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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28
ALL SORTS.

A FRENCHMAN writing from Geneva to
a French newspaper reports that in the
public offices, In the direction of the
higher schools, in the arts. in trade. and
especially In small shopkeeping. the Ger
man element in the Swiss population is
gradually crowding the French Iatin he
prefers to call it, to the wall.
Mr.. HENRY WooD, of Mortified.
Ohio, is so years of age. He began life
as boatman, enlisted as fifer in Gen.
Wadsworth's command in 1912, and was
afterward promoted to Fife Major. Wit
messed the public hanging of the Indian
Omlc, In June, 1912, and lived In Cleve-
land when the city consisted of four
frame buildings.
THE daughter of Shrewsbury eng.
farmer went to the pantry to get loaf
OF bread that had been baked eight days
before. AS she carried it she was con-
slderably alarmed, as most young women
would be, to see first one mouse then
another leap from the loaf On cutting
1t open, coy nest was found in the
center, and In the nest were fourteen
little mice.
EAST of the River Jordan there is am
Arab tribe which has embraced the
Catholic faith, and is ministered unto bv
native italian priest. These Arabs
wander about from place to place with
their focks of sheep, and when their tent
IS pitched In any place a temporary
building to serve as a church is put up.
Other Arab tribes, it is said, are dis
posed to follow this example.
JOAQUIN MILLER, who has recently re-
visited California, says the social de-
cadence and g business dry-rot in San
francisco are very marked, and that
nothing ever happened half so disastrous
to the Pacific States as the building of
the Pacific railroad that the road be-
| came at once a sort of siphon, which let
In a stream of weak and worthless peo-
pie, and gave the brave young States y
there I'll the vices of the East. with
none of its virtues.
ZoLA, the novelist, lives like a Bene-
dictine, locked into his study, and never
! appearing in public. His mode of work
is very strange one. Itconsists in tax
ing masses Of notes on the class of soci-
ETY. he wishes to paint; then, when his
notes are put together, he composes his
novel, page by page, never casting his
eye over the back pages, and thus writ
ing about five day with the utmost
care.
The will of the late Duke of Portland
has been sworn under larger amount
Of personally 81, 500, OOO-than that
under which any peers will has ever
been sworn before, with the exception
of the late Lord Dysart, whose person
atty was about million and a half
more but that was the result of a very
busy and very penurious life, whereas
the Duke was a very free spender. Very
few peers have more than 100000 per-
sonalty.
The German war maneuvers this au-
tumn will include the massing of some
10000 cavalry behind the Rheinland
frontier, with intent to experiment prac-
tically on the rapidity with which the
frontier line can be covered and held in
force by this arm, pending the arrival of
infantry, to repel invasion. The test
will be exhaustive, including the march
ing, feeding and disposition Of the troops,
as if under the stimulus of an actual
mergency.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28
The Invasion of the United States.

The greatest question of the day for
the United States continues to be that of
European emigration, as may be imag-
med when it is considered that nearly
1900 em1grants daily arrive in the har-
Dor Of New York alone, and that Stats,
ticians estimate the net profit to the
country of each emigrant at 81, 900, rep
resented by the money, be it more or
less, they bring with them; and by the
"sinews" and physical force applied to
industry and agriculture. For the last
six years emigration has comparatively
diminished, as was previously the case
from 1868 to 1870. More than 100000
emigrants are expected this year. The
annual arrivals from 1870 to 1879 were
as follows 1870, 356, 3O3; 1871, 346,-
938; 1872, 437, $50; 1873, 400, 545; 1874,
26O,8l7; 1875, 191, 231; 1879, 237,9 ;
1877, al, 1857; 1873, 1873, 469; 1879, IT,
1926, giving total amount for the last ten
years of 2,711, 724. European statesmen
will do we'll to notice whether or not the
years during which emigration to the
United States was the largest do not
correspond either to the periods succeed
ing wars in the Old World or to thosein
which, as now, the commencement of
hostilities upon a large scale is seriously
apprehended. american Correspond
09lC6,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28
Round Shoulders.

Mothers are often perplexed as to what
to do with a round-shouldered daughter.
Shoulder-braces are not effective in cur
ing the deformity. Neither is the adj
vice, SO generally given, to sit up
erect, "to walk with the shoulders
thrown back, satisfactory. tits followed
only for while, for the effort it requires
is fatiguing. A correspondent of the
New York Tribune suggests the follow
ing remedy:
"Suspend two ropes with ring-han-
dies attached from a doorway or tree
limb, and compel the child to swing by
the arms ten minutes each day three
minutes OF a time. She will strai, ghten
up in three months. This is often dem
onstrated in the converts. The lastic
exercising tubes are better still hung in
the house, and they are a delightful pas
time"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28
Ancient Petroleum.

Prof. Skeat has called attention to q
passage in North's translation of ''Plu-
tarch's Lives Q631, p. 1922, from which
it appears that petroleum was known in
the time of Alexander the Great. The
passage runs as follows: "For a Mace
DOMAIN called Proxenus, that had charge
of the Kings carriage Cbaggage), as he
digged in a certaine place by the riuer of
Oxus, to set vp the Kings tent and his
lodging, he found a certain fat and oily
veine, which, after they had drawn out
the first, there came out also another
clearer, which differed nothing, neither
in smell, tast, or SAVIOUR, from natural
ole, having the glosse and fairness SO like
as there could be discerned no difference
between them; the which was so much
the more to be wondered at, because in
all that country there were no oliues. :"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28
What Women Nav Do.

A correspondent of the New York
Tribune says:
To one familiar with the reports of
our last census the answer to this ques-
ton seems very easy. In all the depart
ments of labor mentioned below, and in
at least as many more not mentioned,
women are now doing good and accepta-
BILE work.
Artists. Insurance agents.
Authors. jewelers..
BARRIERS. Journalists.
Bakers. Laundresses.
Beekeepers Landscape gardeners.
BoOk-keepers. Lawyers.
Clergymen. Merchants of all kinds.
Companions. Manufacturers of all
Cooks. kinds.
Cashiers. Milliners.
Canvassers. Printers.
COlOnsts. PrOOf-readers.
Clerks of all kinds. Pharmacists.
Copyists. Physicians.
COnfectiOners. Painters.
Critics Pattern-makers.
Draughtsnlen. Photographers.
Designers. Specialists.
Dressmakers. Surveyors.
Dentists Stenographers.
Decorators Of all kinds. Sculptors.
Experts. ShOemakers.
EngraVerS. Skilled nurses.
Employers of labor. Sewers
Embroiderers. TranslatOrs.
Farmers Taxidermists
Floriculturists Teachers of all kinds
FrescOers. Type-writers.
Gardeners. Telegraphers
GOverneSses. TailOresses.
Horticulturists. Upholsterers
Housekeepers. Wood carvers
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28

and that these paupers are being sent
here at the expense Of the authorities Of
their native country. The Government of
Bavaria, it appears from Investigations
made by the New York Emigration Com
missioners, has been guilty of this dis
graceful practice. A party Of eighty
adults and a large number of children
recently arrived at New York, their pas
sage having been provided for by the
Bavarian Government by contract with a
shipping agent at Aschafenberg. These
people were burden on the state and
were sent to America that the state
might be relieved Of the expense of pro
viding for them. From the statements
of the paupers it appears that the Ba-
varian Government contemplates Kidding
itself of others of it's helpless citizens in
the same manner.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28

CHARLEY LEWIS, otherwise "M.
Quad" of the Detroit Free Press, has
been subjected, recently, to the pumping
process by the peripatetic interviewer,
and in the course Of the conversation,
said: 81 have offers every few days
to write plays / have written several
some of which were a real success in a
light way, but | have never realized any
thing from them. The fellows who have
got them start off, and [ can't follow
them up; and, if should, I don't sup
pose I could collect my share Of the pro-
ceeds. They will come here and sign
contracts fair enough, and that is the
last Of them. [ am about tired of do
ing this kind Of business. It takes a
good deal of time to write play. It's a
matter of dozen or more evenings, and
as many more Sundays. That is too
much to give away am now writing a
play for Gus Williams, which I expect
to realize something from but my ex-
perience has been that [ had better take
few hundred dollars down than to run
the risk of getting as many thousands
when the piece is brought out. /"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28

WHETHER is it preferable, to break
bad news suddenly or gradually? A
case in White Mills, Pa, shows how a
dreadful result may be brought about by
the very means taken to avoid it, It APP
pears that young man In one of the
Southern States for the past two years
has been paying his attentions to Miss
Schenck, beautiful, wealthy and &C
complished young lady Of that place,
and was engaged to be married at an
early day About three months ago he
started from his Southern home for the
North with the intention of fulfilling the
engagement when an accident occurred
which resulted in his death. The news
of his death reached the young lady's
mother, who, knowing the strong at
tachment her daughter entertained for
him, resolved to withhold the sad news
from her daughter, if possible. To this
end the mother intercepted the letter
which conveyed the news Of his death,
and the daughter was left in total ig-
norance of the truth. Time passed by,
and the girl received no tidings from her
absent lover. Her only solution to the
mysterious silence was that she had been
deserted. It SO worked upon her mind
that soon her reason was dethroned, and
she is now raving maniac.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28

The cotton crop of 1879 was 5,073, 531
bales. 1t was the largest ever gathered,
being more than 100000 bales greater
than that of 1878, and more than 200, 900
bales larger than the then-unparalleled
crop of 1859-'6O. So it seems that free
labor performs more service than slave
labor.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28

dare, in the open window, to stare in my
face, with blinking defiance and beaks
full OF straws. Thus I arraign you as
nightly multiplied nuisance, with the
wish that every one of you were back in
England, where you belong. Not thus
out OF the South comes the bluebird with
It's high, sweet carol; not that lonely
messenger from heaven, the hermit
thrush.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28
Che Aenosha telegraph.
KENOsHA, WIS, MAY %, 1880.

THE oldest lawyer in the United States
in active practice is Azgill Gibbs, Of
Rochester, who in few weeks will be
90 years Of age. He is hale and hearty.
He has had six sons, all of whom have
been admitted to the bar, and three Of
whom are now in practice.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28
Liverpool.

Liverpool, England, has been created
city and erected into a Bishopric.
During the early part of the last centu-
ry, Liverpool, which was a poor, de-
cayed town, leaped suddenly into activ-
ity and trebled her population, from
1000 to $4,000, and has since yearly
grown in prosperity. It derives
its name from bird, named a liver, the
only one of his species which dwelt in a
pool on the banks Of the Mersey, and is
represented on the corporate seal, after a
portrait taken 900 years ago, as having
two legs and only one wing. Whether
the took flight over the ancient city said
to have stood in the days of the Ptole-
mics where Liverpool now stands, is not
certain, but he must have existed at q
very remote date or he could not have
found his way into the arms of the old
est families of Lancashire. Naturalists
say that this liver is the blue duck, which
is also found in the Ribble.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28

The best and largest part Of Southern
Jersey has been laid waste by forest
fires. Cranberry bogs to the value Of
100000 are destroyed, and the buckle
berry crop likewise, which gave employ
ment to over 10000 women and children
in the summer season. Another item Of
the loss is thus noted; The fishing vii
lagos and sporting stations along the
coast are almost wholly dependent on
the game in the marshes, which attracts
visitors from the cities in summer now
the marshes as we'll as the woods are a
blackened waste, and the "dead birds
and animals strew the ground by the
thousand" It will require twenty years
for the growth Of trees and vegetation,
necessarily slow in that chilled atmos-
phere, to repair the damage Of the last
month.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28

THE great influx Of Europeans to this
country, while gratifying in the main, is
not without disagreeable features. The
discovery has been made in New York
that not only are many Of the immigrants
destitute, but some Of them paupers
within the legal meaning Of the term,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28

WHILE young man living near Mans
field, Ohio, was carelessly revolving the
loaded cylinders Of revolver, one bar
rel was accidentally discharged, and the
load entered his abdomen, inficting, as
was supposed, fatal wound. A physi-
clan was sent for, and, on examination,
it was found that the ball struck a large
brass button, and its force was SO much
decreased that, although both ball and
button were driven in among the viscera,
yet no rupture was caused, and the ball
and button we're readily extracted, and
the man will probably recover. His life
was saved by brass button.