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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
An Indians Horrible Crime.

The first execution in the Canadian
territories took place not long ago at
Fort Saskatchewan, the victim being
Swift Runner, q Cree Indian, who was
guilty of murder and and cannibalism.
The monster killed his mother, wife,
and seven children, and subsisted for
weeks on their carcasses. On being
charged with the crime he pleaded
guilty and offered to conduct the police
to the remains. He had camped in a
hole or cave at the base of the mount
aims, and the bones of his victims lay
scattered about the floor. They had been
boiled. Hooking his finger in the eye
of one of the skulls, he picked
it up, and said in the most nonchalant
manner, This is my MOTHER and SO on
with the other skulls, nine in all. He
said whisky had demoralized him, and
made him feel like wolf He killed
them all one night while they were
asleep, and buried the bodies in the
snow, cutting them up and boiling them
as he needed them. He was forthwith
sentenced to death, and his request
to be shot instead Of hanged was re
fused.
The Indians throughout the district
were invited to give their views on the
case, and they unanimously approved
of the sentence. Swift Runner was
asked if he would like to see black
coat u. e., a priest from the Roman
Catholic mission on the North Sas
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15

and, before he could recover himself,
he was travelling down the side Of the
mountain at rate of speed only
equaled by meteor. While the snow
was the Immediate cause of Ahearn's
disaster, it was also his salvation, for it
not only preserved him from contact
with the rocks as he plunged down, but
received him in It's soft embrace at his
stopping place, some $50 feet from the
point of departure. AS it was. his
clothes were rent and torn, SO was his
skin in sundry places, and, while no
bones were broken. there were aggre-
gate bruises that will painfully remind
him of his experience for some days to
ome,-Eureka (NeU) Leader.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
A Warranted Rubber Boot.

The aCandee" Rubber Co., of New Haven,
CT, is making new rubber boot, which is just
what outdoor men have long been looking for,
viz, one that is warranted These boots are
called the a95" Per Cent, Sterling Rubber Boot
They warrant them three months, and if your
boot cracks or gives way in that time, you can
secure new pair free of charge, provided the
boots have had fair usage
That there may be no question about the three
months, when you buy the "95" Boots, the store
keeper punches the date in the top Of the leg,
In spaces provided for that purpose, and the
warrant begins from that date and cannot be
disputed These "95" Per Cent. Boots are as
pure as can be made. and will last six months,
hard wear. The exposed portions are doubled,
and the soles are half an inch thick, of solid
rubber, and will outwear three pairs of any
other rubber boots. Illustrated catalogues
with full particulars are supplied by the "Can-
dee" company on application, or the boots can
be seen in most stores.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
A Medicine Should not be Gagged

BY the suddenness and violence Of it's effects.
SeIf-evident as this proposition would seem,
there are many foolish persons who are content
only with a remedy which acts abruptly. The
pill and other nostrum-ve who trade upon
the credulity of this class find their ''best holt
as poor Artemus Ward termed it, in the sale OF
violent purgatives. So long as they wrench
the bowels of their dupes sufficiently, they are
pretty sure of a certain measure Of success.
IT, instead of such pernicious rubbish, Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters is used, the results are
widely different The bowels are relieved, but
always gently, by this pleasant laxative, which
does not weaken, but invigora es them, and
endows the cooperative organs of digestion
and bilious secretion with activity and regular
ity, strengthens the constitution and physique,
and while it is safe in it's constituents, is suf6-
GENTLY prompt in operation.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
Learning the Ballet.

To learn how to dance on the stage
requires considerable time. A girl is
first taught to turn her feet out by
standing with the toe of eacn foot to
the heel of the other. The next thing
is to give her "a point" This is done
by seating her on form with one leg
strapped to it at the knee-joint, while
person presses the toe down so as to
arch the instep. Then she is told to
hold on to bar and to throw each leg
as high as possible without bending the
knee. This exercise loosens the Joints
and renders them supple. After daily
work CT this kind during some months,
and sometimes years, the girl is taught
steps and learns to walk upon her toes.
This, which, when we'll done, always
ELECTS applause, is by no means SO diff
cult as it appears. In reality, the dancer
walks on her big toes, and the others do
not touch the ground. The big toe is
bent slightly toward the others, so that
the pressure is as much on the side as
on the end. But it is far more difficult
to use the arms gracefully than the legs
on the stage. In order to find this out,
a person has only to take stick and
wave it after the manner of stage
fairy. There must be no angles, and
the curves and movements must be
made very slowly in order to be effect
i've. Miss Kate Vaughan is the most
graceful dancer on the English stage.
This is because she knows how to
hinder her body from following the
movement of her arms or her legs.
Whatever steps she may be taking with
her feet, or whatever curves she may
make with her arms, her body is in re-
pose, as though her limbs were uncon-
nected with it. To realize the effect of
graceful movement, let any one observe
the movements of bad dancer on the
stage. Instead of only dancing from
her waist, her body is twisted this way
and that with every step she takes, and
thus she produces the impression of a
young heifer indulging in gambols.-'
London TT1Lth
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
Man and Miracles.

| Without creation man has enormous
power over nature. He can, and daily
does, overpower her laws, or seemingly
make them work as he pleases. De
spite the law of gravity, he ascends to
the sky in q balloon; he makes water
spring up in fountains; he makes YES
sells, weighing thousands of tons, float
on the seas. Despite cohesion, he grinds
rocks to powder; despite chemical
affinity, he transmutes into myriads of
different forms the few elements OF
which all matter consists: despite the
resistless power of the thur derbolt, he
tames electricity to be his servant or
his harmless toy. With water and fire
he molds into shape mighty masses of
metal; he shoots, at sustained speed
beyond that of birds, across valleys
and through mountain ranges; he
unites seas which continents had sepa-
rated; there is nothing in the whole
earth which he has not subdued, or
does not hope. to subdue, to his use.
There is hardly physical miracle which
he does not feel he can, or may yet,
perform. But all this wonderful, this
boundless, power over material laws is
gained by these laws. He alters no
property of matter, but he uses one
property or another as he needs, and he
uses one property to overcome another.
1t is by knowing that gravity is more
powerful in the case of air than in the
case of hydrogen gas that he makes
air sustain him as he floats, be-
meath bag of hydrogen, above
the earth. 1t is by knowing that it is
more powerful in water than in air that
he sails in iron ships; it is by knowing
chemical affinity or repulsion that he
makes the compounds or extracts the
simple elements he desires; it is by
knowing that affinity is force, and that
force is transmutable into electricity,
that he makes q messenger Of the ODE
dent lightning shock it is by knowing
that heat, itself unknown, causes gases
to expand that he makes machines of
senseless iron do the work of intelli-
gent giants. He subdues nature by
understanding nature. He creates no
property; he, therefore, performs no
miracle, though he does marvels.-J.
Boyd Kj7o11eGr, IN Contemporary Re
Uie1C.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
Sliding Down a Mountain.

The trail leading to the Metamoras
mine is both steep and narrow, and
winds along the side of Prospect
mountain from the base almost to the
summit. In places the descent from
it is very precipitous, falling off almost
perpendicularly for distance of 200
and 800 feet. The snow fall had almost
obliterated the pathway, making it Pc
culiarly dangerous, and when James
Ahearn attempted to make the ascent
he was forced to grope his way blindly,
trusting to his knowledge of the route
to carry him over safely. It was not
sufficient, however, for when about halt
way up he slipped upon the icy crust
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
st. Petersburg.

St. Petersburg is a city of goatrmets
The long nights in winter, and the ex-
cessive cold and discomfort out of
doors, drive the inhabitan is to indoor
pleasures. They consequently pay
great attention to the cuisine, and the
cooks become GORDON bleaAs. The best
cuisine is, of course, the French, and
there are French chefs in many of the
houses, but the Russians have a number
of national dishes they are fond OF. es-
pecially soups-cabbage soup eaten
with sour cream, cucumber soup, ard a
cold, sour soup, which they swear by,
but which is not very agreeable to a
foreign palate. The root vegetables,
turnips, beets. etc, are remarkably
good; SO are waterme!ons and
cucum bers, while game, snipe, wood
cock, cartridges, white cartridges,
hazel grouse, black cock, coqs
da1 bojs, and hare are all abundant in
their season and good. In the way of
fish, the salmon is excellent, and they
have trout, pot-fsh, perch, grayling
seQuis, somewhat like a striped bass,
and the famous sterlet, which I do not
think deserves it reputation. It's roe
makes the best caviare. The regular
Russian restaurant is not to be seen in
st. Petersburg. There is one in Mos
COW, they call the Hermitage, which is
thoroughly Russian. A feature of these
restaurants is an immense mechanical
organ, which grinds out lively airs dur
ing dinner. One can hardly talk. The
correct thing to do is to take, before
dinner, "zacouska," which being in
terpreted means preliminary lunch, a
small glass OF hQa4eatr, generally
"wodki," with salt fish or cavi-
are, or little cheese. This
is supposed to whet dulled ap-
petite. Besides the pleasures of the
table, the Russians rely greatly upon
cards to pass the long winter evenings.
They play a great deal and play high.
Whist, with some notifications. in the
counting; baocarat, and game they call
"quinza," something like Boston,, are
theIrprincipal games. Ourgreat national
game of poker is not unknown among
them, but it's attractions are just begin
ming to be appreciated. Cards are g
monopoly in Russia, and their importa.
ton is strictly prohibited. The profits
on their sale go to the support of the
Foundlings' Hospital, and it is magnif
Gently supported. Any infant can be
brought there, and no questions arr
asked either as regards the mother o.
the child, and no payment is necessary
It is said to be the only place in Russi'
where no passport is required tn
Penn Monthly.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
Geological DenudatiOn.

If we imagine the area Of England
|, and Wales, consisting of $1,000 square
miles, to form one iyer-basin, the de-
livery OF water by such river would be
68, 450, 1886. $50 tons, or 1873 inches per
annum, containing total of 8,370,630
tons of solids in solution, representing
a general lowering of the surface from
that cause alone of .0077 of foot per
century, or / foot in 1887 years. TAX
ing the Soluble denudation" of other
parts of the world into consideration, Mr..
Reade considers that "about 100 tons of
rocky matter is dissolved by rain per En-
gish square mile per annum." This, he
states, contains so tons of carbonate of
lime, and 20 of sulphate of lime,
etc., and proceeds: EFF, as is generally
supposed, the sea contains only what is
washed into it from the land, ana we
can estimate its numeral contents in
tons, we at once get a minimum meas
ure of the age of the earth" AS Her.
schel states that the ocean contains g.
494, 500 billions OF tons of water, and
the mean of DR.. Frankland's analysis
gives 1879 tons of carbonate of lime and
magnesia, and LOTT tons Of sulphate of
lime and magnesia in 100000 tons, it
follows, according to the author,
that it would take 25,O00,0O0 years
to accumulate the quantity Of sui
plate Of lime and magnesia contained
In sea-water, but only 100000 years
to renew the carbonate of lime and
magnesia, and the discrepancy is caused
by the appropriation of the calcic car
Donate by mollusca for their nests. The
amount of visible sediment brought
down mechanically by rivers is calcutta
ted for the whole world up IN the re-
suits OF Humphreys and Abbot for the
Mississippi, and the estimate is given
at six times the amount of the soluble
matter. This produces over the whole
globe an amount of denudable matter
equal to 500 tons square mile per
year. Going back in all time at this
rate, and allowing for coast erosion,
glaciers, etc, the ten miles of sediment
airy strata must have occupied 526,000,
600 years in accumulation
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
The Polar Mystery.

Capt. Howgate makes an appeal tc
the national Congress to ratlfy the rec
concentrations OF the Geographical Con
gress and make the necessary appropri-
atoms for his proposed Arctic explora-
ton By means of fixed stations in the
Polar regions. These stations are in
the summer months to be supplied for
the long winter siege. The main
tenance of the two northernmost points
have been assigned to the United States
Government. The purpose is not, as
Capt. Howgate explains, simply to dis
cover the North pole, but to make reg
ular and systematic observations for a
period of years.
The proposed location, where it is
practicable for steamer to keep COM
mun1cation open with the civilized
world, is Lady Franklin bay, about $50
miles from the pole. A fine aud easily
accessible deposit of coal exists at this
point, about mile from the shore of a
small bay, and distant four miles from
the winter quarters of the Discovery.
Here it is proposed to erect buildings
and store provisions. The occupants
of this station would not be exposed to
greater hardships than are usually en-
countered in the Polar regions, and
"the horrors of the long Arctic nights
will in great part disappear before the
kindly influence of improved appliances
Tor comfort and amusement now avail
able" Near the seam of coal, too, is
tresh-water lake; and much game was
killed there, indicative Of vegetable
life, also, during an exceptionally-cold
winter. "In ordinary seasons it is
not expected that there will be any
serious difficulty in reaching the sta
ton by the aid of a steam vessel es-
pecially fitted for the work, and the
vessel can annually carry out fresh
provisions, clothing, books, implements,
and, if need be, fresh details of men to
replace those who may wish to be re-
lieved. The work of observation
and survey will furnish constant
ana useful employment for the men.
This will render them less liable
to attacks of inconsistencies after the
first feeling of isolation has worn off
and they become accustomed to the
surroundings and duties. With sledges,
dogs, boats, and captive balloons, they
will be ready to avail themselves of
any opportunity to push their way
north"
The scope of their observations will
include the determination of the figure
of the earth by means of pendulum ex-
periments, the magnetism of the globe,
the ocean tides and currents, polar
winds, and all geographical, geological,
meteorological and botanical facts that
are to be obtained. The practical re-
suits he predicts will be a wider knowl-
edge of air currents and atmosphere;
better data for predicting storms; and
some success, may be, in discovering
and, if possible, anticipating and pro-
viding against, the cause of those ex-
tremes of temperature which sweep
over the northern regions of the globe,
and especially the continent east of the
Rocky mountains.-Dewojt Free Press.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15

An old physician, retired from practice having hao
placed in his hands by East India missionary the
formula of simple vegetable remedy for the speedy
permanent iqy Consumption BRONCHITIS oa1a a
positive and radical for Nervous Debility and all
Nervous Complaints after having tested its wonderful
curative powers in thousands of cases. has felt 1T ms
duty to make it known to ring fellows. Actuated
by this motive. and desire to relieve human suffering
in German French or English with full directions foI
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stamp, naming this paper. W. w. SHEtSAR, 1zAs'
Poy1ersi Block RocheStar. ". ~.
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katchewan-- but he said the white men
had ruined him, and therefore he didn't
think their God could amount to much.
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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
Be Wise and HannY.

If you will stop all your extravagant
and wrong notions in doctoring yourself
and families with expensive doctors or
humbug cure-alls, that do harm always,
and use only natures simple remedies
for all your ailments, you will be wise,
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The greatest remedy for this, the great,
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Press.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15

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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
Wanted.

Sherman & Co., Marshall, Mich, want an
agent in this county at once, at salary of 500
per month and expenses paid. For full partic-
ulars address as above.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
WEDDING STATIONERY

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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15

YOUNG men go west. Learn telegrsphy. Ad-
dress Il. VALENTINE, Manager, GAINESVILLE, Wis.
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