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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-15
BITS OF INFORMATION.

Az elephant does not attain his full
growth until he is Is or Is years old.
SNAIhs have been put in boiling water
and have survived the terrible ordeal.
THE VOLTS sense of smelling is pecul-
iarly strong. He can smell carrion the
distance of nearly mile.
FoUR-FIFTHs of the animals on the
globe, or 100000 species, belong to the
ringed and jointed-footed animals, and
of these 10000 are the six-legged in
sects.
The coral insect deposits in its body
particles of lime, and when it dies its
body washes away and leaves its skele-
ton-the wonderful formation known as
coral-behind.
EXPOSURE of hot steel to a cold surface
renders it hard. This is usually done
10y dipping the red-hot metal in water,
though other cold surfaces which are
rapid conductors will answer the same
purpose.
In Holland the preservation of the
woodwork of drawbridges, sluices, gates
and other works is conduced by the
di)piICdt1Ou VI d IuIA6C10 VI p16Ch anu ttt1
whereon are strewn pounded shells, with
a mixture of sea sand.
WHEN rivers are much warmer than
tie air they give rise to. fogs, because
the rapid evaporation from the warm
water pours more water into the atmos-
phere than it can hold suspended in an
Invisible state, and consequently the
surplus vapor is condensed into mist by
the colder air into which it rises. There
are conditions of atmosphere when no
actual fog is apparent in which darkness
prevails, and what are called dry fog, or
sometimes blight. In some cases they
are clearly due to smoke, as, for instance,
the smoke of burning prairies, which
may extend over vast distances.
The waters of the ocean are found to
be of an almost uniform sadness, the
proportion of salt being 2.7 per cent,
which gives a pound of salt (abouD to
every four gallons Of water. The guam
tity of saline ingredients contained in
the sea, according to the late Mr.. Nude,
amounts to four hundred thousand bill
ions of cubic feet, which, if piled up,
would form mass 140 miles long, as
many broad and as many high-or,
9th rvise disposed, it wonld cover the
whole of Eulope, islands, seas and all,
to the height of the summit of Mount
Blanc, which is about Is, 900 feet. aJ
THAT the Mississippi may deservedly
be called the "Father of Waters" the
following data will show: Quantity of
water discharged by that river annually,
Ia, 1888, $50, 633, $3.50 cubic feet; quantity
of sediment discharged annually, %,
1873, 083, 1872 cubic feet area of the delta
of the river, according to Lyell's esti-
mate. $4,000 square miles, and depth Of
the same, as calculated by Prof. Bid
dell, Loss feet The delta, consequent
ly, as appears from these figures, con
tains 400,378, 429, 44O, coo cubic feet. OF
2,720 cubic miles, and it would require
for the formation, therefore, of one cubic
iIe Of delta FIVE years end eight455!9 2al
mile, Of the depth of 1866 feet, one
year sixteen and one-ffth days, and fol-
the formation of the whole delta IA,
208 AS years.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-15
MISCELLANEOUS Gr.EAN1Nas.

There were twenty three deaths from
yellow fever and fifteen from smallpox in
Havana last week.
l. Reports are received OF massacres by
hostile Apache Indians in New Mexico and
Northern Mexico. A stage coach was attacked
south of Ell Paso and its four passengers and
two drivers killed, and there is report of the
killing of surveying party OF thirty persons on
the Mexican Central railroad.
The stesmer Proteus has just left st.
Johns for the Arctic regions.
Giuseppe opposite, remarkably
handsome Italian, the 500 survivor of IA
nous band OF brigands. for whose arrest a
reward OF $4,000 lire was offered, was caught
in New Orleans, where he had been quietly
running fruit schooner. He is in irons
on board steamer bound for New York
where an Italian war-vessel is waiting to take
him home
King Kalakaua has reached London
on his tour westward round the world.
Gould and Sage have captured the
Metropolitan elevated railroad in New York
and will probably put an end to the arrange
ment by which the Manhattan company is com
PEELED to pay 10 per cent to the other roads
Cyrus W. Field manages the New York elevated
road, and lively struggle impends.
A daughter of William Morgan, the
exposer of Masonic secrets, lives in Marion
county. Ore, and is the wife of Capt. William
Smith. She states that five men took hel
father into the lake and drowned him. and that
one of them recently died in Portland. Ore
There has been unparalleled suffering
from the heat at many points in the country
Many cases Of sunstroke are reported. Larg,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-15
Luminous Paint for a Cats Tail.

Mr.. Monkeys boy took the family cat
and rubbed phosphorus all over him. 1t
was about nightfall when he completed
the job and let the cat go. The cat got
into barrel and began to yowl, and
that attracted the attention of bull
deg, and he came along and danced
about and barked, and got terribly ex-
cited. 1t was case of ''dog in the light,
cat in the shadder. dog full of fight, cat
growing nader" Pretty soon the dog
upset the barrel and went in after the
cat But it was surprise party for him.
The phosphorus glowed in the darkness
and he beheld cat on fire. He came
out of that barrel and went off bowling
as though policeman had stepped on
him.
Then the cat went up on the roofs,
where other cats do congregate, and
tried to chum round With 'em. But it
was no go. They fled from him as if it
was bootjack. He didn't understand
it and gave chase, and as there were
about forty cats on those roofs, and they
were all scared and fed from him, howl
ing dismally, the noise was something
fearful, so that folks in the vicinity who
heard it were scared and had cold sweats.
| The cats continued to tear about and
yell so that it couldn't be endured Mr..
Monkey and others got up and went upon
the roofs with clubs. And at first the
sight of fiery cat frightened them, and
one lady who saw it screamed and fell
through a skylight and nearly killed
man sleeping beneath it, and made him
think Mother Shipton was right. Final
ly, Mr.. Monkey and his friends made a
desperate charge on the fiery cat, and
the poor cat took flying leap to the
street.
He hit on policeman, saving his life,
but nearly soaring the officer out of his,
as he thought he was struck by light
ming The cat jumped to the ground,
and an astronomer came along and took
him for an aerolite and tried to pick him
up To his amazement, the aerolite ran.
Then he was scared too. Finally the cat
got into stable, and somebody thought
It was aire, and they called out the en-
CINE, and got seven streams turned on
him. He fought well, but they fixed
him. And then investigation showed no
fire, but only dead cat. And they told
the stableman he was cross-eyed fool
to mistake cat eyes for a fire, and so
they left him. All the neighbors are
talking of the mysterious fiery cat, and
only young Monkey understands its mys-
tery.-Boston Post.
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moonlight, the harvesters dreading the SUMS
rays The mercury at St. Louis, Cincinnati
Pittsburgh and other cities ranged from SO to
105 in the shade.
Guiteau, the assassin, was member
of Henry Ward Beecher's church some twelve
years ago.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has greatly
improved in health-is able to ride out and re-
ceiye callers. The news of the attempted as
sassination of President Garfield almost pros
trated her and induced renewal of Illness
which lasted till next day.
At Tongue Point Asylum, near Mon
treal, two insane women named Porter and
Roberts were confined in the same cell. During
Monday night Porter fancied the other woman
was dragon come to attack the inmates, and
pounded her on the head with board, causing
her death. sr
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-15
A SPIDERS Intelligence.

Almost all spiders leave cable be-
hind as they travel from point TO point.
The common geometric spider (epeiro
diadenaa) shoots out lines with great
facility, as correspondent found out
one day. He says: Gone day, when
holding an epeira suspended to my
finger by its cable, 1t disappeared as If
by magic. To discover its naodos oloer-
o9adi, [ tried another in bright sunlight,
and observed that while it was hanging
thus suspended and perfectly motionless
it was shooting out threads in various
directions. These threads foated on,
spreading out into three or four radii,
and covering about sixty degrees, but
all in common direction. st length
ono came IN contact with post and ad-
hered to it. AS soon as the spider found
that one of the cables had found an an
chorage, it cut the one by which I held
it captive, ran up this cable Of hope, and
regained its liberty.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-15
NEWS or THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

1t is stated that France and othe
countries Of the Latin Union, and probabl
Holland, will undertake to be bimetallic. Tn
proposal by America to coin annually an amour
of gold and silver equal to the annual produc
ton meets with great favor in the conference
at Paris. -
In the House of Commons Mr.. J. @.
Stevenson, NJ. P. for South Shields, presented
petition 1, 100 yards long,, containing S6,S24
signatures, in favor of closing iquor-shops on
Sundays.
-Four battalions of the Lyons garrison
are preparing to sail to sfsx to participate in
the new African campaign.
The German coal-mining companies
have commenced conveying coal to the mouth
of their pits by electric railways.
The International Monetary Confer
ence at Paris adopted resolutions proposed by
the French and American members, expressing
desire that negotiations shall be opened be-
tween those states which took part in the con-
ference, and that another conference be sum-
nnoned to meet April IL, 1882, to perfect the
iourned.
A company has been formed in Paris,
with capital Of s1O,OOO,OOO, to develop the
mineral resources Of Canada.
LEROY, the murderer of Gold, has
been arrested IN tho East End, London, and
has made full confession Of his crime.
Excellent accounts are received of the
crops in the French provinces. The farmers
of the central provinces, the great wheat
growing region '9i the beautiful country
count on good average crops, and it is be-
heved that the vintage for this year viii be
the best for fifteen years. Favorable reports
Of the Spanish crops have also been re-
oeiyed. s
In England cold weather has had o
very unfavorable effect ON the crops just now
maturing. There was a white frost on the 9th
of July.
Guillamo, the ex-President of San
Domingo, threatens an invasion of that repub-
lie, and is purchasing war supplies in st.
Thomas.
The project of establishing German
university in the United States does not meet
with much favor among German savants. They
regret that the Germans who settle here are
becoming Amer icanized too fast, but think that
the establishment Of German university In
America would not have much effect in pre-
venting such AUGMENTATION.
During an Orange demonstration at
Belfast mob attacked the Presbyterian mis-
sion hall, and shoJs were exchanged at Newcas-
tie and Oonsetf
piece Of land three miles long, one
mile wide and of unknown Depth in the Can
ton Of Berne, Switzerland, Is moving toward
Lake Thun at the rate of three miles per day.
Houses in the path of the landslide are de-
serted. ttl&s ,' h54
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Worms 900 Feet Under Ground.

The Gold Hill (Nevada) Ne,os reports
the discovery of queer species OF worms
in the face of the Lord Lorne mine, near
Lower Gold Hill. The worms occur In
q solid stratum of stiff clay, 709 feet
from the mouth of the tunnel, ard 800
feet below the surface of the earth. amid
the vein matter of that portion of the
Comstock. Sup arintendent McDougal
found quite anumber of them by soaking
and washing the clay. and they are no
defunct relics of antediIuvian times, but
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-15

PARsEEs around the "Towers of ST.
1ence WHITTIER tie corpses of Parsees
st Bombay are taken Immediately after
death to be devoured by Eultures-wlA
often wait and watch until every atom
of tie flesh Of those they love has been
consumed by the blFess. s. aaE
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-15
Freaks of the telegraph,

Names are always q great stumbling
block to the clerks, and addresses are
composed of names. Most of us have
tricks of writing names in any but
distinct fashion; and, although the post
Office persistently reminds us, on The
forms given US to write our kilograms
on, that the writing should be plain,
this advice, like most other advice, is
but too often neglected. Hence many
kilograms get altogether astray, some
times to the not slight discontinue of
those into whose hands they fall, and
who, unwilling that any error has been
made, forthwith act upon them. II Is
related that woman residing in some
small street in Manchester once re-
ceived what appeared to be summons
from her husband to come up to him in
London. Very much alarmed, she at
once started On her way she gct in
conversation with another woman who
was in the same carriage, and who she
found was also going to see her husband,
who was in London Ill. Ihi7 WOmau
had been expecting to receive a tei@-
gram from her husband, and, not hear
ing, had grown anxious, ana had finally
set off without the telegram FURTHER
parley revealed the fact that their names
were the same; that their husbands
| names were the same ; that they both
| lived in the same quarter in Manchester
and it finally TRANSFERRED that the tele-
gram which had been delivered to the
first woman was toe very one which the
| second had been waiting 1Or-the error
in delivery having been caused by some
such mistake as Hamilton street for
" Henrietta street " "a mistake very
likely attributable to want Of distinct
ness in the writing. Another curious
case of coincidence OF which we have
heard was that of telegram addressed,
"John Stillingwise, Brookdean, nr.
| Mirkby Lonsdale, from Robert Sitting
wise, his brother, begging him to come
| at once to him at hotel which he indi-
| Gated. in Leeds. The address g Brook
dean was in some way altered, and the
| telegram was delivered to another John
Stillingwise living somewhere in the
neighborhood Of Kirkby Lonsdale.
This unfortunate man, who had not
heard from his brother Robert for some
twenty years, at once started off ~
stormy, wintry weather, reached Leeds
in the evening, and was told by the
landlord that he could not see ms
brother that night, as he was very fan
from well, and had gone to bed: The
next morning he was usheredinto Robert
Stillingwise'8 room, expecting to see his
long-logt brother, when, to his extreme
establishment and disgust, he found him
self confronted by an utter stranger =
BL1cka0O0d's magazine.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-15

They say you can tell by the taste of
beer what the weather is going to be.
How nice. When your wife is uncer-
tain about going out with her new bon
net on, and says: dear, do you think
it viii rain 2" you can say: I'll see,
my love, aud go out and take drlnk OF
beer. and she can't find word of fault.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-15

YouNG man, do you want to make your
mark in the world? Then never learn
to write your naE Syracuse Stand
ord
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-15
D0MEsTIc INrELLIGrNoE,
East.

Two 100000 confagrations took
place enc night last week-woolen mills al
Adams, Mass, and stove works at Spring
City, Pa.
Gov. Cornell has vetoed the bill for
constructing waterworks aqueduct for New
York city. The Governor says: "The city is
sufficiently supplied with water. Every effort
should be made to liquidato the present debt Of
the city, $4,000 600"
At special meeting of the New York
Chamber Of Commerce it was decided as .
testimonial of appreciation for the noble char.
ncter Of President Garfield, to raise the sun
OF $3.50, 900, to bo invested in United States
bonds, for the benefit Of Mrs. Garfield and her
children. @ -
Ex-senator Conkling has written to
tho Attorney General suggesting shat tho
would-be murderer Guiteau should be melted a
punishment proportonate to the position Of
his victim. #f&B htt#4#E
The wife of Col. Frank Bridgman, of
Gen Shoridan's staff, fell dead of heart dis
ease in New York.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-15

az THINK it very strange that can't
have what / want, she muttered. You
have plenty of money and little to do
with it but crafty your wife's wishes.
!" Quite true" he responded, " but
money won't buy what you most want. "
81 don't understand you, sir" +" Ny
dear, what you most want is to be
born again" ---.--.-..--.-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-15
A Scene in Church.

One Sunday, within the last 100 years,
the service had commenced III a country
church, few miles from Penrith, when
in walked woman in gray cloak, ac-
companied by two half-grown urchins,
with eyes and mouth most fearfully
agape, and the trio took their seats, in
ali modesty, near the door. By-and- by
the clergyman gave out his text" Jesus
[ know, and Paul I know, but who are
YEP" The gray cloak was agitated.
The text was energetically repeated,
and the minister's eye seemed east
toward the party seated behind the door.
Our friend in gray stood up, and, with
the voice of "shepherdess on a West
moreland fell, " replied to this question :
"Please, sir, Use Patty Jones, o Wet
sleddale, an this is our Bob an our
Peggy, an we'se ga'an to Peerith to see
our Nancy, an we thowt we'd just come
in an see what ye were macken, an git
rust r. ef "s
ALWAYS remember no one can debase
you but yourself. SANDER, satire, false
hood. injustice these can never rob you
of your manhood. Men may lie about
you, they may denounce you, may cher
ish suspicious manifold, they may make
your failings the target of their wit or
cruelty-never be alarmed, never swerve
an inch from the line your judgment
and conscience have marked out for you.
They cannot, by all their efforts, take
away your knowledge Of yourself, the
purity of your motives, the integrity
Of your character, and the generosity of
your nature While these are left, you
are. in point of fact, unframed.
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stating that he was . prisoner. His mutilated
corpse was afterward found by scout of Mex
ican troops near Carrezal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-15
THR NINTH DAY.

WASHINGTON, July IL. II
Throughout yesterday and the day before
the President continued as favorable as could
possibly be expected in view of the serious
character of his wound, and up to midnight the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-15

In your opinion. General, is there any
foundation for the belief that the shooting was
the outcome of a conspiracy, however small or
insignificant, political or otherwise2p asked a
New York Herald correspondent. at
mot at all not at all, said the General,
with evident impotence "To talk of a con-
spiracy of any kind in any way is to talk the
widest bosh. The dreadful act was commit
ted by fool. He don't even rise to
the dignity of q crazy man; and if he is
what may strictly be termed insane, he is SO
because of his wonderful self-conceit and con-
Stunning love for notoriety. Conspiracy Not
at all. 1t was simply the act of an individual
more or less out of his mental gear, and, there
fore, partially responsible for his act. From
what have heard and read, this is my opinion
of the miserable wretch and his motives
THE NINTH DAY.
WASHINGTON, July IL.
Throughout yesterday and the day before
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-10-07

The ODD TERMIN LEASES. The rea.
son for the use of the odd term in leases,
500 years or SO years. is given in the New
York journal of Commerce." Leases
and mortgages in possession of real estate
for 100 or 1000 years demised the same at
annual rental, retaining reversion for the
last year of the original term. The object
of this was an unwillingness on the part
of the ten ant to become bound to the per-
Torrance of the covenants contained in
the riginal grants and also the import
ance to the lessor of a reversionary inter-
est, without which, under the old English
practice, he could not recover his rent bv
distress. Sometimes this reversion was
only for three days, Or even for one day.
but usually in long terms the last year was
retained. Out of this came the popular
nation that the law provided this restraint.
and hence leases were made for SO or 999
years, when there was no reason whatever
for any such odd period of time. In Eng
land there was, in special cases, restraint
on corporations or ecclesiastical persons,
prohibiting the demise of lands belonging
to them to the impoverlshment of their
successors for term beyond 100 years.
and such leases were made for SO years.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-10-07

How TO TRAIN THE MEMoRY.-Your
memory is bad, perhaps; but can tell you
two secrets that will cure the worst mem
ory. One of them is to read subject
when interested; the other is not to read
but to think. When you have read par
agraph or page, stop, close the book, and
try to remember the ideas on the page and
not only call them vaguely to mind, but
put in words and speak them ont.
Faithfully follow these two rules and
you have the golden keys to knowledge.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-10-07

SOME FAMILIAR SAYINGs.-Shakes-
peare gives us more pithy sayings than any
other author. From him we Gull: Count
their chickens ere they are Matched -
make assurance doubly sure" Look be-
fore you leap,"' 'Christmas comes but once
a year, Washington Irving gives us the
almighty Dollar Thomas Norton
queried long ago, "What will Mrs. Grundy
say?n while Goldsmith answers 'sAsk me
no questions and I'll tell you no flbs. y
Thomas Tusser, a writer of the sixteenth
century, gives us Its an ill wind that
turns no good, "Better late than never, :"
"Look ere thou leap" and 1.-THE stone
that is rolling will gather no moss" "All
cry and no wool'' is found in Buffers
"Hudibras," Dryden says: ''None but
the brave deserve the fair, ""Men are but
children of the larger growth" Through
thick and thin" ''Of the two evils have
chosen the least" and "The end must JUS
tify the MEANS" are from Matthew Prior
We are indebted to Colley Clbber for the
agreeable intelligence that Orchard is
himself again" Cowper tells us that
variety is the spice Of life" To Milton
we owe ''The Paradise of Fools'' From
Bacon comes knowledge is power,'' and
Thomas Southern reminds US that g. PHYS
akin to love-" Dean Swift thought that
BREAD is the staff of life." Campbell
found that Coming events cast their
shadows before, +" and '.'Tis distance lends
enchantment to the view." "a thing of
beauty is joy forever" is from Keats
Franklin says ''God helps those who help
themselves" and Lawrence Sterne COM
forts us with the thought that "God tenn
pers the wind to the shorn lamb