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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-01
Overworking the UndeveIOped Brain.

"Overwork," properly so called, can
only occur when the organ upon which
the stress of the labor falls is immature,
and, therefore, in process of develop
nent. When an organ has reached the
maturity of its growth it can only work
up to the level of its capacity or faculty
for work Fatigue may produce ex-
haustion, but that exhaustion will come
soon enough to save the organ. Re
peated efforts" may, under abnormal
conditions, follow each other too rapidly
to allow of recuperation in the intervals
of actual exertion, and as the starting
point will, in each successive instance,
be lower than the previous state, there
may be a gradual abasement; but even
this process should not seriously injure
healthy and well developed organ. In
short, great deal of nonsense has been
said and written about the "overwork"
of mature brains, and there are grounds
for believing that an excuse has been
sought for idleness, or an indulgence in
valetu}inarian habit, in Unpopular out
CRY on this subject which awhile ago at
tracted so much attention. Neverthe-
less there can be no room to question
the extreme peril of overwork" to grow
ing children and youths with undevel-
Oped brains.
The excessive use of an immature Or
gan arrests its development by diverting
the energy which should be appropriate
Ell to its growth, and consuming it In
work. What happens to horses which
are allowed to run races too early hap
pens to boys and girls who are over
worked at school. The competitive sys-
TEN as applied to youths has produced
a most ruinous effect on the mental con-
stitution which this generation has to
hand down to the next, and particularly
the next but one ensuing. School work
should be purely and exclusively di-
rected to development. "Cramming"
the young for examination purposes is
like compelling an infant in arms to sit
up before the muscles OF its back are
strong enough to support it in an up
right position, or to sustain the weight
of it's body on its legs by standing while
as yet the limbs are unable to stand the
burden imposed on them. A crooked
spine, Or weak or contorted legs, is the
inevitable penalty of such folly. An
other blunder is committed when one of
tie organs of the body-the brain-is
worked at the expense of other parts of
the organism, in face of the fact that the
measure of the general health is proper
toned to the integrity of development,
aud the functional activity of the body
rs a whole in the harmony of its compo-
nent systems. No one organ can be de-
veloped at the expense of the rest with
out a corresponding weakening of the
whole.-Lancet.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-01
Scent of Dogs.

Dogs not only smell odors in an ocea-
sional way, but they likewise seem to
extract a recognizable odor from almost
everything. As Prof. Groom Robertson
also suggests, Anacharist knows me
when I am dressed in clothes he never
saw before, by his nose alone. Let me
get myself up in a theatrical costume,
and cover my face with mask, yet he
will recognize me at once by some, tous,
undisccverable perfume. Moreover, he
will recognize the same odor as clinging
to my clothes after they have been taken
of. If I shy pebble on the beach he
can pick out that identical pebble among
a thousand. Even the very ground on
which l have trodden remains to him a
faint memento of my presence for hours
afterward. A bloodhound can track
human scent week old, which argues a
delicacy of nose almost incredible to hui
man nostrils. Similarly, too, if you
watch Anacharist at this moment you
will see that he runs up and down the
path, shifting away at every stick, stone
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-01

Clara Belle went to one of the most
fashionable New York dressmakers, and
asked her to state frank y whether 1t was
or was not common to "build up, or
round out the forms of her customers. !"
"Oh, my, yes" the artist replied, "but
not In the way that is generally supposed.
There is current libel against our sex
that we pad our busts. The truth is, I
solemnly assure you, that such thing is
not done more than one in twenty, on
the average, simply because it is not
needed. The desire to swell like pigeon
is not common in the female breast. and
| hear more complaint of too much in
that matter than of too little. The chief
trouble with female forms, as every
dressmaker knows, is irregularity. The
number of women whose two sides
do not correspond is wonderful. Some
times one shoulder is higher than the
other. sometimes the hip is bigger, and
sometimes the whole figure is awry.
Perhaps men are misshapen, but, if so,
their clothing is not such as to reveal
small deformities Women's dress, how
ever, ill this era Of clinging garments,
reveals every imperfection, unless art
comes to Natures help. The first thing
L do when about to fit dress, is to
critically examine the shape of the
wearer. IF the two sides of her are not
unlike, [ pad out the hollows. The public
little suspects how many women wear q
cushion on one shoulder or hip. Having
secured smooth, uniform foundation, I
can lay on the fnery with good effect.
OF course we can't do much for Aeshy
woman. In her case all depends on how
much girting in at the waist she can
bear, and how much depression by an
abdominal corset. But thin woman
can IN nearly every instance be greatly
improved. In the first place, her body
usually lacks taper. Though it is charm
ingly small at the belt line, it has dis
enchanting absence of swell above and
below. We therefore pad her dress
waist at the sides, beginning thick at her
armpits and thinning gradually down
ward, and also build out on her hips.
She becomes delusive, but far more
shapely. If she will not be persuaded
out of wearing tight sleeves. we have to
hide her scrawniness of arms by padding
shoulder to elbow. The one thing we
can't hide is stopping, and that is sadly
common defect in American women.
Round backs are distressingly numerous,
and what can we do for them? Nothing
at all. I feel sometimes like putting
them asoak, and then strapping them
flat on board, papoose fashion, in the
hope of Strengthening them. Parents
ought to look sharp after their little
girls in this particular, and put braces
on them if necessary.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-01

and plant, as though he got separate
and distinguishable scent out of every
one Of them. And sohe must, no doubt;
for if even the earth keeps perfume of
the person who has walked over it hours
before surely every Offices shout us must
have some faint smell or other, either of
itself or of objects which have touched
it. When we remember that a single
grain OF musk will scent hundreds of
handkerchiefs so as to be recognizable
even BY 5tr defective organs of smell,
there is nothing eztfaFaeant in the idea
that passing creatures may leave traces
discoverable by keener senses on all the
pebbles and straws which lie across the
road. Th"s the smells which make up
half of the dogs picture Of the universe
are probably just as continuous snd dis
tinct as the sights which make up the
whole picture in our own case, and
whieh doubtless coalesce with the other
half in the eanine mind. -Harper'S
WeekmI
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-01
Spoouendyks Starts a Fire.

"Mr. Spoopenkyke!'' called Mrs.
Spoopendyke from the head of the stairs
the morning after the sardines had been
disposed Of "1fr. Spoopendykel" she
called ashin shrill falsetto The only
answer from the bed was g loud snore.
Nr. Spoop-"
"Well, holler again. p yelled Mr..
Spoopendyke, springing up in bed.
WHAT oils you? Think Tn deaf in one
ear and ean't hear ont of the other?
Think /"
"Why, no, my dear, but 1 thought
you might be asleep. You know [
called you twice before you answered.
I don't think you heard me"
Odd hsar you, too, but I thought it
vas fish horn. All it would take to
make o steam whistle of you would be q
locomotive to put you on. Do you
want anything?"
"The fire in the furnace has gone
ont, said Mrs. S.
ooh, has it?" yelled Mr.. S., and he
dropped over and laid his nose against
the wall "What has it gone out for,
to take walk? Gone down to hear the
news? Gone to Washington? S'pose
I'm going to get Up and start it this
time of night?"
"But it's six o'clock, and I have been
up an hour"
Mr. Spoopendyke bounced out Of bed,
caught up his coat and tried to get his
feet into the sleeves.
Mrs. S. went down stairs to get the
kindling. Presently Mr.. S. came down
and stalked to the woodshed. A few
moments he called his wife to know
where she kept the saw.
"Why, where did you put it when you
had it laSt?"
ooh, [ dug hole in the garden and
buried it, then I planted cabbage over
its grave. Don't think I swallowed it,
do your Going to find that saw? Oh,
you've got it, have you? Where did you
find it? Here, give 1t TO me-" and he
grabbed it and sawed his fingers across
the teeth to see how sharp it was Every
tooth left its mark. He dropped it on
his toes with a yell of despair, and
howled and danced around the room as
if he had small dog at his heels.
"Did it hurt you, dear?" asked Mrs.
S., sympathetically.
"No, dod CAST it, of course It didn't
hurt. I'm just dancing to keep VAIN,
Just trying to work off my spirits, you
know"
And with a terrible grin he grabbed
his saw and started to file 1t. Just as
the family were sitting down to break
fast, Mr. S. walked in with basket of
charcoal and his saw.
"Come to breakfast" said his wife,
II have started the fire.
"Why, have you, my dear? Where
did you get the kindling?"
81 split Up board found in the
barn"
1.-The deuce you did, you'll ruin me
yet. Did you know that was black walnut
and paid dollar for it? o, you ought
to have been a business man. All it
would take to make Jay Gould of you
would be hatful of United States bonds
and few railroads"
And Mr.. S. helped himself to plate
of beefsteak, and let his victuals stop his
mouth.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-01
NEWS OF The WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

A bill for the abolition Of capital pun
ishmeut, introduced in the House Of Com
mons, was debated in that body, and rejected
ny a vote Of 175 to SO.
Unless previously disposed of, the
steamship Great Eastern will be sold at auction
in October
The census of the Kingdom of Great
Britain (inciuding England, Scotland, Wales
and Irellnd), recently taken, shows total
population Of over 35,OOO,OOo being gam OF a
little over 4,0oO, 0OO in ten years.
A cyclone in the Blois district Of
France did damage to the amount of several
million francs
Inc feeling between the French and
the Italians, owing to the indignation Of the
Ia4tor because of the formers occupation of
Trnis, is of so intense character that on the
Paris Bourse the new italian loan has been
summarily ruled off the boards.
steamship collided with and sunk q
Turkish mon-of.war at the entrance to the OAR
dazelles.
This year the emigration from Sweden
To Amer.ca will reach 10000, which is about
one-sixtieth of the entire population.
Herr Auer, Socialist member of the
German Parliament, ventured to return to Der.
lin on private business, and was arrested, hav-
ing no privileges beyond the session.
A colliery explosion near Dartmund,
Prussia, killed seventeen persons and injured
five.
The trial of the murderers of the late
Sultan, Abdul Aziz, has commenced at Con-
8tantnope. Noun Pasha confessed to having
ordered the death Of the monarch by command
of commission composed of Midhat, Ruchdi
and Mahmoud Pashas. Midhat pasha denied
all this, and denies again that Abdul Aziz was
murdered. In his speech the public prosecu-
tor demanded the death of the actual assassins
and fifteen years penal servitude for the three
PaBhas.
There are no prospects of good En-
glI8h harvest, ana doubts are entertained of
even an average one.
Twelve hundred Italians have left
MarseU,es in consequence Of the Franco Italian
riots
Baron Magnus, late German Ambassa.
dor at Copenhagen, who was dismissed for at
tending banquet given to Miss Sarah Bern
bardt, who chorishes anti German feeling. has
become insane from brooding over his dis
grace,
In Il financial article the London
Times ADVISES the withdrawal of the English
representatives. from the Monetary Conference.
81 states that England is firmly welded TO the
Jingle (Gold) standard and only entered the
b-metaIlic conference ont of compliment to
the United States and France.
Cornell University crew has completed
arrangements to row at Vienna. Aug. 5.
B1n Am9la, the rebel chief of Oran.
Algeria, il said by spies to have murdered the
french soldiers captured by him, and spared
only thirty three of the Spaniards whom he
took prisoners near Saba.
The French astronomers say that the
comet has no head worth speaking of, but an
immense tail which is 100000 leagues in
length. II is to be visible about three weeks
longer and then to disappear for seventy-four
years.
[, !. Gould, a retired business man.
was murdered while travelling on an express
train from London to Brighton, and his CORPSE
thrown ont at Balcomhe tunnel.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-01
Presence Of Mind,


"Tth logkiHg fot the tesbonsibls nan
of his pfiItshop,;" ,sn6rted ! broad
shodldered. tramp, edging his way into
the managing editors Office. "Show
me the high daddy that bumps out the
literature for this magazine. Whoop !
Give me room Where's the he pelican
that hicks the postage stamps for this
periodical? Wah-h Tn a snortin' al
igator of the briny deep | Where's the
man that ehews soap for this Job Officer"
II represent those .varioiis functions, )"
repeSted The Infringing sdito+i drawing
saber out of his ear. "What kid IL
an advertisement do you want ?" and he
poured a handful of gunpowder into a
hollow tooth and cooked it.
"What do you mean by publishing
my name in this yere secondhand al
manaeP What's your Justification for
dragging ME through this two.sheet
poster? WHO said [ was dead? Who
killed me? Who put my name in this
prescription label? I'm Jim Currie, of
Texas Hear me? Who's the man that
wrote me up as murdered in this dime
museum programme =? Giv6 tia his
spine Hand me one of his eyes p and
the stranger danced across the local
room and back.
Pm the man." said the managing
editor, slipping repeating rifle out of
his sleeve. 81 wtete thet article. :"
drawing handful of dynamite oft OF a
pimple on his nose. eff it isn't salts
factory taking keg of gunpowder out
of his sock it can be fixed"
Il want an apology or 81 in cash, and
I'll get it, if I bust this typewriter |"
yelled Mr.. Currie, Gimme Justice or
$3.50, or I'll bang the side ights out Of
this billboard qticker'n d streak O
lightnin' II scofsh an old maid I'm
the shiverin' walrus of the growing
Southwest Gimme satisfaction or So. IS,
or you'll hear this first lesson in easy
spelhn' whoopin' through space Wah
-h.-hp
"You light down the inside of the
building" howled the editor, drawing a
fourteen-inch Bowie knife from his knee
joint, cor I'll crawl inside of you p and
he rammed twelve-pound cartridge in
to his elbow. "Jump through the roof
or I'll bite you in half and throw the
rest away 4" and he clawed at twelve or
fifteen feet Of planking and slammed out
the side of the building with it.
CANT you going-?"
"Don't you GET"
"See me-!'
"Get-r'
"Wah-h-h-hr'
And the stranger went oft and told
his abettors that the thing wouldn't
work the Eagle was all out of money,
and couldn't put up for glass of beer,
while the managing editor started on an
editorial demonstrating the lack of cor
porate sympathy for pauper criminals.
-BrooklysI Eagle.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-01

The Michigan Central and the Lake
Shore railroads have declared quarterly dlvl-
dends-the former of per cent, and the lat
ter of 2 per cent.
The Michigan Central engine-house at
South Hasen, Mich, has been burned, causing
4 loss Of $4,000.
ALI the st. Louis gBmbling-houses
have been closed by law which passed the
Missouri Legislature last winter making
gambling crime,
The Board of Agriculture of the State
of Ohio estimates the wheat crop this year at
A, 900, 900 bushels.
The valley of the Kansas river. in
Kansas, was devastated by a destructive storm
last week. The farmers are the principal sufs
ferers.
-Four boys were drowned at st. Louis
while bathing in the river.
South,
Thirty-fve persons Who ate chicken
salad at picnic naar Decatur, Ca, were badly
poisoned and suffered severely. Medical aid
was promptly rendered. and no deaths &C.
Cured. The chickens from which the salad
was made had been boiled in brass kettle
At Holly Springs, Mies., Wyatt
Holmes was hanged for the murder of And ew
Scott. He acknowledged the crime and exhorte /.
all to meet him in heaven. Five thousand peo-
pie were present. Murderer and his victim
were both colored men.
William McMullen, a desperate of
Newport, KY, was killed by Police Officer
Sauerbrey for desperate assault. The patrol
man was badly hurt.
Hon. Henry Stanbery, Attorney Cen
eral during Johnson's administration, died last
week at Covington, Ky,
Mrs. Miller and her young son were
instantly killed by lightning at Sturtevant
Station, Ala The infant in her arms was I'M
injured.
Mrs. Antony, wife of clergyman ut
Shelbyville, Tenn, fatally shot herself while
attempting to shoot hawk.
Five persons were killed and five in
jured by the bursting OF the boilers of the
steamboat Phaeton, near Maysville, Ky. The
boat was racing when the disaster occurred.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-01
Tallow Candle Fish.

In the waters of British North Ameri-
ca, as we are informed, there is fish,
an odd fish, as surprising in its way as
the sea-serpent, and infinitely more use
full. It is species Of smelt, and may
be POLITICALLY described as an aquatic
glow-worm. We are told that it may be
literally nsed in the same way as a can
die. bv simply setting light to the tail,
when it will burn Win name steady as
that of the "dips" which our GRANDPA
theirs used to have to put up with before
gas was invented. It is small silvery
fish, averaging about fourteen inches
long, is exceedingly fat, and affords an
excellent and valuable oil, and is so in
fammable that the dried carcass will
serve as a torch. Among the natives
the fish is known as the oolahan, and by
them, as by others who have tasted it,
is considered one of the most delicious
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-01
Tho Bear, the Blue-BOttle and the
MOS0uitO

There is a familiar Western story of
tame bear, which, seeing a blue bottle
on its sleeping masters nose, tried to
beat it off with blow of its paw, but in
the attempt damaged his friends nasal
organ. A similar tale is told in the
-" Makasa-i ataka." In this birth the Bod
hisat was tradesman who went from
village to village to dispose of his wares.
One day, when at the house of car
penter whose head was like a copper
porringer, mosquito alighted thereon,
and the carpenter called to his son, who
was near, to drive it away. The son,
taking sharp ak for the purpose, aimed
blow at the insect, but split his faith
er's head in two, and killed him. On
seeing what was done the Bodhisat said
that wise enemy was better than
foolish relative or friend. = Contenl-
porGry Review.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-01
How to Snend Thanksgiving Day

A good old Governor of the State of
Maine, when he issued a Fast-day procla-
nation, more than fifty years ago, made
up his mind to forego platitudes, and to
tell his people just how, in his opinion,
they ought to get ready to observe the
day. This was his advice Il recon-
mend to each citizen to observe the day
as a Christian if he be under the infu-
ence of any vice, to Danish it; if in er-
ror, to correct it !; if under obligations
to others, honestly to discharge them
if suffering injuries, to forgive them; if
aware of animosities, to extinguish them;
and, if able to do any benevolent act to
any being created by the Almighty
Power to which he owes existencesand
his faculties, to do it. "-Sunday-, School
Tines.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-01
Tobacco Production In the United
SfAfne

The report of J. R. Dodge, special agent for
the collection of statistics of agriculture, show
ing the tobacco product of the United States
fer the census years 1880 and 1870. has been
issued from the Census Office in Washington.
The comparative statement presented in the
report shows an increase in production of 80
per cent. during the decade, the prod
1O7,573 pounds, and that of 1870 at
262 735, 341. This apparent increase, Mr.
Dodge says, exaggerates the real advance IN
tobacco cultivation, as the preceding census
crop was small one, and the fear of taxation
may have operated to prevent full CENSUS
of the tobacco in 1870. The crop reported
in 1880 was one of good production, and
not Ill excess of present requirements Of
home consumption and expectation. Fiji
teen States produce now, as in 1870,
more than SO per cent. of the tobac-
co of the United States, though it is
reported i'll twenty-five other States and Terri
tories OF these only Missouri. Illinois, Indi-
ana and Massachusetts, produce less than in
1870. Kentucky occupies the first position,
producing 36 per cent. of the total product of
the country. Virginia holds the second place,
Pennsylvania has advanced from the twelfth to
the third, Wisconsin from the fifteenth to the
tenth, and North Carolina, Connecticut and
New York have each gained one point in the
rank of the tobacco States
Those that have refrigerated, relative TO pro-
duction, are Massachusetts, Maryland. West
Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Ten
nesseo. The average yield per acre is shown
to be 731 pounds, varying from 1899 pound:
in Massachusetts to All pounds in North Caro-
lima. This variation in the rate of yield, the
report states, is DUE in differing degree, to
the use and neglect of fertilizers, habit of
growth of the different varieties and vicssi-
tudes of the seasons.
in pounds and the yield per acre, in 1880, i'll
the fifteen leading tobacco-growing States:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-01

In class of little girls at school, the
question was asked, "What is fort ?"
"a place to put men in, was the ready
reply. "What is fortress, then ?"
asked the teacher. This seemed puz-
zle, till one of the girls answered, "a
place to put women in.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-01

products OF the sea, being iar more deli.
cate IN flavor than the herring. TIE fish
are caught in wicker baskets, and are
smoked as much as their oily nature will
allow.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-01
Why He Didn't Bid,

At an auction sale of miscellaneous
goods the auctioneer put up wolfskin
dressing gown and invited bids. An old
man inspected itclosely, seemed to think
that there was bargain in it, but yet
he hesitated to bid. Don't you want
that?'' asked the auctioneer. Yes.
kinder" was the reply. "Then why
don't you bid and take it?' Well,
I've bought heaps O. things in dry goods
and so on, slowly reioined the old man,
"and never yet took home anything
that the old woman thought was worth
the price. If got that ERE robe for :;
song she'd grab it up, pull at one end.
chaw ct the other, and call out, Cheat
ed again; more'n half cotton 7 That's
the reason I darn't bid p
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-01

TWENTY large public buildings have
been constructed in Rome since 1870 for
Government use, at an outlay of $685.
600. 00N
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-01

AT a confagration worthy citizen
gazes with stupefaction on the steam
fre-engines. "Well, [ never" he says,
with deliberation. 81 never expected
to see such criminal, senseless wasteful-
nessl The idea of warming the water
before throwing it on the flames r
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-01

ABOUT 4, 900 persons are employed in
the United States in the manufacture Of
matches.