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The Berlin Mission.

The fact that the German mission was
offered to Whitelaw Reid, editor of the
New York Tribune, last December.
seems to be one Of the best kept official
secrets which the present administration
had. 1t is now first made known by the
publication of the following correspond
ence, which has heretofore been treated
as confidential:
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a GREAT OFFER FOR
A FREE GIFT.

of copy of my MEDIC AL COMMON SENSE
Asthma, Catarrh, Bronchitis, Loss of Voice, or
Sore Throat. Send name and postofice address,
with Two Postage Stamps. Stale yonr Sickness
me book is elegantly illustrated (144 PIP. IL mo
dence of God, ha saved many lives. The autho-
has been treating disease of the Nose, Throat anr
Lungs, as special practice 1857. Address DR.. N
B. Wolfe, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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legations to under the public service
which the President asks you.
| am, my dear Mr.. Reid, very truly,
WILLIAM M. EvARTs.
WhitAlav Reid ESo = : =
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rTNHESE LANDS are al situated within rea-
l. sonable distance from Cheboygan, and are
among the bestin this section of the state. 1t
is cheaper to buy choice land near town, at a
easonable price, than to take inferior lands for
otnhing. uoyl7 If
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12

A RECENT number of the art Jour-
al has an account of the remarkable
'escoes now being made in the rotunda
/ the Capitol at Washington, which
re the wonder and admiration of all
eholders. The work is being done by
n old italian painter, whose name is
}rumidi, and the frescoes initiate bas-
eief and are flushed between the
oain cornices and the drum of the ro-
unda. The figures are 100 feet from
he floor, and will be nine feet high.
The designs are to commemorate the
discoveries and notable scenes during
he Revolution and the Mexican war.
)ut of fifteen designed, only four are
inished, and the great age of Brumidi
IA years snakes his friends nervous
est he should not live to finish the
whole series.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12
learning Dutch.

The new Queen of Holland is said to
have had good deal OF trouble in learn
ing the language of her adopted country.
Before her marriage learned university
don was dispatched to teach her Dutch,
and made up his mind that he ought to
import the refined language of his
native literature rather then the ordi-
nary colloquial Dutch. So he proceed
ed to teach his pupil the more orthodox
but practically obsolete language, and
the young lady made such excellent
progress that before the day of the we'd
ding she was quite proficient in what
she supposed to be the language of her
new subjects. What must have been
her surprise to find that all her best
efforts to converse with burgomasters
and humber folk who came out to do her
honor were as complete failures as if
they had been addressed to the hearers
in high German? The unfortunate
lady has had to devote her honeymoon
to acquiring second Dutch language
of which she never suspected the ex-
iStance
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12

PROF. COIN, of Breslau, has beer
lately making experiments with the
electric light on the eyes of number
of persons for the purpose of testing it's
influence on visual perception and the
sensation of color. He has found that
letters, spots and colors are perceived at
much greater distance through the
medium of electric light than by day or
gas light. The sensation of yellow was
increased sixty-fold compared to day
light, of red six-fold, and of green and
blue about two-fold. Eyes that could
only with difficulty perceive and distin-
guish colors by daylight or gaslight were
much aided by the electric light, and
the visual perception was much strength
ened. Prof. Cohn concludes from this
fact that the electric light would be very
useful in places where it is desirable
that signals should be seen at great
distance.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12

The shad is fish with which the
people in the Gulf States have never
had an opportunity Of cultivating an
intimate acquaintance, but they are
hoping to establish close relations in
the near future. About seven years
ago lot of little shad were placed in
the Ouachita river. which rises up in
Arkansas, flows down into Louisiana
and empties into the Red river in the
latter State. Nothing was seen of them
for long while, and most people had
forgotten all about the experiment,
when two years ago two or three stray
shad, the first that had ever been known
in that region, were caught. Last year
between thirty and forty were found,
and this spring they have been caught
in immense quantities up in Arkansas,
in the vicinity of Hot Springs. This
shows that there is no reason why the
fish should not be domesticated in the
far South, and the New Orleans papers
call upon the people along the rivers in
that region to stock them with young
Shad
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How to Obey.
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The yield of petroleum in the United
States last year was $4,000, OO4 gallons.
The quantity exported was valued at
$46,574,974.
DURING the fiscal year 1878, the
United States exported to foreign coun-
tries, 21,837 LII pounds of butter, and
245, 620,853 pounds of cheese. Of this,
England took 9,251,96O pounds of
butter, and 107,2OO,520 pounds OF
cheese.
ACCORDING to statistics just published,
there were 8,738 young men studying at
the twenty German universities during
the winter semester just passed. OF
these, 2,438 were studying theology,
5,1O6 law, and 1857 medicine, 1867
being inscribed in the philosophical
faculty. Their ages ranged for the
most part from 10 to % years.
SOME interesting statistics about
drunkenness in Great Britain have been
collected, which indicate that the vice
is still growing. The amount spent on
intoxicating liquors increased from
e84, 222,171 in 1860 to EAT ,288,759 in
1876, which is far in excess of the
growth of population. One of the most
startling things developed is the growth
OF drunkenness among women in large
cities, 1000 of the sex being arrested
for this offense in London during 1875,
while in Ed.nburg, the number of
drunken women increased 43 per cent.
during period in which the population
grew only 6per cent.
DURING the past year 1858 persons
were killed in the Northwest
Provinces of India and Dude by
wild beasts and snakes, and of these
3,S71 owed their death to snake bites.
No less than 10,513 head of cattle were
also destroyed, mostly by leopards, in
the vast grazing plains of the Terai
Rewards to the extent of 10000 rupees
were paid by Government for the
destruction of 3,91C wild animals. The
reward which used to be paid by
Government for the destruction of
snakes has been discontinued for some
years now, but the mortality from this
source is so alarming that the Govern
ment of the Northwest Provinces has
addressed all district officers, urging
upon them the necessity of inducing the
landowners to act for themselves in the
matter of protection against this d. ger,
the remedy for which is in their own
hands.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12

KENTUCKY whisky, according to the
louisville Co2trjer-Jourmal, owes its
xcellence to the superiority of the
rain, the quality of the limestone wa
r, and the slow process of distillation.
ourbon generally contains 70 per cent.
Urn, Is rye and Is malt, while rye
Risky is made of rye and malt. The
gradients are stirred into mash in a
age tub and then put into fermenting
9ssels. Yeast is used to hasten fer
entation, except for sour-mash whis-
2. The process is not much unlike
eer-making. The liquid is next dis
lied twice, and becomes whisky in
oout a week from the start.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12

The devil takes very poor care of his
servants, and there seems to be a sort
of fatality about the discovery of great
crimes which iustifes the old saying
that murder will out" For instance,
Covert D. Bennett and Jennie r.
Smith, lately tried in Jersey City for
the murder of Jennie's husband, could
hardly have been convicted without the
evidence afforded by an eight-page let
ter written by Bennett to the woman
while they were both in prison, the torn
bits of which were picked out of the
sink, where she had thrown them, by a
half-crazy old woman who was her cell
mate, and given to the Prosecuting At
torney. It is unaccountable that any
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12

THERE is curious district in Arizona
called the Thousand Wells. It is on the
western slope of Echo cliff, remarkable
FOR the reverberation of sound. The
country rock is impervious sandstone,
extensively striated with deep grooves,
made by winter rains. Where the sand
rock is friable large basins have been
worn. These are so many reservoirs
which are filled in the rain time, and
which supply the country, with it's cat
tie and people, through the long dry
season of that climate. The great high
way of travel passes through the midst
of the Thousand Wells. There are no
other water sources, and without these
naturals no life could exist. On the
eastern slope of the range the country
presents a striking contrast. Innumer-
able springs flow perennial. Verdure
is rich, trees evergreen, fields cultivated
and wigwams alive with people.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12

WILLARD BROWN was deeply in love
with Louisa Rarrott, servant girl in
his fathers family at Martinsvil]e, Ind.
She asked him to make for her mold
of silver dollar, as she intended to go
into business as counterfeiter, and he
consented; but her clumsy effort to
produce bogus coin that would pass
proved failure. Her next plan for ac-
quiring wealth was to murder and rob
old Mr.. and Mrs. Brown, and she coolly
requested Willard to aid her. Although
her influence over him was very great,
he declined to help her kill his parents,
yet he promised never to divulge her
proposal. One night he suspected that
she was about to carry out her project,
and watched her. He saw her chloro-
form the old folks and let in Joe
Greer, desperate, who killed Brown
with an iron bar and badly injured Mrs.
Brown. The crime was attributed to
tramps, until Willard, jealous of Joe
Greer's intimacy with Louisa, spoke
ont.
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Kitty's Slice of Cheese.

Kitty liked cheese. There was al.
ways some in the house, for grandpa
was very fond of it, and mamma kept ii
for him.
One day Kitty wanted some, and
thought she would get it herself. She
knew where it was, and could reach it.
If she had waited till tea-time, her
mother would, no doubt, have given it
to her; but she was not at home, and
Kitty was impatient.
She went into the china-closet, took
a knife from the tray, and began to cut
wide, thin slice, such as she dearly
liked. But the knife was sharp; Sarah
was very particular about the knives,
and always kept them sharp and shin
ing; it slipped, and went right into the
little thumb.
It was well for Kitty that, instead of
going straight down toward the bone, it
took slanting direction, making what
she called ga trap-door."
It was something of a cut, however,
and bled freely. Kitty was a brave
child and not easily frightened. She
made no sound, but dropped the knife,
put her other hand under the cut one,
and ran into the bathroom.
She held the poor little thumb under
the coldw water faucet till it stopped
bleeding, and went quietly back to her
play-room. She knew where the soft
rags and such things we're kept, and she
tried to keep her thumb out of sight,
and said not word of her mishap to
any one.
In fact, she thought she had been
rather foolish, and felt ashamed of her.
self, so she would rather do without
pity and comforting than tell even her
mother.
There was no tell-tale spot on the
shelves or floor, and it so happened
that no one noticed the cut
Not till years afterward, when Kitty
was grown young lady, did she men
ton it. Then she told her mother, and
showed her the scar; for there it stayed.
a little white line
She has since shown it to her chill
dren, and told them the story.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12

Mrs. STARCH, of Sturgeon Bay, Wis,
lesired to get rid of her husband. She
)ut poison in his coffee, but the dose
vas SO small that it made him only
lightly i'll. She tried again, and made
he quantity SO large that it did not
eriously harm him. Then she expert
aented on dog and cat; but, by the
ime she had thoroughly mastered the
ubiect, Mr.. Starch's suspicion was
reused, and he detected the drug in
is cup on the occasion of the third at
9mpt on his life.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12
BOYS and Other Colts.

Now, boys, let the colts out into the
lots and see them run. Don't keep
them penned up in the stalls. That is
as bad as keeping healthy boy in bed
all day. They were never made for
prison, but for freedom. More colts
are permanently injured by lack of ex-
ercise than by any other cause. What
they want is chance to run, and race,
and curvette, and kick up their heels,
and draw the cool. fresh air into their
lungs and blow it out with snort.
Bring them all out into tbs four-acre
lot, slip the halters, climb up on the
fence and see them 60 it. What a
sight! See them sweep! See them
circle! Ha! see that fellow trot! Did
you see the chestnut catch his gait :!
Here they come, heads and tails up,
streaming toward us like torrent of
leaves blown by the gale! How their
eyes shine! How their feet fly! How
full of life, and vigor, and fire they are !!
There is no sight in the cities like that,
boys; no work purer, healthier, manlier
than yours. Stick to the farm and
stable, and the free exhilarating life
of the country. You are a great deal
happier than you would be measuring
tape and clerking it for So a week in the
city.-ETchange.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12
Don't Talk Too Much.

Some of the young folks of to-day
remind us of talking machines, wound
up, and apparently never likely to run
down. Now, I don't mean to condemn
talking entirely. In fact, I rather like
to encourage it, where it is done within
the bounds of reason and propriety.
But some boys and girls talk all the
time, everywhere, and about everything.
They won't even allow another to get a
word in edgeways.
There is time TO talk, and time to
keep still. Once in while, at any
rate, chance should be afforded your
friends to put in word or two. When
older people are speaking, it would
look well for youngsters to keep their
mouths shut. When some one is read
ing, it is i'll manners to interrupt, to
call attention to trivial matters, of no
sense or interest. When another is
speaking, wait until he or she gets
through before you say your say, and
do not take the word out of any ones
mouth. It didn't use to be so in olden
times, if our grandparents tell the
truth, and I don't see any good reason
why it should be so now. When two
persons are talking at once to another,
it confuses the listener, and one should
not be surprised if he misunderstands
and gets things mixed. 1t is difficult
matter for person to fix his attention,
perfectly, on any two things, at once,
and get sense of it. There is bound to
be confusion.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12

PROF. W. X. BROOKS, of the Johns
Hopkins University, has written a re-
markable article for the Popular SCI
e4oce Monthly on The Condition of
Woman from Geological Point of
View" He argues that it is the office
of the female in all organized life to
reproduce and perpetuate hereditary
traits, and of the male to produce varia-
tons. eff this is so" he adds, "and if
the female organism is the conservative
organism, to which has been intrusted
the keeping of all that has been gained
during the past history of the race, it
must follow that the female mind is a
storehouse filed with the instincts,
habits, intuitions, and laws of conduct
which have been gained by past expert
ence. The male organism, on the con-
trary, being the variable organism, the
originating element in the process of
evolution, the male mind must have the
power of extending experience over
new fields, and, by comparison and
generalization, of discovering new laws
of nature, which are in their turn to be-
come rules of action, and to be added
on to the series of past experiences
Hence we should expect men to excel in
Judgment, women in common sense
men in invention, discovery, or the
meeting of emergencies; women in the
conduct of ordinary life.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12
/" Dog TriD."

One night, when bedtime came, little
curly-headed Sam missed his dog.
Inquiry was made, and it was ascer-
tanned that he had been absent for
several hours, and it was feared that he
was stolen.
With a sad heart, little Sam said
Goodnight" to father and mother.
After having on Bonded knee said
Our Father" and "Now lay me-" he
still remained in the same posture, and
soon startled the elder brothers by
breaking out in earnestly pathetic voice,
20 God! aUillest thou send my dog
Trip home? Amen"
Sweet sleep came to the little play
wearied child, and morning found him
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Che Aenosha telegraph
iENOsHA, WIS, JUNE 70, 1879.

The English public is just discover
ng what a colony it has in the FIJI
stands, from the last message of Lieut..
4ov. Des Voeux to the Legislative
Jouncil-did anybody in general know
he Fiji islands had semi-parliamentary
decentralization says that one of
he islands is as large as Cyprus, and
hat the aggregate area of the whole is
anger than all the British West Indies
,ut together, Jamaica, Trinidad and the
.ook
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The Lost King.

A curious instance of the recovery of
lost ring inside a root of celery oc-
Cured in Sweden. Mrs. B, in
planting celery in the garden in spring,
and while dibbling holes for the small
plants with her finger, unconsciously
dropped her ring into one of the holes.
A plant duly was inserted into the hole,
and doubtless through the lost ring,
and, as the root grew, the ring must
have become imbedded in it's substance.
The ring had been given up for lost
until the following winter, when the
mystery was cleared by the ring turn
ing up among the soup at dinner in a
portion of the celery-root.- Chambers
Journal. shi4
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
The Birds Pledge.

winter is over" piped the quail to the plover.
"Glad it is gone." quacked the duck to the swan.
$50 are We! So are we!' sang the saucy towhee.
"Corn was planted to-oayl" screamed garrulous
Jay.
sim delighted to know'' cawed hoarse old crow.
Were building nestl' cawed robin red breast
" It's quite time, think !" trilled gay bobolink
" Your nest is too narrow!' said the wren to the
sparrow.
= shan't change it an inch p twittered sparrow to
finch.
g What very bad manager!' cried proud scarlet
tanager.
'Speak kindly of all - warbled voices small.
Let's make it a pledge!' said thrush in the
hedge
"And written one, too!'' whistled clear the cur
lew.
"T'm sure agreed" peeped modest pewee.
4" I'll pledge in minute!'' said a sweet-tempered
linnet
Some caroled it loud. some echoed it shrill,
But all gave the promise 8 We will, yes we will,
Each mind our own business and speak ill -
Joy AliSOn
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12

FASHIONABLE London spreads itself
over wide area. For instance, Mr.
Gladstone and Col. Stanley, Secretary
for War, live in streets distant as much
as three miles from very fashionable To-
calities. No people, however, gin soci-
ety." live east of the Regents Circus
Oxford street, and none except the Arch
bishop of Canterbury south of the
Thames. Grosvenor square and parts
adjacent continue to be just as much in
request as ever. No house in that dis.
trict is ever more than few weeks va
can't. Nearly all Grosvenor square has
been rebuilt since 1850; but the same
families, in many instances, occupy the
sites they did 100 years ago. AS nearly
all London streets at the West End are
macadamized, long distances are rapidly
traversed in cab or carriage, but the
former vehicle has often to make de.
tour, inasmuch as it is tabooed in Hyde
Park. One reason why lodgings are
SO much cheaper there than here is that
it is the fashion for shopkeepers-wh
always have a private door-to rent
some Of their rooms, and people of the
best class occupy them. In Pail Mall
and it's neighborhood members of Par
lament, ETC., are found living in such
rooms. They breakfast at their lodg
ings or at club, but rarely dine in the
former.
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man in his senses would under such
circumstances write letter which, if
discovered, would be his sure death
warrant, and still more unaccountable
that an intelligent woman, such as she
showed herself to be on her examina-
ton, should fail to destroy such a
document when received. But they
did inst those two things, and SO I'M
Willingly brought themselves to justice
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12

CHEERFULNEss, says a newspaper
moralist, is just as natural to the heart
of man in strong health as color to
his cheek.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-12

A NUMBER of prominent merchants
and planters in Louisiana have organ
lied the Mississippi Valley Immigra-
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ton Company, (which is designed to be
an agency to promote immigration from
Europe and from the Northern States
and to supply white labor to the plant
ers.5
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BALTIMORE has 321,7 inhabitants,
and "a ,443 buildings.
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refreshed and his bright ewes omen

refreshed and his bright eyes open
early to greet the coming sunshine.
Rising betimes, and opening the yard
door, his lost dog comes bounding in,
now capers about him, and now fawns
upon him with many demonstrations of
JOY.
But not more happy was "dog Trip"
than was his little master, who, quietly
coaxing him into a corner with supper
and breakfast all in one, was heard tell
ing him, very confdentially:
Il thought, doggie, you would be at
home in the morning; because, Trip, /
said my prayers for you last night"
Simplicity of Style.
In lecture on simplicity in writing
and speaking, Joseph Cook, the famous
lecturer, quotes several maxims from
the French, such as the following:
Words, like lenses, obscure what
they do not enable us to see better"
"The oratorical style has often the
disadvantage of those operas in which
the music prevents the words from being
heard. In this case the words prevent
you from seeing the thoughts"
When thought is not strong
enough to bear a simple expression,
that is reason for rejecting It,"
" It is by familiar words that style
bites and takes possession of the reader.
It is by these that great thoughts obtain
currency, and are assumed to be good
metal, like gold and silver stamped with
well-known impression"
It is not enough to make people
understand what you say. You must
make them see it. The memory, the
understanding and the imagination
must all take possession of it,"
"Let your mind always be loftier
than your thought, and your thoughts
loftier than your Language" -YoutNs
Companion.
How to Obey.
In a panic in public school, caused
by the cry of Fire." one little girl sat
perfectly still. On being asked why
she did so, she said: "My father is a
fireman, and told me if the school
should be afre would be far safer to
sit in my place until the rush was over,
and then get out quietly" She knew
how to obey.