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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-09-18

sketchy Characterization, the estimate
she expressed of Italian executive ability
was worthy of permanent record; but
she is overfastidious in such matters.
and prefers that her achievement should
be permitted to remain our private pos
sesslon.-Col. Geo. B. PAIRING, Jr., IN
HG7per's MAGAZINE,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-09-18
Italian Railway ENTERPRISE.

Feeling sure that I should never
climb another mountain, had brought
from Cortina-as trophy to hang I'M
der my Mosel oar-the alpenstock with
which I struggled up Tofana-value, %
cents. For convenience [ would send
it as freight to Havre. To allow for
the slowness of the clerks we assigned
an extra three-quarters ofan hour for the
business of getting it off our hands, be-
sides a half hour for buying tickets and
registering the baggage. In front of
the station stands little guard-house,
with the deluding legend, "Expedi-
Mone."
might T send this stick to Havre?"
"Sicuro."
"How much will it cost?" .-'
We must ask. The expeditor goes
with us to the freight clerk, who an
swers, "More than it is worth"
"Probably, but how much?"
"How much does it weigh?"
II don't know. Weigh it,"
The expedition hung it to the hook of
steelyard which another man held up.
"One kilo" (two pounds). Then, after
calculation, 1.-TWO francs"
Every well; 1 will stand 2 francs.
No matter about the receipt. Here is
the money. Mark it Paid and send
as soon as possible"
But they manage these things better
in Italy. must go back and see what
Expedizione" really means. I must
give the details very clearly, and the
official must make out the papers. I
might 60 and get my tickets and fight
my baggage through, and chen come
back. I came back, at the end of q half
hour and of all my patience, and found
him still writing. There were three
''freight letters" each as long and in
tricate as policy of insurance, and two
long declarations" for the custom
house giving description, value, ETC.,
etc. (All concerning % cents worth of
wood and iron, which had not reached
Havre twenty-eight days later, and
probably never will reach there. One
of those freight letters has got into a
wrong pigeon-hole.) Then we went to
the freight clerk, and he signed some
thing and I signed something (sanded),
and the Expedizione" man demanded
three francs and a half. [ referred to
the contract for two francs.
"Ah! mails! the Expedizione' costs a
franc and half"
At last I was free. Everything was
attended to, and we had still seven
minutes to get our seats. I separated
Jane from a poodle with which, and
with whose mistress, of course, she had
made friends, gathered up my bags
and bundles, and started gayly for the
train.
AS we turned into the corridor we
saw the great doors swing to. and our
porter shrugged his shoulders.
"But what does it mean?"
"Troppo tardi!"
at is only 10 minutes past 9, and
the train leaves at a quarter past
"The doors are closed five minutes
before the train starts"
"Then why in-!' But no; the man
did not understand English, and nc
poor words of mine could do justice tc
the situation. Jane thought other.
wise, but then her words are never
poor, and on this occasion she showed
an approach to genius. AS piece o.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-09-18
The Extremes to Which Precedence Is
Carried i'm England.

Precedence in England extends even
into the servants hall and kitchen.
This is manifested every morning. At
family prayers all the house servants
attend, just as they used to do here in
families in which that domestic disci-
pine was kept up. A row of chairs is
placed for them in the breakfast-room,
and they enter and take their seats.
The head of the house reads prayers
and the lesson of the day, or some 9TH
er part of the Bible. [ observed that
the servants in each house always en-
tered in the same order the house
keeper marching at the head Of the
line and taking the seat farthest from
the door. And it was, am sorry to
say, rather funny to see some dozen or
more OF them pound solemnly in and
plump stolidly down upon their seats.
After prayers are over, they of course
rise and go out. But / saw that they
did not go out in reverse order-the
one nearest the door going out first-as
would have been natura' and convenient.
They rose. stood in line, and then the
housekeeper went out first, followed
by the servant next her; and thus
the line doubled upon itself, the file
thus telling itself off, so that the one
who entered the room last left it last.
The order of entering and leaving was
the same. On speaking of this I was
told with smiles that precedence was
strictly observed among them; that in
the servants hall the housekeeper took
the head of the table, the butler the
foot, and that the servants upper and
under, had places strictly assigned to
them according to the dignity of their
positions. What is the order of their
sitting or of their going the lord of pre-
cedence only knows; but I suppose that
the my Lady's maid sits on the right
hand of the butler, and my Lords own
man on that of the housekeeper. All
dinner they sit together at the common
table down to cheese; and the upper
servants only rise and go in state to
dessert in the housekeeper's room. The
upper servants are those who have serv-
ants under them; an upper servant
never wears livery. When visitors at a
great house bring servants with them,
the guests in the servants hall are for
mally assigned places strictly according
to the rank of their master or mistress
I learned also that servants do call each
other by the titles of their masters and
mistresses, and that this incident OF
high. life below stairs is no fiction
Richard Grant White, I'M the ATLANTIC
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-09-18

AMONG the phenomena of human
anatomy it is ever found that man who
has plenty of chin is never deficient in
cheek.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-09-18

In 1878 2,708 medical students were
graduated from ffty-nine colleges of
the United States. As the statistics
show that in this country an average of
500 people support one physician, there
must be constant supply of over $1,000
patients, who must pay the handsome
sum of 81, $4,000 a year, in order to al
low each doctor only So day.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-02

The recall of country girl to life by
a sisters shrek is one OF the local topics
of the Journal, of Evansville, Ind.
The young lady had been quiet ill for
weeks, and was thought to be dying oe
consumption. She had grown so weak
and emaciated that her strength was no
more than child's. One afternoon,
while lying upon her couch, her sister
came in from walk and sat by the bed
side. A conversation began, and the
invalid began to speak. AS she uttered
the first word, she felt bewildering
weakness, aud sinking fiutter Of her
breath. Her eyes became fixed, the
lower jaw dropped as in death, and the
body became motionless, while con-
seriousness disappeared. The sister
lesped from her seat, and ran to the
door shrieking to her mother that her
sister was dead. The sound of the
shrek penetrated through the veil of
death. and reused the sinking faculties.
The blood, which had congested in the
lungs, was sent back by the nervous
shock, and gathering her strength by
strong effort of will, the invalid opened
her eyes and awoks to life again, breath
less and amazed at the thrilling peril
she had escaped.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-02
SUMNER MORNING.

The rising sun 20 to meet,
Set ankle deep In dewy gress;
Rare fragrance stirs beneath my feet
And round my pathway guther sweet
The scents Of morning as pass.
The tinted naples DER nay head
Flash out aloit in leafy sheen,
While broken notes of fitting birds
Break ia across my faltering words,
And drift along the shadow green
A glistening veil of purple haze
On nearer mountains softly lies,
The distance swings in liquid light,
Where blue peaks, rising, height on height
Dissolve like dreams In fainting skies.
-Kiaine Goodaie, in Christian Union.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-02
DESTINY.

She sits by the window sewing,
Her auburn head bent low;
For a beautiful garment Is growing
Beneath the touch of her fingers,
And CLEAN of their ruddiness fingers
In every fold OF the sillen snow
That drifts the fair young face below.
Cool rains the sash beat drearily,
And trees stand sorry dressed
Against the somber sky; yet cheerily
HUNS the maiden at her sewing;
"Winds across the heavens bio wing
Troops of dusi1y clouds abreast,
From the pine hills of the West,
sweep altar you tears q skyi
open way for suns to be.
For suns must shine and happily
When comes my JOY. when breaks my pleas
ure,
When beats my heart to love n measure
In n day Of all day5 for me,
A day with the ships on the sea-
She sits by the window sewing,
The skies are all aglow;
The winds the sails are blowing
Across the azure water.
All! rains and suns have taught her
Winds both East and Westward blow,
She is singing sadly low;
Oh, rudy day, fly homeward. fly
You bring no Joys to me,
NY white, white dress f. folded by
gaily wrought meath heavens dreary.
AM now am of such aweary,
For the day OF days TO be
is desd in a shin on the sea"
-Fannse Letcis Bracket in n. y. Tribune.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-02

the week of which he has never seen.
What this process is he himself can not
explain.
Scarcely any of the above will seem
credible, but we assure the readers of
the Commercial that it is true in every
particular, as scores of those acquainted
with the circumstances can testify. The
lad is, we repeat, one of the most won
derful in the world, and his career will
be watched with interest.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-02
The Science of Life.

How few of us acquire this science
until we are old enough for life to have
lost half its charms! The science OF
life consists in knowing how to take
care of your health, how to make use
of people, how to make the most of
yourself, and how to push your way in
the world. These are the things which
every body ought to know and which
very few people know. How never to
get sick, how to develop your health and
strength to the utmost, how to make
every man You meet your friend-all
these and many other things are to be
included in the science of living, and
the pity is that we only appreciate it at
its true value when the bloom of life is
gone.-Herald Of Health.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-02
How Parrots Learn to Talk.

The interesting sketch of the " Histo-
ryof My Parrot" which DIR. Wilkes
contributes to the current number OF
The Journal of Mental Science, deserves
passing notice. The comparative
study of the facts of intercommunication
among men and among animals neces-
states the admission that animals pos
sess language; and the mechanism and
apparatus for articulate speech in those
animals which possess it do not differ
from those of man. A bird learns to
speak by imitation, through the organs
of hearing, and in manner very SINH
lar to that in which children learn
words and sentences, and the bird
speaks on special occasions in conse-
quence of some association or sugges-
ton, "the usual provocative for set
speeches at all periods of the human
life." A new expression, after having
been repeatedly uttered before the par
rot, is practiced by it spontaneously, in
defatigably working at the sentence by
itself. At first it is only able to get
out the first word or two, then more and
more, until it has the power of uttering
the whole. In just the same way q
child will learn French sentence. A
sentence is soon lost by the parrot if not
frequently uttered, and the last words
are lost first; the first words-those
most readily acquired are lost last.
Speech of the bird on any given occa-
sion is due to suggestion-the presence
of the person or object with which the
words were first associated. OF this DR..
Wilkes gives several striking instances,
as "half-past two" whenever the coach
man comes for orders, Ego to sleep"
when approached after dark, "give me
btu when dinner appears, and
" cheese" when cheese is put upon the
table, sound like water being poured
out whenever jug of water is brought
in. Thus the bird associates words or
sounds with objects, and, where the
right names have been taught it, may be
said to know their names; more, the
birds invent names, making particular
sound, which had never been taught,
whenever nuts we're brought upon the
table. The sight Of a cat makes the
parrot say " new" as the sight of a
train make a child say "puff, puff"
Dr. Wilkes concludes by remarking
that the differences between animals
and children are much slighter than are
the explanations which, on the assump-
ton of instinct in the one case and rea-
son in the other, we put upon them, and
suggest that the chief difference between
man and animals is to be found in the
smallness of knowledge of the fine arts
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-02
A MAINE BOYS MEMORY.
Extraordinary Powers OF a Lad of Ten
Years

From the Bangor (Me.) Commercially
There is in this city one of the most
remarkable boys in the world, probably
He is a son of Col. Fuller, ex-Postmas-
ter of Bangor. and is now ten years of
age. His intellect is perfectly wonder
full, and almost goes beyond belief.
The first that his friends noticed of his
precocity was about year ago, when
they accidentally discovered that he
was almost infsllible on any date he
had ever seen or heard. He was out
West with his parents at the time, and
as he was walking in company with
some relatives, in cemetery, they OBJ
served that he would look at a tomb
stone, read the date of the death re-
corded, and the exact age of the person
buried there, and then glance up and
tell what day of the week the dead per-
son was born on. This happened on
several occasions, and but little atten-
ton was paid to it. Finally, however,
one of his relatives took pains to look
into an old almanac covering some
of the dates that he had mentioned,
and found that the day of the week had
been given correctly in every instance.
This caused them to ask him questions,
when it was discovered that he could
almost instantly tell the day of the
week on which any date within the last
seventy-five years fell. Only yesterday
the writer gave the lad dates from 1912
to 1870, and in every case Charlie Chat
is his given nancy gave the day of the
week corresponding to that date, and
gave it correctly. The longest time oc-
cupied in any one case was eight Sec
onds, and the shortest was three sec
onds, the average being about FIVE sec
onds. 1t should be remembered that
while he answered there was no book or
any article near him from which he
could get any aid.
/! he has once heard the date of birth,
marriage, or death of any of his friends
he remembers it, and, of course, from
what has been said above, knows on
what day of the week the date fell. II
enc calls his attention TO any person and
informs him that the individual was
born on q certain day of the week and
month, he will, on seeing that person
months afterward, speak up and say
that that mans birthday falls on GER
tain day, which is the date he was cas-
ually told so long before. Not great
while age he walked up to one of his
relatives and informed him that it was
So-snd-so's birthday, the date of the
persons birth having been told him long
ago. For curiosity, the relative took
Charlie by the hand and walked to the
place of business OF the friend mention
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-02

"A little 5-year-old son of James
Cramie of Utica, Mich, ran in front of
the mowing-mschine and struck one of
the horses, starting them up. Before
ne could get away the knives caught
snd literally cit him in two. He died
in few minutes.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-02

Vt before" replied the friend, shut he Is
right; this is my birthday"
He never forgets date that he has
once liked in his memory, and is almost
invaluable as a statistician. lie remem-
bers when every President OF the United
States was born, when' inaugurated as
President, and how long he served, and
and when he died Any of these dates
he gives with scarcely second thought,
as well as hundreds of others of like
nature. Once in q while he makes a
mOmentary mistake, but corrects him.
self almost instantly, never proceeding
till he is absolutely certain of what he
has already said.
A still more remarkable fact is that
he recollects every thing that he does,
remembers on what day he did it,where
he was at the time, what were the cir
cumstances that led him to do it. For
instance, he will tell you where he was
on any day within the past two years,
and what he was doing. Further, he
remembers and can tell every thing that
his friends have done, providing he has
seen them do it, and tel on what date
and on what day of the week they did it.
In mathematics, it would be difficult
TO find boy of nearly twice his age that
can equal him. He computes the most
difficult fractions in his h sad, and will
add, subtract, multiply, or divide them
without difficulty This is all the more
wonderful, considering that he has rev.
er been taught any thing except how to
read. One evening about tea-time he
was informed that the double of two is
four. He was informed that the process
of getting that result was called multi
plication, and that it was all given in
the arithmetic. He Immediately got an
arithmetic into his hands, found the
multiplication table, and had all of it
by heart at the breakfast-table the next
morning.
M -. -.t..Lr. 49, A. l:l
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-02

Washing soda should never be used
with colored clothes, since it not only
fades, but often changes the color.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-11-25
The Del Monte.
E.msralda Herald, Nor. "a.


The pump has been doing Its work
we'll all the week, and the water 10 now
easily held at . point forty feet below
the 500 level. The stream In the face
Of the DRIFT at that point has decreased
but very impero-p,ibly. but . few more
days will probably 90 drain the accumu.
lated water In the north country that
the speed OF the pump can 10 decreased
and the water still easily held under
control. A station 10 being s~Icavated
on the 500 level wherein the plungsr
pump will DO set, Q tank placed and the
dow OF water from the north drift a..
lowed to accumulate. It will b three
or four weeks before everything will DO
10 readiness to set the plupser. the work
Of e%Icavating being necessarily slow at
present, owing to the care exercised to
not damage the pump column while
blasting out the station. The work Of
cleaning out and timbering the drift In
the face 10 being pushed rapidly, and In
q short time the water will be 10 han.
did and conducted that much greater
progress can be made In discovering the
value Of that level. Apowder magazine
has been excavatrd In the drain tunnel
near its mouth. where will be slowed all
the powder belonging to the company,
aud where Il will bs In suoh manner
cared for a. to prevent accidents. The
ne part Of the main building over the
shaft has been closely bsttensd, and 10
receiving Q coat Of drs-paint, All the
machinery 10 running amoothly and In
good condition.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-11-25
Sutro Items.
Independent. Nos. "a.

Our new school house, which Il fast
approaching completion, II TO have Q
tower forty feet high.
A large band Of sheep were recently
brought over from California and are
now feeding on ssssbrush along the Oar.
son.
There II not water enough In the Car.
son to run the Woodwork and Birdsall
mills up to their full capacity.
T. L. Lyons will 6nish working his
slimes at the Woodwork mill about the
last Of December. when Hon. W. ].
wssterhsld will make an addition to the
mill Of two pans and start up again on
BONANZA ore.
County Superintendent Young has
apportionsd the sum Of S464l II to the
several districts Of the county, % fol.
lows: Silver City. els9s 80 Dayton,
Sl322 Il; sutro. t792 ~ Churchill,
$2s7 so; wsbusks. $3.50 81.
Last Thursday afternoon, while the
Chinamsn living on the ranch below the
tunnel dump was absent from his domi.
oil, some one broke out . window sssh,
entered. split open Q trunk. and stole
thersfrom $500 In gold colin. No Or.
rests. The thief 10 supposed to b. q
Chinaman from Virginia City.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-11-25

Dewey 4 Co.. Scientific Press Patent
Agency has received Official notice Of th,
issue Of the following patents to Pacific
Coast inventors. for the week ending
November II. 1879: @. G. Lane, New
Westminster. B. G.. can; F. A. Bishop.
8. F.. piston for hydraulic cylinders; n.
F. Craig. Nevada City, CAL. sprinkler
for railway rails; James G. Gibson. 8.
F.. weather strip; o. Hsskins, Cambria,
Cal. reversible pillow; J. E. Parmsntsr,
Fort Pembina. Dakota. skate; 8. Petty.
Volcano. Cal. saw clamp; W. Raup.
Park City. Utah. guido for stems Of
stamp. mills; ". Il. silsby. Chico. Cal.
grain separator; George Uhl. sacramsn.
to. CAL, dredging machine; E. ]. Yer.
rue. s. F.. waste pipe cleaner; O. N.
West. San Juan South. Cal. electro.
therapeutical belt: E. duittard, y. F..
label. title. '.Ei Meior Cafe Molido Dc
Costa Rica Primers Cslldsd."
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-11-25
COLL DEANE CALL Ed.
A San Francisco telegram says :

A San Francisco telegram says:
Maurice Hoedech. who arrived from
Virginia on Sunday. brings the following
proposition from John W. xsckay to Coll
Deane
~ will give you $500. 900 II you ind
three b~onsnxas In the Hale 4 Sorcross,
Ophir and Yellow Jacket mines, you pay.
ing for the work until they are found.
When found ! will reimburse you for your
expenditure. With the addition Of $500. 600.
To this proposal Dssne replied: TELL
Mr.. Macksy to put the proposal In writ.
ing. and I will accept IL for myself and
friends"
Here. now. 10 true business talked.
and 10 Coll. Dsans really knows and be.
lieves what hs has been talking about,
II 10 incumbent upon him to prove Il.
The opportunity 10 offered him. and he
has Q splendid chance to prove himself
not to b . talking humbug and thsoret.
icsl fraud. John Mscksy means bust.
mess. and calls upon Coll. to come to
time In this matter.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-11-25
DENIS y COLL.

Denis Kssrney the other day related
his sad experience In stocks to . sand.
lot audience, winding up with . vicious
kick ct Coll Deans. like a. the ass
kicked the siek lion. Hs said:
workingmen and women. don't buy any
stocks. II you do you will get robbed. II
10 - surs a. fats. The game 10 . dead
open and shu, one. The dice are loaded.
The thieves hold the trump card every
time. Now mind what I tell you. II you
should. BY any mistake, make . little
money. the thief Of . broker who does
your business will fail. and II his
seat sold for 100000 you would not
get Q cent. These are truths which can
not be denied. AN one Of the victims.
The board Of thieves robbed me-. They
spend hundreds Of Thousands Of dollars to
corrupt Legislators, and then rob . poor
Of his last cent. Coll Deane, who 10
now . bursted sorehead, was reputed TO bs
worth . million when hs helped 10 rob me.