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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
CeteWayO's Return to His Native
land.

The Cape Town correspondent of The
Cetewayo from the steamer Nubian, says
there was no enthusiasm, no cheering, nor
other recognition, and the king appeared
rather Respondent "He left the ship with
his followers and landed amid the most chill
ing silence from the few score people whose
curiosity led them to await his coming. He
was dressed in fashionably cut double
breasted frock coat, wore a Lincoln & Ben
nett of the severest gloss, and bore in his
hand silver-tipped walking cane, evidently
one of the many presents made to him In
England Carriages were IN waiting, and en-
tering the foremost with his interpreter Mr.
Dunn, and accompanied by Mr.. Lester, he
drove to Government house, his counselOrs
followed in a second carriage. Scarcely any
notice was taken Of him, and he seemed TO
feel that when embarking as a prisoner of
war, escorted by cavalry and cheered by an
enthusiastic crowd, he was apparently of
more moment than when, as king he once
more nut foot on his native soil.
Getting Ready for the Millennium
Youths Companion.
An important convention meets this year at
DIuSse1S Ill D6lSluu. LII assemblies IN re-
Spouse to call of the international Arbitra-
ton and Peace association" which has its Of
fee at 80 Parliament street, London, but
which has members in every civilized country,
and well-wisher in every civilized man that
that walks he earth
The American members number thirty-four
atpresent among whom are Nathan Appleton,
of Boston, Col T. W. Higginson, of Cam
bridge, David Dudley Field, of New York,
Senator Mitchell, of Pennsylvania.
One man in ten in Europe is a soldier, sup
ported in wearisome and demoralizing idleness
by the toll of the rest One woman in every
ten in Europe works in the fields, digs, hoes,
bitches, ploughs, sweeps the streets, carries
refuse on her back, strikes with the sledge-
hammer, draws heavy loads. About five mill
ion of men are under arms, and about five
millions of women are doing the work of these
men in shop and field
The object the association is to get these
men dismissed and sent home, and those
women released from the toll which unsexes
them 1t aims to substitute arbitration for
war, and thus to render armies and navies
useless. 1t proposes to deliver Industrial
Europe from the weight of taxation which has
become wcll-nigh unsupportable making life
one long, despairing struggle for the barest
means of prolonging life.
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Langtry,s Beauty Analyzed.

A woman it is who thus relentlessly, in
letter f.om New York to The Cincinnati En-
quirer, dissects the beauty of Mrs Langtry;
am not going to harp much on the played
out string of Langtry, and will simply say
that those who were reasonable in their ex-
pectations found her satisfactory; but those
who looked for a transcendent beauty were
wholly disappointed I counted five women
in the audience who, beyond all question,
were great deal nearer to perfection than
this princes darling The chief charm was
a ladylike aspect and manner, quite out of
keeping with the part she was acting in the
play And it was observable that when she
did unrehearsed things las in picking up the
dumped flowers from basket handed to her
while in front of the curtain, and leading out
her reluctant manager) she was even more
graceful and free than when she was following
instructions as Hester Grazebrook 1t was
easy to comprehend how, with the prince of
Wales to push her, she had made such head
way in London aristocratic society. She has
grown thin since the familiar portrait, exposing
taper arms and homeless bosom, were
made and she made no exhibition of those
things, nor is she likely to during her Amer
lean tour. She is large olnted woman, with
big hands, and her elbows are larger than the
parts of her arms between them and the
shoulders, as was plainly disclosed by the
tight sleeves of her costumes No, she will
bare no such arms as she now possesses, be-
heve me. Only one of her dresses was low,
and that exposed only wedge of skin down
the center of her breast This garment was
OF rich, warm toned yellow satin, simple in
style, and fitting perfectly. The waist was
heart shaped; coming low down on the should
ers and beneath the frili &C point lace. which
circumscrbed the feshy area to the narrow
hmsts already described, -vas only piece of
lightly twisted satin following its outlines.
The corsage simply carried the line
below the waist and ended in small points.
The sleeves reached below the elbow, with
piece of the satin carried round the edge and
asttlepuff of white silk edged with lace in each,
tying it to the arm. The front of the skirt was
lightly caught here and there, making
careless drapery The train was long, and its
beauty left to depend on its own color and
folds. In all of her dressing she was careful
to show the outlines of her waist which is
slender, and to my mind, rather out of pro-
portion with her broad shoulders and ample
hips. The idea suggested by her figure was
not of feshy roundness in the two wide parts
mentioned. but Of big-boned frame not
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Thrilling Incident in q BOwery
Theatre.
New York Times.

New York lines.
The gallery gods have been impatienty
waiting all through the entertainment
for the performance which comes next
upon the programme 1t is "the exhibition of
the largest grizzly bear ever captured, which
will be put through stage performance by
Texas Bill, the only survivor of the seven
trappers who attacked the animal" The stage
manager comes to the front and says that if
the audience are afraid to have the bear
brought upon the stage the performance will
be omitted He is interrupted by Texas Bill
who remarks that "no bar ever got the best O.
me yet, and no bar'll ever git off'n this stage
while I'm here to stop him" Texas Bill is
dressed in the approved style of the trapper
in dime novel, with fringed leggings and
leather shirt and the gods hang breathless
upon the backs of the seats as he goes to fetch
the grizzly The clerks in the front row look
somewhat nervous, and the countryman
seems to think that it would be very easy
the stage into hia proscenium box
Soon great scuffing is heard be-
hind the scenes, and Texas Bill backs partly
out from the wings, and the end of stout
rope is seen in his hands, but he vainly tries
to pull his pet grizzly upon the stage after
him. He braces himself, and tugs, and pulls,
and perspires %Prod him with that pitch
fork" he cries to an unseen assistant The
assistant evidently does as he is bid, for Texas
Bill is suddenly ierked from his. feet, and
dragged out of sight-struggHng, swearing
and grasping systematically at the floor. The
audience starts breathlessly from their seats,
expecting to hear Texas Bills bones crunch
ing in the grizzly's jaws, and not sound is
heard in the theatre until he again backs by
degrees, from the wings, still hanging to the
rope. A long struggle follows, and the trainer
all but pulls the sullen beast into view, only
to be stopped again; again to tug and per-
spire, and finally to be once more jelked
ANONYMOUSLY from his feet and dragged out
of sight as before But Texas Bill will not
give up. He makes third attempt, and.
after long and exciting struggle, drags out
to the view of the expectant and braathless
audience kitten.
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smoothly filed out This impression was
strengthened by the visible action OF her
shoulder blades under the thin covering and
above the top of her corsets, as well as by the
meagerness of her bosom fancied that she
was about seven-eighths bone, and when she
smiled with her extensive mouth and white
teeth, the unpleasing thought came to me that
she was exposing the whole front of her
skull, which might at any moment drop out,
leaving her head shapeless mass of hair and
skin Having expressed that horrid idea
must not fail to do the woman justice by say
ing that, as an entirety she is about as whole
some, healthy, clean-iooking creature as one
would wish to see. She walked
with stride that indicated a sturdy
pedestrian, and altogether, she had more out
door breeziness than one would expect in a
dainty, drawing room pet Langtry was a
focus for every glass In the house instantly
on her appearance, and when she made her
first exit there arose such babal of COM
ment that the other actors could not be heard
at all She bore the ordeal without tremor
have no doubt she liked it.
SShe talks about her personal charms with
the utmost freedom, said a journalist who
had interviewed her several times.
well, suppose you gentlemen of the press
bored her until she talked as means of get
ting rid of you quickly" remarked
Bored heri" he retorted well, that's
funny. There wasn't a reporter who went
down the bay to meet her, and wrote her up
for his paper, who wasn't importuned to call
on her at her hotel And if he did it, and
wrote something more than his managing
editor deemed worth publishing, then he soon
got little note begging him to call again.
Bored by reporters? Please permit me to
laugh"
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Waiter Girls i'm Germany.

Nasty writes thus of Germany: 1t
is astonishing how alike everything is the
world over. In these beer halls the waiter
girls who have plump, shapely arms wear
short sleeves, while those whose arms are very
thin and not at all shapely wear long sleeves,
holding that short sleeves are immodest
This conversation probably occurs between
girls of the two types, the plump and the
scraggy:
@You are entirely right. Bertha darling:
short sleeves may he immodest. On snch
arms as yours, my dear love, they would be
positively indecent"
And then they wouldn't kiss each other, and
move off as on a campaign against incoming
thirst But Pauline, the plump, would laugh
a saucy laugh and Bertha, the skinny, would
assume very sour look. Likewise those
who are to plain to attract the attention Of
customers are very severe upon flirting and
have no hesitation in asserting that the pretty
ones are bold, pert things 1t makes but little
difference in what country people are born
they are sons and daughters of Adam and Eve,
and Adam and Eve runs through them all
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08

Detroit Free Press


dozen years ago farmer came into De.
troit with a load Of potatoes and sold them ia
grocer. A dispute arose as to the quantity.
The farmer felt himself cheated out of two
bushels and he left the grocer with black
eye. The grocer was man who meant to
keep even with all men. He therefore took
his affidavit to whip that agricultural toiler
within an inch of life, and the longer he
waited the madden he got At the end of
month, seeing no prospect of catching the
farmer in town, the grocer procured q horse
and buggy and drove out to the farm to have
it out When within three miles of the place
he encountered man on the highway and in
CURED
Scan you tell me where old Silver lves?"
9Yes; going to buy cattle of him?"
his boot-!"
Il guess not! I'm old Stiver's son and you've
got to whip me first!"
Inc grocer jumped out and battle re-
suited He polished the son OF, but it was a
nght squeeze. He had not gone half mile
When man who was husking corn near the
fence hailed him with:
did you have fight down there?"
@Who whipped?"
Il did"
well, that was my brother Won were fight
too!s 0''-' ''''ii nv
A second fight took place, and proved a
Draw. The grocer was somewhat DISCOURAGED
having several loose teeth and a nose as b;9
as his wrist, but he drove on to the neat
house A strapping fellow about q years
old was cutting wood at the gate. and he
grocer drew up and asked:
How far is it to Shver's?"
switch Stiver?"
&Why, the old liar Stiver's.S
stranger, the man who speaks that wav of
my old dad has got to be pounded" remarked
the chopper, and third fight was soon on the
boards. This time the grocer had his fill. and
after brushing the grass out of his hair. he
asked:
slow far is it to Mr.. John Stivers?"
1.-TWO miles"
&One more question. I've met and fought
with three of his sons Is there another living
between here and the old man's?"
Another? Why, there are three, and be-
sides there are two single ones at home who
could turn you wrong-side out in twenty sec
onds!"
The grocer drove slowly back to the city
and went to bed for week. His mistake was
in not waiting to catch the old man home some
time when all the boys were off fishing.
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LUXURY AND POVERTY.
Luxury Destroys Not, Nor Does Pow.
erty Take the Pith ont Of Wen.

In an article discussing the statement that
luxury creates results in effeminacy and
leads to the destruction of nations, castles and
FAMILIES, The London Spectator says: There
Is scarcely any truth in that assertion, perhaps
none at all The western Jews, who for gen
erauons have sought in personal luxury indem-
mhcatlon for their humiliations, are as strong,
as active, as healthy, as ever they were. and
decidedly brighter than they were in Pales-
une The patrician caste of Germany, which
1or years has enjoyed all the luxury obtainable
In not very fertile land, is still caste of
vicious soldiers, quite able to hold its own
and take away other peoples The Brahmins
are the brightest of Indians All that the world
can give of luxury-often of luxury carried to
insane lengths-has been given to the royal
caste OF Europe for 60 years on end, and the
representatives of that caste include to-day
many OF the stateliest men in Europe, and
would make most formidable troop of dra-
goons, While intellectually they are quite on a
par with any, except the statesmen. authors
and men OF sclence, who are the picked men
out OF millions. And this is true. though in a
royal caste the women as wellas the men have
hVed Tapped III luxury and although inces-
SAINT lnter-marriage continued for centuries
should have exaggerated and intensified ev-
cry weakness in the estate, the most com
petent politicians among the English peers
come from the old, not the new, famihes-e G.,
Earl Russell, Lord Salisbury, two Lords Derby,
Lord Roseberry-that is, from families cod
died and comforted and projected by wealth
for 2O0 years at least in a way that would have
driven Latimer to despair. On the other hand,
the advocates of the theory dear to so many
economists, and necessarily, taught by writer's
like Oliver Wendell Holmes, that persistent
poverty takes the pith out of men; that men
born 'on the thin streak are thin, have just as
little to say for themselves. The Islesmen of
Scotland are not weak, the Pomeranians are
not feeble, and the Arab of the desert is worth
three as man of the Arab from the fat land
OF Egypt. Mental and moral causes operate
far more on races than physical causes at
least If by them we mean the effects either of
continuous plenty or of poverty lasting long.
Let US be content to know that prosperous
people is happier people and usually more
quiet people than an impoverished one, and
not dream that because we take off a tax for
gerry will decrease, or that theft can be extin-
guished by bumper harvest Mems conduct
is governed good deal more by their ideas
than by their wants, and though poor popu-
lation may be population of thieves, it may
also be population in which theft is I'M
known"
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The GirIy Girl.

The girly girl, says The Philadelphia Prog
ress, is the truest girl She is what she
seems and not a sham and pretense. The
slangy girl has hard job of it not to forget
her character. The boy girl and the rapid
girl are likewise wearers of masks. The girly
girls never bothers about woman rights and
woman wrongs. She is a girl, and is glad of
it. She would not be a boy and grow up into
a man and vote and go away to war and PM
zle her brain about stocks for kingdom. She
knows nothing about business, and does rot
want to know anything about it Her aim is
to marry some good fellow and make him a
good wife, and she generally succeeds in doing
both. She delights in dress and everything
that is pretty and is not ashamed to own that
she does. She is pleased when she is admired,
and lets you see that she is. She is feminine
from the top of her head to the end of her toes,
and if you try to draw her into the discussion
of dry themes she tells you squarely that the
conversation does not suit her. She is the
p9rsonifcation of frankness. There is not o
particle of humbug in her composition. Here
is health to the girly girl! May her numbers
never GROW less
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
Newspaners in schools.

At teachers meeting in Pennsylvania the
other day, Superintendent Luckey, of the
Pittsburg public schools, opposed the use of
the spelling book. When word stood by it
self it was dead, he said; when put into a SEN
tence it had life; and a spelling book generally
did more harm than good. He ridiculed the
popular method Of teaching elOcution, and de-
clared that pupils could deliver the speeches
of Webster, Calhoun and Clay finely, but when
diligently lie advocated the reading of
newspapers in schools, and stated that the
Pittsburg public schools the geography was
only book of reference, the daily papers be-
ing the means by which geography was
taught Scholars thus associated places and
events readily, and were not likely to forget
either
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GrumbIers Outwitted.

A well-known organ manufacturer at Brat
heboro, vt, who employs women in his fac
tory, found certain of his workmen complain.
ing that women had neither the strength mol
skill for the duties assigned them. They
pointed to the organs into which women's
work had gone, and declared that they were
failures; that any skilled ear could detect in
ferior workmanship, e The grumbling
continued for months; al nally the mall
contents went to the deacon counting room
and declared that they would no longer be en-
ployed in factory where such frauds upon
the public were permitted At this the good
Baptist brother became righteously indignant,
and hurled at them bewildering rejoinder in
words like these: @You will be paid off, and
you may leave as soon as you like, While you
were out l carefully selected the pieces of ma
chinery made by the women and placed them
on your work benches, putting your work upon
those of the women. The organs you have
praised contained the women's work, while
those you have declared unfit to sell contain
VOur own
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
Better Health for Girls and Women.

James R. Chadwick in N e. Review.
Thus far only mental training has been con-
sidered, but the physical powers need devel-
opment as well Girls should have. hours
when they are expected to run, jump, swing,
play ball and engage in other active games, to
shout and laugh, for by all such exercise the
muscles are developed and strengthened, the
blood is made to circulate freely and the lungs
are fully inflated, SO that full supply of oxy-
gen is obtained and the effete carbonic acid
expelled.
How are these principles to be applied to
secure better health for our girls and women?
In place of directing their efforts promis-
cuously to the study of music and drawing
to the acquisition of a smattering of several
foreign languages, of history and poetry; in
place of allowing or even encouraging them to
make playthings of the natural affections by
lndulging III indiscriminate hirtations in place
of taking them from all serious studies or pur-
suits at the age of seventeen, and tossingthem
into the vortex of society life, where their am
bition shall be to excel in dancing or to attract
the largest circle of admirers, with the
sole Interior object of securing q
husband; in place of all these prac-
tees, which tend to develop
the emotions only, let us subject
their minds, from the earliest childhood to
full womanhood, to a systematic course of
physical and mental exercise; let US store
their minds with useful information; let us
disclose to them the enhancing interest of
nature and natures laws; and finally, let us
open, as an end and motive for their efforts
the same fields of labor, with the prospects of
reward, as are now open for men, When we
have done all this, we shall have made real
advance toward securing for them the great
est boon of this ife-a healthy mind in q
healthy body.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
The Dead Man on Lookout.

M. Quad in Detroit Free Press.
A Confederate captain told me that he made
Wilmington one night in a terrible snowstorm,
and the night was SO bitterly cold that all
his crew were frost-bitten. He got into the
harbOr without sighting blockader, but there
in the channel was a Federal gunboat at an
Choir. She could not be passed to port, and
on the starboard side the distance from her
rail to the beach was scarcely hundred feet
The Confederate had a.light draught steamer,
and he edged up at quarter speed to squeeze
through. He passed the gunbOat within
twelve feet, and as he passed he saw lookout
with his arms on the rail looking square at
him. TIE Confederate expected an alarm,
but it did nol come. His craft crept forward
like snail, one of her paddle-wheels almost
on the beach, and by and by was out Of sight
and safe in harbOr. As was afterward learned
in Wilmington, the lookout who seemed to be
gazing with wide-open eyes was dead man
frozen to death at his post of duty.
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Can't Hold a Candle.

st. Louis Post-Dispatch interview with John
w. Norton.
%Did you see Mrs. Langtry during your
stay in New York;"
Il saw her at rehearsal She is a very
pretty woman, but there isn't matinee in
this house that isn't attended by at least 500
American girls who are much prettier than
she is. She is a tall, robust, red-cheeked
Englishwoman with large hands and large
feet, and none of that spir1tuelle beauty
which distinguishes our southern girls. She
says herself that she is amozed at the great
number of beautiful women whom she has
seen every day since her arrival in the United
States. Mrs. LangtrY has lovely complex
ion, and in her own country, I don't doubt,
passes for agreat beauty, but she can't hold
q candle to lots of our St Louis girls"
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Demorests Monthly.
1t is no wonder that Americans take natur
ally to arithmetic. We love ciphering, because
all the tables we compile reveal our great ma
tional progress. The census shows, that while
in 1870 we had 5,922,47 agriculturists, the
number increased in 1880 to 10,710,O0O In
1870 we had 2,7O7, 421 manufacturers, which
number increased in 1880 to 5,25O,OOO The
wages in our manufacturing establishments
increased from $37S. SIS, 966 in 1860, to ST.
500, coo, 600 in 1880. Then look at the vast &C
emulation Of property in this country In
1880 the wealth of England was estimated at
9,0O0,000 900, while the United States was but
little over LOCO, Co., In 1880 the figures
stood: Great Britain, 44,0OJ, 0OO, goo, the
United States, 81, SOC, ZOO These are gil
gantic sums. and represent enormous growth.
The United States to-day is the richest nation
on the globe, and its accumuations are the re-
suit, not of economy, but of wise manipulation
of the forces of nature. Vast as has been the
accumulation of our wealth, it is nothing to
what the future censuses will show, for It is
not too extravagant to hope that by 1850 the
United States will not only be the most popu-
lous nation in the world, but that its wealth
will be greater than the accumulated riches of
all EurOn4