Wisconsin Afro-American., 1892-10-08

weekly paper published in the interest
OF the colored people at Milwaukee, is
spending few days in the city. His
paper presents very neat and attrac-
tive front and the past progress made
by the colored people as related by Mr..
Jones is very attractive.-Sheboyg
Evening Telegram.
We have during a portion of this
week and the latter part of last spent
very delightful as well as profitable
time in Sheboygan, the beautiful and
prosperous manufacturing city, situated
on the east shore of Lake Michigan, and
traversed by the Lake Shore & North
western Railway. Among the vast
manufacturing interests the most no.
ticeable are the chair factories. One of
these, the Crocker Chair Co, being
the largest and having the greatest
output of any concern of a similar ma
ture in the United States. Others, al
most equally as great in production,
boygan Chair Co., Frost's Veneer
Seating Co., Phoenix Chair Co.,
Priessler Bros Novelty Co., Gardner
Toy Co., Dellingham Manufacturing
Co., manufactures of easy chairs, etc,
American Manufacturing Co, manu-
facturers of toys, and the NJ Winter
Lumber Co., manufacturers of seats.
The tanneries are also an import
ant factor to the commonwealth
Zschetzsche g. Son and the Roe
nitz Co. employing several hundred
men. Zschetzsche & Son also conduct
large shoe factory in addition to their
tannery. Taking in the three found
ries and a number of other establish
ments, too numerous to mention, and
representing great wealth, we found
them all prospering, ventilation good,
help receiving good wages and seem
ingly happy, the firms paying salaries
aggregating upwards of two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars per month
for labor all (bless that able exponent
ofprotection, VIM. Mckinley, Jr.) under
protective tariff system. On Friday
evening, in company with Mr.. Dave
Royal, we attended an entertainment
of the Y. M. G. A., and through the in
fluence of that gentleman made several
new and acceptable acquaintances.
Mr. Royal, by the way, is the only col
ored man residing in this city perma-
nently, and his prestige and ability
makes all who come in contact with
him cOncede his worth. If all of our
people would endeavOr to build them
selves up in communities as Mr.. Royal
wherever we go. He is well known
and highly esteemed in Milwaukee,
having formerly resided there. On
Saturday evening a grand Repubh-
can rally took place and speeches were
listened to from Senator Spooner
and others. T. 81. Jones, managing
editor WISCONSIN AFRo-AMERICAN, had
an opportunity of making short and
telling address stating the wrongs that
were being perpetrated against his
people in the South, and of the preJu-
dice that existed in the North, with
reference to ostracising our young and
educated colored men and women who
were capable of holding positions re-
curing mental calibre as we'll as our
nkA in
vices of the First Congregational Church
Sunday evening, and listening for one
hour to the Rev. Lathrop, the mission
ary of that denomination who has been
South doing a grand work among the
poor neglected and illiterate colored
people of that section, the represen-
tatives of the WISCONSIN AFRo-AMERI-
CAN sought their couches, avowing that
their future lives should be spent as
Rev. Lathrop had spent his, so that
when that monster (grim DEATH called
them, they could succumb to the inevi-
table in peace and happiness.
How tho "Zero" Originated.
With the mercury close to the
nineties it is interesting to recall the
origin Of the thermometric zero" A
Prussian merchant named Fahrenheit
was what we would call weather
sharp; he watched the weather close
ly. One day by accidentally ming
ling snow and salt he perceived that
a degree of cold equal to that of the
coldess day in his experience had
been produced at once. He called
that degree "zero'-nothing.
THERE is sometimes constitutional
warrant, for hanging a man. il there