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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-22
The Amount of Our Indebtedness.

In an address delivered before the
Northern Wisconsin Agricultural Asso-
citation at their fair at Oshkosh,
Speaker Blaine estimated the total
debt of our sixteen cities exceeding
100000 population at $3.50, 100000; Of
our twelve cities exceeding $4,000 and
less than 100000 at $30,0O0,OOO; of
fifty three cities exceeding 10000 and
less than $4,000, 1915, 100000; of 1O5
cities between 10000 and 10000, $685.
100000; the towns of less than 10000
have an estimate debt of $50, 900, 600,
thus giving an estimated total of NUM-
cipal debts at $3.50, 000,0 900. The coun-
try debts Mr.. Blaine estimates at $780,
100000, and the State debt at $780,
100000. The total indebtedness of the
nation, exclusive of the Federal debt.
thus amounts to eleven hundred and
forty millions.
Including our national debt, we owe
So, 200, 100000. Large as this sum is,
it is a far less ratio of debt to property
than our government started out with,
100000. That debt represented one
seventh Of the entire property of the
nation. Our present debt does not
amount to more than one-tenth OF our
actual wealth.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-22
A Contemplate Breach Of Confidence.

They were two very impecunious
characters, but they loved each other.
Occasionally one of them would have
some money. When this was the case
it never escaped the other. But Brown
had theatrical ways about him that cast
glamour round such amounts as
chance put in his way, and made them
to uninitiated hearers assume the mag
nitude of dollars when they were only
cents. He would ran his thumb and
forefnger ostentatiously into the pocket
of a dilapidated west, and speak of a
piece of fractional currency there as a
tega-e err" to his friend Sanders. and
Sanders mouth would water. The last
was more especially in seasons when the
temperature stoodhigh. Ononeof such
occasions, Sanders was asked if he
would participate In smile. He did
not refuse. That, with a man like
Brown, was not his habit. But browns
foresight induced him to tell Sanders
that it was to be q fve-cent smile, and
to that effect the understanding was had
outside of the sample room Now
who among Gods creatures does not at
times grow singularly, aye, account
ably absent-minded? They entered.
" What will you have, Sanders, my
boy ?" blithly chirruped Brown" It
" A little good Bourbon 81.
"What is yours, Mr.. Brown" politely
asked the waiter.
cob, me-yes-well, I'll take gill
OF water" Gulping down his water
with a look Of infinite disgust, Brown
threw down his "tener. Rochester
Democrat.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-22

The D1'oit relates that a man has Just
died IN the. Bicetre Asylum whose luna
cy had very singular origin. His
name was Justin, and he exhibited wax
work figures at Montrouge, his gallery
consisting Of temporary celebrities
and great criminals. On a pedestal in
the center was the figure of a young
girl remarkable for her graceful figure
and perfect features, her hair falling in
long curls over her naked shoulders.
Justin had named her Eliza, and was so
struck by her beauty that he passed
hours in contemplating her. She seemed
TO him to speak, and her blue eyes,
with their long eyelashes, seemed to
respond 10 his passion. Under the in
fuence of this illusion he neglected his
business, and for want of a Snowman
to puff it people no longer visited the
gallery. Poverty succeeded easy cir
cumstances the modern Pygmalion
could not separate himself from Eliza.
His wife was obliged to sleep on bare
mattress, and when she demonstrated he
ill-treated her. Irritated at the unjust
harshness, she one day destroyed the
wax figure. Justin was furious at see
ing the fragments, and selzing broom
stick he struck his wife, and would have
killed her had not her cries drawn the
neighbors to her assistance Justin,
who had lost his reason, had to be Sc
cured, and was an inmate of Bicetre for
five years, living up to the last under
the charm of Eliza, whose image seemed
always before him.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-22

. ACCORDING TO LAW AND EVIDENCE
A singular case which occurred many
years ago in one of the rural towns of
Vermont is thus described by the Rut-
land (Vt.) Herald: "Capt. A.. shot
and killed dog belonging to his neigh
Dor, Smith. This act was charged upon
one G., and a suit was brought against
him to recover damages. The case was
tried by jury before q Justice of the
Peace, and Capt. A. sat as juror. Cir
cumstantial evidence was presented to
prove that G.. shot the dog, and the jury
agreed to return verdict of guilty.
Several years after the trial Capt. A.
acknowledged that he killed the dog,
and defended his course in rendering a
verdict of guilty against G. on the
ground that his jurors oath required
him to decide the case according to law
and evidence, and it was fairly proved,
he said, that G.. killed the dog"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-22
Census Figures

The forthcoming population map,
prepared from the census statistics of
1870 by Gen. T. A. Walker, will con-
tain some very interesting facts. For
instance, concerning the growth of cities
in the United States, it will show that
there was only one city of the class
5000 to $4,000 in 1890, against ninety
two in 1870; three of IL, 900 to 10000,
against sixty-three; one of 10000 to
10000, against thirty nine; and one of
10000 to $4,000, against fourteen. The
class of Is, 900 to 125,000 began in 1910;
1875, 900 to $50, 900 in 1880 +; 250,OOO to
5O0,00 in 1910; 100000 and upward
in 1850. The next census will institute
new class of 100000 and upward
The city population of 1890 was "a per
cent. OF the total population of the
United States that of 1870, 300 per
cent. Gen. Walker has also made a
very ingenious series of computations
establishing the locality Of the center
of population in this republic at diff
ferent eras. In 1890 it was twenty
three miles east of Baltimore in 1850,
after a movement nearly due west for
sixty years, it had reached West Vir-
ginia at about the time of the Kansas
Nebraska troubles it crossed the Ohio ;
in 1870 it was within forty eight miles
OF Cincinnati, and in 1880 that city will
probably be the center in population of
q nation Of 100000 souls. What is
remarkable is that during eighty years
the extreme variation in latitude has
been less than nineteen minutes, and
only twice has the center crept south of
the thirty ninth parallel.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-22
HABITS OF NOTED AUTHORS.

HABITS OF NOTED AUTHORS In an
article upon the hours of the day, BEL
gravia gives some interesting statistics
regarding the habits of work of various
nations and men. The German student
and professor is an early riser and
diner, and harder worker than can be
found in any other land. Goethe was
an early diner, but did not task his
brain beyond it's capacity. Shake
speare also dined early, and devoted his
afternoons to study and repose. Dickens
did his work between 9 and l. Bis
marck and Won Moltke are both early
workers. Schiller wrote with the stars.
In these matters, however" says the
writer, the best plan is to suit one
self but we think that one of the con-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-22

q ROBINSON CRUsoE AGAIN. The popu-
lar error that Robinson Crusoe's island
was Juan Fernandez, off the west coast
of South America-whe the book ex-
pressly declares that it was near the
mouth of the River Orinoco, ON the
northeast coast of that continent, and
all the account of the course of the YES
sci before reaching it plainly mentions
places in the Atlantic ocean, and none
whatever in the Pacifc-has been care
fully explained; but, as the farmer said
of Daniel Webster, it is mot dead yet. {"
It originated, of course, in the story
that Defoe stole his narrative from
Alexander Selkirk, who did pass some
time alone on Juan Fernandez. -Ap-
pletosaS' Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-22
Ghe 9enusha GeItaraph
KENosHA, WISCONSIN.
THE LITTLE FOLKS.
Ba11y song.


Gittle blue eyes so clear and bright,
Sc full of childhood's radiant light a0
Close your lids and go to Sleep; 84l$t(5.4Nf
To sleep, to sleep, so pure and deep,
That morn may find you bright and good, 4 -
The sweetest charm of babyhood.
Silently, gently drop away, awoa n7aaF 5G
To waken fresh onithe newborn day.f 1ra ~ 81
Thy father aud mother with thee will rest,
But thy guileless sleep will be purest, best.
Little fat hands, dimpled and white,
Peacefully fold away tonight: ~e.
Mischief enough you've done, know; i1'.t
we laughed at it, and scolded, too; t'
But alls forgiven, and fraught with bliss
Is the touch Of life in the baby-kiss.
Then sweetly, gently sleep and dream
OF Things which pure and holy seem,
ForsaL too soon will thy sweet dreams grow
TO be furnished with age, and frost, and snow.
Little lips, cease your prattle now;
Papa, mamma. doggy and cow, VA
Kitty, auntie, birdie and ball. ~
The morrow will hear thy baby call: 1907 @
But now, peaceful sweet goodnight. .,o ~,
May angels keep thee pure and bright, 1i
And shield thee from all harm and wrong .-~.,
And now is closed our baby-song; -,. : ,I.. Id
Teach us, God ! to whom babies are given,
To guide their hearts to the gates of heaven. ~
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-22

The old Ignorant prejudice against
vaccination is still strong in England.
A workingman was recently imprisoned
for refusing to obey the law and have
his child vaccinated. When he was re-
leased he was borne like hero in tri-
umph through the town by his fellow
workmen, and presented with purse
of money. A meeting was afterward
held and resolutions adopted demand
II - L
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-22
oDE TO THE GREAT ToRMENToR
SYMPATHETICALLY DEDICATED TO ALL SUFFERERS
FROM THE OCTOBER MOSQUITO.

ENTHUSIASTICALLY DEDICATED SUFFERERS
FROM OCTOBER MOSQUITO. y
Had the Father of Sins
Breathed into some millions
And billions and trilons
Of papers of pins
Had he to thorns and thistles lent Tongue
Through which his hatred might be
Given svers motion, md a heart,
10 revel in chirurgic
We're needles and nettes like a baby, born #@<
10 yell from darkness till morn
We're twenty Hades housed in small thing
Could curses buzz about sing, AAGaEfS%
And taper torments
With music of the pit, dying PLAYED:
We're the Evil One made mnce. fashioned into
Runt ogres; atoms of Ayernus furnished pars and
G, stilettoing notes of midnight air! s. -s
could place ye then and there.
Whence,
When slowly rheumatic
Is hobbling through the darksome hours
whence, ye pesky prickng powers
Ye whining, barbed vilanies-
Come to the vitals min
Why pause Internal
And shrek bameless about?
o avis with handles each ahead,
To pierce sweet children in their
Mighty mldges that like murderer1s conscience
howl .r.r : ss.f1
Beneath the grandam's rifed cowl-
We'd rather hear the real red devil scream
Than your one peep creep in dream!
O wickedness with wings,
Insect imps equipped with stngs
Poison with bloody bill,
Demons of the rudy drill,
Gmets for flesh of human kind,
Corkscrews with miners mind;
Opestience on pinons gray, .....-
Microscopic vultures made prey:
What cussed 1 say
Ghosts Of hornets turned the other I! r.
john Vance Cheneydn the Neao York Erening Post.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-22

"NERvINE. This is worth knowing !:
the worst toothache, or neuralgia com
ing from the teeth, may be speedily and
delightfully."- ended by the application of
a small bit of clean cotton, saturated in
a strong solution of ammonia, to the
defective tooth. Sometimes the late
sufferer is prompted to momentarv
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-22

The coal field of Indiana cover
nearly 1000 square miles of the south
western section nanahla IF vinfa;,,n.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-22
Pith and Point.

No IDLE tail-The cows in fly time.
A PAPER containing many fine points
"A paper of needles. ---.----
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-06-11
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

The poisons contained in tobacco
smoke find a ready exit from the system;
when exhaled during period OF lasting
their injurious effect on the heart is to De
prehended-Ldrcet.
A California medical amateur pub
fishes the discovery that if you get your
face inflamed by the poison-ivy the appll-
cation of good strong mustard plaster
Will speedily make you forget all about
the smarting caused by the irritating
vine.
To Cook Asparagus Skin the white
part, turn the points together, and tie IN
punches. Have the water boiling; add
salt; lay in the asparagus and boil briskly
half an hour. Toast slices of light bread,
and pour over little of the asparagus
water; butter it we'll; put on the aspara-
gus and serve hot Or serve with drawn
butter and parsley, emitting the toast.
Most housekeepers have felt the need
of recipe for mending knives, or rather
for fastening knives and forks to their
handles. The following mixture is rec
commended for this purpose in the Scten-
ttfc american: Mix together one pound
of rosin and eight ounces of sulphur, and
keep it either in bars or reduced to pow
der. Mix one part of this powder with
half part of iron filings, fine sand or
brickdust, and the cavity OF the handle Is
to be filled with the mixture. Heat the
stem of the knife or fork and insert it
hot, and when cold it will be found tight.
The exclusion of damp from brick
work has long been an important prob
lem. One of the most effective methods
of accomplishing this object is the fol-
l~rrv W. of
mottled soap are dissolved in one gallon
of boiling water, and the hot solution
spread steadily with fiat brush over the
outer surface of the brickwork, care be-
ing taken that it does not lather; this is
allowed to dry for twenty-four hours,
when a solution, formed of quarter of a
pound of alum dissolved in two gallons
of water, is applied in similar manner
over the coating of soap. The soap and
alum form an insoluble varnish, which
the rain is unable to penetrate, and this
cause of dampness is thus said to be ef-
fectualiy removed The operation should
be performed in dry, settled weather. An
other method is to use eight parts of lin
seed oil and one part of sulphur, heated
together to 278@, in an iron vessel
Western Rural.
"A horse will consume eighteen
pounds of hay and twelve quarts of mixed
oats and corn, ground into coarse meal,
per day. A COW will need eighteen
pounds of hay and six quarts of meal if
she is milking. If at pasture three quarts
of meal may be proftably fed per day.
One hundred hens will require 100 BUSH
els of corn in year, in addition to what
they can pick up on their range. They
will need very little corn in the summer,
but at least quarter of pint day in
winter. The quantity of corn needed by
hog depends much upon its size, breed,
and appetite, in all of which hogs differ
very much 1t would be safe TO allow
half bushel of corn, ground into meal, a
week for hog of 100 to $50 pounds, and
more IN proportion for larger ones. AT
fattening time there can he no limit given;
the hog should have all it can be in
duced to eat or made to digest.-Amertcan
A1ricuLt1LTiSt
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-06-11

in the boat, and the heavy cable that we
have seen is lowered to them. In their
curious dress they work together with
will and drag the massive links of iron
underneath the hull of the ship--one
length amidships, a second length astern
and a third length forward. This is slow
work, and before it is complete night has
set in and the divers are brought to the
surface Betimes next day it is resumed,
and when the center Of each great chain
is right under the keel the pontoons are
towed over the wreck. Meanwhile, con-
slant communication is established be-
tween the men below and the men in the
boats, by means of the sigDal-line. Once
in about four hours the divers come to
the surface for fresh air and food. But
these pontoons-what are they? Let us
pause moment to glance at them. They
are built of wood and painted black. The
largest measure 100 feet in length, Is
feet in width and IA feet in depth
Those selected for the present case are
much smaller, and three are stationed at
each side of the wreck to buoy her. In
each pontoon there are several wells, or
holes, running through the center, from
deck to bottom. Into these the divers in
sert the ends of the three cables, which
are drawn upward by hydraulic power.
This part of the work costs severe effort
and much time, and when it is done the
injured vessel, as doctor would say, is
on the fair way to recovery. The cables
are drawn up through the wells, link by
link, and are frightened gradually until the
wreck lifts. She rises slowly, and the
pontoons groan from the weight bearing
upon them as they are drawn nearer to
her. For some time yet she is out Of sight;
but at last her deck is seen dimly
through the waves, and soon afterward it
is above water. The wreckers. as we OBJ.
served, are lmpassive in their manner |;
but they cannot repress their enthusiasm
over the success, and two or three of the
more excitable burst into cheers.-Fr0m
"The Coast Wreckers," in st. Nicholas for
June.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-06-11
The Most Wonderful Medical
Discovery Of the Age--Every
Man His Own Physician. Fra
zier's Great Remedy.

buggca with ali Kinds OF patent medicines. quack.
:a for n
Of the victims and wishes TO present very plain case
true way Il bansbng disease. and being for years
great sufferer from weakness. lung disease ana g
patent medicines and the most eminent physicians,
dSetorng myself and at last dsc9veTe9 q
gave me Immediate relief, but. effected a complete
enns
quantity Of Btters and vas in the habit OF Flying
Erected the most miraculous cures. only curing
Scrofua and Consumption OF the Lungs, but al as.
semsnd bseae SO great found myself called upon
to send Biters TO AL parts OF the M nv rnas
sies for Sse Was nrst pfessptng
apatentmedcine man, but ! am getting bravely over
that am now supplying thopsanas OF snd
Il q nv desire and determination to place the same
reach Ss sese These Root Bs
strictly medicinal preparation, prepared isE
n herbs ana ad fhey
All the natural OF the pGdy ass boSy With
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six Pq bottles FOR 500 price Within the reach Of ALL
S pers as can take my Root Bters and remain
over disease and death In all stations and condi9 '
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Scrofua scrofuous Eruptions, Catarrh, weak Lungs:
Lost Vitality and broken.down constitutions, thess
Root Bitters are universally admitted 70 be the most
wonderful discovery known TO the world IneI PEG,
torai healing properties penetrate every portion OF
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the stomach Kidneys and Liver, c. ansing the Dioo1
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Ague, Costivcness, Piles, Urinary Diseases Kidney
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these strengthening Root Biters are especially rec
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| eating Scuryy letter, Fever Sores, Sore Eyes, w
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| Rheum Ulcers Bols, Fleshworms, Blotches, JUS
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GEORGE w. FRAZIER. DISCOVERIES.
| Laboratory, Cleveland, ono.
| RooT BITTKRs, and accept no substitute Whatever
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-06-11
Feeding Meal to Cows.

The best way to give meal TO cows is
either to mix it with some cut hay,
moistened so that the meal will adhere to
it, or to scald it and give it in the shape
of thin cruel as drink. In the first
place it is necessary to perfect digestion
that the saliva should be mixed with the
food and that the food should be returned
from the first stomach to the mouth for a
second chewing or rumination. This is
only done when the food is bulky, requir-
ing considerable chewing. In the second
place the gullet, or passage from the
mouth 10 the stomach, in ruminants,
opens directly into the third stomach, hav-
ing intermediate longitudinal openings
closed by lips, by which the food enters
the first and second stomachs. If the
food is bulky and solid it separates the
lips of theseopenings and finds an en-.
trance to either or both the first and sec
ond stomach. If otherwise, 1t passes
over the closed lips and enters the third
stomach. In the first case, by a periodic
inverted action of the gullet, the food is
thrown in small quantities from the
stomachs to the r"rtb. where il is re-
duced to soft semi-liquid condition, in
which state it Is passed easily to the third
stomach for digestion. In the second
place it misses this process of rumination,
and is therefore not in condition for
perfect digestion, and the meal is seen to
pass away in considerable quantities un-
altered.-Anericdn Agriculturist.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-06-11
SCHOOL "CALLED."


Doy,r you hear the children coming,
Coming into SCHOOL,
Don't you hear the master drumming
On the window with his rule I
Master drumming, children coming
Into schools
ryn.toed figures reach the catch,
T.ay fingers click the latch;
Curiy-headed girls throng in,
jly-free from toll and sin.
bringing breaths Of winter weather
breezy boys bolt in together,
Rrngipg baskets lndian-checked,
Dinners in them sadly wrecked.
Rnddy- handed, mittens of,
Soldiers rush from he Malakof-
Ruilt OF snow ana marble white,
PASSIONS shining IN the light.
Marked with many q dlLt and dot
on the ice-cold cannon-shotl
Hear the last assaalting shoutI
See the gunners rally out
Charge upon the battered dOorl
school is called, and battle o'erl
--Scrib1er's Nonthis
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-06-11

ELDER OINTMENT.-This ointment is
pronounced excellent for eysipelas, chill.
blains, cuts, burns and sores of any kind
To prepare it, take the inside bark OF
sweet elder; boil to strong infusion
strain it, then add to the liquid-say half
a pint-a piece of mutton tallow and bees.
wax, each the size of hens egg; simmer
until the water is out. If softer oint.
ment is desired, use fresh butter instead
of mutton tallow.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-06-11

AN EXCELLENT PUDDISG.-One-half
pound suet, shred fine; one-half pound
grated bread crumbs; one-quarter pound
loaf sugar, the yolks of four eggs and the
whites of two, well beaten; two table.
spoonfuls of orange marmalade or sliced
citron, if preferred. To be put into
buttered mold and boiled for two hours.
To be served with sauce.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-06-11

The manufacturers of fancy carriages
and other luxurious vehicles throughout
the country report dull and depressed
market, and many of the leading dealers
and manufacturers in the East and West
have large stock that they will be com
PEELED to carry until the country reviyes
from last falls panic.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-06-11

"A Boston man and Titusville (Pa.)
maid had little quiet dance all to them
selves the other day. He did the dancing
while she applied the cowhide. ana ne
doesn't dance attendance on her any
more. Neither does he insult Titusyille
ladies as much as he did.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-06-11

SIXTEEN residents of the town of Mari.
boro, Mass, have sworn to enforce the
laws regarding the killing of birds.