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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-27
From a Rnl TO a Law.

As a rule bill does not become
law without the approval Of the Presl-
dent. As soon as it has passed both
houses of Congress, the house last act
inc OH it notifies the other house and
delivers it to the joint Committee of En-
rollment. to be actually enrolled on
parchment. In this enrolment the bill
must be written solidly, without para
graphs. to leave no room for 1nterpo-
lations. It is then delivered to the
Clerk Of the House Of Representatives,
to be signed by the Speaker. The
Clerk then brings it, byway OF message,
from the House to the Senate, to be
signed by the President of the Senate.
The Secretary of the Senate returns it
to the Committee of Enrolment, who
present it to the President of the
United States. If he approves it he
signs it and deposits it among the rolls
in the Office of Secretary of State, and
notifies the house in which it originated
of this fact; and that house notifies the
other. If the President disapproves
the bill, he returns it, with his obJec-
tions, to the house in which it origina-
ted, which enters the objections at
large on its journal, and proceeds to re-
consider it. II, after such reconsidera-
ton, that house passes it again, by a
two-thirds vote, it is sent to the other
house, together with the Presidents
objections, and, if approved by two
thirds of this house, it becomes a law.
IF any bill sent to the President is not
returned by him within ten days, Sun
days excepted, after he received it, the
same becomes d law, in like manner as
if he had signed it, unless Congress, by
its adjournment, prevents its return, In
which case it is not law.-I1tter
Ofen11
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-27
The Blind Worm.

I was seated one sunny morning on
the lawn in frofit of pretty cottage,
when the children Of the household came
running up to me in much excitement
to say that pussy had just come out OF
the garden with serpent in her mouth
This was agitating news, and we. were
not long running off in quest of secure
retreat. From the parlor window we
watched the cat as she paced up and
down the lawn with her head erect, and
waving her tail in conscious pride at
her victory over the serpent.
After awhile she left it lying appar~
emily dead. and we then went cautious
ly to examine the enemy. 1t was about
as thick as mans finger, and thirteen
inches long. Pussy had bitten it on the
neck. which had caused its death Upon
showing it to the gardener, he pro
nounced it to be larger specimen OF
the cblind-worTn.' This reptile is found
all over Great Britain, though very rare
in some parts. 1t is rather an interest
ing creature, as it seems to be link be-
tween the serpent proper and the liz
ard.
The blind-worm is seldom longer than
sixteen inches, and is of nearly equal
thickness throughout it's length ; the tail
is not tapering but blunt. It is very
shy and easily frightened, and is per-
feGtlY inoffensiye creature, though often
prosecuted by ignorant persons under
the idea that it is yenomous.
It is a mistake to suppose that it IS
blind its eyes, though very small, being
quick and brilliant. 1t feeds on slugs
and small insects, and if it is in a gard
IN at all it is sure to be found concealed
under dead leaves, or among decaying
vegetable matter. It's tongue IS forked,
but not nearly so much so as in the true
serpent. It is altogether an interest
ing creature, and if it is not of much
use it does no harm to any ONE
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interview with NE George at his con
venience
The President suspended Jonathan
Diggs, Indian Agent at the Colorado River

Z %1AA-
venience
The President suspended Jonathan
Diggs, Indian Agent at the Colorado River
Agency, and appointed John W. Clark as his
successor Indian Agent McGillicuddy, 81
the Mesca ero agency, has rendered his res
ignation to the Secretary Of the Interior.
The Secretary declined to accept the resig-
nation pending the result Of the inves5iga-
ton now in progress.
Dr. Hamilton, Of New York, has pre-
sented to the Garfield board Of audit bill
for s25, 900 for professional services
Stamped envelopes Of the best quail
ty are to be reduced to $3.50 per 900, ex-
elusive Of postage, at the commencement Of
the new year.
Army officers predict that Gen. Pope
will find great difficulty in securing con
arnation by the Senate as Major General,
on account of his personal hostility to Fitz
John Porter.
DIR. Boynton has filed a claim of 81
500 for services during the illnessof Carrie d.
1t is be ieved to be the last Of the list al
do tors bills
Estimates have been prepared for the
pay and mileage of the members of the
Forty eighth Congress. There viii be 32i
members and eli hit delegates, Fer that pay
there has been asked 81 ,665, CO., and s25, 900
for contestants. For mileage $l25 600 is
estimated, making a total of over 81 ,S0o,OO0
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observation-disclosures cLEAwrNes,

The Liquor-Dealers' and Manufactllr-
prs' Protective A scotia ion OF the United
States met At NJ lwankoe It was decided to
c3angg the nams OF the organ zqtion, which
viii hereafter be knoAn as the Personal
Liberty League of the Uni ed States, to be
com osed Of the various State 4 reflective
associations, and also the NatlonalD ssillets
ana Brewers Associations Reso u5ions were
adoDi ed recog izng the necessity for vigor-
GUS and agg essive res stanca to the prohl-
bition movem mt, and congratulating anti
Prohioitionists everywhere on the result of
the election in Ohio
The Tariff Commission has finished
taking testimony and will remain in New
York until December making up its report
Benjamin Legault, French Cana
dian, has sued for an injunction to prevent
his sister, who is 65 years old, and worth
100000, from marrying young man
A fight between Mexican customs Of
fcers and snugglers, at Lampasas, on the
Rio Gran le, resulted in the killing of four OF
the smugglers.
The Rev. Thomas Nicholson and Mrs.
j. r. Boyce, confined in the Hotel Dleu at
Montreal, for insanity, evaded their nurses,
jumped from the second and fourth stories
of the institution respectively, and were
killed
John d. Defrees, for many years
Public Printer ut Washington, died at Berk-
ley Springs, W. Va, in his I'D var, leaving
five children In S31 he published anews-
paper at South Bend, Ind, and in 1874 be-
came proprietor of the indianapolis Journal
VIII ch he conducted for ten ysars.
The Universalists' General Conven-
ton, in session at Philadelphia, condemned
the deash penalty lauded and indorsed the
efforts Of the Prob btionists and resolved
that State Legis atures should enact strin-
gent laws Tor the prevention Of crne ty to
animals. 3E
A Convention Of Baptist clergymen and
laymen. in session for several days at Ham
ilton, 0nt, decIinedto demand Of the Prem
Ter the introduction of che Bible as q text
book in the public schools, as they do not
wish to interfere with the religious liberty
OF any citizen
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WAsHINGTON,s FAMILY.
Later Investigation a, to Its Origin-The
Original Name.
from Gath's Paris Letter. !

FROM OaV0 5 rams Letter.
A good deal has been written about
the origin of the Washington family in
England. Later Investigations rather
tend to eorroborate the views of Jared
Sparks. more than forty years ago, that
the Washington family came from
Northamptonshire, Eng.
This county lies between the birth
place of Shakespeare, in Warwick, and
that of Cromwell, which is in Hunting
ton, and Northampton, and about sixty
miles north of London.
The tradition In Washington's family
was that his ancestry came from York
shire. After Washington became Pres
ident the Garter King-at-Arms wrote to
HIM asking for family particulars.
Washington knew but lit e about it,
and expressed respectful lack of inter
est in the investigation. The man OF
heraldry, however, continued to search,
md satisfied himself that the first of the
family efaigrsting to America were two
brothers from Northamptcnshire, and
that their ancestors came from Lanca-
shire
Mr.. Sparks in later years Tansacked
the papers left by the King-at-Arms,
and found that about 80 years after the
discovery of America by Columbus q
Lawrence Washington was Mayor OF
Northampton.
AT Sulgrave, In Northampton county,
IL tomb on which is inscribed: Here
lveth Tho bodies of Lawrence Washing
ton, gent, and Ann, his wife, by whome
he had issue, sons and seven daugh-
tiers, 1884"
About five generations after this a
sister of Villers, Duke of Buckingham,
married Sir William Washington. Two
of Sir Williams brothers, it is said, cru
igrated to Virginia in 1857, and one of
them was alleged to he the great grand
father of General Washington. Wash
ington himself wrote to the King-at-
Arms in 1892:
"This is q subject to which I confess
I have paid but very little attention.
NV time has been SO much occupied in
the busy active scenes Of life, from an
early period of it, that but small por-
zion Of it could be devoted to researches
81 bllRS HAbUEe3 SeSu Il M AhCiAA"e-'
and circumstances should have promp~
ted to the inquiry, but the arms inclosed
in Your letter are the same as are held
by the family here"
The Washington brothers, it is be-
lieved, emigrated ~ America during
Cromwell's Protec Gorate. The only inn
portant Washington in English history
was named Sir Henry, who defended
the city of Worcester against the Par
hamentary army in 1916.
The word Washington was originally,
1t is said Dedwesynton more probably
ii was derived from some little village
where . good many poor women washed
clothes, and which, therefore, took the
names from the big-bugs critically rid
ing through the place, and perhaps from
some of these same industrious laun-
dresses came the family, which the
Kings-at-Arms were trying so hard to
identify with their nobility
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HOW Flies Climb.


g. Herr II. DEWITT has communicated to
the Berlin society of natural history
some facts that bear very strongly
against the generally believed theory
that flies adhere to perpendicular walls
and ceilings by virtue of some sucking
power In their feet. He asserts that
the feet of flies cannot possess the
sucking power aseribed to them, for
they are hard and destitutefof muscles.
The theory has long been contradicted
blythe experiments of Blackwell, who
found that flies could climb the sides of
a jar. under the receiver of an air
pump, where there was, no atmospheric
pressure, and who asserted that the
power. Of adherence was due to a sticky
matter secTeted from the foot-hairs Of
flies. This assertion was generally re-
garded as not proved, and the case has
rested there. DEWITT reports that his
Investigations have shown that Black
well was right. He has watched the
emulation of the sticky matter from
the feet Of the. flies by fastening one of
the insects to the under side Of a. plate
of glass and viewing it under the micro
scope, A perfectly clear liquid was
seen to flow from the ends of the foot
hairs and attach the foot to the glass.
When the foot. was lifted up to be put
down in another place, the drops of the
sticky matter were seen to be left on
the glass, in the exact places where the
foot-hairs had rested. The adhesive
fluid seems to pass down through the
hollow of the hair, and to be derived
from glands which Leydig discovered
in the folds of the foot IN 1850. A SIM
liar adhesive matter appears to be pos
sessed by bugs, by many Larvae, and
probably by all insects that climb the
stems and the undersides Of the leaves
Of plants Popular Science Monthly.
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A Florida Alligator Story.

Jim Russell, son of Maj. Russell,
famous during the Florida war, now
makes a precarious living in South
Florida as guide to visiting sportsmen.
For a bonus Of s. Jim will dive into thu
current of the muddy ST. John and
bring up an alligator He actually
brings them out of their holes. Strange
as this may seem it is the safest way to
approach an alligator. They dig holes
IN the riyer-banks just below the sur
face OF the water, and crawl into them.
Jlmsdlves down, crawls in rapidly, and
.slezes the saurian by the tail, who,
startled, Immediately backs out. Jim
hods on, keeping his legs stiff till clear
of the bank. when he darts away, and
the gator, rising to the surface for an
instant to see what is the matter, is
slain by waiting gunners in the DO; t.
This has become common sport on the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-27
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

i
Elk Congressman John Hanna died az
his residence at Plainfeld Ind
Gen Crook is said to have checked
an Indian outbreak at San Carlos by putting
a stop to frauds which were being practiced
on the reservation. zssS
a. B icl1lls, Jf.. & Sons lumber and
planning mill, atDetroit, was burned together
with 100000 feet of lumber Loss, $3.50
COO.
The storehouae Of the .Goss &
Phillips Manufacturing Company, located on
the corner OF Fisk and Tween. y-second
streets, Chicago, burned down The loss is
estimated at 100000
After an 'hoar's fight with the officers
Of the law at Norton, Oak. a mob dragged
Charles Thurber, a negro, from his Jail cell
and hanged him He had committed a
criminal assault upon two respectable white
The typhoon at Manila rendered co.
eco families homeless, but the loss of life
wa relatively small.
Serrano, if called to power in Spain,
will establish the constitution Of 1869 and
abolish the system of life Scholarships
ss De Lesseps has perfected plan by
which the time occupied by vessels in ira
versing the Suez canal will be shortened
three days. y ~"
Nobody pays much attention nova
days to what is going on in Afghanistan, but
for all that there is formidable revolt in
progress there. The Arneer appointed his
son to- the Governorship of Herat whereat
great. disturbance has been created by the
dissatisfied people. In the vicinity of Cabul
the inhabitants are said to have reyolted d
killed their Governor. 49,,
At the reassembling of Parliament
the Tories attacked Gladstone fercely for
violating historical precedents by calling an
autumn session, Lord Randolph Churchill
moysna an immediate adjournment as pro
test against this action of the Government
Gladstone was in nowise Disconnected by
the attack, but sure of his ground, treated
the matter in a pleasant vein, and on di-
vision ChurchiHs motion was defeated by a
vote OF 14Zs %. SU9, the ParnelhGes voting with
the majority.
DR.. Oliver, Wendell Holmes has
closed a career of thirty-fiye years as
Professor of-Anatomy. at Harvard Universe
ty, desiring to. give more time to literary
pursuits -
Homer Oldson. a 14-year-old lad. of
Paris, KY, shot his teacher, Prof YeI kes,
through the right arm for having requested
a Written exercise for hardness
Gen. Mcclellan has been visiting
Washington to aid in defeating Gen Pope's
promotion
Nine. Christine. Nilsson, the famous
prima donna, arrived at New York last week,
and viii sing IL concerts in this country until
the LIST of April N
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itf.aSs" Washington.

That celebrated woman, whom our
revolutionary sires IN spite Of their re-
publicanisa, called Lady Washington"
was homebody. She 6sed to speak of
Der public life in New York and Phila-
delphla as her "l6st days" She pre-
terred the comfort and seclusion of
Mount Vernon to the gayety &nA pub,
hcity as the wife of the President A
lady who visited her there draws this
pen ans ink sketch of Martha Wash
ington's room at her husbands farm /;
"On one side sits the chambermaid,
With her knitting ON the other little
co1ored pet, learning to sew. A decent
looking old woman is there, with her
table and shears, cutting out the ne
Eroes' winter clothes; while the good
old lady directs them all, necessarily
knitting herself. She points out to me
several pairs of nice stockings and
gloves she has just finished, and pre-.
eents me with pair half done, which
she begs l will finish and wear for her
sake
Mrs. Washington was w8Fm FEEDER
alist in her politics, end had no love
for the Democratic principals Of Thom-
! as jefferson Her granddaughter, Miss
Custis, who lived with her was requir-
ed to practice on the harpslchord four
or FIVE hours daily. One day not heat-
| ing the s01irfd Of the instrument, Mrs.
Washington came d5}@tts stairs.
~ heard some one go out OF Chs house
so you must have had visitor" she
said to the young lady. Then noticing
d spot on the newly-painted cream-col-
cred we'll, she exclaimed
"Ah, it vas no Federalism pointing
to blemish just 6fef the settee; "none
but filthy Democrat would mark a
place with his good-for-nothing head III
that manner
Miss Nellie GUSTS being young and
romantic, was fond of wandering Alan6
| by mo6nlish8 IN the woods of Noun.
Vernon. Her graGidrastber thought it
unsafe, and scoIded the young lady mn
Ill she promised not. to walk in Chs
woods again rtntess accompanied.
But one night, hef lt&bit being too
strong to be curbed by proiiilesj she
! WAS again missed anu S6INdDG WIS
sent to recall her from her favorite
wanderings.
AS soon as she entered the drawing
room, her grandmother, seated in her
great armchair, l9pro8ea her severely.
/ Nellie admitted that she IVES alone,
but offered no excuse for her trans
gression. As she was leaving the room
She overheard Gen. Washington, who
had been walking up and down tbs
room with his hands behind him, say to
his wife:
my dear, would say no mofe) per-
haps she was not alone"
Instantly Miss Nelly returned, and,
Walking straight up to the General,
said;
"Sir you brought me tip TO speak the
truth; and when I told grandma i was
alone hope you believe was
alone" Il
The General making one Of bis most
coultly bows, replied: my child l leg
your pardon. p Youh'S Companion
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WASHINGTON NOTES

Secretary Folger has called i'm $15,-
100000 in extended 5per-cen bonds, paya-
Bile Jan lSnext
Secretary Frelinghuysen received a
note from the American Representative at
london, containing the reg cts OF Earl Gran
Vile. the British Foreign Minister, at the dr.
rest Of Henry George while in Ireland The
Secretary thereupon requested a personal
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-27
A Spoiled Railroad Ticket.

An amusing incident occurred on a
Connecticut express train. When the
conductor was taking up tickets lady
passenger handed over to the gentle
manly /" Knight of the Punch" her pass,
to which was attached coupon. The
conductor hastily glanced at the per-
fcrated card and rending it asunder re-
turned the proper slip to the owner.
With a doleful expression of counte-
nance the lady for a moment gazed at
the mutilated ticket and then dropped
it from an open car-window. For a
while the passenger was unmolested,
but as she approached her destination
was again importuned for her ticket.
With look that was childlike and
bland she remarked, II saw you tear the
ticket and thought the balance was of
no account, and so threw it away.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-27
Railway Traffic in the United States.

The number of passengers carried by
the railways in the United States is
BE, 100000 a year, according to Prof.
Vose, so that the average is about sew
en- railway rides annually for every
man, woman. and child in the Union.
1t is noteworthy that all but 800 of the
l 200 passengers who were injured, and
all but 200 of the 400 who were killed,
were vic inns of their own recklessness,
and notof any fault on the part of the
transportation companies. In these
statistics there are suggestions which
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-27
Made Some Difference.

tits related that a Buffalo man who
had been in the coffee business for sew
eral,yedfs was, led to believe that he
was sinner and to come out and array
himself on the side of religion The
morning after he had taken this step
he reached his factory to find business
suspended, and upon demanding an ex-
PLANTATION his son replied:
Well, father, didn't know what to
do. I didn't suppose after what YOU
said last night that you would mix any
more beans with coffee I presume It
would make difference" sI
s"Yea, it will make just a little differ
ence, calmly observed the old man.
"We have heretofore been mixing one
barrel of beans to one of coffee, haven't
We
Yes. I"
well, take out few of the 'beans-
about two quarts, guess f
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-27
King Milan Of Servia was fred at By
a woman in the Cathedral at Belgrade, but
escaped unhurt
THE BALLOT.

Thirty three states to Hold Elections on
Tuesday, Nov. Z.
Elections are to be he'd in thirty-three
States Of the Union N Tuesday, the 18th Of
November. The pluralities in 1889 in the
State which vote Nov. were as below, the
Presidential returns being takeA in The niiiirdl
as the Ia1isi
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The widow of physician died In
San Francisco, Cal, recently, leaving a
little estate which has been appraised
at s7,785.5O Among the claims filed
against it is one from her physician,
who claims $4,000 for two years SER
vices. He is homeopathic, and be-
heves in small pills but not in small
bills.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-27

the public should not disregard as to
the precautions to be ia en- TO prevent
injury while iourneying in IA lway
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-27

STREET bands in Philadelphia are
called orchestras In Boston
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A MAN is known by the company he
keeps away from.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-05-06

postal cooperative stores OF goods. for the use
Of the postal servants and their families.
Moreover. IA England, since 1864. to the post
Office has also been entrusted the management
OF the iJs Insurance and aaauify offices created
by the Government IN 1884. :,
TELEsRAPHs.
From the experience OF all the Govern
ments. a. shown by the documents collected bv
the Cai0H Postgls. 1t i now fully established
that the necessary complement of che poSt-ofice
Is the telegraph office, and that not only both
must be under Government control. but. more
over, that both must be concentrated in. the
same hands. Hence, the governments who at
first had not taken in their own hands the ex-
pIoItatlon OF the telegraph lines. but had left
them TO private enterprise. are now obliged to
buy them up and, moreover, these countries,
as well as those ii which, though under Gov
eminent control, the postal and Geographic
administration were separated. are sactUally
Obliged 10 combine the two into one. under the
authority Of the General.
From this we may safely infer that here the
Government ought TO have taken in hand the
Geographic lines, and ought now TO attend to the
Geographic iutsr-lsland communications. This
not having been done, the Government will have
at some very future date 10 buy up the Sle-
graphic and telephone companies, as Is shown
by the present example of the United States of
America. BY this move the Government will
not only serve the interests OF the public, but
will also reap the profits of the increasing rev.
enues received from Geographic lines combined
with the post.
Mosr URGENr INNovATToSs.
l have finished reviewing the most urgent in
novations belonging to the Postal Department,
and imposed by the new conditions arising from
the Up. [. l must, however, here insist on
the fact that many branches which, up to this
date, have been facultative, are intended TO be
made compulsory to- all members of the Unior
in the next Postal Congress at Lisbon in 1888.
These are
The responsibility Of SO forlost registered let
tiers
The International Money-urder system
The letters with declared value
The general extension of the dOuble-pos
cards Will prepaid answer)
The collection of commercial bills and papers
The subscriptions to newspapers and othe
publications., national and foreign
The parcel-post up to 6 pounds
The settlement of the question Of the prop
erty of letters.