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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-29
RAILWAY CONDUCTORS.
Their Fancies i'm Punches and styles
in Lanterns and Watches.


Cincinnati Commercial.
Railway conductors, as a whole, put on a
good deal of personal STYLE" New York shop
keeper said, abstractedly punching in PAM
phlet cover holes which looked like black
comet; mot SO much as they used to before
the days of drawback checks and spoilers,
and other unpleasant inventions, but enough
yet to render them among the most ornament
al members of the community. They don't
un much to diamonds and pound weight gold
chains and fast horses, as was said to be the
case twenty or thirty years ago among them,
but they keep up their end pretty well on the
things they've got to have, such as response
bic watches, fancy lanterns, and natty
punches. When a conductor is appointed on
road, he is given punch and a lantern by the
company. The punch is plain one, merely
differing In the sort of hole it makes In a
ticket from those the other conductors on the
line are supplied with, and the lantern is q
plain tin thing, worth fifty or seventy-fve
cents If he has any taste or within, or reason
without taste or whim, for wanting different
sort of punch from that given him, he comes
TO US and we make the change to suit him.
One wants his initial letter or lsttArs: anothAr
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-29
GaribaIdi's Dream.

Guizoni's Life of Garbaldi."
was i'll with rheumatism, and in the midst
of the storm fell asleep in my cabin, having
lain down over the coverlid In sleep / was
transported to my native place, but instead of
the heavenly air of Nice where everything
bore smiling aspect, l found myself in the
gloomy atmosphere of q cemetery In the
distance perceived melancholy procession
of women carrying bier, and they advanced
slowly toward me. l felt fatal presentiment
and struggled to approach the funeral train,
but could not move [ seemed to have a
mountain upon my chest
The cortege reached the side of my couch,
laid down the bier and vanished. sought in
vain to raise myself on my arms was un-
der the terrible influence of nightmare; and
when began to move and feel beside me the
cold form of a corpse and recognize my
mothers blessed face, | was awake, but on my
hand there remained the impression of an ice
cold hand, On that day and in that hour
lostmy parent, the best of mothers.
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NEW 1OrK herald.
Itappears that the day of the wax doll is
over, and that it will never again reign su-
preme in the nursery. This is pity. The
wax doll was harmless poor thing, with its
pale pink cheeks, indigo eyes and light blonde
hair, but this is a'utilitarian age, and believes
in the doctrine of the survival Of the fittest
The papier-mache doll, which is compare
lively indestructible, has crowded the wax
doll to the wall and ruined it's prospects for
ever The papier-mache doll is of different
type of face from the other and is universally
conceded to be much more handsome 1t has
none of the dull, inane and foolish expression
of the wax doll, but a bright winning, intelli-
gent look that prepossesses at q first glance
Then it is a hardy, robust doll that can hold
its own in any kind of nursery, and not submit
to having its nose broken or its eye poked out
with bodkin by a reckless and sanguinary
baby. Papier-mache is composed principally
of paper mixed with -four and cement The
moulds for the dolls heads are made of cast
steel First head is made from plaster of
Paris mould and then it is cast from steel
mould The dolls are sold largely, as they are
jointed from head to foot, and can be placed
in any kind of attitude. The material of which
they are made is lasting, and this economic
consideration makes them popular
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save Our Woodlands,

Cor. Cincinnati Commercial.
Upon the subject of denuding our woodland
Of its timber, there should be more legisla-
ton; there should be some reward given the
owner for its protection. Like church prop
erty, it should be exempt from taxation. The
odious law of allowing road supervisors to cut
the nearest timber, with which to construct
corduroy bridges, should be repealed A rigid
stock law should be enforced; fields of grow
ing crops should with safety remain open A
system of portable fences, only, should be all
that is needed for the necessary inclosure of
the farm. Herds of stock, while being driven
along he. highway to market with some add
tional expense, could be well guarded. Wood
land should be underbrushed and converted
into woods pasture; then, with its exemption
from taxation, the inducement to clear it of
would, in measure, be removed.
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Had a Better Thing.

OobIOlb Tres 1E6eSs
1t was real funny to see him brace up as he
turned the corner, button his threadbare
black coat, adjust his hat, shove pencil over
his ear, and try to disguise himself. When he
had fixed himself he passed down the street,
entered saloon, and walking straight up to
the bar he asked:
"Is your name Blank?"
II expect it is" was the reply.
SJohn Blank?"
"Vhell der poys call me Shon."
"Can speak to you in private, Mr.. Blank?"
aroundt except my poy, und he doan'
hear u.s."
II thought It would be better to sit down at
table and talk over our glasses of beer"
II guess not can shtand COP and hear all
you say"
swell, Mr.. Blank, have been deputized to
ask you if you would be a candidate for mayor
next year."
@Me?D
%Yes. You are said to be one of the most
popular men In Detroit. You are rich popu-
lar, liberal, and could be elected by a large
majority"
The saloonist looked at him for a long min
ute and then asked:
"Are you dry?"
@Never was SO dry in my life"
With perfectly placid countenance Mr..
Blank filed schooner" with water, placed it
on the bar, and looked the man square in the
eye as he said:
Il vhas a tousand times obleeged to der poys,
but can't except dot Office"
"You can't? Don't you want to be mayor Of
Detroit?"
mo, my friendt haf something's better ash
dot vhas going to run for governor next
time! Come in real often und dhrink to my
| SUGGEST"
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A sheet of tin eight feet by two and half is
taken to the cutting shears and cut up into
pieces the size Of the horse or other animal
intended to be cut.made from it. These pieces
are equally divided into rights and lefts. AS
plain pieces of tin they are then taken to what
are called the drops, where die is placed
between two uprights posts and heavy
weight descends and the piece Of tin instan-
$aneously assumes the shape Of horse or
whatever other animal is intended to be de-
picted This however. is but half the animal.
A reverse die gives the other half, and both
having been put through machine that cuts
sway the superfuous tin inside the outline of
the figure have Their concave surface brought
exactly together and set and soldered When
this is done they are taken to another part of
the building, and if horses they are harnessed
to wagons or placed on platforms. After this
they are thoroughly examined to see that they
are properly made, and then taken to the TOP
floor, where they are given to girls to trim
and paint One girl simple paints the horse or
wagon, another does the stripping, third puts
on the artistic touches, q fourth varnishes, a
fifth does the stenciling Of the name on the
sides of the wagon, and o sixth puts on the
wheels, so that simple tin top, which retails
as low as five cents, passes through nearly q
dozen hands from first to last
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queer Test Employed I'm Selecting n
Pnlnca Site.

The royal palace of the king Of Greece, as
Athens, was constructed after a curious and
original experiment. 1t was built by King
Otto, predecessor Of the present monarch and
son of Louis of Bavaria. When he was elected
king in 1882 by the national assembly he found
that Athens had been left by the Turks in such
a state of dilapidation that il resembled heap
of ruins rather than city. A German archi-
tect was sent for to repair things generally and
to plan the construction of a palace The
nefghborhood of the Temple of fheseus was
chosen for the site. After awhile King Louis
of Bavaria paid visit to his son. eWhy,"
said Louis, "the architect has chosen the most
unhealthy part of the whole city. Now, /
have taken note Of better site, which pos
seses all the advantages this one lacks"
@But, father, assure you that" Never
mind: will prove what say" And King
Louis at once ordered two pieces Of fresh meat
to be placed one on each o. the two sites.
Sentinels were posted to prevent the meat be-
ing stolen. Twelve hours later the piece of
meat left upon the site chosen by the German
architect was found to be putrefed; while the
other piece, placed upon the site Of the pres
emit palace, was found to be perfectly fresh
and sweet. Louis of Bavaria WAS student of
the science of hygiene
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Joe Howard writes of Gen. Grant: "Rich
now beyond the dream of his most ambitious
fancies, largely interested in affairs of mo-
ment in daily contact and nightly intercourse
with men of talent and financial brain, he finds
it necessary to conform himself more to the
dictates of customary guise He wears high
silk hat, fashionably-cu overcoat, aud neatly
BACKED boots. His beard is more carefully
trimmed, his mustache is lined a la mode, and
he bears himself modestly as he passes along
the street l recall the time when his pres
enee would have attracted the attention of
thousands of people, who would have cheered
him to the echo ald followed him for miles.
Now, as have said, 1t is rare that his counte-
nance attracts the eye of one who knows him
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Springfield Republican.
Many years ago DR. Holmes penned these
words: ave are the Romans of the modern
world-the great assimiladng people. And so
we come to their style of weapon. Our army
sword is the short, stiff, pointed gladius of the
Romans, and the American bowie knife is the
same tool, modified to meet the daily wants Of
civilized society. The race that shortens it's
weapons, lengthens It's boundaries" This was
written in the days of manifest destiny"
when we had conquered half of Mexico, were
thirsting for more, and had our eye on Cuba
and when the bowie knife seemed to be q
potent weapon. 1t gave way soon after, and
we left off conquering other nations In order
to conquer ourselves.
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SCHOOL oHnDREN's GLEE.

& Mrs A. NJ. Diaz in Wide Awake.I
List ye to our happy CALL
Merry Christmas to ye all
Ira Ia!
May your faces be as bright
AS our Christmas-tre tonight
Ira la Ira la Ira La
May no puzzling lessons vex you,
No examples" eer perplex you,
May Jack Frost not stop to bite you,
May no flying SNOWFALL smite you!
Pleasant Christmas, cheerful Christmas, jolly
Christmas,
Jocund Christmas, merry Christmas, laughing
Christmas,
Happy day is here!
Friendly Christmas, welcome Christmas, good
old Christmas,
Dear old Christmas, children's Christmas, ev-
erybody's Christmas,
Comes but once a year,
List ye to our happy call
Merry Christmas to We ALL
May your faces be as bright
As our Christmas-tree Tonight (.
Ira lal
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Tae Dangers of Rabbit Invasion.
Scientific American.
OF all animals the timid rabbit would seem
to be the last that would ever wage war Of
determination against man; and yet that is
precisely what it is doing in Australia One
colony has already lost two millions of sheep
by them; the plague is spreading northward
at the rate of 100 miles or more year; and
The Federal Australian says that the rabbit
invasion threatens the great industry of the
colony with ruin. @The impossibility of feed
ing large focks Of sheep and innumerable
rabbits at the same time on the same breadth
Of pasturage, is just as great as would be that
Of growing wheat and hay on the same soil
There is only one alternative in this case
either the flock owners must expel the rabbits,
or the rabbits will expel the flock owners"
The conviction is that the evil has attained
magnitude which puts it beyond the hope of
control by local efforts, or even by any one
colony The movement for the determination
OF the rabbits must be simultaneous and uni
versal to be Of any avail
eIhe flock owners over the entire area of
the continent says The Australian, "must
make common cause in the endeavor to exter-
inmate the plague, and 10 that end must aid
their respective governments by every means
in their power War to the knife must be de-
clared by every individual interested in sta
ton property in Australia against pestilence
which positively tb eatens nothing less than
the gradual destruction Of the wealthiest in
terest that has yet grown into hourishing ex-
istence in this part Of the world"
Having declared general war upon the rab-
bits, the great question would appear to be
the devising Of modes of attack that will be at
once efficient and economical One fock-own-
er is mentioned as having trapped 5000 of the
little pests in space of four months; others
have tried general poisoning and yet no per-
ceptible check has been put upon the rapid
multiplication of the prolific and all devouring
vermin. Shooting the rabbits is out of the
question, there are 80 many Of them, their
wariness and burrowing habits adding to the
hopieessness Of meeting the invasion by midi
vidual destruction They must be killed by
the million, and at cost that will not exceed
the value Of the land reclaimed from their
TaVages.
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Didn,t Die After Am.

Youths companion
DR.. Dash was sent for once in haste to a
wealthy woman in New York, supposed to be
dying, though no physician could discover her
ailnent
She had not tasted food for days. Her
shrieks were incessant, her features ivid and
pinched as in articulo norris Her friends,
exhausted by months Of nursing, stood wait
ing to see her depart The doctor made a
close examination of the case. She recognized
him:and her eyes gathered intelligence.
SIN dying, doctor, she moaned
Nothing Of the kind" shortly
what ais me?" she said, after louder
shrek.
He looked her steadily in the eye. "a hus-
band who has too much money" he answered,
briefly. Then, turning to the attendants, he
said, Take her up, dress her, and bring her
some beefsteak and bread and butter"
The treatment was brutally blunt perhaps,
but it cured the patient She never, However,
forgave the physician.
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REMARKABLE POWER.
A Wonderful Combination OF Genius
and Practical RuSiuess Habits.

4 wonderful Combination Of Genius
and Practical Business Habits.
E. D. Mead in Lippincotfs Magazine
But, quite aside from his music, no COM
poser ever had so many pursuits % Men
delssohn. He was an accomplished artist With
brush and pencil. A great number Of his
sketches and drawings are preserved, begin
ming with the Swiss journey in 1926. The
Scotch and italian tours are both fully illus
trated, aud so they go on, year by year, till his
last Journey into Switzerland in 1917, Of which
fourteen large, highly finished water-colored
drawings remain.
His correspondence is even moro remarks
bic than his drawing. During the last years
Of his life, few eminent men in Europe wroSs
more letters than he; and there is scarcely
anything in recent literature more delightful
than the volumes of letters which have been
published-"the happy mixture Of seriousness
fun, and affection, the Gfe-like descriptions
the happy hits, the naivete which no boldness
Of translation can extinguish, the wise conn-
sells, the practical views, the delight IN the
successes of his friends, the sef-abnegation,
the bursts Of wrath at anything mean or
nasty" His letters were all written IN I'M
ished and elegant hand, the lines all straight
and close, the letters perfectly formed mo
word illegible. An autograph letter of Men
delssohn's, as has been said, is work of art;
to the folding and the sealing, everything is
perfect How he found time for the vast
number of these long and exquisite letters In
days crowded SO full that it makes the head
swim to read of them, is mystery; but he
seems to have found time for everything, and
was never driven into corner. He composed
"Antigone7 in fortnight, and many others Of
his works with equal rapidity. He appears
TO have made few preliminary sketches, bus
to have arranged his music in his head al
first, as Mozart did, SO that his swiftly-writteu
scores rarely show any corrections. He had q
remarkable power of order and concentra-
ton, and the practical business habit OF doing
one thing at time, and doing 1t well, which
most artists. and especially most Of the gresl
musical composers, have so lacked
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Hungarian Ornaments.

Some curious work that finds its way to this
country is Hungarian. The peasants collect
fungi and fashion all sorts Of designs out of
them-leaves, fruits, and even flowers Then
they mount them upon colored satin or dark
leather, and work round the leaves in silks,
marking out the veins in steel beads In this
way they make little reticules, handkerchief
cases and other articles, and the result is both
curious and effective. They place little tinsel
circles round the edges to form sort of Dor
der and add tassels Of bright-colored silks at
the Onrnara
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Mauch Chunk Gazette

UdLtUUb.
VIM. G. Freyman's garden, one of the finest
in Mauch Chufk, is typical of the "switzer-
land IN America" 1t requires good deal of
engineering skill to lay out a garden on hill
200 feet high, and 80 steep that one could
climb it only when armed with an alpenstock,
and even then only by firmly in
sorting the toe-nails in the crevices
of the red rock that formed the precip-
itous bluff, and Mr.. Freyman has accom-
plished the difficult task. BY a liberal outlay
of money and labor he has built a garden con-
tanning nearly an acre of ground, and separ-
ated into fifteen stories by walls built across
its entire breadth. The ascent of the stories
is by means Of long flight of steps, several
hundred in number, and from % rustic arbor
somewhere up in the tenth or eleventh story a
splendid view of the borough is to be had
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-29
Where Pianos 60 When They Die


A Labrador tribe, it is said, made the barrels
stolen from wrecked whale-ship serve as
chimney-tops, the West Indians utilized limo
thy Dexter's warming pans for sugar ladies'.
and tbs Shans find no worse use for English
beer-bottles than to stick them up as house
hold gods to keep evil spirits away! But the
drollest instance of unthought-of capability is
reported in The London Truth:
"What becomes Of old pianos? That we'll
known and most adventurous Frenchman, De
Tonnant, while in Patagonia, wished to gain
the good will Of an old Patagonian chief He
accordingly gave the savage worn out grand
piano. which he had bought for eighty francs.
"A few days after making this generous
present, De Tonnant went one morning to pay
an early visit to the Patagonian. He found
him sleeping peacefully with his wife inside
the piano, from which he had carefully re;
moved sounding board, strings, etc, and
which, thus transformed, constituted not I'M
comfortable bedstead.
@This may account for the final resting place
of old "grands," but what is the end of worn
out cottage pianos?"
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JAEFA& JERUSALEM R. r. TROUBLES
Denver TrihnnA1

IDenVer If1Dune.
Ben-Ali-Sneezer, late one afternoon.
Met Sheik Bak-Gammon on old Horeb's mount.
And thus he, in the language Of the east,
His multifarious hardships did recount:
20 Shiek, / bow me in the dust and mourn
For 10! whilst browsing on the fertile plain.
Two of my choicest heifers fair and fat.
We're caught in limbo and were duly slain
By that internal pest of recent birth,
The half-past s accommodation train!"
Then quoth the sheik: Zone Of my whitest
lambs,
Which did purpose soon to drive to town,
While frisking Ger the distant fowery lea,
Was by that self-same fatal train run down,
Now, D Ben-Ali by the prophets beard,
What are we ruined shepherd-folk to do!
Suppose we take our troubles into court;
You swear for me, and will swear foryou:
Aud 80, by mutual oaths it's possible
We may most hap'ly pull each other through"
Ben-Ah-Sneezer, some months after met
The Sheik Bak-Gammon, and, inclined to
sport
The two sat down upon cedar stump
To talk of their experiences in court
Ben-Ali quoth: "Them COWS was thin as rails;
Now that there gone, it's mighty glad I am !"
Bak-Ganlmon said: Nov that the judgments
paid,
1 don't mind telling you. that the slaughtered
lamb,
So far from being what you swore in court,
Was, by the great horned spoon, not worth
d"
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In The Sixth Century.
Advance

Advance.
In what season of the year the Savior was
born, it is so impossible to determine, that
there is not single month of the whole
twelve that has not been adopted by one au-
thority or another, as the one in which it pro-
badly occurred The twenty-fifth of December.
now universally observed as the anniversary
Of his birth, was arbitrarily fixed by Pope
Julius /, in the fourth century But not until
the sixth, did the Christian world agree in
celebrating Christmas on the same day
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inside THE CONVENT WALL.
Lnlaranca ID. urmY.I

All, here is peacel the world is far away, !
Walk three short steps and 10, the busy
etreeti)
Only an echo Of the wheels and feet
Reaches this spot where noise has turned to
clay.
Across the graveled walks the gray nuns glide,
The grass is greenly growing ct their fest
And golden butterflies the warm air beat
Then upward float and pass the other side.
wonder if the wings invisible
Beat hard against the windows Of the soul,
II worthless life and routine e'er seem dull,
And other pathways beckon toward the
goal
Far in some nave the vesper soundeth sweet
walk three short steps and 10, the busy
streetn
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orderly self-restralnt, partly in the simplicity
Of feeling and taste which results from con-
slant and straightforward contact " sh the real
tiles Of life. Indeed, there is real strength
lost in all fastidious and representative lives,
real strength gained by habitual contact with
toll and want and good and evil in their least
disguised and most naked forms
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that hour, to our surprise and great JOY, the
Snah slowly retreated, leaving Us masters Of
tue neld The enthusiasm among our men
then became intense. They shed tears OF
gladness and hurrshed like so many maniacs.
l confess that the unexpected success also
moved me to tears Soon after, the shades of
evening fell and the Huascar inferred the port
by the townsfolk.
The next day We sailed to Iquiuue. after
learning that during the night the British had
attempted to blow US up with q torpedo and
had narrowly missed destroying a merchant
man by mistake Such is the story Of NV
fight with the Shah and the Amathvsfn
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San Francisco Chronicle
Indigestible food, such as fat meat, rich
pastry, hot bread, unripened fruit and veget-
ebles, coffee, spices and stimulants should be
avoided in the diet of children. Good wheaton
bread, farins, ripe fruit fresh vegetables.
meat juices, milk and sugar should make ur
the list OF staples When meats are used, get
good mutton, young beef and tender poultry.
Plain, good food, and plenty of it, will keep
the mind and body in sound condition ane
supply 81 the requirements of growth.