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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-10
Practical Application Of knowledge.

Pupils In our common schools are
sadly deficient in the power of practical
application. This must be evident to
every teacher and parent who has ever
tested the matter by asking practical
questions. The pupil who, with the
book before him, can readily "get the
answers" to the difficult problems in
profit and loss is wholly at a loss to de-
termine the profit his father receives on
cloth bought for 20 cents and sold for 25
cents per yard. He learns in school
that Columbus and Springfield are in
the same latitude, and is not sure at
home that Columbus is not between
Springfield and the North pole. He
learns that every proper noun should
commence with capital, and then di-
reefs his first love letter to miss jennie
smith. He can say with accuracy that
there are 365 days, hours, As minutes,
and 48 seconds in year, but has no idea
of how many times the sun will rise and
set between two Christmases. He Can
give correctly the principal parts of see
and go, and Immediately after be guilty
of saying, 81 seen him, but now he has
went away"
Is this fault, this studying to no prac-
tical purpose, due to our system OF edu-
cation? IF it is, it is. high time that our
leaders In educational matters point out
the fault and suggest the remedy. Is it
because teachers fall into mechanical,
monotonous ruts of teaching, and per
form their work In a manner so school
like and so little business-like that it
never occurs to the pupil that what he
learns from his books has any connec
ton with or application to the things
that occur In everyday life? Here we
think is the trouble, and In this we
should reform. Let each teacher make
his work more and more practical let
him strive to lift his pupils from their
unthinking, impractical methods OF
study; let him give them matter for
thought upon the simple, common
things around them !; let him endeayor
to create an interest In their minds upon
the subjects discussed by the older PEG
pie of the community, and soon we shall
have a race of children in our schools
who viii know more at the age of II of
what is practical and useful than our
children now know when they leave the
common schools Lansing Republican.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-10
The Price of Newspapers.

Canadian newspaper publishers are
becoming alive to what is due to them
selves in return for their heavy outlay.
BY disregarding commercial considera-
tons, the Toronto Mail lost the whole
of its original capital lover 800, OO0)
and the Toronto Globe, although much
longer established and better patronized
as an advertising medium, was making
no suitable returns for the capital in
vested. The result has been an advance
of dollar year in the price of both pa
pers. The Hamilton and London dailies
have followed suit Even now they are
cheaper than papers of similar class
published in the United States, where
they charge $12 year. Our Canadian
city papers should go further and raise
the price of their weeklies to something
above the bare cost of the paper on
which they are printed No large week
ly worth reading can be published for
less than two dollars year, and even at
that price it would not pay the proprie-
tor unless there be a large cash adver-
Using patronage. These so-called
cheap" papers are dear in the long run,
for they must economic in some way.
and that can only be done by curtailing
matters which would otherwise be more
literally treated. Renco,a
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-10
Official Salaries.

The following are the salaries of pub
lie rulers and public men of the United
States:
Executive Department.: President,
$4,000; Vice President, $1,000; Cabinet
Officers, (appointed by President and
confirmed by Senate) $4,000.
The Legislative Department Senate:
United States Senators, $1,000; Secre-
tary of United States Senate, So, O96;
Chief Clerk, $4,000; Sergeant-at-Arms,
1890.
House of Representatives Speaker,
$1,000; Members, So, 600; Clerk Of House,
SIS, 100; Sergeant-at-Arms, House, 81, 500;
Official Reporter, 1000.
judicial Chief Justice, $10,5 As
sociate Justices, eight in number, &c.
600; Chief Justice, court claims) SIS, 900;
Judge United States Circuit Courts,
$4,000; Judge United States District
Courts, SO, 800; District Attorney, 5000
and fees.
Consular and Diplomatic Service:
Great Britain, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary, ST.. 500;
France, Envoy Extraordinary and Min
lister Plenipotentiary, ST., 500; Germany,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary, ST., 500; Russia, Envoy Ex-
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
ST., 800; Spain, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary, $12, 900; Ar
genuine Confederation, Resident Minis
ter, $500; Austria, Hungaria, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary, $50. 900; Barbary States, Consuls,
$4,000; Belgium, Resident Minister,
$500; Bolivia, Resident Minister, S.
600; Brazil, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary, $12, 600; Cen,
trail American States, Resident Minister.
$4,000; Chill, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary, $40, 900;
China, Envoy Extraordinary and Minis
ter Plenipotentiary, $4,000; United
States of Colombia, Minister, 81. 500;
Denmark, Minister, $1,000; Ecuador.
Consul, 81 900; Hawaiian Isles, Resident
Minister, 81, 800; Hayti, Resident Min
ister, 81, 500; Italy, Resident Minister,
So, 600; Japan, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentary, $12, 600;
Liberia, Resident Minister, 81, 600; Mad
agascar, Consul, $1,000; Mexico, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary, $4,000; Netherlands, Resident
Minister, 81, 500; Paraguay and Uruguay,
Minister, IS, 600; Peru, Envoy Extraor-
binary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
$4,000; Portugal, Minister, 5000:
Sweden and Norway, Resident Minister,
$500; Switzerland, Minister, $1,000;
Turkey Minister, $500; Venezuela,
Minister, 81. 800.
Army: General, $13, 500; Lieutenant
General, $1,000; Major General, ST.
500
Navy: Admiral, $4,000; Vice Admiral,
So, 900; Commodores, So, 600.
Miscellaneous Employees: Director Of
Mint, $4,000; Chief Bureau Statistics,
81, 400; Supervising Surgeon General,
s., 0d0; Chief, Bureau Engraving and
Printing, $4,000; First Comptroller,
Treasury, $1,000; Treasurer, United
States, $4,000.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-10
Sweet-Minded Vomen.

So great is the influence of sweet
minded woman on those around her that
it is almost boundless. It is to her that
friends come in seasons of sorrow and
sickness for help and comfort-one
soothing touch Of her kindly hand works
wonders in the feverish child few
words let fall from her lips in the ear of
a sorrowing sister does much to raise the
load of grief that is bowling its victim
down to the dust in anguish, The hus-
band comes home worn out with the
pressure of business and feeling irritable
with the world in general but, when he
enters the cozy sitting-room and sees
the blaze of the bright fire, and meets
his wife's smiling face, he succumbs in a
moment TO the soothing influences which
act as the balm of Gilead to his wounded
spirits, that are wearied with combating
with the stern realities of life. The
rough school-boy flies in rage from the
taunts of his companions to find solace
in his mothers smile the little one, full
Of grief with its own large trouble, finds
haven Of rest on its mothers breast ::
and so one might go on with instance
after instance of the influence that q
sweet-minded woman has in the social
life with which she is connected. Beauty
is an insignificant power when compared
with hers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-10
A Strange Story,

1t is easy to attribute illusions and So
called spiritual visions" to walking
dreams and double consciousness when
confined to single individual, but how
will you explain them when two persons,
hundreds of miles apart, are conscious
of each others presence2 My mother,
an unlmaginative woman, who had never
discovered her nerves, when in her eigh-
tieth year was Frustrated with an alarm
ing attack of pneumonia. On Sunday
morning she was unconscious of her sur
roundings, and apparently very near
death, and telegram to that effect was
| sent without her knowledge to her son,
who was living in Western New York
her home being In Massachusetts. This
| son had been i'll but was convalescing, and
when the dispatch reached him he was
on the piazza taking sun-bath, clad in
his bed room ulster of a peculiar make
and close-ftting skull cap Of seal-skin.
In his agitation over the distressing news
he walked to the front gate, and leaning
upon it for support, suddenly and dis
tinctly beheld the figure of his mother
standing before him. Greatly impressed
| W OAhO OCCt0AO1SC, AO W fAo-
it her bedside, hastily made prepare
tions for the journey, and by travelling
express all the way reached her house
on Monday afternoon, when he told the
story of the apparition.
Meanwhile my mother had rallied
somewhat and her mind was clear most
of the time, but it was thought best not
to apprise her of my brothers arrival.
After time, when she was thought to
be sleeping, he stepped to her door to
look at her. She Immediately spoke to
him in her ordinary manner, without be-
traying the least surprise at his being
there, and said: "Well, John, you look
better in that coat. I never saw such q
strange suit as that you had on when
you were leaning over the gate on Sun
day morning" Ny poor brother, man
nearly sixty years of age, and not in the
least superstitious, was yet so overcome
by this double mystery that he nearly
tainted. In this case no collision was
possible Ny mother had never visited
the city where my brother lived and had
never seen the suit of clothes mentioned.
She could not have overheard his voice
in the house. as her hearing was i'm
paired. Can the event be explained on
scientific ground-M Y. Tribune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-10
Travelling in Old Times.

A careful inspection of the vehicle of
former times leads us to the conclusion
that our forefathers were lined with zinc
and copper-fastened, for nothing short
of it could have withstood the joltings
and Earrings, the bouncings and bump
ings entailed upon those who used any
other method of locomotion except that
which nature provides. The chariot in
which Gen. and Mrs. Washington went
to Philadelphia upon his election to the
Presidency was no doubt an instrument
of torture. To the discomforts of this
rambling old carriage may be added, for
the General, the incessant wagging of
Mrs. Washington's tongue, for it is a
well-known fact that Martha was of a
shrewish nature, and made no bones of
giving the General her views in very
forcible manner. The method of travel
ing which they pursued gave publicity
to the fact that the General had cur
tain lecture every night for night-cap.
In the course of their journey, they ar
ranged to spend the nights at the houses
of the gentry scattered along between
Mount Vernon and Philadelphia, and
Martha was often heard to nag her lord
and master until loud snore announced
that the General was safe In the land of
dreams from all worldly annoyances.
The chariot was the acknowledged
mark of aristocracy. A journey in these
days entailed retinue, somewhat after
the following order:
l. Marster and Missis in carriage.
2. Marsters "boy" on horseback,
with a led horse for Marster to ride when
he wished to stretch his legs.
3. A wagon containing two hair trunks
and Missis' maid.
The rate of progression was about four
miles an hour.
The habit of carrying servants even
on neighborly visits obtained in Virginia
and Maryland until the abolition of
slavery. A form of entertaining called
spending the day" was the fashion.
This consisted in going to a friends
house early In the morning, and staying
until late in the evening, consuming the
interval in succession of meals. Be
side the visitors, the coachman and
horses, there was usually "maid,"
who sat on the rack behind the carriage,
swinging her legs in ecstatic delight at
the prospect of "going abroad"
Chaises were the only two-seated
vehicles in use, and were something like
a modern top buggy, except that they
had buttwo wheels. Consequently, going
up hill, the occupants were being spilled
out behind, and going down hill they
werespilled out before. Louisville Post. |
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-10
The wedding Finger.

There are few objects among the pro-
auctions Of art contemplated with such
lively interest by ladies, after certain
age, as the wedding ring this has been
the theme for poets Of every caliber-
for geniuses of every wing, from the
dabbling duckling to the soaring eagle.
The moldy antiquary can tell the origin
of the custom with which it is connect
ed, and perchanee why a ring is round,
and account for many circumstances con-
corning the ceremony Of the circlet, on
the most conclusive evidence, amount
ing to absolute conjectural demonstra-
tons. Amidst all that has been said
and written in reference to the ring,
believe the lovely part engaged in the
mystic matter, the taper residence of
this ornament has been neglected. Now
this is rather curious, as there are facts
which belong to the ring finger which
render it, In q peculiar manner, an APP
propriate emblem of matrimonial union.
It is the only finger where two principal
nerves belong to two distinct trunks
the thumb is supplied with its principal
nerves from the radial nerve, as is also
the forefnger, the middle finger, and
thumb side of the ring finger, while the
ulnar nerve furnishes the little finger
and the other side of the ring finger, at
the point or extremity of which real
union takes place. It seems as if it were
intended by nature to be the matrimo-
NAL finger. That the side of the ring
finger next the little finger is supplied
by the ulnar nerve is frequently proved
by a common accident, that of striking
the elbow against the edge of chair, q
door or any narrow hard substance; the
ulnar nerve is then frequently struck,
and thrilling sensation is felt in the
little finger, and on the same side of the
ring finger, but not on the other side
of If
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-10
Arab HumOr.

A story is told of Ell Mehdi, that be.
ing out hunting one day he came upon
the hut of an Arab who set some sim.
pie fare before him, but supple.
mented it with bottle of wine. The
Caliph drank glass and said 40
brother of the Arabs do you know who
ami"
No, by Allah r was the reply.
am one of the personal attendants
of the Commander of the Faithful"
IT congratulate you on your post,
said the other.
Tossing off another glass Ell Mehdi re-
peated the question, and the Arab re.
minded him that he had just told him he
was one of the Caliph's suite.
"Nay," said Ell Mehdi, "but I am one
of his principal officers"
/ wish you Joy, " said the Arab.
After third glass, the Caliph again
began:
90 brother of the Arabsl do you know
who I am ?"
You say you are one of the Comman-
der of the Faithfuls chief officers. = an
swered the Arab.
Not SO, said Ell Mehdi, 81 am the
Commander of the Faithful myself %
The Arab, on hearing this, quietly
took the bottle of wine from the table
and put it away with the sententious re-
mark
If you were to drink another glass
you would declare that you were the
Prophet himselfl'"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-10
USEFUL HINTS.

THE system of drainage for dwelling
houses cannot be too perfect
No DWELLNG-HoUsE is really habita-
bic unless properly ventilated.
MILK which has turned may be sweet
ened, or rendered fit for use, by stirring
in little soda.
SALT will curdle new milk; hence In
preparing milk porridge, gravies, ETC..
the salt should not be added until the
article is prepared.
GLOSSY starch is prepared by forming
the following emulsion, which is added
to one-quarter pound of boiled starch
paste In the proportion of two to three
teaspoonfuls /: One part spermaceti, one
part gum arabic, one part borax, two
and one-half parts glycerine, twenty four
and one-half parts water.
OLD tan bark makes cool and de-
lightful walk under the shade of trees
1t must be laid on a dry bottom, or it
becomes very unpleasant In wet weather.
Stag from furnaces, ground up with
ashes, is the very best material for gar
den walks, and the color is far more
agreeable in hot weather than gravel.
Notwithstanding its dark color, it is not
SO hot, and it does not pack quite so
hard as the regular road material. Sand,
on the other hand, though it does not
pack at all, is very hot, on account Of
the very hard nature of its particles.
THE following is a very valuable
housewives table, by which persons not
having scales and weights at hand may
readily measure the article wanted to
form any receipt without the trouble of
weighing, allowances to be made for any
extraordinary dryness or moisture of the
article weighed or measured: Wheat
-four, l pound is quart; Indian meal,
pound 2 ounces are quart; butter,
when soft, pound is / quart; loaf sugar,
broken, pound is quart; 7hite sugar,
powdered, 1 pound and ounce are
quart; best brown sugar, l pound 2
ounces are l quart; 10 eggs are l pound;
q common tumbler holds half pint; a
tea-cup is l gill; large wine-glass is l
gill; 40 drops are equal to teaspoonful.
ARooM in which there is an offensive
smell may be deodorized by burning
coffee berries or rags, or even brown
paper. The smoke from these sub
stances not only neutralizes the odors,
but really acts as disinfectant to
slight extent In burning coffee, paper
or rags for this purpose, care must be
taken to prevent them from burning too
freely. If they burn with free, bright
fame, the proper effect will not be pro-
duced. They should be allowed to
smolder quietly, and they do this best
when they are thrown on hot GOALS, or a
hot shovel, and set on fire. An excel
lent substitute for pastils is heavy brown
paper which has been dipped in solu
ton of nitre and then dried This burns
freely without fame, and, if it be dipped
in solution of benzoin, the odor is very
nleasant.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-10
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.



Married this morningl" How charming that
soundsl
How splendid it looks in the paper
The bride wore white satin = = how perfectly
sweet
$ And veil like soft siIken vapor"
NO cards" How exclusive that sounds docs il
not?
No cake" They're well up in the fashion;
And to prove to the world they are true monaires,
No presents received puts the dash on
g Abroad for a long wedding tour That is nicel
We maldens do envy them truly:
We're all in dutter awaiting our turn
For we can't for our lives take it coolly.
What letters the fair bride sends back toher friends
I've read Arabela's and Sadie's;
She writes-only think of it jim the Old Word
They're dining with lords and with ladies.
Returned Col -, with his beautiful bride,
France How the journals do laud herl
Their elegant mansion thrown open to-day
Receptions viii now be in order.n
True! truel What recherche time there viii bel
Her set will be truly delighted;
The grand double parlors will scarcely hold all.
Dear desrl Shall we girls be invited?
But two short years married, and now divorce y
Law sakes dear who wouldn't have known it7
thought from the first twas very poor match,
But somehow never would own it!
Snes no longer the bright shining star that she was,
The social horizon adjoining.
: Miranda, my Lowell here's the paper Just come;
Now tell me who's married this morning!n
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-10
Industrial Secrets.

a century ago what a man discovered
in the arts he concealed. Workmen
we're put upon an oath never to reveal
the process used by their employers.
Doors were kept closed, artisans going
out were searched, visitors were rigor-
ously excluded from admission. and false
operations blinded the workmen them
selves. The mysteries Of every craft
we're hedged in by thick-set fences Of
empirical pretensions and Judicial affirm
alton. The royal manufactures of
porcelain, for example. were carried on
in Europe with a spirit Of jealous ex-
clusiyeness. His Majesty Of Saxony
was especially circunlspect. Not con
tent with the oath Of secrecy imposed
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-10
StenOgraphy in Old Times.

Stenography is on the eve of being SUI
perceded by the invention of the piano
tachygraph. We may first remark that
modern nations are much behindhand in
the practice of stenography. David, in
fact, says in one of his psalms: Lingua
naeG cGldn1,ts scribe VelOc5ter scribentis
("My tongue is the pen of a ready
writer"). The Hebrews, therefore, knew
the art of writing as rapidly as one could
speak. But it was at Athens and Rome
especially that stenography was prac-
ticed. Xenophone employed an abbre-
waited alphabet to write the speeches of
Socrates, whose works he edited. This
was 1863 years before Jesus Christ. The
Romans, who, with the spoils of Greece,
carried the arts and usages of the Greeks
into Italy, brought back that kind of
writing and vulgarized it among all
classes of the population. Under the
Consulate of Cicero may be seen the
first traces of stenography. The great
orator was himself very expert in the
art, and took pleasure in teaching it to
a freed slave named Tiron, who wrote
down his pleadings. Tiron acquired q
Cc1cDI1by Ill Lis pIdCddC0, Alu gave MS
name to the method he employed, his
reports being called Tironian Notes.
Soon telegraphic signs were alone
used in writing in Rome. Senecus,
Brutus, Julius Caesar, and many other
illustrious men employed it. One day
Cicero wrote from habit in Tironian
signs to his friend Atticus, who could
not understand the letter. The great
orator then offered to teach him steno-
graphy, and he. learnedit in very short
time. Augustus gave lessons in steno-
graphy TO his grandsons. The old stem
ographic method was preserved in
France until the eleventh century, and
letters from Louis lie Debonnaire, son of
Charlemagne, in Tironian characters
still exist. In TAT Benedictine, named
Pierre Carpenter, reformed the Tiron-
ian alphabet and published in Latin a
volume on his new method. At present
stenography, which is only practiced by
a few writer's, has been modified and
improved; but it does not appear to be
shorter or more simple than that used in
antiquity. " dlig7aG,ai.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-10

Women are always more heroic in the
dentists chair than men. Miss F. P.
Cobb says: g. once asked a dentist
whether ladies OF gentlemen gave him
the most trouble, and he replied, Oh,
gentlemen, beyond question. I operated
upon great many officers just before
they went to the Crimean war, and
assure you that many of them who are
now Balaklaya and Inkerman heroes be-
hayed in a very unheroic way indeed in
the chair in which you are sitting.
Women scream little, but are always
ready to thank me for what / do for
them. Men moan and groan and abuse
me-"