The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-01-26

ewes in the fall breeding them early to
the South Down or long wool mutton
rams. and selling them the following sea-
son in the New York market, the lambs
and such of the ewes as reach marketa-
BILE condition. There seems to be moth
ING to prevent Western farmers, large or
small, doing the same thing. "A South
Down or Cotswold ram to grade Meri-
no, or common eve, will give lamb,
which, dropped in April, may be sold in
Chicago, st, Louis, or Cincinnati market,
In July or August, for four to six dollars.
Corn, of which the West never pro
duced SO much in any previous year, must
rule low. Twenty to thirty cents per
bushel, within 200 miles of Chicago, is
now the range of price for this great sta
pie; and unless the distillers double their
capacity and run full time, there is not
likely to be any great improvement IN
price.
Aside from the direct profit to be real
lied in an operation of this sort, those
who are so inclined, may reserve their
best halfbreed eve lambs as the basis of
flock 1t will be easy, in this manner,
to obtain any desirable number of sheep
whose wool will be more valuable than a
WAYS command full rates III the market.
To those farmers to whom the princi-
pal markets are easy of access, we know
Of no disposition they can make of a por
tion Of the surplus corn crop, promising
better remuneration than feeding it to
mutton rams.
With all the rush of sheep on the mar
kets of the country, for the past three
years, good mutton has been uniformly
scarce and dear.-Nat5onaZ Lice Stock
journal. asM IA s
Too DEAR A PRICE FOR BEAUTY
Newspapers in Maine complain that wo-
men, even in the small towns of that
State, have adopted to an alarming ex-
tent the practice of eating arsenic The
object, as most people know, is to give a
Whitencss and clearness to the complex
ion, and in some parts of continental Eu-
rope the habit is very common. By
gradual increase of the dose, one may
take with impunity, so far as immediate
risk is concerned, enough arsenic to kill
several strong men not accustomed co its
use. The secret, however, is soon betray
ed in the countenance of the victims to
the practice. e'
1t is said, too, that a person once firmly
attached to its use finds it almost impos-
sible to give up the fatal practice. No
doubt the custom now so prevalent of
dying the hair to the various blonde"
shades is responsible for this new and
perilous device. Pearl powder bismuth,
preparations of lead, and even corrosive
sublimate itself are found, we suppose,
inadequate to make the skin of most wo--
men whose hair is naturally dark, cores
pond with the yellow, ruddy and faxen
hues now thought so beautiful. But it
may interest those who are on the verge
of falling prey to this pernicious habit,
TO know that the average age Of those
people who merely work with arsenious
acid and do not voluntarily take it into the
system, is less than thirty-five years.
The experiments of Tschud show that
while arsenic for certain peculiar diseases
may be given in large doses with compar
alive sa' ETY., it is IN general steadily in
furious to the vital functions, and ulti
matey destructive. One CHASTITY evil in
cidental to its use can by no means be
avoided This is that the habit, once
thoroughly formed, can only be relin-
quished at the expense of an awful vast
ing away of the physical powers Arse
If ladies must have golden hair, and are
bonnd to have complications to match,
they ought to depend altogether upon ex-
ternal cosmetics-always including those
hygienic promoters of. roses and lilies,
fresh air and exercise.
How TO SPELL.--Often in writing, a
simple word is required, of the ortho-
graphy of which the writer is not sure
The dictionary, may be referred to-but
is not always convenient An easy mode
is to write the word on bit of waste
paper, in the two or three ways of which
you are in doubt Nine times in ten the
mode which looks right is right. Spelling,
particularly English spelling, is so COM
pletely work for the eye, that the eve
alone should be trusted There is no
reason why" receive" and " believe"
should be spelled differently, yet sound
ed alike in their second syllable. Yet
write them " receive" and believe" anG
the eye shows you the mistake at once
The best way for young people, and in
deed people of any age, to learn to spell
IS to practice writing. Cobbett the
famous English radical taught his child
zen grammar by requiring that they
should copy their lessons two or three
times. These lessons he himself gave
them in the form of letters and his
French and English grammars are two of
the most amusing books in the English
language OF course g learning to spell"
came in incidentally.
To MEND RUBBER HosE.-William
Hunt New York elty,writes in the Hub ::
- The inclosed method ofmending rub
Der hose ought to be known to every