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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-15

greatly alarmed his companion by waking him
up in the middle Of the night gasping for breath
asthma, he painted out; Il am subject to the
spasmodic attacksI Open the window quick
Iy; give me air!s Terrified beyond measure,
the other jumped out of bed But the room
was pitch dark, he had no matches, and he had
forgotten the position of the window. For
heavens sake be quick" gasped the invalid
&Give me more air, or l shall choke!S At
length, by dint of cropping wildly and upset
ting half the furniture In the apartment the
window was found; but it was an old-fash-
toned easement, and no hasp or catch was to
be discovered Quick, quickl Air, airls
implored the apparently dying man. 1Open
it, break it. or / shall be suffocatedl" Thus
abjured, his friend lost no more time, but,
selling boot, smashed every pane, and the
sufferer Immediately experienced great relief
GOh, thank you-a thousand thanks! Hal" he
exclaimed, drawing deep signs which testified
to the great comfort he derived; Il think in
another moment should have been dead!"
And, when he had sufficiently recovered and
had expressed his heartfelt gratitude, he de-
scribed the intense distress of these attacks
and the length of time he had suffered from
them. After while both fell asleep again,
devoutly thankful for the result Ii was q
warm summer night, and they felt no incon-
venience from the broken window; but, when
daylight relieved the pitchy darkness of the
night, the window was found to be still entire
Had invisible glaciers been at work already, or
was the episode of the past night only dream?
No; for the floor was still strewn with the
broken glass. Then, as they looked round the
room in amaZanent, the solution of the mys-
terry presented itself in the shape of an anti
quated book case the latticed glass doors Of
which were shattered wreck. The spasmod-
icaliy attacked one was cured from that mo-
menk
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-15

hope you'll Ind the Home cosy" she said out
Amory left you that hundred dollars after all
He might have doubled itS
SYes, suppose So Miss Becky
answered meekiy. Perhaps she was
thinking that If she were Mrs. Dwight
no old friend of hers should go begging for
refuge at the almshouse door, were it ever so
genteel an almshouse Perhaps she was think
ing of the pretty, comfortable home waiting
for her friend, and wondering why their for
tunes were so unlike.
GWrite when you each.Plymouth, and let us
know how you're suited, said Mrs Dwight:
and just then the cars gave lurch and left
her behind, and Miss Becky turned her glance
inwards. Somebody had taken a seat beside
her.
SYour friend was speaking Of Parson Amory
and Plymouth" said he. II couldn't help
hearing. was born in Plymouth myself, but
/ haven't met a soul from there these twenty
years. I'm on my way down to look up my
old friends"
Twenty years is long time" answered
Becky. @Tm afraid you won't find many Of
your friends left You'll hardly know Ply
mouth"
a suppose not-I suppose not Have you
lived there long?"
Il? l have lived there all my days"
sGood! I'm hungry for news of the people
Tell me everything you can think of. Did
Parson Amory leave q fortune? He was
called close Where's Miss Nell-married or
dead? l can see the old place in my minds
eye; and the parsonage under the elms, and
the orchard behind it, where Lucy Amory
planted young tree on her wedding day. and
the gown little Becky Thorne wore-by the
way, is she alive? Do you know herr"
Miss Becky hesitated an instant
Eyes" she replied, Il know her-more or
less She's alive"
sand married?s
swell, no; she never married"
"She must be sixty odd; she was a pretty
creature, such dimples-I suppose they are
wrinkles now! Where have the years gone? Is
her home in the old place still?"
"Her homer" said Miss Becky, flushing
little. &She has none. She is on her way to
the Old Ladies' Home"
4To the Old Ladies' Home! Becky Thornel@
he gasped, Sand l."
"You seem to have known her pretty WE'LL"
said Miss Becky, who was beginning to enjoy
the incognito.
d should think SO! I've loved Beck Thorne
from my cradle; we had silly quarrel which
parted us-such trife when look back.
Did you ever look back, madame?"
The twilight had fallen about them; Becky's
face had grown shade or two paler all at
once; she turned her dark, velvety eyes full
upon him with startled air.
"You," she said, @you must be Larry
Rogers!" Then the color crept to her cheeks
in crimson wave. @Do you know l never
thought you had grown old like myself! Don't
you know me? l am Becky Thorne"
Just then the train Numbered through the
tunnel, and they forgot that they were sixty
odd
"On the way to the Old Ladies' Home" she
wrote Mrs. Dwight Il was persuaded to go to
an old gentleman's instead"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-15
THE LITTLE BANANA PEEL.

Robert J. Burdette, in Harper's Magazine
Like bar Of the beaten gold
i CLEAN in the summers sun;
am little, know. but thinI can throw
A man that will weigh ton
send out no challenges bold.
blow me no Wanting aorn.
But foolish is he who treadeth on me;
He Il wish he had ne'er been born.
Like the flower of the field vain man
Goeth forth at the break of day,
But when he shall feel my grip on his heel
Like the stubble he fadeth away;
For lift him high up IN the air.
With his heels where MS head ought to be;
with homecoming crash be maketh his
mash,
And know he's clear gone upon me-
am scorned by the man who buys me;
am modest and quiet aud meek:
Though my talents are few, yet the work that
/ do
Has oft made the cellar doors creak.
I'm blood-red republican born,
And Nihilist fearless be;
though the head wear crown, would
bring its pride down,
If 1t set its proud heel upon me-
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Hardships and Dangers of the Block
NJ. Quad in Detroit Free Press.

NJ Quad in Detroit Free Press
1t is doubtful if any blockade ever recog-
nized by the world was more strictly enforced
or of more damage to the blockaded. No one
expected that it could be made SO stringent
that nothing could slip through. That was the
aim, of course, but the Federals labored under
many burdens In the first place the Con-
federates purchased the very latest craft
afoat In the next, bad weather was an ad-
vantage to them Again, they would take
such desperate chances as dumbfounded
brave men. In dozen instances they
came down the harbor at a
speed of fourteen or fifteen miles an hour, and
plunged straight through the feet and took the
chances. Some were not even hit by the hot
fire instantly opened, while others took from
three to six cannon balls into Nassau as relics
Federal history fawns upon the admirals,
puffs the commodores, and pats the com
manders on the back; but it stops there.
There is never word of praise for the thou
sands who endured the hardships and braved
the dangers of the blockading stations. In
deed, but for an occasional magazine article or
q newspaper sketch, the country would have
forgotten that we had anything afloat except
few iron-clads.
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Victor Hugo ON the Death Penalty.

The penalty Of death has summarized and
represented the old criminal justice of the
past 1t has been the angel of olden legisla-
lions To-day it is judged and condemned
Within the last fifty years twenty states
have removed it from the statute book The
governments that retain it-France, alas re
sort to it as little as they can. They are afraid
and ashamed of it There is not q single and
enlightened juryman who consents to sign
verdict entailing the penalty of death. 1t is
no longer an angel; it Is spectre. Here the
people stop US and say the penalty of death
is more powerful than ever. The two worlds
adopt it. So little is it dead that it kills
Arab is going to be shot The language sur
prises, but does not disquiet u.s. No, civiliza-
ton is not barbarism; no, savagery is not
modern justice; no, civilization does not kill
man as old societies did, without exactly know
ing why; no, civilization does not commence
the great work of which the twentieth century
will be full by deed which is an enigma for
those who commit it and a crime for those
who look on.
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Demorest's Monthly.

Demorests Monthly.
Matthew Arnold, the great English essayist
and poet, is announced to lecture in this ooun-
try during the coming winter. He will be
worth hearing. Matthew Arnold is the son of
the famous Dr. Arnold, of Rugby college, and
is one of the most cultured mon in Great Brit
ain. AS poet he stands first in the second
rank of imaginative writer's of the day. As a
literary critic he is head and shoulders over
his contemporaries, his style as q literary ar
fist is well nigh perfect He has done good
work inexposing the shams of English socie-
ty and middle class conventional morality. His
famous definition of religion will not be soon
forgotten; he calls it morality touched with
emotion" He claims that his mission in this
world is to teach "lucidity," which means
that he wishes men and women to see things
just as they are, without the mirage and ill1-
sions of prejudice or false Impressions In
other words he wishes the subjective order of
ones thoughts to correspond with the obiec-
tive order of the phenomena When our
readers can master this definition, they will
understand what &lucidity" ia
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-15
The Jerseyman who Wanted to see
the Jersey Lily.

n. Y Letter. |
This reminds me, by the way, OLA Jersey
man who came to town to have look at Mrs
Langtry He had heard that she was from
Jersey, and he felt that every Jerseyman
should do his duty. After enjoying fifteen
cent restaurant dinner, he asked for a three
cent cigar, and said to the man at the desk:
Been to see that ere handsome Jersey
woman yet Cap'n?"
what Jerseywoman?"
"Sho! guess We know. There amt SO many
Of 'em that's beauties Lemme see, what her
name? Bangtree, or suthin like that?"
"Oh, Mrs. Langtry"
%That's it, Whar kin see her, cap'n?"
@At Wallack's."
slow much does it cost t git in?"
4Oh, not much; dollar"
The Jersey man fell back, but edged up
again and sad:
~Ihat's purity steep, by gosh; amt Their no
way cheaper'n that?"
A brilliant idea struck the man at the desk.
and he promptly gave the member from Jer-
sey the benefit
Yes : he said, you. can get good look fol
twenty-five cents
@Ihats my tgger, old man. Wharf"
"At Bunnelps museum, ON Broadway"
'sWhat's she dom thar, thought"
why, haven't you heard of the Congress of
Beauty All the handsome women In New
York are there, showing off for prize of
$500 If you hurry up you Il see Mrs. Langtry
before she leaves to get ready for Walack .
in the evening""
by gum, I'll do it Twenty-Five cents
Much obleeged, Cap'n; gimme another o.
them segars."
He turned up in the same place for supper,
and resumed the subject well, she is a
beauty an no mistake Gosh! but l didn't
think they turned out emmy wimmin so ham
some as that over in Jersey. No, sir.
$40 her, them"
Saw her? Capn, when invest rs cents
want the goods for my money Yes saw her.
had to poke roun some time fust, but arter
. while asked young Teller which was Mrs
Langtry, m he pinted her out He was SO
p'lite that | asked his name,, n he said it
Aosscar Wilde Yes, indeed, she's beaute-
GUS beauty, dead sura Gimme another O.
them segaTs.S
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Very Poor ON Averages.

Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
Politics is pretty hot up our way, and one
can hear awful hard stories told on candidates
One of em complained to Cole the other day
because they beat him for the legislature and
said they told lies on him-and Cole said,
swell, maybe you've heard it wrong, for folks
will pury arecate and varygate and exaggregate
powerful, and it won't do to believe more than
half people say, and not more than a quarter
of what you say yourself" Jesse! Cole is
curious case. He looked at q calf of mine the
other day, and asked me what kind Of an
animal it was. l told him its father was full
Jersey and it's mother half Jersey, and he
pondered q moment and said, well, that
makes the calf Jersey and half, don't it,
squirrel" He is very good on additions. but
very poor on averages.
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French Translation.

rE6uCQ 4Th0eihHOH
A hunter with an empty game bag enters q
country tavern at nightfall, and with an air
of gloom bids the host serve him with glass
Of wine.
While he Ia drinking 1t the host remarks
confdentially, SYou had bad luck to-day, I'm
afraid?"
Eyes, my friend 1 did not bag single
thing The first time such a thing has hap
pened to me in the course Of my life !"
(Sportsman's perjury at which Jove laughs. }
well, if you are anxious 10 take something
home have hare out in the stable that I
would not mind parting with to you for 10
francs"
"a hare? Dead?"
@No, alive. caught it yesterday
@Tll take it"
The landlord leads the hunter out into
the yard and brings out the hare, which he
ties to a. stake by cord fastened to its foot
&Now, sir, blaze away!"
The sportsman retires few PAGES, brings
his gun to his shoulder and blazes away, and
the charge takes effect in the cord, and the
hare bounds lightly over the fence and disap-
pears in the azure distance!
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A Submarine Army Of TorpedOes.

OUT OOuuu0uk
Aremarkable means Of defense is known as
the @Graydon-Leach system," and provides
for the maneuvering of fleets of torpedoes un-
der complete control, below the surface of the
water, and admitting of entire or partial with
drawal at pleasure, to permit the passing Of
friendly vessels, or enticing hostile vessels
within the limits and then surrounding them
with torpedoes that will insure their destruc-
ton The torpedoes can be massed, moved
in various directions, and, in fact, Unanswered
similarly to bodies of troops, and, being entire
ly submerged, give no signs of approach to
the enemy. The system is comparatively in
expensive and the plant simple No hostile
fleet could enter harbor defended by it, and
therefore it's novelty, simplicity and practic-
ability render it very valuable Though We
have at present no adequate means of defense
for our coast and seaport cities, yet by this
system Of torpedo defense hostile fleet could
be kept beyond Smelling distance of New York,
Brooklyn, San Francisco or any of our seaport
cities, and even the mouth of Chesapeake Bay
can be easily rendered impossible.
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What wild Oats" are When
Threshed Out.

@Father" IN Boston Globe.
If the typical young man under discussion
we're to catalogue under their names all his
escapades which his friends generally denom-
mate wild oats. and confess himself guilty
of the list his own mother would blush to
own him-no respectable family would admit
him to its doors.
And yet no one who knows anything at all
about the subject can deny that majority of
what we proudly call our smart young fell
lows" are sowing just such wild oats" every
day,-or, more correctly, every night They
are spending in dissipation the hard earned
hordes that the old folks have, by pinching
themselves, laid by to put the boys through;
wasting the most valuable time of their lives;
draining their young bodies of the vital force
so much needed to resist the shocks of ma
turer life; oftentimes even preying on the un-
garded innocence of young girls, leaving the
flowers that once bloomed sweet with the
honey Of innocence wilted with the poison of
depravity.
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1t is commended by NJ P. de Tchihatcheff
that the great deserts Of Asia and Africa are
not sea-beds recently made dry, but that they
had been raised at remote geological epochs,
and that their sand is not Of marine origin,
but is the product of rocks disintegrated BY
winds, changes of temperature, and other
similar subarial causes He says that the
Sahara is much more modern than the deserts
of Asia He makes the statement that on Nav
10Th temperature of twenty two legrees
Fahrenheit and snow two yards in depth had
been found in the Cobb at a point having the
same latitude as Palermo
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The Life-saving vacuum Gun. "

The latest life-saving device comes from an
Englishman named Fox, who is now a resi-
dent of Ohio. It consists of catapult SINH
lar to those used in circuses for throwing ac-
robats into the air, and is called by its inven-
tor "The Vacuum Gun 80 F." The protective
to be fred out of the gun to the stranded or
sinking vessel consists of a relief boat, folded
umbrella-like, which contains human being,
one of the life-saving crew. This man goes
into the canoe, closes all the apertures and
surrounds himself by rubber air-bags. He is
posed to lie fiat, with his feet to the stern
The idea is for tte man, when the canoe pro-
jectile reaches the water, to raise himself up
and scatter life preservers and air bags to
drowning persons.
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How the Victims Perishe0 ana How
They ars Resurreeted.

They ars Resurrected.
Pail Mall Gazette.
It is only from The Journal Of Excavation,
for the year 1881 that We know Of this tonch
ing and famous sight which greeted the eve.
Of the first discoveries Of the blouse Of the
Faun' On the floor Of the banquetng hall
lay the body Of a woman, probably the mis-
tress of the house, with her jewels scattered
where she had thrown them in despair OF
rescue or escape The roof had been crushed
in by the weight of the falling ash and pumice
stone, and the hands Of the dying woman
were upstretched in 8 vain effort to keen Of,
the impending weight Parts of the body
and clothing could still be made out. and a
drawing could be made Of one charming foot
But such records are hfeless and tame. in
deed, beside the extraordinary portrait stat
utes which are now to be seen in little
museum at Pompeii There are nine of
these, or were very short time
since, and to see them is like seeing
the men and women themselves OF
eighteen centuries ago Fiorelli's method ia
as simple IS possible. small opening is
made, the plaster is delicately poured in, and
of ash is peeled of, and the man or woman
comes back to life again. The details of cloth
ing and feature have all left their mark on the
soft ash, and are all faithfully preserved in the
plaster cast
The results achieved by Fiorelli are striking
and complete. Take the cast of the elderly
slave, for instance, probably a man of some
sixty years old, who appears to have been tax
ing his siesta when the eruption began, and to
have been painlessly asphyxiated in his sleep.
He lies on his right side, the knees a little bent,
the left leg drawn up, al , the cheek resting on
the right hand. The coarse, strongly marked
features and peaceful expression of the
sleeper have all been perfectly preserved
A hardly less easy death must have been
the lot of the four persons lying on their backs
in the street Three of these were men, one
of them a negro of the most pronounced type
The fourth was woman of unusual stature,
whose time for becoming mother was evi-
IDENTIFY not far of. The three persons found
lying on their faces do not appear to have
found quite so quick death. Two of them
are women One of these, an elderly woman
with thin figure, lies by herself, her face
buried in her arms, as if to protect herself
from the fatal rain. The other lies side by
side with man in whose company she sp-
pears to have taken fight She had covered
her face with a fold Of her dress, and the
hands are tight clenched in the last death
agony.
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Sound Advice from Two Distinguish.
4f4t ed Men.

Record and Gazette. ;9
When first commenced reporting, after I
left college, it was on The Evening Post this was
in 1854 when William Cullen Bryant, the poets
was the editor. remember an interview with
him which is perhaps worth recording here
In some sketch or report of mine which had
been published the words ipse dixit were made
use Of l was called into Mr.. Bryanes room,
%Mr -" said he, Il wish to give you o
hint In that dictionary pointing to Webster)
you'll find some 40, 600 words. write, as you
know, good deal, and am able to express
all my thoughts in the English language I
would advise you never to use Latin, French.
or any foreign word or phrase" 1t was q
good lesson to me, though / thought at the
time the old gentleman was hypercritical
While on The Evening Post / became &C
quainted with W. o. Bartlett, late of The Sun,
who died short time ago. He was singu-
larly able man, whose influence was felt in
every position he ever filled. He also made .
remark to me which have never forgotten.
"If you want to succeed, j" said he, "in any pro-
fession, do some one thing in it better than
any one else. People whose cleverness is
Take the case Of the painters in New York to-
day; there are probably two hundred good
artists. They are all trained, industrious and
eager to make name and fortune. Yet
out of that two hundred there are only some
twelve or fifteen who make q living,
and not more than three or four who acquire
fortune But you will notice that the success
full painters have some gift above their fellows.
One is noted for his treatment of the skin, an
other has nice sense for the arrangement Of
drapery, a third can paint an arm or hand,
fourth gives you a likeness in which, while
your best One artist has trick of color, an
other of form And these specialists have
achieved distinction and fortune, while 80 per
cent of the other painters, who are equally as
good in the technique of their profession, lit
orally starve, and are finally driven into other
same thing is true of medicine, law, and litera-
ture, as well as in general business"
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BORN JUNE 2, 1868
DIED JAN. 26, 1881
Paid Oct. 5. 1852.

The lines giving the name and dates Of the
birth and death are in characters of iapanned
lead fastened to the slab. The fourth line
small
The monument is designed as a substitute
for the more costly affairs in stone, which the
poor cannot afford, and as temporary mark
ing for the graves of the rich while awaiting
the finishing of permanent monuments. Zinc
is used in this monument because it is the only
cheap metal that won't rust
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An Inexpensive Monument.
-. VII Co..

A @new grave monument" is advertised as
being @tastefully decorated and ornamented,"
the cheapest in existence" costing only So.
It can be delivered within an hour after it is
ordered, and anybody can set it up. 1t is
slab of zinc about two feet long and seven
inches wide, set up at the head of grave on
standards of zinc that protrude from the earth
some ten or twelve inches. The lettering on
the picture is as follows, the blank line repre-:
senting the name of the deceased person: