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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10
Prince Jesse Grant.

London Correspondence of The Argonaut.
I was told the other day by friend who
happened to be at Windsor when General
Grant and his son Jesse dined there with the
queen, and stayed all night at the castle, the
following, which may be of interest to those
who know young Grant and his ways There
were good many stories told at the time at
the young mans expense, 1 remember, most of
which got into the papers, but don't think
this was ever made public:
Mr.. Jesse, it seems, was sitting in the
smoking room of the castle with half
dozen others the general not yet having
joined the party, smoking away and hold
ing forth at the same time with tumbler of
brandy and soda on the arm of mis- chair.
"There is one thing about this country of
yours, gentlemen" he said, when the first lulI
in the general conversation gave him good
opening, Switch strikes me as peculiar 1t is
this: Take your prince of Wales here. Let
him go out shooting tomorrow morning and
not come home at night Why, the whole
country would be up in arms out looking for
him. Amt that so?" There was. a general
acquiescence. @Well, suppose now l should
go out for a hunt at home and be gone six
months, do you think any one in the whole of
America, except my own folks, would care a
cent? Not much"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10
Dramatic and PitifuI.

No novelist ever devised more intensely
dramatic and pidful situation than was wit
messed last week beside the track of the South
ern Pacific Coast railroad near Alameda, Cali
fornia. There was an accident on the road.
owing to the sinking of part of the track
The engine was overturned, and the Sreman.
Dan Driscoll, was caught by two iron bars,
one of which crossed his breast and the other
one of his feet He was not severely injured
by this, but the bars held him inextricably
fast, and meantime, on both Sides of the track,
which at this point lies on a low trestle bridge
built across long stretch of marsh land, the
salt tide pouring in from the bay of San Fran
cisco was rapidly rising 1t was evident that
unless speedily removed he would be drowned
Six men labored with desperate energy to
save him. They wrapped sheets about
his body and exerted their combined
strength to pull him from beneath
the bars that pinned him to the track. He cried
piteously that they were killing him They
tried again and again, but without avail A
levee was built around his head to keep the
water from reaching him. Buckets were
brought, and as the water oozed in it was
bailed out Then they raised his head and
held 1t as high as possible above the water
For two hours these labors were ceaselessly
continued, but at the end of that time the
levee broke, and the friends of the doomed
man found that they could do no more for
him. The water rose rapidly about, his body
and reached his chin. Then all caught hold
of him and tugged desperately, but i'll vain.
A friend held his hand over the unfortunate
mans mouth, but the water rose to his nostrils
and he was drowned in the presence of the
helpless crowd
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10
Made Him Come to Time.

Detroit Free Press.
About two years ago wealthy man named
Paige, whose wife was still asleep in the
fourth story of a burning hotel at Oshkosh.
Wisconsin, offered any person $1,000 if he
would rescue her dead or alive At great
peril of his life, the assistant engineer of the
fire department brought down her dead BODY.
After the funeral was over, however, Mr..
Paige did not seem to appreciate her at the
same value which he put upon her during the
panic and crisis of the calamity So he re-
fused to pay the reward on the ground that
the fireman was bound to do his official duty,
and could not contract with private party for
reward. The lower court sustained this
view, but lovers of fair play and haters of
curmudgeoncy will be glad to know that the
supreme court reverses this Judgment, and
orders the reward paid, because his official
duty did not compel him to risk his own life
IN order to rescue others. Firemen, unlike
soldiers, do not contract to risk their lives IN
the service
But, although the decision serves tAe mean
man right, the soundness of its reason NAV
be questioned Hremen are not bound like
soldiers to expose their lives uselessly. but it
is clear that if they never risked their lives
their usefulness would be less than il il now
As a matter of fact they are willing to do It
and do it every week. Otherwise fires wonld
get beyond their control The court should
have needed the old judges advice about a
courts being generous with opinions, but
etingy with its reasons, for the decision may
A@ aonnd. the reasons quite otherwise.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10
How an Alligator Eats.

Florida Letter.
An aligator's throat is an animated sewer
Everything which lodges in his open mouth
goes down. He is lazy dog, and, instead of
hunting for something to eat he let's his vict-
uals hunt for him. That is, he lies with his
great mouth open, apparently dead, like the
'possum. Soon bug crawls into it. then fly,
then several gnats and colony of mosquitoes
The alligator don't close his mouth yet. He is
waiting for whole drove of things He does
his eating by wholesale A little later liz
ard will cool himself under the shade of his
upper jaw. Then a few frogs will hop up to
catch the mosquitoes Then more mosquitoes
and gnats light on the frogs. Finally whole
village of insects settle down for an afternoon
picnic Then, all at once, there is an earth
quake The big jaw falls, the alligator slyy
blinks one eye, gulps down the entire menag
erie and opens his great front door again for
more visitors
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10
Two COnfederate Generals.

1 correspondent of The Athens, Ga, Banner
Waterman relates the following anecdote con-
corning two prominent Confederate generals:
"In the fall of 1868 Twas visiting the town of
Lexington, Va, and happening to spend Sun
day there I attended church in the little
chapel of Washington college. The minister
was Gen. Pendleton, chief of artillery in the
Confederate army in Virginia In the pew
Immediately in front of the pulpit sat Gen.
Robert E. Lee, surrounded by his family, the
very embodiment of profound and respectful
devotion, following with close attention the
services conducted by his former cavalry Of
fcer. Six years before had seen them both
under very different circumstances Then
Gen Lee was leader and Gen Pendleton re-
sponded from the mouths of his brazen can
non. At the commencement of the war Gen.
Pendleton was in charge of an Episcopal
church in Lexington. Having received a mill
tary education he raised d company and went
to the front, where by his zeal in 'e cause he
had entered into he soon became the chief of
ficer in that branch of service"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10
Under the circumstances.

O0WOlG free EreSS.
citizen who yesterday received telegram
to meet friend from the western part of the
state at the depot was there on time, and after
the greeting said to him:
"Now we'll get on the Car and go right up to
the house"
"But you are not keeping house?"
%No; I'm boarding at the same old place"
@Then can't 60"
"Can't? What's the trouble?"
"No; under the circumstances I should not
like to eat dinner with you?"
"What circumstances"
SWELL, Trover's present wife used to be my
WIFE We didn't exactly agree, and she got
divorce and came down here and married
him"
"Why, that's nothing Such triie as that
wouldn't stop me-"
"Yes, know; but I'd rather not 60 I've
applied for divorce from the wife married
after this one left me- and she's in town, too,
and if l should meet the pair up there don't
believe l could eat half meal-really 1
Couldn't"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10
How a King of Ancient Times Made
His SecOId Entry into Cairo.

Railroad Gazette.
Egypt furnishes the last bit of railroad
humor. Prof. Masperro discovered the num-
my of King Merenra The Arabs had plum
dered his tomb, taken him out of his sarco-
phagus, and even robbed him of the numer-
Gus folds of cloth in which mummies are
wrapped, and the body lay on the ground like
a stick of dry wood To get it to the museum
at Boulak was the task of the professor, and
for this purpose it was put across the back of
a donkey and so carried to the nearest railroad
station at Bedreschin. The person in charge
wished to take him as baggage But on the
Egyptian railroads there is not only charge
for baggage, but the charge is not according
to weight but according to class. How to
classify the dead king bothered the station
agent After rummaging all his tariffs, new and
old, and finding "mummies" in none of the
classes, he finally threw down his
books and said: "What is the thing
good for, anyway? What is it made
off," When the museum people told
him it was man, he said: "Very well. if
it's man he must pay for his ticket" and, in
fact, they were compelled to buy ticket for
his sainted majesty King Merenra, and it is
said that out of respect to his rank they
bought first-class ticket for him. But this
was not the end of it At Cairo the mummy
was put into carriage and started for the
museum. Arriving at bridge, toll was de-
manded, and the gatekeeper asked what was
in the carriage. What a mummy was he did
not know, and tolls were according to the OBJ
jects passing, and he must know what class
the mummy belonged to before he could pass
ii. Fortunately it occurred to some one at
tached to the museum that often a fish had
been sent from upper Egypt, and that one of
these sun-dried fish had about the color of
the mummy and was not very unlike in ap-
pearance. So he says to the bridgekeeper:
@Dont you see that it is dried fish," There
upon the bridgekeeper took his book, looked
up the rate for dried fish, weighed his majesty,
and calculated his charge according to the
weight. And so King Merenra, who 1000
years ago may have entered Cairo in triumph,
returned to the capital as dried fish.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10
VINO TnaT Person ~,

The following story about a well known pro-
fessor, told by an English paper, proves that
even man of science may be too positive:
The professor was showing party of ladies
and gentlemen over some large works at Biz
mingham, chiefly engaged in the manufac-
ture of complicated optical instruments. The
party came to a very ingenious instrument,
the working of which the professor proceeded
to explain.
In the midst of his exposition, roughly
dressed young man, standing near, struck in,
and civilly showed the man of science that he
was quite mistaken in his explanation of the
instrument.
The professor, whose weak point is not an
excess of humility, angrily maintained his own
view, but did not succeed in convincing his
opponent, who finally shrugged his shoulders
and walked off.
who is that-that person." asked the pro-
fessor, Indignantly, of workman standing
by.
%Oh, that is DR.. -" was the reply; che
invented the instrument you have been look
ing at" Tableau.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10

BIRTHDAY6

Tam content
To let the added years
That come 10 me
Roll back into the past so far
That memory
Can only find along the shore
Some perfect shells, and nothing more.
am content
That seaweed, bits Of wreck
And pebbles gray,
Drift out of sight into the sea,
For them to stay
Would be to cherish grief and pain
would not, must not, feel again.
! am content
That none of life
Can ever be
Lived DER with self-same throb and thrill;
No more to me
Will former song, or book, or toy,
Fill the new measure of my ioXN
am content
To live all of to-day;
And when 1 dream
Let fancy revel in the light
That hope hath seen
Beyond the present, and affair
A steadfast, sWeetly- beck'ning star.
I am content
For age upon the heart
Can never creep;
And when, at last, in stillest night
| seem to sleep,
a birthday comes to me in truth;
The gift it brings immortal youth
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10

Jacksonville (FIa.) Union.
The latest song jewel from the great pub
fishing house of the south is one of those
plaintive negro melodies, like "Old Black
Joe," that touch the heart of all Its subject
is a faithful old-time servant, afflicted with
rheumatism and chronic rush of appetite to
the stomach, to whom freedom brought no
forty acres and mule, and from whom the
memories of sole Marster' and the cole
plantation" call forth the pathetic lament:
IL am getting old and feeble, and my hair is
turning gray,
And there is no one left on earth to care for
me;
And the hoe-cakes in the cabin they grow
scarcer every day,
Since l lost my massa when dey set me free
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10
,,;viIization i'm Persia

According to the information furnished by
recent numbers of the Ferhan, the journal of
Ispahan, civilization is making considerable
progress in Persia. A large college, which
was completed last year with government aid,
has now commenced its work in earnest among
The upper classes of Persian youths, who will
have the advantage of tuition at the hands of
professors who if not Europeans, have at
least graduated at the principal seats Of learn
ing in Europe Further signs OF progress are
to be found in the increased employment of
Europeans in connection with railways, tele-
graphs, &c, and in the recent decree for the
assimilation of weights aud measures
throughout Persia
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10
An Easily Embarrassed Man

John H. Starin, of Brooklyn, who was elect
ed member of the last congress, is said to
be very easily embarrassed man. He is
credited with but one speech during the ses-
sion, which was called forth by proposition
to sell the Brooklyn navy-yard property As
forcible argument put in the fewest possible
words Mr. Starin's speech is seldom equaled
He said: "Mr. Speaker, am not familiar with
all of your rules here, and L do not know
whether or not l am in order, but you have
property here whicl you are going to sell for
500, 900, and will at this moment draw my
check for it for $50O,OO0." The bill was
killed
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10
CockeriIIs Addition to ~Pinafore. >


Philadelphia Record.
Most people who have admired the little
song of "Hebe" in the last act of "Pinafore"
do not know that it is not part of the opera
as written by Gilbert and Sullivan. 1t was
composed and the music arranged for Belle
Mackenzie by John Cockerill, the st Louis
editor who on Friday last shot and killed Col
Slayback, in The Post-Dispatch Office, st.
Louis. Belle Mackenzie made the part OF
@Hebe" famous when she gave the new song
for the first time at the South Broad street
theater, in this city, during the great @Pina-
fore" craze in 1877. When John T. Ford was
introduced to Miss Mackenzie in Baltimore he
was struck with her face and manners, and
thought she would make hit on the stage
So he offered her place in his company in
the @Hebe" role in "Pinafore" The company
was then preparing to come to Philadelphia to
reap the rich harvest which afterward put
thousands of dollars in the pockets of himself
and Fred Zimmerman. The pretty Phiadel-
phia blonde, who was about to make her first
appearance was not satisfied simply to pose
But as the authors of the opera had not writ
ten a solo for the fair cousin, there was some
difficulty in satisfying Miss Mackenzie, until
the matter was mentioned to Mr.. Cockerill,
who was at that time the editor-in chief of
The Baltimore Gazette, and who sat down and
dashed off the song which has since become
famous He is something of musician, and,
with the assistance of the directo of Ford's
company, the song was set 10 music, and at
once handed to Miss Mackenzie, who quickly
caught its spirit and made a great hit The
music to which the song was set is an old
Hungarian air, which Mr. Cockerill heard
during his tour of Europe for The Cincinnati
Enquirer, and which made such an impression
upon him that he had not forgotten it
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10
An Unsafe Deposit.
Detroit Free Press.

DetrOlt Free PT6sS
An Illinois farmer went home the other
day, and throwing his coat on the ground,
leaped the farm-yard fence. A cow took
charge of the coat in the meanwhile, and in
doing so swallowed 5000 in paper money he
had just borrowed from the bank. He i'm
mediately called for his deposit, but this new
savings bank had already closed it's doors and
declared itself insolyent But the money not
being insolvent, he at once proceeded to break
into the bank by force, and recovered 500 Of
the assets, which, however, had, such was its
condition, to be sent to Washington to be re-
deemed So 500 and valuable cow was the
price no paid fer leaving his coat on the
rr,.nrrnd that morning
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importance OF G1OOU UOOAIns.

London Telegraph: Napoleon L ate irregu-
Iarly, fast and badly. He gorged himself,
when hungry, with the chicken, cntiet, and
coffee which had to be at his call at any hour,
and in any place. The consequence was
brain ofttimes disordered, and a temper so
irritable that some of the blacklist episodes in
his career are due to his paroxysms of rage
while suffering the miseries of Indigestion.
The drawn battle of Borodino, which preceded
the Moscow disaster and his crushing defeat
at Leipsic are both debited by French histor-
ians to hurried feeds upon shoulder Of mutton
stuffed with onions.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10
Must BE Stopped.
Iime-Kiln Club.

Iime-Kiln Club.
The secretary announced communication
from Mobile stating that certain colored indi-
viduals of that city had formed themselves
into what they claimed to be branch of the
Detroit Lime-Kiln club, and were receiving
members and charging an initiation fee of two
dollars. One person who had been roped in
said that the workings of the lodge simply con-
hen-coops, and Obliging each candidate to steal
four watermelons before taking the third de-
gree.
Brother Gardner said that he had heard sew
eral complaints from the same quarter, and it
was time the case was looked into. The secre-
tary was instructed to open a sort of nitro
glycerine correspondence with the bogus or
der, and if it could not be scared at long range,
Giveadam Jones would be sent down there to
walk into the meeting and originate cyclone
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10

The German papers recommend carbonate
Of baryta as an excellent externinator of rats
and mice. It is hardly ever injurious to large
animals, and to be preferred for this reason
alone to strychnine and phosphorus. The
following formula has been found the best:
Five grains precipitated carbonate of baryta,
one grain sugar, and twenty grains bread
made into mass and divided into 100 pills.
These are then rolled in -four. after being
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10
GID oR&I,,,gV


Ymet her, she was thin and oldS
She stopped, and trod with ttering fests
The hair was gray that once was gold,
The voice was harsh that once was sweet;
der hands were wrinkled, and her eyes,
Robbed OF the girlish light of JOY,
We're dim; felt sad surprise
That had loved her when boy.
But yet something in her air
Restored me to the vanished time:
My heart grew young and seemed to wear
The brightness of my youthful prime.
took her Withered hand in mine
Its touch recalled ghost of 10Y;
kissed it with reverent sigh.
For had loved her when bow
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10
No Submarine Telephone.

Edison tells reporter that he does not be-
ieve submarine telephone comes within the
region of possibilities. He says: "The pres
emf, condition of the art will not permit sound
to be audible by submarine or underground
conveyance for more than a few miles. 1t is
all they can do to talk across the English
channel and that with the very best instru-
ment vet constructed"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10
A Poor Excuse.
Boston Post

Boston POST
~Yes," said the defeated candidate,
II was beaten, but only by two votes
And his old politician friend snarled back:
1Thats more disgrace than if you'd been
beaten by 500. With that against ysu,
there'd have been some excuse for you being
beaten
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10
Two ways Of Being Hannv

There are two ways of being happy. We
may either diminish our wants or augment our
means. The result is the same, and II ia for
each man to decide for himself, and TO do that
which may happen to be the easier.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10

Soak Hill, the old home of Chief Justice
Marshall, in Fauquier county, Va, is now the
property of Mr.. Maddux, who made his
money by keeping bar-room in the neighbor-
ing town of Salem
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10

The Mobile Register says that duelling is
an obsolete custom in most of the southern
states, and will soon die out in those localities
where it survives, except in New Orleans.
where the French element may keep ii
alive
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10

aNo, papa, l do not wish to marry yet
What want is a man who does not drink,
smoke, chew, snuff, go out nights, gamble,
bet, over-eat, etc. in short, man with no
vices, and one who is always good" @My
daughter" said Mr.. DTsenberry, you are
but stranger here; Heaven b your honM"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-10
Otis Tufts and the First Passenger
Elevator.

W. S. Kennedy in Harpers Magazine
1t is to the brilliant genius and energy Of
this Boston inventor now deceased) that the
credit is due of inventing and constructing the
first passenger elevator in the world driven by
steam power. His vertical Screw Railway"
was patented by him August 9, 1859, and the
first one constructed was put up in the same
year in the Fifth Avenue hotel, New York.
The hotel was then in process of construction
(William WashbWn, architect; Paran Stevens,
Hiram Hitchcock, and others, lessees). An ex-
actly similar screw elevator was soon after
put into the Continental hotel in Philadelphia,
"a hotel also leased by Paran Stevens. These
two machines were the only screw elevators
for passengers ever constructed
People would not at first believe a vertical
railway possible thing. Mr.. Hiram Hitch
cock, the present proprietor of the hotel, says,
in private letter to the writer, that "hun-
dreds, even thousands, of persons visited the
elevator daily. Men of note, such as the
prince of Wales, the prince de Joinville and
Others as well as eminent foreign engineers
and scientific persons, were greatly inter
ested in it." The object of the inventor
was to produce a machine which should
be perfectly safe and he succeeded in
doing SO. The screw consisted of great
solid iron shaft twenty inches in diameter,
and cast in sections. 1t extended to
the top of the building, and was not inclosed
in any hoistway. A huge iron nut with screws
encircled the shaft Within the nut were rollers
running upon the upper side of the thread
of the shaft screw. In the language of the
inventor, @the rollers were virtually carriage
wheels travelling upon rail wound spirally
along cylinder" Upon the nut rested the
car The nut did not turn round, being pre-
vented from doing SO by spur attached to it.
and moving vertically with it along one of the
guide rails. When the shaft was rotated
the rollers inside the nut wound upward
around the great spiral thread of the shaft,
and thus by a continuous movement elevated
the nut and the car with it