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sc. only for 4 PICNIC CIGAR.
NO. and EXTRA MESS MACKEREL, 10 kits.
". ID. BLAIR & 90.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-09-29

wEsrPHALIA HAMS al CHRISTIAN & WHITES
CHICK CIGARS, Sc.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-09-29

DROUGuTY RECOLLECTIONS.-In reference
TO an article published IN this paper yester-
day relative TO the great drought in New
York in 1919, when there was no rain from
June TO January Of the following year, an
elderly gentleman who at that time lived In
Goochland was asked il he remembered
anything about it. "Oh, mighty we'll"
be replied; L" that was the first year that |
commenced farming for myself and It was
very dry"
lie went on to say that there was fine
crop OF wheat harvested, but little or no
corn raised, as there was no rain from April
to about the lst OF September, when It was
too late to save the crop. The canal had
not then been built, and produce was sent
down TO this city in batteauX. Owing 10
the drought the river was so low that they
could bring down only 100 bushels, while
250 was the usual load.
There was less corn made that year than
ever before in his recollection, and he knew
Of one planter who sold his entire crop at 50
per barrel five bushes) standing in the
held, the purchaser TO gather It. The short
corn crop seems, however, TO have had but
little effect upon the price OF wheat, as II
sold after harvest that year for from SjG9O
cents.
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IRISH AND CANADIAN oAr-MEALs at CHRI
TIAS < WHITES,
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GRAND LOUGE or VIRGlNIA. A. 7. J"l
GHAND SECKErAh1's bfFitk,
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4
lll4 MAIN STREET, KCHMoSDs VA. }
NOTICE box to be paced 10 The
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ms been pacpd in NY custody Dy Hon. JOHN W.
JOussTON. chairman Of The goDgress.Oua Com
Mission with Instruction 10 h3ye ~ srsiec - som
after he lst daY Of october As Ms con ,nN eau 30
nsfed
Ibls Is, therefore. 20 give notice ihs, an articles
Intended tor the box uinst Re Ia my possession Oh
or before the ISr % .TOBsR. The etp,cliy OF the
hox being limited. " IS necessary the con rpEuon
should De small and contract.
WILLIAM ". TSAACs
So l5.tOcl GrsId -rcrsiar'.
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NrnTICE-A RIcnMnNp LAMYER

~ proposing a. remove 10 Texas c,n u c1lniAu.
uicaied with until OctOber 1t. al y, I'LL ei't
Matn street. by any pers us having bg'n ness in"'e.
he would he pleased 10 Ntsnd % lsiii'ntes, isArs'
or any other business n that state i1r Hafltt re-
siding here fr Io-eonbt
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sae that alifRON B1TTERSare manufactured hy
BRO&N CHEMICAL COMPL3sY, and have eraA,-
"fee itnes on Che wrapper.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-11
The Dry Climate of Colorado.

A medical man, writing from Colorado,
says he has been paying particular atten-
ton to the effect of the climate of that
State upon healthy and consumptive
persons, it having been advertised as
highly beneficial for invalids troubled
with affections of the lungs. The doctor
finds that healthy persons lose flesh rap
idly when coming into the rare atmos-
phere of Denver and Leadville, which
are situated at great height from the
sea, any many of them are taken with a
dry catarrh which results rapidly in
quick consumption and death. Invalids
usually run very short course, and die
within a few days or weeks. Not wish
ing to appear biased, at all, in his opin-
ion, the doctor asks invalids to Judge for
themselves whether they think they
would enjoy basking in such climate as
Colorado.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-11
ExcluSiYeneSS.

The Transcript has wholesome but
very caustic criticism of the proverbial
exclusiveness, in social circles, which has
always prevailed in that city. In the
course Of its remarks it says: "Timid-
ity and feekleness finally make man
who negleets the exercise and exhilara-
ton of mingling with his fellows So
cial dyspep,ic and vaietudinarian, pit
liable object to the world in general, a
burden to himself and bore to the
narrow circle on whom he consents to
bestow himself. Exclusiveness-t that
suspicious and hostile scrutiny of new
people simply because they are new,
that abiect fear to judge and approve or
condemn each individual on his merits.
independently Of his grandfather. the
timorous refuge in the folds of Mrs.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-11
The Yagahond Sage.

An old man of very ACTIVE physiog-
nomy, was brought to the police court.
His clothes looked as if they might have
been bought secondhand in his youth
full prime; for they had suffered more
from the rubs Of the world than the pro-
prietor himself.
"What business ?"
"None; I'm traveller"
"a yagabonL, perhaps?'
"You are not far wrong. Travellers
and vagabonds are about the same thing
The difference is that the latter travels
without money and the former without
brains"
"Where have you traveled?"
'All over the Continent.
For whatpurpose?'
Conservation.
"What have you observed ?"
"a little to commend. much to CEN
sure, and great deal to laugh at.
"Humph! What do you commend ?"
"a handsome woman that will stay at
home, usp eloquent preacher that will
preach Short sermons, a good writer that
will not write too much, and fool that
has sense enough to hold his tongue.
"What do you censure?"
"a man that marries a girl for her fine
clothing, youth who studies medicine
while he has the use of his hands, and
the people who will elect a drunkard to
office.
what do you laugh at?"
Il laugh at man who expects his POI
sition to command that respect which his
personal qualifications and qualities do
not merit. "
He was dismissed. Exchange.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-11
A CurjOus Client.

Brooklyn newspaper man received
note from law firm, Smith, Jones &
Smith, notifying him that CLAN. against
him for several dollars had been placed
i'll their hands for collection, and in
structing him that he could save him.
self some trouble if he'd come around
and talk the matter over. The journal
list was perfectly prepared to converse
on the subject, but disinclined to pay,
SO he dropped in on Smith, Jones &
Smith, and notified them that he had
some business for them.
There's man in this town threatens
to sue me, said he, "and Tn prepared
to spend any amount to beat him. Can
you undertake to carry me through?"
Certainly !! " calculated Smith, Jones
& Smith, to whom the newspaper man
was a stranger.
What want to do is to bother him, y
observed the client. "Can I bother
him, whether [ owe him or not?"
"Well, we should smile +" remarked
Smith, Jones & Smith. ''It'n take him
twenty years, if we work the case"
/" You are strangers to me, gentlemen, ="
said the client, "though 1 hear you
highly spoken of. Now, suppose he
should sue me, how would you go to
work ?"
First, we should stave off the an
swer. Then we would take lot of
dispositions de 6ene esse. Just before
the trial we would issue commission to
examine witnesses in Siberia other
witnesses would be taken; we would
have such engagements that we would
stave the trial off, and if he got iudg-
ment we would appeal. Yes, sir, he'd
use up twenty years getting the money"
But what would the lawyers on the
other side be up to all this time? Tn
told they're pretty smart fellows"
Don't care. Who are they
" I on'tremember their names. but
have got their letter. Here what's
this? BY Jove, gentlemen, they're
Smith, Jones & Smith I"
The partners looked aghast.
II hope that nothing I've said will be
used against me, said the client. look
ing from one to the other. 81 trust.
gentlemen, that you won't give me
away In this matter. It's an awful blum
der on my part, but sincerely hope
you won't take any advantage of it."
Smith, Jones & Smith held a brief
consultation.
cam | in much peril?" asked Il
client anxiously.
"We think not, said Smith, Jones &
Smith. eve are-eh-are-we are pre-
pared to drop the proceedings. We
won't mention it, if you won't. :"
III agree not to mention any name. )"
replied the client, with a grin, "and
I'll promise you my business in the
future
There was some further conversation
at an adjacent hotel, and, gentle reader.
the only trouble is their names were not
Smith, Jones & Smith.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-11
Men. Women and Suicide.

Men are everywhere becoming more
weary of the burden of life. Authori-
ties on sanitation and vital statistics tell
us that, of late years, life--the average
human ife-has been considerably pro-
longed by greater attention to the means
of preserving health yet, concurrent
with this improvement, there are a
greater impotence of life itself and a
greater desire to escape its burden.
Women are less prone to commit suicide
in Europe than men, and extensive in
vestigation of the subject has convinced
Signor MorseIli that the tendency to
suicide increases with age more strongly
among the unmarried and widowed than
among the married of both sexes. The
following table curiously illustrates this
fact. Among 100000 of persons of
each class in Europe generally, in SO far
as the returns enabled him to compare
them, the following numbers committed
Euicida.
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The Male Sex.


"The fact is that there are very few
men who are formed regularly. What
professional cutter would call regu-
lar proportion is the measurement of
thirty-six inches to the breast and thirty
three inches to the waist. But those
measurements are seldom met with. J"
This was said to a San reporter In reply
to inquiries as to the shapes that are en-
comtered by tailors who make custom
clothing. Experienced cutters say that
they are obliged to make allowances for
peculiar forms in almost every case.
Many men have one shoulder higher
than the other. This is particularly the
case with those who do much writing.
The right arm is oftenest kept continu-
ally on the desk, while the left arm is
rested and lowered. Naturally, in such
cases a mans right shoulder is raised
and his left depressed. To remedy this
slight deformity the expert cutter must
resort to padding.
"Talk about padding" said an old
cutter, "the men are really padded as
much as the women"
"Do you think that men are as par
ticular about their dress as women?"
"When they care at all, they are more
fastidious. The trouble with men is that
they do not always know what they
want. Women are more apt to know
exactly what they want because they
make study of dress. They think of it
from childhood. They see something
they would like, and say, make it like
that They know how goods will look
when made up. But men are unreasoa-
ably fastidious. One thinks he puffs out
to undue proportions. When the coat is
finished, and he tries it on, he says it
don't fit, when the real trouble is that he
does not swell himself out as he did
when he was measured If a man is
punctilious about very neat close fit,
the chances are that he will complain
that his clothes are too tight when he
tries them on. Then the man who SAYS
he wants them easy, and is not particu-
lar about the fit, is to be feared. When
he gets his clothes home his wife, or his
sister, or his fellow boarders will scruti-
nize his garments and send him back to
the unfortunate tailor-Nea0 York Sun.
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over my reason, and tried to make You
understand, tried to buy you, but you
would not hear me. You said you told
gold by its glitter. Very well. re-
solved to let your motto work its own re-
suit. I banished myself to Europe for
four years, and then returned to find you
still unmarried, to win what little heart
you have, to become your afianced htis-
band. Was not the finger OF fhts In all
that? You had net forgotten completely
the miserable man whom you had
crushed
"Ah, Christine Cannell, my nature is
an evil one. / am true lover and a
hard hater, and | hate you bitterly for
the insult you put upon my manhood;
/ detest ycu 60 thoroughly for your false,
heartless character; I despise you cor
daily for your lack OF all that is womanly.
that L wonder how could have the pa
tience to perfect and carry out this Just
retribution-for ] know that you love
me, know that for the first time
your cold heart has felt the nearest ap-
proach to the divine passion of which it
is capable; and I glory In the thoaght
that [ am the Instrument of furnishing
you for the scores of manly hearts you
have broken by your abominable siren
ways and manners.
The poor woman sat huddled In her
chair, limp, almost inanimate, the moon
shedding its cold rays full upon her
white, despairing face. From time to
time she moaned, almost inarticulately.
carl, you are killing me, killing meI''
Chapman laughed hoarse1y.
killing you'll he exclaimed. sDid
you ever think of how you killed, muir
dered the b st and purest of nv pas
sions-my love? Did you ever think of
how you emptied my heart of its warm
est feelings and filled it with black, bit
ter, misanthropical hate? And you talk
of my killing you Christine CAMEL.
men may say that I have worked out only
my revenge upon; they may say that it
is unmanly, less than human; but you
know in your heart of hearts, you know
only too well, that you are but receiving
justice. You know that you have wrecked
my life as completely as you have done
the lives of others.
''Do you see this?" he continued,
drawing glove from his pocket; ''you
once wore this, and the last time it left
your hand was upon beautiful Septetn-
Der day six summers ago. YOU threw it
from you with these words:
81 cast you from my mind as I do
this glove, and will forget you as SOON
"Ah, you remember it now. Well,
Madame, as 1 have said, L sail for
Europe. There is little Christian
charity in my composition, nothing but
poor, weak human nature, and before [
go think it my duty to return your
glove and with it your own words;
"I cast you from my mind as / do
this glove, and will forget you as soon. :"
He threw the glove at her feet, and
without another word, without back
ward glance, strobe from her presence.
Half an hour later a merry couple
passing the rustic summer-house noticed
a white heap lying motionless on the
floor. 1t was Christine Cannell in dead
faint.
And society wondered what had hap
nnnad
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-11
Like Mistress, Like Maid.

Sir" says Ruskin, "there is only
one way to have good servants-that is,
to be worthy of being well served. Ali
nature and all humanity will serve a
good master and rebel against an ignoble
one. And there is no surer test of the
quality of nation than the quality of its
servants, for they are their masters
shadows, and distOrt their faults in a
fattened mimicry. A wise nation will
have philosophers in its servants hall, o
knavish nation will have knaves there,
and kindly nation will have friends
there. Only let it be remembered that
kindness means, as with your child, so
with your servant, not indulgence, but
care"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-11
His Match.

A French peasant girl of spirit and
determination was deserted by her lover,
who had promised to marry her. Some
time afterward he called and found her
washing clothes in the garden, near a
well. They had been chatting a while,
when suddenly the girl, as if by acct
dent, dropped cloth into the well, and
exhibited great grief over the loss of it.
Her companion 70 unteered to lean over
in the well and fish the garner out, but
while b was. SO engaged the girl caught
him by the legs and threw him in. In
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-11

When she was Gead they heaped her pulseess
breast
With loving weight Of flowers; ard they pressed
Vita sweetest buds her death-unWilling hand
As though cold clay did Loves gift understand
And the awed silence Of the room was rent
BY passionate speech, and by hot kisses, spent
On stern-set brow and MOUTH hlasl 20 stern
For speech or kiss OF levc they will not turnl
But she--her soul beside its robe Of clay
Still lingering, as 'twere 10th TO go away
She only said, slow dawning in her eyes,
Death-pure, sweet yet sadly cold surprise,
OF all these gifts ye heap upon Deaths shrine,
Had but.0ne bud, one kiss In life been mine,
ye, ny loving friends" land then 1t seemed she
sighed),
could this have been, y friend, had not died ~
IL n. Msrrispn, in Cincinnati Commercial
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-11

Grund5's apron when d newcomer is
ntroduced--is the dry rot which Is help
ing Boston on rapidly into decline
where its provincialism. with its repres-
sion of all new blood and unauthorized
ambitions, will be the only observable
things about the eity-the more notice
able that the past was so greatly other
xx-;.o
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reply to his cries, she told him if he
would promise to marry her she would
pull him out. He promised, but no
sooner vas lie out than he brought suit
against her for trying TO murder him.
Then at last he withdrew it and married
her. BE came to the conclusion that
he had met his match
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-11
Lovely Views Oh the Gulf.

A travelling correspondent of the Provi-
dence Press, en- route for Cuba, writes
1.-THE many shoals hereabouts require
the utmost skill of navigation, and would
be well nigh impossible were it not for
the perfect transparency of the water.
which gives the white CLEAN of the bot
tom to the lookout mile before we are
upon it. But our Captain is no novice
In any part of any ocean, and has sailed
over this route all the year; so we are
content. 1t is singular where the time
has gone when we sight the beautiful
Cuban shore, some twenty miles west of
Matanzas; but gone it is, and we must
get ready for the shore again. What
lovely views! Running along to close
inland that one may almost toss a bis
cult ashore, with water fifty fathoms
deep, We alternate between the shadows
of towering cliffs, of lofty mountains,
whose breasts push boldly into the sea.
and sunlight glints from gorges in the
chain of hills, broad at the beach, and
narrowing as they recede inland until
reduced to mere cleft in the summit
rocks. Down many OF these valleys
pour shining streams; and, although we
can not hear their brawling noise, they
sends rays through the mists of their
miniature cataracts, and gives the voice
III color instead of sound. The foliage
is of various tints of green, from the
hghtest to the most sombre, and is
massed in curious patches upon the
slopes, so as to produce, at distance, a
fantastic resemblance to gigantic land.
scape gardening.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-11
BITS OF INFORMATION.

PORTLAND cement is made of lime
stone and clay.
MINORS are silvered with mercury
mixed and heated with half the weight
of fin.
ONE gallon Of meats foot oil mixed
with four ounces OF lanpblsek makes a
good harness oil.
TIE ductility of some metals is very
great. Gold. silver and platinum are
pteAeminently ductile, and are nearly
approached IN this respect by copper
and iron.
The system of bookkeeping by double
entry was taken from the course of al
zebra published by Burgo, In the fiji
tenth century, at Venice. Hugh Old
castle published a treatise "on the
kepyng of the famous reconynge, debtor
and creditor" London, 1913. This is
our earliest work on bookkeeping.
WHEN we say of shift1ess fellow that
he does not "earn his salt" we uncon-
sclously allude to an ancient custom
among the Romans. Among them q
man was said to be in possession of a
salary who had his salariun1, his al
lowa1lce OF ralt-money, or of salt, where
with to SAVIOR the food by which he
lived. Thus "saIary" comes from
"salt and, in this view of the word,
how many there are who do not "earn
their salt.
SANDWICHES are said to have been
named after the Earl of Sandwich, the
celebrated statesman of the reigns of
George IL and George Ill: Grose, the
antiquary and contemporary of the
Earl, notes the sandwich as "said to
have been favorite dish of the Earl OF
Sandwich" The Earl OF Sandwich was
an inveterate gambler, and, so as to be
able to eat without stopping the game,
used to tell the walters to bring him for
refreshmeut slice of meat between two
pieces of bread.
PROF. Looms says that if several
months in succession have been un-
usually warm or unusually cold, in
stead of concluding that the climate
has permanently changed, and that the
succeeding months will be similar in
character, we should rather anticipate
months of the opposite description, since
the mean temperature of the year fuctu-
ates within very narrow limits, and the
longer a period of unusually-warm
weather continues, the greater is the
probability that the succeeding months
will be unusually cold. Predictions of
this kind are legitimate deductions from
scientific data.
The circumstances of the capture and
death of William Kidd, the pirate, were
as follows In 1893 rumors became prev
alent in England that Kidd had turned
pirate, and orders were sent to the col
onies to apprehend him if he came with
| in their jurisdiction. He sent James
Emmett, New York lawyer, to Gov.
Bellamont, to ascertain how he would
receive him. Bellamont answered
evasively, and, after some correspond
snce, persuaded Kidd to go to Boston,
where he landed July 1, 1899. He was
examined before the Council, and, 40
cording to Bellamont, gave trifing an
swers to heterogeneous, and, on July 6,
1899, the Governor ordered his arrest
He was sent to England and, after &
grossly-unfair trial, in which he was al
lowed no counsel, and was not permitted
to send for papers and witnesses, he wa,
found guilty Of piracy and of the murder
of William Moore. He was hanged a
Execution dock, London, on May "a
17O1. He asserted his innocence to the
last.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-11

ABRAHAM LINCOLN was once called
upon to address some young people. He
responded to the call, but said he would
not attempt to give them an address,
but rather short sermon. The sermon
was as follows: "Don't swear, don't
gamble, don't lie, don't cheat, don't
steal, don't drink, don't smoke, dor t
chew love God and man. and be hap
py."
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-11

Women cling to Life much more
strongly than men, and that under the
most wretched conditions A childless
widow would appear to be far more desc
late in the world than widower similar
ly situated yet she bears her loneliness
better-doubtless from religious straints,
or from possessing larger measure of
that hope which springs eternal in the
human breast. THE Contemporary Re
fiieiC
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-11

The ancients used to say of certain
kind of man that he was man of met
tie. The expression left the matter
little indefinite, as no one could tell ex-
actly what metal was meant. The mod
erns are a bit more explicit, and say
clearly that certain man is a man Of
brass,