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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-10-22
YELLOW FEVER.
Light Bursts Through the Long
Gloom.
But One Death Since Yesterday
Noon.
Seven New Cases In the Past Twenty
Four Hours.
The Death i :

But n death from yellow fever has
occurred since yesterday noon, as follows;
0loff Gilman, age 80, 81 Main, yellow
fever.
Joseph Bcnstein, age So, county Jail,
congestion of the lungs.
Plats Moore, Horn Lake road, congest-
i've fever.
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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-04
Sgrangles IN Horses.

Most persons conversant with horses
must be aware that certain glands lie
just under the angles of the two laws.
and rur up IN the direction OF the ear.
They are the seat of the affection pecul-
lar to young animals, known under the
name OF strangles. Now, it is by no
means lnfrequent, especially among the
commoner kind of horses, to find these
glands large and fabby in their text
ures. With well-bred and well-formed
ANIMALS 1t is often very difficult to find
them at all under the skin. Sometimes
the abnormal size of these glands is
evidently constitutional, sometimes it
is consequence of disease-strangle
for instance-and sometimes it arises
wholly from the pressure of the angles
OF the Jaws, especially when these lie
too close together, and the rider or
driver has attempted to force certain
position, either by the use of severe
bits, or, what is still worse, combina-
tion of these with the bearing, rein in
harness. Ii such a state of things be
overlooked or neglected very serious
consequences may arise. The forced
pressure of the jaw-bones on these
glands is sometimes perfectly excruci-
ating to the animal, and it has recourse,
to the great astonishmento of it's ignorant
rider or driver, to all sorts of expedients
to get rid of the intolerable pain. 1t
will refuse it's work, or run away. or
throw itself down, or rear up, or do
anything or everything in it's despera
ton, and the brute on it's back or in the
coach-box knows no other remedy for
it than to "fog the sulk out of him"
whereas the whole thing is probably
the result of bad biting and bridling.
-DoUyer, IN Seats and S0ddZes.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-04
The Death Of Tompklns' Mother.

The gentleman of this city who was
so absent-minded that he put his UNI
brella to bed and stood in the corner
himself all night has furnished another
illustration of mental wool gathering.
He came home late the other evening
and his wife asked him where he had
been. "Been down to Tompkins' house !;
his mother is dead" said he, sleepily.
This was accepted as sufficient ex-
cuse at the time, but was hardly regard
ed as such the next morning at the
breakfast-table, when the wife alluded
to poor old Mrs. Tompkins. whats
the matter with herr" said Dreamthorp,
pausing, with his coffee-cup half raised
to his mouth. "Why, she's dead, you
silly fellow" answered his vis-a-vis. as
she ?" replied the unconscious husband.
when did she die ?"-EGchange
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-04

What came near being a terrible
calamity was averted by the presence
of mind of two brave men in New
York not many days ago. we quote
from local paper: At an early hour
in the morning, shortly after the en-
ployes OF Frank Leslie's publishing
house got to work, they were notified
that they must leave the building at
once. There are nearly 500 employees,
including many females, and all got out
in an orderly manner through the pres
ence of mind of Mr.. James Il. Finn,
foreman of the press-room, who ordered
the employees on each floor to "Leave
Immediately, and no back talk get out,
and I'll tell you all about it tomorrow.
It seems there are two boilers under
the sidewalk, between which and the
press-room is brick wall. The wall,
owing to the pressure of coal, backed up
against one OF the boilers used for heat
ing the building, and the feed-pipe was
broken short off up against the boiler,
filing the room with steam and smoke.
There was danger that the large boiler,
which runs the presses, would burst.
Mr.. Finn sent wet blankets to the roof
to cover the chimney-tops to stop the
draught. The steam had by this time
filled the press-room, and the foreman,
with James Riley, engineer, attempted
to enter the engine room for the pur-
pose of turning off the steam. As they
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-04
A Queer Bug.

A curious bug was brought to the
Chronicle office this morning by Henry
Hunt, resident of North 3 street.
Mr.. Hunt found the bug in his back
yard 1t is about the size of quarter
of dollar, and it's popularity is that,
while it is shaped much like turtle, it
walks on only half of its legs at time.
1t has six legs, three on side. When
it walks it balances itself on its edge
and moves along at a good pace on
three legs. After walking in this way
about minute, it hops over and walks
on the other three legs. Sometimes il
walks on it's two fore legs, like aman in
circus walking on his hands. M.
Hunt asserts that the bug can execute a
handspring either backward or forward
but, while it was in this Office, it did not
essay a feat SO difficult. It's back is
deep blue, spotted with gold, and
its belly is striped with red When
the bug walks on it's fore legs it reminds
one Of a circus acrobat in spangles of
many colors. While Mr.. Hunt was ex-
hibiting his bug, Capt. Sam, the Piute
chief, came in with Charley, Of Silver
City. Sam remarked, with a smile of
superior knowledge: "Circus bug, you
bet" The Piute stretched a string be-
tween two tables, and the bug walked
the tight-rope on edge, and then hung
down from it by its hind feet. The
Piutes venerate the insect, and say that
when it appears in the fall with gold
marks on it's back it means plenty.
Black spots signify death, and white
spots famine. Aside from the absurd
superstitions, the bug is certainly a
wonderful thing, and it's antics vastly
amusing. Mr.. Hunt refused $40 for it
this morning, offered by Tom Buckner.
-V5rgi1aj0 City (NeU) Chronicle.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

POSTAL CARDS, now almost universal,
started in Austria IN 1865.
CITIZENS of the District of Columbia
have no part in the election of Presi-
dent.
LIE first railway in the United States
was the Quincy and Boston, to convey
granite for Bunker Hill monument in
1927.
The Hoosac tunnel is under the
Hoosac mountain, in Western Massa-
chusetts, and is four and three-fourths
miles long.
The greyhound is short lived. At
the age OF 2 Years he is full grown, and
at his 9th or 9Th year he is worth little
Tor the sport OF coursing. He runs
himself out in three years.
WHO will dare complain that hooks
now a-days are high? In 1920 a Latin
Bible was valued at $3.50, and the wages
OF laborer were so small that the earn
lngs OF fifteen years are said 20 have
been necessary to buy Bible, which,
being IN Latin, was, after all, practically
useless to the common people.
LOCOMOTIVES are used on canal
towpaths in France. They are of light
build, not weighing over four or five
tons, and are managed easily by one
man. Barges are thus drawn at speed
OF two miles an hour, about twice the
mean rate of horse on the towpath
An empty vessel is drawn six miles an
hour, but greater speed would damage
the banks of the canal.
The principle upon which balloon
rises in the atmosphere is exactly the
srme as that which causes the ascent OF
cork from the bottom of vessel
filled with water. The weight of the
volume of air which it displaces must
exceed the weight Of the balloon and all
it carries. 1t was not till 1776 that hy-
drogen was found to be lighter than
common air; and two brothers, Stephen
and Joseph Montgolfer, of Aunay,
France, have the honor of being the
first to prepare and send up a balloon
into the air. This was in 1883.
CHARLES LAMB tells us, in his "Es-
says of Ella" that once upon time the
pig was the pampered pet of the Mon
golian household, much as the puppy is
the fondling in the homes of the
present day. No one thought of killing
the pig for the cruel purpose of eating
it until an accidental occurrence re-
vealed it's toothsome qualities. A
juvenile member of a poor but pions
moon-eyed family was left in charge of
the house and the pet pig one day, the
father being obliged to go on long
journey. It SO happened that the
house, which was a primitive structure,
caught fire and burned to the ground.
The unhappy boy poked around among
the ashes, wringing his hands and every
now and then rubbing the tears from
his eyes. He soon got bis fingers Ola
the scorched pig, from which delight
full odor arose, and, after habit that
boys have, put his fingers into his
mouth. From that moment "roast pig
became famous.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-04
Why the Law Is Uncertain.

Language is an imperfect instrument
for the expression of ideas. Not few
OF its forms are ambiguous; that is,
they speak in two ways Reader and
hearers are left in old Jsaac's perplexi-
ty. The voice is that of Jacob, the
hand is that of Esau.
Many of the terms of language are
equivocal. They have two meanings,
so that the reader is in doubt as to the
mind Or intention of the writer.
Those who draft statutes know how
difficult it is to frame law which shall
be free from ambiguous expressions or
equivocal terms. Judge Story once
told personal incident, which illus
trates this difficulty.
He was employed by Congress to
draft an act So important was it that
he spent six months in trying to per-
feet It's phraseology. His purpose was
to make the statute so clear that the
most astute lawyer should not be able
to cast the shadow of doubt upn it's
meaning.
The draft, proving satisfactory to the
lawyers in Congress, became law. In
less than year, suit, involving the
Interpretation of this very law, came
before the court over which Justice
Story presided. Having heard the
arguments of the able attorneys. the
Judge confessed that he was unable to
decide upon the meaning of statute
which he himself had framed
He, of course, knew what he had
meant to put into the law. But the
criticisms of the two lawyers showed
him that he had used such ambiguous
expressions that it was doubtful if he
had said what he meant to have said.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-04
A Bafned Parent.

There is baffed old man in Williams
port, Pa, and he is disgusted too. It
seems that he learned that his daughter
intended to elope upon certain even
ing with a lover upon whose suit he
frowned. SO he locked his child up in
her room, and sat down stairs listening
for the sound of the lovers carriage
wheels.
But that disgraceful young man tied
rags around the tires of his sulky, so as
to muff1e the noise, and he drove softly
up to the back gate. He then sent a
boisterous, rickety hack around to the
front, and engaged the man to make as
much racket as he could for the money.
When the Infatuated father heard it
he rushed out with shot gun, just in
time to see female figure jump into
rounds Of buckshot at the concern,
rushed out and got his horse, and start
cd in pursuit.
Meanwhile the insidious outcast who
loved his daughter persuaded her to
slide down the ightningrod, and then
fed away with her in All opposite di-
rection from that in which the enraged
parent had gone.
The bereaved old man had caught up
with the hack about eighteen miles out
of town, and he not only shot the driver,
but he burst the door open and dragged
forth--a man, dressed in waterproof
cloak.
The father was Immediately arrested
for highway robbery and assault and
battery with intent to kill, and the pros
ecutors say they will press the suit
unless he comes down with handsome
dover for his daughter, and then gives
the couple his paternal blessing.
There is no use of trying to explain
the mental conditioned this old man.
The English is copious and vigorous,
and all that; but it fails utterly in these
extreme cases.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-04
A Hundred-DOllar RiJl.

We have story with moral for our
numerous subscribers who are in the
habit Of carrying 800 in their pockets.
A Hartford gentleman had a roll to that
amount when he went to his butchers
on Saturday. Monday he called on him
and said he must have dropped the roll
in his shop. Butcher said man he
knew by sight came in just after the
gentleman was gone Saturday night,
and, after paying for his meat, stopped
down, picked up roll, said he had
dropped his money, and walked
off. On the following Saturday
this man returned and was told
about the other mans loss. He
at once sent him check for the amount,
and said he was in neighboring town
the week before, and was paid 800 just
as the train was leaving, so he thrust it,
as he supposed, into his vest pocket.
When he was at the market he missed
it, and, looking down, saw the roll on
the floor, which he put into his pocket
again. A week after, while feeling in
his coat, which he had not worn during
the week. he found another roll in one
of the pockets. He at once posted to
the butchers to find if any one had lost
the sum. He was to have been arrested
the following Monday, and would have
had hard work to prove his innocence
of the theft
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-04
Wanted to Know.

Yesterday a colored Justice of the
Peace came to the city. to enter com
plant. He wore pair of cotton pants,
and his shoes had been out so often at
the toes that he looked as though he
wore claws.
"Whar's de Provoke MarshaPs?" he
asked of man on the street.
"The who?"
Ode Provoke Marshal"
"You mean the United States Marshal,
don't you?"
"No, sab. I wants de Provoke Mar
shall. I'm Justice of de Peace. I
holds courts, and Use up heah to see
what [ can do in case OBJ contempt I
heared de udder day dat man was
fotch up heah for 'spressin' hisself in de
newspaper, and I wanter know if I kin
do anything wild man fur 'spressin'
hisselt in CARDS to my court?"
what is your case?"
"Why, you see, a Teller was fetched up
afore me on prediction dat he stoled
hog. While &C cause was undergoin'
a hearin', ornery white man said dat
he know'd dat de Teller didn't steal de
hog, and dat [ couldn't 'vict him. It
was in de proof dat he didn't steal de
hog, but jest because de Teller sed dat [
couldn't 'vict de man. T did 'vict him.
Well, den, de Teller went ober de creek,
and said dat I didn't know as much law
as de hog. Now, wanter know eff
kin rain dat ornery rascal afore me an
fine him $40 and costs ?"
The colored gentleman was referred
to higher authority.-Little Rock (ArE.)
Gazette
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-04

entered the room Riley was blown
twenty feet by steam, and badly scalded
wet blankets We're procured, and Finn
and Riley, with wet blankets over them,
crawied through hole III the brick
wall which leads to the top Of the
boiler, and with cold-cllisels and ham
mers cut off the supply of water pour
ing into the boiler, thus preventing d
terrible explosion. Both were badly
sca]deF
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-04
QUIPS.
A, FOOT note-Sole.
HEADQUARTERs-A pillow

4 FOOT note-Sole.
HEADQU ARTERs-A pillow
ARE book worms good for bait?
A BELLE wringer-A pretty laun-
dress.
A sELF-SUFFICIENT man is wise in his
own can't-see-it.
A POLITICAL economist says "the best
wives are cheapest" Yet every man
who has good wife looks upon her as
'a little dear"
Two COLORED woman in Atlanta are
reported to have traded children. Who
will say hereafter that the Ethiopian
cannot change his kin?
81 AM astonished, my dear young
lady, at your sentiment-you make me
start!" We'll, sir, I've been waiting
for you to start for the last hour"
W1FE-"But, my dear, I shall catch
cold coming down SO late to let you in"
Husband-"Oh no, my love; I'll rap
you up well before you come down"
MANY girls would rather wear their
stockings with holes in them than have
them darned, because when darned
they are mended, and girls prefer men
alive.
WHERE does the head of a pin go to
when it CESS mixed up with fellows
collar? You can't miss the point, but
the head is neither on one side nor the
other.
A YOUNG man who sneers at a girls
false teeth hasn't welI-balanced head.
Let him marry girl who has toothache
and neuralgia and he will see where he
was lame.
"THERE is nothing like settling
down. said retired merchant, conf
dentially, to his neighbor When I
gave up business [ settled down, and
found had quite comfortable fortune
If I had settled up I shouldn't have had
cent"
IT was very mean man who slippde
his hand between the heads of a
young man and young lady in the front
seat as the train entered the tunnel.
He said afterward the young mans
beard was very stiff, but the pressure
OA JIG OblCL SiuS Ol G16 uauu lSlE Ike
the tips of fur tie.
"COME here, sir, till I tan your jacket
for you" said Currier to a truant pu-
pill. The boy softly answered, ga soft
tan, sir" the muscles of the teachers
face and arms relaxed, and the punish
ment was committed to the admonition
to be careful about playing hockey
again. Thus it is that soft tan, sir,
turneth away wrath.
A HIGHLY COLORED ROMANCE.
Once ?. Green said TO fair Miss Brown,
"My heart is all your roam;
Then white to me you so cold
And why so harsh your toner"
She cast on him magenta look
And then she shook her red,
And, as the zepbyrs softly blue,
She wept, and weeping, said:
81 wouldst, but Oh, my watchful pa
Maroon all our fun
The purple nab you by the leg,
And murder will be dunl"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-04
A Story of Steel Pens.

Few persons who use steel pens on
which is stamped "Gillott have any
idea of the story of suffering, of indom-
liable pluck and persistence which be-
long to the placing of that name on
that article.
A long depression in trade in En-
gland threw thousands of Sheffield me-
chanlcs outof work, among them Jo-
seph elliott, then 81 years of age.
He left the city with but shilling in
his pocket. Reaching Birmingham, he
went into an old inn and sat down.
upon wooden settle in the tap-room.
His last penny was spent for a roll. He
was weak, hungry, and i'll. He had not
friend in Birmingham; and there was
little chance that he would find work.
In his dependency he was tempted
to give up and turn beggar or tramp.
Then sudden fiery energy seized him.
He brought his fist down on the table.
declaring to himself that he would try
and trust in God, come what would.
He found work that day in making belt
buckles, which were then fashionable.
AS soon as he had saved a pound or
two he hired a garnet in Bread street,
and there carried on work for himself,
bringing his taste AMI his knowledge of
tools into constant use, even when work
ing at handmade goods. This was the
secret of Gillott's success. Other work
men trudged on passively in the old
ruts. He was wide-awake, eager to i'm
prove his work, or to shorten the way of
working.
He fell in love with pretty and SEN
sible girl named Mitchell, who with her
brothers was making steel pens. Each
pen was then clipped, punched and pol
ished by hand, and pens were sold con-
sequently at enormously high prices.
elliott at once brought his skill in
tools to bear on the matter, and soon
invented a machine which turned the
points out by thousands, in the time
that a man would require to make one.
He married Miss Mitchell, and they car
ried on the manufacture together for
years.
On the morning of the marriage, the
industrious workman made a gross of
pens, and sold them for 1886, to pay the
wedding fees. In his old age, having
reaped an immense fortune by his
shrewdness, honesty and industry, Mr..
elliott went again to the old inn, bought
the settle, and had the square On which
he sat that night sawed out and made
into chair, which he left as an heir
loom to his family, to remind them of
the secret Of his success.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-04
BY TIE HEARTH.
BY ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS.

You come too late: s
TITS tar ON in November
The wind strikes bleak
Upon the cheek
That careth rather to keep warm
t(And where's the harmO
Than to abate
One lot of it's calm color for your sake.
Watch See! s ir the enber
Upon nay lonely hearth, and bid the fire wake.
And think you that it will? &N
; lis burned, say, to ashes.
1t smoiGer cold
AS graveyard mold.
wish, indeed, you would not blow
Upon it sol
The dead to kill.
L say, the ghosts of fires will never STIR
Nor woman lift the lashes
of eyes wept dim, howe'er yours shine for love o.
herl
All, sweet surprise!
did not think such shining
Upon the gloom
Could fall. Your even, strong, calm breath
Gala life from death.
The warm light lies .tlt .f4
At your triumphant feet, faint with desire
TO reach you. zee! The lining
OF violet and of silver in that sheath of fire!
If you would care
Although it is November
win not say
A bitter nay
TO such gift for building fires.
And though it tires
Me to think of it'll own to you
Ef you can stir the on ber
1t may be found at last, just warm enough for tWo
-ScTibaeT'S Monthly.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-04

:" And, girls, I have always had one
OF the best of husbands. He may have
hirted some and been a little Jealous
since our ride to Pasonvilie, but il he
has, can think he has been as before
only just like all the men,
DE KALB. I'll.