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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-24
Paris Detective System.
New York Times.


The Paris detective has the advantage to
start with; in one regard in particular he may
be said to be set out with the possession of
certain clues that are inaccessible to our police
system. All the lodging houses and hotels of
Paris, all the stage offices and depots, are
sources of information that are open to the
officers of the law, and arrivals and names are
regularly and systematically registered The
result is that the advent of suspicious per-
SOD, either under his own name or bearing any
Of his numerous aliases, is in possession of
the detective at the beginning of the inquiry;
he knows where the criminal is staying, and
can obtain an account of his movements at any
moment Another advantage arises from the
method of survellance-which is one that
would not be tolerated here and still another
is derived from the employment of criminal
infOrmers, who, in consideration of certain
freedom, being permitted to remain in Paris
perhaps, worm themselves into the confidence
of former associates i'll crime, and reveal the
plans of campaign of noted thieves or burg
lars to the police bureau. The musicians, " SO
called prison birds, who receive q few francs
or a favor now and then in consideration of
their services, constitute yet another factor;
but their business is a very dangerous one, as
assassination would be the penalty if detected
in making disclosures Putting all these fac
tors together, they give marked advantage to
the Paris detective system over our own
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Not long ago well-bred thief walked into a
room in Baltimore where a bank clerk was
clipping coupons from pile of bonds before
him. and while engaging him in conversation
slipped out twelve bonds of 81 200 each and
made off without being detected. Two we'll
bred thieves entered a Louisville jewelry
store, and while one conversed with the pro-
prietor. the other robbed the showcase of
$4,000 worth of diamonds Two thieves en-
tered the jewelry department of the Cincin-
natl exposition and, without any attempt to
avoid observation, marched boldly up to a
show case. unlocked 1t, deliberately took out
$4,000 worth of diamonds and as deliberately
walked off with their booty. The clerk of a
St. Louis business house went into a bank
drew So, 200 and laid it down by his side for a
moment; when he turned to take it up it was
gone; an invisible or unseen thief had entered
and taken the money off in that single moment
of forgetfulness on the part of the clerk
The hief " no makes it his business to prey
upon the fruits of other peoples labor is the
most dextrous of practical magicians. He
possesses arts that are not suspected until they
are put in operation. His fertility of resources
is unbounded He has new trick for every
difficult occasion, and so manages to get in his
work at moment and point when and where
he is not looked for He is person of ample
leisure, and spends nine-tenths of his time in
devising plans for getting away with some
body else's property and the other tenth in
putting them into execution. Others may
toll, sweat, think, buy, sell and barter. His
duty is to wait patiently while others by toll,
sweat thought and exchange, mass the fruits
of their labor in a compact, portable form,
and, in one instant of frailty and forgetfulness,
transfer them to his own pocket; and it must
be admitted that he performs the difficult task
with a success that excites increasing admira-
ton and horror
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-24
A Peculiar Mexican Plant

Fred. A. ODER in Youths Companion
The valuable and rare Mexican manuscripts
were composed of paper made from the Mag
uey, species of aloe, and resembled more
the papyrus than anything else. Do you not
remember how the people of Mexico living CD
the coast sent WORD to their emperor, living
far in the interior, true account of the first
appearance Of the white strangers there?
They painted pictures of the ships and of the
men upon sheets of Maguey paper. And that
was three hundred and sixty years ago one
hundred years before the Pilgrim fathers
landed on Plymouth Rock
Another use Of this plant is in furnishing
needles.
The leaves are tipped with sharp thorns. A
friend of mine came to me one day and showed
me one of these thorns with the thread at
tached, and said, @Behold, an Indian needle,
ready threaded" The owner of the Maguey
had broken off the thorn and stripped the
fibres that held it away from the pulp, then
he had rolled and twisted them together, till
he had stout cord, and could sew up any
rent in his clothes with it.
The poor people thatch their houses with
the leaves, placing one over the other, like
shingles; the followed leaf also serves as a
gutter, or trough, by which the water falling
from the caves is conducted away. Many other
uses of this valuable plant might be enumer-
ated, but the principal one is yet to be men
toned.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-24
BUILD WELL
III. s. Brown in our Continent

III. s. Brown In Our Continent1
High on the granite wall the builders, toiling,
Heaved up the massive blocks and slabs to
place,
With swart and streaming broWs and straining
sineWs
Under the summers blaze.
And higher yet, amid the chills of autumn,
Tier upon tier and arch on arch arose;
And still crept upward, coldly, YEARLY,
Mid winters sitting SHOWS.
From stage to stage npsprings the master
builder,
Instructing. cheering, chiding here and
there;
Scanning with scrutiny severe and rigid,
Each lusty laborers share.
Anon his voice to those most distant shouting,
Through the hoarse trumpet makes his or
deTs swell;
Or utters words Ike these to rouse and
hearten:
Build we'll my men, build well!
%The ropes are strong, and new and sound the
pulleys;
The tderricks beams are equal to the strain;
Unerring are the level, line and plummet;
Let nought be done in vain!
Build that these walls to coming generations
Your skill, your strength, your faithfulness
shall tell,
That all may say, as storms and centuries test
them;
The men of old built WE'LL"
And ever thus speaks the great Master Builder
To us, where'er our Journey work may be;
@Whate'er the toll, the season or the structure,
Build Well-Build Worthily!"
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gypsy MaXilms.
Cincinnati Enquirer.

Clnclnnau enquirer.
Romany literature is like the ballads of
Homer, inasmuch as it is entirely oral; yet,
unlike the Iiad, it is limited IN extent They
are full Of proverbs, parallels and quaint sto-
ries.
Among the many maxims found with the
Romany folks. here are few:
@Never buy handkerchief or choose a wife
by candle light"
"Nice reeds make nice baskets"
Its like kiss-good for nothing unless di-
yided between two."
"Neyer ask for thing when you can't get
it."
"There may be adversely in large house as
well as a small one"
keep it secret in your own heart and no.
body will know it."
"Clean water never came from a dirty
place"
Behind bad luck comes good luck"
There is sweet sleep at the end of long
road"
"Wait till the moon rises"
Gan ass that carries you is better than
horse that throws you"
"The true way to be wise is to hear all and
bear in mind.
"The man who has not the whip hand of his
tongue anC his temper is not fit to go in COM
pany."
"Change your side according to the circum-
stances /"
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Lookout Mountain.

I0EtfuuG OdfIlSOu,
To enjoy the expansive panorama which is
spread before Lookout as it is possible to en-
joy ito become en- rapport with the solemn
spirit of the place, to feel the rugged gram
deur of the mountains-one must look down
from its heights in all phases of light and
shade; at night, when the moons cold light
softens the sad splendor of the scene: in the
glare of midday, when the roar of life comes
up from the city: in the evening, when the
bells of "kine coming home" tinkle on the
mountain side and in the valley, and in the
morning while the mists overhang the river.
and the clouds are trailing their white vapor
through the tops Of the pine trees like the
garments of high and holy spirit 1t is all
so old, SO old-like some mighty monument
built by the people of another world. It is
something apart from the common earth,
grand in its sullen isolation, majestic in it:
lmpenetrable calm. 1t looks down upon the
lowly vale and the swarm of life at its base
with solemn and tender pity, and before it's
eternal greatness the boundless egoism of the
soul shrinks and withers into insignifcance.
OF the solitude of the mountain poet who
scorns rhyme says: @Uplifted amidst the I'M
companionable concave, a crushing sense of
loneliness, of orphanage, and want, possesses
the soul, and makes it sigh for loWlier sta
ton, hedged with the works of society. warm
with the embrace of love, frightened by the
smiles of friends -
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Thus Passed AWAY the Glory.

English Cor. n. Y. Times.
Strolling along the broad sidewalk of the
High street on a fine morning during the snm-
mer term, you may meet a group of five or
six bright cleyer-looking young students
coming along arm in arm, talking over the
chances Of the impending examination: For
three years past they have studied, exercised,
almost lived together, visited at each others
homes in yacation-time, and formed altogether
as perfect brotherhood as the famous @Three
Musketeers" themselves Pass over few
years more and where will they all be? One
will have settled down as the pastor of tiny
fishing village on the wild north coast of
Cornwall, where the governed cliffs echo day
and night with the thunder Of the foam
crested Atlantic. Another, the most refined
and luxurious of them all, will be down in the
foulest dens Of London, laboring manfully to
infuse some semblance of human life, and Of
another life higher still, into the imbruted
men and down-trOdden women and unchild-
like children around him. a third is preach
ing beneath the broad, banner-like leaves of a
tropical palm, to q crowd Of slender, brown
faced men in white turbans, above whose reed
matched huts the eternal SHOWS of the Hima-
laya loom shadow-like far up in the hot,
dreamy Indian sky. A fourth stands upon
the rocky bank Of mighty river-beyond
which a finn Of intense heat quivers over
countless leagues of unknown desert-with
light on his upturned face that never came
from sun or star, as the merciless spears Of
African savages strike him down. Meanwhile
the fifth has won himself place in the record
of fame, only to find that the crown which
she bestows is of red-hot iron, and the sixth,
standing beside the grave which holds all that
ing to school his broken heart into the resig
nation which he has so often preached to
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-24
Wet Earth Cure.
New York Tribune.

new way of dressing wounds was discov-
cred by accident by DR.. Neuberg, of Ger
many. Two years ago there appeared at the
clinic q laborer who had sustained com
pound fracture of the forearm eight or ten
days before, with considerable laceration. He
had got comrade to surround the whole
forearm at once with a thick paste of peat
mold, on which was laid arough splint OF
wood. When he came to the clinic he was in
good general health, and on clearing off the
mold the doctor found the wound to be heal
ton. DIR. Neuberg was led by this experience
to investigate the properties Of peat mold, and
his conclusion is that it is peculiarly valuable
for the purpose of dressing wounds, chiefly
because of its great power of absorbing the
products of decomposition
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-24
Peculiarities in Penmanship,

A London daily newspaper, in a recent edi-
torlal on the death Of Mr. Chahot the expert
on handwriting, says; Brothers frequently
wrlto singularlY like each other, and any one
who has paid the slightest attention to the sub
Ject cannot fail no notice the broad peculieri-
ties which the calligraphy Of certain people
possesses In common There is no installing
the broad, expansive, clearly formed letters of
those who have been taught to write in the
schools of America. The admirable hand
writings OF the Scandinavians are so mucl,
alike that experts will be enabled to pick out
from hundred examples almost every one ex-
ecuted by Dane, Norwegian, or a Swede.
The Italian handwriting is also so marked that
it is one of the STYLES" affected by writing
masters, and the pretty, scratchy characters
OF a Frenchlnan, with the flourish and sudden
redundancles, inevitably suggest the CAV.
volatile, tickle character Of the race to which
he belongs"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-24
One SUNDAY. while the major x.a on hi. ~

One SUNDAY. while the major was on his vA~
to church, he slipped up on the ice and gave
the store leg severe wrench He must have
dislocated some of the springs; for after reach
ing the church and taking his seat, and while
the clergyman was reading the Scriptures, the
leg suddenly flew up and rested on the back Of
the seat in front of him The con-
gregation looked at him in amaze
ment and ne grew very red in the face. As
soon as he took it down it jumped up again
and wiggled about on the back of the pew,
finally kicking Mrs. Thompson's bonnet to
rags Then the major suppressed it again,
and held it down, but it INSTANTLY began a con-
vulsiVe movement in his own pew, during
which it upset the stools, plunged around
among the hymn books and hats, and ham
mered the board beneath the seat until it
made such racket that the minister had to
STOP The sexton came rushing in to find out
what was the matter, and the major, after ex-
planning the difficulty in a whisper, asked the
sexton to let him lean on him while he charged
on the front door. As soon as the major got
into the aisle that dislocated leg kicked the
sexton sixteen or seventeen times in most in
solenT manner, varying the exercises BY MAX
ing eccentric swoops off to one side, during
which it kicked eight of the high hats at the
pew doors into black silk chaos
By the time the major reached the vestibule
the leg had become perfectly reckless It
flew up before and it few up behind It but
ted against the good leg and darted out side
wise, and described circles, and tried to insert
its toes in the majors coat-tail pockets, and to
whack him on the nose When the sexton
came with the hack and put the major in it,
the leg banged through the window glass, and
when the driver got down to see about it, the
leg brandished i1Ielf in his face, and concluded
the exercise by planting terrible blow in his
stomach. Then the major told the driver that
he would give him ten dollars to take the leg
off and the driver accepted the offer. For
several minutes it eluded all his efforts to
catch it as 1t danced about, but finally he got
hold of it and hung on while the major tried
to unbuckle the straps. Then it came off and
rolled the driver in the mud. He got up to
watch it. 1t writhed and kicked and jumped
and throbbed and hopped; and whenever it
would make a dash to one side or the other
the crowd would scatter in order to give it full
play Finally Ben Woolley set his dog on it,
and most exciting contest ensued, the leg two
or three times running off with the dog: and
it seemed likely that the dog would get
whipped Mr.. Woolley got crowbar and
aimed blow at the leg with the intent to
smash it. But he missed it and nearly killed
the dog AS soon as the dog retired, Mr..
Woolley whacked it again and burst it into
flinders, and then there was peace The major
drove home and got his crntches, and since
then he has confined himself to the use of q
wooden leg without springs.
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Tallulah Falls.
Gertrude Garrison.

Tallulah, the beautiful name of beautiful
river. Georgia holds nothing geographically
so grand. The music of its falls is at once as
rude as the rage of a man, as sweet as the
love of child. Night and day their voice
sounds like a beating storm roaring toward
the sea. One looks down at the rushing tor
rent from an eminence twelve hundred feet
above, or goes down pathway as steep and
rugged as that of the gods, and looks up
through the gloom of the massive wall of
rocks with a sense of having slipped ont of
the world entirely, October has touched the
mountains which hug the falls of Tallulah
with an artist hand That peculiar brightness
which preoedes death in all nature is over ev-
erything. Red and gold and russell rest against
the everlasting green of the pines and hem
lock, and here and there wild violets, mistak-
ing the October sunshine for spring, have
blossomed with as much confidence as youth
full lovers have in the untried future Rhode
dendrons, too, are blooming in spasmodic
spurts. How wild and yet how restful it
all is
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scOtt's "Rebeccan an American Girl.

Youths Companion.
10 identify the original of favor1te charac-
ter in fiction is always a satisfaction. 1t is in
teresting to American readers of SCOTS charm
ing "Ivanhoe," perhaps the best of all the IA
nous "Waverly Novels" to know that the
model of his "Rebecca," the heroine of the
story, was an American girl
Rebecca Gratz was beautiful Jewess the
daughter of rich Hebrew merchant of Phila-
delphia, who had many admirers
The Century for last September (Which pub
fishes her portrait as she was in her YOUTH
says;
among the most welcome guests at the
Gratz mansion was Washington Irving, and
there were peculiar reasons why he loved to
visit the beautiful Rebecca. Not only for his
own sake, but because she had been the dear
est friend of his only love, Matilda Hoffman,
who died at the age Of eighteen.
"In 1877, Irving visited Abbotsford and was
warmly received by Sir Walter Scott, then in
his forty-seventh year. The American and the
Scotch writers became very intimate and
during their many long talks Irving told
Scott of the Philadelphia Jewess, and how she
had turned deaf ear to the pleading of her
heart for the sake of her religion. Scott was
immensely interested, because the young
woman possessed rare besuty and intelligence.
"At the time he was thinking out the plot of
Ivanhoe, but had not begun 10 write the story.
1t struck him with great force that self
sacrificing Jewess would make strong heroine
for the work, and he borrowed the Philadel-
phia Rebecca even to the name.
"The first copy of Ivanhoe that came from
the press he sent to Irving, and asked him
how he liked the portrait Miss Gratz knew
that she was the original of the character, but
she did not like to talk about it, and when
asked generally turned the subject to some
thing less personal
"rhls bit of unwritten literary history is
contributed to The Century by Gratz Van
Rensselaer,, kinsman of Rebecca, for one of
the Gratz family married q Christian, Dr.
Schuyler, surgeon in the revolutionary wal
and friend of Gen. Washington.
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The KntghtIy and valiant skobeIem.

W. Kinnaira Rose in Fortnightly Review
Possessing little Of the sprightliness Of his
race, he was reserved, shy and unobtrusive in
the presence of strangers, but en- famille
frank and animated in conversation, which
displayed, though not pedantically, his pro-
found learning and varied reading 1t was
easy to see under what influence Sfobeleff had
developed the taste for letters which he had
inherited from his mother. About
feet inches in height, well proportional,
square shouldered, he had firmly knit body,
muscular and 1.-the rather than stout, clean
limbs, with free and graceful movement His
hand was not large, but sinewy, with the
nervous grip denoting ready decision and
warmth Of heart A woman would have
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-24
Boys Natural Skill.
San Francisco Bulletin.

San Francisco Bulletin.
The majority of boys are born with capac-
ity for construction. They take to the use of
tools naturally. If they can once get an idea
into their heads as to how thing is done,
they Immediately set about doing it. Itaffords
them not only vast deal of amusement, but
they perfect themselves in the use of tools.
We have seen boy put together kite in half
an hour which an uninstructed man could not
make in half day. Another would make a
miniature boat and rig it so that it would sail
perfectly. Every rope was in place: the
model was good-it was, in short, clever
piece of work The boy is father of the man.
Later in life he could construct a skiff, a boat
or small yacht The education of the hands
goes on in this way, and the boy gets vast
deal of fun and amusement which the process
of educating the brain goes on. He finally be-
comes two-handed man-that is, one in case
of necessity could construct comfortable
cabin for himself, could erect barn, could
make a number Of farm tools, and would al
ways have indoor jobs for rainy days on the
farm
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Two "Bound Bows, - Sons.
George Alfred Townsend

GEORGE Alfred Townsend.
Garfield's father was New York state boy
"bound out" to service Gen. Hancock's faith
er was also bound boy, bound out with his
sister to Quaker farmers, and Hancock was
Dor in the back part of roadside school
house, as Garfield kept one. The st. Louis
bellies thought Lieut.. Hancock was of the di-
rect line of old Gov. John, the signature
spreader. and he fully looked il, but his grand
father was an obscure sailor, of whom SO lit
tie is known that it is not certain how or
where he died, nor of what state or tribe he
sprang, but probably from the Quaker Han
cocks of southern New Jersey Gen. Han
cocks mother was a superior woman, and
made bonnets as milliner in the very house
Hancock went to lie in after his wounds at
Gettysburg. Many is the pretty girl whose
face Mrs Hancock has framed while the little
tacker, Winfield, looked up, wondering wheth-
er it was going to be three-dollar job or
fve-dollar one The kin of Gen. Garfield are
among the plainest people to be found even in
a pioneer society; 80 education made both
those bound boys candidates for scepter.
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Indian Summer.

When the Pilgrim fathers felt the first cold
of autumn they thought that winter had come
but the Indians said, "No, there will be sum-
mer yet" Hence the origin of the name "In-
dian summer" In the famous forest of Ar
dennes, whose oaks are noted for their bril-
liant autumn hues, it is called @red leaf, ;" a
name which would be especially appropriate
in America, whose gorgeous autumn foliage is
unequalled In Germany it is called "Old
summer" Elsewhere it is known las @after
heat" 1t is denied by some that the fine, hazy
weather Of October is properly called "Indian
summer" which they regard as peculiar to
November except that it sometimes continues
into Decenher
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The Redwoods Disappearing.

San FTanClSCO BuII6Jln.
The redwood belt is quite as well defined by
other statisticians as by the census bureau
The estimate by that authority of the redwood
forest is about twenty-five billion feet of lum-
ber 1t may last fifty years. At the present
rate of consumption it will disappear in much
shorter time. The great timber belt of the
Sierra range, the vast forests of Washington
territory Oregon and Alaska, are the reserves
which are to carry us along for a century. IN
less the export trade should vastly increase.
Even the timber of California is worth more
than all the gold Of the gravel beds and nuartz