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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-11

Even stoical soldiers GOODNESS and
contempt of death in the hour of misfor-
tune may illustrate that lofty fearless
ness of the Christian martyrs which SO
often disarmed and mortified their perse-
cutors. The following anecdote was
told of Col. Gordon, Governor OF the
Soudan, at the time he fell into the power
of King John Of Abyssinia:
The King received his prisoner sitting
on his throne, chair being placed fol-
Col. Gordon, considerably lower. The
first thing the English Pasha did was to
seize this chair, place it alongside that Of
his majesty and sit down on it; the next,
to inform him that he met him as an
equal, and would only treat him as such.
This somewhat disconnected his sable
majesty, but on recovering himself, he
said
"Do you know, Gordon Pasha, that I
could kill you on the spot if I liked?"
81 am perfectly well aware of it,
your majesty" said the Pasha; edo SO at
once if it is your royal pleasure. L am
ready"
This discounted the King still more,
and he exclaimed:
"What? ready to be killed."
Certainly" replied the Pasha, 81 am
always ready to die; and SO far from fear
ing your putting me to death, you would
confer favor on me by SO doing, for you
would be doing for me that which [ am
precluded by my religious scruples from
doing for mysef-you would relieve me
from all the troubles and misfortunes
which the future may have in store for
me"
This completely staggered King John,
who gasped out in despair:
"Then my power has no terrors for
you"
"None whatever" was the Pasha's
laconic reply.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-11
A Remedy for Diphtheria.

A lady living in Williamsburg has
sent the following remedy for diphtheria
to the Brooklyn Board of Health, adding
that she had used it with success with
her six children: "Take a slice of fat
bacon-side meat-the older the better;
sew it on soft piece of flannel; then
saturate it with coal Cpetroleum) oil.
Place it on the neck, having the meat
reach from ear to ear. After pounding
several raw onions into poultice place
enough of the same into the patient S
stockings to cover the soles of the feet,
and have the patient put the stockings
on. The poultice must be warm in order
not to chill the patient The throat
should then be gargled with some toma..
to catsup; strong with red pepper, salt,
and vinegar shaken well together will do.
If the patient is too young to gargle wet
the throat with few drops. If vomit-
ing occurs, lime water purchased at a
drug store with directions should be
given. Be sure to cause irritation on
the neck.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-11
6 Right AWayi''

When Dickens first came to this coun-
try he stumbled upon dreadful L" Amer
icanism" almost as soon as he had landed.
for hotel waiter asked him if he would
have something fright away" meaning
Immediately. Some dozens of English
travellers have since that time been hor-
rifed by the same Yankee phrase, but
now they are beginning to find out that
fright away" like pretty much every
other 6. Americanism, is merely an An
glicism that does not happen to be at
home In London. A late correspondent
of Notes and Queries says Of the express
sion: 81 have always supposed this to
be the purest of Americanisms, when
used in the sense of Immediately
but only few weeks since. in York
shire, I heard girl say from behind a
counter, to a gentleman who was doubt
ful whether to carry home the cake he
had just purchased: at will be deliv-
cred directly, sir; the boy is going past
your door right away. = Gttcdgo htter-
Ocean.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-11
BITS OF INFORMATION.

The kaleidoscope was invented by DR..
Brewster about seventy years ago.
RUSSIA owns about one-third of Asia.
THE Scent nickel is composed of 70
per cent. copper and % per cent. nickel.
Harvard COLLEGE was named for
Rev. John Harvard, who left 9800 in his
will as an endowment.
The word "blizzard signifies sud
den cold snap or wave. It originated In
California among the hunters and min
ers of the Sierras, and it is only there
that the true "blizzard is known. The
change of temperature is immediate, the
mercury dropping from forty to sixty de-
grees in a few minutes, sharp, singing
wind accompanying the intense cold.
The first steam vessel that ever
crossed the Atlantic ocean was the Sa-
yannah, an American vessel sailing I'M
der the American flag. She started from
Savannah, Ga, for Liverpool, England,
on May %, 1919, being the first passage
by steam ever attempted. She arrived
in Liverpool on June %, having con-
sumed her fuel in ten days.
"To POUR oil on the troubled waters, {"
is proyerbial expression signifying to
restore peace and harmony where strife
and passion have prevailed. It is found
ed on popular belief that oil will in
stantly smooth the surface of the rough
est sea. This belief is, however, errone-
Gus, as an experiment made in France
in 1874 by scientific commission ap.
pointed for the purpose satisfactorily
established its groundlessness. Not
withstanding this, sea Captain claimed
recently to have used oil with success.
THE Gulf stream receives it's name
from the fact that it was long supposed
to originate in the Gulf of Mexico. Ac-
cording to Humboldt, it receives it's first
impulse near the southern extremity of
Africa. From the Gulf of Mexico this
stream flows into the Atlantic ocean be-
tween Florida and Cuba, whence it runs
northward, nearly parallel to the Ameri-
can coast, until breaches Nova Scotia and
Newfoundland, where one branch runs
downward toward the Azores, while the
other flows northward toward the
British islands and thence to the Polar
sea.
THE word "Nihilist " is derived from
the Latin "nihil, meaning nothing. :"
Perhaps the best definition of Nihilism,
as it exists in Russia, is that given by
Michael Bukunin, who has been called
the father of Nihilism. In speech at
Geneva, in 1868, he said: "The first
duty of mankind is to obliterate from the
heart any belief in God, who is but the
personifcation of absolute tyranny in
vested with the idea that nine-tenths of
the world should be subject to the re-
naming tenth. The second lie is right.
Might invented the fiction of right in
order to insure her reign. When you
have freed your minds from the fear OF
God and that childish respect for the
fiction of right, then all the remaining
chains which bind you, and are called
science, civilization, property, marriage,
morality and justice, will snap asunder
like threads. Let your own happiness
be your only law"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-11
MISCELLANEOUS GLEAN1NGs.

The sudden spread of smallpox IN
N ew Y ork causes alarm among the health au-
thorities There are over sixty cases under treat
ment at the hospital on Randalls island. The
black smallpox, which is supposed to have
been introduced by Mennonite immigrants,
continues its rayages at Jefferson, Dakota,
which has been quarantined for over a month,
thirty-two deaths having occurred. Fifty-two
patients are under treatment in Chicago
At New Westminster, British Column
bia, four half-breeds were hanged for the muir
der of John usher; one of a party who sought
their arrest for stealing horses. On the day
following they killed John Kelly. About two
weeks ago the eldest of the prisoners tried to
negotiate with the hangman to use rotten ropes;
SO that an escape might be possible.
Four men were hanged at New West
minister, B. c., for murder committed about
a year ago.
DIR. Norvin Green, President of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, has made
official notification to the public of the con-
solidation of the three principal telegraph
lines of this country.
Thirteen million five hundred thou
sand dollars has been subscribed to build the
New York, Chicago and st. Louis railway.
Burned: The Bijou Theater, at Fort
Wayne, Ind, loss $1,000; Independence Hail.
Chicago, loss $4,000; the fine residence of
Morris Auerbach, St. Paul, Mimi, loss $50, 600;
the Webster-school building, Quincy, H., loss
$4,000; the Court House at Charles
City, Floyd county, Iowa, loss s25, 600; Wnder's
plow works, Toledo, Ohio, loss $4,000; the
paper mill of L. Lincoln & Co., Taunton,
Mass, loss $1,000; the Capitol Hotel, Dover.
Del, loss $4,000; Leisy 4 Co.'S brewery,
Cleveland, Ohio, loss 5000 the works of the
Wanda Manufacturing Company, near Charles
ton, s. O., loss $4,000.
Three hundred Indians from New
Mexico have invaded the State of Chihuahua,
creating panic among the Greasers.
A mortgage for $45, 10000 covering
all the property of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railroad, is being prepared for record in
each county Of the three States.
Burned: The extensive wholesale
grocery house of Greeley and Burnham, and
two or three adjacent stores, in st. Louis loss
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ENTERTAINING PARAGRAPHS.
WHo1E-soLED--the Chicago girl.

WHo1E-soLED- the Chicago girl.
FREE of charge-an empty gun.
THE funniest part of dogs tail is the
wag.
IT'S the Gentle thing in Mormondom
to have only one wife.
NooDLE-ap person who hasn't sufficient
backbone to be fool.
VESSELS are always called she, and
yet we hear of mail steamers.
THERE is more fashion in the city, but
there's more stiles in the country.
DYING in poverty is not as hard as
living IN poverty, after all the novelists
say.
"HAIR switches, /" so reads sign. So
it does, on the south end of horse in
fy-time.
MAIDENlady's quotation slightly altered
from an old aphorism -"Where single
ness is bliss It's folly to be wives"
WHEN one sees man thrown from his
saddle over the head of horse, he must
recognize the power behind the thrown.
IT was young housekeeper who set
the cake she had baked for surprise
party out-of-doors, one cold night, to be
frosted.
A PRISONER at the CRATE. Turnkey
care you in for contempt?" Prisoner
with Indignation -"No, sir, I haven't
fallen that low-it's simple drunk"
WHEN grocer advertises every variety
of ''raisins" for sale, does he include
derricks, pulleys, jack screws, yeast
rope and tackle, and that sort of thing?
''WHAT does encore mean?" asks an
exchange. 1t is only one phase of a
universal desire among the sons of men
to get something for nothing, and get it
right off.
BEACoNsFIELD ascribes all his great
ness to woman. Adam laid all his trouble
to the same source. Adam, we are
ashamed of you. Beaconsfeld, you are
a gentleman.
The funniest patent medicine is the
''humor pad, made expressly to tickle
the ribs of the mournful. Photographers
are manufacturing these pads in guam
titles to suit.
'tLINKED for life is how the Syracuse
Standard heads a marriage notice How
forcibly this reminds us OF Byron's beau
tiful lines, 81 saw two sausages in the
hues Of youth.
'CoME right into the house, children, "
shouted Mrs. Shuttle. "You are making
more noise and uproar than a session of
Congress. What do you suppose the
neighbors think?"
A CALIFORNIA heiress was left $4,000
worth of diamonds which she could take
possession of on her wedding day, and it
is not surprising that the first fellow who
offered himself was accepted.
"YoUR opponent was a bright speak
er, the citizen said to the candidate
who had not been elected by 1000 ma
jority. eyes" was the sad reply, every
bright. He cast reflections upon me all
through the campaign"
A LADY was praising the amiability of
her friends husband, and asked how in
the world she had ever brought him to
such perfection, whereupon the friend
sweetly answered that she did it chiefly
with a croquet-mallet.
THERE was fight imminent between
two boys. One Of them darby intima-
ted that he was bigger than the other.
The smaller, who is the son of deacon,
defantly retorted, 81 don't care if you're
as big as church debt; you can't scare
me. "-Ddnbmy NeoOs.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-11

A farmer once was told that his tur-
nip field had been robbed, and that the
robbery had been committed by poor,
inoffensive man, of the name of Palmer,
who, many Of the people Of the village
said, had taken away wagon load of
tllrnips. Farmer Brown, much exasper-
ated by the loss of his turnips, deter
mined to prosecute poor Palmer with all
the severity Of the law. With this in
tention he went to Molly Sanders, the
washerwoman, who had been busy in
spreading the report, TO know the whole
truth but Molly denied ever having
said anything about wagon load Of
turnips. 1t was but a cart load that
Palmer had taken, and Dame Hodson,
the huckster, had told her SO, over and
over again. The farmer, hearing this,
went to Dame Hodson, who said that
Molly Sanders was always making things
worse than they really were; that
Palmer had taken only wheelbarlow
full Of turnips, and that she had her ac-
count from Jenkins, the tailor. Away
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-11

or plano convex lens are all the mate
rails necessary to make it. A hole is
bored in the top of the box to permit
the chimney of the lamp to pass through
and allow the heat and the products of
combustion to escape. In the side Of
the box a round hole is cut large enough
to admit portion of the globe, which is
suspended inside the box close to the
lamp. A piece of common window glass
is then moistened with strong solution
of sulphate of soda, and placed ON 3
stand or clip SO that the light from the
amp will be focused on it by the globe.
The image of the glass viii thus be
thrown upon a screen when the lens is
properly adjusted. The formation Of
the crystals Of the sulphate of sods
will be seen clearly on the screen, and
appear like the magical growth of o
forest. Any ingenious family can read.
lily devise a great number of interesting
experiments with this inexpensive Ian.
tern
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-11
An Honest Ticket Agent.

A reformed ticket agent, now engaged
IN mercantile pursuit, and who looks
back with profound melancholy and re-
morse to his wicked career, as he sailed
IN as ticket agent, told me that once,
in his sinful days, he was employed at
Chicago on through line from that in
corporated Boreas on the lake to New
York city, which, made up of a new
combination, was bucking" against
Vanderbilt. To extend it's custom the
combination had at Chicago a corps of
able-bodied runners, to seize wayfarers
by the throat and fetch them up to the
ticket agent, where the innocent trav-
eler was to be talked into a ticket over
the combination.
One day an able-bodied rufian came,
leading up a rough-looking customer,
who wished to purchase a ticket to New
York by the way of Cleveland. The
combination did not touch Cleveland.
But evidently the old white-hatted,
loose-trousered, coarse-booted country
man, with his white head and goggling
look, did not know what he wanted. 1t
was for the ticket agent to care for him
and so he ratified on, ticket in hand,
until the miserable, goggle-eyed old
nuffle-toes had extracted from fat wal
let the price and shambled awkwardly
away.
"Say, old fellow" asked friend who
happened to be in the Office, edo you
know who you sold ticket to then p
''Some old fool of a corn cracker.
"Not a bit of it-that was Horace
Greeley"
"Gee whillicans and he wanted to go
to Cleveland ?"
the Tribune will give your combination
the devil for the swindIe."
"That's so. Put your cheek to this
hole till | find him.
Away ran the ticket agent. It was
not difficult to find the hotel at which
the venerable philosopher lodged. The
ticket agent found him in the reading
room, porting over stale issue of the
Tribune. He tapped Horace on the
shoulder, and the philosopher looked up
with the child-like expressionof his that
seemed to come out from open eyes and
mouth.
81 beg your pardon, said the agent,
"but l sold you ticket to New York
while since, and made mistake"
g In the money, I suppose" replied
Horace, dryly.
"No, sir; in the route. I remem-
bered after you left you said Cleveland.
Now the ticket I gave you will not take
you to Cleveland"
''The hell it don'tp' cried Greeley,
starting up. "Well, young man, can
tell you that would be a great disap-
pointment to Cleveland.
81 don't know anything about that
but did not want any man to miss his
way through any fault of mine. So
I've been in every hotelin Chicago after
you"
"The devil you have p
81 have. There is the right ticket.
It's over rival line. But my honor,
sir, rises above trick. I bought the
right ticket for you, and if you viii
give me the old one We will be even."
young man, !" said Horace, fishing
/ from his capacious pocket the ticket Of
the combination, "you are very good
too good, come to think of it, for ticket
agent. Leave that, good young man,
before your innocent nature is corrupt
/ ed, or your patent-screw pod-anger line
is burstedup. Go West, young man &c
/ West. = Washington Capital.
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s450,000; Aldrich's cigar factory, Rome, n. Y,
loss 0,000 stores and dwellings on Halifax
street, Pensacola, Fla, loss $4,000; Gents
machine shop and Savage & Loves model
establishment, at Rockford, ILL.,, loss $4,000
the Reformed Church, at Utica, n Y, loss
$4,000; Bourland's printing Office, at Mon
treal, Can, loss $4,000; mill of the Spring
field Blanket Company, at Holyoke, Mass. loss
$4,000.
The steamer California brought to
San Francisco specimens of gold quartz from
Alaska which assay So, 900 to the ton. The new
Eldorado is eighty miles north of Sitka.
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Where Wilkes Booth Is Buried.

It was only after some patient inquiry
that I could ascertain the facts, which
are interesting, and, SO far as know,
are yet unpublished. Booth died, as
will be remembered, in barn in Mary
land from a wound received from the
musket of Boston Corbett. His body
was brought to Washington, and, after
having been identified by the court
martial before which his fellow-conspir-
ators were tried, was dissected by the
Surgeon General Of the army. The brain
and heart and some other parts of the
body were preserved in alcohol, and are
now on exhibition in the medical mu-
scum of the Surgeon Generals Office.
The building in which the assassination
occurred was Ford's Theater. The Gov
eminent confscated it, but afterward
Ford was paid its full value, and it has
since been used as the headquarters of
the medical corps of the army. The
brain and heart of Booth are in lars.
standing in a case that is situated very
near the actual scene of the assassi-
nation.
After the surgeon had done with
BOOM DOdy IL was buried IN grave IN
the arsenal grounds. Only half dozen
persons knew the exact spot, which was
unmarked. In 1867 Edwin Booth, the
actor, sent Mr.. Weaver, the sexton of
Christ'g Church, Baltimore, to Washing
ton, with the request that the remains
Of his brother might be taken up and re-
moved to the family burial-place. After
6ona DELAY the reoueet xUaa eYoDfad J,r,
President Johnson, who was finally ap-
pealed to, and Mr.. Weaver took tho
body to the cemetery in Baltimore, and
buried it beside the elder Booth and 9TH
ers of the family. The removal was con-
Quoted with great secrecy, and was con-
cealed from Secretary Stanton, who had
refused to give his consent. - Wo8hin9-
fo3l letter.
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Magic Lantern.

A simple magic lantern, from the con-
struction and use of which a good deal
of instruction and amusement may be
derived during winter evenings, is de-
scrihed in the Scientific american. A
small box, a kerosene lamp with fan ar
gand burner, little fish-globe filed
with pure water and common double
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-11
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

IGflSL
BY the destruction of house in Com
mercial street, Boston, Mrs. Johanna Hanlan
and her son William were roasted to death.
The boiler of the steam-yacht Carrie
exploded in the harbor of Baltimore, four men
being killed.
The failure is announced of Loomis &
McMaster, carriage manufacturers, of Bath,
N. H., with liabilities at $4,000.
George Smith and Catherine Miller
we're executed at Willamsport, Pa, for the
murder of Andrew Miller, the woman's husband.
John Browns Sons, manufacturers of
cotton goods in Philadelphia, have failed for
s75o,0OO.
Mr.. William H. Vanderbilt has paid
the entire cost Of transporting the obelisk, ped
estal ami steps from Alexandria to New York,
and erecting them in Central Park.
John J. Berry, the embezzling bank
cashier of HackcnsacE N j., has gone to the
State prison for five years.
Albert, who won second place in the
recent pedestrian, match at New York, has been
selected by o'Leary to walk against Rowol
next month.
The arched roof of the old New York
Central depot at Buffalo gave way beneath
an accumulation of snow, and fell, burying in
its ruins q large number of cars and several
human beings. Henry Walters, private secre-
tary to Superintendent Tillinghast, of the New
York Central road William Wells, clerk of Car
Inspector Howe, of the Lake Shore road Capt.
Byrns and two others were crushed to death,
and several other persons received serious in
juries.
West.
H. w. Fairbanks, of Petrola, Ont, q
student at the university at Ann Arbor, Mich,
shot himself dead in a hotel parlor in that
city, in presence of two women who had gone
from Detroit to see him, one of them claiming
to be his wife,
The reservoir back of F'ranktown,
New, gave way and made clean sweep of the
place.
The Sheriff at Battle Mountain, New,
in bissful ignorance of the responsibility he
takes, is seizing Central Pacific mail cars for
DELINQUENT taxes amounting to $4,000. The
property of the company in California is as
sessed at $780, 100000, under the new constitu-
ton. but no taxes have been paid.
Thousands of sheep have have sue
cumbed to the cold weather in Montana.
Peter Pelkey was executed at Helena.
Mont, for the murder of Charles Tackle.
Hiram Hackett, who was stolen from
his home, near Coldwater Mich, sixteen wears
ago, has been found ndrestored to his parents.
He had strawberry mark on his shoulder.
A review of the numbering interests
of Michigan, made by commercial journal Of
New York, states that good timber lands range
from $50 to 800 per acre, and are being SO
rapidly secured by syndicates that they will
soon be controlled by few individuals.
A. McCarger, the acting Indian Agent
at White River, expresses serious fears of an
outbreak of the Utes in the early spring.
Xavier Wilhelms, saloon-keeper of
st. Louis, murdered his mistress, Agolia Mar
got, and killed himself.
August Schultz, 15-year-old lad of
Milwaukee, hanged himself through fear of
punishment for having stolen IS from his
parents,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-11

Book critics are all finguists. One
easily discovers this fact by reading their
criticisms on books translated from for
eign languages. They usually wind up
by congratulating the translator on hav-
ing preserved the charm of the original
in all its freshness and beauty.
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POLITICAL POINTS.

The Woman's National Anti-Polyg-
amy Society met at Salt Lake City and passed
resolutions urging Congress to sustain Gov.
Murray in unseating Cannon.