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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-20

although he has dotted his ostrich feathers and
shaggy skins and dresses in blue serge cut an"
basted by a Cape Town tailor Foreign COOK,
Ing has agreed with him so well that lie VIII
return from captivity at least fifty pounds
heavier than he was when he fought his last
battle. AT the same time he has learned TO
drink Gin in place of his native beer and to
sleep heavily after his generous potations. Yet
new clorhes. sirlon. steaks and modern liquors
have not reconciled him to exile and dethrone-
mcnt When he is told that he can go nome
he sings and dances like plantation hand on
a bender. Life is more to him than beef ana
Gin. He resumes the business of royalty at
the old stand.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-20

Even royalty may be vulgar in its triumph.
Cetewayo being informed OF his restoration to
the throne, bellows for JOY and dances break
down like a champion end-man OF the
miDstrels. Civilization has not tanned him.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-06-30
Silver jewellery.

Silver iewelry has taken, or been
given, another freak of extraordinary
eccentricity. Silver is now fashioned to
represent spiders and members of the
bug famil not only in form, but in
color, and very b ,autiful they are, if bugs
possess that Characteristic. TIE report
that devotees to fashion are wearing live
bluebottles, cockroaches and June bugs
on hats and bonnets, where they are
chained and allowed the freedom of its
surface, is considered an unreliable one,
and without any foundation. Still it is
maintained that III New York, or at least
in Spain, which is too far away to allow
us to investigate, this freak of fashion is
to be seen. If any one wishes an or.
nament of this kind there is no lack of
accommodation If skilled man with a
lasso will call upon us we will put him
on the track Of some long-leggers already
ebonized and polished. 1t may not be
easy to find a jeweler to mount him, un-
less he has ridden broncbo or a mus
tang taken wild from the plains.
Silver ornaments have taken other
forms true to nature Flowers and
leaves are formed in natural colors.
Their comparative inexpensiveness and
beauty make them favorites with many
buyers. But this kind of buying is him
dered by the weather. They appear
most fitting new suits, and, as such
suits are 10 be bright colored, these or
naments will add and be added to. Sill
yertheaded canes are in style yet, but
the newest design in canery is the cop
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-06-30
Hunting un a Pedigree.

/ live in small country parish Of 191
inhabitants, and our parish register dates
from 1880. A young American gentle
man came tony friend the Rector, and
said that it had only come to his knowl-.
edge two days previous that it was from
this village that his fathers grandfather
emigrated to America about the year
1850, and there laid the foundation for
the present wealth of his descendants.
The gentleman, with a party of fourteen,
had been fifteen months away from New
York, visiting the chief places of the
Continent. the Holy Land, Egypt, &C.,
and ending up with the principal sights
IN England and Scotland and they were
10 embark from Liverpool on the follow
ing morning. He had travelled specially
TO this little village. Would the Rector
be good enough to refer to the parish
registers, and see if his ancestors were
therein mentioned? The Rector did So
the ancestors were there found in regu-
lar descent, from the very beginning Of
the register-and the gentleman, in less
than two hours time, was set up with
pedigree dating back two and a half CEN
turtles, which he said he should have
drawn up In heraldic fashion, and which
doubtless now adorns some room in his
American home. 1t was evident that
the ancestors were of the humblest class,
as in another book mention of ''Goody"
WAS frequently made as being the
recipient of tenpenny charity. But
the surname happens to correspond with
one in the English Baronetage, and
while the Rector was transcribing the
numerous registers the American gentle
man was busy copying from Debrett the
coat of arms of the Baronet in question.
bloody hand and all. / regret to add
that the Rector never received a six
pence for his trouble, though he might
have charged heavy sum in fees but
he was restoring his church, and he left
it to the American gentleman to give
some donation for that purpose, either
in money or in the form of a stained
glass window or other memorial to his
ancestors. Notes and Queries.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-06-30

seen thy husband p asked Aunt Marcia
of Sally.
The anxious face flushed and the sad
eyes sparkled.
Aunt Marcia, / shouldn't know how
to live without Tom any way In this
mortal world |" And the clear voice
broke down as if the thought Of such .
contingency was too much.
Aunt Marcia smiled.
ct expect there is faults In all human
creatures. Male and female created
He them, though and We can't set ous
greatly to better the Lords plans. We
couldn't really get along, thee knows.
without us but 1 expect il thee could
hear them talk amongst themselves,
Miss Patty, thee would hear, quite FREE
quent, just like woman"
Miss Patty could not deny it,
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The MnIa.

This is a Mule. He feels sick. Do
not pet Mule because he feels sick, for
he may make you feel sick. The Mules
Tail is short and slim. He cannot brush
off the Flies with his Tail. His Ears
are large and long. He can brush Flies
off his Tail with his Ears. With his
Ears he can fan himself, too. His fore
Legs are quite short. His hind Legs
are ex- ceed-ing-ly long. Many NATURAL
lists have tried to measure the Length
of Mules hind Legs; but have only
sue ceed-ed in having their own Legs
measured A wise man has said "there
are some Things in Nature past finding
out" This is one of those Things. It
is safer to play with Mules Ears than
with his Tail. 1t is safer to play with
Car of Nitro Glyc- crime than either.
Dear Children, if your Pa pas have
Lots of Money, do not let them buy any
Mules with hind Legs on to celebrate
Fourth-of-July with, for Mules with
hind Legs on are apt to go off sud-de
ly, and remove Your Sweet Young Soul
from Life's pleasant Scenes. = YonEers
Gazette
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-06-30

BIZ MARaAREr xxrrEoH

Twas near the break Of day, but stn
The moon was shining brightly;
The west wind as itpassed the flowers
Set each one swaying lightly;
The sentry slow paced to and fro
faithful n1ght-wafch keeping,
While in the tents behind him stretched
His comrades-All were sleeping.
Slow TO and fro the sentry paced,
His musket on his shoulder,
But not thought Of death or war
Was with the brave young soldier.
All, mol his heart was far away
Where, on q Western prairie,
A rose-twined cottage stood. That night
The countereign was Mary
And there his own true love he saw,
Her blue eyes kindly bearning.
Above them on her sun-kissed brow,
Her curls like sunshine cleaning,
And heard her singing, as she churned
The butter In the dairy,
The song he loved the best. That night
The countersign was Mary"
"ob, for one kiss from her !" he sighed,
When, up the lone road glancing,
He spied form, a little form,
With falt'ring steps advancing.
And as it nesred him silently
He gaZed at it in wonder;
Then dropped his musket to his hand,
And challenged: Who goes yonder 2"
still on IL came. "Not one step more,
Be you man, child or fairy,
Unless you give the countersign.
Halt Who goes there7" otis Mary"
sweet voice cried, and in his arms
The girl he'd left behind him
Half fainting fell. Ger many miles
She'd brayely toiled to find him.
I" heard that you were wounded, dear"
She sobbed; "my heart was breaking;
could not stay moment, but,
All other ties for.aking,
travelled, by my grief made strong,
Kind heaven watching DER me,
Until-Uuhurt and well?" :" Yes, love.n--
At last you stood before me.
"They told me that could not pass
The lines to seek my lover
Before day fairly came; but I
Pressed on ere night was over,
And as to my name, found
The way free as our prairie.D
p" Because, thank God | to night, (" he said,
The countersign is Mary"
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went into their cellars, but there were thousands
Of country people in the city, who had come in
to see Sells circus, and they not only filed the
stores but lined the streets. The darkness did
not last long. but an opening appeared in the
clouds, and at that spot there were rapidly
changing colors Of purple, pale green and
other colors, and that seemed to be almost di-
rectly over the city. 1t was then the hurricane
commenced, and-the time Of the destruction
was not over three minutes. The scene was
one of the widest confusion and terror. Houses
were picked up and dashed to the ground. de-
molishing them as badly as were those at Grin.
nell. Roofs, boxes boards and gravel
stones were flying promiscuously through the
air. Wagons were overturned and demolished.
horses were running away and becoming en-
tangled IN the telephone wires that had been
thrown to the ground, and everything seemed
to be in chaos. There were nearly twenty-five
houses completely wrecked and more than that
number of barns, while of those that were
damaged from $50 to 300 each there were over
100 houses and as many barns. Hundreds were
unroofed, or partially so, had their windows
broken and we're damaged by falling trees.
Cellars were generally chosen BY the residents
as places of refuge, but the rural visitors took
shelter at the most convenient places. The
deaths will number four, and the damage to
property viii approximate $4,000. There
were many miraculous escapes, and the only
wonder Is that more lives were not lost The
citizens of Iowa now anxiously watch for the
appearance of the ominous black clouds.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-06-30
Shortened Life in the Human Race.

The maturity of man, calculated by
the completed condition of the skeleton,
is twenty-one years. Twenty-one years
multiplied by five-105 years-is there
fore the natural duration of the life Of
man on this estimate, and, with GER
tain natural limited range, may be &C
cepted as the true and full duration.
But when the actual value of life is
taken it is found to present, in this
country, an average of forty-two years,
so that there are grand agencies at work
which are reducing the national life to a
very low value. If the inquirer enter
further into the matter he will observe
that the grand agencies leading to this
reduced value of life must be in some
way removable, because they are not
always in action to reduce every form of
life to the same level of duration. He
will discover that the domestic animals
which surround us. if we do not
kill them outright by hard labor, ex-
posure to the viciss1tudes of the seasons
or privation, are SO much longer lived
than we are, and they exist, practically,
to their full term with as much exacti-
tude as we exist to the first of our second
stage of existence Or, to put the mat
ter in another light, he will discover
that, if our lower domestic animals were
to die in the same ratio that we die,
their duration of life, as it is now known,
would be reduced to nearly half what it
is. The dog would have an average
term of years, and other animals a
similarly term of life. Such
observations as these will lead the SAM.
tartan to find uniform object in his
labor. He will ask what is the reason
why man, who holds all the knowledge
and skill above the brute creation,
should have so little control over his
own destiny that he cannot control it in
respect to health and life as well as the
inferior creature which, compared with
himself, has neither reason nor skill.
He will wonder in vain so long as he
looks simply at the general fact. He
will not wonder at all when he proceeds
to an analysis of all the details upon
which that general fact depends.
In the first place, he will learn from
an analysis of the data he may collect
that man is the subject of many more
diseases than the inferior animals are;
that he suffers from certain diseases of
the mind incidental to his possession of
mental organization superior altogeth-
er to theirs, and from which diseases
they are exempt that he suffers from
some diseases springing from human
vices, from which the lower animals are
also exempt; that he suffers from con-
tagious diseases from which they are
exempt; that he suffers from diseases
connected with the industrial pursuits
from which they are exempt; that he
suffers from indulgences in certain lux
uries of deadly kind from which they
are exempt; that he suffers from various
accidents from which they are exempt
that he suffers from hereditary taints of
disease from which they are exempt
Our Homes.
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ones. If food is carelessly prepared no
one expects Providence to make it paIat-
able; neither if, through years of folly,
you misguide your own life, need you
expect divine interference to bring
around everything at last for the best.
/ tell you, positively, the world is not
so constituted. The consequences of
great mistakes are just as sure as those
of small ones, and the happiness of your
whole life and of all the lives over which
you have power, depends as literally on
your common sense and discretion as
the excellence and order of day."
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-06-30
RECIPES AND HINTS.

TO FREsHEN CRAcKERs. Crackers
that are not fresh can be made to appear
so by putting them into hot oven for q
short time. Watch them carefully, as a
minute too long viii serve to brown and
spoil them.
MOCK OYSTERS. -Grate as many ears
of green corn as will make pint Of
pulp; add teacup of -four, half a tea
cup of butter, one egg well beaten, pep
per and salt to taste. Drop by spoon
fuls on hot griddle and fry in butter.
LETTUCE SALAD.-Break the leaves
from large head of lettuce, wash each
separately and lay for an hour in cold
water. Drain through a wire basket,
cut the leaves with sharp knife and
mix with them the following dressing :
In plate put saltspoon of salt, half a
saltspoon of pepper and mix with a
tablespoonful of oil when mixed add
two more tablespoons of oil and one of
vinegar pour this over the lettuce and
serve.
MoLEs, says an NJ. D., who has tried
it repeatedly, may be removed by the
following method: Seat the patient in
clear, strong sunlight. With a sun
glass, costing from $3.50 to So, bring
the concentrated rays of the sun to bear
on the excrescence five or ten minutes.
In three or four weeks the mole will
scab off and a new skin come on. II
the mole should not be entirely req owed
by the first application, repeat. No
scar will be left.
BURLAP MATS. The american Guilt
GATOR says handsome and inexpensive
mat for the floor may be made of burlap
worked in cross stitch, with different-col-
ored worsteds. Use for it the odds and
ends left from other fancy work. Work
few stitches of one color and then of
another. just as the colors happen to
come, and the effect is that of Persian
pattern. If one cares to spend so much
time on it, a center piece and border add
much to the beauty of it. The mat may
be lined with piece of carpet, or with
mating or new ticking, and the edge
finished with worsted fringe or with fan
mel cut in scallops. .ab
MILK and coffee stains in wooden and
mixed fabrics may be thus removed {:
Moisten the spots with a brush dipped
in mixture Of one part glycerine, nine
parts water and one half part aqua-am
monia. Let it remain twelve hours, oc-
casionally renewing the moistening.
Then press between cloth and rub with
clean rag. Cry the mixture on a
piece of the garment first, and if it hurts
the color, omit the ammonia Silk gar
ments should be thus moistened six or
eight hours only. Then rub with clean
cloth and remove the remaining sub
stance with knife. Brush with clean
water and dry between cloths. A thin
solution of gum arabic, and warm iron
applied OK the wrong side will restore
finish. american.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-06-30

John Ruskin gives the following ad-
vice to young ladies: In order to in
vestigate oneself, it is well to find out
what one is now. Don't think vaguely
about it. Take pen and paper and write
down as accurate description of your
self as is possible, and if you dare not,
find out why you dare not, and try and
get strength of heart to look yourself in
the face, mind as well as body. Always
have two mirrors on your dressing table,
and with proper care dress mind and
body at the same time. Put your best
intelligence to finding out what you
are good for and what you can be made
into The mere resolve not to be use
less and the honest desire to help other
people will, in the quickest and most
delicate way, improve oneself. All &C
complishments should be considered as
means of assisting others. In music
get the voice disciplined and clear, and
think only of accuracy; expression and
effect will take care of themselves. So
in drawing learn to set down the right
shape of anything, and thereby explain
its character to another person but, if
you try only to make snowy drawings
Tor praise, or pretty ones for amuse-
ment, your drawing will have little or no
real interest for you and no educational
power.
Resolve to do each day something
useful in the vulgar sense. Learn the
economy of the kitchen. the good AID
bad qualities of every common article of
food, and the simplest and best modes
Of their preparation; help poor families
III their cooking, show them how to make
as much of everything as possible, and
how to make little niceties; coaxing and
tempting them into tidy and pretty ways,
and pleading for well-folded table-cloths,
however coarse, and for flower or two
out of the garden to strew on them.
One should, at the end of every day. be
able to say, as proudly as any peasant,
that she has not eaten the bread of
idleness. Get quit of the absurd idea
that Heaven will interfere to correct
great errors, while allowing its laws to
take their own course in Furnishing small
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-06-30
Another Iowa Cyclone.

Independence, Iowa, was visited by devas-
tating hurricane on the afternoon of June Al.
The day had been most oppressive one. At
$50 p. m. rain began to fall the wind at that
time blowing briskly from the southwest. In .
few minutes another current seemed to come
from the northwest, and they met near INDIE
pendense. Suddenly it grew dark. and the people
we're Wild with fright. The citizens nearly ell
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-06-30
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.


ia 1LVWCe
o, my love is tall and slender,
Full Of grace is she;
She's capricious, proud or tender,
As her mood may be.
0, her voice is like the merry
Ripple Of q stream;
And her face it has the very
Sweetness OF dream.
Sunlight in her hair reposes,
And her eyes are gray;
Born in June as are the roses,
She's as fair as they.
Shall I ever dare to WOO her,
So unworthy IL
If I give my heart unto her,
Win she pass it by7
Little, dainty, fragrant blossom,
Be my messenger;
When you lie upon her bosom,
Plead my cause with her.
Birds, o sing it sweet above her,
Breezes, kiss her cheek;
Tel my darling how / love her,
For ! dare not speak,
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per-headed and those headed with an
Gent ivory, or ivory stained to appear
as old as that earried by Glaucus IF he
carried one) IN the streets of Pompeii.
on that ash day fatal to him, in the year
70. One Of the larger manufacturers of
silver and other ware is now produc--
ing elegant punch bowls and tea-pots in
copper Providence Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-06-30
No GROUNDS for Divorce.

80
A woman who seemed to be- full of
confidence in her cause halted pedes-
trian with whom she had slight ac-
quaintance, on Congress street, and
asked him if he knew anything about
the law of divorce, and added that her
husband had threatened to file a bill to
procure one from her.
care you miid-tempered ?" asked the
gentleman.
Mild as grass" she replied.
Have you ever dubbed him-thrown
tea pots-wayed the butcher-knife-
lugged the ak around or made threats ?"
sNever."
"Have you Geld feet?"
"No."
"Do you drink or swear?"
Neither one."
"Do you try to make home happy 2"
edo"
edo you seek to boss him ?"
"Not at all.
Are you choice of your company and
economical with his money!"
81 am"
"Did you ever maliciously annoy
him ?"
"I never did,"
"Did you ever talk against him to the
neighbors?"
"Never."
"Well, while am not lawyer and
therefore not posted, don't see how he
is to secure divorce from you.
"That's just what / say He can't
do it He may scold and threaten and
tell what he's going to do, but he can't
do nothing I'm glad met you, for
you've lifted great load off my mind,
and if William comes storming around
again tonight as he did last night, II
give him another choking! If hadn't
been able to handle him he'd have made
my life miserable for a whole ten years
past "-Detroit Free Press.
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THE census of agriculture shows that
there are 539, 900, 600 acres in farms and
287, 000 900 acres of improved land in
the United States. The value of tbs
farms amounts to SO, 1877, 161, 900, or
five times the national debt. The value
of farm animals is 81, 800, 000, 900. There
are 10, 357, 900 houses in the country, OF
one to every five human beings.
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The Gear likes to go to church, and is
particularly fond of all the chants but
one. which is the chants of being sud-
denly blown up with dynamite con-
cealed in bis hymn book.
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1T takes girl about four hours longer
to wash the front windows of house
than the back windows. @ go