The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-10-05
AN ANEcDorE OF BARONESS BuRDErr

writes to the GOLOe71 Age THIS story:
Of course she is well-known and most
welcome customer at all the fashionable
shops in London, but she is not so fami
liar a habitue of the shops of Paris. Du-
ring visit to this latter city, not very
long since, she learned the death of dis
tant relative, and she went to purchase
mourning at the shop, the Trois Quar-
tiers, a large dry goods established some
thing like, ''to compare great things
with small" our own Stewards.
She asked for mourning dress goods,
and was shown by one of the attentive
shopmen to the proper department.
PLEASE show this lady mourning stufs, )"
he said, "two ten"
Miss COutts made her selection and
then asked for mourning collars; the
clerk who had waited on her accompan
led her to the proper counter. "Please
show ills lady mourning collars-two
ten," said he, and left her. From this
department she went to~look for mourn
ing pocket handlxerchiefs, escorted by
the clerk, who passed her over to his sue
cessor with the request, Show this lady
pocket handkerchiefs.- ten."
AS she had still other articles to buy,
she was escorted from counter to counter,
department to department, and every
where those cabalistic words, "two-ten,'
were repeated by one clerk to another.
Struck with the popularity of this re-
frsin, she asked the proprietor as she left
the establishment, "Pray what does two
ten mean noticed each clerk said it to
the other ia your shop"
ooh, it is nothing" he replied 'mere
Iy password that they are IN the habit
Of exchanging"
But Miss Coutts was not satisfied with
this explanation. Her woman's curiosity
Was piqued, and she resolved to unravel
the riddle. S. in the evening, when the
porter, young boy, brought home her
purchases, after paying her bill, she said,
"My boy, would you like to earn five
lrancs?"
OF course he had no objection to do so,
and only wanted to know In what way
he could do it.
Tell me-" said the lady what does
'two-ten' mean. l will give you five
francs"
why, don't you know, ma ann" said
he, evidently amazed at her ignorance.
ut means keep your two eyes on her ten
fingers"
The mystery was solved at last. All
the clerks in the Tros Quarters had
taken the richest womaD in Great Britain
for shoplifter!
She tells the story with great gusto,
and one of her friends, to whom she had
related it in Paris, repeated it to me.
Wool OR MUTToN-LoNG Wool OR
FINE Wool ?-NoU that sheep are again
attracting attention, the advocates for
the different breeds are waxing warm.
When either one confines himself to set
ting forth the merits OIL a peculiar varie
ty, he generally does net over-rate the
good points Of his favorite, but VIII be
institutes comparison with a view to
prove that under all circumstances a
particular breed is better than all Others
he seems to US to go wide of the truth
| We believe there are few localities In this
country where improved stock of this
class can be grown at all, in which either
of the better breeds in the hand OF a
thorough shepherd, would not tor g
series of years p owe reasonably remuner'
ative. At the same time we entertain
little doubt that some varieties would
under certain conditions of soil, climate
and excessibility to markets, prove more
profitable than others.
1t seems highly probable that bot b
mutton and wool can be grown on the
great central plains of the United States
in open competition with the production
of South America, Australia or elsewhere
and at the same time there is no more
reason to suppose that sheep nUsbandry
il the older States will thus be rendered
unprofi able, than that the sheep hus
bandry of Germany, France or England
will be superseded and become thing
of the past from the same cause.
The incidental benefits Of sheep raising
to general agriculture are such rs to IN
sure the continuance of that branch Of
| live stock husbandry, and, as soils are
more and mere heavily taxed in the pro
duction Of annual crops, the demand fol
sheep will be more and more imperative
The varieties to be gIown may be safely
left to local conditions, and the indiVld
ual preference Of each shepherd or farm
err atfon0t Lt0e- Stock Journal
INFORMATION IN THE GERMAN NAVY
A correspondent Of the London Mems wa
told by German ia val officer, with whom
he was lunching in Berlin restaurant
not long ago, some unpalatable news
/" Upon my word" remarked the Teuton
at know the ships of your feet bette
than your own officers" After stating
that every German ship was provided
with accurate charts of the naval ports o
the world, the officer remarked: zion
ent is very difficult port to make
would not like to try that without pi
lot. Plymouth there is not lleuten
ant in the German navy who could no
take ship into Plymouth in the nigh
| ;rooO The corresnOndent learned fur