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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-17
A Practical Warming.

One of the poorest recommendations
that young man can carry with him ON
the streets is a cigarette held in his
mouth. Nine out of every ten business
men in the country would say ''we don't
want you" to young man who would
apply for situation with a paper
tobacco ornament of this kind between
his lips and his fingers smeared with
yellow from the tobacco. In addition to
the objection of appearances, there are
physical objections to the use of tobacco
in that form The loose particles of the
poor tobacco almost invariably used are
inhaled to coat and poison the stomach,
and the almost universal narcotics in
cigaret smoking tends to an appetite for
liquor, opium, laudanum, paregoric, and
morphine This last statement has been
verified In practical way very near
home. James Johnson was found In a
deathly stupor from the effects of lauda-
nun poison, in Syracuse, recently. The
prompt arrival of a doctor with stomach
pump saved his life. When he regained
his senses he declared that he had not
attempted suicide, but he confessed that
he was compelled to use laudanum to
steady hisnerves after excessive cigarette
smoking. He took half an ounce of
laudanum. He admitted that the use of
laudanum was commenced in New York,
where he had been cigaret manufac-
turer. In the making of this form of
smoking material, he said the tobacco is
adulterated by the use of opium, and
working with it for years, he was COM
PEELED to use laudanum to taper off after
he had smoked several cigarettes. The
opium habit is far more dangerous,
treacherous, and insinuating than the
liquor habit. An opium eater will lie
and steal without blush, and to obtain
that drug, laudanum, or paregoric, as
substitutes, will sell his shirt from his
back Cigarette smoking is bad enough;
the other habits that are encouraged
by this indulgence are deadly and de-
grading,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-17
Chloride of sodium
A0ua, MIRA -


Shake well and rub on the scalp every morn
ing.
The bald man went to a druggist and
had the prescription put up, paying a
dollar and seventeen cents for it. He
asked the druggist if it wasn't a little
high, but felt ashamed when the drug
gist asked him if he knew how much
aqua pura cost a gallon. He said he
didn't, but supposed it come high. The
druggist told him aqua pura was one Of
the most penetrating drugs in the store,
and as for chloride of sodium, there was
nothing like it, and the war in Peru had
sent it up kiting. He said if the trouble
in Chill kept on there was no knowing
how high it would be. The bald man
used the medicine, and felt as though it
was doing him good. His wife noticed
little new hairs coming out, and he felt
good, so when the stuff was gone he
took the bottle to the store and had it
filed again. The chap who filled it this
time was another chap, and when the
bald-headed man threw down a dollar
the drugger said, so, never mind We
won't charge you anything for that. :"
The bald man asked how that was, when
the drugger said, '|Why, it is only salt
and water anyway. The salt is only two
cents pound, and the water is pretty
cheap this year" The bald man gave
one gasp, and said, "Well, by the great
bald-headed Elijah, I paid dollar for
filing that bottle before, and want my
money back. It is a bald-headed swim
die. l thought that Peruvian story
didn't look plausible. !" The druggist
gave the man box of cigars to keep
still about it, but he won't speak to the
other drugger who charged him dollar.
-PecES Sun,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-17

the last two years. under which the expendi-
lures of the State were reduced over 81. SOC, zoe
below the expenditures of the Democratic adj
ministrati IN of the two preceding years, and
reduced the public deDt of the State nearly
81, $50, 0G0. and refunded the remainder of the
debt rcdeemabie the 3oth day of June, 1881. by
he Issue of State bonds bearing 4-per-eent. in
terest, which were sold at such premium as to
reduce the rate per cent. below 81 per cent
per annum.
Resolred, That the public interests require
that the General Assembly should submit to
vote of the people such amendments to the
constitution of the State relative TO the manu-
facture, sale and use of intoxicating liquors as
shall leave the whole matter to legislation
PRESS COMMENTS.
From the Cleveland Leader.l
The convention was an intelligent.
enthusiastic gathering, composed main
ly of business men, who did the work in
a business-like manner. The tone of
the convention may be regarded as midi
eating the condition of the Republican
party throughout the State, ard, meas
ured by this standard, the most san
guine Republican couldask nomore than
was there exhibited. The character of
the spec ches, the enthusiasm with which
they were received, the tone of
the resolutions, the popularity of
the candidates, and the general
spirit pervading the convention were in
fallible harbingers of a lively campaign
and glorious Republican victory. The
sentiment that prevailed in the conven-
ton proved that the Republicans of
Ohio are alive, and that the fact that
this is an off year will not prevent them
from appearing at the polls en- masse in
October. The applause which every
time greeted the name of President Gar
field, or any reference to his administra-
ton, also proved that the Republicans of
Ohio are unit for the President
[From the Cleveland Herald.l
With the names of many of the best
men In the State from which to choose.
the convention selected the strongest
possible ticket, disappointed the enter
prising gentlemen who made up the
slate, proved again, as Senator Sherman
said, that Ohio is too big q State for
boss rule, and placed the candidates on
platform which will command the en-
thUsiastic support of all Republicans,
and insure another great victory in Octo-
Der. The delegates, who all went home
rejoicing at the results of the days
work, even though success may not have
crowned their particular favorites, will be
met with plaudits by their constituents,
who will recognize the fact that the
year 1881 is not to be set down as an
"off year. for Republicans in Ohio.
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There are people who become honest
only when there is nothing more to
steal. That kind of forced virtue has
too many examples.
Mr.. Stephens has many stories to tell
of negroes, and one is of famous cotton
and chicken depredator, who since the
war met the ex-Vice President in the
road.
Well, Thomas, . was the kindly salu-
tation, 81 was sorry to hear you had
been in trouble about Mrs. Trips
chickens"
Yes, Mars Alec; but I done quit all
dat now" said the negro, very peni-
tently.
Chow many did you take before you
stopped?" asked Mr.. Stephens.
81 TUX all she had, vas the perfectly
innocank rarlv
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The Point Wen Taken.

81 object, your Honor, to this witness
testimony" upon what ground? :"
said the Judge. "My point is, your
Honor, that evidence from a person oc-
cupying the professional position of the
witness is unreliable" "What did
understand the witness to say his occupa-
ton was?" asked the Judge. washington
correspondent of New York daily pa
per, was the reply. "Ahi" said the
Judge, " the point is well taken; the
court sustains your objection, MIR. Coke
stone"
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can out of your bedstead, even although,
to quote Dick Swiveller's saying, you
have to pay for double bedded room,
confessing that you have taken a most
unreasonable amount of sleep out of a
single bed. You will be banking a
whole store of recuperative energy. 1t
is safe to say of any man that if he
sleeps well he will do well.
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Wasn't It rough on Ella, just as she
was telling Frederick, at lunch, how
ethereal her appetite was, to have the
cook bawl out, Say, will We have yen
pork and beans now, or wait Ill per fel.
ler's gons ?"
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West.

Jay Gould and others have fled arti-
Giles of incorporation for the Missouri Pacific
railway in Nebraska. 1t is believed that they
viii build river line from Omaha to Atchson
or st. Joseph.
Robbers took bunch of keys from
the pocket of the County Treasurer at Pawnee
Olty, Neb., and obtained from his safe curren-
ey 70 the amount of So, $50.
Clovernook, the former home of Alice
and Phoebe Cary, near Cincinnati, has been
purchased by Alexander Swift, who will pre-
serve the homestead and dedicate memorial
to the dead poets.
A most destructive hurricane swept
over Dickinson county, Kan, in the vicinity of
Solomon City. 1t swept over tract six miles
long and five miles wide, demolishing nearly
everything in its path. The hail beat the corn
and other crops into the ground. Some of the
stones were ten inches in circumference. Six
houses were torn into fragments. and. SO far,
seven persons have been killed. 1t is thought
that other persons have persisted also.
Billy the Kid, The rising young bandit
of New Mexico, has filled three more graves on
his way to Mexican soil. Patrick Garritt the
Sheriff of Lincoln county, has been on the trail
Of this fiend since April q, but has failed 10
come up with him.
According to the report of the Illinois
Board of Agriculture, so per cent. of the fall
wheat in the northern grand division of Illinois
has been plowed up, "A per cent in the central
division, and 1e in the southern, and the por-
ton remaining gives indications Of only about
half an average yield.
As the Chicago express train on the
Wabash railroad. going north, passed through
Raymond, Montgomery county, H., on the
night Of the 18th inst, it ran into wagon con-
tanning seven persons, killing fourof them out
right, and more or less injuring the others.
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East.

A reign of terror exists in the western
part of Massachusetts, and in Little Compton
and Tiverton, R. l., by reason of the ,preya-
ieneo ola series of outrages, such as poisoning
and incendiarism,
Twelve men were more or less injured
by the explosion of a boiler in an iron works at
Pottsville, Pa Four of the number cannot
possibly recover.
Over $2,000,000 worth OF property
was destroyed in the vicinity of Pittsburgh
by the recent flood in the Allegheny river
z. M. Hewitt, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
manager of Adams Express Company for
twenty-five years. is dead.
The Chinese Government has estab-
hshed school of telegraphy at Hartford, Ct,
where Gorham b. Hubbell will instruct forty
Young Celestials in the construction and operas
ton of lines.
Brooklyn's big bridge has so far cost
S1S000,eO0. 1t will be completed within this
year, and will be one of the wonders of the age.
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Total

Total for the country: Wheat and corn,
1882, 697 ,681; rye, oats, barley and buckwheat,
4S1, 900. Total, 2,714,6O2,681.
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POst-MOrtem Praise.

The venerable adage ''speak nothing
but good of the dead" is all right and
proper, but it is quite possible to over
shoot the mark in this as in everything
else, and the practice of giving post
norton ''taffy" to every man who goes
hence, regardless of how we estimated
him before his demise must be getting
little transparent. When "Conn, the
Shaughraun, :" is being "waked'' by his
friends he takes a convenient opportunity
to sit up and soliloquize on 'what a
blessid glorious thing it is to die and
have all these good things said about
yez." In this day of generous news
paper puffs for both the living and the
dead, truly, it would almost be worth
while to die if one could come back and
read his obituary notices and hear how
kindly people speak of ones failings,
and how they exaggerate ones virtues.
The public man who has had little but
abuse all through his life is suddenly
exalted to a saintshlp when he dies; the
brilliant man gets his due from other
men then, and even the pretty woman
gets hers from other women when she
lies at rest with the immortelles upon
her bosom. Why is it thus? Is it
because we lose ourselves for little
while in the presence of death and hui
manity speaks out in spite of us? This
would seem at first sight a charitable
way of looking at it, but it does not do
credit to our manhood and womanhood.
Why should the competitions and envy
ings of life hinder us from bestowing a
fair measure Of praise where it is due
while the man is living and can appre-
ciate it? Why not give kisses to warm
loving lips that can return them instead
Of reserying them for the dead? It is
only our neglect or our forgetfulness
that leaves all our praise and all our
sympathy to be layished on the coffin
lid, or are our resolutions of condolepce
largely sham and their adoption only
the outcome Of that superstitious fear Of
the dead which would lead some people
to praise the devil himself were he hap.
PLY to expire?- Chatham Planet.
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ExnensiYa brings.

There are two mad men in Milwaukee.
One is bald-headad man and the other
is druggist. The bald man told doc
tor that his hair was falling out, aad
asked him if he didn't know of some
thing that would stop it. The doctor
said he would fix him, SO he wrote pre-
scription, which was as follows:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-17

THE following gem of truth is clipped
from the New Haven Register: docs
man ever go into a grocery store and
say: I'll give you five cents pound for
sugar, and expect to be treated with re-
spect? Not at all. He asks the price
of sugar and pays what is asked or goes
without. But the same man viii offer
price twenty per cent below rates for a
given space in the advertising columns
of a newspaper and feels offended because
it is not taken.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-03-10
Words Of Wisdom.

. There are many men whose tongues
might govern multitudcs if they could
. govern their tongues.
Be happy If YOU can but do not de
( spisc those who are othcrwisc, for you
know not their troubles.
! It many times falls out that We deem
/ ourselves much deceived in others be-
cause we first deceive ourselves.
Motives are better than actions. Men
drift into crime OF evil they do more
than they contemplate. OF good they
! contemplate moro than they do.
/ 1t is a secret we'll known 10 all great
men, that by comforting obligations
I they are not always sure Of procuring
friends, but are certain Of creating a
number Of enemies
1t is not ease. but effort. not faculty,
but difficulty, that makes men. There
Is no station in life in which difficulties
have not to be encountered and over
come before any decided measures Of
success can bc achieved.
II thou desire rest unto thy soul, he
just; he that docth no injury fears not
20 suffer injury; the unjust mind is
always in labor; it either practices the
evils it hath projected, or projects to
avoid tho evils it hath deserved.
Mcdiocriiy deals much in relating
stories.
Charms strike the sight, but merit
wins the soul.
Envy shootcth at others and woundeth
herself
PolitcneSs is the just medium between
form and rudeness.
Experience is the name men give to
their follics or their sorrows.
Many have lived on n pedestal who
will never have statue when dead.
There are rcproaches which give
praise, and praises which reproach.
A life of full and constant employ
mcnt is the only safe and happy one.
The greater part of men have no
opinion, still fewer an opinion Of their
own, we'll reflected and founded upon
reason.
A mans fortune should he the rule for
his sparing not spending. Extravaganza
may bo supported, not justified, by
afiiucncc.
We should often have reason 10 be
ashamed of our brilliant actions, il the
world could see the motives from which
they spring.
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view--but Of this coincidence neither
party was aware.

view--but Of this coincidence neither
party was aware.
The reader will please go forward n
week. BY this timo the respective
parties have reached New York, been
united in the holy bands Of matrimony,
and arc now legally husband and Wife.
They were located at hotels situated on
the same street, and even ON the same
side of the way, but were far from being
aware Of the propnquity. On the
morning succeeding the two marriages,
for by a singular chance they happened
on the same day, Mr.. Bigclow and
Esther started out for walk down
street. 1t so happened that Philip and
his wife were at the same moment walk
ing up street. The natural consequence
was the two parties met.
Good heavens my sister!" ex.
claimed Philip.
"Merciful goodness my brother %
returned Esther.
What brings you here with Mr.,
Bigclow?"
Nay, how happens it that you are
here with Miss Preston!"
Miss Preston is now my wife"
And Mr.. Bigelow is now my hus-
band !"
But thought you were opposed to
matrimony?"
And | supposed You were equally
So"
my friends" intcrposed Mr. Bigc-
low, "this is a day of surprisc-but |
trust Of such nature that We shall all
be made the happier thereby. My re-
greet, Mr.. Manson, at robbing you OF
your housekccpcr is quite dissipatcd by
the knowledge that you have so soon
supplied her place"
The sensation excited in the village
10y the return Of the two brides with
their respective husbands may he better
imagined than described. 1t gives us
pleasure 10 state that neither Philip nor
his sister ever had occasion 10 regret
the double clopcmcut.
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be long before that route will be pushed
toward Hcrat, in Afghanistan, and in an
casterly direction toward tho frontier of
China. Resting upon the beginning IN
the construction Of this road. General
Skobelef is now besieging Geek -Tepe,
a fortified town Of the Turcoman, and II
will not be very far Off in the future
when other Russian generals will ap-
pear before Mery and Herat.
Even for Africa great plans and enter
priscs are intended. Mr.. Lcs.cp.
must also be regarded as tbesfi insti-
gator Of these plans. At first the idea
was entertained at Paris 10 food the
little Sahara desert and make it a part
Of tho Mediterranean sea. But the i'm
possibility Of successfully executing this
plan soon became apparent and, even
II 1t were possible, il would have
proved to be improbable. The newest
plan II the construction Of a railroad
through the desert Of Sahara toward
Soudan and Central Africa. Several c1-
ploring parties have left Algiers TO To-.
cate the line Of this road by the aid Of
which the French hope 10 conquer tho
whole Of Northeast Africa
Thousands Of millions Of dollars aro
necessary to execute these plans aud
projects, but everywhere enough Of cap
ital can be found which is seeking last
ing and profitable investment. .- Chicago
IrlLllne
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Show C0untriiled.0 -

I.saw manly farmer, . champion OF the soil,
With his neat, though homely garments and
look Of honest toll;
With wealth of heart, and wealth OF hand,
brown beauty in his face.
He stood within your city, and marked his
modest grace;
And many passed. with stately step, IN broad
cloth and in PRIDE
But murmurod as they looked ON him. "0h,
my! how countrihcd"
saw an agod lady. Deborah past her prime,
Who'd measured years of usefulness, content 70
bido her timc
For scat within stage-coach, hoard her AJAX
one day,
When one with faco like Esau mo birthrght by
the way).
From underneath cloud of smoke said, Cant
she ride outside?
I'm sure there is no room within for one 30
countrihed."
In learning's classic tomple, with an open brow
and high,
Stood one of natures gentlemen, bright genius
in his eye,
Yot bore his hands q trace of toll, his frame a
store of health
or far moro sterling worth, my friends. than all
his classmates wealth;
And high up wisdom's mount he stood, it could
not be denied,
Yet in tho distance ono could soo how very
"countrifcd"
saw a bouutcous, Widespread board, in farm
house kept with care;
And merry was the household band, for city
friends were there,
While the generous, soul-felt welcome each
kindly lip expressed
Inspired with easy confidence each cared for.
happy guest;
And while | listened earnestly to what each
might confdc.
heard their numerous praises, hut mover
countrifcd"
Not many months from this, saw the mistress
OF that farm,
At threshold of her last years guest with
sachcl on her arm
Straishtway little daughter, we'll instructed
what to say.
has gone away
As with disappointed countonancc, tho woman
turned aside,
Tho lady murmurcd in her room, She looked
40 countriicd."
Shake of your cankering fcttor', ye slaves 70
fashions king,
Declare your Independence, and truthful offer
ing bring
To deck the shrine of liberty; in virtue put
your trust
And honor merit everywhere, in dAmask or in
dust.
We'rc children of one family, 1t cannot be de-
MED,
Por our Father dwclt in Edeu-and no was
counuifcd."
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TWO EL0PEM ENTS.

In large, square, old-fashioned
kouse-such as our fathers used to
build when solidity was more sought
after than utility-lived Philip Manson
and his sister Esther. Philip had
reached the mature age of forty years,
and Esther was close to him. Still,
each had pursued a solitary pathway
through life, seeking no companionship
save that of the other, till there was
reason to believe that they would CON
Enue TO follow the same course till in
the fullness of time they were gathered
into the family tomb-the receptacle of
many generations of the Manson family.
There was more reason to think so,
since they took care to commend an un-
married life, not only by example but
by precept.
"No," said Philip, when assailed on
this subject by match making lady;
marrying may be very good for some
people, but could not bear to have my
habits broken in upon, and my whole
house turned topsy-turvy by the intro
| duction OF wife"
"But by-and-bye, when you grow
cider. you will feel the need of q wife
more that at present
"No," said Philip, concIusively, al
have a sister who is devoted to me, and
while she lives / shall need no other
As for Miss Esther, she often
&declared that she never would
make a slave of herself for any
man living. II other women were fool
sh enough to give mp their independ-
snce, and tie themselves TO man, for
no other earthly purposes than to bur
len themselves with cares and toll from
norning till night, she was sure she had
10 objection. For her own part she was
viser. Her brother and she had always
ived together peaceably and happily,
Ind she did not think she could make
my change for the better.
or course, It was insinuated by those
those opinions differed widely from
fiss Es,her's, that in adopting this
pinion she was only making virtue OF
ecessity, and that 1t was best to bo con-
sndcd with ones lot, provided there
rs no chance of improving it. But
sther did not hear these remarks, and
was not disturbed by them. She
bntinued to live in the old house with
pr brother. They kept no domestic,
nee Esther rather plumed herself on
pr housekeeping qualities, and there
- really but little to do. So, as heI
othcr was usually absent during tho
y, she was left for the most part 10
? companionship Of her own thoughts,
less some neighbor chanced 10 cal
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An Apple Tree That Never Blossoms

Tho Hartford Conn., Times says: In
the town of Harrington, this State, and
on the farm now owned by Mr. George
Gridley, there lived and thrived tree
known as the "No blow apple tree.
This tree derived its queer name from
the fact that il always fruited but never
blossomed. The fruit had sweet flavor.
though the size was below the average,
and when fully maturcd was sufficiently
open nj the blossom end so that the
seeds might be easily shaken out. In
the autumn the fruit buds set similar to
the surrounding trees. In tho spring
the bud swelled, and threw out its feel
ers; but what we recognize as blossom
was minus, and IL took close observation
and studied acquaintance with its
habits to detect anything even in the
maturcd bud that would forcshadov
fruitage.