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The falling back of the Russian
Asiatic expedition, and the announce
ment that il will winter on the shores
Of the Caspian sea, indicate that the
Cars movement upon Merv is COM
plete failure. The Caspian sea is at
least 500 miles from Merry. The failure
Of the project to change the bed Of the
River Oxus, and cause it to flow, as Of
old, into the Caspian, is great setback
to any future military project of Russia
directed against Afghanistan. In the
meantime, on the British side, rail
road is Immediately to be constructed
connecting Candahar, which is the
center of the finest district of Afghan
istan, with the great Indian railway
system. But Candahar is not more
than 200 or $50 miles from Herat, on
the extreme northern line of Afghan
istan. So that, in year or two,
England can, in few days, at any time,
throw an army into the country around
Herat which can hold it against any
hostile force whatever.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-30
An Indian Legend.

There was once beautiful damsel
upon whom. one of the good genii
wished TO bestow blessing. He led
her to the edge Of large field of corn,
where he said to her: Daughter, in
the field before us the ears of corn, in
the hands Of those who pluck them in
faith, shall have talismanic virtue, and
the virtue shall be in proportion to the
size and beauty of the ear gathered.
Thou shalt pass through the field once,
and pluck one ear; it must be taken as
thou goest forward, and thou shalt not
stop IN the path nor shalt thou retrace
a single step in quest of thine object.
Select an ear full and fair, and accord
ing to it's size and beauty shall be it's
value to thee as tallsman." The
maiden thanked the good genius, and
then set forward upon her quest. AS
she advanced she saw many ears of
corn, large, ripe and beautiful, such as
calm judgment might have told her
would possess virtues enough; but, in
her eagerness to grasp the very best,
she left these fair ears behind, hoping
that she might find one still fairer. Al
length, as the day was closing, she
reached part Of the field where the
stalks were shorter and thinner, and the
ears very thin and shriveled. She now
regretted the grand ears she had left
behind, and disdained to pick from the
poor show around her, for here she
found not an ear which bore perfect
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grain. She went on, but, alas! only to
find the stalks more and more feeble
and blighted, until in the end, as the
day was closing, and the night coming
on, she found herself at the end of the
field without having plucked an ear Of
any kind. No nesd that the genius
should rebuke her for her folly. She
saw it clearly when too late, and how
many in all climes, and in all ages, in
the evening of life call sadly and re-
gretfuliy to mind the thousand of gold
en- opportunities forever lost because
they were not picked in their season.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-30
From 'sDOn QuixOte.''

Here are a few extracts from don
Quixote :"
Beauty in modest woman is like a
fire or sword at distance; neither doth
the one burn nor the other wound those
that come not too close to them.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes
open.
The absent feel and fear every ill.
Self-praise dep1eciates.
The dead to the bier, and the living
to good cheer.
All women, let them be ever so homely,
are pleased to Lear themselves celebrat-
ed for their beauty.
Squires and knights Grant are sub
ject to much hunger and ill-luck.
Liberality may be carried too far in
those who have children to inherit from
them.
Virtue is always anore prosecuted by
the wicked than beloved by the right
eous.
Every one is the son of his own
works.
Honey is not for the mouth of an ass.
No paddock, bolts, or bars can secure
maiden so well as her own reserve.
Wit and humor belong to genius
alone.
The wittiest person in comedy is he
who plays the tool.
There is no book so bad but that
something good may be found in it.
We are all as God made us, and often
times a great deal worse.
Let the hen live, though it be with a
pip.
We cannot all be friars, and various
are the paths by which God conducts
the good to heaven.
Covetousness bursts the bag.
1t is easy to undertake, but more
difficult to finish thing.
This term is equally applicable to all
ranks; whoever is ignorant is vulgar
By the street of "By-and-by" one
arrives at the house of Never"
| Between the yes and no of woman
would not undertake to thrust the
point of pin.
Patience and shuttle the cards.
A soldier had better smell of gun
powder than musk.
Other mems wants are easily borne.
A bad cloak covers a good drinker.
Pray devoutly, and hammer on stoutly
When thing is once begun it is al
most half finished.
Lay bridge of silver for a flying
enemy.
The jest that gives pain is no jest.
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TT is said that President Hayes, in
his forthcoming message to Congress,
will recommend that Alaska be given q
government similar to those now esab-
lished in the Territories of the United
States. He has been convinced of the
ACCESSIBILITY of this by the report of a
naval officer sent to Sitka for the pur-
pose of investigating the lawlessness
which was represented bv the Collector
as prevailing there. This official de-
clares that there can be no safety for
the whites in that distant province unless
they are protected by soldiers or armed
vessels, as, without these, there is no
power to command obedience or respect.
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THE English Board of Trade returns

The English Board of Trade returns
give evidence of revival of CONNER
cial prosperity. The returns for the
month of September are the most salts
factory that have been received for
many months. The total exports for
the month amounted to EFT 400, 242, in
crease of G840, 900, or about per cent,
over exports of September last year, and
Il per cent. over the same month in 1877.
The imports exhibited an increase of
100000, but this is not SO satisfactory
feature on the returns, inasmuch as
the increase Is greatly due to the enor-
nous importation of wheat from
America.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-30

JOHN I. BLAIR, the railroad king Of
Iowa, is doubtless the largest landholder
in the West. He is now over 80 years
of age, vigorous, and as full Of NAM
moth schemes as he was twenty years
ago. He began life as an errand-boy in
a store, receiving only his board and
clothes for his services. His wealth is
immense, probably $30,OOOOO0.- Chi
cGgO Tribune. Young man, if you are
ambitious to be worth $50, 100000 don't
stand on the order of your going, but go
at once, and begin work as an errand-boy
in a store for your board and clothes.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-30

The advance in the prices OF grain
and provisions this fall has been so
marked that farmers who have been
fortunate enough to delay the sale of
their products will receive a rich return
when they do go to market. Since the
harvest, agriculturists have manifested
great faith in the value of their prop
erty, and, while millions of bushels of
wheat, corn, and other grain have been
disposed of, there are yet many millions
back, for which it is evident high prices
will be paid before the holidays. The
Chicago Times has compiled an esti-
mate of the benefits derived by the ag-
riculturists from the appreciation of
grain here referred to. The States of
Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa,
Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, only,
are included in the calculation, from
which it appears that farmers will real
ize about 20 per cent more from their
crops under the figures now offered
than they would if they had sold before
the extraordinary rise occurred. BY
approximating the amount of grain not
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Interrupted by an Owl.

A Baltimore paper says that an anus
ing incident occurred at Rockville, Md,
the other day, during the session of the
Presbytery of Maryland at that place.
While one Of the ministers was speak
ing there was a great futtering heard
in one of the large stoves in the church.
An examination revealed the fact that it
contained large owl, which had come
down the chimney. The stove door was
opened, and the owl was let loose in the
church. After flying around awhile,
the owl was forced out of one of the
windows, and quiet reigned.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-30

SOME interesting experiments of
blowing by electricity took place the
other day at Noisiel, in France, in the
park of the well-known Deputy and
chocolate maker, M. Menier. The mo-
tive power was supplied to the pillow by
Gramme machine, itself set in motion
by water power, which is abundant on
M. Menier's estate. The pillow did
about the same work as if it were drawn
by four oxen. 1t was Fowler pillow,
with six shares. The motive power was
supplied to it by wire at distance of
nearly half mile. To profane locker
on it was amazing to see pillow pro-
PEELED by an unseen agency without
teams or steam. The Gramme machine
employed was the same that supplies
M. Menier's mandatory with an cleo
trio light.
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The Extinction of the Fiat Eunaev.

The Extinction OF the Fiat Eunacy.
Ii there is one thing that has been
demonstrated more emphatically than
all others by the State elections of this
fall, it is that the sentiment in favor of
recurring to an irredeemable paper cur
rency has been completely extinguished.
This is trne of Maine, Ohio and Iowa.
The result is triumph of Judgment
and common sense over greed and
theorizing. It has been assisted MA
terially by the practical benefits that
have resulted from actual RESUMPTION.
The people who had been deceived by
demagogues into the belief that the
road to good times lay through o viii
derness OF worthless paper have
discovered that the result thew were
aiming at has been reached by taking
the opposite direction. Resumption
has accomplished all that was promised
by new suspension of specie paw
ments, and an expansion of real money
OF steady and uniform value has allayed
the agitation for an imitation of fictitious
money of an unsteady and vacillating
kind. The result is that voters have
returned to the regular parties with
which they voted before they chased off
after the fiat will-o'-the-wisp, and this
has helped to restore to the Republican
party it's proper balance of power.
In Ohio the regular Greenback vote
can scarcely be found. As matter of
fact, Ewing was as much the candidate
of the Fiatists as of the Democrats, and
the Republican Greenbackers, fully
satisfied with the extinction of the fiat
doctrine, returned to their original
party. In Iowa two Congressional dis
tricts were carried last year by the COM
bined Democratic and Greenback vote.
Weaver was elected in the Sixth dis
trict by something over 1000 majority,
and the aggregate returns from that dis
trict this year show Republican ma
jority of 1000, or gain of 5000 since
last year. In the Seventh Iowa district
Gillett was elected to Congress by 928
majority by Democratic and National
votes, and that district is Republican
this year by 5000 votes. These apparent
gains simply represent the return Of
Republicans to their own party.
If Messrs. Weaver and Gillett, of
Iowa, do not belle their names-Repre-
sentatives betray their constitu-
ents, they Will henceforth act with the
Republicans in Congress on all party
questions. This years election shows
that they were elected by Republican
votes, and it will be bad faith if they
act with the Democrats. The same is
true of all the Nationals in Congress
elected from the Northern States, ex-
cept, perhaps, Wright, of P Pennsylvania.
Not one of these men ought to vote
with the Democrats on mere party mat
ters, and if they do not the Democrats
may find it more difficult than they i'm
agine to follow Springer's programme
for reopening contested cases that have
been practically settled, and thus I'M
seating Republican members who were
clearly elected. The fiat fallacy has
no longer any force as a pretext for
separating Republicans from their
party.-Chicago Tribune.
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The Aenosha Gelegraph.
KENOSHA, WIS, OCT. 80, 1879.

The London Metropolitan Early
Closing Association has issued cir
cular in which it states that "there are
still about 10000 shops in London and
the suburbs, employing more than
100000 assistants, who work for thir-
teen, fourteen and fifteen hours a day,
and even longer on Saturdays. Many
of the assistants are young women, who
suffer grievously from being obliged to
stand during these long hours of labor
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-30
POLITICAL NOTES.

Simon CAMERON thinks no power on
earth can prevent the nomination of
Grant in 1880. IT never saw anything
like it," he said recently to reporter of
the Philadelphia Record, Except with
Jackson. There was hurrah started
with him, just like this Grant boom,
and it went all over the country"
The vote of Hamilton county, Ohio,
which includes Cincinnati, was as fol-
lows:
Vote Majority
Foster. Republican. ............ .29,5S7 $685.
EWING democrat .............. .25,9l9 49,,
The remainder of the ticket averaged
about the same. Tilden carried the
county against Hayes, in 1876, by $50
majority.
The hindsight of the Cincinnati En-
Qatirer is better than it's foresight, so to
speak. It now says: Gas we look over
and into the philosophy of the late
election in Ohio, we cannot fail to see
few facts in it that are wholly outside of
it. The Chisolm killings, and the
Dixon killings, and the Yazoo plans are
too good electioneering arguments for
Republicans to be furnished by any but
the enemy. Democrats cannot afford
to furnish them"
1t is conceded in the South that the
result in Ohio kills Thurman and Grip
pies Tilden. The coming men seem to
be Bayard and Hancock. No one men
tons Gen. Palmer, of Illinois; but
Chalmers, of Mississippi, is supposed
to squint in that direction when he SAYS
that the Democratic candidate must be
an old Union man with State rights
redilections.-I7lte9O Ocean.
THE Democratic papers are unani-
nous on one point They do not be-
ieve the Democrats can carry Ohio in
1880. They call loudly for Democrat
who can carry all the Southern States
and New York, New Jersey, Connecti-
cut, Delaware, California and Indiana.
1t affords them no comfort to remem-
Der that Grant in 1872 carried all the
Northern States named as doubtful,
and several Southern States as we'll.
The Cincinnati Commercials head
lines the day after election were very
Enthusiastic. We haven't seen 'nything
Like them for long time. Here they
are in their nifty:
IN SPELLING NATION USE A CAPITAL
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The French have claimed that a ma

The French have claimed that a ma
jority of the population of Alsace and
Lorraine-conquered by the Germans
speak the French language but this
proves to be untrue. Recent official
inquiries show that Alsace- Lorraine
contains 1,272,000 civilians who speak
German, and $4,000 who speak French
In 1866 the French Government found
that of 1925 conscripts in the Wissem-
bourg district 472 were entirely igro-
ant of French, the whole Lower Rhine
presenting about the same proportion,
whereas in the Upper Rhine the result
was more favorable for French, but in
German Lorraine 80 per cent. were I'M
acquainted with that language, al
though it had been taught in the
schools since 1850"
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OUR LITTLE FOLKS.


IA kDdDy
Newborn baby, soft and pink.
OF the two worlds on the brink.
One month o1d-eat and sleep,
Precious little human heap.
Two months old-tear and smile.
Fists in mouth and eyes the while.
Three months old" goo-a-goo."
Windows wide where soul looks through.
Four months old finds his toes,
Tries TO tx them on his nose.
Five months old first wee pearl,
All the household IN whirl.
Six months old-sits alone,
Wishes swadding clothes were gone.
Seven months old creep and crawl,
WOnder-eyed. a charm to all.
Eight months old-confscate
Pussy's tail and papa's pate.
Nine months old-ruguish eyes
Deepening daily willful, wise.
Ten months old-witching ways
Wind us in; the baby plays.
Eleven months old-fnger-tip
Guides the e fin on his trip.
Year old-lots Of mischief done:
Walking, talking, just for fun!
MRS. E. P. MILLER
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Democratic Sentiment.

SOUJhern DeEGcratlC SenClmenCs
We have had enough of Cancellation.
Dayton CO., Journal.
SO have we, slrrah;
And we want no more of it.
What!
Hand-shake and harmonic with the
Butchers,
Bloodhounds, and
Barbarians
of Yankeedom, who charged down here
in defiance of God and man,
And turned our country into a seeth-
ing and shrieking He'll of gore and fire?
Never!
Forget the mangled and murdered
Confederates, and forgive their muir
derers?
Never
Forget the Bastiles where brave, de-
fiant Northern Democrats suffered the
whips and SCOTS Of tyranny?
Never
Forget the -
Mobs, -: =:
Persecution and
Contumely
by which Linkhorn and his bloody
: blacklegs sought to suppress and stamp
out
Free thought,
Free speech, and o
Free press,
in 1861-'5? *<:@%s;:s..:'
Never!
Forget the Yankee prison bells, and
the heroes who were starved or frozen
to death within their walls?
Neverl
Forget the dungeon in Fortress Mon
roe where President Davis clanked the
chains of martyrdom?
Forget reconstruction and it's record
Of savagery and scoundrelism?
Neyerl
Forget the Presidential steal of 1876.
whereby the Democracy of the whole
broad land were virtually disfranchiced
by the
Assassins,
Perjurers, and
of a minority opposition?
Never!
We will never forget these crimes,
And we will never forget the crimi-
mails.
To the dogs with your conciliationi
Down with it!
Until we see fit to tender the olive
branch ourselves;
But we will never tender it until our
party has been avenged, and our terms
have been accepted to the uttermost
letter. - Okolo'aG (Miss.) Southern
States.
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yet disposed of, and using the estimated
advance in values for the purpose of a
small sum in multiplication, it is dis
covered that the farmers of the States
mentioned will be benefited, when the
entire crop is disposed of, in sum not
less than $92,500,000.
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Iype-Setting Machine.

An English newspaper, the Liverpool
Daily NeWs, has for year past used
four setting and seven distribut-
ing machines, at a saving of $4,000 per
annum, as compared with the same
amount of work by hand. The COM
positors working the machine earn bet
ter wages than their fellows at the case,
while the saving to the establishment is
over 80 per cent. The machines are
used for every kind of composition ex-
cept tabulated and display work, the
matter being set, spaced, and justified
with greater accuracy than by hand
labor. Each machine cost $3.50, and
the average speed is 5000 ems per
hour (!D.-NeaU York Sam.
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His Only Chance.

Patient-"Do you mean to say that
my complaint is a dangerous one?"
Doctor "a very dangerous one, my
dear friend. Still, people have been
known to recover from it; SO you must
not give up all hope But recoliect one
thing your only chance is to keep
q cheerful frame of mind, and avoid
anything like depression of spirits"
London PaI?ach.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-30

A New JERSEY boy on the ship st.
Mary, in wiring home, says: "There
are three things boy wants as soon as
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he gets to sea-frst, to get home; Sec
ond, good square meal, and, third, to
get his fingers on the fellow who wrote
Jack Harkaway.'"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-30

BELyA A. LOCKWOOD, the female law
yer, OF Washington, has been refused
permission to practice in the Virginia
courts.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-04-11

In three corncrcl contest in which the
Socialists ran candidate for whom they
polled nearly l2,010 votes, Chicago, on the
lG:h inst, elected Il Democratic Mayor
Treasurer and Clerk The wards elected
seven Republicans, eight Democrats. and
three Socialist Aldermen. The new Cum
Gil will sand eighteen Democrats, fourteen
Republicans, and three Socialists.
The Inter Occaa comments a. follows on
the result
Chicago may Re SET down for the future
as rather uncertain in politics. 1t has long
been claimed as a Republican city, but the
vote of lS76. when it went for Tildcn. and
the vote of Tuesday, when it went for lllr-
rison. show that the claim is 4 doubtful one
The fact iS, no large city in the country can
be safely counted for tho Republican party.
Chicago Is about rs certain a. any, but
there arc none that are not on the whole in
clincd toward the Democracy. Republican,
ism has always had its hold, and it must
continue to have it, in the country, On the
farms and in the villages of the nation.
There is where it ha- looked in the past, and
There arc sections of Chicago where Re
publicism is prosperous wards that east
moro than 1000 Republican votes. These
are the bright spots of our city, the sections
where cheerful-iaccl children are to re seen,
and where numberlc,S church spirc- rise to-
ward heaven.
Bat in that part OF Chicago where :. man
who travels after dark must take his life in
his hand, where drunkenness, blGsThcmy,
and murder run riot, the Democratic purity
iatteuS. A~ the city grows more p1rglous
its dangerous clIssc become Larger in pro-
portion than it, better element. and with
the growth oi the dangerous class comes the
inevitable gruwta ol Democracy. ihi- class
Is catered to hy cheap and uu-. ruFullu-
newspapers that encourage them in their
opposition to god government, and 50 it
usually cones t1 pass IN the end ti.at great
cities hecohc dcmoniacal and Democratic to-
gcthcr. Chicago Is iH~t now trembling in
the balance, with her 10000 RCbubican
voters combating every foot Of ground teua-
ciOuSly but unless deccncy, cducltion, and
enlightened conscience receive an impetus
from some unlocked fer source, il il only a
question of time when the verdict OF Tues
day will become tie regulation yell, and
Rcpublicani>m in Chicago. as in New York,
fall into the minority.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-04-11

emperors. The ancient Brtons cut of
their bcardsupOn the chin, but wore long
shaggy hair and enormous tangled nous
tacheS. a young barbarian in some Ger
man tribes never ''reaped his chin" till he
had slain an enemy. The Saxons wore the
moustachc, the Normans shaved. Peter
the Great, desirnuS of deRussianizing
his subjects, imposed a graduated tax on
boards. Men Of the upper classes paid
100 roubles $50 yearly privilege OF not
shaving their boards. and poor people a
kopec (about one cent? apiece. Close
shaven faces came back among our an
cestors with Charles the H., being an
other of the things for which England had
no reason to thank the restoration. Dur
ing the reignS of the four Georges crop
ped chins We're universal, and though
our grandfathcrS still sneercd at ''beard-
less boys as 4 figure of speech, they daily
labored to be beardless themselves.
Alloat and ashore, whatever the difficulties
of the operation, officers. soldiers and
seamen shaved every day. During the
past 80 years bcards have been first tole-
rated as eccentic. then accepted as op-
tiOnal, and at last have been restored TO
fashion and honor. We now hold, with
one of the old bards who celebrated
Henry the Wills beard, that:
well-thatchcd face is comey grace,
And a shelter from the cold,