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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-12
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

pretty deer is dear to me,
hare with downy hair;
love hart with all my heart,
But barely bear bear.
IT'S plain that no one takes plane
To have pair of pears;
A rake, though, often tskes rake
To tear away the tares.
All rays raise thyme, times RACES all;
And, through the whole, hole wears.
A wrir, 10 writing fright" may write
1t wright" AID still be wrong
For write" and rite" are neither "right,
And don't to write nelong,
Beer often brings bier 10 man,
Coughing coffin brings.
And too much ale will make US all,
AS well as other thin IS.
The person lies who says he lies
When lie is but reclining;
And, when coBsumptiye folks decline,
They all decline declining.
quail don't quail before storm
bough will bow before it;
We can OF reign the rain at all
No earthly powers reign DER it.
The dyer dyes awhile then dlesi
To dye he's always trying,
Until upon his dying bed
He thinks no more OF dyeing.
a son Of Mars mars many sun;
All deys must have their days,
And every knight should pray each night
To him who weighs his ways.
IT'S meet that man should mete out meat
10 fe. misfortune's son;
The fair should fare ON love alone,
Else one can not be won
A las alasl is something false;
or faults a maid is made;
Her waist is but barren waste
Though stayed, she is not staid.
The springs spring forth in spring, and shoots
Shoot forward one and all;
Though summer kills the flowers, 1t leaves
The leaves to fall in fall
would story here commence,
But you might find i stale;
So let's suppose that you have reached
The tail end OF our tale
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Natural Gas Wells.

Moses Hasbrook, who has been for
some two months engaged at fishing
near the north end of Pyramid Lake, tells
of a discovery recently made by himself
and two other fishermen which may yet
prove valuable. They had been out on
the lake fishing one evening and re-
manned until about o'clock, when il
began to blow heavily, and grow I'M
comfortably cold. They ran their boat
to shore, and, having blankets and pro-
visions with them, sought shelter in the
lee of a large hill, building fire and
making q camp in q little valley or basin
During the night their camp fire spread
into the grass and brush covering the
bottoms of the valley and burned streak
two or three yards in width to quite
distance from the camp They observed
the fire soon after it started, but knowing
it could do no harm did not take the
trouble to turn out of their blankets for
the purpose Of extinguishing it.
Some time toward 2 o'clock in the
morning, Mr.. Hasbrook says he was
awakened by great outcry from his
companions, and, much to his astonish-
ment found all about him as light as day.
In moment he saw that the light came
from several jets of fame from five to
twelve feet in height. All proceeded to
the spot, and found no less than nine of
these Jets within circle of about five
rods. The gas was found to proceed
from little blowholes from half an inch to
an inch in diameter, and seemed in no
way different from such holes as are u.s.
ually seen on the deserts The gas jets
shot up with good deal OF force and
made sort of cracking noise. The up
per part of the flames presented yellow
ish appearance, and were from one to
the ground, where the jets were narrow,
the flames passed from yellow to green
ish hue They left the jets burning
when they broke up camp the next
morning. These natural gas springs are
on the opposite side of the lake from
that on which the fishermen have their
cabins.
Mr., Hasbrook says that the day before
he left (which was last Saturday he and
several others crossed the lake and found
the wells still burning the same as they
ui6u lGlG bU6uu. OA ILLS IttSG I'LL d L 4uGS
Indian went with them. The red man
exhibited no surprise at what he saw, but
lighting stick he went some rods fur
ther up the valley and touched off a
dozen or more jets that were fed from
holes upon and around little hilock.
Mr.. Hasbrook says though they searched
for an hour or two they could find no in
dications of petroleum, nor was there any
smell Of petroleum about the burning gas.
- Virq51i0 (NeU y EIpterDriSe
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They All Do 1t.

They can instantaneously photograph
an express train going at sixty miles an
hour, so that it looks, smoke and all, as
if it were taken at stand-still And yet
they can't, or won't, photograph man
sitting iii chair without screwing his
head round in vice like a movable doll,
and keeping him looking at p smudge on
the wall till bis lip drops and his eyes
water, and the pleasant little speech he
meant to think about, just to hold the
expression, goes Numbering through his
head like the ghost of a homeless echo.
Every photographers studio" must be
at least twenty years behind time. Why
is it?-BOstOn Post.
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The Mississipni plan.

The latest phase of the Mississippi
plan" is described in the Times dis
patches from Vicksburg. Failing to
carry the election of Chalmers, the
original inventor and patentee of the
" Mississippi plan :" in the "shoestring
district, the Democrats of that district
have resorted to scheme which rivals
the tissue ballots for infamy. 1t SEEMS
that the Mississippi Legislature, at its
last session, passed law which provides
that at the polls "any ticket with any
device OF mark by which it may be dis
tinguished from another shall not be re-
ceived or counted. This law was evil
IDENTIFY adopted to facilitate the particu-
lar scheme which the shoestring- district
Democrats have put in force. The
Vicksburg district, as well as others IN
Mississippi, has an overwhelming black
majority, and, as the shotgun might
not be always efficacious, it was
deemed desirable to have some other
means OF holding the blacks in check.
The new plan seems to have worked to
charm IN the Vieksburg district The
Democrats had all their ballots printed
secretly at o distance. so that no local
printer should know anything of their
form, and only brought them to the
polling places on the morning of the
election. The Republicans had COM
piled with the law. No difference be-
tween the two party tickets except the
nd in C1Z n
discovered by any except initiated Dem
ocratic leaders all day, But at night,
when the polling closed, the judges re-
fused to count the Republican votes on
the ground that they had distinguishing
marks, and the whole Republican vote
of two counties, which would have elect
ed Lynch, Republican, to Congress by
more than 1000 majority, was thrown
out. The distinguishing mark" on the
Republican ticket was declared to con-
sist in the ordinary dashes which every
printer puts beneath a headline as a
matter of course. Such mark can
hardly be called a " device" and the
absence of the dashes on the Democratic
Ticket, which was secretly contrived to
make difference between the two party
tickets, was really nearer constituting n
distinguishing mark =" than the other.
Such dashes serve merely the purposes
of punctuation. and no printer would
have made ticket without them except
on a special order.
This outrage may be effectual as far
as the local Offices in Mississippi are
concerned, and is to this extent an
abridgment of the rights of the citizens
there who voted the Republican ticket,
but it will hardly avail to keep. Mr..
Lynch out of Congress. He will, of
course, contest the election, and with Il
certainty of success, the majority of the
next House being Republican, chicago
Times.
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the air purer for its solar exposure. If
a house is on an east-and-west street,
those fronting north are. decidedly the
best for residence, because the suns
action on the yard, the kitchen and
usual regions Of neglected aceumula-
tons, purifies and modifes the humid
atmosphere that is sure to predominant
II yards and back sides of houses whose
rear Is north of the street. Thus cir
cumstanced the back rooms are never so
pleasant, cheerful er economically
warmed IN winter or ventilated in sum-
ner as when on the south side. Opening
on the street, the frame of each gets
both light and sir by reason of the fire.
quent swinging of the front door. Here
is law of health in nutshell.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-12

leaving the room the General said: "Do you
know this is the desk occupied during all nv
teacher life at Hiram College. l have had this
desk for more than twenty years. I simply
used it tonight because it was tho most con
venient. didn't think of it till just now"
The desk is an old piece of the furniture which
the General had made to order in GarrettSvlle,
near Hiram.
This little Renaissance about the old desk,
with the twentieth President sitting behind it
full of recollections of the life at Hiram, is as
fit a closing to these dispatches as can be had.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-12
A. COYetOns Friend.

The Treasury Department, at Wash
ington, was in the receipt some time
since of communication from the chief
of the detective corps Of San Francisco
containing statements which read like a
highly wrought up romance, embracing
the crimes Of murder, robbery and mari
tial infdelity. The story in brief is as
follows: Two gentlemen, friends of each
other, with their wives, were travelling in
California One of them had in his
possession number of registered United
States bonds. The sight Of the bonds
excited the cupidity of his friend, who
also coveted his neighbours wife. The
two men walked out together one after
noon to view the mountain scenery. The
owner of the bonds was never seen again,
and his companion reported that he had
accidentally tumbled down frightful
precipice. Subsequently, while in the
recess of vast forest, the man tied his
own wife and burned her to death. Then,
in company with the wife of the missing
man, he made his way back to San Fran
cisco, and, with her connivance, person
ated thesowner of the bonds and endeav-
ored to negotiate the sale of them The
two were Swallowed and found to be liv-
ing as husband and wife, the man assun1-
ing the name OF the friend whom he was
believed to have murdered. Such Is the
outline of the detectives story, and, as
may readily be imagined, the Treasury
officials were on the qati viUe for an ap-
plication which might come for the trans
fer of the bonds to another party. Moth
ing was heard until quite recently, when
letter was received from the attorneys
of lady living in Kansas City asking
the transfer of the bonds to her name.
The lady states that sheis the widow Of the
person in whose name the bonds now stand
registered. An account is then given of
his murder or supposed murder by the
false friend, whom, it is stated, obtained
possession of the bonds; but there is
nothing to indicate that she was an &C
cessory OF that she had any subsequent
knowledge of the movements of the
| murderer.
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Boston Suburbs.

Boston has, perhaps, the finest sub
urbs of anycity in America, if not in the
world. The population outside of the
city, within a radius of twenty miles of
the City Hall, is 100000. The roads
connecting these suburban cities. towns
and villages are as near perfect as roads
can be made, and no higher compliment
can be paid to them than to note the fact
that they are the paradise of the bicycle.
The house of the suburban Bostonian is
generally cosy and unpretentious, many
Of the dwellings being Of wood, but the
grounds are marvels of culture-horti-
culture-and good taste. About $4,000
of the suburbans ride into Boston In the
morning and ride out again in the even
ing, and the collection of 100000 fares
every day forms mammoth business by
itself. Steam railroads radiate in every
direction, like iron spokes, from the
Hub; and from Cambridge, Chelsea,
Somerville, Newton and other towns joys
the slow and sometimes sure street car
horse. Many Of the suburbans use sea-
son tickets. The Boston and Albany
Road brings In /, 900 season tickets every
day. The Boston and Maine carries in
1000 daily, and the Lowell Road an
equal number. The cheap package
tickets have reduced the number of sea-
son tickets. The Boston and Providence
Road sells $4,000 package tickets every
month. The rural Bostonian lives In his
suburban residence not only in summer,
but during the other three seasons as
well. A man with an easy conscience
and horse and buggy can put in a very
enjoyable time In the suburbs of Boston.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-12
a law of Health.

Houses ON roads or streets running
nearly north and south are far preferable
to those going east and west In a sani-
tary estimate. In the first, here at the
north of the equator, the sun shines
brilliantly In the forenoon on the front,
and with nearly equal force in the after
noon on the rear. Thus dampness is
expelled and the whole edifce is dry and
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-12

The sturdy pioneer lived there many
years and prospered. Grandchildren
grew up around him, to whom the adj
ventures of their grandsire were as inter
esting as fairy tales But there was one
story they never heard without tremor,
and that was the hunters stratagem
when he slew the famous Pequaket
hravn
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-12
SnOW.ShOeing in Norway.


OF all the bodily exercises I know of.
there is none in my opinion that can
come up to snow-shoeing, as it is done
in Norway. Skating is nothing com
pared to this sport. What can equal
the splendid sensation OF flying across
the deep snow at the rate of many miles
an hour, without hardly moving mus
Gle? And then, going down hill, staff
in hand, no exertion necessary other
than to keep the balance, while gliding
softly but swiftly onward. Unlike the
Canadian snow-shoes, these ski (pro-
nounced shee) of the Norwegians are
often fully twelve feet long, c,uving up
ward at the PROV, and are not broader
than three or four inches. Throughout
the whole length they are provided with
groove for the purpose of keeping
them from slipping when going at an
angle down hill. Although by no means
slow when used across level ground, it is
yet downhill that they are most effec-
tive, for their long length and their pol
ished undersurface on the frozen snow
cause a speed more like flying than any
other motion / know of.
The inhabitants of Telemarken. in the
South of Norway, are most efficient ski
runners, and at the annual competitions
at Christiania generally bear off the
prizes. At the competition there in
1879, one of these men leaped, accord
ing to local newspaper, a distance of
thirty Norwegian allen, or fully sixty
feet ! Into this country it will be i'm
possible to introduce them, as of course
there would be little or no opportunity
for using them--the snow never living
long enough or becoming sufficiently
deep. BldckaCo0d.
The Stafford, England borough ana
lyst reported to the Town Council lately
the results of his examination of some
samples of unfermented wine." One
sample consisted of sugar, tartaric acid.
some sahcylic acid, some coloring mat
ter, and a quantity of copper. Another
was an artihcially made article, and con-
tanned alcohol. One, labeled nSelect-
ed Wine of the Temperance Fraternity. .
contained a large amount of alcohol.
Only one sample was pure, and was
what it was represented to be.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-12

A RECENT visitor of Thomas CARLYLE
was disguised at finding the venerable
sage engaged in killing a rat with a
poker.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-12

A CALF in Holt County. Missouri, got
cntangled in pile of rails, and remained
in that condition for period Of forty
DAYS. without food or water. 1t came out
all right.
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Stonewall Jackson's Flag.


% At the flag room OF the war depart
nent d few days SINCE. says The
Washington Post, three men called
md one OF them asked TO see the corps
flag Of Gen. Stonewall Jackson. II
was handed 10 him. In silence he
held it for some time, then, ON his
knees he carefully spread II on the
floor, when one Of his friends asked
him what hc was doing. fle answ-
cred. tears, streaming from his eyes
Cant the father look at the son, OF
the. son at.his father? This fig my
father held when he fell upon the bat.
tie field this flag my brother held he
too, died ] also carried il? where.
upon he raised his hands TO heaven
and poured outa most fcrvent prayer
Ills friends had hard work 10 Get him
TO give up the flag, but when rolling
it up Iii was so WORM a small piece
fell out, the officer in charge picked up
tho piece and gave il to the man, and
he departed. 1t was n small act, yet
rs the officer in charge was an OK. un
ION soldier, it showed noble feeling
and how one soldier can appreciate
tho revercntial love for bit of bunt-
ing showed by another, even when
fighting on opposite sides.
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An Enthusia Veteran.

o =
WhitehallTIncsi DEM, July.s
rVote Tor General ,Hancook9 ; said
an old veteran 20 the, Editor of the
Times On Saturday last. "Eote fol
Hancock? Why, sir. l. .neeer< voted
Eanything buta Republican ticket in
my life, bntifGod spares he until
election day, this right hand will drop
vote in for the good General WIN
tsave'lmy life at Fredericksburg.'
Saved your life?" we asked,
"How? d
rAh, sir, lay wounded upon tn,
held; Fever was parehins my lips
and gave myselftip aslosi. just at
that time IA general came in sight. and
! uttered a deep groan which attracted
h's attention. He jumped from his
horse, gave his reins to an aid and was
instantly on his knee by my side. He
quickly raised my head aud pnt his
canteen to my paIched lips. Oh, the
delicious cool waterl shall never
forget it Turning to an aide he said:
Here. order an ambulance at oncelthis
poorfellow must not be left here to die.
Send him to the hospital, and tell them
General Hancock orders special efforts
in his behalf Turning to me he said:
Courage, my brave man-your gener-
al will look ont for his children,
Here | am, and General Hancock
saved my life, and he shall not only
have my vote but the votes of all | can
influence -
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eodey's Lady's BOOK for August

Comes, to us full of fresh, breezy mat.
ter, a welcome guestupon The mid
summer day. From Darley's exquis.
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and the closest scrutiny will fail 10
lind one dull page. The fashions are
so numerous that every taste must
meet with its own requirements, in
preparing summer wardrobcs for
home or theresorts OF travellers in the
hot season. Seasides costumes and
mountain dresses, the simplicity OF
country dress, or the elaborate toilet
of the watering place belle, can be
modelled from the illustration given
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companying them The literary mat
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sparkling stories and exquisite poetry
from the pens of such popular writ
ers as Estelle Thomson, Christian
Reid, James D. Marshall, S. Annie
Shield, Caroline Merighi, and others,
In every department there is 10 be
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aH 49, RHH s
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r THE CeNNRcIAL has formed a
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Let all who want the news during the
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III A Tough Tramp.

The Chicago Times has a specih
detailing exciting events in Carol
county,Ark., BY which thievisl
tramp and two citizens lost their lives
>. w. Meyers, farmer living in tia
county, found ron Creturnipgto hi
hohse from the field that 1t had beer
plunderel in,his absence. lie imme
diately gave chase and ran the tbti.
ddwnlin Scott county, No., where he
was stopping over night at the honse
OF Mr. Kimberling. lie soon had him
covered with,a rifle and the tram
smilmgiy Said liewould surrender, but
five second later drew a pistol while fiji
captor was off his guard and shot him
through the heart. The tramp tllen
escaped back into Arkansas, whefe
the Sheriff and eight men finally ran
HIM down at the house of all old man
supposed to be his father. They sur
ROUNDED, the house and when he, ap
peared in tho door opened fire simulta-
neously, causing the dust to fly from
his clothes but not MORALLY woundihg
him. He returned the fire with a pls.
tol in either hand. and while they
were reloading took to the fields. The
posse followed him and firing another
vollcy, brought him to the ground
apparently dead, but when one of the
party, j. NJ. Jones, went up to take a
look at the most daring man that ever
lived, the elbow pointed a pistol dr.
rectly athis head and fred ii Mr.. Jones
falling back dead. The Desperate,
desperately wounded in several places,
soon after expired. He is beloved to
have been concerned in many dark
deeds OF late in that section.