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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-05
This and That.

A SMALL boy is not necessarily impe-
cunious because he is strapped.
He was mean husband who begged
his wife not to bake any more cake I'M
til he had paid his life-insurance dues.
WE all try to deceive each other, and
although we are not deceived, we give
each other to understand that we are.
AN electrical gyroscope has been de-
vised in Paris and applied to show the
rotation of the earth and to correct the
ships compasses.
IT is when a lady enters a crowded
horse-car that the man who has a seat
really feels that he is getting his
moneys worth out of newspaper,
POET (reading his latest effusion to 3
friend)-Ah! my poem. seems to affect
you very greatly-you are weeping !?
Friend-No, simply perspiring
"MY dear young lady, you must not
press so hard on the pedal when you
play" "But can't help it, because
I have been running a sewing machine
for the whole year"
JINKs-What a fellow Baggs is for
filling up his inner man. Hanks-I
should say SO He often gives his inner
man such jag to carry that his outer
man staggers under the load.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-05
The Theory of Failing Stars.

Falling stars are nothing more than
little bits of stony material which have
been leading an independent existence
on the outer realms of space, but, hav-
ing come within the attractive influence
of the earth, they are drawn down upon
it's surface AS they rush with head
long velocity through the atmosphere,
they are rendered luminous by the heat
developed by friction. The interest at
taching to them has been greatly in
creased of late years by the fact that
some astronomers see in such bodies the
raw material, as it were, from which
the visible universe is built up. Space
is supposed to be full of them, and, in
some parts, they gather into clusters,
which, by collisions among the individ-
ual members, become luminous. BY the
action of gravity these clusters become
more and more condensed, forming
nebul9, stars in various stages of for
nation, and, finally, suns and worlds
like our own. The earth, in it's course
round the same luminary, occasionally
passes through the paths of these stony
fragments, and if it meets them, draws
down upon itself starry shower which
wa 500
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-05

1t is the general opinion of the people
that the soldiers who are on the frontier
have strong forts in which they are sta
toned in times of trouble. But this is
not So They live in adobe houses, in
front of which are the parade grounds
and back of them are the stables.
The interior walls of the house are
plastered, but the ceilings are canvas
lined, because the heat of the region
seems to injure the cohesive properties
of mortar, and the sleeper is apt to be
awakened at night by a heavy shower
of plaster from above. During the
month of August the heat is so intense
that scarcely any outdoor work is done.
Indoors it is impossible to sleep, and one
losses around all night in the feverish
heat. The troops are supplied with x
beds. across the tops of which canvas is
stretched, and on these hot nights man
spreads wet sheet over his bed and
sleeps, with no covering, under the trees
in the rear of the barracks. From sun
rise until p. m. the thermometer stead
lily rises and fingers around between 100
degrees and lis degrees, falling, off
slightly between and o. m. Were
there as much moisture in the air as
along the Atlantic coast the heat would
be unbearable, out there is such a dry
ness in the atmosphere and the evapora-
tiOn is so rapid that one scarcely ever
feels the skin moist
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-05
Watch Dogs in Penitentiary.

Each of the keepers in the Edinburgh
(ScOtland) penitentiary is the owner of a
huge mastiff. These dogs are huge
creatures, ferocious as lions, muscular as
oxen, wide-awake as the traditional
weasel. They are let loose at night,
when they roam about the penitentary
grounds, and are never spoken to or
cared for by any one except their re-
spective keepers So it is impossible for
one to make friends with them. They
are trained in many ways to attack con-
victs if the latter should try to escape,
and perhaps the most horrible method is
in the way they are fed. Once day
each dog is given piece of raw, bloody
meat. But the latter is tied up in the
striped clothing worn by convicts, and
in order to get at the meat the brute has
to tear this clothing to pieces. They are
heavily chained and the parcels are
thrown down hundred feet or SO from
each kennel. Then the keepers sudden
ly loose the dogs and away they go,
madly rushing for the prizes. The dogs
grasp the striped parcel and tear the
clothing into shreds before they get at
the meat
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-05

great commerce of the West dilate con-
tinually with greater and still greater
requirements. We have already seen
how the locomotive has been developed
how the trains have grown. We have
next to show how much greater the loads
may be, and how much further the labor
and cost of transShipment may be econo.
mized
Projects for canals are rife in all di-
rections. Not long since COMPRESSION
al committee reported in favor of an
appropriation of 1913, 1000, 600 for ship
canal through the hard limestone rock
around the falls of Niagara, the cost of
which has been variOuSly estimated be-
tween $40, 600, 900 and $50, 900, 900. The
Canadians are suggesting ship canal
from the southeastern shore of Georgian
Bay at C0llingwood through the Credit
Valley to point on Lake Ontario a few
miles west of Toronto. Colingwood is
about $50 miles east from Chicago and
about the same distance from Liverpool
as from New York. This would be a
direct cut from Chicago to tide water,
via the Straits of Mackinac, and it would
avoid the devious channels of the ST:
Clair River and the treacherous shadows
of Lake ST. Clair, but it would be almost
exclusively through Canadian waters. and
would avoid all of our lake ports east of
Chicago The proposed Collingwood canal
was estimated to cost $24, 900, 600, and
the railway now suggested over the
same route just half the money.
The arbitration of history and ex-
perience ought to decide the question
whether heavily freighted vessels can be
safely carried overland. If they can be
taken bodily over the mountains of Italy
and New Zealand. if they can be moved
successfully over the Isthmus of Corinth
the portages of Sweden, the railways of
France, the inclined planes Of England,
China, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Spain,
Italy, Belgium, and Holland, or dragged
up the rapids of Nicaragua, and around
the cataracts of the Congo, there seems
to be very little doubt that they can be
conveyed II nicely adjusted ''cradles"
over weii-ballasted railways, especially
CONSTRUCTED and equipped for the pur-
pose, across the peninsula of Michigan.
According to the Government report
on transpor tation, volume 4, the total
mileage of canals was 1896, of which
1854 are now abandoned and large
portion of the remainder are not paying
expenses.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-05

ever, of connecting them by a canal
proved to be so great that all projects of
this kind were abandoned. 1t remained
for civil engineer, FL. G. G. Ketchum,
to propose ship-railway for the convey
ance of vessels with their cargOes bodily
across this isthmus, and in 1882, ninety
nine years after canal was first prof
ected, the Chignecto Marine Transport
Railway company was Incorporated by
act of the Canadian Parliament Two
thousand men are now employed upon
the work. BY reference to the usual
maps the immense economy of the route
will be apparent.
At the Bay of Fundy terminus, where
the tides have range Of thirty-eight to
forty-eight feet at spring tides, it was
necessary to build tidal basin 500 feet
long and 300 feet wide, with gate sixty
feet wide and thirty feet high This is
connected with lifting dock 23OX6O
feet, provided with hydraulic presses,
which will lift the vessels through YER
tical height of forty feet
1t is expected that the raising, trans
poration and lowering of the vessels
will all be accomplished inside Of two
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-05

isthmus, and thus elude not only their
enemies but the tabled monsters which
beset the circuit of the PelopOnnesus
Comprising sea and land" alternately
by the same means is, therefore, no new
expedient 1t has been resOrted to by
the most primitive people and by the
most cultivated-with bark Canoes boats
of hides and willows, scOw-built cars,
war-junks, galleys, and argOsies that
have "gOne down to the sea" in all chimes
and in all ages.
In the earliest history of steam pro-
pulsiOn the very first engine put ahOat
was one mounted on ScOW-built car in
the city of Philadelphia in the year 1904,
making it's own way, like turtle, over
the paved streets one and half miles to
the Schuylkill River, then taking to the
water, padding down the stream to the
Delaware, and thence back to the city,
making better time on land than the Or
binary carriages, and distancing the
wind bound water craft struggling
against the tide, or floating with it, on
the rivers This strange craft was called
the Oruckter AmphibOlis (Amphibian
Digger. being constructed for the health
department of the city, and intended to
go on land or water, as it's name implied.
This, it will be noticed, was three years
before Fultons boat and twenty years
before Stephenson's locomotive.
This was not only the first practical
steamboat but the first locomotive and
the first useful high-pressure engine.
Yet it's ingenious inventor, after prOcur-
ing his patent in 1887, had struggled
along, with the full consciousness of his
great invention, searching in vain for
some substantial recognition, until in
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-05
Banking in Japan.

mo, the banking system of Japan is
not exactly like that of America, but
my bank. the Bank of Japan, is man
aged something similar to the Bank of
England" said c. Nagasaki, Japanese
financier. The visitor is here looking
over the banking system of the United
States.
"The Bank of Japan never loans
money direct to the individual" con-
tinued Mr.. Nagasaki. Before any
loans are made the notes must first be
Endorsed by some private banking con-
Germ. The interest charged by our es-
Enlistment is 5 per cent, but the
smaller concerns charge from to 10
per cent. The national debt is 800,
900, 900, and the bonds that are issued
for this amount pay from 5 to per
cent. It is the pensions of the ex-mil
itary men of the feudal times and their
families that keep the country in debt.
The Japanese banker said the recent
stringency in the money market was
felt in his country, and there were also
few failures.
"But the failures are not so frequent
as n America" he said, because we
do not speculate SO much"
Mr.. Nagasaki also said the only
money in circulation in Japan was sill
yer coin and silver certificates. Gold,
he explained, was only used for foreign
exchange.
The capital stock of the Bank of
Japan is $2O,OOO,OOO, but the concern
has the privilege, the visitor said, of
issuing 1856, 100000 in bonds. All the
revenues of the Government are paid
into this bank.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-05

hours. The plan is to transport in this
manner loaded vessels up to 1000 tons
burden. The entire cost of the project
is estimated at $5,OOO,O 900. The maxi
mum weight to be raised, as now stated,
is $500 tons, which includes the 'grid-
iron, )" the cradle, and a loaded vessel of
1000 tons displacement. AS to the
safety of vessels thus transported over
land it only needs to be borne in mind
that the strength of avessel is in her keel
and her framework, and not in the
"treacherous wave" by which she is sur
rounded and with which she is called
upon to buffet. Such are the immense
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-05
The Whites and the Blacks.

Any one who thinks that the negroes
will ever gain supremacy in this country
is wrong, as the following shows: In
1890 there were 3,172,O00 more whites
than negroes, in 1880 there were 48, 575,-
900 more, in 1890 nearly 55, 900, 900 more,
and. if the present rates of increase are
maintained, there will be in 1890 /, O67.-
100000 more. The negroes gain moth
ing from immigration, while the whites
gain millions thereby. I his is not
phase of the negro question that need
cause anxiety.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-05

1904, seventeen years after the date of
his patent, he was content to procure an
order for this mud-scow III order to
test it.
Commerce can no longer wait "the
slow barge" 1t must force it's way by
steam and electricity. The very levia-
thans must be caught up and hastened
on their way Even the railway is urged
to its utmost capacity. Man is no longer
willing to tarry for that slime and tide"
which once rebuked his hardness. He
is "tOo slow" who is not up with the one
and far ahead of the other. Canals are
IN great measure things c. the past
and the railway itself needs to look well
80 its laurels. New appliances are every
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-05

tides of the Bay of Fundy that vessels
moored at the docks at ST. Johns are
every day left "high and dry"
In St. Johns harbor the tide rises
twenty-one feet on an ordinary day, and
O .casionally.varies the scale three or four
feet At the extreme head of the bay it
is said to rise at times from sxty-five to
seventy five feet, and run at the rate OF
fifteen miles an hour. This is not only
the highest tide in the known world, but
double that of any other.
Major Jones, of the United States En-
gineer Corps, had recently designed the
plans for ship railway to avoid the
dangerous navigation at The Dalles, on
the Columbus River. These have now
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-05
Electric Cars as a Rheumatic Cure.

In spite of the assertions of doctors
and electricians that there is no proba-
bility of rheumatic receiving benefit
from riding in electric cars, there are
dozens of men in different cities who
testify to the good that has been done
them by riding in the motors. They
all say they can feel no current, but in
some manner they have been helped.
MOTHER (mournfully)-My dear
Charlie, what would you do if I hap
pened to die? Little Charlie eagerly
I'D eat all the sugar.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-05
The Origin of High Heels.

High heels originated in Persia, where
they were attached to sandals in the
shape of blocks of wood to raise the feet
from the burning sands of that country.
With men these blocks were two inches
high, but with the women they were
worn as high as two feet. Many years
afterward the custom came into vogue
in Venice, where such supports of shoes
were called "chapineys."
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-05

The Athenians, however, were the first
people of any prominence who not only
constructed large ships but habitually
carried them overland. Smaller vessels
had been employed in this manner in va
rious countries, but the Athenians found
it necessary to construct tramway at
the head of the Bay of COrinth in order
to convey their war galleys over the
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-05

II E instincts Of
aboriginal man, the
devices of strateg-
lists and explorers,
the demands of
commerce, and the
exigencies of war
have been rife with
inventions and eX-
pedients to over
come the 0bstruc-
tions which nature
has thrown in our
path ever since the
ark was lifted upon
the waters of the
flood and finally
rested with its
freight Npo9 the
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-05

mountains OF Arat. +"
The aboriginal people of all countries
seem to have developed, up to q certain
point, very much the same ideas OF naval
architecture, canoes cut out of logs, and
subsequently boats fashioned of light
frames Of wood and covered with the
skins of animals or the bark of trees
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-05
AREAS OF STATES AND TERRI
TORIES

AS Shown by the Government Census Re-
port.
The areas in square miles of the States
and Territories, exclusive of Alaska,
have been carefully revised for the Gov
ernmentscensus report of 1890, and now
stand aS follows.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-05
SHIP RAILWAY SCHEMES
PROPOSED LINE ACROSS THE
MICHIGAN PENINSULA.

Set the Example to Modern
Engineers in Their POrtages Across the
Isthmus of Panama-Schemes of Sim
lar Nature Now Under Way.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-05
The Soldiers, Abode in the West.

Total. ......... 3.025 600 SIS 900 100000
Including Cherokee country and No Man s
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-30
A CLOSE GAME.
THE APOLLO AND ALL-STAR TEAMS
HAVE A HOT BATTLE.
Points in Yester days Contest at Athletic
Park-Hassamer Makes HIS Debut as a
Twirler and Scores a Success Good
Playing Throughout.

Yesterdays game at Athletic park be-
tween the All-Star Californians and Los
Angeles teams was one of the best if not
the best played here this season. AS
will be seen by the totals, the score was
close, and for several innings the teams
were on even terms. 1t was anybody Is
game until the last man was out.
Hassamer and Lelande and Moody
and Stanley were the batteries, and
contributed largely to make the game
Interesting.
1t is surprising that the public is not
giving the management better support.
They have at great expense fitted up
grounds second to none in the state, and
secured players of national reputation
to play on the teams. The series be-
tween the All-Star team and Edwards
and Meningitis Apollos has been the
best played in this city for years, and
with the excertlon of one game, the
result has beep uncertain until the last
: inning WAS fIlshed. ~
Popular prices was the cry of the
public when the high rates of admis.
sion were in vogue, and the managers OF
this series have acceded to the popular
demand and provided better accommo-
dations than the people of this city have
ever known and the teams are giving
first class exhibitions.
The features of the game were Hasa
mer's all-round playing, Dungan's long
run and catch of Moody's fly to left field,
which saved the game, and Goldie s
beautiful catch in right field.
During the game the Los Angeles boys
took in nineteen fly balls; the fielding
OF both teams was almost errorless, as
can be understood when the score stood
3 to in favor of the Los Angeles at the
finish.
Friday, Saturday and Sundays games
should bring out big crowds. The elec-
trio company put on extra cars for the
games and are giving excellent service.
The score follows:
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-30
SIGNALS OF DISTRESS.

Tho Reported Loss of Passenger
Steamer-A Frelghter Overdue.
NoRTALK, Va, Dec. 20. Captain Hop
kins of the British steamer Ocean Queen,
which arrived here after storm in
which she lost four men, reports that he
saw large ocean steamer which was
from all appearances passenger steam
er bound from Liverpool to New York,
flying signals of distress. Owing to q
dense iog, he was unable to 60 to her
assistance. When the fog lifted moth
ing could be seen of the steamer and the
captain is positive that she was wrecked.
THE OCEAN QUEEN A MYTH.
NORFOLK, Va, Dec. 29.-Nothing is
known in shipping circles here of the
wrecked steamer said to have been
reported by Captain Hopkins of the
Ocean Queen. There is no vessel here
named Ocean Queen.
A FREIGHT STEAMER OVERDUE.
BosroN, Dec. 29.-The freight steamer
Stockholm OF the Furneeia line, which
plies between London and Boston, is
aeven days overdue. and there is come
anxiety as to her whereabouts.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-30
A HAPPY SEA DOG.
TACITURN ADMIRAL BROWN LIKES
PASADENA.
He Says the San Francisco Is Not Or
dered to Chile-Awaiting Instructions
in San Diego Bay.

Admiral Brown, in command of the
Pacific squadron of the United States
navy, was in town for few minutes
yesterday and was seen by HERALD re-
porter just as he was boarding the Santa
Fe train from San Diego at 8 O'Clock.
81 am here simply on pleasure trip"
said he, after he had refused to answer
several commonplace questions put to
him by the reporter. 81 observed yes
terday that the San Francisco, which
you know is lying in San Diego harbor,
was about to take on coal, and not de-
string to be converted into negro from
the dust, my wife and l decided to take
a flying trip to Pasadena, and we have
just returned after pleasant visit and a
view of one OF the prettiest little cities
upon EARTH"
''Is the San Francisco going to sail for
Chile?" ventured the reporter.
"Well, that l am not prepared to
say" rejoined the admiral, as he
glanced downward, admiringly, npon
his expansive chest.
"Has the vessel been ordered there ?"
persisted the reporter, greatly to the
discontinue of the man of many battles
mo, she has not," said he. "She
will be all ready for sea by tomorrow,
and then we will remain in the harbor,
awaiting orders, which l expect to re-
ceive at any moment"
SIN case of war with Chile" asked
the scribe, what steps will the govern
ment be likely to take to fortify the
harbors of San Diego and San Pedro
against the possible encroachment of
that hostile power?"
"You will have to ask that gentleman
there" replied the admiral as he turned
good-naturedly toward General McCook,
who stood beside him, as he attempted
to stand off the reporter. "You know,
in case OF war, it is the place of the army
to provide coast defenses."
The reporter then asked the admiral if
he thought war with Chile imminent.
"rhat is hard question to answer"
he replied, land if l could answer it 1
would hesitate to dc so, for the simple
reason that my opinion would not
amount to much"
The reporter thought likewise and
withdrew from the august presence of
the battle-scarred veteran of the Pacific.