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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28
The Diet Eiend.

There is the man who has made up his
mind to keep his health good by eating
the right sort of food in proper quantities
and with the right kind of mastication.
Resolution sits upon his brow, his eyes
turn scornfully upon his fellow men and
he deliberately and with malice afore-
thought sits with superbly folded arms
in the restaurant, painful working his
mouth, as if he were type of Samp-
sons celebrated iawbons engaged in the
duty of staying bit of brown bread.
He becomes a nuisance to his landlady,
or his wife; he buys fish. which he eats
for his brains, and struggles in the morn
ing with harsh oatmeal and sour baked
apples, chewing, chewing, chewing,
while casting contemptuous chances
around upon the disguised people who
are not SO good and are not going to be
so healthy as he is to be. He even turns
his toes out, abhors butter, and walks
on the side OF the street which is the
healthiest His children receive no
candy, and his wife only receives a scold-
ing because she does not live up to the
laws of health. He becomes pale, fretful
and morose, and says of a healthy man,
He lives for his stomach" while he Is
dying for his.-Nea0 York Herald.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28
MISCELLANEOUS GLEAN1NGs.

The arrangements for the consohda-
ton of the three leading telegraph companies
have been ratified by the Board of Directors,
but the stockholders will not act on the matter
until next month. The new stock will be dis
tributed on the basis of 1873 for Western Union,
$50 for American Union and 60 for Atlantic and
Pacific. The capital Of the consolidation is to
be SSO.oOO,OOO.
Gen. Grant is to be President of the
Nicaraguan Canal Company and Senior Martias
Romero, ex-Minister of Mexico to the United
States, is to be Secretary. Efforts viii be
made to secure the necessary Congressional ac-
ton on the measure before the close of the
present session.
In small town In Nova Scotia one
family lost eight children by diphtheria within
q week.
Some enterprising capitalists of Mon
treal have conceived project for making a
railway tunnel under the Falls of Niagara.
A Bolivian representative is on his
way to the United States to negotiate treaty
Of commerce and secure loan of IS 00O, 900 at
any sacrifice.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28
The EXPANSIVE Power Of Water.

It is well known, but not the less re-
markable, fact that'if the tip Of an ex-
ceedingly small tube be dipped into
water, the water will rise spontaneously
in the tube throughout its entire length.
This may be shown in q variety Of ways;
for instance, when piece of sponge, or
sugar, or cotton is just allowed to touch
water, these substances, being composed
Of numberless little tubes, draw up the
water, and the whole becomes wet. 1t
is said to suck up or i116i6e the moist
ure. We see the same wonderful action
going on in nature in the rising of the
sap through the small tubes or pores IF
the wood, whereby the leaves and upper
portions of the plant derive nourishment
from the ground.
This strange action is called "-capil-
larry" from the resemblance the minute
tubes bear to hair, the Latin of which
is copiJlot8. 1t is, moreover, singular
chat the absorption of the water takes
place with great force. If a dry sponge
be inclosed tightly in a vessel, it will
expand when wetted with sufficient force
to burst it, unless very strong.
Wood, which is q more unyielding
material, acts with tremendous force
when wetted, and advantage has been
taken of this fact in splitting blocks Of
granite. This process is largely adopted
in Dartmoor.
After mass of granite has been rent
from the mountain by blasting, it is
measured in every direction to see how
best to divide it into smaller blocks.
These are traced out by straight lines
on the surface, and series of holes are
drilled at short intervals along this line.
Wedges of dry wood are then tightly
driven into the holes and wetted, and the
combined action of the swelling wood
splits the block in the direction required,
and without any destructive violence.
The same process is then carried out
upon the other faces, and the roughly
shapen block finished with the hammer
ov1 nhicnl
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28

vers hand. He was then knocked down with
poker and handed over to the authorities at
New Madrid, No.
An oyster war has broken out along
the Rappahannock river, in Virginia, caused by
the appearance Of feet of fifteen vessels
from Maryland intent upon taking out the BIZ
valves in defiance of law. Fire was opened
upon the invaders with howitzer stationed on
cliff, TO which the Marylanders replied with
rifles and reYolvers, but ultimately hoisted a
white flag and set sail for home.
The wife OF James Cummings, O col
ored man living near Cranston, n. c., gave
birth to four babies at one fell swoop. All are
doing well.
Five inches of snow fell at Mobile,
doing considerable damage to trees. Snow fell
at Augusta, Ga, for eight hours, and at Viii
mington, N. c., there was good sleighing and
snow-balline.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Gen. Walker, of the Census Bureau,
says, in regard to the alleged frauds in the
census in South Carolina, that he ordered re-
enumeration in eight townships, situated in as
many different counties, selecting those where
the most startling increase in population was
noticed. The results were carefully compared,
name by name and house by house, with the
first enumeration, and in every case there was
found a further increase. He expresses q be-
lief that the first enumeration was substantially
correct, and hopes that it will be accepted as
such.
The original papers bequeathed by
Benjamin Franklin to his grandson have been
offered to the State Department for $4,000.
1t is generally believed at Washington
that an superintendent bill will be passed be-
fore Congress adjourns, and that the number
of Representatives will be fixed at about 800.
The President has approved the SEN
tence of Paymaster ]. H. Nelson, of the army,
which is dismissal, two years at hard labor, and
fine of $4,000.
Senator Matt Carpenter is rapidly re-
covering from his recent attack of congestion
of the lungs, which he jokingly charges to a
temperance dinner which he attended at the
White House.
President Hayes has nominated Ed
ward @. Billings, of Louisiana, to be United
States Judge for the Fifth circuit, in place of
Judge Woods, appointed to the Supreme Bench
The United States Supreme Court has
decided that the income tax is constitutional.
Justice Swayne, of the Supreme Court,
has finally resigned.
The House Committee on Judiciary
has decided that the Senate has constitution
al right to originate bills making appropria-
tons of public moneys.
Secretary Sherman, in presenting his
views to the Senate Committee on Finance,
urged that the funding bonds bear 81 per
cent. interest and become redeemable in from
five to twenty years. He expressed the opinion
that the certificates redeemable in one year.
can be floated at 8 per cent. but that a bond al
that figure was not practicable.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28

the tenth census The Indian Land bill was debated
at some length, decided objection being made to
conferE1ng citizenship on the red men. David
DAVIS introduced bill to pension Justices of the
supreme Court who may become permanently disa-
0led The House passed an appropriation Of
S5O,O05 for a monument in coInmemoration
OF the battle of Saratoga. The postofice
appropriation was taken up in committee
OF the whole. and amended to provide that safety
heaters, saws and shall be carried in mail cars
ana the Australian colonies shall be reimbursed In
part for the cost of the British closed mails on the
overland route. The bill then passed. The House
OF Representatives coneurTed in the Senate amend
n1ents 10 the Military Academy Appropriation bill.
majority Of the House Committee on Elections
made report fayoriug the unseating of Martin
lhepublicanl as the member from the First North
Carolina district and of giving the seat TO Yeates
democrat: minority report was also presented.
The joint bill for counting the electoral vote cana
up, when the Republicans forced an adjournment,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28

embodiment of despair. She raised the
pan by the edge, utterly careless that
the falling water splashed her dress an6
feet, and listlessly moved away. Hel
grief was too deep for words or tears,
and | turned away with heart sick tc
see such suffering, and to know that she
was but one of more than hundred in
the same sad condition. Samuel Plin..
soil, IA the Ninetee9ith Century.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28
CRIES and Reroism Of Miners,

/ remember seeing ore poor woman a
day or two after the explosion of the Ed
munds or Swaith Main pit The dead
body of her husband was then lying In
the mine: but she had children-the
daily work Of life must be done even by
her. Sac wanted pan which, nearly
full OF dirty water. stood near her door
upon a1stone. shall, ] suppose, never
forget ct is many Years ago now the
far-of look In her eyes as she approached
the pan. Her whole figure was the ex-
preston Of one without hope, the very
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28

Before the battle began at Bannock-
burn in 1914, the Scottish army knelt
down In prayer. Edward III. was look
ing on. He turned to his favorite knight
and said, g Argentine, the rebels yield
They beg for mercy?" They do, my
liege, was the reply; "but not from
you" The battle ended, not only in a
victory, but in rout.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28

A4kCESd5S VI TIC I-tEEO AAS@CS "a vie
South.
Census returns from the Southern States Of
Alabama. Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana and
North Carolina show the following rate Of in
crease of whites and blacks:
Alabama-Whites, n per cent. negroes, %
II Arkansas Whites, 81 per cent negroes, SO
per cent
Georgia-Whites, ~ per cent. negroes, 90
per cent.
Louisiana-W Whites, 26 per cent. ;nsgrOes, SO
per cent.
North Carolina Whites, 20 per cent ne
groes, SO per cent
It Will thus be seen that, with the exception
Of Alabama. the negro race has been Increas-
ing more rapidly than the whites in the South
ern States. The same fact has also been shown
BY the census returns Of South Carolina and
Maryland.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28

IT is a curious fact, writes q mission
airy from China, that tobacco, sweet po-
tatoes and Indian corn have all been In
troduced from America, and are .now
thoroughly domesticated here. As to tie
first. so cordially has it been welcomed
that 9 out of 10 adult Chinese males
smoke it. They do not chew. Within
the last five years the artichoke, which
in my boyhood was found with horse
radish in every farmers garden in cen
trail New York, Is being introduced in
this region. 1t is picked and eaten as a
relish. Oddly enough, it is called for
eign ginger. Sometimes we are asked
how it happens that foreign ginger is not
pungent.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28
So1 Members.
Gnin Lag

1t viii be seen that by Mr.. Cox's arrangement
the North viii get two of the eight new mem
bers and the South the other six. Curiously
enough. If the House should beincreased to 325
members, which is not probable. the North
would get seventeen of the thirty-two new
members, and the South only fifteen.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28
The New Congressional AppOrtiOn.
ment.
Following is the text of Mr.. Cox's bill. now

pending IN the House
An Act making an apportionment of representation
III Congress among the several States under the
tenth census
Be it enacted By the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentatiues of the United States Of America, In Con-
qress assembled, After the Sd of March, 1888, the
members to be apportioned among the several
States as olOvs.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28
CENSUS Comparisons.

The following table shows the population of
the United States and Territories under the
last three enumerations. 1t is interesting as ex-
hlbiting the marvellous growth of the country
in the three decades
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28

SEC q Whenever a new State is admitted to the
Union, the Representative or Representatives
signed to it shall be added 10 the number.
SEC g. In zach State entitled under this appor-
tionInent the number TO which such State may be
entitled In the Fortv-eighth, and each subsequent,
Congress shall be elected by districts composed Of
contiguous territory, and containing, nearly az
practicable, an equal number Of inhabitants and
equal in number to the Representatives to which
such State may be entitled in Congress, no one dis
trict eleeting more than one Representative.
The following table shows the gains and
losses of the chief geographical divisions of
the country under the proposed apportion-
ment
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28

The above does not include the hosiery mills
or any Of the mills known as wooden mills
where cotton may be component material used
in the manufacture.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28

II is a mean thing for a handsome
man to go to town and give every ibdi-
cation Of being in the market until half
the girls are wild about him, and then
send for his wife.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28
Increase OF the Negro Race i'm the
South,

Total Territories 1854 4O2.sG5 325, 200
Total L. S.. 30 l52,559 3s,55S,51 3l,443,52i
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28
A Wonderful Cup.

Baron Charles de Rothschild, Of
Frankfort on-the-M Main, purchased, not
long ago, for the enormous sum Of
100000 francs ($160, 000) a silver gilt
cup by the celebrated Jammitzer, which
is said to be a marvellous work of art.
This sum, according to the ClsroniqIe
des Artes, is, as far as it knows, the
largest price ever paid in modern times
for single object of art. The work is
the center piece of a table service. The
foot is composed of rock entirely Gov
cred with grasses and field flowers, on
which desport themselves beetles, little
lizards, locusts and snails. From this
rises the figure of woman, emblemat-
izing the earth, and bending in eloquent
pose as she supports on her head and
her hands tall chalice, decorated with
grotesques and topped by cover, which.
terminates in vase in the form of
baluster, from which springs bunch of
leaves and flowers. The silver gilt Of
which the cup is made has ornaments in
Opaque and translucent enamels. The
goldsmithery of the sixteenth century is
said to offer nothing more finished in
execution, and which, though open to
criticism, possibly forms the standpoints
both of taste and style, has its weak
nesses counterbalanced by the wonder
full perfection of all its details.
The story of Baron Rothschild's ac-
QUESTION of the work is quite curious.
It formed part of the estate of the late
Nuremberg banker, Merkel, who died in
1878, and whose heirs, by common &C
cord, agreed to loan it, together with
Albert Durer's portrait of Holchucher,
to the German Museum at Nuremberg,
of which Jammitzer's chef d'oeuVre be-
came one of the greatest treasures. In
deed the public, during the years it was
on exhibition, thought it belonged to
the museum. 1t was SO arranged that
the work could not be taken away with
out joint consent of the heirs and a Min
isterial authorization. Some months
ago the celebrated art work disappeared
from the galleries, to the great astonish-
ment and CONSERVATION of the Nurem-
bergers and the country in general.
After while it leaked out that a Frank
fort dealer in art objects, the agent of
Baron Rothschild, had appeared with
the necessary papers from the family
and the Director of the Museum had
been obliged to deliver to him the cup.
The whole affair was conducted with
great secrecy, and it is certain that had
It been known that the object was for
sale the Directors of the Nuremberg
Museum, as well as many 9TH
ers, would have competed with the pres.
ent purchaser for its possession.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28
Cotton Manufacture i'm the United
states.

The following is preliminary report TO the
Census Bureau upon the specific cotton manu-
facture of the United States, exhibiting the
number of looms splndles. the numberof bales
of cotton consumed and the number of opera
tives employed:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-01-28
CENSUS RETuRSS.


The Census Office furnishes The following
statement Of the population Of the towns aud
cities of the United States having population
of 10000 and less than 80, 600, according 80
the United States census Of 1889:
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-09-09
POPULAR SCIENCE.

Type metal is composed of a mixture
of anthony, tin and lead.
The barley most suitable for CONVEX
sion into malt grows in light, calcareous
soil.
The artesian wells of Chicago dis
charged in 1866 one and o~ne-quarter
million gallons of water per day.
Powder, when exploding, eXerts an
elastic force one thousand times the
pressure of the atmosphere.
o The long Enfield rifle consists of fifty
three different parts, and passes through
740 processes of manufacture.
The solution of salt in water raises
the boiling point of the water in pro
portion to the quantity of salt used.
Australia is to be divided into mete-
geological districts so as to obtain the
data for weather kilograms and warn
ings.
1t is reported that the phylloxera has
done considerable damage to the vines
in some parts of Spain, but the weather
has been so favorable that a fair vintage
is expected.
The experiment Of oyster.culture in
Tasmania has been thus far very sue
c~essful, and it is expected that in four
years the new industry will yield a large
profit, after making all due allowance
for the failure of most of the "spat" to
attain maturity.
An entomologist says he can tell from
what country a bale of wool has been
imported simply by observing the kind
of beetles which frequent it. All the
principal w~ool-growing countries in the
world have many but distinct species
of beetles that make wool their home.
The two rounded Masses, one on each
side of the stomach of the crab, which
have received the absurd name of crabs
eyes, are magazines Of carbonate OF lime
which the crab has collected for forming
itself q new shell.
Cotton fibres are somewhat flat, two
edged or triangular and c%ontorted, a
construction which causes the fbres to
adhere to each other, and which gives
warmth to cotton clothing. The ibres
of fax, on the other hand, are straight
notched tubes with smooth surfaces.
In a letter to M. Diamilla-M Muller, NJ,
Faye suggests that in thunder storms
the source of electricity is not merely
changed air and icy particles whirling
downward from upper regions, but that
electricity is developed in the act of
g~iration.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-09-09
For Numbering all Their children.

A man and his wife, Of the name OF
Zysset, have been sentenced at the Nit
leland Assizes, Canton Berne, Switzer-
land, to penal servitude for life for hay
ing murdered all their children, num-
bering either five or seven. They admit
having put five to death, and there is
reason to believe that they had killed
two others whose births they concealed.
Their motives for committing crimes so
terribly unnatural and revolving was
simply to save themselves the trouble
and expense of bringing their children
up, for, though in humble circumstan-
ces, the Zyssets seemed to have been
far from poor, q considerable sum OF
money having been found in their house
when they we're arrested. The plan
they adopted to get rid of the children
was to deprivethem of food, and when the
process Of starvation did not appear
quick enough or tho little mes cried
too much, it was accelerated by strang-
ling or knocking them on the head.
When the jury gave in their verdict
they expressed regret that, under the
present law Of Berne, the Zyssets could
not be sentenced to some severer pun
ishment than perpetual imprisonme
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-09-09
FASHIONS.

Lace and muslin ichus grow larger
and larger.
The blouse Is the iayoite waist for
yachting costumes.
1t is the height Of fashion to hang a
piece Of old faded tapestry oh the wall.
Snowy colors Ii snowy contrasts APP
pear in the composition OF fashionable
seaside suits.
Puffs of null and tulle illusion in the
neck bid fair to take the place Of pleat-
ings and ruches.
Fantastic figures are embroidered in
bright colors on artistic and fancy lawn
tennis costumes.
White and gold braid trim yachting
suits Of blue, gray or cream white fan.
mel serge beautifully.
Cretonne fans in Trianon designs
match parasols and suits of printed
sateen, cambria and foulard.
Red corsages, red hats and red fans
and parasols are adopted by many
women of gay tastes at watering places.
The fashionable artificial flowers are
ionquils, roses, peonies, oxeye daisies,
white lilacs and ~sunlowers OF various
sizes.
Yachting suits Of dark or porcelain
blue, gray or green flannel serge are
made bright and gay with Turkey red
sashes and trimmings.
Null and batiste dresses in pale tints
of color, trimmed with imitation Valen-
ciennes and Flemish point and Vermi-
cell laces, make lovely afternoon and
evening watering place toilets.
Bunches of roses as largeas a full cab.
bage are fastened above and in front of
the hip and below the breast Of the
most fashionable women at Saratoga
and Long Branch whenever they are
costumed for q carriage drive.
Artistic parasols have sprays of eglan-
tine, daisies, golden rod, struggling in
sects and sometimes birds painted as if
falling, or flying, au aatrel over the
cores on the outside, sometimes en-.
croaching on the lace border or fringe,
while the Innings show shaded effects in
full, delicate tjnts of blue, green, rose,
cream, rose, pearl and pure white.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-09-09
HUMOROUS.

The drowning man in a sea of crime
will chtch at a straw bail.
One touch Of nature makes the whole
world skin for the seashore.
Prospecting miners IN search Of "pay,
ing dirt" usually look in vein for ore.
Mrs. Darlington declares herself
dead sci" agaiustthe Reversed Scrip
tur'."
They say that Bright Eyes mother
doesn't like Tibbles, and says "be's ano
account white man
Having read the odes TO be sung at
the Yorktown celebration, none but
brave men will attend.
A Beverly shoe manufacturer has
failed, but heel strive with his whole
sole to pay the last cent.
The demand of one photographer to
use the patent process of another has
been decided in the negative.
A magistrate who is a little lax in the
administration of the law cannot be
said to be a Ratchet Of a judge.
The Bostons are the last but one in
the score Of league games, and would
be the last, Providence permitting.
An aesthetic poet, on being asked on
his arrival at Henley by what train he
had arrived, replied, "By the two two"
An oarsman on Cayuga lake says he
was towed in his boat across the lake by
a sea serpent. About time for him to
swear off.
The idea that nothing harder than
diamonds could be made has been ex-
ploded, q st. Louis bride having baked
a batch Of biscuits.
Oscar Wilde, the aesthetic English
poet, speaks Of "unkissed kisses" We
want to say right here that we don't
know any of that kind.