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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-26
How to Make Coffee


Select with critical discrimination the
best of genuine Mocha; or, In default Of
this, Old Government Java. Never buy
it as roasted and ground In our store S.
In these processes and in the keeping
some of the finest of the aroma /. usi
necessarily be lost. Roast your own
coffee and grind your own coffee your
self. Roast it in an iron or other stew
pan, which is thoroughly cleaned and
secured after each using. 1t VIII serve
greatly to retain the aroma to throw In
piece Of the sweetest of butter, about the
size of chestnut When this is melted
It viii throw around each particle OF
coffee thin, buttery film, which will do
much to prevent the escape Of the deli
cate coffee bouquet. Keep stirring con-
stantly. Allow to remain until the coffee
IS a fine, rich brown, but not until il
browns to any blackness. Grind to small
rounds, bHt do not make the very COM
mon mistake of grinding to powder.
Place these grounds in an earthen, or at
least porcelain-hned, bowl. Cover with
,oiling water. Set on warm place Oh
the stove, but not hot enough to make il
3oil, and allow to infuse for half an honr.
Now strain. We have now an exquisite
coffee favoring.
A very delicate coffee favoring may
oe obtained by another process, as fol
lows: Roast and grind your coffee as di-
rected in previous recipe. Now reduce
70 grounds, and throw these grounds
lirectly into the cream before it is set
N the fire. Now, by the time the cream
IS heated up to the boiling point, the
whole mass will be pervaded by very
delicate coffee bouquet. Of course the
cream must be carefully strained before
you proceed to freeze.
1t will strike the housewife at first
reading as simply incredible that the full
ARENA Of the coffee berry can be extract
cd without any application whatever OF
fire. The experiment viii delight as
well as surprise all ladies of intelligence
and taste who once put this to the test.
The cid process was first devised SIM
ply with u view of preventing, as far as
coffee berry. which is as volatile as it is
delicate, and all ordinary processes more
or less sacrifice. Take five ounces OF
best Mocha or Old Government Java.
coast and grind to coarse powder in d
way laid down in the previous recipe,
POUR the grounds into glass bottle q
t.eeanter pour on sufficient quantity
Of cold water to cover the coffee, stop
the bottle or decanter close, set in
warm situation for thirty thirty hours;
now filter the infusion by passing ii
through some fine lawn or blotti1g-
paper placed on glass funnel OF STRAIN
through muslin.
This process has been tried with hot
water as well as with cold, and, while ii
;ontradicts all prevailing impressions to
shy so, this still remains the fact, that
the cold water produces the best result.
let each housekeeper try both the hot
and cold water process, and decide for
herself which result gfatities her the
,uost.
Ii will be observed that the delicate
and highly aromatic infpsions obtained
ty any Of the foregoing processes will
he fully available for hot breakfast cot
fee, for ice-cold coffee, for cotfee-ice, OF
tor coffee ice-cream. - Philadelphia
J3aneS
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True Love.

A pretty story is told of the late
Czarina, who, as is well known. was q
most faithful wife, in spite of the long
continued harsh treatment and neglect
Of the Gear, and wise and devoted
mother. Although a strict observer of
the rules of the Greek Church, she al
ways opposed the tendency to substitute
forms and ascetic ceremonies in religion,
in place of true feeling and domestic
everyday duty.
While visiting the Smolnoje Institute
for girls, some years ago, the Empress,
during the examination of the pupils,
suddenly asked, "What is love?"
The young ladies blushed as though
an improper question had been proposed,
became greatly confused, and were silent.
Madame Leontieff, the directress, kneel-
ing, begged leave to state to Her Majesty
that all knowledge of this dangerous sub
iect was prohibited by her, and that, in
all probability, the pupils did not even
know the meaning of the word.
The Czarina frowned $50 far from
being dangerous subject, madame, she
said, "love should be the pure main
spring of q woman's life; first, love fol
her parents then, love for her husband !;
lastly, love for her children and love for
God always If your pupils have not
this, they are badly prepared for the du-
ties of life"
The Empress left the Institute, and
the next day, Madame Leontief was re-
moved as incompetent by the Imperial
Ministry OF Education.
In American society, the mention of
love is too often received by young girls
with blush and giggle, which betray
the narrow and vulgar meaning which
they attach to the word. It is to them
simply Irritation with some young man,
which may or may not end in mar
rage.
1t is the fault of their mothers if they
are not taught to know and respect that
divine quality of devotion and self-sacri-
fee, which alone can ennoble woman's
life, and which, whether it is given to
parent, child, or lover, makes her more
akin to her Master.
If we were asked for typical picture
of love in the present time, we should
choose, not pretty little girl sitting by
a moustached youth in the moonlight,
but Mary Diller standing by her old
helpless father on the burning deck Of the
Seawanh0k0, the flames wrapping her
like garment, and burning her eyes
blind. - Youths Companion.
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A Disastrous Fire.

When Carlisle had finished the manu-
script of his greatest work, "The French
Revolution" he lent it to Mr.. John
Stuart Mill to read. The latter left it
where the maid servant got hold of it
and kindled the morning fire with it. 1t
required three months of the phiios-
ophers best philosophy to recover from
the shock and grief, and bring himself to-
repeating his task. A late catastrophe
to theeminent German historian, Momm-
sen, has caused loss to which that of
'grhe French Revolution" was trife.
The historian, just before retiring, un-
knowingly dropped lighted match upon
the carpet. The fire smoldered long
time and was discovered too late to save
his library and the treasures it contained.
He could hardly be prevented from
rushing into the flames to secure the
precious documents which lay upon the
shelves. Among them were some of the
most ancient and valuable manuscripts
on Roman history lent him by order Of
the Pope, from the Vatican library, and
others from. the libraries Of Vienna,
Paris, and Berlin, which can never he
replaced. An eyewitness says nothing
could be more touching than his agoniz-
ing grief. The police had great difficult
ty in controlling him, and in spite Of
their efforts he received several severe
iniTlries
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Excess of Study.

Minerva, said an able entymologist, is
SO called, QHiG nainuat aaerVos. Excess
OF study is, OF course, like any other ex-
cess, prejudicial to the system. The
pursuit of letters, if carried beyond
certain point, is, like other pursuits, at
tended by physical Inconvenience.
These, which have been greatly magni-
fed, ultimately result, as has been al
ready said, from one of two causes-too
much exercise Of the mind or too little
exercise of the body. Insanity or indi-
gestion, disordered head or disor-
dered stomach, are the avengers
OF the lucubrations of literary hbertin-
ism. But the belly suffers far more
often than the brain. How many men
sit before their books day after day, i'm
movable as the unhappy Indian fakirs
before their gods, deranging their ani-
NAL economy without any advantage to
themselves or society How many of
these sedentary victims lose their appe-
tltes without increasing their intelli
gence How many, without improving
their discernment, destroy their di-
gestion! These are they whom melan-
choiy follows like a shadow, having
marked them for her own. No need for
them to drink the bloodless cumin. The
least Incorporate of them from excessive
senslbllity serves as living barometer,
and IS purged of bile at much less sell
dom intervals than Horace. The most
incorporate is a martyr, if we may be-
heve physicians, to sleeplessness and
somnambulism, to commissions and cata-
Inr l. L
sink, in comparatively short PERIOD
from a voluminous constitution to mona
genarian caducity. Nay, they will even
die away like lamp, from wasting
their light Of life solely IN the SER
vice of an ungrateful public. From
time to time learned receipts have been
given regarding scholars diet. But
these bookworms will have none of
them. These will not even follow the
example of Aristotle, and bear about
constantly on their belly, in order to
assist digestion, bladder of aromatic
oil. They will not confine their food to
milk and rice, eggs and oysters, fruit
and farina. Illustrious examples are
theirs, if they would but follow them.
Anacreon IS said, during his latter years,
to have lived on regimen of raisins
Newton on bread and water, with wine
and boiled chicken on some infrequent
opportunity of testal cheer. But at
least let the student beware of bacon.
and cream, and cider. Nor are sheep's
trotters ordinarily adapted to his digest
i've powers. Tea is little like = to
lengthen literary days, and a sucking
pig, especially with mustard and pep
per, is a very Pandora's box of ills, In
which not even hope remains behind
OorRhiH MQQQzine.
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All for Science.

The following account of scientific
killing of rattlesnake appears In the
Philadelphia Times. Everything being
In readiness, three gentlemen in their
shlrt-sleeves came up to the box, and at
once began operations. The sliding lid
was unscrewed One Of the coatless
men had stick with sponge as big as
an apple tied to it, and a bottle of chic
roform Another had pair of long
pincers, while the other acted as the
snakes doorkeeper. The word "All
ready" wassaid, the lid was slowly moved
back little, and the end of the pincers
was inserted in the aperture. Bump,
bump, bump, went the snakes head
against the top of his box, and his tail
sang merry song. The man with the
plncers knew what he was about, and
cautiously he thrust his pincers in.
Snap and everybody shuddered. Then
what rattling, what twisting! 1t seemed
as if the reptile would burst his slender
cage. How he pulled and coiled and
writhed But the pincers man was
strong, and in second or two Mr..
Snakes nose was through the aperture.
The lid man was cool and watched sharp
that larger opening was not forced than
necessary. Finally the cold eyes came
out, and plump his head was out of the
box, aDd the pincers held his neck like
vice. How he writhed and ratified |
Quick as lightning the man with the
sponge and bottle was doing his best.
He poured the chloroform upon the
sponge into the monsters great red
mouth. The mouth closed, and it was
forced open again and more chloroform
put IN. Then the pincers man with his
left hand seized the reptile by the neck
and released the pincers, which fell with
rattle on the stone floor. Horror It
was not pretty sight, o man holding a
monster by the throat whose bite was
instant death, but he held him neverthe-
less, for it was in the interest of science.
Then more chloroform was poured into
him. About this time everybody was
| pretty well excited but the pincers man.
He very coolly took small pair of
pincers from the table, put his head down
so he could see, and with the little
pincers pulled out the big fangs Of
the reptile and laid them, one after
the other, ON a white sheet of paper.
They were nearly an inch long! By this
time the snake did not seem to be par
ticularly interested in science or any
thing else, so they pulled him out of his
box and Strengthened him on the floor,
the pincer man keeping his grip at the
neck. The reptile was measured, but he
had lost over a foot in length. 1t was
explained that he had shrunk in length
from the effects Of the chloroform, and so
it seemed, for his body seemed double
its former size. He seemed a dead snake,
sure enough. His writings had stopped
and his rattles were still. So he was put
back in his little box and the lid screwed
down. He deliberately cooled himself
up. but the pincer man told me the snake
was dead, and didn't mean anything by
it-in fact, didn't know that he had
coiled himself up. A plaster cast is the
ultimate end Of this Florida monster"
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Sarcastic epitaphs, not necessarily in
yolviDg pun Oh the name, are, we sus-
pect, seldom to be found really engraved
III tombstones and only In some cases
written by relations of the deceased
Ii Dryden really wrote the epitaph Oh
MS wife, attributed to him, and which
he intended for her tombstone had h.
1utlived her, he must indeed have felt
and owed her but little affection
Here lies my wife, here let her lie;
els Il w at rest, and so am l..
One Mrs. Shute gave occasion, We are
told, for the following:
Here lies, cut down Ike unripe fruit,
The W fe OF Deacon Amos Shute;
She died Of drinking too much coffee.
Amy DymiHy eighteen forty.
James Wyatt, Of course, took no part
IN the coIcoction of this effusion
At rest bel cath this church-yard stone
Les stingy Jimmy Wyatt
He died one morning just at ten,
Ant saved dinner by it.
The occupation of dyer has suggest
ed many epitaphs Of an obvious char.
acter, such as
He dyed to live, and lived to die.
Also:
He died himself, and dyed no more.
So many Jokes have been fired off at
the late Sir William Curtis-an Alder
man distinguished for defective educa-
ton and bad grammar-that we need
not feel surprised at an epitaph couched
thus:
Here lies William Curtis,
Our lateLord Mayor,
Who has left this here world,
An dgone to that there.
A useful hint is wrapped up in the
following:
Died Of thin shoes, January, 1880.
Chambers Journal.
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Generally speaking, the French farm
er is not jolly soul. Whether he be a
man of education or not, he settles down
into a grub sort Of life, faring frugally
on soup and the thinnest of ordinary red
wine or cider. The stock Of his soup is
bacon, and he eats butchers meat only
twice q week, that is on Sunday and
market day. When he attends market
he makes a succulent deieuner and
drinks a good deal Of beer afterward at
tie cafe, This is his only cheerful
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time; at ordinary seasons he is morose,
troubled about the weather, the con-
scription which is going to take his son
into the army, and about politics, of
which he understands just enough to
be III constant dread of reYolu1io
He is a Conservative that is to say that
he upholds the Government of the day,
whatever it Is, for fear Of anarchy; but
no Government is popular with him, for
every administration finds it necessary
to lay on new taxes. -Losadon Truth,
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Coffee.

We Americans drink good deal Of
coffee. Some of it is atrociously bad
coffee, and great deal of it is not coffee
at all. A certain noted man, vino was
very fond of cup of genuine coffee, is
said to have stopped at a country inn
and said to the proprietor, Have you
any chicory? ?" "Yes, SIR" Bring it
to me-" A can was brought to him. SIS
this all you have in the house2" 81
have one more can only" "Well, bring
that" 1t was brought. "Now,' said
the noted man, placing the cans OF
chicory in his pocket, ego and make
me cup of coffee" If the American
people could place in its pocket all base
limitations of the fragrant berry, cup
of good coffee would not be rarity. A
good deal of our coffee comes from Bra
I'll. Last year we imported from that
country about 422, 100000 pounds of
coffee. The annual consumption of
Mocha, Java and Rio is valued at over
100000, 600. Put that in your cup and
stir it. The best Mocha comes from the
province of Remen, in Arabia. All 9TH
ers. as photographers would say, are hol-
low Mechanics. Java coffee comes from
Java, Sumatra and Borneo. The roast
ing of coffee is a business by itself, and
the modern coffee-roaster browns a ton
and half of coffee in forty-five minutes.
Men who work at the coffee roasting
trade never drink coffee. They have
enough of the aroma at their regular
business. detroit Free Press.
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An Unused Basin.

Here is a story they are telling just
now in London Of troop ship: In the
ladies' cabin were four wash-basins, one
of which was much larger than the
others. There were three ladies in the
cabin whose husbands were about equal
IN rank. The women always think they
have right to presume on the rank Of
their husbands when taking choice of
berths, etc., and there was g1eat dis
cussion as to who was entitled to use
the big basin. It was referred to the
paymaster Of the ship, who could settle
nothing, and eventually to the Captain.
He gave decision worthy Of Solomon.
After first asking them if they would
abide by his verdict and not give any
more trouble in the matter, which they
readily agreed to do, he said he thought
it was only fair that the Oldest lady
should have the biggest basin. That
basin was never used during the whole
voyage out.
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Miss MulOck9s Romance.

It was "John Halifax published af-
ter she was thirty years old, that brought
her fame, and made the task of earning
her daily bread o little less arduous.
Seven years later she was awarded a
pension Of three hundred dollars a year.
She was nearly forty when she married.
In 1865 Capt. George Lille Craik, an Off
Ger in the English army, who had been in
the Crimea, met Miss Mulock, and, al
though some years her junior, addressed
her and succeeded in winning her hand.
They proved most congenial companions,
and their married life was all they could
wish, with but one exception. The wo-
man whose love for children amounted
almost to passion, who wrote g Philip,
Ny King" was denied the happiness of
feeling baby fingers upon her cheek or
of ever hearing herself called mother.
This was severe sorrow, but even this
pain has been partly assuaged. Strangely
enough, one dark, rainy night, while she
and her husband were speaking of chill
dren and Of the Joy and brightness they
bring to so many dwellings,, there came
loud ring at the bell and then furious
g. VI OPC11AAS VIC uOOlJ tJmS
upon the sill they found basket en-
closed In many wrappings. When they
were removed they discovered lovely
little baby only few hours old. The
child was wrapped in one roll after an
other of India muslin, and on its breast
was pinned note begging Mrs. Craik to
be kind to the little waif thus brought to
her door. and assuring her that no mean
blood flowed in its veins. Tenderly she
lifted the little thing in her arms, and
her heart opened as warmly to take in
the poor little deserted creature. They
called the child Dorothea, God-given,
and she became their legally adopted
daughter, as tenderly cherished and as
passionately loved as though she had
been their own.
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Rutland, vt, where she entertains with
generous hospitality. Mrs. Dorr is de-
scended on her fathers side from Gov.
VIM. Bradford, while her mother was OF
French ancestry. Mrs. DOR received
her education where Charles Lamb was
won't to say girl should be educated, in
her fathers library. Her first published
poem was sent to the Union magazine
by her husband without her knowledge,
and led to a request for further contribr
tons. Mrs. Dorr was born Ia Char,ss-
ton. S. c., Feb. 13. 1926.
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The PHOTOGRAPH.

Another measuring inst,u--nt is de.
scribed in the french papers-the .spro
telegraph, so called because, when ii
use, it traces mechanically on paper the
outlines of the ground over Which i
travels. 1t is q small carriage mounted
on two wheels, drawn by one man ano
attended by another, who marks tbs
levels at the proper places, and under.
meath hangs an iron rod with large
ball at Its lower end, serving as a pen
dulum. This pendulum maintains I
constant vertical position, while the ma
chine inclines in one direction or tn
other, according as it ascends or de
scends a slope. To the upper end d
the rod is fitted pencil, which marks
on sheet of paper the ups and downs
of the country traversed, whether on an
ordinary road or across trackless fields
the exact profile being thus recorded
to given scale. At the same time one
of the wheels. acting the part of chain
bearer, measures and indicates the dis
tances travelled throughout the survey
the whole being accomplished with com.
plete accuracy.
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Woman as a Common Carrier.

Man is not bundle-carrying animal.
He can tuck few stray parcel in his
pocket, to be sure, ard lug a package
under his arm, perhaps, but, on the
Whole, IS common carrier he is fail
IRE. But woman well, we should
nate to say anything that wasn't abso-
lutely true; at the same time, woman
can carry parcels enough into horse
car to fill up one side of it, and PICK
them all up in one arm when she gets
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A Troy youth snapped bean from
window. It struck q man on the nose.
He jumped and knocked down q woman,
who broke an arm and caused horse to
run away and fatally injure itself. Had
the boy thrown a griudstone, nobody
knows what might have happened.
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off at a crossing, and lead a pair Of
twins, carry an umbrella, and hold ur
her skirts with the other hand.-Ness
Hduen Register.
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Mrs. Ripley.

Mrs. Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr, the
poetess, lives with her husband, three
sons and a. daughter, at 'tThe Naples, .
a beautiful residence in the suburbs of
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-26

Mr.. P. I. BARNUM has invented
new and kindly charity. He has given
winter house-plants to over 900 people
in Bridgeport, chiefly of the working
classes.
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dENEvA has Il romance based upon an
TN 5liah clergyman who married a LADY,
artist who colored his photographs ana
Tell III love with the pictures.
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THE OCEAN.
NJ ARTHUR LOT.


H. shun the oceans wave, unlcss you'd waive
sAiety from sicsn IS OF the sea, ard see
Yourself so ID you'd grayey wish the grave
WOULD ore, aud areiched r. tchng cpae 10 bel
Come grassy lea you'd ee vi o. me e,
And wish that YOU couli land up n e land,
since an your food So freely Md sci free,
3ui vsiny YOU woiiid cO1ne with such command,
Unless The ship should strand upon some unknown
strand
The SEES, on seaSonable days, HE high
Hheu ghty wifris blow az he deeps below
hnd sea 70 pi's raised fer up toward the sky,
White wavelets int, mi hty bll1ws grow;
No m sier the the mystery can know
d ail tiai's hid lie 6 u the Ots waves
To which, in Ysin woe loudly cri out whoa;
without caveat to oceans caves
Their prey unwayering waves sweep swift az II to
graves.
some memorable days does memory bring,
y hru almost II see-saw on slw tile -,
sonisiiIn iar skyward / ~ waves 'twou ling,
so,Jetioes it, breast as smooth as glass won q be;
Fl" hsn cked h. ship with huge rocks on its zee,
And nile wind bl " waves OF hluih ..ue
From every danger S. empd the SEA then free;
I'll When DER oce n biue III fierce win blew,
s true, with wrecks the rocky shore swift did II
etrew.
On, shun the oceans breast unless yon'd breast
kiE northern win i with their terrific roar,
Aud meet tb' waves they swell il gh and crest
And .s. as hungry NAV qal,e wide for uioTe
vi burDan lret, n ugh there's cIore In its crawl
y -hh" the o cans tiee lest there b.tide
70 gu some ; safe shOaT yourself ON shore,
And by some quiet bro kIet ever b;de,
mere, IN pis days, sOme dainty maid sighed BY
your side.