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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-09-24
Press Censorship In Russia.

Again the Tifis journal, Obzor, has
"come to grief" For five years the edit
or, M. Nicholadze, has waged warfare with
the censor, and three parts Of that time
his journal has been in a suppressed con-
dition. In 1875 Nicoladze, who had
made a mark as contributor to the Golos,
went to Tifis with the. express purpose
of fighting there the battle of the Rus
sian provincial press. Between the lat
ter and the newspapers Of the two CAPT
tails q marked difference exists. The
GolOs, Moscow Gazette, and other large
newspapers of st. Petersburg and Mos
COW are allowed to publish their news
and articles without. previously submit.
ting them to the censor, while the
provincial sheets cannot print advertise
ments, let alone paragraphs, without OBJ
tanning first the sanction of the local
press authorities, By law, the proof of
a leading article, after being corrected in
red ink by the censor, has to be submits
ted again to that functionary before it
can be, published, and, as Russian cen
sors are usually as deficient of energy
as Government officials in our own
COuu6ry, I'LL dFtIct0 60ub III OH MOuUhJ
and corrected on Wednesday can hardly
be issued, if it contains alterations, be-
fore the following week. II. a town has
no censor, the police-master or some
official supervises the local press, read
ing carefully everything, from the puff
OF somebody's pills to the official an
nouncements copied from the Govern
ment gazettes. Nicoladze made it his
practice to publish the shreds of the ar
ticles expurgated by the censor, without
taking the trouble to fill in the gap with
fresh words 4 When he had sufficiently
Stimulated public opinion against the
censor By this practice he openly dis
credited him by inserting the articles
with the expurgations. which showed
how ridiculous the proYincial censors act
in erasing words and sentences. having
nothing illegal or obnoxious in them.
This led to repeated sup ressi9ns, and
at last to a trial, which lasted two years,
and resulted in the Supreme Court at
Tifis finding averdict in Nicoladze's fa-
yor Since then he has been elected d
mrlnicipalicouncillor, and was 'oheaof the
members who recently lmpeached the
Governor of Tifiis Of malpractices.--
London Eca9niiteq. croft .Yas az il 9sfl
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MISCELLANEOUS aLEAN1Nas.

For the eight months ending Aug.
81 last, breadstufs to the value of $1S1 1856, 766
were exported frcm the United States During
the corresponding period in 1879 the shipments
amounted to S137.914. 047.
A bold bank robbery is reported from
Montreal. A paying-teller left his compart-
ment for two or three moments to go to an in
ner Office, and did not lock his box, containing
$50, 200. During his momentary absence a
sharp thief gobbled a package containing over
$1,000 and made good his escape
In compiling q table showing the COM
parative death rate in the leading cities of the
country, for the last ten weeks, the National
Board of Health finds that IN Chicago ii has
been 26 in 1000 in New York, "a in Brooklyn,
AZ; in Philadelphia, 80; i'll Baltimore, "a; IN
Boston, %; in Cincinnati, % and in New Or
leans, 49, -
Silas NJ. Waite, the Ascending Pres
ident of the First National Bank of Brattleboro.
Vt, has been arrested at Omaha, aud taken
back East. He stole about $500, 900.
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NEWS OF The WEEK.
ToREI0N NEWS.


A cable dispatch of the 18th inst. says !:
"Telegrams from Ragusa say the Albanians
continue 'resolutely to oppose the cession Of
Dulcigno, and are fastening thither en- masse.
1t is asserted they have resolved to kill Ria
Pasha, who is at Katerkol with only 1900 men.
The Albanians have forwarded fresh threat
ening address to the Porte"
Sergeant Marshman, of the British
army, at the international Rifle Tournament at
Wimbledon, who was bribed to report the score.
falsely, and exposed before the entire assemb-
lage, has nevertheless been acquitted by court
martial.
Dispatches from Panama indicate an
immediate settlement OF the contest between
the warning nations Of South America, com
PEELED by the interference of the United States
and leadi4g European powers.
Feavy rains, gales and floods have
seriously damaged the unharvested crops in
England
A London dispatch says the steamer
Aurora, from Oporto for Southampton, found
cred at sea. Fifty persons were drowned.
A cable dispatch announces the death
of Lord Chief Baron Kelly, of the English
Court of Exchequer, in the S4th year of his
age.
A London dispatch says that "Tur-
key and her affairs are once more the leading
objects Of European interest. Public attention
is conferred on the naval demonstration at Dull
cigno, from which the slightest spark might
light up the flames Of war throughout the East
ern world. y Bsag
A dispatch from Ragnsa says that
5000 Albanians have occupied the town and
fortress of Dulcigno, expelling two batta lions
of Turkish troops who formed the garrison.
Destructive floods have occurred in
parts Of England, causing great damage to
crops and other property Rains have also
seriously damaged the crops in the North Of
Scotland.
A st. Petersburg dispatch says that
Russia viii Immediately commence building a
railway connecting the Caspian sea with
KiziIdevat.
A Berlin dispatch says that the Rus
sian General, Todleben has resigned the Gov
erl1orship Of Wilma. He is believed to be inca
pable of administrative service B ST.
A new Cabinet has been formed In
France, with jules Ferry as Premier.
Three British men-of-war have been
ordered to the Newfoundland fishing grounds,
where an American vessel was recently attacked
by natives. ~ss~ sst as
A dispatch from Havana says there is
not one armed insurgent in the whole island OF
Cuba.
The crop prospects in England are
bad trade in stagnant, and labor cannot find
market strikes are breaking out all over the
country, and in the larger cities there is great
suffering among the laboring classes.
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About Libraries.

By far the largest in the world is the
National Library at Paris, which, in
1874, contained 1900, 600 printed books
and $50, 900 manuscripts Which the
next largest is, it is, difficult to say, for
the, British Museum, and the Imperial
Library of st. Petersburg both had, in
1874, 100000 volumes. After them
comes the Royal Library of Munich
with its 900, 600 books. The Vatican
Library at Rome is sometimes errone4
ously supposed to be among the largest,
while in point Of fact it is surpassed, SO
far as the number Of volumes goes, BY
more than sixty European collections.
It contains 1850 printed books and
$500 manuscripts. The National Iii
brary at Paris is one of thevery Oldest in
Europe, having been founded IN 1850.
while the British Museum dates from
1853, or time more than 400 years later.
In the United States the largest is the
Library of Congress at Washington,
which in 1874 contained 261 900 vol
umes.s The Boston Public follows very
closely after it with i260,5OO, and the
Harvord University collection comes
next with 200, 900. The Astor and Mercan-
tile, of New York, are next, each having
las, 900. Among the colleges, after
Harvard's library, comes Yale's with
100, 200; Dartmouth is next with so, 600,
and then comes In order, Cornell with
10000; the University of Virginia with
5000; Bowdoin with $4,000; the Uni
versity of South Carolina with 80, 900;
Ann Arbor, 10000; Amherst, $4,000
Princeton, $4,000; Wesleyan, l25, 500.
and Columbia. $4,000. SGT esl1
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Do We Eat too mich.

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The amount Of nourishment which q
person needs greatly depends on his con-
stitution, state of health, habits, and
work A sedentary man requires less
than one whose duties demand the
exercise of his muscles, and a brain
worker needs more than an idler. But
unquestionably the majority of JUS take
more than we need Indeed, food and
work are distributed most unequally
The man of leisure is also the man Of
means, and, accordingly fares sumptu-
ously every day; while the laborer tolls
for eight hours, and finds it difficult to
get enough to repair the waste of his
tissues. ! Yet a Chinafian or a Bengalee
will toll under o tropical sun, and find q
few pice worth of rice or jowrah sufficient
to sustain his strength. A Frenchnan
will not eat half what an Englishman
engaged In the same work will demand,
and a Spanish laborer, content In ordinary
times with watermelon and bit of
black bread, will toll in the vineyards
and grow fat on dietary Of onion por-
ridge and grapes. It is true that Mr..
Brassey, when building the continental
railways, found that one English navy
was worth coupleof spare-fed foreigners.
But, on the other hand, the British Co
lumbar and California gold-dggers,
than whom more magnificent. set of
athletes does not exist, live In the remote
mountains of the far west mainly on
beans favored with few cubes of pork
But they also obtain the best of water
and the purest OF air, and their outdoor
life and active exercise enable them to
digest every ounce of their frugal fare
The English soldiers, though better fed
than those of any army except the
American, do not get one-half the amount
of solid, ntltriment which the idlest of
club-loungers considers indispensable for
his sustenance. An athlete in training is
allowed even less food; yet he prospers
on the limited fare, and prolongs his life
by the regiment to which he has been
subjected King Victor Emmanuel was
monarch of the most robust physique;
yet he only ate one meal per day. and it
is nanifestly absurd for any man to
require three more or less weighty meals,
and an afternoon cup Of tea, to support
the exertion of walking to the club, riding
an hour in the park, writing a note or
two, and dancing a couple of miles
around q ballroom. The ancients had
their 'amethustoi, " or "sober stones" by
which they regulated their indulgence at
table. The moderns have not even this,
But they have their govt and their hvers
to warn them, when it is too late, that
nature has been oVertasked. Lon
Standard. bro. nt e1M eI9gaM
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Weenins WILLOW.

All without is still except an occasional foot
fall and the noisy rattle7 Of machinery from a
shop near by, Could I but wend my weary way
just across the bridge that spans. the ILLINOIS, /
would behold a large crowd. Of both Old and
young assembled in the beautiful grove on the
banks of the purling river. Each year, in the
month of August, is a reunion of the early set
tiers Of La Sale county. There they meet to
proffer the hand OF friendship, and, 1 venture
to say, those warm clasps are genuine, those
kindly greetings sincere would that more with
whom we come in contact were really and truly
what they represent themselves and would have
us believe. Alas for the outward seeming
Although several annivereries have gone by, /
have been present, but twice. The last two
found me confined to my couch. As I cannot
go to-day, | will not repine, for if / cannot
make merry with those who are more fortunate,
l can while the lonely hours away with a book
for companion. aE0gs 9si1l tas's
Health is paramount to all earthly bless
ings, but it is boon l can never hope to pos
sesses. Many long years have dragged slowly
away, and I a sufferer. Many times grow SO
wearyI would fain lie down in the one long
dreamless sleep, but there are tender hearts
that would bleed, clinging arms that would
have no mothers neck to encircle, and try to
nerve myself for the conflict
z WEEPING Willow.
OTTAWA. Ii. i6
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Presence of Mind.

There is nothing like presence OF mind
after all. During a tremendous shower,
a gentleman entered fashionable New
York club, bearing splendid ivory
handled silk umbrella, which he placed
on the rack. Instantly another gentle
man, who was mourning the abstraction
Of just such an article, jumped up.
"Will you allow me to look at that 2"
he said, sternly. Certainly" re-
marked the umbrella carrier. g I was
Just taking it to the police headquarters.
1t was left in my house last night by a
burglar whom we frightened off. Ihope
it will prove frst-rate clew." And,
though the exasperated owner could
plainly see where his name had been
scratched off the handle, he sat down
and change ed the subject. -Nes0 York
Hour.
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Women and ladies.

p1'lIn the days Of our fathers there were
such things to be met with as men and
women but now they are all gone, and
instheir place "a race,of gentlemen and
ladies, or, to be still more refined, race,
of ssladies and gentlemen, has sprung
up. Women and girls are among the
things that were. But "ladies" are
found everywhere. Miss Martineau,
wishing to see the women wards in a
prison in, Tennessee, was answered by
the Warden, 1--WE have nc. ladies here at
present, madam" Now, SO far as the
ladies were concerned, it was very well
that none Of them were In prison but
then it sounds a little 'odd-ladies in
prison 1t would Seem bad enough for
women to go to such place. i.,x II
A lecturer, discoursing upon the char
acteristics of women, illustrated thus
Who were the last at the cross Z? La
dies. JWho were the first at the sepuI-
cher? Ladies' On this modern i'm
proyement we have heard of but one
thing that beats the above. 1t was the
finishing touch to marriage ceremony.
performed by am exquisite divine up to
all modern refnements When he had
thrown thelchain of Hymen round the
happy couple, he concluded 10y saying,
81 now pronounce you husband and
lady," The audience stuffed their hand
/ kerchiefs into their mouths, and got out
of the room as quickly as possible to take
breath,
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answered to the royal name of Stuart. He left
his palatial home in his early youth, on account
Of an unfortunate love affair, and came to
America, where he spent the remainder Of his
days. So I have slight preference for the
Scotch people and poets. / admire Walter
SCOTS writings very much; in fact, there is a
peculiar fascination in them to me. / think
'Ivanhoe" is decidedly rich, for in it he por-
trays the manners and customs of the ancients
so wildly. / think he was one of the greatest
portrait and landscape painters in his writings
Of his day. In his Lay of the Last Minstrel. =
his descriptions of the old castles and Drank
some Hall is fine. The q Lady of the Lake
and Marmion are decidedly rich all the way
through, and, in wandering with him, you view,
with your minds eye, the beautiful Highland
mountain scenery. the ancient war costumes,
the old castles, the courts, Kings and Queens,
lords and ladies, as if You were beholding them
in real life. BLACK EYED ONO.
8 CHICAGO, Ill. A 84 ms0& s&i
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

Arrangements are being made for the
census of the Indians, and it is expected that
the enumeration will commence about Oct. 1.
-Four Supervisors have been appointed for the
various localities. g 9s
During July and August the internal
revenue receipts were $21, 161, 7ss, against
$l9137,215 for the corresponding months last
year. 'tta
An unusual demand for silver dollars
is gladdening the hearts of treasury officials.
Two soldiers, Michael Joyce and John
G. Berry, while handling a Calling gun at the
United States Arsenal, Washington, d. c., were
shot and instantly killed. 80
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Fa4oriteI Books.

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'1t has been said that a man may be
known by the company he keeps in his
books. Milton's faYorite volumes were
Homer, Ovid and .Euipides,f Dante's
| was Virgil. rSchiller's. was Shakespe J;
'Gray's was Spencer; Goetle's, was Spi-
noza S Ethics; Bunyan' was the old le-
gend Of Sir Bevis Of Southampton,
| which in all probability gave him the
! first. idea of his Pilgrims Progress. >
The two books which most impressed
John Wesley, when o young man, Gwere
| the Imitation, of Christ and Taylor's
II Holy Living, and Dying eQuincey's
I .favorite few were onne, Chillingsw6rth,
Jeremy Taylor, Milton, South Barrow
and Sir Thomas Browne. He described
these seven writer's as "a. constellation of
seven golden stars, such as no literature
| can match, % and from whose works he
would undertake TO build up an. entire
4 b0dylofi philosophy!Ifed q ssik .,2id"
X gsNaboleon never wearied of reading
h(aOssiaaa Poems and the Sorrows Of
! ,Werther.a His range included Homer
Vigil sTasso, novels1of all countries, his
I3tories of all times. 9easfi Of eidGtibBot
Eua 'The book which makes deep iimpres-
9sioh on ia young mans mind often con
stitutes an epoch IN his life. The hear
ing of an ode awakened the genius Of
| La Fontaine. ut was the reading of the
sFaerie Queeni that first itthepoetic fire
/ of Keats. q Bentham regarded 'Ielema-
oehus as the foundationistone of his
whole character. "a love of books, says
i Thomas Heod, preserve me from moral
shipwreck. The great scholar Erasmus
says. q can never read the, works, of
Cicero on old Age Or friendship
| without feryently pressing them to- my
| lips. rs Samuel Sl11ik - =, ID, .rrgf
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THE MOON.
Statements Going to show that 1t Is
Very Much Set i'm Its Way.

Very Much Set i'm Hts Way.
From the Popular Science Monthy.l
After getting somewhat accustomed to
the greatness and strength of bar of
sohd steel sixteen aud one-half feet
square, imagine one which is one mile
square--5, $50 feet wide and as many
thick. Ii it lay ON the ground near the
Catskill mountains, its, upper surface
would overtop their highest summit by
more than1, 900 feet. Itwould be equal
to l04, 200 such monster bars as the last.
Its lifting power would be nearly 240,-
1863, 000,0 600 tons. The mind is utterly
unable to grasp such figures. The whole
globe contains 1900, 000, 900 inhabitants.
LII each man, woman and child could
pull with a force of 100 pounds-a large
estimate-to move such o weight would
require the united efforts of 1000 such
worlds as this. As | shall have frequent
occasion to speak of the load which such
a bar could sustain, shall, for conven-
lence, call it in round numbers $40, 000,-
100000 tons, neglecting the other fig
ures, because the number is so incon-
celvably great that taking from it
billion or so of tons viii alter the result
less than one-haf OF one per centum.
This bar is to be the unit of measure
which shall for the present employ.
1t half dozen persons were asked
how large the moon appears, they would
give, as many different replies tThe
size of cart-wheel :" ''twelve inches
across " the size Of a dining plate \"
as big as q mans head" etc. Prob
ably no one would mention a smaller
measure, yet cherry held at arms
length more than covers its disk. 1t is
difficult to be believed that SO small a
body exerts any considerable influence
on the earth, which seems so immensely
larger. 1t is easy enough to admit that
the earth holds the moon in its orbit
but that to do this, to bend its course
into nearly-circular orbit. requires any
great outlay of force, is not SO clear
Our creduhty would be taxed were we
asked to believe that the moon, in its
efforts to move in a straight line, would
break away, although held by bar of
steel one foot square for that means a
force able to lift nearly 5000 tons. An
astronomer would grant it, making first
n mental calculation to see if he were
justified in doing so; but even he would
hesitate, and perhaps would deny that
it was possible the moon could pull
asunder one of these great unit bars one
mile square, and equal to more than
q, 100000 bars each one foot square.
But we would have no hesitation in
saying, Impossible !" if told that.
rather than change its course from a
straight line to its present curve, our
willful little satellite would snap like
pack thread not one, nor two, nor three
of those unit bars, but the united
strength of 10,000-or, in other words.
one gigantic bar whose section is 100
miles square. Yet, more than eight
such bars, or, more precisely, $500
unit bars, would but barely defect the
moon into its present path.
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The Old Bender Farm

The surroundings of the old Bender
place have changed so since 1874 that
one who was familiar with the farm and
household premises then would not rec
ognize them now Instead of being stu
ated at the intersection of two highways.
the place where the murderers lived is
now near remote country road. The
main road is nearly mile distant from
the site of the house. Bender entered.
100 acres of land. He broke part Of it.
HI. set out few apple trees neal the
house After the family took then de-
partrre the farm lay idle till days and
months became years. Then a man
named 81 YeazeI took possession of it
and has since operated part of it. A ract
of about ten acres, comprising the old
yard has never been touched by the
point of the pillow since the day when the
fugitives last tilledit. There it lies, over
grown with rank grass and weeds, but
surrounded by fields, of grain. On ac-
count of its uncultivated state the land
looks as if a visitation had been sent upon
it. Supersttions people viii not go In
that vicinity after dark. Colored people
who. live about Cherryvale tell frightfnl.
stories about the neglected spot and do
not like to pass it even in daylight It is
a noticeable fact that no darkeys live
anywhere in the Bender neighborhood.
In this case it seems as though the the
DRY of those who believe that noxious
plants are vegetable form of evil is
verified. The site of the stable is slightly
elevated above the prairie. On this spot
there is so thick q growth the great stalks
seem to radiate out from the top and
sides of the elevation till there is not
room enough for snake to crawl be-
tween the stems. Upon the place where
stood the, dwelling the weeds and sun
flowers are not so thick. They grow
around a. great hole that was once the
death cavity, into which victims were
put through the trap door in the floor
The writer dismounted from his buggy,
and pushing aside the weeds, that were
as large as cornstalks, made his way to
the edge Of the hole. The place makes
one feel ''shaky. The words of the
poet, 'SIThose poisoned fields with rank
'luxuriance crowned, where the dark
scorpion gathers death around came
vividly to the writer's mind Into the
hole the sides have caved. The cavity is
still about FIVE feet deep and seven feet
wide. Its mouth, once rectangular, has
now, by reason of the caving, become al
most,circular. In the yard south Of the
house and stables are three gaping holes,
from which bodies have been dug.--K0la-
S6s City Mail n 9le4 1eI aB0ae .6l