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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
The EsalefuI Notes,

Demorests Monthly.
Science is a disillusionizer. Who would
dream that the beautiful notes which dance in
the sunlight are the cause of many diseases
which af1ict humanity This fact was brought
out at recent sanitary congress at Manches-
ter, which was attended by Professor Tyn-
dali, M. Pasteur and other eminent savants.
The most horrible contagious are often con-
veyed through a pure atmosphere by these
apparently innocent and often beautiful notes
of the sunlight, Some scientists go SO far as
to say that the human race will never live
under proper conditions until air and water
is manipulated or cooked" as is food
That is to say, our water must be distilled
to free it from all disease producing
germs, while we must live in great cities Of
glass, the air inside OF which can be cleared of
all impurities. The sweetest and most spark
ling spriug water is often full OF infectious in
fusoria, while the foulest contagious are com
municated through air that seems perfect to
the senses. The eminent sanitarians of this
congress all agree that lite could best be pro-
longed by frequent bathing, and living and
sleeping in welI-lighted and well ventilated
rooms. 1t has been found that pig that is
frequently washed increases in flesh far more
rapidly than one which is not watched at all
Therefore, OF good reader, wash not only that
you may become clean, but that you may en-
JOY better health.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
The Effects of Tobacco.
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
"A tall young woman" with new griev-
ance against cigarettes, writes to The Sanitary
Engineer, asking if excessive smoking of them
is not one of the reasons why young men are
30 short at is forlorn, F." she says, @to walk
or dance with young man that only comes
up 70 your shoulder, and there are 80 many of
them" whom she knows. She evidently does
not like to overlook" such an offense as this.
On the other hand, a clerk in the New York
dock department, who is charged with dis
obeying rule of the Office and smoking during
office hours says he has smoked since he was
II years old-he is now 5O-and smoking has
had 10 evil effect on him. On the contrary he
has always %taken delight in stud Z, !" and
while thOughtless young men have sought
amusement in theatres bathrooms, drinking
saloons, he has been trying to improve him
self in the line of his Legitimate profession"
and to store his mind with knowledge upon
general subjects" Besides, he has added
twenty years to his life in "hours stolen from
Sleep 80 that he is now, in effect, 70 years
old. All this he attributes to the patient and
conscientious use of tobacco
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08

Burdette.
Sometimes I wonder what mean man
thinks about when he goes to bed When he
turns out the light and lies down. When the
darkness closes in about him and he is alone,
and compelled to be honest with himself
And not bright thought, not a generous i'm
pulse, not manly act, not a word of blessing
not grateful look, comes to bless him again.
Not penny dropped into the outstretched
balm Of poverty, not tie balm Of allowing
word dropped into an aching heart; no sun
beam of encouragement cast Upon struggling
life; the strong right rand of fellowship
reached out to help some fallen man to his
feet-when none Of these tsIings come to him
as the @Go3 bless you" of the departed
day, how he must hate himself How he
must try to roll away from himself and sleep
on the other side of the bed When the only
victory he can think of is some mean victory,
in which he has YTOnged a neighboF. No
wonder he always sneers when he tries to
smile. How pure and fair and good all the
rest Of the world must look to him, and how
cherries and dusty ard dTeaTy must his own
path appear. Why, even one lone, isolated act
Of meanness is enough to scatter cracker
crumbs in the bed o. he average ordinary
man. and what must be he feelings Of man
whose whole life is ciEec up 10 mean acts?
When there is so muon suffering and heart
ache and misery in the world anyhow, why
should you add one pound of wickedness or
sadness to the general burden? Don't be
mean, my boy. Suffer injustice thorsand
times rather than commit it onca
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
Lincoln as a Whisky Seller.
Cincinnati Commercial.

O4AOAuAdt1 OOuIul0ICldl
Concerning the statement made in yester-
days paper that Abraham Lincoln sold whis-
ky, the fact is that when he was very young
man he kept grocery" in New Salem, Ill,
and had partner named Berry. 1t is not
questionable that a part of the stock in trade
was whisky. 1t has been denied strenuously
that Lincoln sold the whisky by the drink
1t was certainly sold in quantities to suit pur-
chasers Whether it was drank on the prem
ises, we presume depended upon the custom
OF the country. One custom to which, no
doubt, the firm of Lincoln & Berry conformed
was to give persons who patronized the store a
dram. Stephen A. Douglas once referred to
Lincoln as keeper of grog-shop, and Lin
coins reply was that when he practiced at the
whisky bar, Douglass was, as usual, on the
other side, and, perhaps, drank quite as much
as he sold 1t didn't seem that the Little
Giant had much the best of this.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
About Earthquakes.

Demorests Monthly
This continent has been visited during the
last six months with shocks of earthquake, ex-
lending from Montreal down to Valparaiso. It
was most severe, however, on the isthmus of
Panama. The people there left their shaking
houses, and lived in tents outside the city linn
its. While the quaking continued the people
slept partly clothed, so that they could run
into the streets when the shocks came. An
earthquake panic is said to be the severest or
deal human being can go through All ones
ideas of the stability of the world disappear
when the earth in which we live becomes an
apparently fluid mass, and shakes like ship
in gale. The cause of earthquakes is as
mysterious now as ever. Science has it's sur
misses, but no one theory has as yet been veri-
fed respecting these abnormal occurrences
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
New Zealand Wants Better Name.
r. n in San Fran cisco Ru11otin

New Zealanders find much matter for self
congratulation in their coincidence of size and
insularity with the mother country, and regard
themselves as another Great Britain of the
immediate future, Australia being the CONT
nent. The fiction is dear to many heart and
prophets have foretold forthcoming glory,
such as England herself might covet; but the
appelation of New Zealand is resented with
indescribable loathing, and no mans name is
held in less esteem than that of "Tesman, the
Dutchman," who just reported to the world
having seen the islands, calling them after
one of his insignificant native pancakes-Zea-
land They would and some day may have,
it South Britain, Britain of the South, Austral
Britain, Austral Albion, or some other British
suggesting title What a pity Cook did not
come here sooner! He might have called them
%Little Brtains," or British Darn-needles
from the numerous plutonic monoliths that
project from the waves like CHASTITY fingers
pointing the mariner heavenward while
treacherously intent upon sending him the
other WaY
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
MASCULINE EXTRAVAGANZA.
Elegant New York Gentlemen More
Luxurious Than Fashionable WO-
man

N
Luxurious Than Fashionable WO-
men.
Albany Journal
Men are becoming very luxurious, and their
dresslng-rooms, sitting rooms, wardrobes and
repositories for personal belongings display
tastes more costly than those of women I'm
derwear of the softest, richest knitted silk.
dozens of South American pajamas, for night
and dressing room wear, Of China crepe. soft
twilled Chinese silk, cashmere, flannel bound
with satin and embroidered, and all in the
daintiest, most delicate tints and colors. such
as ivory, pale blue, pink, buff or violet The
pajama consists of drawers and loose blouse
jacket with sailor collar. When made in ivory
they are often faced with a color and en-
broidered with ivory silk in little vine or in
the corners of collars and cuffs IF the
paJama IS IN colors it will perhaps be en-
broidered with white or have applicoues cut
out of white satin cloth or velvet erabroiderad
on The daintiest of all is an all-white paiama
OF ivory Chinese crepe or silk enriched with
hand embroidery, and these are made for the
wedding outfits of fashionable men. who will
have dozen of white, dozen of trimmed
with color and a dozen in various delicate
colors embroidered in white
These elegant gentlemen have for smoking
companions the gate of country house in
nickel or silver, with chain rings instead of
bars to hold cigars upright and side lights rep
resenting gate lamps, but holding Candles and
post pedestals to form match holders These
cost from $l50 to $3.50 and are sometimes or
namented with bird or rooster in the act of
growing Another recently imported piece of
masculine extravaganza is lamp, the lower
part of which forms tripod set in a double
hoof decorated with natural hair. There are
two burners representing wax candles under
tinted and decorated glass, and the cost for a
lamp of this kind is about $3.50 Another
lamp has for its standard a horseshoe, with
stirrnp and riding whip crossed and twisted.
AS for the expensive ash trays and liquor sets
and pipe racks and dressing cases and the like
space and time would both fail in their emu
meration
1t may be mentioned that among the per
sonal properties of one young gentleman in
New York city are three hundred and sew
enty-odd silk, satin and knitted neckties, and
upwards of fifty walking sticks The inven-
tory did not go any further or it might have
developed equally curious results in other
departments.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
He Acknowledges the Soft Impeach
ment.
Rochester Post Express.

"You mustn't touch the top of the baby's
head" said mother to her little four-year-
old; "she has soft spot there that is very
tender"
The youngster gazed at it curiously for a
moment, and then asked:
@Do all babies have soft spots on their
heads?"
Eyes"
did papa have soft spot on the top of his
head when he was baby?"
"Yes," replied the mother, with sigh, sand
he has got it yet"
And the old man who had overheard thu
conversation from an adjoining room, sang
out:
"Yes, indeed he has, my dear boy, or he
would be a single man to-day"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
Bad Air and Bad Food.
-ames R. Chadwick in N. A. Review.

James T. Chadwick In N. A. Review
Among the lower and middle classes in the
country the women often pass two or three
months of winter in a single room, heated by
an iron stove No provision is made for the
admission Of fresh air to the room, and the
wife's or daughters duties and inclinations
rarely lead her to seek it out of doors. In
this room she cooks, and washes, and scrubs,
breathing the same heated air over and over
again, which is too often loaded with car
bonic acid from the stove, and with noxious
vapors from the sink, and worse still from
the untrapped drain-pipe. Her lungs are
rarely stimulated to full expansion by @the
fresh, cold air which is circulating about the
house; her muscular system languishes from
lack of proper exercise.
To complete this sorry picture of the life
led by the women among our rural population,
and, to a less extent, among the lower and
middle classes of our larger New England
cities, glance must be cast at their diet
This could hardly be worse, and it is in my
opinion most potent and prevalent source of
Il-health We live, as some one has appro-
priately said, @in the zone of perpetual
pie and doughnuts" These &unassimil-
able denominations" together with sod
den, half-baked bread, baked beans,
happily combined cake, with an
abundance of fresh meat, con-
stitute the principal food of our lower
classes. Their drink is chiefly tea, which is
kept stepping constantly over the fire, and is
often consumed in prodgious quantities
While entirely deficient in nutritive proper
ties, this beverage stimulates the nervous svs-
tenn, intensifying the powers of sensation,
while it allays the craving for nutriment It
is my belief that tea infiicts almost as much
injury on the female sex as alcohol does on
the male To the credit of our women of all
classes, it must be said that consumption of
spirituous liquors by them is almost unknown.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
NitrO-Glycerine as a Medicine.

VOW IU1A IIIUuII0'
One of the foreign medical journals men
tons the case of a lady suffering from cramps
in the stomach, and to whom something less
than drop of one per cent alcoholic solution
of nitro -glycerine was given. In two minutes
the pulse fell from 40 to so, a clammy sweat
covered the patients features, and she became
senseless. Stimulants to the nose, and bran
dy, were quickly administered, and in about
three minutes more she began to recoverable
pain was completely gone, and did not return
all that night or the following day. While un-
question, the patient felt, as she subsequently
stated, like two persons, and so strong was
this impression that, though entirely rational
in her conversation and composed as usual in
her manner, she could not dlspossess herself
of the illusion.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
Home Literature Ahead.

In scribner's fall and winter list, of thirty
five books only two are English and two
French. The remaining thirty-one are Ameri-
can. In Appleton's list of twenty-seven there
are twenty American books and seven English.
Harper's list of thirty seven books Including
new editions, but excluding the volumes issued
in the Franklin Square library comprises one
French, two German, five English, twenty
seven American and two Anglo-American pub-
LEGATIONS In Macmillan's list of sixty one
works there is only one of America origin
Mr.. Crawford's forthcoming novel called MIR.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
A Relic OF Sherman's March to the
Sea.

Cor. Philadelphia Times.
As we tramped along through the woods of
ash, elm and water-oak, we saw wild ipecac
and sweet william growing at the sides of the
Ndd pathway, and having asked the
name of a curious kind of grass, was de-
lighted at the story that came out @That"
said the guide, in answer to our question, "is
what we call Egyptian clover. We didn't
have it before the war, and none of us ever
saw it or heard of it before Sherman and
Johnston came. The seed was left on the
ground by the armies, and now we wouldn't
take anything for it "The grass, which
has tiny leaf more like that of the ma
tive white than the red clover, grows all over
the hillsides at the edges of the woods, along
the earthworks, and even forces its way into
the titled fields In its growth it chokes out
other herd grass and all weeds, though fortu-
nately it may be killed itself by blowing, or
there might be too much of a good thing.
Horses and cattle get fat upon it, so that on
the battlefield there is pasturage in places
where before the fight nothing of value grew.
This, truly, was an odd revelation-that two
opposing hosts, halting here, like beasts of
the jungle, to snap up trees. to tear the
ground, to burn and to slay, should leave be-
hind not bones to bleach only, but seed where
from have sprung dainty carpets and soft Dor
ders of green that enrich the waste places.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
Changing seats sudden1x.

Atlanta Constitution.
SWe stopped suddenly" said Dr. Raines,
swhen the two trains met on the track Just
this side of Rome yesterday. For my part, 1
went feet foremost under the seat that was
just in front of where I was sitting. The most
singular thing that witnessed was done just
across the aisle from me. There were two
men sitting directly behind the other, and in
front of them was an unoccupied seat When
the engines struck, the man in front turned q
Just exactly as he sat in the other seat The
other man performed exactly the same feat,
and Lit in the seat lately occupied by his neigh
boE.@
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
Mencius: The great man is he who
not lose his chiId's heart
Thread from Wood.
Demorest's Monthly.

Demorest's Monthly.
The manufacture of thread from wood for
crochet and sewing purposes has, it is said,
recently been started at the Ably cotton mill,
near the town of Norrkoping, in the middle of
Sweden The manufacture has arrived at
such gtate of perfection that it can produce,
at a much lower price, thread of as fine quail
itv as @Clark's," and has from this circum-
stance been called "a la Clark" 1t is wound
in balls by machinery, either by hand or
steam, which, with the labelling, takes one
minute and twelve seconds; and the balls are
packed up in cardboard boxes, generally ten
in a box
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
Mcw Long DO Ants WOrkg

The traditional industry of ants has not been
exaggerated They work all day, and in warm
weather, if need be, all night Advocates of
the eight-hour movement will be shocked to
learn that one ant was seen to toll without any
intermlssion, even for food, from in the
morning till quarter to 10 at night, and that
it is nothing uncommon for one of these un-
wearied little laborers to start to work the
moment she is freed from Imprisonment, as if
impatient at the enforced pause in the tasks If
her brief life. Sir John Lubbock confined ore
under bottle for week. but the instant the
up larva, carried it off to the nest and after
half an hour returned for another until she
had finished the duty in which her jailer had
Interrupted her.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
A Chapter of HOuse-Cleaning.

The Housekeeper.
We hope to give our readers some timely
hints on this subject, which may. be of bene-
fit to them. Always keep one room where the
family may be comfortable Have plenty of
nourishing food prepared before commencing.
Let the bureaus, chests, trunks, closets, all be
put in good order Look everything over to
see that there are no moths. 1t is an excellent
plan to take all clothing, ETC., out of doors,
put on line and give 1t good beating.
Always scatter plenty Of comphor-gum in the
trunks and boxes, when repacking, as this is
the simplest of remedies for moths
Now clean cellar, by removing all refuse.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
Hygienic Waiting in High Life.

There is story Of an imperial highness
Waiting thrice in the same evening with an
English lady at the court in Berlin. She nat
urally fell, and frankly confessed, herself high
y fattered by the compliment 4 did not in
tend it as a compliment" was the answer.
Then, said the lady, somewhat upset, your
highness must be very fond of dancing" Il
detest dancing, was the unsatisfactory re-
sponse Undeterred by her ill success, our
fair Englishwoman still prosecuted her in
quiries. what then, may ask, can be your
imperial highness' motive for dancing?"
Madame" was the exalted personage's curt
reply, & dance to perspirel"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
Utilizing the Goat,

chicago IIIDuHd
In one district in France e5O,0OO goats and
sheep were kept FOR the purpose of making the
little green cheese known to us as goats
cheese, and eaten with much gusto by some as
relish with bread and butter. 1t is not gen.
orally known that in the outskirts of Chicago
hundreds of goats are kept to supply milk to
families too poor or too wise to keep a COW.
For babes the milk is said to be unequaled by
any except that of the mothers breast
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
Strange Smiles.
Boston Transcript.

Boston Transcript
What strange SMILES people do make use Of,
to be sure! They say that thing is as black
as the ace of spades, when their comparison
would be much stronger did they say as black
as the ten of spades, which is ten times black
or than the ace. A man tells you that he has
been working all day like a dog. when you
know and he knows that dog doesn't work at
all He tells you that the sky last evening
was black as ink, leaving your mind in a state
of uncertainty whether the sky was blue or
red, either of which it might have been &C
cording to his smile Then he tells you that
So and so is as mad as halter, as though hat
ters were more prone TO anger than the aver
age human. When he says that somebody
has been acting like sixty, however, you know
that he is only speaking fguratively, and Of
course nobody can take exception to that
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08

Judy: Use of djectives-Rector Whose
curate has lately left the parish visiting old
woman: Well, Betty, expect you will miss
Mr.. Robinson good deal?" Betty: @Oh, yes
sir! He were beautiful young man, sir"
Rector: Well, he was very good man, Betty,
put I don't know about his being exactly
beautiful Betty: @Oh, he weren't much
to look at in the face, know, but, lor, sir, his
innards was lovely"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
Brazil Coffee and slavery,

New York Tribune.
One of the largest coffee plantations in
Brazil is the Fazenda Santa Catharina, 100
miles from Rio Janeiro, belonging to Baron
de Monteiro 1t covers an area of more than
twenty square miles, contains 100000 bear
ing trees, and employs 600 slaves. who are
subjected to the most rigid discipline and. in
fact, as much like machines as it is possible
for human beings to become They are well
taken care of, however, and the baron main
tains private hospital with resident physi
clan and assistants for the sick.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08

There are in San Francisco four palatial
worth together more than 100000. Their
owners, ex-Gov Stamford, Charles Croker,
Mrs. Mark Hopkins and Mr. Clinton repre-
sent about 130,0O0,000, The magnificent
structures stand unoccupied about ten months
of each YEAR
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
Give the Girls a Chance.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton in N. A. Review.
Girls suffer the disadvantages, from ignor-
ance in parents and teachers, that boys do,
IN addition to numberless deprivations in
1icted on them alone. There are rules of con-
duct that hold them in condition of neutral
ity, destroying, in time, all self-reliance and
making them afraid alike of thunder storm
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
"Dandies" a Hundred Years Ago.
d.

DIUUAIyH LdgI6.
The dress of one of these exquisites is de-
scribed in a daily paper of ITO as consisting
of mixed silk coat, pink satin waistcoat and
breeches covered with an elegant silver set of
white silk buttons, with pink clocks, pink
satin shoes and large pearl buttons, mush-
room colored stock covered with fine point
lace, and hair dressed remarkably high and
stuck full Of pearl pins. Well might bishop
of that day remark that such folk were prop
erly called dandies, since the name came from
very small silver coin struck in the reign of
Henry VII and called a dandy matt, so that
the name, applied to fashionable exquisite,
of very little orth,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
Ants at Play.

Harper5 Bazar.
1t is not all work and no play with the ants
They have been noticed engaged in Sports, :"
and scenes observed on certain hillsides can
only be characterized as gymnastic exercises.
"The ants raised themselves on their hind
legs, caressed one another with the antenna,
engaged in mock combats, and almost seemed
to be playing bide-and-seek."