Kenosha Telegraph

Yankee Tricks At The World's Fair.—
From the admirable London correspondence of the Boston Transcript, we make the following extract:
A sensation was raised a day or two since by the exploit of Mr. A. C. Hobbs, locksmith, from Lockport. He picked the heretofore supposed unpickable Chubb lock—which laughed at all English locksmiths and rogues. It is the reliance of bankers, and secures the archives of the government. He opened the chest in just fifteen minutes, with some sort of crooked Yankee nail he carried in his vest pocket. He offered ten thousand dollars for the privilege of trying to open the lock of the safe in which the great regal diamond, belonging to the Queen, valued at two million pound sterling, is deposited nightly at the close of the daily exhibition. But no one dare trust him near it with that strange looking hook.
A padlock is hanging up in Piccadilly, with a reward of two hundred guineas to whoever opens it by fair means. Mr. Hobbs proposes to give it a try the first leisure hour. And it is the opinion of those who know something of his extraordinary mechanical endowments, that he can quietly, ease the lock of the money.
A Mr. Herring, from New York. has a plain counting room safe in the exhibition, over which is a sign, thus: "This contains two hundred sovereigns. The key is at the office of the U. S. Commissioner—at the service of any one, and the money shall be the reward of the person who opens it." Now these are regarded as queer doings. There the key hangs, and Mr. Herring has posted off to France, confident that his gold is in the only place where it will be perfectly secure.