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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-03
The Pedestrian Contest.

New YORK, Oct 2S-Vint has fallen out of
the pedestrian contest. Fitzgerald has made
$50 miles at o'clock this morning. 1t is said
that the gate receipts are not enough to cover
expenses. Rowen declares that he will not
enter into another match, as he needs years
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-03
A Physician Arrested.

LOUISVILLE, Oct 2S.-Dr. @ ". Rice, a well
known physician of Louisville, was arrested
yesterday for committing an abortion at hotel
upon Mrs. Emma Manning, from Lagrange,
kentucky.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-03
Boom for winnipeg.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Oct 31.-A number Of
American and Canadian capitalists are con-
sidering the ACCESSIBILITY of building a tele-
graph system from Toronto to 1000 miles
beyond Winnipeg, with a cable in Lake Super
ior The enterprise is looked upon as sure
thing
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-03
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Depot.

MONTREAL, Oct. 2S.-The directors of the
Canadian Pacific road and committee of the
corporation of Montreal have made arrange
ments for the erection of depot in the latter
city, to cost 100000, toward which the
municipality will give 5000, 600 cash and 225, :
600 square feet of valuable property
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-03
Mrs. Slayback in Comfortable Cir
cumSfaneQS

ST. LOUIS, Oct est is estimated that
Slayback's widow, when the insurance on her
husband is paid, and the public benefces have
been added to it, will be in possession Of about
seYenty-fve thousand dollars.
Charles E. Slayback, brother Of the deceased
LAWYER. in conversation to-day with we'll
known theatrical manager, at present in this
city, acknowledged that it was impossible for
him to harbor feelings of revenge against
Colonel Cockerill, and that his brothers own
hasty conduct was to blame for his misfor-
tune
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-03
Suicide Of a MiIIionaire,s SON

NEW YORK, Oct 28.-shepard F. Knapp, a
son of a millionaire carpet-dealer of New
vnrA, VERT fjshipG, in small boat on the fad
son river. Waterman saw nm sprIng to his
feet clutch at his throat, and pitch forward
into the water, never to rise again.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-03
Loss Of the Schooner Surprise and
the British Bark ROseneath.

the British Bark ROseneath.
New BEDFORD, Mass, Oct. pa letter re-
ceived in this city from Capt Grape, of the
lost schooner Surprise, of this port, which
was wrecked at Basket island, near Punta
Arenas, on the straits of Magellan, gives par
ticulars of the loss, and also says the boats
crew that he left at the island were subse-
quently massacred by the natives, with the
exception of a Portuguese boy. He also says
a boats crew belonging to the British bark
Roseneath, which foundered at sea, containing
the mate and four men, were also murdered
by the natives, excepting the mate, who was
afterwards rescued by some friendly Indians
and sent to Valparaiso, where he has arrived.
A third boats crew had also been massacred
by the natives at this point
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-03
New York Nominations.

New YORK, Oct. 2S.-Last evening, Daniel
Quinn was nominated for congress by the Re-
publicans of the Sixth district, and S. s. Cox
BY the Irving Hall Democracy. The county
Democracy of the Seventh district put for
ward William Dorsheimer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-03
YELLOW Fever

Only one death from yellow fever occurred
yesterday at Pensacola. Two new cases devel-
oped at Brownsville and one at Camp Smith,
and an outbreak is reported at Anderson's
rancho outside the Murray Gordon.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-03

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28-Benjamin F. Kelley,
the government superintendent at Hot Springs,
Arkansas, has been removed on account of
age. and Samuel Hamblin has been appointed
his successor. The position is worth 81, 800
per year,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-03
The Weather
OCEAN WRECKS.

Generally fair weather with warmer south
to east winds, viii prevail in this region to-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-03

An Assistant Postmaster Caught.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct 2S-Frank A Croll,
assistant postmaster at Wellsboro, Penn, was
caught rifing registered letters and held in
S3 600 bail
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-03
A Wicked Corr Gamer,

New YORK, Oct. PSI. Wallace Mix, rich
corn Gamer of Conestoga, N. Y, has fed to
South America with one of his factory girls,
leaving liabilities to the amount of SO, 600
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-03

Thus tottered and fell to the ground the col
ossal fabric of fiction l had so industriously
reared. Woe, woe!
Guiana hasn't spoken to me for several DAYS.
She'll come round after while, though But
when she does, / hope she won't go through
my pockets any more.
One thing is certain I must quit-well
quit writing verses on the backs of bills.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-03
SenatOr SaWyer Injured

MILWAUKEE, Oct Ex-senator Sawyer, of
Wisconsin, is confined to his house at Oshkosh
by injuries received ten days ago from the up
setting of his carriage in the night
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-11-03
EASY AND HARD KICKING.
How COntOrtiOE lists Learn to Tickle
Their Ears With Their Toes.


Their Ears With Their Toes.
St Louis Chronicle.
Jesse, one of the three lies Encroyables"
brothers, now playing at Pope's with the
Kiralfys, was Intercepted last night as to
the system of training through which
man must go in order to do a frst-class
contortion act. The reader will no doubt
be surprised to hear that no rubbing Of the
joints with buzzard's grease or sleeping be-
tween oiled blankets is necessary, and that
genuine ease and proficiency can be &C
quired only by long practice. Mr.. Jesse,
who is now in his twenty eighth year, has
had twenty-five years practice, having been
apprenticed to John Wilson, well known cir
Gus man of California, at the age of six years.
AT the time he began to learn he was only an
ordinary boy, not at all remarkable either for
strength or agility. When the four years of
the apprenticeship had expired he was pro
nounced fair contortion1st and onered
good salary by Wilson. At this time he was
able to do "easy kicking" and by continuing
the exercise has been able to acquire astonlsn-
ing powers The contortionist, he says, Is
never allowed to do any heavy lifting or jump
ing, because such exercise contracts and stlf-
fens the joints.
@To be able to tickle your ear W tn your
toe" said he "you have only to take about
two hours practice daily for four or five years,
and it is best to begin early" The boy who
begins to learn is put through every exercise
that will make the joints timber without crea-
ting muscle. One of the first things he is
made to do is to take the foot in hand, lift it
up and pull the leg toward the body. When
this has been done daily for ten years he be-
comes a fair contortionist, and to succeed after
the business is learned man must keep sober.
Whisky and beer stiffen the joints. 1t is
also held to be a bad idea to eat peanuts
and other indigestble food. In the third
act of the Black Crook, where the three
performers named appear, most of what is
done is called "easy kicking" that is, kicking
over heads Hard kicking" consists in
throwing the leg along the back, and other
wise putting the joints to an unnatural strain
While the gyrations and contortions of this
act are fairly bewildering to the spectator,
they are not difficult to the actors, though the
work is very exhaustng in its nature. The ease
and grace which characterize their movements
are the result of years of training, and cannot
be acquired in short time with the aid of any
balm or ointment known.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-03-22
Evolution In Plants

Darwin. in showing that there was
evolution in plants as well as in animals,
points out that there ara certain species
which decoy insects into the folds. OF
their leaves and crush them, actually
feeding ON the insects, while a plant IN
India viii nasticate beefsteak, q rabbit,
or a chicken. These plants, being In a
wild state, of course are effenlinate, but
if cultivated co1ld be brought to wonder
full proportions physically. IF carefully
tended, and given all the food and drink
they required, with horizontal bac to
practice on, there would seem to be no
reason why they should not join tur-.
ner society and might carry off a prize
of silver water pitcher Mr.. Darwin
claims that all plants are ferocious to O.
degree, and only need to be denied their
Gu tomRry sustenance and tempted with
animal life in order to have their savage
natures developed and brought to light.
Some wealthy people, followers of Oar
wins school, are already making expert
merts in this direction, and it Is possible
that the day is not far distant when the
traveller, who is forced TO travel through
lonely wood, Will find himself suddenly
confronted by a murderous band OF
cucumbers,s and he will be forced to
Weld. IF the wealthy savants pursue
their experiments TO the fullest possible
extent it may be no unusual sight, some
time in the next century or thereafter, to
see q carrot arraigned In court on a
charge of stabbing parsnip, in row
in saloon, over q game OF tifteen-bali
pool. When the savage nature of plants
Shall become fully developed, what a
terrible revenge may be expected from
the cornstalk upon the descendants OF
all those who are now connecting its
name with LIE Due, the Agricultural
Commissioner, in his effort to make it
the gar-producing shrub of the coun-
try. We trust, however, that the corn
stalk will not bear malice, and will be
generous and let by-gones be by-gones.
Men in those days viii doubtless have
trouble enough driving away maraudlng
bands Of tomatoes, and their allies, the
onions, without giving unnecessary Of
tense to plants Of other varieties. We
see now how it is that President Hayes
has always made pet of the pumpkin,
and sought to curry favor with the
Hubbard squash. He was making him.
self solid with these vegetables. This Is
also proved by his appointment OF so
many Ohio men to office. He fears the
time when their ferocious natures will
be developed, believing that he viii live
thousand years, as is shown by the
way he takes care Of his money. he
desires to get along peaceably and agree
ably with all, and would not for the
world stain his hands with the juice OF
the beet, or chop red cabbage into sour
krout.-PecPS Sun. +at---i .ss,-es->-- .s-
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-03-22
A DEFENDFR of America has arise

A DEFENDER of America has arisen
among English novelists in Amelia B.
Edwards, who In her story of IS Lord
Brackenbury" now publishing in Hay-
oer's BGzaT makes Countess of Ameri.
can birth say to an impertinent Eng
Eshwoman: I" It seems to us that YOU
keep your clever people at arms length,
rather-as if they hadn't been properly
introduced, or as if you wanted to know
about their fathers and grandfathers. I
dare say I'm wrong; but that is our i'm
preston in America. GO We certainly
don't send man out as ambassador to
Paris or Berlin because he happens to
have written comic novel, or edited q
said Lady .Symes. "Ah,
course not; but, then, you see.
you are great historic nation. You
have your traditional school of diplomacy
at the Foreign Office, isn't It, Lady
Symes?-one of the genteel idiot asy-
lums you mentioned just now. We have
nothing of that soft-no traditions, YOU
know; not even so many idiot asylums as
you have. But then we have no younger
sons of noble birth to push through the
world. That, of course, makes differ
ence." --t 1 'it ..'f
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-03-22
The ToMera Of Silence.

These towers, which are built in a
compound on the top of Malabar hill, in
the Island of Bombay, are six innumbor,
and overlook the sea, the oldest one be-
ing 800 years. The internal arrange
1nents Of the towers are follows: The
bodies aro placed in three separate circles
the outer and larger one for men, the
middle one for women, and the smallest
for children. There is pit IN the center,
into which the bones are thrown AFTER
the fesh is stripped of, and paths to
allow the priest 70 move about. The
flooring gradually sinks to the centre to
los the rain Into the pits, from which it
runs through filters into the earth. The
towers vary IN size from about thirty 10
fifty feet in diameter, andeight to four
to- n in height. .-4 Is
This Parsee mode of disposing Of the
dead seems to European minds very re-
voting. The body, after the religious
ceremony Ia performed in the temple
where the friends arc assembled, Is car
ried out and placed IN one of tbs towers,
where it remains exposed to the eie-
ments until the flesh Is entirely eaten OF
by the crowds of Vultures winch frequent
the place, In about an hour. When the
skeleton becomes dry, is thrown into
the pit IN the center thus the rich and
poor meet together on one level of equal
ity after death. When the pit becomes
full Of bones, they are taken losIt and
thrown into the sea, thus fulfilling one
II the principal tenets of the Zoroaster
'fThat the mother-earth shall
cot be defiled. p"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-03-22
The Pronunciation of CUP

Niuety-nine out of every hundred
NortLerners will say institoot instead of
institute, dooty for duty--a perfect
rhyme to the word beauty They viii
call new and news, moo and noOs-and SO
on through the dozens and hundreds of
similar words. Not dictionary in the
English language authorizes this. In
student and stupid, the "u" has the
same sound as in cupid, and should not
be pronounced stoodent and stoOpid, as
50 many teachers are In the habit of
sounding them.
1t Is a vIllgarism to call door doah
AS we all admit-isn't it as much of a
vulglrism to call newspaper anoospaper?
One vulgarism is Northern, and the other
Southern, that's the only difference.
When the London Punch wishes to
burlesque the pronunciation of servants,
it makes them call the duke the dock,
the tutor the tooter, and tube toob.
You never find the best Northern speakers,
such rs Wendell Phillips, George William
Curtis, Emerson, Holmes, and men of
that class, saying moo for new, Toosday
for Tuesday, avenoo for avenue, or call
ing q ddpe doop. It Is fault that q
Soutnerner never falls into. He has
slips enough of another kind, but he
dOesIi' slip on the long Gu. As many
OF our teachers have never had their at
telGon called to this, hope they viii
excuse this notice. Letter.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-03-22

NOR SPEED. SAFETY AND
" comfort, you will find this liHe ia be uAritsl-
cd. For the celebi ated Springs and Summer Re-
sorts. Round Trip Tickets can be purchased atAn
principal Offices. Emigrants wishing to 20 West,
either to locate or as prospectorp v i'll mud Il 10
their advantage to go by this route. hOnnd Trip
emigrant tickets on sale TO Texas points. Through
Coaches are run from Chattanooga to Columbas
without change. Sleeping Cosehes ON all Hieht
trains. lr
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Good Coaches, Good Road and
sta Quick Time! 'a

For Maps, Timetables and al Information u
regard to this route, call on or address,
t' ~, A., Is wRENNE, a.
Travelling Agent, Atlnnta, Go.
WA T. RoGEhs.
Passenger Agent, Chattanooga, Tenn.
WI. DANLEY, 2i2
GENT PAss'r and Ticket Ast.. Nashville. Tenn.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-03-22
Gmd GhMnra.


A manufacturing population tends
steadily downward, at least to q fearfuEy
low level. -rvA E FFTK
1t was long supposed that the United
States were going to prove the exception
In this respect Thirty years ago our
factory girls were above the average of
females In intelligence, refinement, be-
nevolence and general character.
Indeed, many Of them were simply ae-
cumuiating means for the completiOn of
their education at the higher senlin aries.
Dickens and other English travellers
looked on them with amazement. The
Lowell Offering, a magazine conducted
wholly by the operatives, commanded
universal esteem
But already this happy condition is
passing away. The greed of corporations
asks only for profits, Nomatter how low
the grade Of workers, provided only the
work is done. The life may be early
crushed out of the employed, but are not
their places kept always full? g. ~
The poorer and more dependent they
are, the more ready they viii be to let
their children work in the mill, when
they should be at school, or out IN the
sunshine at play. If things go on as they
are now, it Is only question of time
when the manufacturing population of
New England shall be as hopeIessly de-
graded as that of Old England
1t is evident that it behooves the State
to stand between the corporations and
their operatives. 1t owes this to It's own
welfare. II can not do everything, but
what It can it should do with strong
hand and persistent will.
It can secure to children their right to
q proper education, and their exemption
from labor that shall dwarf them IN body
and brain. It can limit the hours of
labor for all to what is physically safe.
1t car, by means of honest and qualified
Inspectors, keep a sharp eye on all the
Inherent abuses of the system. Youths
COMPANION.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-03-22

The students who are now filling
these positions We're from the States
of Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi,
Tennessee and Ohio.
Therefore we.would ask the fol-
lowing questions:
l. What other Business College
can show as many applications made
to them by business men, in the
short space of four months?
2. Who is better able to Judge of
the qualifications of young men,
than the merchants and business
men themselveB?a -.-.r
3. What more substantial endorse
ment can an institution have, than
to receive frequent applications from
BUSINESS MEN who wish to en-
ploy STUDENTS, also when lead
ing MERCHANTS and others pur
chase its stock at premium?
4. Is it not commendable forsuch
an institution to place its advan-
tages within the reach of yourg
men in ALL PARTS OF THE
oOO ILL., py establishing at cOnSId-
cradle cost, chain of such institu-
tons? ...
5. Is it not better for school to
refer to the numerous applications
from business men, than for it to
say 1--WE teach the best commercial
course in the South?"
3 Goodman's College has NJ THREE
MONTHS OR PARTIAL COURSE. Hence
the success of OUR STUDENTS.
The Session for 1882, opens Mon
day, January 2.
For general information, address
FRANK GOODMAN,
Prestdent Of Go0d5nan's Business College,
Z Either at NASHVILLE, Tenn,
stgg Or KNoxVILLE, Tenn.
Jan Is Am
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-03-22
TIE Romanee Of Exploration.

Few nOvelists have SO exciting a story
to tell as that which Col. Preievalsky
brings home with him. He has been
travelling IN regions which no European
foot had trod before him. While the
threatened storm between Russia and
China was growing on the frontier, he
was pushing his way among the unknown
territories of High Asia persistently and
undismayed. He has wandered through
forests that are bright with the plumage
of blue pheasants. He has explored the
Iibetan highlands, where the peaks are
said to rise 10000 feet above Mont
Blanc, and the very rivers flow at levels
higher than the SUBMITS of all but the
lOttiest Of the Alps. Chinese potentates
have come within an ace of beheading
him. Tartar horsemen and Monaghan
0rigands have fled before the unerring
aim of his rifle. Natives have spread
the legend that his eyes could pierce
fathoms deep into the earth md charm
out the precious stones which lay be-
leath /; and the best opinion that these
tribesmen ever held of him was that he
was well-disposed wizard who few
about at night. And, after all this adj
venture, his hope of reaching the rnys-
terious 'tstar-spread sea (" still stands
for the present bafled. From the SHOWS
Jf the IIbetan mountains flow two
Of the greatest rivers of the earth.
the Yangtze and the Yellow river, the
main arteries of the Chinese plains
Even to the people who dwell upon
tlem their sources are but vaguely
Known. They arrive upon the horizon
Of exact knowledge as mighty rushing
waters break from the mountains. TIE
origins, Prejevalsl6y has been
unable to trace them. When he struck
the Yellow river above Gomi he found
it already broad stream, clearing its
way swiftly to the east through 8 deep
ravine cut sharply out OF the rocky table |
and. At frequent intervals as the ex-
plorer pushed along its banks with his
string of mules and ca1nels he was
checked by cross ravines, in the bottom
II which tributaries rushed to the river.
8 We would he marching over the I'M
broken plain, he says, when all of q
sudden 2 fearful chasm would threaten
Is with yawning throat and the passage
would cost untold fatigue to men and
1easts." He found, In short. that the
project OF following up the Yellow river
vas impossible. Nevertheless he still |
believes that the source may be reached |
ONE. other time by starting further
vest, and there is little reason to be-
ieve that Russia, which for two centu-
iespast has been distinguished for the
mercy which she has devoted TO the
york of geographical exploration, viii not |
Ong allow his services to remain unem-
York Herald.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-03-22
The Big Words of Science.

Monstrosities of diction are not con-
fined to chemical science, but are to be
found in physics as well as metaphysics.
We recently gave some samples OF the
extraordinary and absurd length to
which the names of certain organic
salts had grown, and we may now
add the following choice specimen OF
imaginary (from a recently published
paper by Sir William Thompson) to Illus
Irate the grand style of modern natural
philosophy. "The stream lines" says
the distinguished Glasgow physicist,
- are as represented in the diagram, In
which the region of transitional velocity
greater than wave PROPORTIONAL velocity
Is separated from the region of transla-
tional velocity less than wave propaga-
tioIal velocity by cats eye border pat
tern of elliptic whirls. The curious
mixture of homelv Sinaile and abstract
Technology in this passage is highly
ludicrous. It's obscurity rs, however,
surpassed by Mr.. Herbert Spencer's
famous Formula of Evolution, /" which
runs: g Evolution is change from an
indefinite, incoherent, homogeneity to
definite, coherent heterogeneity, through
continuous differentiations and integra-
lions" which written IN plain English
by MIR. Kirkman, the mathematician,
means: Evolution is a change from
untalkaboutable all-ikeness
TO O somehowish, and in-general- talka-
EQUITABLE not-an-hkeness, by continuous
something elsefcations and stick togeth-
erations." As clever travesty on the
above cacophonous, mystifGatiOns Of
Mr. Herbert Spencer, which, like the
language of diplomacy, conceals the
meaning it ought to express, we have
Mr.. Kirkman's Formula of Universal
Change which is: +" Change is q peri
choretical synechy of pamparalagmatic
and porroteroporeumatical diferentia-
tons and integrations. After such ped
antry as this, the clown in Shakespeare's
Tt0elfth Night, who " did impeticos thy
gratility," is absolutely nowhere. -Lon-
don Globe.