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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-10-28
Dishes Made OF Paner.

The latest application of paper is the
adoption of paper plates by some of the
great restaurants and cafes in Berlin.
The innovation was first introduced dur
ing the summer of last year by the adj
venturous landlord of much frequent
ed open-air restaurant. Every customer
who ordered bread and butter. rolls.
cakes, buns or similar articles, had them
served to him on little paper plate,
made of light papier mache, adorned
with pretty border in relief, and hav-
ing, at the first glance, a great
similarity to porcelain. Guests.
walters and hosts were ali
pleased with the novelty. 1t saved
the walters many deduction from
their wages on account of breakages,
which the very deftest and cleverest can
scarcely avoid when he handles hun
dreds of pieces of crockery during a
single afternoon and evening. The pa
per plates were SO cheap that the land
lord did not care to assert his ownership
over them and his customers were al
lowed to carry them away like the pref
ty serviettes of thin paper used in so
many restaurants in Holland. There
was also considerable saving on the
time lost and the chance of accident in
CURED in the cleansing of earthenware
pottery. The success of the experiment
has been SO marked that the new species
of plates is likely to be introduced into
a great number of restaurants. PAPER
World.
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Tropical Fruits.

Mangoes from Jamaica are among the
most delicious of these rare fruits. They
are pearshsped, with thick, golden, red
checked rind and an ofange -coiored pulp.
A large pit like peach stone takes up
half the fruit, and contains bitter kerr
mel. The specimens of this fruit are said,
by those who have eaten it in South Amer
lea and Jamaica, to be excellent. 1t is
necessary to pick the mango when it is
ripe, as those that ripen after they are
picked are devoid of favor and worth
less. 1t is consequently perishable car
go, and full twenty per cent. of those
brought to this country spoil before they
reach the country. The sweet mango is
the species usually seen here. There is
q slightly acid kind sometimes sold,
which is very pleasant to the taste.
Fresh mangoes are worth from fifty cents
to one dollar a dozen.
The sweet mangoes put up at Bombay
are famotis East Indiana 6hutney, and
popular accompaniment of curries in
England. Though seldom used in this
country, they indy BE- bought for $1.5O a
bottle. They should not be COMPOUNDED
with picked musk melons, which are
called mangoes by New England house
keepers.
The red and yellow banana are not diff
ferent species. All bananas are naturally
yellow and are made red by grating.
The effect of the graft runs out in seven
years, when we have sometimes bananas
that are red, spotted or streaked with
yellow. There are over forty or fifty
varieties of this fruit. Thelttle guinoes,
or fig banana, is not unknown to our fruit
stores It is not over q finger long, and
it is one of the finest species. The plain
tain and banana are of the same family.
The oriental Christians searching for the
Garden of Eden believed that the banana
was the forbidden fruit, and named it the
stree of Paradise" though the ''forbid.
den fruit" sold in Paris fruit stalls and in
our own market is a species of orange,
the crap shaddock. It is of no special
value, is acid, and is kept more for dis
play than for anything else. The leg
end says, it was good till Eve tasted
it, but it has been bad since. The deep
depressions near the stem of the fruit
ike GIl0 MdFh VI U66bll dL0 SuppOoCO w
be the origin Of its claim.
The mandarin oranges are a small
species of fruit with dark-c olered per-
fumed rind hardly thicker than brown
paper. The tangerine is variety of
mandarin. It is the thinnest-skinned
species of orange known. Mandarin and
tangerine oranges, which are in market
during the winter months, are sold from
seventy-fve cents to one dollar dozen.
The seedless st. Michael oranges are
brought from the Azores, and though
common in England, are seldom seen in
this country. They are small, light
collered fruit. with scarcely any seeds,
and are excellent in flavor. In this city
they bring from sixty to seventy-fye
cents dozen.
Fresh cocoanuts, or the immature CO.
coanuts, picked when they are half ripe,
are the favorite food and beverage of the
tropics. The stem and green cup at the
base dropping off is the external indica-
ton that they have sourced. Exchange.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-10-28
How Some women Battle.

Did you ever see two women battle
They emerge from their bath-house
looking as though they had stolen some
thing and expected to see a burly pc,
liceman bob around the corner, clap his
hands rudely upon them, and exultingly
cry, "Now I've got you"
Then they trip along half a dozen
steps, not altogether like a Dundreary
or sandpiper, butsomewhat resembling
both.
Then one says, sob, dear!" and
reaches down to pick pebble out of
her shoe, while the other takes the op-
portunity to yell like pair of panthers.
and then runs back with all her might to
the bath-house. Her mate, of course.
doesn't get the pebble.out of her shoe.
but gets several more in to keep it from
being lonesome.
Then the screamer tiptoes down to
the yelling place and says "What a fool
was
The other comes down, having Sc
cured new invoice of pebbles in tran
sit, and screams "What is it?"
As it is nothing but devils apron
string, and MT o snake, the screamer
again says "What fool |"
And the other replies, 81 know ii. !"
Then they laugh.
But they keep their eyes about them,
and each mouth is all ready to emit
scream.
BY this time they reach the waters
edge.
A puny roller is advancing.
1t breaks little way out, and as the
line of foam is sent up the beach they
both turn and scamper with all their
might.
Then one says, What fool | and
the other replies, I" / know it.
Another wave makes them finch and
tremble and scream just little; but
they keep on till the water reaches to
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-10-28
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
THE 'LAsSEs STEW.

OH JesSy gave a candy pull,
And Lii and Kitty came TO share.
Three bonnie skirts with ruffled skirts,
and flying ctirls Of yellow hait.
They did not know, they could not know,
That candy sticks like gum or gluef
And to relate their touching tate
Is why sing the 'lssses stew.
Here we are met" said Jessy Bell,
: Three busy maids without their mothers,
With naugdt TO do but watch our stew,
Away from boys and other brothers."
So, with many solemn taste
And trying" in cup OF water,
The bubbling mass cooked crisp as glass,
And six small hands were creased with butter
minute more, and how they screamed,
With fingers burned and none to bind 'em;
They few about, indoors and out,
And left sticky trail behind 'em.
But well they worked to cool 1t down,
And pulled it to its utmost tether;
Till-who can tell how it befell7-
They found themselves all stuck together.
Their curls and skirts and bows etitwining-
Each little face supremely sillyi-
To free poor jess she must undress
And Kitty who can part from Lilly?
Ali now they know, they sadly know;
That candy sticks like gum or glue
Twas thus they Jared, so badly shared
They'll ne'er forget that 'lasses stew.
-ShsrteO0d Bonner IN Our Lille Ones
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-10-28
The Luxury of Living in Paris.

l live in garrett, but | live as ] please
Eight dollars per week pays all expenses
rent, fuel, food, wine, washing, car
tickets and the theater. / can here go
out with a basket on my arm, buy my
dinner, bring it home and eat it. can,
go out In pair OF old slippers and an
old coat. This is luxury. Some dinners
are, bought at the cookshop around the
corner-cold meats OF many sorts, vege-
tables and many kinds of salads. cooked
turkey, chicken, goose, duck, beef. veal
and pork, or hot fried fish and potatoes.
Fifteen minutes and fifty cents will put
half dozen dishes and reGshes on nv
table, including bottle of wine. The
etiquette of the house allows me to ask
Mademoiselle Celestine to dine with me.
She sews for a living twelve hours out
of twenty-four. Lives In bit of 8
room, without fire from years end to
years end. Earns fifty cents per
day. Has cough and pain in her side
Comes up the seven pair of stairs at s
in the evening, carrying in one hand
some charcoal, and In the other few
sticks of macaroni, out of which she
develops her dinner. For her my table
is princely feast, and how she does
relish her claret We are commanded
to feed the hungry, and am doing it.
Who would not rather do so than endure
thepains and punishments promisedthose
who do not. 1t pays to do good. Viz
tue is its own reward. Celestine is hid
eous only on Sunday, when she wears
her bonnet. That is a simple extin-
guisher Of her good looks. Celestine'
will in few years die of consumption,
and her bones help fill up the catacombs
and add their mite to the subterranean
sepulchral curiosities of Paris. Hard
work, poor fare and room permanently
without fire will kill her. On Sunday
she scrubs her den. Its furniture can
be carted off in a wheel-barrow.-Pre'a-
tice. Mugord, in San Fi;aacisco Chron-
icLe.
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SPIRIT THAT FoRM'D THIS SCENE.
Written in Plotte Canon Oo1orado

SPIRIT THAT FoRM'D THIS soENR.
Written in Platte Canon, Colorado
Spirit that formd this scene
These tumbled rock piles grim and red,
These reckless heaven-ambitious peaks,
These gorges turbulent-clear streams, this naked
freshness
These formless wild arrays, for reasons Of their
know thee, savage spirit-we have scomnuned to-
Nine too such wild arrays for reasons of their own
VAST charged against my chants they had forgotten
To fuse within themselves its rules precise and deli
catesse?
The Wrists measured beat, the wrought-out temples
grace--column and polished art forgot?
But thou that revelest here-spirit that {ormd
They have remembered thee
Upon reading. the foregoing our " too
too" poet threw couple of pages of an
old dictionary into the hopper of his ma
chine, inserted wheel with cog brok-
en- out here and there in order to secure
the necessary hop-skip-and- jump meas
ure, and ground out the annexed
SPIRIT THAT wRECK'D THIS FORM.
Written in front of gin-milll
esprit" that wreck'd this form,
Colored this pimpled nose so red,
Caused these bullying and blood-shot eyes,
This brick in tile and rags scarce hiding nakedness
These maudn mutterings-all cruel work of thine
know thee, Cursed "spirit"-we have hiccoughed
together
Achieved high old drunk and reason didst de-
throne
Vast charged, perchance, and chalked upon the
slate
Or did the fusi-oi erker demand cash and less pre-
Wousnesse?
Thou made this I" dead beat"-this played-out.
tempted wreck-beery, impoverished and for
got!
And thou that brought him here" spirit" that
wrecked this form,
Cost thirty cents quart
-NoTriStOlU7l Herald.
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exceed one-hah that caused by the mar
row ones. This cutting made By the
narrow tires increases the draft to an ex-
tent far beyond the common estimate.
As the cutting up of the roads is lessened
through the use of broad tires, the cost of
their maintenance is considerably dinin-
ished. For farm purposes broad tires are
decidedly preferable to narrow wheels.
No one cares to have his grass lands
cut up by wheels if it can be avoided,
an injury which is less likely to be in
fiicted by broad than by narrows wheels.
A team supplied with the broad tires
will draw a load of manure with far
greater ease over fallow ground than
that with the narrow tires, by reason Of
the diminished amount Of cutting in the
oround.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-10-28
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.
Lovers, Quarrel.

Oh, my darling is love over?"
s have said so, have not?
" Is there not one touch of pity ~
g You hare chosen your ,own lot,
ssBut want you, love, tobless itTD
saBless It! An tthloving HEARTY
u But ron loved Ine once, oh, dearest"
!. 8 That is over. Let US part
ssIust one moment, listen to me-
"Iam weary. /, Let me CO."
ssOnly tell me why this change Is.
"This Is childish-well you know"
s'But swear understand not"
s'You have learned your part full vel"
"You shall tell me why you leave me.
viii you tell me what to tell?"
sob, my love, love you'll love you'll"
:" Do you mean IL? II thought"
81 have never loved anotherln
"Oh, what misery hath love wrought"
"Sweet, missed you-wrote you letters.n
"But I never had hnen
s'Never? 6trangel comprehend notiD
"And thought love so divine.n
ut is, sweet-a glorious dreaming"
Sand I thought you were untrue"
ssOh, my love, how could you doubt rne?"
s'And I said hated yoti."
e'Ah! you wound me-you are cruelln
Z" Dear, forgiyel My doubts are o'er.ns
sand you love me? You are mime now?"
Dear heart; yesl ForeTsri1orsi"
-F,d5nse DTissoIl
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-10-28
Ti,c IHanisiesf Norman.

The following from Appleton's last
volume of "Home Books" is excellent,
and cannot be too strongly impressed on
the minds of some people. cit is an
unlucky thing for the amenities of home
when tho daughters are so strongly dis
posed to leave the ordinary walks OF
everyday feminine duty. The happiest
women are those who can lead the ordi-
nary life, be amused by society, dress
and convcntionalities, and who can be
early married to the man Of their choice,
and become In their turn domestic
women, good wives and mothers. There
is no other work, no matter how distin-
guishcd, which equals this. But if this
ife does not come to woman, and GER
",inly il does not to very large num-
Der, there can be 10 doubt of the pro
1ricty Of woman's finding her own
sphere, her own work, and her happiest
>nd most energetic usefulness. ANY.
hing can be forgotten of woman ex-
opt career of vice or vanity, or the
wretched uurbness OF inaction. No
woman should insult her Maker by sup.
posing He made mistake in making her.
A morbid or a useless woman was not
contemplated in the great plan of the
universe. She has always sphere. If
home is unhappy beyond her power of
endurance, let her
Go teach the orphan boy to read,
The orphan girl to sew.
Let her learn to cook and bake bread;
let her adopt PROFESSIONALISM, pos
sibly-and work at it; let her go into
lady's school and teach; let her keep o
boarding house, paper walls, hang pict-
ures, embroider, dust, sweep, become
the manager of business-do anything
brit sit down and NOPE, and wait for
something to turn up. Many pair of
unhappy old maids are now dragging
out miserable existence in a second
class boarding house, turning their poor
little bits of fnery, who might, if they
had been brave in their youth, have won
a large repertoire of thought and com
Portable competency. But they pre-
ferred to keep alive one little corner of
pride, and that has been but poor fire
to sit by to warm their thin hands,
which should not have been ashamed to
work; hands which would have been
whittier for honest effort. !"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-10-28

civilian, the druggist remarked to
his clerk, "where did this package Of
brown wrappingpaper come from?" "It'a
lust sample, sir, sent us by Pulp,
Fibre & Co., but we can't use it; it's toe
coarse and heavy for our use. "Ah,
well, /" replied the honest druggist, "do
not waste it; put it in the window and
sell it for fly paper. II Burlington
HawkeYe,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-10-28

SToNEHENGE, in England, has been
generally supposed to be n relic of the
Druids, but one eminent antiquary gives
it as his opinion that it dates still farther
back, and was temple of the fire wor-
shippers, belonging to the Bronze Period
Of Northern psychologists.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-10-28
LONGINGs.

II we're a railroad brakeman
I'd holler tka stskSrns 80 plain
That the man who was going to Texas
Would GO clear through to Maine.
ID open the door Of the smoking-car,
And ia give such mighty roar
mat tive Passengers back in the sleeper
W'osssd all fall out on the floor;
For couldn't afford a tenor voice,
And couldn't afford TO speak
In the sweet, soft tones Of Eolian harpn
For eleven dollarss week.
If were baggage master,
I'd rattle the trunks about:
I'd stand them up in the corner
Assd I'd tear their bowels out.
would pull the handles os,s ny the roota,
you'd kick the corners in,
And strew their stuffing all round the car,
And make them tank and thih,
For couldn't afford to wear kid gloves,
Nor put soft pads On my feet,
Nor TO handle Vi ngs gently, when all my pay
Just kept me in bread and meat
" we're railroad CONDUCTOR
AS through the train I'd 60,
I'd have for every question they asked
This answer al ready" Don't know"
I'd miss connections for lots Of men,
I'D run lone passengers past.
I'd tell them twas eight, when knew twas tan
And I'd swear their watches were fast
For couldn't afford to be civil,
When knew every man in the load
Would look at my watch and ring, and saw.
He stole them things from the road.
-Buriingt0l HaWk-Egg,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-10-28

VACCINATION is making gradual head.
way in China. The people of the inte-
rior detest the outside barbarian. bui
have still greater dislike to the disease
which often carries off whole tribes o.
them,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-10-28

MEN are like type They frequently
make poor impression, and are often
locked up, and numbers of them event
ually find their way to the "hell-box. !"
--RiA Nge.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-10-28
The Two Shirts.

The following characteristic poem by
Walt Whitman appears in the New York
Critic
, 1881-06-26
them to tho races, but, as wished to put the
line in operation, TWAS obliged to decline"

them to tho races. but as wished to put The
line III operation, twas obliged to decline.
do you expect uny opposition hcre!"
I'VE expect Il Vigorous opposition from tne
street railway com panes. us wc have met With
it in other cities where tho system hus been Ill
tro.luced. We make about the same time ns
your stroct-cars, and every PASSENGER Is given II
comfortable seat Wnen the c0mch Is full wt
tnkc NO more passengers. You are not Obliged
to hnnS by II strap far mile or two"
Have you been operating your coaohes here
before to-dNy?"
"As IL company, no. I loaned the coaches to
y third purity, whu his been runntnE from the
Northwestern Depot to Mnrshnif Field i Co. =.
Ho hls fnude money with theu often taking IN
over 81 por sny. On that hnsis We arc suro to
make tho lines pay. As soon us we can have
them built. we aru to intrnduce some two-horse
coacnes. seating sixteen pcrsons.
"Do You also intend introducing the cab 5TS-
teu. OF Mr.. Herlc:"
''.rhur will bo introduced as soon MS rho cabs
can be built. Mr.. Hcr.,ic wants. itrst to intro
dlce them IN New York City. which l1e expects
to do about September. expect TO be able To
arrango, fnr building thonl here, 50 | Gun be
supplied ut once"
Sfr. Jenkins stated that he was to remain in
the city to put tho lines in operation. The fnro
In the new vehicles IL five cents ut present,
though ultimately tickets may he sold ut re-
luccl rAte6
, 1881-06-26

Special Correspondence Of 7Ee Chicago Tribune.
DEs MO1GEs. H.. June 2a-1f Gen. Grant
keeps on. he will sncceed in rotttng himself gen
crally t1islikcl, His interference In tho Conk-
ling tasco Ii increasing. tho number or
ardor OF his friends In this Suite. His vows on
Senatorial courtesy will not hold water. =
Now that Gen. ]. S. Williamson has retired
from the General Land OtIlco to Il better posi-
ton, 1t will be uo dlsparasement to him to state
II fact which perhaps has escaped tho memory
Of Gen. Grant. When no was President. Col.
George L. Godfrey, of tuis city. EulIaut sol
Aicr, was III applicant fnr Commissioner Or tho
General L,lnu Ol1ice. His petition was signed
hy every Iowa Congressman, the Judses Of
tho Federal Courts and the State supreme
Court. uud prominent members or tho Iowa
Bar; aud the Colonel had ample assurance - OF
success - by "A large lnajortty." But
Gen. Williamson won't to Washington
and n,lt1e personal application 10 the President
Tho President huI known hin personally, ami,
OH his own motion, ignoring .'Senntorial court
esy" altogether. appointed! the General to the
pnce, which lie iilied with .:rent ability md
credit to himself mud the Department. It Is Is
be cited,-for 1t was very like the lnuu.
, 1881-06-26
WEST-SIDE GAS-WORKS.



The strike among the TorkEncn at the gas
house Of the West Side Gas Company still con-
ti1llcS. and there seems to be nO sign uf u COLI
ccssion OH either side, List evening reporter
Ut TIE TRIBUNE stepped over Il, tho works,
ut the corner Of Centre avenue and Twenty
second street, for tho PURPOSE of ascertIinug
whar turn affairs h,.d taken.
Mr.. II. Pratt, tho Superintendent Of the works.
t,un.l in the otlico lie suited that none Ut
the men who had quit work Friday morni ing had
returned to wor X. Early yesterday n1ornin. he
had been short-h anded. but during tho duy he
had engaged new men, enough to operate the
coal-works, and had shut down the oi-works
completely. Everything had been quiet during
the day. uni no siolencc had been attempted by
the strikers; % lie said tiat tie new hands had
left work 1T + Hcl'cS. but no blows had been
exchanged. The green bands hal done the work
very well, but OF course t!1oy cnuld nor do ,ls
them to do the work Ut eight old hands. liz did
not think they would tnse back any Of tho
strikers, possibly with the exception of II lew
trst-c!ass tncs. WHO we're Indispensable. When
the new hands were engaged they tGid ttIut
they would be retained permanently II their
break f1th with them. With their force or new
men thoy cous.l keep the works running To their
fnl! extent. lis they had plenty OF gas and the
gals meters were well UP.
Across tho street Il reporter met Il few Of the
strikers, who were quietly discussing tho situa-
slon aud the pruh1be ontcome. they we're
unanimous IN tho declaration slut they would
bold OUT. Que Of tho nr1noer stated that from
the appearance Of the gus in the streel-iu ~np3
he should judge {lat there were ouly two und
onr-ll.lf feet per hour, When there should be
four feet lie suih that the statement from the
works thut they had closed up the oil-wtrks was
not SO. us he was sure they were working fnrty-
two reports to their full capacity. The mcn
say thar to-.norrow they will rake what money
is due them. and 4lit attosether. They had in
tended to do this yesterday. hut committee
President
Company. nI his residence, to lAy their
case before him before they took an; dcc:d.l
action. Mr. Billings was Ill, hut he said he would
try and :et III, to the works during the duy, So
thu men waited tor him, lie fall.d to appear,
however, and they decided to take the aetinl
Mondny: They said tnut Mr.. Killings tol.l the
Committee that Mr. lratt, the Superintendent,
had misrrnreSttlted the men to him. With re-
gtFd 10 tho statement ttust the men had been
Kissed. the strikers tlecarcl 1t Untrue. and
stated further that no tll-fceltng existed be-
tween the,n and tho "Sreen-uns." They cx-
pressed themselves pleased with Tilr TRIEuSEs
REPORT OF tho strike printed yesterday morning.
declaring it tu ne vcly fair. ana told the reporter
to inform he readers Of his pHper tllt TO- night
the West-Sitlers would be using nothing but
DfI-r1S-