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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-19
A Chinese Restaurant.

We called at fashionable restaurant.
Some wealthy tea-merchants were to en-
terrain delegation of noted country
men that evening. The first floor was
in the throes Of cuisine agony for so
great an occasion. Buns baked a light
brown, with guests insignia of rank
burned on the top; little pyramids of
cherries, plums, and sliced oranges were
erected on sauce-dishes, one dish forming
course. Heaps Of thin cakes and
pickles were on all sides. The refresh
ment rooms were upstairs, the first room
being for commoners, second for little
higher grade, the third for aristocracy.
In the latter an open scrol-work OF gilded
iron ran up the sides and across the top,
from which hung silken curtain divid-
ing the apartments. The smaller por-
ton was for the musicians, who dis
coursed most hideous jargon of sounds
while the guests ate. On raised dais
was a most exquisite china and gilt
opium pipe, with tubes, SO that they
could smoke at the end of the repast.
The other half of the room was hung
with highly-colored maps and pictures,
and furnished with quantity carved
chairs and tables in ebony and gilt.
Covers were laid for six at table, and
consisted simply of ivory chop-sticks,
three plates (the size of an individual
butter dish), in choice china and wine
glass holding tablespoonful. We in
dulged in cup of delicious tea served in
odd cups with covers, and partook spar
ingly of some dried fruit. Some chopped
fddle-strings everyone declared looked
tempting, but no one had any appetite.
The guests arrived before we left, and
were preceded by the host, who ushered
them in with much ceremony and over
whelming salaams They were hand
somely attired in blue broadcloth, taste
fully corded with black, and wore the
red button Of rank and opulence upon
their caps. After the ceremonies they
settled down to easy chit-chat, and
seemed to bubble over with humor and
wit, which, of course, was lost on our
uneducated ears, but was greeted with
shouts of applause by them. The next
amusing thing was the waiter, who was
SO much inflated with the awfulness of
the occasion that he would swell into the
room with an immense server, holding it
as if bent to the ground with the weight
of good things, in the centre Of which
would repose, Like an island in mid
ocean, single sauce-dish Of rice and
meat San Francisco Correspondence
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-19
Drinking Impure Water.

Set pitcher of lce-water III a room
inhabited, and in few hours it will
have absorbed from the room much of
the respired and perspired gases, and
the air of the room will have become
purer, but the water viii be utterly
filthy This depends on the fact that
the water has the feeulty of condensing,
and thereby absorbing all the gases.
which it does without increasing its own
bulk. The colder the water is, the
greater its capacity to contain these
gases. At ordinary temperature pint
of water will contain pint of carbonic
acid gas, and several pints of ammonia.
This capacity is nearly doubled by re-
ducing the temperature to that of ice.
Hence, water kept in the room awhile is
always unfit for use, and should often be
renewed whether it has become warm or
not And, for the same reason, the wa
ter in a pump-stock should all be
pumped out in the morning before any
IS used. That which has stood in the
pitcher over night is not fit for cooking
purposes in the morning Impure wa
ter is quite as injurious to the health as
impure air, and every person should
provide the means of obtaining fresh,
pure water for all domestic uses.
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Wonderful Mirages in Arizona.

The excllrsionist in Arizona, writes q
correspondent, in leaving his couch be-
fore sunrise, must not be surprised to see
lakes where the maps show no water, and
mountains turned bottomside upward in
the air, and such other illusions as aefial
castles, Notifications, railroads, forests
and all descriptions of architecture. It
was only few weeks ago, between ella
Bend and Maricopa, that I witnessed a
most marvellous and and exquisite series
of transformations reflected by the phen-
omenon Of mirage. The Sierra de las
Estrella mountain had entirely disap-
peared, and in its place was walled city
upon the margin Of beautiful lake. All
at once the city disappeared; cas-
tellated mountain rose in tie middle of
the lake and turned into palace, which,
after balancing itself into the air, topp1ed
over and sank into the bosom of the tran
gull waters. Then arose q multiplicity
of grotosque elevations, which rapidly
assumed the character Of fairy islets, with
lakelets within themselves; then, owing
to the unequal densities and refracting
powers of the adjacent stre ia of air, the
Ao1cLo DGCdlIIC luGO CdSJlGS
cathedrals, butresses, cubes Notifications
and other rock systems Of architecture,
which only survived, however, to vanish
on perfect completion. Again rose an
object which resembled y magnificent
opera house, or cathedral, with the re-
quisite description of gothic windows and
domes, baltlstrades, imposing arches and
door ways and many-colofed lamps. This
last picture gave way to an immense
tube, which seemed to be suspended in
the air until shivered into almost infn-
itesimal fragments, each Of which as
sumed a variety of shapes, with serrated
borders, and soon vanished or became
truncated below the horizon. Then
arose an immense island, in shape not
unlike Alcatras; again it closely resem-
bled Gibralter, lifted in the air, all the
while presenting an aspect as threaten
ing as either of the strongholds above
named. Then came the Pyramids, and,
anon, the CASA Grande, precisely as it
exists fifty miles away. Presently a
great broad white scarf seemed to have
been thrown over the last-named eleva-
ton, yet permitting formation like the
picture Of the Crock of Ages"
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A Business Darkey.

An enterprising darkey of a calculating
turn of mind, says Florida paper, called
on a gentleman who owns garden in
the City of Tallahassee and represented
that the garden was rapidly growing up
with grass, which, if left to go to seed,
would render it impossible to grow vege-
tables on the spot next year, and pro-
posed to cut it down for certain sum,
which the gentleman agreed to pay. He
then went to the gentleman who had re-
Gently rented the premises and made the
same proposition, which was again ac-
cepted, the latter not knowing, Of course,
that the owner had agreed to pay for the
work, as the darkey had studiously kept
that to himself. After cutting the grass
and collecting pay from both gentleman
our hero proceeded to the owner of cow,
sold the grass for double what he charged
for cutting it, pocketed four times as
much money as the work was worth, and
went on his way humming hymn tune.
Now, who says the African is not pro-
gressiYe race?
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COmbafs of the Ocean.

Among the extraordinary spectacles
sometimes witnessed by those who ego
down to the sea in ships, none are more
impressive than combat for the SUI
premacy between the monsters of the
deep. The battles Of the sword-fsh and
the whale are described as Homeric in
grandeur.
The sword-fsh go in schools, like
whales, and the attacks are regular sea-
fights When the two troops meet, as
soon as the sword fish have betrayed
their presence by few bounds in the
AIR, the whales draw together and close
up their ranks. The sword-ish always
endeavors to take the whale in the
flank, either because its cruel instinct has
revealed to it the defect in the carcases-
for there exists near the brachial fins of
tle whale spot where wounds are NOR
tal-cr because the flank presents wider
surface to its blow.
The sword-fish recoils to secure a
greaterimpetus If the movement escapes
the keen eye of his adversary, the whale
is lost, for it receives the blow of the
enemy and dies instantly. But, if the
whale perceives the sword-fish at the
instant of the rush, by a spontaneous
bound, it springs clear of the water its
entire length, and falls on its flank with
crash that resounds for many leagues,
and whitens the sea with boiling foam.
The gigantic animal has only its tail
for its defence. It tries to strike its
enemy, and finishes him at single blow.
But, if the active sword-fsh avoid the
fatal tail, the battle becomes more ter
rible. The aggressor springs from the
water in his turn, falls upon the whale,
and attempts, not to pierce, but to saw
it with the teeth and garnish its weapon.
The sea is stained with blood; the fury of
the whale is boundless. The sword fish
harnesses him, strikes him on every side,
kills him, and flies to other victories.
Often the sword-fish has not time to
avoid the fall of the whale, and contents
itself with presenting its sharp saw to the
flank of the gigantic animal which is
about to crush it. 1t then dies like Mac
ca@us, smothered beneath the weight of.
the elephant of the ocean. Finally the
whale give few last bounds into the air,
dragging its assassin in its flight, and
perishes as it kills the monster of which
it was the victim.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-19
Remarkable ClOck,


The Strasburg clock is very remark
able astronomical clock, constructed
about 1870, by Isaac Hobrecht, and now
in the cathedral at that city, bit there is
o still more remarkable clock at Detroit.
Mich, the work of Mr.. Felix Meier, a
mechanic. It stands eighte n feet in
height, and is inclosed in a black walnut
frame, deliberately carved and ornament
ed. The browning figure is that of
Washington, who is seated on q marble
dome. The canopy is supported by col
umns on either side. On inches below,
at the four corners of the clock, are four
human figures, representing Infancy"
youth" "Manhood" and CAGE" each
has q bell in one hand and d hammer in
the other. The inches are supported by
angels with faring torches, and over the
center is the figure of Father Time. At
the quarter hour the figure of the infant
strikes its tiny bell; at the half hour the
figure of the youth strikes his bell of
louder tone: at the third quarter the man
gray-beard. Then the figure of Time
oCC Io Ottu t"lIl GOllo S11S l1Ot1 do GNO OlltbA
figures throw open doors i'll the column
on either side of Washington, and pro-
cession of the Presidents of the United
States follows. AS the procession moves
Washington rises and salutes each figure
as it passes, and it in turn salutes him.
They move through the door on the other
side, and it is then closed behind them.
The procession moves to the accompani-
ment of varied music by the clock itself.
The mechanism also gives the correct
movement Of the planets round the sun,
comprising Mercury, which makes the
revolution once in 88 days; Venus, in 224
days; Mars, in 686 days; Vesta, in 1927
days; Juno, in 1858 days; Ceres, in L.
681 days; Jupiter, in 4, 1872 days; Saturn,
in 20 years: Uranus, in 81 years. AS
these movements are altogether too slow
to be popularity enjoyed, theinventor has
added device by which he can hasten
the machinery to show its workings to the
public. There are dials which show the
hour, minutes and seconds in Detroit,
Washington, New York, San Francisco,
London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St Pc
tersburg, Constantinople, Cairo, Pekin,
and Melbourne. The clock also shows
the day of the week and month in De-
troit, the month and season of the year,
the changes of the moon, etc. It is said
that Mr. Meier has worked on this clock
nearly ten years, and for the last four
years has devoted his whole time to it.
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CIVILIZED BULLDOZ1NG.
Wholesale Prescription OF Southern
Republicans.

GfEESv,IiF; S: c.. Nov. II.
At meeting of the Tiger Democratic
club, one of the most influential Demo-
cratic organizations in this section of
South Carolina, the following wholesale
proscfiptiTe resolutions were adopted.
for the purpose, it IS supposed, OF max.
ing the South more solid:
/. That we, members of the Tiger club; have
the good of our entire country at heart.
2. That we do not believe fair administra-
ton of the laws will be given us by the Radical
party in South Carolina, nor does that party
consider the interests Of either white or black
8. That prior to the election held or the I'd
of November Inst we urged upon clir colored
ciiizeiis the ip0f of voting With the Demo-
cratic party, tho party from which they derive
all their support and recognition yst IL spite
of our pleading, they, almost to man. Totef;
the Radical ticket.
4. That from henceforth We Bledge ourselves
to discard any man, white or black, who voted
with the Radical party, and that we will not
rent any ofNour lands to or have upon our prem
ises such men until they prove their sincerity
to an hottest Government OF tie Democratic
party by theft works and deeds:
5. That we earnestly call upon the people Of
our county and State to join haflda with Us in
this matter. as the only course for the people
to save the Government from corruption and
fraud
6. That we beg the citizens and merchants Of
Greenville city to discharge from their employ
any white or black Radical and I'LL their,places
with Democrats.
T. That we circumference any man who will
violate any Of the above resolutions, and con-
slider him wanting in loyalty to his party, and
spot him as an enemy to good government,
g. That no tenant whom we may have on OR
places shall be allowed to have in their employ
any white or black Radical
g. That any voter. stranger to US, who may
apply to us for employment, must produce sat
isfactory papers that he is Democfat.
10. That copy Of these resolutions be trans
mtted to the Greenville papers for publication,
and that all papers in South Carolina friendly
to good and honest government publish them
also.
L. I. JENNINGS, President of the Club
T. E. EwART, Secretary.
Committee-D. H. Noe, G. J. McAIehan, J..
". Ballenger, W. p Bates. G. J. Southern.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-19
THE MESSENGERS.
BY ErTrE N. HoLrox.

wfite-winged messenger came
And stood by my side one day.
It whispered, 81 never cap come again.
Then silently Jew away.
But another came in its place,
And. seeing my sad surprise,
Low whispered, IL bear message from thee
To my home beyond the skies"
satn would have questioned mora
Ere the wee, fair thing was gone,
But 1 felt that message would speak for me
When tho day Of accounts should come.
Another, and still they came;
Each had message forme
OF work to be done in the cause Of right,
And conscience and work must agree.
But oft as they glided by,
SO pure and Write when they came,
Gethuught l could trace on their snowy wing
A record Of sin with its stain.
glad would have called them back,
But alas they could come no more,
And the message fain wonld obliterate
Is borne to the other shore.
Thus tho days and years sped on
fiji tonight, my life most done,
The ghosts Of my white-winged messengers
Come back to ME one by one.
What meaneth their sad rcproach?
Neglect, abuse, cen the death
OF their brightest ones is laid to my charge
As 1 stand with bated breath.
"Who art thou?" "We're envoys of peace
To note what you think, say and do.
We whisper Of right-if thou heed st it not
Our record must still be true.n
V1,r EafI,cr hath oont u, Iova
We hail from fairer cline.
Thou call'st us moments while we are here;
When gone, thou call'st us time.
'GEDoE, Ill ETTIE III. HoLToN.
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rest the largest share of the responsible
ity Of the first publication of the case and
the shameful forgery" and further.
that his subsequent relations to the
forgery DO not lift a single shadow frem
his conduct. Nor does Mr.. Barnum
csme off unscathed. As the utterer and
distributor of the forged document, he
is morally as guilty as the forger; and,
having distributed it after its genuine
ness was denied by Gen. Garfield, his
responsibility was all the greater.
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The Philip Case-Judge Davis, Decision.

Judge Noah Davis delivered an elab-
crate and exhaustive decision in the
Philip forgery case at New York. He
held that it was fully and indisputably
proved to every person "free from
obliqu1ty OF vision or perversion Of iudg-
ment " that the Morey letter was for
gerry; that no such persons as Fl. l..
Morey or J. w. Goodall have had ex-
istence; that the letter never went to
Lynn; that the envelope was erased and
doctored to make it appear that the let
ter went there, and that the writing on
the envelope, the body of the letter and
the signature were in the same hand
writing, and further that whoever
wrote it was guilty Of a mali
eious libel. He also held that
those who published the letter, knowing
that it was not genuine, were guilty of
hbel-that they were guilty even if they
had not pretty positive evidence of its
genuineness. In the course of his de-
cision the Judge administered singing
and well-deserved rebake to Dir. Abrain
Hewitt. upon whom, he said, "must
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-19
Which is Right?

A doctor says: "When a lethargic
feeling pervades your system, when you
have disinclination to move about,
when you have ON adherence of exercise,
your liver is torpid, you are unwell. :
But an old father. whose son was affected
II this way, and showed all the symptoms
described by the Doctor, gave different
opinion: 'sSiclx? Not much; it's lazi-
ness that ails him"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-19
Annette and digestion.

Appetite is one thing, digestion clear
ly another. A man may feel ravenons,
and consume large quantities of mate
rial containing the elements of nutri-
ment, but be unable to appropriate the
supply furnished, or, in other words, to
nourish himself. 1t is not SO with rest.
Mere inaction may be secured without
rest, and idleness without the restora-
ton of energy. The faculty of recovery
and recuperation after exercise is In di.
rect proportion TO the vitality of the or
gan rested. This faculty is not to be
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-19

called into aetion by inactivity It fol-
lows that relief and recovery from the
effects of what is improperly called
GOVERNORS" cannot be obtained by
simply "going away for change" or by
indulgence in idleness. Heelth-seekers
make a fatal error in trying TO recover
lost powers by mere diversion Of energy.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-19

The New Haven Register evidently
has grldge against boys Of a certain
age. 1t says: at costs 5000 to bring
up boy to the age of fifteen, and we de-
fly any one to pick out a fifteen-year-old
boy that's worth it. Fifteen strikes the
age of utter uselessness in boy
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-19

ARURALIsT came into Tallahassee, Fla.
and finding news stand, ordered a lot
of papers, which he took from the clerk
with profuse thanks. He was astonished,
though, when the clerk asked payment,
as he "never heard CT charging for news
papers before" He had been reading
his neighbours papers for nothing, and
never knew they cost money.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-19

ANNIE LOUISA CARY has SO, 900 worth
Of real estate in Portland. She bought
it for song.
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THE MARKETS.

Ex-EMPREss EUGENE will spend the
in the Isle of Wight.
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A white-winged messenger came
And stood by my side one day.
1t whispered, 81 never can come again,
Then silently few away.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-19

ever knew. am reminded of another remark
Clark made. When met my uncle John yes
terday he shook hands with me, and Clark
said. when We got out Of our seats: "Who is
that?'
I said: "That is my uncle john
He said: He will testify that there is no
H. L. Morey."
/ said: '.Yes, he would They viii all tes-
tify that there is no H. L. Morey.n
He SAID: "Well, I don't care. If you go to
he'll viii go to hell with YOU
SAMUEL s. McREy.
Taken before me this 10Th of November.
B. T. MORGAN, Police Justice.
o'BRIEs's CONFESSION.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-02-13

Nery Jack rrsst and bis fairy elves
Cane down In Tho clear moon isit I.
And sestiy they brsathed on the vindew pane.
Till the cassms Mt ratified again and again,
Through the long. cold winters night.
And then, with their fingers % lighs and def.
They trscsd or the sEiIing gla
The iovs,isst Of blossoms, and buds. and
Liz. laes. vsk rare, Till the morning hours
were challenged to 10, them psAs.
For they fingered % long st their fsiry task
That the gray dawn ran them race.
And scarce had they reached their palace OF
In the f.r. far north. where the Wild winds
Ere iss ssy sun Joined the chase.
But they swuns their gate Of glitterlns loo
In the face Of Q sunbeam bright.
And he ,campersd away Ger the cleaning
And ssver hen dare to venture again
whsre the Frost King rsgns with might.
But back to the glass where the frostwsrk lay
In blossom. aud bud. aud flower.
They hastsnsd 10 shipe. I'LL, alAsi each ray
Had vantoniy carried blossom avAy.
And crushed each bud In IN hour.
But vaksn, wee folk. on winters night.
When the moon II fair aud round.
And merry jack Frost. with bis fairy elves,
A. their eeaniiful work you can watch Jour
nyou naie not Gsh nor soundi
-SybH ST. Cyr.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-02-13
APPLICATION FOR A PATENT.

NOTICE NO. lls. u. 8. MINERAL SURVEY
IN No. i1s and l42. U. y. LAND OFFICE,
Carson City. Nevada. December %. 1879.
Notice 10 hereby given, thas the Culver
Consolidated Colo and Silver mining Com.
pany. . corporation Organized under me
day made and nlsd in this once It. application
for patent for 1910 linear iset OF the Culver
Addition. vein or lode bearing mineral. Wild
surface ground from two TO six hundred feet In
width, tituated In Gold Hill Mining Disinct,
storey county, Nevada, and described W tne
plat and Geld notes on ME 10 thi. once - SN s9s'
lows, To wit; beginning at post marked NO.
1, u. o. Survey No. I19 and La the same pelpR
identical with the .. ". corner Of the ksst Vel.
low Jacket claim, and also post No. OF Lot
No. i1S, and running thence from said po,t NO.
1, nrst course, routh 80 degree. vest. Of u ieet
cross groupings and lode me- ~ .sst 70 pSss Sss
and l01. and ti9 feet nom the northeast corner
thereof thence, second course. south \ de.
gress west, s3s feet TO poet No. >. Lot NO. iW
and it2. thence, third course, toutn ~ degrees
east, ss6 feet TO post No. Z. Lot No. l1e and lA2
800 ieet cross lode linz, 600 feet to post No. slot
NO, iSe and lka; thence. ffth course. north ~
degrees West, ti0 feet 10 post NO. Q. Lot No. iIs
and ll2. on the south line Of the Culver Consol.
idstet Gold and silver Mining Company U. 3.
survs. No. i1s; thence, sixth course, south sex
ing identical with the southwest corner OF W.
8. Survey NO. i7S, and whence besrs the quarter
section corner on south line Of section -, Town
ship II north, Range n east. MI DAolo asrid.
ian, south " degrees % minutes west, yst ieei;
thence iron post No. z. seventh courte, north
degree Q miiiutes east. 1910 feet TO the plAce
Of BEGINNING, containing II 17.10o acres. bea,;
ines true, magnetic variation iek degrees east
This claim 10 bounded on the east party oy "
8. Survey No. i1s and on the west partly oy W
Q. hurvey No. l26 and lv1.
ANY and oil persons claiming adversely any
portion Of said claim or mining ground - nere-
fpbsfore described sre required TO ME tneii
sdyerss claim With the Register OF the uniteo
States Land once ct Csrson. Nevrda, dunnR
the sixty days period Of publication nrryo,, ot
thsy viii be barred By virtue OF the provisions
- ~ c.N. HARRIS. Register.