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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-10-26
pOsTrONEMENr.

The sale of delinquent stock Of the above
named Company is hereby postponed until
SATURDAY, April 18th, 1880, at the same hour
and place. By order OF the Board OF Directors.
ABRAHAM HALSEY, Secretary
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-10-26
rosrpONEMENT.

The sale of delinquent stock of the above
named Company is hereby postponed until
MONDAY, August 10th, 1880, at the same hour
and place. Br order of the Board of Directors
ABRAHAM HALSEY, Secretary.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-10-26
Furnished House Wanted.

:, Wanted, foi the Winter, neatly furnished
HOUSE, py iamiiy with no small children.
->PPV Nv oA0e ~ saAs OUNCE olS-3t
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-10-26

. Balmorals,
Misses Calf Balmorals Button Shoes. Misses
and Children's Leather Shoes Of all kinds
for sale at the lowest cash price. Boots
made to order for all prices from Sll to
$40 per pair. Repairing in the Saddle,
Harness and Boot Department promptly at
tended to, at prices to suit the times. Boots OF
the best brands sold as cheap as anywhere on
the Pacific Slope. No light dress shoes for
Ladies' kept in stock. NJ. B. STANTON.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-13
NOxiOus Drugs to Horses.

Grooms are too much in the habit of
administering these, wholly careless or
ignorant of their INJURIOUS effect. This
is particularly the case with arsenic,
which they freely use, in order to give
horses a finer and more snowy coat of
hair. We often hear of cases of the
death of horses from this cause, both at
home and abroad. 1t is an imperative
order from us to our stable men to never
give medicine of any kind to our ami
mails without first consulting us. In
some European countries, particularly
in Hungary, we have heard that the
lower class of females are almostinsanely
addicted to the habit of taking arsenic,
to improve the complexion of the face.
In a short time the system gets so accus-
toned to this dangerous drug that a
delicate female can take enough at a
single dose to kill half dozen stout
men. But continuation Of these doses
for few years is sure to result in pre-
mature death.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-13
Chestnut Elnnr.

Mr.. J. Schuyler Crosby, United States
Consul at Florence, Italy, gives, in re-
port to the State Department, an ac-
count of the flour made from chestnuts
and used in many parts of Southern
Europe. The writer says
"The number Of trees in Tuscany and
Lucca is estimated at several millions,
and the nut and wood have done more
to maintain the population of some OF
these districts than any other produc-
ton. In some places wheat flour and
corn meal are entirely superseded by
the chestnut -four, which is very nour-
ishing and much cheaper as an article
of food. f"
Mr.. Crosby is of opinion, after a care
full study Of the subject, that this varie-
ty of chestnut can be grated on the
native American species, and thus be
made a source of wealth and profit to
this country, especially in certain mount
ainous districts, where it is almost i'm
possible to raise cereals, owing to the
nature Of the soil and the steepness of
the mountain sides, and where trans
portation is SO difficult, and labor so
high and scarce. Outside of this ques-
ton of using the chestnut for food
in the districts where it could be cult
waited and grown to advantage in the
United States, the present price of the
imported Spanish chestnut, which is
used for various purposes throughout
our country, would, he claims, amply re-
pay any outlay farmers might have to
make, in importing rings or shoots of this
magnificent variety from Italy for graft
ing on our own chestnut trees * x
The chestnut fourishes i'll light, fer
tile, deep sol, but thrlves on the sides
of mountains facing the south and west.
The flour can be preserved for two
years It is used i'll the same way as
wheat flour, and, though less nutritious,
is much cheaper and at the same time Is
exceedingly agreeable to the taste. He
says that in those regions where the in
habitants live almost entirely on the
chestnut, they are of better appearance,
more healthy and not less strong than
those people who live on what i'll Amer
lea is considered more wholesome and
nutritious food.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-13
A Jealous Dog.

Truth is indeed often, if not nearly
always, stranger than fiction, as the fol.
lowing extraordinary but true story will
attest The circumstance occurred
about two months ago, at a gentleman S
seat IN North Wales. This gentleman
was the owner of very fine but savage
mastiff, with cross of the st. Bernard
in him, named Mars. AL day he was
kept chained up in back yard, and
only let loose at night One day, as he
was sitting gloomily within his solitary
kennel, to his unspeakable "rage, re-
sentiment and despair" he saw his mate,
a beautiful red-and-white setter, called
Venus, gamboling and flirting under his
very eyes with a very handsome gray
hound, called Swift, who had won sew
eral cups. Mars writhed, growled and
clanked his chain, but all in vain. The
happy pair paid no attention to his out
ragged feelings. That day Mars ate no
dinner, but lay with his nose between
his elongated forepaws,, uttering a low
growl, while his red eyes glared fitfully
from right to left At length night
came, and he was free. He bounded on
Uu1OuSS5n G1lo uaIhH6SS, dIiu TuSu0u GOAuU
fro, like troubled spirit, as he was, till
morning dawned, when he met Swift,
for whom he had been looking all night.
The former, like gay and fashionable
dog, waving the little injury he had in
flicted upon Mars, went up to him, wag-
.ging his tail. and holding out to him the
right paw Of fellowship; whereupon
that canine Othello seized him by the
nape Of the nick, dragged him down to
the riverside, and there, with the most
deliberate vengeance, dashed his beau
tlful head against stone, and literally
split his skull till the margin Of the river
was crimsoned with his blood. After
which the still-unappeased Mars dragged
his victim into the water, and kept press
ing him down till he was quite dead.
At sunrise the whipper-in, happening
to pass by, saw the corse of this beauti-
full and valuable dog in the river, Mars,
with his heavy paw still pressing him
down, while his.red tongue was painting
and his redder eyes glaring round upon
the rocks in defiance, as if glorying in
the foul murder he had just committed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-13
The Diamond.

Although found In every quarter of
the globe, the diamond is the rarest, as
it is the hardest, known mineral. It
occurs exclusively among gold bearing
rocks, or sands derived from gold-bear-
ing rocks, and among strata which,
though originally soft shady deposits of
sand OF mud, have been "metamor-
phosed," as it is called, into hard crys-
talline schists. It was once supposed
by biologists that the metamorphic
rocks were deposited in their existing
crystalline form from a boiling ocean
enveloping the still-heated globe; but it
is now known that these formations
we're originally deposited as mud or
sand, and have been transmitted into
schists by the influence of subterranean
heat acting under great pressure through
heightened periods of time, and aided
by thermal water or steam permeating
the porous rocks and giving rise to vari-
Gus chemical decompositions and new
combinations within them. The dia-
mond probably originates, like coal or
mineral oil, from the gradual decompo-
sition of vegetable or animal matter !;
and we may, therefore, regard the brill
iants which we prize in the drawing
room as having been slowly elaborated
from carbonaceous matter furnished by
some dead fish or rotting plant,
originally buried In. the mud Of an in
conceivably ancient paleozoic shore. =.
BeICy7.n7,in T
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-13
The Grumbling Husband.

The grumbling husband" an indi-
vldual who, of all his fraternity, has
generally the least cause for complaint,
is one of those advanced pessimists who
renders existence as obnoxious as it is
possible to make it to those who have
the misfortune to share his earthly pill
grimage. It may be an affliction at the
best Of times, but the grumbler makes it
ten times worse. He will begin the day
by abusing his breakfast; and man
who scowls over his coffee, eggs, and the
daily paper may be pronounced as not
likely to improve in temper as the hours
advance. The influence of a grumbling
woman is particularly depressing; but
that OF a man chronic grumbler Is
worse. We may expect to find some
capricious brightness or ephemeral ex-
altatlon at times support her narrow
minded morbid complaints, for woman s
moods constantly vary but with man
all this is different. There is more of
the granite in his composition. His
lntuitions are duller, and his sympathies
less active. He will take a positive
pleasure in nursing his gloom. It may
proceed from physical or mental causes,
mcessant disappointments, or poor di-
gestion; but the grumbling husband is,
IN American parlance, "a caution .
the most hopeless, selfish specimen
OF mankind we can meet, disqualified
for society, unfit for home, a dead
weight on every ones spirit. Who can
combat his prejudices or move his spir-
itless misanthropy? He takes delight
In seeing others as depressed as himself
You are enthusiastic over music. paint
ing, poetry, literature, or any of the arts
that remove the cold prosaism of matter
of-fact reality; he will endeavor to des-
troy the fervor and happiness you have
experienced in the company of the fab
led Muses-and why? Because the
dull leaden matter that forms his brain
cannot soar to those high pinnacles of
imagination and fancy; and he will en-
Wy another's capacity for approaching
the works which represent nothing or
less than nothing to him. All gum
blers, it nonentities, are, as a rule, es-
sentially practical they love their
creature comforts as dearly as they love
themselves their predominant material
ism makes them resent the slightest
flaw in the management of the house
hold as an injury to themselves and
woe betide the woman the grumbling
husband has made his miserable spouse
if the peas are hard for his Sundays din
ner, or the potatoes waxy when he pre-
fers foury vegetable What antidote
can be offered to resist the effects of
these intolerable croakers? None. It
is in the very blood and bones of the
animal, irradicable as blight. : aesley's
M0O0zine.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-13
Andrew jackson and His Old Home.

Though Duke grew feeble and almost
helpless in his latter day, he was not
forgotten or suffered to be neglected. I
have, in walk with the General, more
than once gone to the lot which con-
tanned this living wreck of martial valor,
and while the old creature would reel
and stagger, looking wistfully at his
master, the General would sighingly
say: "Ah, poor fellow, we have seen
hard times together; we must shortly
separate; your days of suffering and toll
are well-nigh ended.
On one occasion, to try the General
on tender point, the writer of this ar
ticle suggested the idea Of putting an
end to the sufferings of Duke by hav-
ing him shot or knocked on the head.
''No, said his generous master, "never,
never; let him live, and while there is
anything to go upon on this farm Duke
shall have a. part. "-ReU FL. N. Cfyer's
"reminiscences.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-13
Ruling Passion.

A decided case of the ruling passion
strong in death is told in an old book of
sporting anecdotes, to the effect that
once upon time famous huntsman,
of the suggestive name of Fox, being at
the point Of death, addressed a letter to
his master, requesting that when he was
gone his silver-mounted whip. with old
Mer1ilas and her litter Of pups engraved
upon it's handle, should be presented
"to our sporting parson, DR.. Dasher,
upon condition that he will preach a
funeral sarmint over me from the text,
Foxes have holes.'" In addition, the
dying wielder of the horn inclosed a
copy of his own suggested epitaph, in
the following terms: Here 1ieth Tim
othy Fox. who was unkennelled at 7
o'clock a. m., upon Nov. 5, 1853, and,
having availed himself of shifts through
the chase Of life, but being at last I'M
able to get into any hole or crevce, was
ruin down by Capt. Deaths hloodhounds,
Gout, Rheumatism, Dropsy, Catarrh,
Asthma. and Consumption. s
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-13
Strange Birth-Mark.

Gen. Steedman recently said that
while he was in command at Chatta-
nooga he was visited by Parson Brown
low, who became his guest One day,
while changing their underclothing, the
parson exhibited to him most singular
birth-mark on his body. It was per-
fectly formed snake, not coiled, nor yet
extended, but curved, as serpents are
often seen. It was of a red color, and
with every feature so. distinct that the
indentations for the eyes were plainly
visible. The head of the snake
in question was just under the
parsons left breast. The body of the
reptile extended down over his ribs, and
was about six or eight inches long.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-13
The Stupidity of Servants.

I have in my household, writes acor-
respondent. of the London Times, an
under-nurse, who, upon the family's
leaving town for short holiday, was en-
joined to see that the birds in the
nursery (canaries) were well supplied
with sand, When we came back we
found them all starved to death. She
had given them sand, but, alas, no seed.
This was a girl from the country, who,
one would think, would have known
what birds fed upon otherwise one does
not expect much intelligence from Ar
cadia. When our last importation Gan
under housemaid) "turned on the gas ;"
in the upper apartments, as she was di
rected to do, but omitted to light it, I
thought it very excusable; she had not
been accustomed to gas. On the other
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-13
Habit and Little Things.

We are too much in the habit of de-
spising little things, but some of the
worlds greatest discoveries were the re-
suit of studying little things In the
cathedral at Pisa, Calico discovered
that pendulum would mark the time
Sir William Brown, by watching spi-
der, formed the idea Of the first suspen-
sion bridge; Franklin, by the aid of
silk kite, invented the lightning con-
ductor Vests first brush was fur
nished by g cats tail and SO with the
invention of the steam engine and Fara-
days experiments with an old bottle.
Little things are like fakes of snow
harmless enough In single flakes but
what is more powerful than an ava
lanche, carrying away villages in its
course of devastation. Il b. cough.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-13

hand, when her mistress told her to
look to the fire of certain room, [
contend we had right to. expect that
that fire should be Kept in. It was not
SO, however, and when the lady in
CURED: "Why did you not look to it,
as told you ?" the girl replied ''Well,
! did, mum the door was open, and I
looked at the fire every time I passed. :"
She appeared to attach some sort of ig-
neous power to the human eve.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-13
How He Got Rich.

Z A good old man, who is very rich now.
was very poor when he was boy. When
asked how he got his riches, he replied:
" My father taught me never to play till
my work for the day was finished, and
never to spend money till I had earned
it. If I had but half an hours work to
do in a day, I must do that the first
thing and in half an hour. After this
was done I was allowed to play. I early
formed the habit Of doing everything in
its time, and it soon became perfectly
easy to do so. It is to this habit that I
now owe my prosperity"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-13
Chicken Breeding i'm France.

Thanks to some singular statistics
just published. for the authenticity of
which, however, I should hesitate to
vouch, mystery that has long hung
over our dinner tables is cleared up.
English travellers or residents in France
must, like myself, have often wondered
where all the fowls that figure daily in
menus at every hotel, restaurant and
private house in the country, at no mat
ter what season of the year, can possibly
come from. The supply appears to be
inexhaustible, and that it is so practi-
cally is proven by the announcement
that France contains no fewer than 49,
100000 hens, which are followed by a
train OF 100,000,00O chickens, about a
tenth part of these latter being destined
for the duties of propagation. The 49,
100000 hens lay annually four milliards
of eggs, which, at the rate of centimes
each-a trife over halfpenny-th the
price paid to the breeder, realize sum
of 240, 900, 900 francs. If to this amount
be added the proceeds from the sales of
fowls, whether lean or fat, and taking
into consideration also the surplus value
attaching to eggs and birds by reason of
city tolls, the total arrived at is set down
at the almost fabulous figure of $50, O00,-
600 francs, or more than half milliard,
produced annually ~ French poultry
yards. Neither ducks nor geese nor
turkeys are included in these calcula-
tons; if they we're the gross sum would
have been increased by several hundreds
of millions Of francs. So, accepting this
census as tolerably near the mark, we
may henceforth cease to be surprised at
the vast amount of chicken bones daily
picked in France.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-13
A RUGGY-RTDEs
a buggy-ride, perhaps, is not
The finest subject for a song,

a buggy-ride, perhaps, is not
The finest subject for song,
But when the muse has thus been caught,
TO treat things right deem no wrong.
Twas events stillest, saddest hour,
When all the ether seemed ablaze
With filings of a golden shower
That sparkled in the western haze.
The truest pair of glowing eyes,
Though tathomless as aZure's sea,
Glanced up in mine with mute surprise,
And flashed with friendships ecstasy.
OF course they we're the " cornerstone
OF this production, howe'er grand;
They give it depth, and strength, and tone,
If to such heights it doth expand.
Along the quiet, dusty way,
With events shadows dropping down,
TO fold the feetng, dying day
In dingy robes Of deepest brown,
We drove our slowly-prancing steed
Hired horses ne'er possess soul,
And, though it always is the need,
l never thought Of paying "toll,"
Until at last she said that
Must write a poem of our ride.
| thought the theme was rather dry"
Unless she be the song implied.
And, whispering in her ist'ning ear,
asked slight but simple boon
SO simple that no maid need lear
Bestowing it upon loon"
It was not granted; and, of course,
knew it was not right to steal;
'Twould tinge our joy with remorse
hope no soul shall ever feel.
Oh. why hoard those exhaustless stores
Of rapture that but bringeth bliss?
Why wreck our hopes on fancys shores,
When tits no theft to steal a kiss?
plead-but it was vain to plead;
And leased but useless twas to tease;
And reasoned-but twas wisdoms need
That whispered this would never please.
The ride was over, and at last
The silent, parting hour had come,
When thoughts are roaming swift and fast,
And eyes but speak, and lips are dunno.
And, though but friends, know the bliss
That little favor might have wrought;
The rapture Of one simple kiss
Had savored this with deeper thought.
l learned lesson. So may you, r.-,....,
Young men and boys of "tender" years,
Who buggy-ride and read this, too;a e
Twill save you many doubts and fears.
Don't beg and crave SO slight,a boon &
& (And yet SO great you cannot break it,.
But if kiss you want, sir loon,
Just simply watch your chance and take it.
7bicago Ledger.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-13
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
Little NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

A little MISUNDERSTANDING.
Hewas lite lawyer man,
Who meekly blushed viii e he began
Her poor dead husbands viii to scan.
He smiled while thinking of his fee,
Inen said to her, so tenderly:
You have nice fat legacy"
AND wnen he lay next day in bed,
with plasters on his broken head,
de wondered what on earth he'd said.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-13
A GLASS of little " primary childre

A GLASS of little primary children
were busily. engaged in their reading
lessons. They read in order something
like the following: The hat is in the
box. 1.-The man is in the box The
rat is in the box" The cat is IN the
box" When all at once up came a
chubby little hand, the signal for per-
mission to speak "Well, what is it,
Mattie?" said the teacher. 6 I should
fink e box God be full after a while.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-01
Fourth Edition.
The LATEST
TO-DAY In CONGRESS.

bHNATEs
National Associated Press To the Star
; WAsHINeroN, May 1.-The Senate is not
In session to-day.
In the House some miscellaneous busi-
ness was transacted. ~
On motion Of Mr.. Calkins of Indiana,
the bill refunding to the University of
Notre Dame. St. Joseph County, Indiana,
the sum of 81, 334 OF, that being the amount
paid on certain plates, glass, painting, etc. 4,
was taken up and passed. a.
On motion of Mr.. Price the House took
MP and passed the bill defining the verifi-
cation OF returns Of National Banks.
The regular order having been demand
cd Mr.. Carlisle moved to dispense with the
morning hour with view OF going on
with the Revenue Bill. Mr.. Conser antag-
onized the motion because the House was
very thin and he thought that bill that
proposed to take two millions from the
revenue should be considered only in a
full house. 1t was subsequently agreed
that the business of the morning hour
should be proceeded with and that the In
ternal Revenue Bill should be taken up
after that. The committees were accord
ingly called for reports, to be referred to
the appropriate calendar.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-01
CORNCRACKER CURRENTS
Knickknacks Knocked Together in Old
Kentucky.
Specials to the Star.

Specials to the Star.
MoRaANTIELD, May 1.-The tobacco barn
of G. c. Gabhart, in Union County, caught
fire from burning tree and was totally
consumed with its contents. I
PARIS, May L-George Brown & Co, at
their stables at the Runnymede Stud Farm,
lost their most promising colt. The colt,
Weller, by Wanderer, out of Fancy Jane,
was being tried in company with one of the
mares, when the latter ran against him
and broke his thigh. 1t was necessary to
shoot him in order to end his misery.
Weller was two years old and was en-
tered in all the important, events for two
year-olds throughout the country. He
made trial last week, half mile in soy
seconds and would have been readily backed
to win the colt stakes at Lexington. Bow
en- & Co. lost valuable yearling, Wander
er, out Of Lexington mare. two or three
weeks since, by the colt running against {
fence and breaking his neck.
VERSAILLES, May 1.-The farmers ART
much discouraged over the heavy rains
prevalent here this spring. The rain las
Sunday was the heaviest ever known be
fore, registering twelve inches upon level
The acreage Of hemp proposed to be sowr
will be very large this spring.
WINcHRsTER, May 1.-Scott Gays grocery
and three adjoining houses burned herr
yesterday. Loss, $4,000
BosroN, May l.-Harry Colgan, aged Il
years, was thrown from horses bacl
early yesterday morning on Younger
Creek Hill and fatally injured.
SHELBYvILLE, May LA terrific explo
sion occurred at the steam saw mill of s
L. Sanders, situated on Demaree's Fork o
Six-mile Creek. The explosion utterly de
molished the mill, throwing large pieces o
the boiler several hundred feet. Nobod!
hurt.
CARRoLLroN May Mort Craig, o
Whites Run, yesterday shot at dog ant
missed. The ball struck tree and glanced
going through a window and hitting three
ladies. The ladies were but slightly hurt