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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-29
The Origin of Restaurants.

The use OF restaurants has become so
general all over the world that 1t will be
interesting to many to hear how they
originated, and to what they owe their
now familiar name. 1t appears that the
first of these establishments was started
in 1865, by man rejoicing in the not
inappropriate name of Bouiange. This
date has, however, nothing to do with
the choice of the title by which the new
houses of entertainment We've known.
In order to explain this we must 90 back
to the seventeenth century, at the end
of which one of the soups, or liquid ali
ments, most used by the people was
bokitt0n known as the /" divine restorer.
1t was made up of the remaius Of fowls
and vlands boiled down In an alembIc,
with crushed barley, dried roses and
Damascus currants. As it was only the
class of compar. lively well TODD per
sons who could afford such luxury, n
genius was required to bring the "di-
vine restorer" within the reach OF all the
multitude. He was found IN a certain
doctor named Guilliard, who proposed
to provide d" an excellent substitute" for
the real nectar by cooking lat fowl In
little aromatzed water, and selling the
bouiLLon as "divine." At that time the
privilege of cooking and serving ragoats
was reserved for the rQiteorS, OF licensed
victualers, and that of providing set
dinners was secured by charter to the
corpol alton of the rotiSsear8. But tho
new sellers of the restaurant diyin"
were free lances, hound by no particu-
lar rule, and they moreover claimed to
have more select set of clients than the
common eating-houses. Consequently
the restaurants, as they came to be
called, soon achieved an extraordinary
reputation, and at length their propiie-
tors found it necessary to combine with
their old profession that of traiteurs,
which word was in the process eclipsed
by the more new-fangled term restaura-
| tear,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-29
Che Saw Him q Few BETTER.

The public has long conceded shat
the power of the hotel clerk is superior
to that of President. A new rival has
sprung up in the railroad ticket agent
"I want a ticket to B" said a
well-known lady of an Iowa town. Just
before train.
"Twenty-four cents" responded the
agent, working his sausage machine.
She laid down a silver quarter. Being
well acquainted and a practical Joker,
the agent drew from his pocket glitter
ing pants button, passedit over with the
ticket and scooped up the quarter.
els this legal tender ?" asked the lady
quietly. 80. sg svat
"OR, yes" he answered with mock
gravity, g they are the mainstay Of the
republic.
She pocketed it and got aboard, leav-
ing the agents face coruscating With
smiles. al ts.
A few days after he told it to brigade
of runners buying tickets for B, and,
while he was enjoying the encore, the
lady appeared with. .als E
"Ticket for B, please" s-~re
"euCy-lou cenCs, WIN elJ VILE
at therunners. He laid down the ticket.
She scooped it and laid down twenty
four dazzling pants buttons, exactly like
the first. 4a9a
"You said they were legal tender.
They go long way in supporting the
family she chirped sweetly, as she
bowed from the presence of more than
Presidential prerogative.
Then he set 'em up to the brigade
of enlightened runners. - Cleveland
TenCIer at
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Washineton,s Secretary.

An important feature in Washington's
family was his Private Secretary, Tobias
Lear. He was native Of New Hamp-
shire, and in his twenty-ffth year became
acquainted with his famous patron, who
wished a tutor for his adopted children.
Lear soon became more valuable as a
Secretary. Heaccompanied Washington
from Mount Vernon to Philadelphia,
where the National Convention was to be
held, and on its close returned with him.
He also accompanied him to the inaugu-
ration, and was his most intimate associ-
ate during the eight years of Presiden-
tiaI service. Lear was the only one that
witnessed the explosion of the Presi-
dents wrath on the defeat of st. Clair by
the Indians, and he also Witnessed the
incessant annoyance which Washington
suffered from the attacks made by the
aurora, a paper edited by Jefferson's
tool, Philip Freeman. When the old
hero returned finally to Mount Vernon,
Lear was retained IN service and was
present at the death scene, which he de-
scribes in very affecting manner. He
received the last words of his patron and
superintendent the funeral. He was af-
terward engaged in public service, and
died In Washington, In 1926. 81,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-29
An Astronomers Oninion.

The celebrated English astronomer,
Richard A. Proctor, has been giving ali
opinion which, if based on correct con
illusions, is startling one in reference
to the comet of 1860. In his view, trou
BILE of serious character to our eartL
impends. 1t is alleged that the comets
return has been reduced from IT'S t.
thirty-seyen years, and that it will ap
pear again in about seventeen years
with improbability of being absorbed b.
the sun. 1t is intimated tn 1t SIR Isaac
Newton entertained the same opinion.
and predicted future trouble from this
source. AS the comet nears the sun Its
velocity is increased. Its present veloc-
ity is estimated at 800 miles a second,
and it is thought the danger lies, "not
from absorption of so much matter as
may exist in that comets head and nu-
cleus, but from the conversion of the
momentum of the swiftly revolving mass
Of the comet into heat, the thermal
equivalent of its mechanical energy"
Mr.. Proctor says 81 have for my
own part been long of opinion that the
periodical increase of such stars as MD
(the wonderful starr in the Whale, ana
Eta of the ship Argo, is due to the mo-
ton of some large comet followed by a
meteoric train about these two stars. If
ever the day is to come when the heavens
shall dissolve with fervent heat, the
cause of the catastrophe will be the
downfall of some great comet on the
sum-" He asserts it is his opinion that
the comet referred to will ,4~zca.hly b
absorbed by the sun, aE3 claims that,
"as its period is diminishing rapidly"
it may fall into the sun sat an early
date, with the alarming immediate re-
suit that call the higher forms of life at
least, both animal and vegetable, will be
destroyed off the surface of the earth.
And, though in a few days the sun
might resume his ordinary luster, and
no longer glow with abnormal heat, he
would pour his rays on d family of
worlds in which not one of the higher
forms of either vegetable or animal life
would remain in existence" It remains
for some other astronomers of equal
ability to confirm or dispute the theories
Of Mr.. Proctor. He may be more sci
entifc, though no more reliable, than
the bogus " Mother Shipton," whose
world-renowned prognostication,
The world to an end will come
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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-29
The Influence of Poe.

Poe, like Pope, threw himself into a
war with ounces. He hit and thrust at
them vigorously; he exposed score of
cheap popularities he was merciless to
the inexpensive regulations then readily
acquired by every tootler on the whistle
of Miss Eliza Cook. Since the time of
Poe American literature has wonderfully
advanced in the acquisition of force and
polish. American novelists, for exam
pie, almost give us lessons In careful
elaboration of style, In reticence and in
well-calculated effects. American poets
are, perhaps, too numerous. That they
get hearing as they do. and appeal to
a really-large public. says much for the
interest of the people in contemporary
verse. In form, in the mere art of versi-
tying, even the minor American poets of
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-29
Drunkenness in the Wine-Drinking
Countries.

OF the Northern Continental States
besides Germany, Belgium and HOl-
land have removed all restrictions upon
the traffic in alcoholic drinks. The bad
consequences in both countries have be-
come so evident that in Holland a law is
recommended which declares drunken
ness a crime. In Belgium the consump-
ton of alcohol since 1910 has increased
from $4,000, 900 to 100000 francs,
and in the industrial countries there is
one dramshop for every six or seven per-
sons. Thus. in Belgium, the working
classes spend between so, 900, 900 and
10000, 900 of francs for alcohol. The
same evil has manifested itself in Ger
many. The free city of Bremen, in 1863
abolished its license law. The number
of dramshops instantly rose from 512 to
728, and i'll 1867 to 829, for which rea-
son the Senate made 4 motion for the
reintroduction of the license law. When,
in 1869, the new law of the North Ger
man Confederation dispensed with the
proof of the necessity of dramshOp for
village or town or street of large
city, within two years the number of
ultI4oLiOIo III SAOAA4"LlJ SAO" iACAA L1OJ
81 to 129, 072, OF All increase of 12,261.
From October 1, 1869, to January L,
1877, the number Of inns rose from 49,
GIG to 69,3O5, or A per cent, and that
Of the drinking saloons from 62,612 to
69,305, or IL per cent. In 1869 the
percentage of inns and dramshops to
the number of inhabitants was 1915 to
$1,000 inhabitants, but in 1877 it had
risen to So. 49, The same enormous in
crease manifests Itself all over Germany,
SO that the Reichstag, in its sitting Of
July %, 1879, made the license of a
dramshop and of an inn in towns or vii
lagos of less than 1900 inhabitants con-
ditional on the necessity for them. Prior
to granting such a license, the police
and town authorities are asked for their
opinion, which, in case of negative an
swer, is never overruledby the Secretary
of the Interior. This reduction of the
number of dramshops, however, is not
at all sufficient to suppress drunken
ness. The smaller number of drinking
places has attracted larger number Of
guests, who enjoys themselves better in
a great crowd and in rooms comfortably
heated and better kept.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-29
Some Mems Luck.

Gen. Gordon was severely wounded
four times in one battle and within an
hour, and lived to fight again; and this
is only specimen of the singular good
luck that attended some men. In 1864
a Michigan cavalryman named Drake
was out foraging in the Shenandoah val
ley in company with comrade named
Cooper. Cooper was in smoke-house
after meat and Drake was on guard at
the door when thirteen Confederates
suddenly appeared. They were mount
ed, and advanced at gallop, part of
them firing as they rode up. One bullet
found suitable opening In the stone
wall of the smoke-h house, and few in and
killed Cooper dead in his tracks. Drake
was standing beside his horse, and his
saddle was hit by three bullets, one of
which glanced through his hat
AS soon as the trooper could realize
what had happened he swung himself
into saddle and dashed at the circle
around him. The moment he happened
ia view he was target for carbine and
pistol. His horse made a rush at the
line, but was driven back. Followed by
Cooper's horse he galloped around ana
across circle not over 100 feet across,
all the time under steady fire by the
Confederates. This fire was soon re
turned by Drake, who fired away seven
cartridges and then drew his saber. His
seven bullets, as afterward vouchcd for,
killed two men, wounded two more, and
killed one horse. His fire broke the
circle, and he got out of it, but for thirty
rods, as he made of, he was exposed to
the fire of nine or ten men. Cooper's
horse was killed in the circle, while
brakes was hit no less than nine times
and yet not disabled. AS for the rider,
his comrades, on his return to camp,
counted up a. record of a trulymiracu-
lous escape. Three bullets struck his
scabbard, two his hat, four went through
his clothing, one burned his cheek, one
raked his knee, and two hit his left
boot. While one single bullet killed the
one trooper, the other had sixteen fired
point blank at him and yet did not lose
q drop of blood. Cooper's horse was
killed by one bullet, while nine failed to
disable the larger and more-exposed ami
mal.-Detroit Free Press.
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Educating Horses.

Horses can be educated to the extent
of their understanding as we'll as chill
dren, and can be easily damaged or ru-
ined by bad management. 1t is be-
heved that the great difference found In
horses as to habits of reliability comes
more from the different management of
men than from variance of natural dlspo-
sition in the animals. Horses with met
tie are more easily educated than those
of less or dull spirits, and are more sus-
ceptible to ill-training, and consequently
may be good or bad, according to the
education they receive. Horses with
dull spirits are not by any means proof
against bad management, for In them
may often be found the most provoking
obstinacy, vicious habits Of different
character that render them almost en-
tirely worthless. Could the coming gen
Grafton of horses in this country be kept
from their days of colthood to the age OF
years in the hands of good, careful
managers there would be seen vast
difference in the general character OF the
noble animals. a
If colt is never allowed TO get an ad
vantage, it will never know that it pos
sesses power that man cannot control,
and is made familiar with strange objects
it will not be skittish and nervous. If q
horse if made accustomed from his early
days to have objects hit on his heels,
back and hips, he will pay no attention
to the giving out of harness or Of q
wagon running against him at an une1-
pected moment. A gun can be fired
from the back of horse, an umbrella
held over his head, buffalo robe thrown
over his neck, a railroad engine pass
close by, his heels bumped with sticks,
and the animal take it all as natural
condition of things, if only taught by
careful management that he will not be
injured thereby. There is great need
of improvement in the management OF
this noble animal A.; less beating and more
of education.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-29

house, while the nominal owner is seen
meekly getting himself out of the way.
Without exaggerating the treatment
which a husband receives among our
selves, says Mr.. Max Muller, sat these
interesting periods, not only from moth
ers.in-law, sisters in-law and other fe-
male relatives, but from nurses sin fact,
from every servant in the house-it can
not be denied that, while his wife is sui
fering, his immunity from pain is gener-
ally remarked upon with jealous anger,
and if anything goes wrong for which ii
is possible to blame him, he is sure to
hear of it. If his boots are creaking, il
his dog is barking, if the straw has not
been properly laid down, does he not
catch it2"-1He ArgoSy.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-29
Getting Along Nicely.

4 1t is stated that the center of popula-
ton moves westward at the rate of nine
Ity feet day, and is slowly passing
across the southern portion of Ohio. II
lis evident, therefore, that the igor
geous East" to which the West has
hitherto looked for its literature and
lucre, its manufactures and arts, its ped
agogues and pills, its capital and cult,
ure, is fast losing its grip, and, if il
we're to be sunk out of existence to-
morrow, or raised out of sight in its own
9stimation, the West would merely pause
o say tra-la-la, and keep right on with
It's work. The loss of thirteen Con
Sressmen to the East, and gain Of
nineteen to the West, by the last cen
sus, shows where the crowd is rushing,
and in ten years more the East will be
taken under the wing of the West, and
the West will see that no harm comes
toit. We feel sorry for the East. 1t
has always done as well as it knew how,
and there has never been time when it
would not sell us dry goods and Yankee
notions, and take it out in wheat, or
loan money on a farm at 10 per cent.
II its people generally cannot yet re-
gard the West as anything but a howl
ing wilderness, where the Indian and the
Wild bison roam at will, instead of q
land possessing the refnements of en-
hghtened civilization, why then it is
their misfortune and not their fault.
No enmity can ever come between the
two sections, for very many of the
wealthy farmers of the West, who
own broad and fertile acres, will
never forget that their early man.
hood was passed amid the steep and
rocky hillsides Of the East, where corn
was planted with mallet and cold
chisel, and, after being washed out by
rains couple of times, grew and flour
ished to the height of two and even three
feet, with an ear on almost every stalk.
No one who is worthy the name Of a man
ever forgets the scenes Of his boyhood.
But the cotton factories of the East are
passing to the South and Southwest,
where they will be nearer the source Of
the raw material; the publication Of
books, which nobody ever supposed
could be done anywhere except III the
East, has suddenly been begun in the
| West, and $2,OOO,0OO worth were exc
outed with neatness and dispatch in one
Western city alone last year; Eastern
illustrated papers, rejecting the culture
humor and police doings of the country
still hold their own, but their time viii
come; Eastern pills, which have drained
so much money from the West, and bull
SO many palaces in the East, yet have {
grip upon the affections of our people
but their influence is weakening, and pat
factories are springing up and manhood
is being restored right here in the Yves
| by Western firms: car factories are com
ing nearer to Western iron andwood every
day; our Touring mills, which aIread!
make -four enough for paste, are increas
ing in number and capacity, and the
woods are full of oaw-mills; we shall neet
Eastern oil and coal little longer, unit
a way is found to decompose water, anC
then we shall have no favors to ask, an(
the East must not recognize us when We
meet on the street.-Peck's San.
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dist Episcopal. The division between
the first two was made In 1915, on the
slavery question, and the last was sepa-
rated on the color line in 1916. The
Methodist Protestant is the outcome of
a struggle in the Methodist Episcopal on
the question of lay representation and
abolition of the presiding eldership. and
does not differ on other points with the
parent body. The Evangelical Assoei-
alton is German Methodist body, with
its chief membership in Pennsylvania.
The American Wesleyan connection was
formed in 1S43 by Methodist Abolition
lists, who wished to take religious stand
against slavery. The Free Methodist is
a church formed in 1860 by those who
believed that Methodism was getting too
worldly, and the Primitive Methodist is
the result of similar though earlier de-
parture The negro Meihodists also have
several separate sects, The general
Methodist feeling is that a union Of most
of these churches must now be effected.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-29
The Father Goes to Bed.

Who would believe that there was one
single tribe, however silly in other re-
spects, which should carry its folly so
far as to demand that on the birth of a
child the father should take to his bed,
while the mother attended 70 all the
duties Of the household. Yet we are
told that there are few customs more
widely spread than this, attested by his
torical evidence during nearly 1900
years. Marco Polo found it existing
among the Chinese in the thirteenth
century, and the same custom was still
ii. practice few years ago among the
modern Basques This absurd custom
is also described by Du Tertre as in use
among the Caribs in the West Indies.
When child is born the mother goes
presently to her work, but the father
takes to his hammock, and there he is
visited as though he were sick, and un-
dergoes a course of dieting which would
cure Of the gout the most replete of Al
dermen. How any one can fast SO long
and not die is perfectly wonderful. For
six months he eats neither birds nor fish
lest the child should participate in the
natural faults of the animals on which
the father had fed. For instance. if the
parent were to have an Aldernanic taste
for turtle, the child would be deaf and
have no brains. The only explanation
of this mystery is to be found in the
pages of Punch, wherea great fat nurse
is depicted going up stairs with the baby
in her arms. the real master OF the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-29
what becomes of tha Soanstone.

An alarming conundrum is agitating
the country. Where does the soapstone
go? From our boyhood we have known
of the veins of soapstone in the hill just
north of Easton. For years all projects
to make them profitable failed; but.
singular to say, just about the time cleo
margarine came to the front the soap
stone quarries were monopolized; mills
were leased for grinding the pot-rock,
running night and day, the product
shipped to New York, and then, where ?
It is claimed to be used in paper-pulp.
It may be, to some extent. tits alleged
to be used in hatter's felt. Perhaps so;
but where is SO large an amount dis
posed Of? Soapstone, or stealite, is a
combination of silica and magnesia. 1t
is soft and greasy, and hence it is some
times called lardstone. From its adapt
ability to making vessels, in some sec
tons it is called pot-rock. When ground,
it is a soft, smooth, greasy and almost
impalpable powder. No one who has
seen it in its ground state will question
its almost diamond value for adultera-
ton. Candies, sugar, -four, butter, it
is alleged, can be adulterated to the
extent of 20 to Is per cent. without any
chance of Decentralization (Pa. }
Ti31eS
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The Latest Case of Plagiarism.

AT the opening of the Nevada Legisla-
ture an Eastern minister was invited to
perform the religious service. He ac-
cepted the call and closed the ceremony
with the Lords Prayer. Whenhe had
finished State Senator Doolan turned to
Senator Hammond and remarked audi
bly, He stole that prayer, and I'll bet
on it. I heard it almost word for word
in Eureka at funeral over ten years
ago."
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-29
POLITICAL POINTS.

The Hon. Daniel F. Beatty has been
reelected Mayor of Washington, N. J. Thi,
will BE- his third term.
The National Committee of the Ma
tional Observation-Disclosures party is called 10 meet
by Secretary Crandall at st. Louis June Z, to
elect a Chairman in place of 7. H. Murch.
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LIFE has its sorrows as well as its joys.
/ L IL. 4

LIFE has its sorrows as well as its joys.
Woman is the highest representative of
the emotions. Her temperament is
characterized by intensity, mans by
strength. Whatever she does she does
intensely. She wants to be good, man
wants to be great. Love is the supreme
emotion of her nature. If it be recipro-
Gated by the object of her love, she is
happy. If the wife loves her husband,
and knows that her love is reciprocated,
her life is a prolonged Joy, and her sac
rifces for his happiness will amount to
self-abnegation.
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The MethOdists.

The Methodists of the United States
number 3, 52l, 900, and are divided into
fifteen organizations, though the great
bulk of themembership is included in the
Methodist Episcopal, the Methodist
Episcopal South, and the African Metho-