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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-11
A Boy Who Sanirmed to MiggIe.

"My son." said a Mulberry street
mother. " go down to the grocery and
get me can of condensed milk.
CT should squirm to wiggle," an
swered the boy.
$50 ON, tell YOU"
"I should limp to jump"
eff you don't go this instant I'll tell
your father when he comes home"
"I should blow to tattle.
"Never mind, sir"
"I should whoop to squeal."
When the father came the mother
said: "I wish that you'd whip Tom.
He positively refused to go down to the
grocery, and toid me that was tattler
and that he would jump on me if 1
didn't mind"
"Tom."
eyes, sir.
"What was that you said to your
motherP'
"Never said nothin'."
"Then I am a story teller and you
are pretty boy" said the mother.
"Look here, young man; if you don't
behave yourself I'll thrash you. Do you
hear?"
81 should litter to snort"
"Come here to me, sir" and the
young man squirmed to wiggle, lmped
to jump, blew to tattIe, whooped to
squeal and Uttered to snort.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-11
The Aversion for Manual Labor.


The following from the Cincinnati
Price Current contains some sound sug-
gestions in favor of country life and
manual toll: f5a3 aa -
The practice of educating boys for
the professions, which are already over
stocked, or for the mercantile business,
in which statistics show that ninety-fve
in hundred fail of success, is fearfully
on the increase in this country.
Americans are becoming more and
more averse to manual labor; and to get
a living by ones wits, even at the cost
of independence and self-respect, and a
fearful wear of conscience, is the ambi-
ton of large portion of our young
men. The result is that the mechanical
professions are becoming monopoly of
foreigners, and the ownership of some
of the finest farms even in New England
is passing from Americans to Irishmen
and Germans.
Fifty years ago father was not
ashamed to put his boy to the pillow or to
mechanical trade; but now they ''are too
feeble" for bodily labor; one has pains in
his side, another very feeble constitu-
ton, another is nervous; and so poor
Bobby, or Billy, or Tommy is sent to
the city to measure tape, weigh coffee or
draw molasses.
1t seems never to occur to the foolish
parents that moderate manual labor is
just what these puny, wasp-waisted lads
need, and that to send them to the great,
crowded, unhappy city is to send them
to their graves. Let them follow the
pillow, swing the sledge, or shove a fore
plane, and their pinched chests will be
expanded, their hollow cheeks pumped
out, and their lungs, now cabined, cribed
and confined, will have room to play.
Their nerves will be invigorated with
their muscles, and when they shall have
cast off thesr jackets, instead of being
thin, pale, v&pid coxcombs, they shall
have spread out to the confguration of
men.
A lawyers office, counting-room, a
grocery, is about the last place to which
sickly youth should be sent.
The ruin of health is about as sure
there as in the mines of England. Even
if those men in the city who have consti-
buttons like iron, only five per cent. sue
coed, and they only by living like her.
mits and working like horses; the rest,
after years of toll and anxiety, become
bankrupt and retire, and having mean
while acquired thorough disgust and
unftness for manual labor, bitterly be-
moan the day when they forsook the
peaceful pursuits of the country for the
excitement, care and sharp competiti-
ton of CITY life.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-11
Some Famous Dresses.

In the spring of 1893, after the execu
ton of Louis XVI, which took place on
Jan. 81, 1893, and was followed by that
of Marie Antoinette on Oct. 16, of the
same year. it was decreed by order OF
the court that the furniture and all else
that remained in the palace of the Tuil-
cries was to be sold. The sale lasted
six months, and had it not been stopped,
would have lasted six months longer.
At this sale, Pierre de la Rivierre, OF
Normandy, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
purchased three dresses belonging to
Queen Marie Antoinette. These became
the property of his son, who removed to
San Domingo, from which place he fed
during the last instruction to Phila-
delphia.
The three dresses purchased at this
sale were blue, purple, and the present
one, old-gOld color, all of them en-
broidered. They descended to his
daughter, Nine. Remie Mignot. OF
Charleston, S. c., the granddaughter of
Pierre de Ia Riviere, who afterward
married NJ. Rutjes, of Charleston. From
her the gold-colored dress descended to
one of her daughters, Miss Rutjes, now
Mrs. Churchill, from whom it was pur-
chased by Nine. Demorest in 1879.
This interesting souvenir is pale-yellow
satin, the color mellowed by age to an
old-goId tint, richly embroidered in
bouquets and garlands of flowers in
natural colors, which to remarkable
degree retain their original brilliancy.
The commences Of this dress is beyond
question, and can be fully substan-
tiated.
The blue dress became the property
of daughter of Nine. Mignot, who
married and removed to Holland, and
was made into a suit of furniture now in
the possessi IN of her husband, at Find
hoven, Holland, near the frontier OF
Belgium.
The purple dress, after having been
in the possession of sister of Nine.
Mignot, returned cher after her sisters
death, and was burned in the great fire
in Charleston in 1861. - Den,OreSPs
Monthly Magazine.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-11
Shooting Stars.

Some of the German astronomers who
have made the phenomena of shooting
stars speciality IN their Investigations,
conclude that the celestial spaces are, in
fact, traversed in every direction by an
immense number of comets, comprising
two kinds, VIZ, those which move in the
same course as the planets, direct, and
those equally numerous that move in
the opposite direction, or retrograde.
Admitting then, the results of observa-
ton in respect to the direction of TIE
shooting, the following facts are sup
posed to be deducible: First, that there
are streams or currents of shooting stars
having for their duty to produce move.
ment in celestial bodies-these streams
corresponding to that being dependent
on comets of the first or direct order;
and secondly, streams of shooting stars
corresponding to comets of the second
order, and having for their special
function the moderation of this move
ment and transformation of the force Of
rotation and propulsion into heat.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-11

much more common than snow IN dog
days"
"Hoy long would. yoa have waited
for me Z" whispered Joe In Dora's ear.
Forever" said Dora, solemnly.
And Mrs. Prudence Hall, as she over
heard the word, thanked her stars that
Doraia foolish notions had not wrecked
her at asst on poverty-stricken mar.
rage
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-11
POtatOe Cultivation.

The potatoe was discussed at a meet
ing of the Central New York Farmers
Club. The facts developed In the ex-
perience Of farmers present were that
though soil and season unoues-
tionably have much to do with
the favor of potatoes, the late potatoes
retain their flavor over winter and into
spring better than early sorts. Profess
sor Roberts found that under the same
conditions, small potatoes for seed gave
the poorest result, the middle part of
large potatoes next, the seed potatoes
next, and the seed end the best A
whole large potato with single eve Is
the best possible seed. More work is
needed, but a better crop secured bv
cultivating in rows or drilling. rather
than in hills.
IT IS learned from private report
that on the southern seaboard of the
Chinese province of Kwantung are found
wild silkworms which feed on the cam
phor tree, and whose silk is utilized in a
singular manner. When full grown. the
caterpillar is cut open and the silk ex.
tracted in form much resembling cat
gut. This substance is subjected to q
hardening process and made into fish.
lines,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-11
aow SAD IT WAS.

how SAD IT WAS.
Softly crept the old man nigh,
90! how mad he was.
Anger flashing in his eye
o, o! how mad he was.
Slowly drawing back one foot,
He elevated that galoot
Up the chimney 'mongst the SCOT
o, OF how mad he was.
Then oh how that girl did sigh;
0,OI how sad she was:
Declared vehemently she'd die,
o, o. how sad she was.
Then tenderly she was led
Ey her mamma up stairs to bed
Where hot tears alone she shed,
And o. OIL how sad she was.
Street Sinder of Hartford.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-11
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.


HOW SWEET II WAS.
He and she sat close together,
o, OF how sweet it Wasl
One cold night Of wintry weather.
0, o. how sweet it was!
Up the chimney roared the fire,
And he drew his chair still higher,
With glance Of fond desire
0, o how sweet it was!
She was winsome in her beauty,
0, o! how sweet it was!
And he blushed in modest duty
o, o! how sweet it was!
With tinid sort OF haste
And q beating heart he placed
One long arm around her waist
o, Of how sweet it vast
: Hntrk-Rge.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-11
Miss COutts and Mario

Celia Logan writes Of the Baroness
Burdett- Coutts as follows to the Cincin-
natl Times:
81 remember perfectly bow Miss
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-11
THE MARKETS.

AT THOROUGHLY chemical girl-Sal Soda
-sodinm-Ynm.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-11

IRVINE, KY, has kept its kangman's
gallows standing for twenty-one years.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
Kane's CApers.

John Kane, an explorer of beer
saloons, and not Of unknown regions
like the illustrious doctor Of the same
name, lost bis bearings night before
last, and did not kaow a barber-pole
from the North pole. He was locked
up, and released on his premise TO leave
the city, bat his compass was badly
out of repair before nightfall. The
needle invariably pointed toward tho
nearest ~grog-shOp, and his old hulk
was padded in the direction indicated.
He was again arrested, and amused
himself while his name was being
taken by slapping the officers face.
His fine was fixed at $25 and his bail
at $3.50. He will work it out, &c he
has no money.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15

Shirts
Made to order.
Loeb h Nook, 235 Main. ST
S. L. Moore & Co. have opened out
a complete stock of toys at corner
Hernando and Vance. 90
DR.. I. f. Lindle, ex-Mayor Of Hot
Springs, is in the city en- route to the
great exposition at Atlanta.
Be sure and see the new skeleton
waists with patent buttons to attach
to the stockings. Louis Lange's. 9lf
The wife of Mr.. George Mallory,
and sister of Esquire j. M. Coleman,
died at Raleigh at 5 o'clock this morn
ing.
Mrs. Meredith Yates died at heI
residence on Washington street last
night. The lady was reared in this
city and had a wide circle Of ac-
quaintances.
Last evening at 9 o'clock, the Rev.
7. ]. Rowan officiating, at'the Central
Baptist church Miss Katie Fealey was
united in marriage to Mr.. Newton
S. Jones.
On Saturday next MIR. j. Winter
one ofthe clerks at the Peabody, is tC
take his departure for Santa Barbara
CAL, where he expects to engage in
stock raising.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15

Of bird within the city limits lays the
killer liable to a fine of FIVE to fifty
dollars.
Our cotton receipts to-day we're
2133 bales; total for the present season
234,O74 bales, aud 1896 short Of last
yeara this date.
The upper end of the Ohio rose from
three to four feet yesterday, and more
coal is coming South. Fuel will prob.
ably be plentiful and cheap.
The cotton market is dull and
spiritless to-day, without variation in
quotations from yesterdays figures.
There has been no change in prices
here for the past nine days.
To discharge any irearm within the
city limits, unless in self defense or
while executing some law, is a misde-
meanor which subjects the perpetrat-
or to a fine Of from fveto City dollars.
Target shooters about the suburbs
should take warning and quit it. I.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15

One Of the greatest attractions for
the coming festivities will be the
grand rattle for a library, which takes
place at Flynn & Clarke's saloon, on
Saturday, the 24th, christmas eve).
The books are all new and elegantly
gotten up, and take in Yearly all the
standard writings, such as Byron,
Burns, Moore, Scott, Lever, Dickens,
Shakespeare, History of the Irish Race,
Prose and Poetry Of ireland, and some
religious works. This is as complete
a little library as a person would wish
to see. Everything will be conducted
on the square. Tickets arc Soc, and
are limited to 200.
Notice-All persons having tickets
for sale will please hand proceeds to
Flynn & Clarke, IA Adams street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
n, a. THOMs,
FUNERAL UNDERTAKES,
Cor. Adams and second SIS. lol



An injunction was granted by Judge
Eldridge yesterday on behalf of vari-
ouS citizens residing along fernando
street and Mississippi avenue, between
Beale and Georgia streets, against the
Street Railway Company, to prevent
them from removing the railroad iron
on that route. The cars formerly
running out that course have been
transferred to the Beale and Lauder
dale street line, turning now into
Mississippi avenue en- the old course
to Elmwood beyond Georgia street
and opposite the residence Of
Colonel Looney. The road
out that way is said to have been
bnilt mainly or in part by subscription
of citizens and property owners living
near it, and these do not appreciate
the change. Last year, under bungling
management, wretched rolling stock,
lean mules and horrid roadways, pco-
pie became indifferent about whether
or not the route was maintained. Re-
Gently, spry, fat animals, cleaner cars,
any a prospective Improvement in the
roadway has tended to make it more
popular, aud yesterday morning when
several dozen people out there had to
trudgc1 up town in the rain and mud
they got mad. Legal proceedings to-
ward obtaining the injunction had
been in progress for several days. The
road managers had a force working by
torch light for a couple Of nights,
taking up and removing the iron, but
the road bed is still intact. The
most of the iron is piled up along the
way, ready to be hauled off if the in.
junction is dissolved. Mr.. Dowdy, it
is said, is at the head of the injunction
movement, he having been a sub
scriber, but he has the aid and sym
pathy of many others, and they claim
that the road will be compelled to
relay and improve the track and run
cars every fifteen minutes. A point
in favor Of the eDjoiners is said to be
that a hundred thousand dollars
worth Of bonds have been issued,
based upon the several lines of road
way as a portion Of the property, and
that any removal or change Of course
is illegal, if the bondholders desire to
make an objection. The case has been
fixed for argument on a dissolution Of
the injunction next Saturday.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
PUBLIC LEDGER
Q GEHT8 Pc 3 WE Z.



Shelled almonds. Lyle & Shields.
Oysters every style. Crystal Palace
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 2e2
Main street.
Experienced milliner wanted at 402
and 404 Main street.
Children are happy when they buy
at Williams bookstore.
A full line Of plain and fancy can
dies at Lyle & Shields.
Boone's hickory lyes hominy, very
fine, at S, l.. Moore & Co.
Steve Clements receives the famous
Arrow brand oysters every day.
Eden, pine apple, full cream aud Y.
A. cheese at Lyle & Shields.
Temperature this morning early
was 81, exactly the freezing line.
Ask your grocer or butcher for Z.
Is. Mallory d Co.'s famous Arrow
brand.
Professor Saxby's grand hop Friday
night at Cochran Hall. Extra fine
music in attendance.
Mansford has the largest line Of
gents dressing cases in the city. Call
and examine the assortment.
Large display Of toys and fancy
goods at S. l.. Moore & Co., corner
fernando and Vance.
Prairie hay, Tennessee lime and
,edar posts, in car lots. Also 10000
sacks, very low. Ike A. Chase.
Parties who ta,e not paid State End
taxes ~ year 1891, sill bud
bills for a fw iays in Sbciifs
killingppauogs or any ether kind
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15

Torrance, but if Mrs. Langtry can
play other parts as we'll as she does
Lively Young Widows" she would,
were she to adopt the stage as a pro-
fession, be a fortune to any theatre if
she we're brought out by a manager to
fill a great understanding 10 the
we'll known phraseology of pro-
spectuses. 1t is far more easy to find
actresses who can rampage in tragedy
than who are able to act in comedy as
though to the manner born. This
Mrs. Langtry, to judge by her debut
at T%wickenham, seems exceedingly
well able to do.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
SELLING
AT COST.
WIN. FRANK & co.
A full line of Toilet Waters
and Cologne at
j. ). Miles Drug store,
200 Main street. 72t
The Late HfOrm,


The storm night before last struck
a violent blow against the southeast
corner of the Leath Orphan Asylum,
and tore up the tin roofing, doing
damage to the extent Of three hun.
bred dollars or more. Several orphans
and a lady manager we're frightened
half out Of their wits, but they recov-
cred without serious results. Nobody
hurt.
A small! new house belonging to the
Pioneer Cotton Mills, in the lower
part Of the city, was also wrecked, the
damage being a few hundred dollars.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
ADDITIONAL COTTON.

LIVERPOOL, December 10, 1:3O pm.
Cotton steady. Uplands, 69-16d;
Orleans, 6 ll-l6d. Sales to-day,
10000 bales. Receipts, 1900 bales, all
American. Futures are steady.
New ORLEANS, December Is, 1890
a.m.--Cotton quiet. Middline, 11sc.
Sales to-day, 500 bales. Receipts,
iii bales. Stock, 3O4,724 bales.
New York, December 10, 1920 pm.
Cotton dull and nominally un-
changed. Ordinary, 9 3-l6c; good
ordinary, 10 9-l6c; low middling, II
7.l6c; middling, life; good middling,
l2ic; middling fair, 13c; fair, 1916.
Futures are dull but steady, at very
little change from last evenings clos
ing prices.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15

The late census of Japan shows a
total population Of nearly 36,0O0,0 900.
The Mikado and his family are shown
at the head of the statistics as twenty
men and seventeen women. Yeddo.
of the v%astness of which the old geog-
raphics used to tell such tales, con
tains only 957, 121 inhabitants. kioto
approaches it closely with 822,O98 and
0zaka comes next with 5S2,66S. Males
are more numerous than females in
the proportion of % per ~1,0OO-that is,
there arc 1,O28 men for every 1000
women.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
Mrs. LanEtry on tho stage,

London TRUTH
Mrs. Langtry came forward arrayed
in an unpretending pink dress, and,
with her arms full of flowers, she sat
down at a table, and then proceeding
70 act as though, instead Of this being
the first time she had ever essayed
her skill on tho stage, she had been
playing lively young widows and such
other parts to critical audiences from
her earliest childhood. Whether she
was nervous or not | do not know, but
there was not a trace Of nervousness TO
be perceived. Her elocution was singu-
larry clear, and her gestures and by.
play perfect. ! was never more sur
prised in my life. II is difficult to
Judge Of anyone from q single per-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
POPULAR ADDITIONt
CHARLEY MEYERS, IS Monroe,
has added a Restaurant
to his weI1-knOwn saloon. ut
A Crash in Stoves.

a Crash in Stoves.
Ny supply Of all kinds Of stoves is
far greater than l desire to carry, con-
sequently l have made a grand cut in
prices on all stoves. Parties con-
~templating the purchase Of such
should not fail to call and secure my
figures before placing orders else
where, as they can save a most hand
some discount. My stoves include all
the leading makes, and are warranted
to give satisfaction.
+. ]. TURNBULL,
Oil 234 Main, near Jefferson st.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15

Three Migrants we're dOcketed yes

Three vagrants were dOcketed yes
terday.
Several tramps were driven to ask
shelter at the calaboose last night.
Officers DAILY aud Brandy, Of the
sanitary force, continue to ring the
changes and the charges on filthy
citizens.
1t was rather an expensive spree Of
Jim Halliday's last night. His cali
boose bill was exactly ten dollars.
Frisky Emma Connolly must answer
for using vile language and threaten
ing to untangle a colored sisters WOOL
The Island guard took three small
sinners under his arm when he turned
his toes toward home at noon, John
Kane, Fred Hargrove and Adam Seus.
Business among the lawyers growing
dull, Attorney George Elliott got up a
little scheme of his own. He sold
some chickens to a darky named
Henry johnson, and let the darky
sneak in and steal them. johnson
made a clean breast when he was ar
rested.
An overcOat stolen from D. f.
Kinney last night, and pawned an
hour afterward, was recovered by
Captain O'Haver this forenoon.
Detective Pryde arrested Mike
Hurley this forenoon for stealing a
silver watch from Mrs. Kelly. The
watch was found in his pocket when
searched.
Il. NJ. Hunter went at it early in the
day. He was nabbed for knocking a
cousin coon in the head with a chair.
Neyy York shell OYSTERS. RIuo
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
store Burned.

The store Of J. L. Cain, at Riverton,
$50 miles to the Southwark, al de-
stroyed by fire few nights since, the
supposed work Of an incendiary. Loss
5000. Partially insured in New
Orleans companies.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
LADIEN. REAn.

Come early 20 the Goodyear
Rubber House, ID Jefferson
street. south side, between Main
and Front, If you would see the
finest lot Of rubber toys and
hard rubber jewelry ever out
side OfNew York. "a
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15

Conspicuous among the members Of
the new Kentucky Legislature is
David Meriweather, who was a Sena-
tor IN Congress in 1852 and Governor
of New Mexico during Pierce's adj
m%inistration. He also served many
years in the State Legislature, and was
twice Speaker Of the House. He is
past eighty years old.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
A Good Breakfast Necessary in
Winter.

WAltcEs
Food and Health.
The breakfast VIC take in winter
will determine our efficacy for work
in the day, and will SO influence our
whole being for the period Of time
that no after meal can correct it. The
breakfast in winter must contain
more nitrogenous food than in sum
mer it is absolutely needed. You
must store heat to furnish material
for absorption and for maintaining
vitality add to this heterogeneous food
something that will disengags beat
from the blood and keep up tempera-
ture and you may defy the coolest
day. Your face may feel it, your hands
may feel it, but your body will be
impervious to it and 90 on disengaging
that inward heat which alone can
stand against the lowered tempera-
ture without. If this first meal has
been properly attended to we may
presume that vital action can be
maintained in full force five hours at
least before it needs replenishing.