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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04
How Much Fruit is Enough.

81 think my family canned enough fruit
last season to enable me to have it on my
table every day in the year"
Such was the remark made to me few
days ago by my neighbor d. 1t GER
talnly was what very few, even of our
most enthusiastic fruit growers, are able to
say and the facts led to some reflections
which will bear ststing here.
Neighbor L, we will admit, has as
much fruit as he and his family will be
will be likely to consume the year round |
supposed that tuy own family was pretty
literally supplied, also; but his far exceeds
mine, and am quite certain that mine as
far exceeds that of one-half-yea of nine
teen-tweDtieths-of my neighbors. l might
put IN still stronger light, and say that
while one family in community has as
much fruit az it will need or can consume,
with moderate daily use, there are not less
sumo over one quart weekly.
What utter nonsense, then, for men to be
crosking about the superabundance of fruit,
the prospect Of over stocking the market,
and all such forebodings of evil to fruit
growers. And yet every community has
one or more Of this class of old fogies. |
remember just such in my boyhood and
yet people have continued to plant, till the
quantity is ten fold greater everywhere, and
the price has continued to advance aud
even nova large portion Of the people have
yet to learn that the small fruits-to say
nothing of apples-can be made a part of
their legitimate daily food.
How ong before all the people will be as
well edu Gated up to the use of fruit as is
my neighbor II, and how much will be
enough to supply the country when that
time shall arrive Cor, HorticultriSt
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04
In ELOQUENT Extract.

Generation after generation" says a
fine writer, ''h ave felt as we now feel, and
their lives were as active as our own. They
passed like vapor, while nature wore the
same aspect of beauty as when her Creator
command her to be. The heavens shall be
as bright over our graves as they are now
around our paths The world will have the
same attractions for our off spring yet IN
born as it had once for our children. Yet
a little while, and all will have happened.
The throbbing heart will be stified, and all
will be at rest. Our funeral will wind its
way, and prayers will be said, and then we
shall be left alone in silence and darkness
for the worms. And, it may be, for shorl
time we shall he spoken of but the things
Of life will creep in, and our names will soon
be forgotten. Days will continue to move
on, and laughter and song will be heard in
the room in which we died; and the eye
that mourned for Us will be dried, and
glisten again with joy; and even our child.
rem will cease to think of us, and will
not remember to lisp our names"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04

A TEXAS CATTLE RANOHE.-A Texas pa,
per gives description of the Rancho de
Santa Gertrudes, 35 miles Northwest Of
Corpus Christi, from which the following
extract is taken:
This famous rancho is owned by Messrs.
King & Kennedy, and, it is said is the lar
gest rancho in the world. The cattle Craze
out for distance of fifty miles, and are
looked after mainly by Mexican herdsmen.
The number of calves branded this year
will foot up 10000, and the number of cat
tie belonging to the rancho is estimated at
100000. There are now between $4,000
and 10000 marketable beeves there Be-
sides this stock there are also horses, mules
sheep and goats, which are almost equal in
number to the horned cattle. A hotel is
kept on the rancho for the benefit of custo-
mers, and the amount of patronage it re-
ceives is said to be as great as any hotel in
the State.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04
What the Sunbeam Saw,

'Stay, dear sunbeam murmured a
bright wood-lily, as the sunshine danced in
one day among the pine tree branches.
Stay while and rest upon this bright
carpet of moss and tell ms story. 1t is
so quiet here to-day, III the forest, that l
almost sleep. | wish | could get out into
the world, and see some of the fine sights
there What gay time you must have Of
it, dancing about wherever you please from
morning till night !"
NAY, said the sunbeam, 81 cannot stop
to tell you all | have seen /; but if you care
to hear it will tell you what was the pref
test sight of all"
''Do, said the wood-lily, bending her
graceful head to listen
Il was kissing away the tears that the
night had left on a cluster of climbing roses
that overhung a cottage window, said the
sunbeam, 'when heard the sweet sound of
children's voices. looked within and saw
two dear little girls at play Many pretty
toys were scattered round the room, and
each OF the little ones had doll clasped in
her chubby arms. | thought then, lovelier
than the flowers Of the garden, and their
happy voices made sweeter music than the
birds. By-and by they put up their sweet
lips and kissed each other, while lowered
over them with delight, caressing their
cheeks and brows, and turning their brown
curls to shining gold
"a pretty sight, indeed, that must have
been, said the wood-lily
''And now said the sunbeam, shall
tell you the saddest sight that have seen
to-day"
The wood.hly bent her pretty head still
lower.
s. went again to ses the dear children,
to give them my parting blessing; but |
found them, alas how changed Harsh
words issued from their rosebud lips, frowns
clouded their fair white brows and their
little hauds-ah shall | tell it ?-v ere
raised in anger"
That was sad sight, surely" said the
wood lily.
"A sad sight!'' murmured the summer
wind through the pine boughs
"a sad sight," breathed cluster of vio-
lets while tears fell from their blue eyes in
to the little stream beside which they grew.
"a sad sight ~ echoed the stream as it
rippled on its way.
GA sad sight !" sang the birds i'll the
branches overhead
So it was as if gloom had suddenly set
tied itself over the forest, and all because of
the sad story which the sunbeam had told
Have a care, dear children, that no sun
beam ever has so sad story TO tell Of you.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04
IN UMBER /.
Bathing in the Dead Sea,

From work recently published in Eng
land, the annexed extract on the buoyancy
of the waters of the Dead Sea is taken
Though in breadth not exceeding ten
miles, the Dead Sea seems boundlsss to the
eye when looking from north to south, and
| the murmur of the waves, as they break
upon the flint strewn shores, together with
the lines of drift wood and fragments OF
bitumen on the beach, give to it's waters a
resemblance of the ocean Curious to ex-
perence the sensation of swimming in so
strange a sea, put to the test the various
accounts of the extreme bouyancy felt in il,
and was quickly convinced that there was
no exaggeration in what | had heard
found the water almost tepid, and SO strong
that the chief difficulty was to keep suffi-
GENTLY submerged, the feet stratiug up in.
to the air at every vigorous streke. When
floating, half the body rose above the sur
face, aud, with a pillow, one might have
slept on the water. After time the
strangeuess of the sensation in some meas
ure disappeared, and on approaching the
shore carelessly dropped my feet to walk
out-when 10 as if bladder had been at
tached to each heel they flew upwards
The struggle to recover myself sent my
head down the bitter and bripy stuff, from
which | bad hitherto guarded my head,
rushed into my mouth, eyes, ears and nose,
and for one horrible moment the only doubt
had was whether was to be drowned or
poisoned. Coming to the surface however,
swain to land, making no further attempt
to walk in dead water which am inclined
to think is aiu4ost impossible
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04

POTATO RAISING ON A SMALL SCALE --Pota-
toes can be raised on a small but profitable
scale by any one having four by eight feet
of spare ground in their back yard. Pro-
cure a crate, such as China ware is import
ed in, and place in the bottom about six
inches of straw drop potatoes on this sur
face say six inches spart, then six inches of
straw, then more potatoes, and so on till the
crate is full Wet the contents of the crate
thoroughly, and afterwards throw bucket
full of water over the surface every even
ing, The potatoes will produce abundant
Iy, When large enough to eat they can be
drawn out, aud will be found to be perfect
ly white, with very thin skin. The ex
pertinent is certainly worth trying.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04
KENosHA WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, JUNE T. 1868
Agricultural Statistics.

From the report of the Department Of
Agriculture, the Philadelphia Ledger CLEANS
some interesting items the Indian corn
crop is returned by States as follows New
York, 20, 600, 900 bushels, an average OF
30.4 bushels to the acre New Jersey g..
730, 900 bushels, an average of 331 bushels
to the acre; Pennsylvania, 80, 457, 900 BUSH
els, an average of 80 bushels to the acre !;
and Delaware, 1888, 900 bushels an aver
age of 16 3 to the acre. OF wheat, New
York raised - 812, 600 bushels, an average
Of IA to the acre New Jersey, 1908, 600,
an average of ID; Pennsylvania, 16, 515. 600,
an average of 1915; and Delaware, 685, 900,
an average of 9.3. OF oats, New York
raised 48'626, 900 bushels, an average of
1862 the acre New Jersey, 628,0 00 an
average of 81 Pennsylvania, 59,000,000
an average of 80 !; and Delaware, 2. I'll, coo,
an average of 1866. Pennsylvania, it will
thus be seen, raised larger crop of corn.
wheat and cats than New York last year,
but in wheat aud oats New York had a
larger average yield per acre. Of potatoes,
last year New York raised "a, 925, 600 bush
els, an average of "a bushels to the acre
New Jersey, 2,424, 900 bushels, an average
of 500; Pennsylvania, II, 727, 900, an av-
erage of TIA and Delaware 256, 900 an
average of 41.6. The potato rot was de-
structive in New Jersey last year. Of hay,
New York raised 339, 900 TONS New Jersey
$50, 900, Pennsylvania, 2. 424, 900, and Del
aware $4,000 tons. The largest average
yield of hay was in Delaware, one and sis-
tenths tons to tie acre In New York it
was the smallest-one and two tenths. In
Pennsylvania and New Jersey it was one
and three enths tons to the acre. Through
out the United States the largest average
yield of corn was in Kansas, 38 6 bushels to
the acre, whilst Ohio had 287 and illinois
238. The smallest average yield was in
South Carolina. 90. OF wheat the largest
average yield was in Connecticut, 17.5
bushels to the acre, and the smallest was in
South Carolina. GA Ohio had lie and Hi
nois ia. Of oats. the largest average yield
was in Iowa, 40 bushels to the acre, and the
smallest in South Carolina Ill. Ohio had
31.1 bushels and Illinois SOL. Of potatoes.
the largest average was in Florida, 143
bushels and the smallest in Delaware, Al 6.
Several States, Vermont, Georgia, Florida,
Louisiana, Texas Iowa, and Kansas raised
over 160 bushels of potatoes to the acre.
Of hay, the largest yield was one and nine
tenth tons to the acre, and this occurred in
Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska The smallest
yield reported is one ton, and this occurred
in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermot, South
Carolina and Alabama.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04
Substitute for Bean Poles.

EDS. PRAIRIE FARMER AS dwellers in the
prairie regions are sometimes at loss
where to get bean poles. it may be well to
know that good pole may be grown with
the beans, by planting sunhower seed
with from four to six beans around it. The
sunhower will keep ahead of the beans, and
they will run up the stem. Cut off the
lower leaves of the sunhower, as they get
large, so as not to interfere with the climb
ing of the beans. | have not tried this but
a neighbor showed me Lima beans raised in
this way, last year, and they were large,
noble fellows. shall try some this year,
with the new Russian sunhower for
poles. END.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04
Saving the Pew Rent.

Mr.. r. called to get the pew rent from
one of the pew holders in the church, and
it was drawn forth from the well filled pock.
ct book very reluctantly.
''Thrre, that is the last five dollars shall
pay you; you may let my pew to some
body else, | shan't waste any more money
in that way while times are SO hard''
In vain the gentleman sought to alter his
resolution, by referring to his two sons in
the Sabbath school. What would be the
effect of such an example upon them ? But
the old mans mind was made up. He
was determined to ''save his money"
Well, he did save his five dollars soon
his boys dropped off from the Sabbath
school. Their fathers example was easy
to follow. And as they gave up going to
church and the Sabbath school, you can
readily guess where they did go. They
rambled off into the woods and fields with
! evil companions, and soon got into the habit
Of dropping into liquor saloons.
The old man saved his pew rent, but his
worthless boys squandered all his proper
ty, which they managed to get into their
hands, and in their old age he was turned
out into the world houseIess and penniess
His five dollars cost him over eight thous-
and dollars, and who can estimate all the
other losses?
If you wish to see your families grow up
shiftless, worthless and incorporate, there
is no better way to insure it than to for
sake the sanctuary. Who ever did it and
permanently prospered The Sabbath
breakers are not the men in any communi-
ty to be trusted. Boys who stroll about
| ON Sabbath, almost without execution.
make worthless men. Look about among
those in your own neighborhood, and see if
your own observation does not correspond
with the statement. Thea, if you have no
higher motive than earthly prosperity, take
your children with you to Gods house.
upon his holy day. Then his Spirit may
meet with your soul, and rescue you
from eternal ruin, as we'll as save you from
thousand SHARES of Satan in this life
] Banner.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04

| A TURKISH BATH. What ia it like p
| Nothing under the sun. 1t is itself and
stands alone in its originality. Its virtue
is cleanliness. You, gentle reader, think
yourself clean because you battle every
day. Enter Turkish bath disrobe, and
you recline in room where the thermome.
ter marks one hundred and twenty degrees
| Not unpleasant but very provoking of per.
spiration Twenty minutes pass and You
are ushered into room where one hundred
and forty degrees is the lowest degree Of
heat, and an upward tendency 10 character
istic. You don't perspire you are a num-
Der Of living fountains. Rub your body
Are you clean ? What means that scurf
which peeIs off like the bark of willow ?
You never had before TeaLizing sense Of
how many pores opened in each square inch
of your skin, nor how actively each pore
: worked during the day You are par boiled.
Well, you needed it. You enter the sham
pooling room, and you are pulled and slap
PED in way that reminds you of youthful
experience, then Iathered and scrubbed with
a brush of coacoanut fiber then sprinkled
as Baptists we confess its potent effects !;
after immersion in tank Of cold water you
are dried, wrapped in sheet or blanket and
laid on lounge where you cool off. You
go forth clean. The old Jews would have
hailed the Turkish bath as religious insti.
tuition.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04

We learn from the Denver GAZETTE tina
a place by the name of Laramie City has re-
Gently sprung up on the Union Pacific Railt
road, and thousand lots were sold in one
week, The town is situated near Fort San
ders and Laramie River, in the heart Of a
fine agricultural region. 1t is located, also
in the midst of a rich mineral and well tim
bered region.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04

| AN EDEN IN CALIFORNIA is the vine-
yards and orange and lemen orchards that
make Los Angeles the garden spot of Cal
ifornia. just imagine collection of gar.
dens, six miles square, and producing at all
times of the year almost everything that
grows under the sun One of the largest
and most beautiful places in the city is the
Wolfskill vineyards, containing 1000 orange
trees, 1000 lemon trees, 500 walnut, 100
fig and 100 lime trees and 55, 900 grape
vines. Near by is the vineyard of Mr..
Childs, containing 500 orange, 100 lemon,
600 apple, 800 pear and the same number
each of peach, plum, nectarine, apricot,
olive walnut and chestnut trees, and TO- 600
viuss Right in the heart of the city is
Don Msteo Kelers place containing 100 600
grape wires, 1000 lemon, 500 orange, 100
lime, 100 olive, 200 walnut and 100 fig
trees, and all Of the other variety of fruits
known in the South and in the semi-tropics
de also raises hops, cotton aud tobacco
wheat, barley corn, all kinds of vegetables
and everything of the berry tribe. Last
fall Mr.. Keller made 100 900 gallons of
wine and nearly as much brandy A few
miles froHa the city Mr. Rose has vine
yard of 200 grape vines Near him is the
vineyard of Colonel Kewen, containing TO-
600 vines, 800 walnut 500 orange and 800
each of lemon and olive trees 1t must be
recollected that from little elevation n
the center of this garden city may he seen
the broad Pacific on the one hand, and upon
the other 200 miles of mountains covered
with snow. No such picture may be seen
upon the Mediterranean Sea
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04

Cheyenne has fifty three dry goods and
clothing stores, eleven drug stores, over
fifty groceries, one hundred and twenty ga
looms, ten dance houses, six billiard saloons
from ten to fifteen wholesale groceries, some
eighteen hotels, over fifty restaurants and
boarding houses, and from twelve to fifteen
corraIs Of the largest capacity for holding
stock
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04
The Lady's Dream.
BY THOMAS HOOD.

BY THOMAS HOOD.
Alas l have walked through life,
Too needless where trod;
Nay, helping to trample my fellow worm,
and fill the burial sod
Forgetting that even the sparrow falls
Not unmarked by God
drank the richest draughts
And ate whatever was good
Fish and flesh and fowl and fruit,
Supplied by hungry mood
But never remembered the wretched ones
That starve for the want of food.
dressed as the mobiles dress,
In cloth Of silver and gold,
With silk and satin and costly furs,
In many an ample fold;
Bat never remembered the naked limbs
That froze with winters cold!
The wounds might have healed
The human sorrow aud smart
And yet ii never was in my soul
To play so i'll part
But evil is wrought by want of thought
As well as want of heart,
She clasped her fervid hands,
Aud the tears began to stream
81 Large and bitter and fast they fell.
Remorse was so extreme
And yet, oh, yet, that many a dame
Weuld dream the Lady's dreaml
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04

In certain town in Eastern Kansas,
few days since at the annual school meet
ing, simon pure Democrat attended and
voted and went away honestly believing
that it was the regular annual election of
city officers-another evidence Of the ''su-
periority of the white race"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04

During the mouth Of April there were
II, 038 acres of land entered III the Sioux
City, Iowa, Land Office District Ninety
eight of the entries-covering more than
one half of the total entries-were for ac-
tual settlement.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04

A tour of the world will soon be a very
easy undertaking. When the Pacific Rail
road is finished, from New York to San
Francisco to Hong Kong, by way Of Yoko-
ma, twenty days from Hong Kong. by
steamer, to Suez, thirty-twe days from
SusH to Paris, six days from Paris to New
York, ten days; in all, seVenty-tive days'
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04

The Chicago Times admits big crowd
at the convention, but adds that there was
no enthusiasm. Looking from Democratic
standpoint, it is not strange it should think
30. A Democrat can see no enthusiasm
where there is no one drunk.-RAoINE (WIs.)
JoTPNAT
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04

Four gentlemen who invested $4,000
each in manufacturing enterprise in De-
troit, Mich, four years ago, have made since
that time over $250,000 their net profit
last year being upward Of $75 900 The
Detroiters claim that this shows their city
a superior place for business. 1t shows bet
ter the character of the men engaged
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04
Affairs in England

The New York TRIBUNE comments upcI
the present state of affairs in England a,
follows:
While England is passing through one Of
the most mementous crises in her history,
and the Tory Ministers may any day deem
it Necessary to tender their resignation, the
Queen, as though she were altogether uu.
concerned in the transformation of the
country, is on sudden going to Balmoral.
1t is natural that the English press is
shocked by this indifference to important
State affairs. Victoria is admired as a
woman, wife, and mother, but as a
Queen she does not strengthen the attach
ment of the English people to her dynasty,
and to monarc hisim 10 general.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04

The congregation of the Reformed Church
of Peirp ont street, Brooklyn, has paid the
rent Of four hundred and eighty poor
families during the past winter and spring.
No inquiry has been made as to religious
belief
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04

The WELSH IN WISCONSIN. The number
and character of our Welsh population in
this State is not generally appreciated. A
relative idea may be gained by reference to
the following statement of the amounts
paid by the Welsh of several states to the
American Bible Society, during the year
1867, in donations and for the purchase of
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04
The American Girl,

1t is the belief of certain well meaning
men who are not born in Constantinople,
that if the American girl were called on to
meet proportion of Der expenses by her
own labor, she would be publicly a great
blessing, personally healthier, wiser and
happier. 1t is even believed that her out
lay, instead of increasing would diminish.
Practiced i'll the mystery of keeping ac-
counts, aware by experience of the Difficult
ty of earning money, she would become
clearer enough to save it. With something
to do, she would put less mind, time and
purse into the pursuit of pleasure Mated
at last with poor man, (so many are in.
corrigibly vicious that way y she would
share his burden rather than crush him
with it. If all women now were thus, we
should have no cause to cry, as we are
sometimes tempted to do, oh ! for the slow
but cheap girl of thirty years SINCE
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04

If any further evidence were needed of in
telIigence and morality, it might be added
that they are almost without exception, Re-
publicans
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04

Mr.. Ross, the Kansas Senator, was fore
man of the Milwaukee Sentinel in 1856, and
in that year emigrated TO Kansas.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-04
POSTERS AND HANDBILLs.

For Programmes and Bills requiring az unusual
amount decomposition, or for bordering and ofsey
extra work, reasonable charges viii be made