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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
HOW Lightning Makes Glass.

When a bolt of lightning strikes a
bed of sand it plunges downward into
the sand for distance less or greater,
transforming simultaneously into glass
the SILICA in the material through
which it passes. Thus, by it's great
heat, it forms at once glass tube of
precisely its own size Now and then
such tube, known as fulguCite, is
found and dug up. Fulgurites have
been followed into the sand by excaye-
ton for nearly thirty feet; they vary
in size of a quill to three inches or
more, according to the bore of the
flash. But fulgurites are not alone
produced in sand; they are found in
solid rock, though very naturally Of
slight depth and frequently existing
merely as thin. CLASSY coating on the
surface. Such fulgurites occur in as
tonishing abundance on the summit of
little Ararat in Armenia. The rock is
soft and SO porus that blocks a foot
long can be obtained, perforated in all
directions by little tubes filled with
bottle-green glass formed from the
fused rock.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
His Own Funeral

Capt. Ben Wakefield. Of Biddeford,
who lost his life Monday, once at
tended his own funeral, being one of
the few men who have had that priv
lege, says the Bangor (Me.) CONNER
cidl. He had gone on fishing trip
down on the Grand Banks and had
been away from home a good while
without his family hearing from him.
The same season had proved very dis
astrous to number of other fNSermen
who went out from thereabouts, and
the vessel Capt. Ben was in had her
share of hard luck. and the report
reached home that she, with her crew,
was lost. Time passed and Capt. Ben
did not return, until at last his family
gave up all hope that he had been
saved and a day was set for the mem
orial services. The services were held
in the church at Cape Porpoise. The
minister had offered prayer for the alb
sent fisherman who was supposed to
have found his grave in the sea, and
was just beginning his sermon when
Capt. Ben walked into the church.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
Of General Interest.

THERE are nearly six thousand pieces
in a modern locomotive.
Two-YEAR-oLD apricot trees at San
Bernardino Cal, are laden with fruit
this year.
I The San Francisco Board of Health
refuses TO admit Cinnamon to the city
hospital.
A FAST stallion who has taken to hat
ing his driver. and won't trot for him
any more is York County (Maine)
curiosity.
/ AT Deposit, N Y, few days ago, a
dog owned by o. D. Wakensan found a
pocketbook containing $500 in bank
notes. That is quite valuable dog.
! A Texas cattleman says the outlook
at present is that the supply of cattle
from that State will fall short /, ZOO, 600
head as compared with the mum Der last
year.
/ THREE prospectors in Death Valley
were nearly dying of thirst When their
mule started off on his own hook and
soon led them to water. And yet the
mule is generally regarded as Ken
tuckian.
THE origin of ~windfall. +" in the sense
of "good luck" dates from the time OF
William the Conqueror 1t was then
criminal offense to cut timber in the
forests. Only such could be gathered as
the wind had blown down; hence a
heavy windstorm was hailed by the
peasants as so much good luck, and from
this comes the modern application OF the
expression.
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front of it, and form themselves into a
Come all-ye choir. The tunes are very
quaint but the verses seem intermina-
BILE, and the vigor of the vocalists rather
repels than attracts.
BY and by the Scandinayians seize the
opportunity of lull and start their
quaint, but still more unmusical ditties
that is, the rendition is unmusical be-
cause it embraces too many contrary
keys. Then the Irish get renewed en-
ergy and start again. But the Scandi-
navians won't give in, so the result is
general pandemonium and no bar.
But when all have tired themselves
out and dwindIed away, the artful Louis
quietly creeps up to the bar window and
taps. 1t is opened, and Louis says,
with fearful innocence:
81 didn't sing motel"
He gets drink.
On Tuesday I retire sulenly. for we
are due in New York. Wednesday. !
feel more and more homesick as the day
passes by and no Fire Island is in sight.
At last we sight the lighthouse, and !
can't he p falling On my knees.
When we reach Sandy Hook / almost
dance with joy. But when we arrive at
quarantine, after shutdown and find we
have to anchor there all night, within
the mocking sight of Liberty Statue and
the lights of R-ooxlyn bridge, sink
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
Cowardice of Crowds.

The Spectator has a paper called
the "Cowardice of Crowds The
writer is deeply impressed with the
very strange story of the poor woman
who had a lamp thrown at her and
was burned to death. while a little
crowd of people looked on and did
nothing, whites Walter Besant. One
poor woman alone attempted to put
out the flames. It is horrible story,
but / should not have made it the peg
for paper on cowardice, because think
that cowardice had nothing whatever
to do with it. Why cowardice? There
was no courage wanted to tear off your
coat and wrap it around the burning
drapery of the unfortunate woman.
Presence of mind was lacking, if you
please, but not courage. Presence oil
mind, which means readiness to act
for the best on a sudden emergency,
will prove to be wanting more and
more as we depart more and more from
the primitive conditions of man, VIII CHI
is one of being always hunted for food
by wild beasts, always hunting for
food, and always fighting In that
condition man is full of resource, con-
triyes thousand stratagems, and
meets thousand dangers. Remove
from him the habit of hunting and the
necessity of fighting. Make his life
assured and easy, and he will infalli-
bly, lose the readiness and the resource
in other words, the presence of
mind-of the savage This, in fact,
we have done. In moments of unusual,
unexpected dangers, we are paralyzed.
This is my reading of the conduct OF
the crowd which looked on while a
woman's clothes famed up and burned
her to death.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
Icy Aaron Burr.

Aaron Burr was, by nature and
training, a man of extraordinary self
control He allowed no circumstance
to throw him off his balance. An an
ecdote told by Rufus Choate to the
late Richard Ell. Dana, recorded in Mr..
Dana's DIARY" illustrates the moral
callousness which aided Burr so greatly
in controlling himself Several years
after the death of Hamilton-killed by
Burr in duel-Burr visited Boston,
and Mr.. Devereux of Salem paid him
some attentions. The visitor was
taken to the Boston Atheneum, where,
while the two men were walking
through gallery of sculpture, Mr..
Devereux happened to catch sight of
bust of Hamilton.
The thought flashed across his mind
that Burr might not care to be con-
fronted with the sight Of the features
of the man he had slain. But no.
Burr was undisturbed He also espied
the bust, and although Mr.. Devereux
instinctively turned away, he walked
up to it aud said in a loud tone: "Ah,
here is Hamilton Then passing his
fingers along certain lines of the lace,
he added: "There was the poetry !"
Hamilton's contemporaries gave him
credit for possessing a poetic mind.
though his writings betray no trace of
poety, but, on the contrary, are as in
telIectual as Euclid. atlanta Con-
Stit7LtiOn
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daily gives the doctor tongue-lashing,
and that everybody on board hates him.
However, after dinner to day he has a
chance to show his brutality.
We are all mustered down stairs. and
those who are vaccinated receive tickets,
"vACCINATED! RETAIN THIS. T"
Those who are not vaccinated have to
pass under this brutal scalpefs hands.
He just gives them dig or two roughly
with the knife, and shoves them on to
make way for the next
Our dinner to-day consists of soup,
corned beef, and potatoes. This is the
menu for Monday, Thursday and Satur-
day, while soup, salt cod and potatoes
serve for Tuesday and Friday. Wednes-
day has speciality to itself in soup, hot
boiled beef and potatoes All very
thriving, if it were not thrown at u.s.
Every afternoon the women bring out
their own tea and go to the galley for
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06

hot water in their tea-pots Then they
have a feast. after which they sit inside
Just oyer the engine boilers and warm
themselves and dry their clothes at thu
same time.
get great idea of the Englshman's
ignorance of mixed drinks when [ go to
the bartender for brandy and soda. |
astonish him by asking for a piece of ice
in it. He silently accedes, and | walk
away to quaff.
Half an hour afterward | return and
call for another B. and S. He fills up
the glass and l again ask him for ice.
He stares at me and says:
"Why, where is the piece OF ice you
had just now?s
Things run very much the same until
our second Sunday night, then the bar
being closed for very long time, the
whole gang of Irishmen assemble in
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06

srllenly into despair again. So near
and yet SO far.
No chance to sleep that night. No
body tries to. The men roar, yell and
Jump with their excitement at being
within sight of the promised land. The
women answer with shrieks and screams
of laughter and snatches of song.
At 2 o'clock the donkey-engine goe:
bling! bang! bang! drawing up the bag;
gage from the hold. At o'clock we &c
forward on deck and are inspected by
the Health Officer, and at o'clock We
reach the desired haven, pass through
the necessary formalities, and my pur
gatorial career as an emigrant is over
HARRIS HARRINGTON.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
Playing on thu Ruins.

"These firemen must be a frivolous
set," said Mr.. Spillkins, who was read
ing a paper.
why SOP
II read in the paper that after fire
was under control the fremen played
all night on the ruins. Why didn't
they go home and go to bed like sensi-
BILE men, instead of romping about
like children ?"--T Texas Sitti9ags.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
Three PRESENTATIONS.

"What do you think of this taccarat
scandal ?" asked Shingles.
~Baccarat," replied Dukane; you
mean baccaraw. don't you?'
as that the way to pronounce ii?
~Of course! I'll leave it to Dinwid-
die"
"All right Dinwiddie, how do you
pronounce this game that the Prince
of Wales and Sir William Gordon
Cumming played at Tranby Croft ?"
"I pronounce it bad. sir: very bad
tough in fact. Pittsburg Chronicle.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
Limberlip's Loquacity.

"Yo' pashtur' hab ter 'nounce ter dis
congregation dat on de forfcomin'
Chuseday ebenin' Perfesher Nozzel
tester will glib Interpretation on
character as REFLECTED in de art oh
snorin', an 70 de puppus er maxim de
'casion full er marrer ter de presen'
comperny he will erply de funnygraf
ter de nasual fackelties er sutton egs-
perts in dis fol-, an afterwards, in de
course oh de lectu4, tu'n de crank an
let de perfeshernal snorers er dis
church hear fo' darse'fs de sorter music
dey s'plies DER breddern wild endurin'
de sarmons. Elder Yawp, Deacon
Buzzfue, Brudder Bundle an Sister
Treetode am speshually quested ter
bring dair double barreled trombones
wild EN- on dis ercasion, an low de per-
fesher ter can few er dair bes' nasual
oblergatters TO comparison wild de
works er some udder heff-dovers In
dis line. "-BOSto71 Courier.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
A Sad Condition.

First Bank President-Did you see
about the president of the Ninth Ma
tional? No sooner was he dead than
they discovered that he had defaulted
to the amount of $500. 600.
Second Bank President-Yes, saw
it. Tt is getting so bank president
can't die with any safety.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
Quite in Her Line.

Mrs. Dresser Why, John, why do
you go on so about eating shad? I'm
sure the bones don't annoy me at all.
Mr.. Dresser-Of course they don'tl
You never feel so much at home as
when you have your mouth full of pins.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06

ductlVo or many incidents Oh DOGu HuLnoA
and pathos. Therefore, determined TO
make my return trip to America, AFTER
five weeks holiday in Europe, means
of observation and profit cannot now
say, pleasure.
Consigning my baggage to the care OF
a friend who travelled by the saloon, /
content myself with the toughest suit of
clothes / can find, and armed with a
huge bundle consisting of a mattress, a
heavy rug, brush and comb, towel and
soap, tin cup, two tin plates, and knife,
fork and spoon. | embark upon the ten
der at Princes Landing, Liverpool, En-
gland, and amidst an uncomfortable
crowd of people and baggage, [ find my
self on my way to "the ship that's to
carry me over.
At last we reach her, and I mount to
the upper deck, having my bundle thrown
up after me in q very unceremonious
manner
| already begin to realize that / am
not feeling very happy grasp my bun
die and look around. Down stairs,
says a gruff voice. and another uncere-
monious shove brings me opposite a
rckety-loOking ladder, down which l
have to climb My incumbrance causes
me rather to fall than walk down, and
when l reach the lower deck, | sit on
the bundle and sigh.
/ haven't been sitting there minute
before | get another ungentle shove,
and gruffer voice eXclaims, "Down-
stairs!"
"What!" l gasp, "more descent?"
Then I look down large opening into
what l thought was the hold for cargo
or CATTLE and see more rickety ladders
with iron guides, and almost weep as l
land ON the first step and roll down the
rest.
"Is this the steerage?" / ask.
eyes; get your bunk" is the reply.
"Get your bunk?" l murmur, plain
lively: shut whore am to get it?"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
He Carried Them Long Enough

Postmaster you would like a
position as letter carrier. Have you
ever had any experience?
Applicant-Yes, sir; my wife has
always given me all her letters to post.
You might ask her.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
Light ON a Misty Legend.

Customer What do you mean, sir,
by saying that you are selling at cost?
I've been in this business myself, and
I know your prices are up 100 per
cent.
Isenstein-Vell, We are selling az
cosd-vat it cosd the customer.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
HUMOR OF THE WEEK.
STORIES TOLD BY FUNNY MEE
OF THE PRESS.

Many Odd, Curious. and Laughable
Phases of Human Nature Graphically
Portrayed by Eminent Word Artists of
Our Own Day.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
Ambiguous.

Clerk Ito patent medicine NAM
Here is curious 3dential from one
of our customers.
Medicine Man-Read it.
Clerk Before took your Elixir
my face was a sight. You ought to
see it now. Send me another bottle
for my mother-inlaw. > Brooklyn
Life.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
A Busine : Head.

Husband i save 81 by buying that
cigar by the box.
Wife-Do you, Jack? How nice it
would be if you woald only buy five,
boxes right away and give me the $40
You save for new dress.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06

CONSISTENCY is a jewel and is gen.
orally worn, as other jewels are fos
vain show
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
Second B. R=Whv?

First B. Bob. because you can
say anything you like, you know, and
he won't understand. Life.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
A Rad Precadent

Mrs. Motherhood Why is it have
such time finding nurse-girl for my
children?
Employment Agent Well, you see,
mum, some time ago lady had baby
die. and she thought so much of that
baby that after it was dead she kept
the baby's nurse right along at the old
wages, with nothing to do but walk in
park, pretending she's got the baby
with her. Since then I can't get a
nurse-girl to go into a family where
the baby looks healthy.-NeoU York
WeeEE1L
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
Alarming Symptom.

Mr.. and Mrs. Billus we're on their
way home from an evening call.
"John," inquired Mrs. Billus anx-
iously, "are you sick?"
NO." he answered. "Why?"
Because you haven't said anything
about my doing all the talking at Mrs.
Chugwater's and making a blamed
fool of myself in my usual way"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
Didn't strike Him as Unusua'.

Sunday School Teacher Tommy, in
this conflict of David with Goliath,
what great lesson may we learn?"
TOMMY don't see nothin' very big
in it, ma'am David whipped, of
course, but the prophet Samuel had
been coaching him right along"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
IN A SHIPS STEERAGE.
ACROSS THE OCEAN ON A SEC
OND-CLASS TICKET.

Experience of Passenger Who Tried 1t
from CuriOsfty-Huddled Like Cattle
Emigrants Roughly Treated-SideIights
ION a Dark subject
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06

HAVE spent twelve
days in the steerage
of an emigrant ship,
and l am still alive.
The Steerage of an
emigrant vessel -
even though it be on
an Atlantic liner-is
IA by no means
Ipalatial abode, and
the consorting to-
gether of compare
tive strangers for
days in a confined
space must be pro-
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
Undivided affection.

"Wiu you marry me?"
"Do you love me for myself alone?'
why, of course. Did you suppose
I loved you for the sake OF your six,
maiden aunts aud four. oldmaid SIS
tiers? Don't be unjust, Clara.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-06
Relaxation

First Boston belief like to talk
with O New York man.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-23
AS THEY COME NOW
The Landlords Propose to See That
They Lose Nothing.
Rents Are Going Up in All Directions
of Town.
ASSESSORS HELPED SKIN TENANTS
Some Wonderful Tales Told of Those Who
Are in the Hands of the ReIent-
less Landlords.

1t is related, and our informant is luck
lily man who owns his own home and
who does not submit to unjust exactious,
that the various landlords, from the en-
terprising A. NJ. Rigsbee, down, are just
now raising the rents on all their tenants.
This is caused by the fact that the last
board of assessors raised the rates on
these precious drones-these skin f1ints
and misers who build cheap houses with
negro labor-cheaper than the slaye-and
who exact from the white man about 40
per cent on the shambling investment
cost.
It would be precious good thing for
Durham and for the people who are
robbed in this peculiar adoption of the
highwayman's tactics, which is stand and
deliver,
If every house owned by a miserly
landlord in this city were empty.
Take the cheaply thrown together sheds
of creatures like A. M. Rigsbee and what
have you got?
Go look at them and the answer will
be in one voice-even if a thousand men
ask or answer.
Just so long as such men build their
frail and unsightly shanties and exact
big rents-just that long will Durham be
held down.
With rents going up as they are, it
would be a mean man who would ask
any one here to live or to do business in
a rented shanty.
Men who have made a fortune with
one pump should not seek to shelter
their condition with one tumble down
and rackety shanty-or dozen of them.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-23
CENTRAL M. E. CHURCH..
The Handsome Edifice to Be Dedicated
To-day.

The Handsome Edifice to BE Dedicated
To-day.
The news and Observer Of yesterday
saws Central NJ. E. Church, that ele-
giant structure which, after much labor,
was completed only few months ago,
is to be dedicated to-day by Bishop c.
B. Galloway.
1t is indeed handsome structure aud
one of which its congregation and pastor
may we'll feel just pride. Few church
ediices in the state surpass it. Its inte-
rior is strikingly elegant in design and
finish and at once impresses al who en-
ter the splendid auditorium. The Sun
day school room which in itself is suffi
cient to accommodate large cOngrega-
ton, can be thrown into the main audi
toriu II by large folding doors. There is
also handsome study in the building.
The gratitude of the congregation of
Central NJ. +. chuIch will go out to Rev.
DR.. L. L. Nash, the pastor Of Ike chuFch,
for his indefatigabie lab1rS which have
SO largely been instrum .ntal III hringin
to successful completion The coh>tfIc-
ton of this splendid editice. He has
been untiring in his work and acct m
plished much in securing subscriptions
both in and out of the city to aid in
building the church. 1t is a handsome
monument to his labors.
This beautiful church building is To-
Gated on the corner of North Person and
East Martin streets, two squares east of
the capitol, in one of the finest parts of the
city. The building is Of brick, and COW
cred with slate, and the board of trus-
| tees estimate the value at $22, 900. 1t is
one of the most beautiful church build
iings in the state, and represents the faith
and pluck of heroic congregation and
an energetic pastor. Four years ago
this congregation worshipped in hall
on Fayetteville street, having sold their
old church and parsonage property for
$4,000 and bought the lot on which the
prasent ediice now stands. They have
had four years of unusual growth and
development and to-day will dedicate
their new church building to the worship
of God.
Rev. l.. L. Nash, D. D., the pastor, under
whose efforts this work has been accom-
plished, closes his four years of labor
here this year and will go to another
field. The affection and esteem of his
congregation and of the community gen
orally will go with him.
DR.. Nash's bible cla. will present him
with gold pen and pencil this morning
in token of their affection.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-23
GETTING ALONG.

The Mangum Building on Main Street
Now Nears Completion, and is Fine.
The Mangum s. Son building-and the
finest on Main Streets. L. Leary, archi-
tect, is about completed on the outside
and is indeed an imposing building.
Michaels & Co., the live druggists, will
occupy the building.
Boone & Parker, we understand, will
have their law office in the second story
giving them much better quarters than
their present place.
BY the first of the year, if not sooner
the building will be occupied, and it is a
credit to the city.
With about a dozen more such build.
ings on the same street, Main would
loom up in great style.
And We understand that more will
crnIe with the spring.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-11-23
CHASED THEM OUT
The Mormon Missionaries Take to
the Woods.
What the Good People Of Burlington
Did About 1t.
THEY WILL PERHAPS GO ELSEWHERE
People Who Come and GO-Brief Brew.
ties of Interest to All Readers
of The Globe.

A special dispatch to The GLOBE, Of
yesterday, reads in effect that two Nor
mon missionaries who have been doing
all they c0ui6 about burlington and
that means great d. al-were rIn out Of
the town by indign nart citizens
All of this kind OF news comes in the
way Of jnsliication-comes in the way
Of lhe divine right reaching ou; and de-
strOying the false apostles; comes like
justice with mutfied feet, trying to show
the sinner that he should sin no more.
Our information is to the absolute ef-
feet that the Missionaries" so called,
were routed; that they fled from the
wrath that might soon have been and it
was well.
1t would be, too, good idea for all
people to keep wide away from these
people who have "better way"-a good
idea to let them alone until there was
absolute evidence that you could better
your condition.