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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY.

SPONGE GINGERBREAD. - One cup
sour milk, one cup molasses, half cup
butter, two eggs, one and half tea
spoonfuls soda, one quart flour; ginger
and spice to taste.
BOILED INDIAN PUDDING. Two quarts
milk, two full cups Indian meal, one cup
molasses, salt to- taste. Boil two-thirds
Of the milk to scald the meal; then add
? the molasses and the rest of the milk.
Stir all together. and boil eight hours
Y KISSES OR DRoP CAKES. One cup of
butter, two cups of sugar, three-fourths
cup of water, one-half teasponful soda,
two eggs, four and a half or five cups
flour; drop them on q tin, and put a
lump of sugar in the center Of each.
LEMON BUTTER. -One and a half cup
fuls white sugar, whites Of three eggs,
ye1k of one, grated rind and juice of a
lemon and half, or two small ones; ;
cook over slow fire twenty minutes,
stirring all the while. Very nice for
tarts, or to be eaten as preserves.
10 DETERMINE THE PURITY OF
Wafer To detect .impurity in we'll
water, put a tumbler of it in a warm
place for ten days. IL free from organic
matter it will remain sweet, but il i'm
pure it will begin to smell disagree
ably. Otherwise o small quantity of
nitric acid may be poured into a glass
of the water; if.organic matter is pres
ent ii will become oxidized and turn
brown and color the water in few
hours. &
HUNTINGTON PUDDING. One pint
milk and one-half cup rice, put into a
tin and set in q pot nearly half full of
boiling water; keep the water boiling
until Their is steamed soft enough to
yield when pressed with thumb and
finger; then add yelks. of two eggs, a
little lump of butter, and the grated
rlnd of lemon; turn into a pudding
dish, beat the whites TO stiff froth, and
stir IN half q cup OF sugar and the juice
of lemon; spread this frosting on the
pudding, and put into the oven to
brown @
How TO LIME EaGs.- Eggs are lined
by packing them in liquid made as
follows, viz: One peck of fresh lime is
Stacked in sufficient water to make
thin paste; when thoroughly Stacked,
which will require twenty-four hours,
water is added to thin it so that it can
be strained through a fine sieve into q
clean barrel, which is then filled up with
water; the eggs, perfectly fresh, are laid
carefully into kegs or barrels, and the
stirred lime liquor is poured over them,
q board being doated on top to keep the
eggs under the surface. In this way the
eggs may be kept six months.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15

That is the most curious part of all
In their instruments they seem to have
anticipated the invention Of many of
our instruments, by some thousands OF
years, but, having once invented them,
they never seem to have tried to per
feet them. Tt is characteristic of these
people to pause at the threshold of
great discoveries. Take the organ. for
example; the Chinese knew the princi-
pie Of the reed organ $500 years ago,
and to-day know no more than they did
then"
"What is their organ like?" eagerly
asked Arthur
"I'll show you. But don't expect to
see large church-organ." And Uncle
Herbert went upstairs to his room,
whence he Immediately returned with
a bundle of papers. Here is a draw
ing of the Chinese organ or cheng. It
has usually twentyfour pipes of bam-
boo, which are inserted in the gourd of
calabash. In each OF these pipes is a
reed or tongue of gold or copper, which,
by its vibration, causes the sound, as in
our cabinet organs; beneath this reed
a hole is made in the bamboo, and when
this hole is left open the air rushes out
through it without making any sound:
but when it is closed, by placing a fin
ger upon it, the breath is forced up the
tube, compelling the reed to vibrate,
and give out an agreeable sound"
Do they use pianos ?" asked Arthur.
They have an instrument whose
tones are somewhat like those of
piano or harp. Tt is called the kin,
and consists OF silken cords, stretched
along sounding-board. There are va
rious sizes of this instrument, the
largest Of which is called the che; it is
sometimes nine feet long, and has
twenty-five strings"
"Do they play in church the organ
that you showed us?" asked Maud.
Oh, no! They like the organ to
dance by best. Their grandest relig-
ious ceremony is usually accompanied
by several instruments; but the most
important of these is an expensive in
strument, called the king. It is made
of stones cut in proper shapes and
finely polished; these are hung on
frame and struck with wooden mallet.
The stones, which are very valuable
and of beautiful colors, are found near
the river banks in the province of Yum
nan. A man practicing on the tj4ag
might remind one of the Swiss bell
ringers" = Louis C. Elsoqo, IN st.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
A Month of Evil Omen.

January would seem to be a month
of evil omen for modern sovereigns,
whose deaths and disasters form o very
large proportion of its most noteworthy
anniversaries. On the 1st of January,
Charles the Bold, of Burgundy, was
killed by the Swiss, in 1477, and the
allied armies entered France, in 1914,
10 begin the campaign that overthrow
Napoleon. On the 9Th, the death of
Edward the Confessor ushered in the
series OF complications which ended in
the Norman conquest of England. On
the 9th. Napoleon III. died in exile.
Louis XVI. was beheaded on the 2Ist,
and the 22d brought the same fate to
the ambitious Duke of Somerset, Re-
gent and virtual King of England dur
ing the minority of Edward VI. The
both was doubly fatal to the house of
Stuart, having witnessed both the exc
cution of Charles /, and the death of
Prince Charles Edward, the hero Of the
final attempt to expel the Hanoverian
dynasty in 1745. But apart from these
tragedies, the Wolf-month, as the Sax
ons called it, is rich in other
and less gloomy associations. The
present Emperor Ct Germany be-
came King Of Prussia on the I'd. Sophia
was taken by the Russians on the
Sd (1877), and the Turkish army cap
tured at Schipka pass on the 8th. The
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
TennysOn and Victoria.

Speaking of Tennyson's hospitality.
a recent anecdote runs thus: Her
Majesty, the Queen, announced it to be
her good pleasure to honor her poet
laureate with visit. Unfortunately,
she did not say precisely what day she
would arrive. In duty bound, the
whole family was put into its best "bib
and tucker" The children agonized in
their best rig, and were vigorously
spent" indoors. Mrs. TennYson was
bedecked with her state raiment, and
the great author himself was gotten up
to perfection, and in the latest inven-
ton of his tailor. Four or five DAYS
went by in the same atmosphere of ex-
pectation and grandeur, but no royal
guests came driving up. At last it be-
came unbearable. Ordinary manners
were proclaimed; everybody sighed
with relief and flung aside too violent
etiquette with too belaced and berib-
boned attire. The children resumed their
intimacies with mud-pies and rocking
horses. Mrs. Tennyson began to enjoy
novel and a wrapper, and, casting
aside romance, Mr.. Tennyson took up
q hoe and began wedding his garden,
and, with glowing cheeks and animated
eyes, tried to make two blades of grass
grow where before there was only one"
Of course, when everything was jogging
along in this cozy and homelike way,
the Queen and her escort arrived. At
first there was general Autter of fright
and excitement. Everybody was en-
barrassed and i'll at ease. But the grand
old fellow, coming up to the house with
soiled hands and sweatdrops on his
lofty brow, made it all rig ht in few
words. my sovereign, we expected
you for several days, and were prepared
to receive you as should become those
who are honored by their Queen; but
to-day we did not know OF your inten-
ton, and are therefore only so far pre-
pared as loyalty and love can make us"
1t is needless to say that the visit was a
very friendly and pleasant affair, and,
we doubt not, far better enjoyed by SO
sensible woman as Queen Victoria
than it would have been had it been at
tended with courtly formality and state.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15

destruction of England's Cabul army
in 1912 marks the 9th. The 18th wit
messed the seizure of Danish ships in
British ports (1801) which preluded the
destruction of the whole Danish feet
by Nelson at Copenhagen two months
later. Fort Fisher fell on the 10th. Gen.
Skobeleffis brilliant victory at Snenovo,
which virtually ended the Russo-Turk-
ISL war, marks the 18th, which has also
the greater renown of the birth of
Benjamin Franklin. On the 18th, the
German empire was established by
King Williams assumption of the i'm
perlal crown at Versailles. The same
day witnessed the birth of Louis XIY.'s
famous Minister, Louvois. Lords
Bacon and Byron were born on the
I'D. On the 23d, the Duke of Edin-
burgh marriedlthe Cars onlyIdaughter,
Maria Alexandrovna. The oath is the
birthday of Frederick the Great. Paris
was taken on the 28th (187O). and
Ehrenbreitstein, for the first and last
time, on the 29th q799). The 30th
witnessed the execution of Guy Fawkes,
and the marriage of Napoleon III. to
Eugene de Montiio. To the same list
may be added the first sailing of War
rem Hastings to India as an unknown
civilian (1750), the storming of the
great Sikh fortress of Mooltan by the
British (1S49), and the reorganization
OF the Russian army (1S74).
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
Sam HOuStOn's Duel.

A correspondent of the Bowling
Green (Ky.) I71teligencey unearths an
old man of the vicinity who remembers
al about "the sensation of the wear
1926" the old man being one of the
participants in the duel that caused the
sensation. To settle a .spat that came
of hot blood Gen. Sam Houston, then a
member of Congress from Tennessee.
and Gen. White, of Nashville, agreed
that on "Sept. %. 1896" they would
fight duel on the Tennessee line;
time, sunrise; distance, fifteen feet !;
weapons, holster pistols" Houston got
out of bed at 3 40 a. m. on the 23d, and.
sitting in his night clothes, nodded two
bullets AS the first fell from the
mold o dog named Z Gen. Jackson"
raised a triumphant howl under the
window. When the second bullet
dropped a game cock crowed long and
loud from aneighboring tree. Houston,
who was superstitious, cut the figure of
a dog on Que bullet, and that of cock
on the other. The principals stood at
their posts on the second and to the
inch. Whites lead cut whistle
through the sharp air, but Houston
stood unhurt. At the same instant the
bullet with the dog mark passed clean
through Whites body,so that silk
handkerchief was drawn from one side to
the other. After the duel Houston select
ed as his coat-of. arms the famous
chicken cock and dog"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
THE REVOLUTION IN MAINE.

The Garcelon outrage in Maine has
now been carried to the full extent of
usurpation. The Governor and his
Council have persisted in their delib-
crate misconstruction of the law and
their defiance of The Supreme Court.
The Fusion members who were not
elected took their seats, with two excep-
tlons. A quorum was thus obtained in
spite of the withdrawal of all the Re
publicans except Eugene Hale, who re-
manned to represent the Republican
protest, and the fraudulent Legislature
was thus organized. This body, In the
condition of its original organization,
is as much creature of ex-Gov. Garce-
Ions as If no election had been held in
the State, and the majority of the peo-
pie have been as completely disfran-
chised as the subjects of any despotic
Government in the Dark Ages.
The Republicans reckoned without
their host when they counted upon the
refusal of some of the "counted-in"
Democrats to serve. The scheme to
steal the State was deliberate, and com
pretended the cooperation of all par
ties necessary to it. To look to the.
Democratic party for any sacrifice of
partisan advantage to principle or JUS
tice is simply quixotic. If there shall
yet be any retreat from the infamous
scheme in Maine, it will be before a
force of public opinion which the Demo
cratic party will no longer dare to defy,
or with the consciousness of guilt be-
fore menace and fear of violence. So
long as unscrupulousness and bravado
will serve the Democratic purpose there
will be no serious detection in the ranks
of the revolutionists.
Garcelon exhibited an ehrontery that
was astonishing, even as coming from
him, when he submitted the Supreme
Court opinion to his creatures and in
voked their careful consideration of the
same" after having openly defed it
himself. The rulings Of the court ap-
dplied especially to Garcelon's actions.
de was officially informed by the high
est tribunal in the State that he had
misoonstrued and violated the constitu-
ton and the laws. He was instructed
that it was his duty to issue the certif-
Gates he had withheld. But he refused
to comply with ali or any of the virtual
mandates of the court, and then, for
sooth, he invokes serious consideration
for that courts opinion from his CO.
conspiratorsl It was very much like
advising careful administration upon
the possessions of man who had been
murdered and plundered.
The Garcelon crowd would never
have dared to go to the extreme of,
actual revolution if it had not received
tacit approval and actual encourage
ment from the Democratic party at
large. This circumstance places the
Democrats in the attitude of demand
ing supreme control of a Government
whose underlying prinoiple-the popu-
lar vote-they are deliberately seeking
to DESTROY. CHICAGO Tribune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
Rural Population of Germany.

The rural districts throughout Ger
many, says the London RaGIaUay Nea0S,
are in most deplorable state of pow
erty. The peasantry and the majority
of small farmers cannot subsist even
with abundant harvests. The small
provincial towns are in no better condi-
ton. All this distress is put down to
depressed state of trade, but the real
cause must be looked for elsewhere. 1t
is the outcome. as it were. of psyche
logical causes which have cropped out
of the war and the disheartening con-
sequences connected herewith. The
Germans, who, formerly, have borne so
well the reputation Of possessing a
mild and meditatiye character, seem to
have lost these qualities since the
French war. Hence the existing dis
content. A statistical paper in Ger
many has lately shown that France,
with population of 39,000,000 inhabi-
tants, has upward of 100,000,000 acres
of land under cultivation, while Ger
many, with an aggregate of 100000
inhabitants, cen boast only of having
so OOO, 600 acres under cultivation.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15

The Montenegrins are keeping up
aeir reputation as almost invincible
ghters. A collision was forced upon
nem by force of Albanians number
ag 10000 who had marched out Of
}usinje to oppose the Montenegrin oc-
upation of that city, which has been
llotted to them in the readjustment Of
fairs under the Berlin treaty. The
dontenegrins were under orders to avoid
conflict if possible, and with that 1iew
.etired, but when forced into fight
hey went at it in their usual fashion,
md, although numbering but 5000
against $4,000, they defeated and routed
jhe Albanians with heavy loss.
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ssAmazing Grace. ,,

The following, says Harper's Maya
cine, is vouched for by one OF the most
reliable Of Philadelphia divines:
I A young clergyman, having agreed to
supply the pulpit Of an older brother
absent from home, escorted to church
the daughter OF the pastor, and, after
seeing her safely IN her fathers pew,
assembled to the pulpit, unconscious
that this natural attention to the Young
lady was sufficient TO excite lively i'm
aginations and inquiries in the au-
dience.
Upon reading the hymn to be sung,
the young clergyman was surprised to
perceive evident efforts in the conqre-
cation to suppress laughter. The
daughter of his friend possessed the
melliauous name of Grace, and, all IN
suspicious of that fact, he had chosen
the hymn beginning with the words
Amazing grace" and proceeding with
Twas grace that taught my heart to fear.
And grace my fears relieved:
How precious did that grace appear
The hour first believed!
Through many dangers tolls and snares
have already come:
Ills grace has brought me safe thus far
And grace will lead me homei
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meet the eye instead Of sagebrush and
drifting sand.


TWELVE HUNDRED elephants year
are slaughtered to provide the annual
demand for ivory in one knife factory
at Sheffield, and cutlery people are
anxlously asking where knife handles
are coming from when the animal shall
be extinguished. Celluloid or some
new similar discovery may answer the
question, or perhaps by that time knives
will be disused, and food be cut with
platinum wire heated red by electricity.
There is no more reason why knives
should always do the cutting than why
horses hoofs or fails should always
have done the threshing.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
THE NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Hotel Accommodations Secured for Vari
GUS State Delegations.
from the Chicago Jonrnal1

GUS State Delegations.
From the Chicago Jonrnal.]
On the I'd day of June next, 754
delegates from all of the States and
Territories of the Union, representing
the patriotism and intelligence of the
great Republican party, will assemble
in the Exposition building, for the pur-
pose of naming the next President and
Vice President of the United States.
Although the hammer has not yet com
menced to fall, or the note of prepa-
ration to sound around the building
where the convention is to meet, vet
the busy hotel-keeper is already en-
gagged in picking out quarters for the
different delegations. ae.
The Palmer House has closed with
Pennsylvania and Indiana, and is ne
gotiatlng with q number of others.
Pennsylvania will have the large new
club-room of the house for headquart-
ers, and it is to be gorgeously fitted up
for the Keystone delegation. AS Sena-
tor Cameron, Chairman of the National
Committee, will probably be at the
Palmer with the delegation from his
State, that house will doubtless be the
headquarters of the National Commit
tee. A fine parlor will be used by the
Hoosiers for their headquarters.
The Sherman House has agreed to
keep Ohio, with sixty delegates, and
Iowa, with twenty-five. The Iowa del
egation will use the gentlemen's par
lor for headquarters. Ohio has not yet
engaged room for that purpose.
At the Grand Pacific hotel informa-
ton has been received from six States
that they will stop at that house, and
from several others who would like DO
stop there, with whom negotiations are
still pending. The States which have
secured accommodations at the Pacific
are New York, Illinois, Wisconsin,
Michigan, Colorado and Connecticut.
All of the States named viii have par
lors for headquarters.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15

A CORRESPONDENT of the Bismarck
Tribune takes the ground that rail
roads and their operations are among
the greatest sources of increasing rain
fall in the countries reported arid, and
cites the (apparent) fact that this
powerful agency has already changed
the climate along the Pacific railroad
routes, and that a similar effect will
follow wherever they are built. If
there is any foundation for these views
and they look reasonable the broad
.expanse of country called @The Great
American Desert" by old geographers,
will some day TEEN with life and popu-
lation, and waving fields Of grain will
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15

THERE was a disgraceful prize fight
l st. Louis between man and a
og. Among the spectators were three
tembers of the Common Council, an
z-Judge, a leading physician, and
lany merchants. The stake was $3.50,
ad there was great deal of betting.
he man was Patsey Brennan, dis
equitable pugilist, and the dog was a
9rooious hound, trained to fight.
'atsey was stripped to the waist, and
adj no weapons. The struggle was
REF, and the dog was pounded and
hoked to death, but not before the man
as very seriously bitten.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15
Close Quarters with an Alligator.

While William 2. Neeld was walking
in the woods of Hillsboro county, Fla,
he heard the roaring of an alligator
and the scream of lady. He ran out
to the highway, and saw a nine-foot
saurian, raised on it's legs, muttering at
lady and her children. The reptile
stood where the road crossed small
drain which ran from lake into the
Gulf OF Mexico. Having no weapon but
pocket-knife, Mr.. Neeld provided him
self with stick three feet long, and as
thick as his wrist. On his approach
the alligator showed fight. The man
rounded it, SO as to avoid blow from
its tail, and struck it blow over the
eyes. The reptile closed it's eyes,
and Mr.. Neeld drove the blade of
his knife is just behind its fore-leg. It
was tender place, The alligator IRE
vived and began to thrash with it's tail.
The man gave it another lick over the
head, and followed the lick with half q
dozen stabs. The reptile was then so
far gone that he had no difficulty in
cutting it's throat. Mr.. Neeld then ac-
companied the lady home. He returned
within half an hour and found the sau-
rian in nearly as good trim as ever. His
former treatment was repeated until the
reptile gave up the ghost. Mr.. Neeld
cut off the head as trophy. In sever
ing the muscles of the neck commissions
of the muscles of the whole body would
take place. This made the gator APP
pear alive. He would move of, throw
up his tail, and roll over and over.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15

AN important change in the mining
VS. was begun last week, in Washing
n, in the passage by the House of a
Il providing that the owner of mine
n obtain through an agent a patent
pm the United States. Heretofore all
oceedings to this end have been re-
Tired to be undertaken by the claim
1t or owner in person, which has ope-
ted as a hardship in the case of par
IS living some thousands of miles
ON the location of the mines.
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3LoRADo reports a great increase in
mining products over the year
!. She has mined $10,0O0,00O more
379 than in 1878, the product for
last year being $19,00O,OOO. Colo
will soon lead California in the
.uction of the precious metals.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-15

MAN had a tooth extracted by a
.cago dentist, and expressed regret
the loss. A girl whose jaws were
rorowded with teeth entered the
ce to have two Of them taken out.
g dentist suggested the experiment
transferring some Of these sound
tn to the vacancy in the mans
nth, and the operation was performed
h success, the tooth growing fast and
n in ten days.