The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-03-17
BITS OF INFORMATION.

the whole atmosphere revolves with the
earth.
VoLTAIRE was the first writer in France
to recommend the adoption of inocula-
ton for smallpox to the people of his
country.
A RAGE for comfits existed In the reign
of Henry III. When the body ofDuc de
Geuse was found he had box Of com6ts
in his hand.
In 1751 the dress of French dandy
consisted ofs black velvet coat, green and
silver waistcoat, yellow velvet breaches
and blue stockings.
SIR THOMAS PARHYUs, who died in
1741 III England, made collection Of
stone collins, and was, at the time Of
his decease, in possession of several
score.
THE ''nine worthless" spoken Of In hist
DRY were three Gentiles-Hect0r, son OF
Priam, Alexander the Great and julius
Caesar three Jews-Joshua, Conquefor
of Canaan, David, King of Israel, and
Judas Maccabgus and three Christians
Arthur, King of Britain, Charlemagne
ana GOutreF OF b0ulll0ns
"CITY OF MAGNIFICENT DISTANCES "
is popular name given TO the city OF
Washington, the capital of the United
States. from the fact of its being laid
out on a very large scale. The entire
site is traversed by two sets of streets,
from seventy to 100 feet wide, at right
angles to one another, the whole again
intersected obliquely by fifteen avenues
from $50 to 160 feet wide.
NICHOLAS j. ROOSEVELT was the first
to take steamboat down the great
rivers. His boat was built at Pittsburgh.
In the year 1911, under an arrangement
with Fulton and Livingston, from Full
tons plans. It was called the "New
Orleans, was about 200 tons burden,
and was propelled by stern wheel, as
sisted, when the wind was favorable, by
sails carried on two masts. The hull
was 1873 feet long, so feet beam, and the
cost of the whole, including engines,
was about $40, The builder, with
his family, an engineer, pilot, and six
''deck hands, left Pittsburgh In October,
1911, reaching Louisville in about seven
ty hours (steaming about ten miles an
hour), and New Orleans ID fourteen
days, steaming from Natchez.
Dew is produced by the condensation
of watery vapor from the atmosphere.
It's deposition is, however, unaceom-
panied by the appearance of any visible
mist. Such mist appears when the con-
densation takes place within the body
of the air itself, and is then called 'f0g >"
in the lower regions of the atmosphere,
and "cloud in the higher. Dew oc-
ours only at the surface of contact with
solids, the air above remaining clear.
The deposit of dew is caused by the
cooling of the bodies believed, and this
| takes place in consequence of the Tadia-
ton of heat into open space, without
an equivalent return. 1t Is commonly
formed at night upon the leaves Of grass
or trees and other objects, especially
when the sky is clear, so as to allow
sufficient radiation of heat from them to
cool their surfaces, and consequently the
LAYER of air next them, below the point
of saturation, of dew-point. The moist
ure which collects upon the surface Of
a cold body, as a pitcher of water,
| standing in q warm room, and that
which collects on a window pane when
it is breathed upon, are strictly exam
pies of the deposition of dew.
American Women and Family Duties.
A gentleman writes to the st. James
Gazette, London, the following letter on
tue domestic condition of America:
"The foot-note you quoted the other
day from Mr.. Goodwin Smiths paper IN
the Nineteenth Century, and your ar
ticle, is the Family in Danger? are
calculated to give your readers an unfair
impression of American women and
their views of family duty. Mr.. Goodwin
Smith might very well have qualified
his remarks by adding that the woman
suffrage movement, about which L offer
no opinion, is in a small minority i'll the
United States that it has there much
/ IS hold on the better classes than it has
here; that it has little hold at all on the
vast industrial and agricultural popula-
ton outside of great cities and that the
ideas which, rightly or wrongly, he at
| tributes to its leaders as to matrimOny
aud maternity are wholly repugnant to
the vast majority of American women.
In fact, his argument pointed to dangers
real or exaggerated-in the future, not
to the present state of affairs. Though
my experience of America has not been
SO long and continuous as Mr.. Goodwin
Smiths, have been in America enough.
and have seen enough Of the various as
poets of American society, to have some
right to an opinion. And [ have some
hope that I shall find Mr. Goodwin
! Smith agreeing with me when / say,
without hesitation. that nowhere caR
family life, in its simple, honest affec-
tions, the cohesion of its members, the
sense of duty of husband and wife,
parent and child, be seen better deyel-
oped than in New England. And So
ciety in other parts of the States differs
from that in New England more in de-
grees of education and refinement than
in essential habits and principles. Any
one acquainted with American society
knows, for instance, that young married
women live much simpler, more whole
some life than they do in London draw
ing rooms, and give more of their time
| to home life, to their husbands and chill
dren, and less to social engagements,
than they do in England The statistics
of the writer in the Century may show
that the relaxation of the divorce law in
some of the States has been unsatisfac-
tory as leading to capricious breaking
up of the marriage tie for unsubstantial
reasons in certain classes of American
society. The fact, however, remains that
the grosser scandals of married life
which the Divorce Court too frequently
reveals IN the higher circles of English
society are stTikingly rare in families of
similar position in America.
81 shall be glad to be permitted thus
to state what think is the true state Of
the case, because many readers who do
not know America themselves might be
led by the extract and your article to
hasty and unjust concentrations which
would have about as much solid founda-
ton as similar congratulations suggested
some years ago by the brilliant lucubra-
lions of that industrious book-malker,
the late Mr.. Hepworth Dixon"
An Arkansas Court Scene.
Lawyer Mclaughlin arose and said:
"And now as to being hired, hurl back
| with contemnt into the teeth of tbia