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The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-04-14

Petroleum Centre was the scene Of cock
fight on Wednesday last, which gave the
RECORD chance for an item. Wheo The
town is unusually dull the RECORD gives
full reports of all the "balls" held in the
numerous houses Of ill/fame which abound
''on ibe creek. jam eslown Journal.
The report of which said balls appear to
"strike tendeY and sympathetic chord" in
sbe bosom Of the local of the Journal. We
have an iDdistinct emembrance of the evil
doings Of one Root, at one Of the Aforesaid
balls at Titusvile, while the aforesaid Root
was connected with one Of the Titusville
papers, and OF hearing it said that the
sfores ,id Root was rooted out of the ba
for bad conduct. Don't go back on your
sporting female friends, Journal, ''by the
memory of the past"
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-04-14

We received call this forenoon from our
friends. Messrs. j. f. Villa, s B. Villa. &
Co. J. II. Rice. the well known proprietor,
manage. and advance agent of the Ague g
Waluce Comic Opera Troupe, who are to
appear at the Opera House, this evening"
We have had the pleasure of meeting Mr.. S.
B. Villa several times heretofore and hav e
always found him an honorable, bighlmind/
ed gentleman both in a business and social
poin, oiview, aud The same may be said OF
Mr.. j.. +. Villa ssnd Col. Rice. .iOf Mr..
v,ila's abiftties q an actor we need say
nothing, as he is well known as first/class
star b'th ia the profession aud outsN, -
Miss Aenes w ailace. the gem OF the Wallace
Sisters, is the leading lady OF the troupe.
She is too well known to all theatre/goers,
and outsiders tor that matter, to need any
recommend from us. We weuld advise all
to attend this evening, as it will amply re/
pay them for tLer time and money.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-23
THE AMERICAN GIRLS MIS-
TAKE.

A good story is told of George
Macdonald, now visiting this coun-
try, and young American woman
whom he met one evening. Wish
ing to appear familiar with the
works of the celebrated writer, she
wrote friend in the city that she
had ''been invited to meet the great
lecturer, and begged her friend to
send her his books, whatever they
might be. The friend, supposing
that by lecturer she meant Professor
Tyndall, sent over all that learned
mans works, Our beautiful little
impromptu bluestocking did her
level best to cram for the occasion,
and read so much on light that her
little head grew dizzy. She mas
tered the titles, however, and, feel
ing well armed for the encounter, al
tended the entertainment. She
had the honor of having Mr.. Mac
Donald presented to her, and on the
fist favorable opportunity she OPEN
ed on him:
"Oh! Mr.. Macdonald, I am so
delighted to meet you. [ have read
your beautiful books
George Macdonald bowed grace
fully.
II do think your fragments so
lovely"
George WacDonald stared like a
teatherless owl.
but the most thrilling of all is
the "Glaciers of the A Ips."
The poor pen-driver could no
utter word. Indeed he seemed tc
be catching his breath, as if hr hac
received blow below tina belt.
And how brilliant you are o.
Light and on Sound!' Do, Mr.
Macdonald. tell me how you pro
duce such beautiful things -
The Englishman came 10 the con
ciusion that the little girl was chat
ting HIM, especially as some audible
smiles In Tho immediate neighbor
hood told him certain people wer,
being amused so he colored up t,
the hair. and fled the encounter il
such confusion that the company
feared he was suffering from re
lapse of his late sickness. But we
are happy in saying it was only I
slight attack of cram 5ntantum
Anoer5c1nmne, and that he is nov
convalescent.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-23
SET HIM FREE.

In the early part of the reign oil
Louis XVI, a German prince, trav-
cling through France visited the ar
senal at Toulon, where the galleys
we're kept. I he commandant. az
compliment 10 his rank, said he
was welcome to set free any. one
galley slave whom he should choose
10 select.
The prince, willing to make the
best u@e OF the privilege, spoke q
many of them in succession, inour.
ing why they were condemned to
the galleys. Injustice. oppression.
false accusations. were assigned by
one after another, az the causes OF
their being there. In fact, they
were all injured and ill-treated per
sons. At last he came to one who.
when asked the same question
answered TO this effect.
Your Highness. | have no rea-
son TO complain; I nave been a
very wicked, desperate wretch. |
have deserved to be broken alive on
the wheel. | account it a great
mercy that | am here"
The prince fixed his eyes upon
him, and said:
"You wicked wretch! 1t is a
pity that you should be placed
among 80 many honest men. BY
your own confession, you are bad
enough to corrupt them all but
you shall not stay with them an
other day" Then, turning to the
officer, he said: This il the
man, sir, whom | wish to be releas-
"a -
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-23
"TOUCH NOT, TASTE NOT,
HANDLE NOT"

Zone of the greatest consultations
afforded to my mind by the success
OF the temperance cause, is the re.
lection that my child will not be a
drunkArd." Such was, the language
OF distinguished philanthropist, as
he held listening assembly chained
by the voice Of his eloquence.
10 this remark the heart of every
parent assents; for that the progress
OF the temperance cause will be so
great, at the period when the child,
which is now an infant, shall come
upon the theater Of life, as to render
all use of ardent spirits, as a drink
dlsreputable, can scarcely be ques
toned.
Ii any father or mother could lift
the vail of futurity, and read on the
page of coming years, at the son
now so loved, so idolized, perhaps,
would become hloated, polluted,
and polluting creature, reeling un-
der the influence of ardent spirits,
the remainder of life would be
wretched. To such a parent, this
world would, indeed, be vale Of
tear and the silence and soit ude
of the tomb would be welcomed as
the place where the weary might be
at rest.
The temperance reform does ir
facl, lift the vale of years, and dis.
close to the parents of the present
generation, their children and chill
dren's children freed from all the
woes and curses of drunkenness, the
smile of gratitude upon their .coun
te"ance' and the language of bene
dictlon upoa their lips.
WY child will not be drunkard!'
Cheering thought How it swell.
the heart with emotions to big fol
pltterance What an animatine
prospect does it open 10 the mind
AIm"houses and jails, and peniten
'laries and State prisons will ther
stand only as 80 many monuments
of the vices of an age gone by; anc
Ihe evils consequent upon the use o
ardent spirits shall exist only upol
the historians page, as so many
records of former dege neracy snc
the errors of mankind. ga.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-23
NECK TWISTING IN CHURCH

at is part of my religion - said a
pious old lady, when asked why
she went early to church, lit is part
OF my religion not to disturb the re-
ligion of others - and we believe il
many congregation made it a part
OF their religion not to twist THEN
necks almost out of joint to witness
the entrance of every person who
passes up the aisle during service,
ii would be better, both for them
selves and their preacher. A gross
abuse of decorum sometimes needs
harsh medicine as a remedy. The
following mode of cure is told Of
Rev. Henry Clay Dean, once chap.
lain of Congress, from the Pacific
Methodist +:
Being worried one afternoon by
this turning practice Ia his congre-
cation, Mr.. Dean stopped in his
sermon and said:
''Now, you listen to me, and I'll
tell you who the people are as each
one of them comes in.''
BE then went on with his dis
course until gentleman entered,
when he bawled ou> like an usher /:
deacon A, who keeps a shop over
the way" and then went on with
his sermon. Presently another man
passed up the aisle, and his name,
residence and occupation were given;
so he continued for some time. Al
length some one entered the door
who was unknown to Mr.. Dean,
when he cried out, "a little old
man, with drab coat and an old
white hat; don't know him, look
for yourselves" That congregation
was cured. asl
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-23

A very interesting discovery has
lately been made. it is stated, by an
Italian, who claims that he can
tune nerves into harmony, like harp
strings Ills theory is, that nerves
are originally KEYED up to certain
pitch, and that if they all change
tone together, no damage can be
done, as diet and temperature will
offset ii, if. however, by accident or
uneven wear, the general harmony is
destroyed, and one or two nerves
get off the key, thsn disconnected
action is the result, and there must
be special mode of treatment, of
which he processes to have the Sc
cret. He calls himself the ''nerve-
tuner" and contracts to keep nerves
in order by the month or year. Such
secret, as this is of worldwide i'm
portance, and we see no reason why
people should not make i an object
for this Italian nerve-tuner to sell
out his secret, and learn how to tune
themselves. One can hardly imag
inc the happiness there would be
in this world if every nervous wo-
man could screw up her nerves to
concert pitch each morning, and
thus avoid fatting from the key.
Any operation which would do away
with the nervous actors and singers,
the nervous woman on the railroad
train, the nervous baby at the lee
ture, and the nervous man every
where, would be public bless
ing. .aua
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-23

length suspecting some treachery,
the poor girl went to his abode, and
there learned that he had disappear
ed TWO days before, taking with him
sum OF 5000 francs which had
been entrusted to him by the house
ne represented. Anna, thus forsa-
ken and friendless, stole under cover
OF the night into her aunt's room,
where having written a letter in
pencil she blew out her brains with
her uncle's revolver. When her
protectors FASTENED to her assistance
she had ceased to live.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-23
COURTESY IN TRAVELLING


NDwhere is well-bred courtesy, or the
lack of it, more observable than in trav-
cling. On the steamboat and in the
cars the quiet obseI yer easily detects those
who have been educated under refued in.
huencee, or those VITO, without special
cultivation. are possessed of nativ9 pc
llleness. It is not educati0n alone nor
wealth. nor high social position, nor cost
~ trappings, thar makes one pleasant
travelling companion. There must exist
u kindness If feeling toward stra lgers a
general recognition f eqaul rights in the
comfort and conveniences provided for
the public, and quickened dlscernment
for the needs OF others Summer JOUR
neying in crowded boats and Cars is a
test of both patience . and politeness
Thrice happy they who psss robty
through it, for their owo sakes, for the
comfort of companions, and for the rep.
utatinn OF poor, human nature in general
--E3chapge. ~
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-23
THE BUSINESS OF chill.
DREN.

That children have something tc
do in the world, as we'll as grown
folks, all will admit, but all are moi
agreed as TO what that something is.
The Science of Hralth thinks il
has discovered chlldrens' business.
and thus gives it:
Children, as well es adults,
should have occupation. Idleness
IS an abomination ar any period Of
life, from the Grade to the grave.
For Satin finds some mischief for
Idle hands TO do. Nature knows
nothing Of idlers. If children are
natural, why should they be idlers
Now the bushes of children, is to
grow. This may be a new theory,
startling innovation, a revolutions
ry statement, but we think it is
true. As We look over the world,
we find that children generally are
put to all other businesses excen,
grIwing. They are permitted tc
grow it they can, bat compelled "a
do everything else. The growing il
secondary and incidental, when il
should be primary and fundamental.
Children are confined six hours g
day in the schoolroom, under the
deiuslon that they are being educa.
ted. They may, indeed, learn tc
repeat words and talk phrases. Blu
all the ideas they get at the ex
pense OF bodily development, ar,
Useless or worse They may recit,
all the books, from Alpha to One
ga and yet be know-nothings 70
all practical purposes. CuItivatiA,
the mind at the expense CT the body
was never done, and never will be
All attempts in that direction only
dwarf aud feable both.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-23
LOVE NOT ELOQUENT.

Oh, young ladies, you are unwise
IN expecting eloquence from a lover!
A man who really loves you will new
er be eloquent before heis assured of
your state Of feeling toward him; not
always should say, on the contra
ry' rarely-thcn. When your beau.
ty. your grace, accomplishments, good
qualities, &c, have wrought on
man to such degree that he feels
the world can give him nothing CON-
parable to your love; when the very
sight OF you at distance makes his
heart tiutter; when he feels jealous of
every man under the age of sixty who
approaches you, and is tempted to
strange every good-looking coxcomb
who pays you "a compliment; when.
halt distracted by the alterations of
hope and dispair, he ventures at last
TO learn his fate from her lips-do
you expect eloquencc at such time 2
Ii you do, you expect him to behave
as man In love never would or could
behave. Nothing is easier than fir.
tatlon with woman you do not love.
OF course you like her little, or you
would not take the trouble to hirt
with her. But when you begin to
love woman you are no longer ca
pable of Irritation. When your ad-
mirer is awkward and timid, and 81.
lent, and hardly da'es to look at you;
when his hand trembles at the chance
contac with yours, and he hardly
dares to hold it lest he ehould offend
you; when at last, after a sore struggle,
there comes the faltering avowal from
the overcharged heart, in these few
but expressive words, Il love you -
then. if | were a woman, | should
feel we'll pleased to dispense with the
eloquence Of words.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-23
A FRENCH SUICIDE.

Among the extraordinary number
of suicides lately committed in Par
is, the following is. in the opinion Of
the London EcAo, perhaps, the
saddest: Il married couple, who
kept a linendraper's shop. reposed
the greatest confidence in their
niece, Anna, girl of seventeen,
who kept their books and cash-box.
The young girl was an orphan. and
was brought up by her uncle and
aunt as their own child. Anna,
however, had become acquainted
with q commercial traveller, who
courted her tor more than year,
and at length persuaded her to fly
with him. and to give him the sa
wings OF her benefactors, which con-
sisted in Credit Foncier obligations,
and a sum of70O francs. On the
day fixed for their flight, Anna went
to the place named by her lover,
but waited all day in vain. A,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-23
THE NEW SINGING-MAS TER.
ale sings like an owlingale !"


Jonas Harrison was leaning
against the well curb, talking to
Cynthy Ann. He'd been down to
abe store at Brayville, he said. a lis
TENN TO 'em discuss Millerism, and
seed a new singin'-master there.
"Could he sing good p Cynthy
asked rather to prolong the talk
than to get information
"Sings like an owIingaIe, I reckon.
He's got more seals to his ministry
Arranging onto his warch-chain than
1 ever seed. Got mustache onto
the top story of his mouth, somethin'
like tuft of grass on the roof of a
ole shed kitchen. Peart He's the
peartest-lookin' chap L ever seed.
But he amt no singin'-master-not
eft I'm any jedge Of turuips. lie
Warn't born TO sarve his day and gem
eratioll with a tunin' fork. I think
he's a goin' to reckon-water a little
IN these parts, and that he's only a.
playln' singin'-master. lie kin play
more tiddles'n one, you bet a boss !
Says he come up here fer his whole
some, and guess he did. Think eff
he'd a-staid where he was, he mout
a-sutfered leetle from confinement
to his room, and that room p'raps
not more nor five foot by nine, and
ruther dim-lightcd and poor-provis-
Toned, an not much chance for takin'
exercise in the fresh air -
Don't be onchalitable, Jonas,
don't. We're all mis'able sinners,
spose; and you know charity don't
think no evil. The man may be all
right, eff he does wear hair on his
lip. Charity kivers lots a SINS
''Ya-as, but charity don't kiver no
wolves with wool. an if he amt a
a woolly wolf they's no sna~es in
Jarsey, as little Ridin' Hood said
when her granny tried to bite her
head off. Tn dead sot in favor of
charity, and mean to gin her my vote
at every election. bur | amt a-goin'
to nave her put blind-bridle on 10
me. Aud when man comes to
Clark township a-wearing straps to
ms brlchaIoons to keep hisself from
leaving terr-firny altogether, and a.
weightin' hisself down with pewter
warcn seals, gold washed, and cul-
tivating a crop of red-tcp hay onto
his upper lip. and a-lettin' on to be a
slngin' master, | suspicious him
They's TOO much IN the git-up fer the
ONE out. Well, here's yer health,
Cynthy !"
And having made this oracular
speech, and quaffed the hard lime
stone wafer, Jonas hung the clean
white gourd from which he had been
drinking, in its place against the
well-curb, and started back to the
field, while Cynlhy Anne arried hel
bucket of water into the kitchen,
banning herself for standing so long
talking to Jonas.-Fronp tile En0
Ofthe World"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-23
The celebrated actor John Palmer.

The celebrated actor John Palmer.
whose father was bill-sticker, and
who occasionally followed the same
occupation himself, while struting
one evening in the green room in a
pair Of gathering buckles, q bystand-
er remarked that they really resem.
bled diamonds. Sir" said Palmer.
with some warmth, 81 would have
you know | never wear ANYTHING
but dismonds.' Il ask your par.
don" replied the other; II remem,
Der the time when you were nothing
but paste" The laugh was much
heightened by Bannisfer exclaiminx,
"Jack, why don't ysu stick him
against the wall .@...4
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-23
MANHOOD:
HOW LOST, HOW RESTORED.
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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-23

A a'ssouri farmer attempted to smoke
out rabbit, and burnt mp BAH mile OF
fence aid oV"r hundred apple trees. He
caught the rlfDDii. @
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-06-18
nai[p 5lfnnebet Aonrnal.
EMPLOYMENT FOR FOWLS.

To keep fowls from eating eggs and each
others feathers, and to keep them in good
health, give them something to do. There
will generally be no trouble about feather
eating when fowls have their liberty all the
while and are we'll fed, and the same is true Of
egg eating But when il is necessary to con-
fine Them the owner should make it his study
10 keep them at work. One good method is
10 cover their yard, when not in grass, with
some sort of litter-straw, leaves, corn stalks,
salt hay, sea.weed. vegetable tops, &c, and
then scatter grain over this frequently, and
cover most of it. This will neeesstate
scratching" for it, and they will undertake it
without any futher urging. Where litter is
abundant the work of the fowls in scratching
may be utilized in getting the litter reduced to
every fine tilth,' as farmers say of ground
we'll prepared for seed. They will scratch
moderate layer of straw or salt hay out of sight
after awhile, if allowed to do so, and even corn
stalks also, after sufficient exposure to the
weather has made the stalks brittle.
Another good plan is to pillow or spade their
enclosure frequently; sow it with corn or
other grain, and harrow it under twill soon
sprout, and while the green sprouts are Gag
crly eaten, the half decomposed grain is also
dainty food for fowls, and the work OF
scratching it out will furnish agreeable en-
ployment for them till it is all gone. And still
another excellent plan is to lightly bury bee
heads or tough pieces of refuse meat in the
chicken yard. In due time, in warm weather,
this becomes inhabited, which the hens arc
not SLOW in discovering. OF course scratch
ing is resorted to, and their reward is not only
the crop of offensive insects themselves, but
the putrid flesh also, in amounts proportional
to their industry. Fortunately chickens giz-
gard is a chemical laboratory of such power
that everything going into it is dedorized and
purified before being changed into flesh and
eggs, and 50 there need be no scruples about
feeding such articles. Let the owner exercise
his ingenuity to keep his fowls at scratching.
and it will close the door to many vicious
habits. J, O5serrsr.
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