursue
their perilous work in the recesses of
the earth.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23

For downright astonishing feats Of
journalism those Chicago fellows beat
the world. When the Reno military
court met in that city the other day, it
was decided to admit reporters to the
sittings, but they were not permitted to
take notes. Notwithstanding the use
of the pencil was strictly forbidden, the
reporters, from mere memory, managed
to give verbatim reports Of the entire
proceedings, occupying several columns
in the morning journals The military
gentlemen marveled greatly at these
prodigious feats of memory, and, on
the third day Of the trial, they unani-
mously voted to allow the free use Of
pencil and paper. They frankly &C
knowledged that they were beaten, and
said they would never again try to cir
cumvent Chicago reporter. dt
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23

GEN. GRANT was called upon for q
gallant action at a recent Paris recep-
ton. Mrs. Hooper says that, just as he
was about to depart with Mrs. Grant
leaning on his arm, his hostess remarked,
leading forward her young daughter
IS General, with Mrs. Grants permission,
/ should like to ask of you to accord a
favor to my daughter. Ny grandmother,
when girl of IS, was kissed by Gen.
Washington, and ! should like my
daughter in after years to,be able to say
that she had been kissed by Gen. Grant
The young lady blushed, and the
General grayely bestowed the salute
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THERE will come to this country from
Russia this year $4,000 Mennonites to
settle in the Great West. These peo-
pie are German Baptists who have con-
scientious scruples against fighting.
Their ancestors settled i'll Russia long
ago, having been guaranteed immunity
from military SERVICE That guarantee
has been withdrawn, hence the exodus.
They come to this country in the hope
of escaping CONSUMPTION, but when the
nation chat gives them home and shell
ter needs their services then they must
go to the front like the rest, :, nn 7
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CAPT. HowGATE. chief signal officer

CAPT. HowGATE, chief signal officer
in letter to the Secretary of War
again advocates a Government expedi.
ton to the Arctic seas, saying that the
present reduced condition Of the whal-
ing interests of our country would alone
Justify the expenditure of ten times the
cost of the proposed colony on the
shore Of Lady Franklin's bay, as a rea-
sonable effort to discover and develop
new whaling grounds"
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The prevalence of the defaulting
mania among public officers is forcing
upon the lawmakers Of some of the
States the consideration of means
whereby the evil may be mitigated, if
not extirpated. In the Ohio Legisla-
ture bill has been proposed requiring
County Auditors and Treasurers to
make monthly statements to the Coun-
ty Commissioners, and imposing heavy
penalties upon these officers if the funds
in the treasury do not agree in amount
with the statements. ".
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Daisy's Dog.

Daisy had q pink dog.
Now, whoever heard Of q pink dog?. ~.
There are black and-tan dogs and
gray dogs and yellow dogs and white
dogs; but Daisy's dog was pink, and it
was China dog, the safest kind of a
dog to have around in warm weather.
Daisy had friend about as old as
herself, named Posy, who lived next
door, and these two little friends were
so devoted that they had to see each
other every day.. Sometimes Daisy
went to Posy's house, and at other times
Posy came to visit Daisy \. s4gsl'.3a
Although these little girls loved each
other dearly, yet they would sometimes
quarrel, and then they wouldn't speak
to each other for three whole minutes.
One day !. they had worse quarre
thansusual. Daisy began by saying,
" Don't you wish you had a pink dog,
Posy?" 7Ff toA Ei.#
"Yes," said Posy. Are you going to
give me yours ?' fASS
What! my pink dog, Posy Williss {?
No, indeed; / guess not. You'll have
to get your mamma to give you one,
same as I did" = 'ht
Well, I think you're real mean,
Daisy Summers, said Posy; II guess
if had pink dog I'd give it to you"
You wouldn't either" replied Daisy.
/ would"
:" You wouldn't"
/ would. 495
/" You wouldn't; and you needn't say
so again. screamed Daisy, in a very
loud voice, and giving Posy such hard
push that she fell over on the floor and
struck her head against the bureau.
Her screams brought in Daisy's
mamma, who rushed to see what was
the matter %
Posy was more frightened than hurt,
and was soon quoted down, for Mrs.
Summers took her into another room
and gave her nice large lump Of white
sugar.
When Daisy's mamma inquired into
the cause of the disturbance and found
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cone-bearing trees. Sweden and Nor
way have 81 per cent, chiefly birchs
maple, pine, fir and willow. Austria
has 20 per cent, Germany has IS per
cent. and France II. Far below these
comes Spain, with its cork woods and
evergreen oak forests, covering per
cent. of the land, and Holland and Bel
GUM with the same. Portugal comes
next with 5 per cent, and Great Britain
follows with 4 per cent, The percent
age annually decreases in all countries
rapidly.
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STATISTICS of railway mortality for
1878 present some frightful figures, of
course, for, though we have been en-
couraged to think that times were bet
tering, the overloaded railroads, built at
high prices, and in many cases with en-
ormously excessive capitalization, could
not catch the friendly breeze in time to
save themselves. The tables prepared
by the Rathvay Age, of Chicago, place
the number of roads sold under fore
closure during the year at forty, with q
length ST 1902 miles, and nominal
capital of 1911 ,631 200, little less than
half of which was stock. AS this, by
the process Of sale, is almost always
wiped OUT entirely, while usually
the bonded debt is scaled also, virtually,
if not nominally, it may, be considered
that the amount written off the nations
books, in the proft-and-loss account of
the yeer, included at least $175, 100000
worth of railroad p operty. 70 some
extent this has been lost by people along
the lines of the several foreclosed roads,
who had subscribed to the stock in Or
der to get them built, and as to these
they have in many cases profted much
more by the improvement of their prop
erty and the advantage of the railroad
than they have lost by the Sheriff's sale.
But, as to nonresident investors" for
eign capitalists no such compensation
exists. They pocket the loss without
being able to perceive single element
of gain. ..45 4s4-4l a. 49,. I'LL.
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THE statistics Of the Postoffice De-
partment afford an excellent illustration
of the growth Of the country in popula-
ton and intelligence. Within the last
ten or fifteen years the postal facilities
have improved 500 per cent, and letters
are now transmitted in about half the
time that was required ten years ago
over the same distance. In 1867 the
mails were carried, over routes aggre-
eating 34,015 miles; in 1877 over routes
aggregating 74,546 miles. The mails
are carried twice as often over most of
the routes, and in some cases three times
as often as they were ten years ago. In
1867 the service cost $3,812,OOO. In
1877 it cost $685. 900. In this com
parison we should consider, also, the
amount of mail matter handled, which
was more than twelve times as great in
1877 as it was in 1857. It will thus be
seen that the cost Of the service has not
grown in anything like a proportion to
it's extent. Twelve times as much mail
matter is carried two and one-third
times the distance, more than twice as
often, at about two and one-haH times
the expense, The increase in the num-
Der of stamps used since the first year
of theirintroduction has been enormous.
Then barely 100000 were issued yearly /;
since 1863 the issue Of stamps has in
creased, on the average about 100000 a
day, or more than 100000 yearly.
In the fiscal year ending last summer
the number Of stamps amounted to
!. 744, 1,518, and their value aggregated
500, 562, 463. The entire number of
stamps issued for sale since 1847 amounts
to 9,719,3O8,527, enough, If put end to
end, to go around the world six times
at the equator, and their aggregate value
reaches $280,327, 1868. The total mum
Der of postal cards issued since 1873 is
Isl, 249, 800, Of which nearly one-third
were issued last year.
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that her little girl was to blame, she
sent Posy home, and, after giving Daisy
little motherly talk, left her alone for
half an hour to think how naughty she
had been.
When she went into the room again,
she found Daisy just finishing little
letter which she had printed to send to
Posy, and this is what it said
Deer Posy
am sorry pushd you down and
here is mi pink dog to keep forever.
Daisy
So you see Daisy was really sorry
Elmer Lyaande, in Youths Com
Dunion.
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Mrs. Anders0n's Great Walk,

A letter from New York gives the fol-
lowing account of the closing scenes of
Mrs. Anderson's unparalleled walking
feat in that city: At II o'clock tonight
Madame Anderson successfully COM
pleted her unparalleled feat of endur-
ance of walking 2,7O0 quarter-miles in
2,7OO consecutive quarter-hours. The
task was begun Dec. Is. The number
of visitors steadily increased after the
first week, and, as the admission price
was increased from Is cents to, so cents
last week and to 81 to-day, handsome
sum was realized by, the pedestrienne.
The total receipts of the month were
over $32 900, Of which Nine. Anderson
will receive about ST 600. Thousands
of Brooklyn ladies have become inter-
ested in the womans attempt, and it's
influence has been to make walking the
fashion. Mozart Garden was crowded
all day, and tonight was scene of wild
enthusiasm Several thousand people
gathered outside, unable to gain admis-
sion. AS stories had been circulated
that bouquets saturated with chloroform
! would be presented, and other attempts
be made by fnancially-interested par
ties to cause Nine. Anderson to fail in
her undertaking, she was closely guard
ed all day, persons walking in front, be-
side and behind her. She was sustained
by intense excitement, walking rapidly,
with white face, fixed eyes, and clenched
teeth. At the finish of the last quarter
but one she sprung from the track TO
the platform and sang farewell song.
When the bell rang her out for the last
time she darted from her room and set
off at a tremendous pace, determined to
beat two minutes and forty seconds, her
best time hitherto recorded The man
ahead of her was obliged to run, so fast
was was her pace. The audience kept
up deafening applause, the ladies joining
in the screaming and shouting, Nine.
Anderson came flying down the home
stretch almost on a run, and fell ex-
hausted into the arms of her attendants,
who lifted her into chairand carried
her to the platform. She had evidently
kept herself up by will-force during the
last day. Several speeches were made,
and, after slipping glass Of port wine,
the pedestrienne made a. farewell
speech, saying it had always been her
ambition to do something nobody else
had ever done, narrating her various
fortunes as singer, actress, clrcus-clown,
and variety-hall proprietor, and heartily
thanking the public for Interpretation.
She advised ladies to walk more and use
horse-cars less. The last quarter-mile
was made inc :37a, closing remarkable
performance. For four weeks she had
not more than eight successive minutes
of sleep. She will be allowed to sleep
only few hours at time, and be sus-
tanned by stim1llants, until fully re-
STORED iag1n1ibE H~RoH netYngrs aD
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BY keeping count of the persons who
come beyond sea to the port of New
York two or three interesting facts APP
pear. Thus, the tide of immigration
swells once more. There came in 1878
no less than 81, sos people to dwell here,
while in 1877 there were but 66,282.
This is q tide that will rise still higher
our situation, if not SO good as we would
wish, invites the worse off people of Eu-
rome
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A WASHINGTON correspondent deem

A WASHINGTON correspondent deems
it mistake to attribute the usual NOR
tality and sickness among Congress-
men during the past year to the I'M
healthy atmosphere of Washington, and
states, in defense Of his argument, that.
of the six congressman who have died
within twelve months, Mr.. Leonard, Of
Louisiana, died of yellow fever in Cuba;
WEIGH, Of Nebraska, died of pneumonia
at his home; Douglas, of Virginia, OF
lntemperance; Williams, OF Michigan,
OF apoplexy; Hartridge, Of Georgia, OF
pneumonia; and Schleicher, Of Texas,