The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-03-30
The KING OF AsHANTEE's WYE.


John Pual, in EUery Saturday. says:
My sympathies seldom go very far
from home. Pm not given to weeping
over the heather but | am sorry for the
King of Ashantee. He has 1881 wives
Now I'd about as lief be king of a shanty
as anything else; but don't know that
I'd care to undertake to boss" one
with quite that number of women
around me--Pd not run it on any terms.
Not that [ don't like woman, under
stand, for, on the contrary, admire her
From infancy up considered her an in
stitution eminently worthy of encourag-
ment ; my mother was woman all my
female relatives are women.
In the pride of my heart | have said
that the sex had no stronger supporter
than myself But this boast, find, is no
longer true-the King of Ashaptee sup
ported $500 more than do. He is prop
ably fonder of conversation than I am.
But don't envy him his lot-certainly
not his LOT of women.
1t may all be we'll enough in Ashantee,
for they don't dress much there-a feather
in the hair, cowrie shell In the nose,
modest string of glass beads, perbaps,and
the thing is done. Fashion demands
nothing more of her votaries. Here,
however, the women want more than that,
unreasonable creatures.
| question whether one of them, in
her pampered pride, would be satisfied
with two feathers in her hair, or be happy
with even two eowrie shells in her nose.
And as for the necklace, bead would
probably be drawn wretch who should
offer glass ones.
FIREFROoP WASH FOR SHINGLEs.-A
wash composed of lime, salt and fine
sand or wood ashes, put on in the ordina-
ry way of withdrawing, renders the roof
fifty per cent. more secure against taking
fire from falling cinders, in case of fire in
the vicinity. 1t pays the expense a
hundred fold in its preserving influence
against the effects of the weather. The
older and more weather beaten the shin
gle, the more benefit derived. Such
shingles generally become more or less
warped, rough and cracked application
of the wash, by wetting the upper sur
face, restores them at once to their origi-
nal or first form, thereby closing up the
space between the shingles, and the lime
and sand by filling up the cracks and
pores in the single ITSELF preventing its
warp1ng.
To BREAK HORSES OF PULLING THE
HAhTER.-Thomas S. Mitchell, M. d..
of Hamilton Ga, sends the Rural
Noto- Yorker the accompanying sketch,
and says Have. stout, new rope
one that is not easily broken: knot it
around the animals neck with knot
that will not slip, q prefer the Texans
knott then give the rope a hitch
around the under jaw just behind the
lower tusks. Give about eight feet play
of rope from his mouth to the tree. Give
the rope two turns around the tree take
keen whip and whip him in the face
until he pulls on the rope, you letting
it slip little in your hand. When he
gets quiet, draw him up second time,
and little closer. Whip him again in
the face. Repeat this until he is salts
fed that he cannot get off, After four or
i've trials he will have learned the lesson.
II the operation is properly managed,
after the third to the fifth trial to get
away, he will stand and allow you to
whip him in the face and never move his
feet, and will never pull on the bride
again. This is reliable. I have used it
often with success"