The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-01-24
For the Telegraph.
BRISTOL ITEMS.

The County Dairymen's Association
held in the Hall Of Curtiss & Shumway
on the 18th January was success. A
goodly number was in attendance. The
weather is more like April than Janu-
airy. The roads have improved much
within the last few days.
Byron White,of Cypress, was buried
at Hosmer Cemetery yesterday. Death
is reaping rich harvest IN Bristol this
winter.
Our "phunny" man, GIBBS, has a fine
piece of timber that he is trimming UP,
and burning the brush. While thus
lately engaged he burned up the wood
en- part of his AK, and heated the rest
of it red hot. After hunting for it a
long time he raked it out of the ashes
and remarked, "if boy had done that
I would have switched him, and l am
no better than boy" whereupon, he
cut hazel sprout and gave Charley a
good switching. ea
It is said that the beaoy Bristol cor
respondent of the Union and the light
EAST Bristol correspondent of the
Telegraph, recently had game Of Hee-
nan poker with one Jim Harmon. The
knights Of the quill were too much for
James and laid him out. But he says
1t was whisky that beat him, and he
proposes sometime when sober to try
it over again.
Captain Spafford wishes hereby to
challenge Captain Britton to another
hunt. He is ready to pay for an oyster
supper if beaten. Get up a, hunt for
the wolves boys, they are getting to be
quite numerous again.
Report says there is bill being in
PRODUCED into the Legislature to con-
solidate the counties of Racine and
Kenosha. 1t emanates from the west
ern part Of both counties.
A gentleman whose wife is absent,
thus gives his experience in house
keeping: Must have some fried cakes
but don't know how to make them, so
hunted up my wife's cookbook and
found fried cakes. Concluded it was
an easy job, prepared the flour, meas
ured the sugar, milk, cream and count
I'd the eggs, all right now, ready for
mixing: Thought had betterA wash
first. Then commenced by mixing the
stuff with one finger, directly another
slips in, then another and finally all !
were in. The dough stuck to my fingers
ike mud on wagon-Wheel. Just then
my eye itched, stuck my finger, full of
dough into my eye,the itching stopped. |
[ commenced business again, but in my
partial blindness put my hand into the
thought that dough would
not do to eat, SO took the carving knife
and went out to scrape it off and feed
it to the chickens. One old rooster
swallowed a lump big as a SNOWFALL,
but he'd miscalculated his swallow,
the stuff wouldn't go down, he scratch
ed, flew around, run backwards,
stretched up his neck and finally chok-
ed down. Just then a turkey came
along, poked it's long neck down the
ROSTERS throat and relieved him of the
sticky morsel. While watching this
performance and scraping my fingers,
| cut one Of them badly; returning to
the house to do up my finger, [ found
the cat licking up the sugar and egg Of
my mixture; enraged at this, made a
clip at the cat and Knocked the wash
basin over, the water flying into the
hot fat; [ tell you there was sizzling
and sputtering and flying Of the hot
grease that led me to beat retreat
after the cat. Order being restored, I
soon had the mess ready to roll out;
we'll rolled and rolled and the stuff
would squirm back again. Finally the
rolling pin stuck fast, I got that loose
and found the dough all stuck fast to
the table. never saw anything stick
so. pulled, scraped, coaxed and swore,
but no go. I had to pile it all up and
commence over again. Finally got
some ready to broil and the first at
tempt to put them into the kettle, |
got my finger in the hot fat; didn't l
cut a pigeon wing though? Why hot
grease is ten times hotter than water.
I then tried pitching them in, the first