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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-11-03

No Khiskey!
Browns IRON BITTERs
is one Of the very few tonic
medicines that arc not CONF
posed mostly Of alcohol or
whiskey, thus becoming a
fruitful source Of intemper-
ance BY promoting . desire
for rum.
BRowN's Iron BITTERs
is guaranteed to be a nom
Intoxicating stimulant. and
it will, in nearly every case.
take the place Of all liquor,
and at the same time abso-
lutely kill the desire for.
whiskcy and other intoxi-
eating beverages.
Rev. CIV. RICE. editor Of
the Amvlean Christian RI
sr.rg, says Of Browns Iron
Bitters:
Gin, O., Nov. rs. 1891.
Gents THE foolish vast
ing OF vital force in business
pleasure, and vicious indul-
rence Of our people, makes
your preparation necessity;
and II applied, will save hun
dreds who resort 70 saloons
for temporary TseuPerat'on.
BRowN's IRON BITTERs
has been thoroughly tested
for dyspepsia, indigestion.
biliousness, weakness, debil-
ity, ovcrwork, rheumatism.
neuralgia, consumption,
liver complaints, kidney
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permanent relief
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-07

The st. Johns River is queer river,
says Florida correspondent. 1t is about
$50 miles long, from four to ten miles
wide, and averages about foot deep.
In the center, of course, the channel
gets to be quite deep. Sometimes it has
q depth of forty feet. Its current runs
about mile day. presume it would
take about $50 days for a cork to float
from the source of the st. Johns to its
mouth. It is salt for fifty miles from its
mouth, and brackish for 100 miles. It
is full of shad, catfish, frogs, toads, eels,
alligators, and cawl-fshes. / don't know
of any fish or reptile that don't live in
the st. Johns River.
"Call this a river ?" / said 10 an old
alligator killer who was fishing for cat
fish off the pier at Palatka. "Why, it's
a great bay. It's no more river than
Lake Erie is. Lake Erie runs faster
than the st. Johns River"
"Thar you's wrong agen, stranger.
She's neither river nor a bay; she's a
COW pasture. Don't you see the COWS
standing all over the river?"
That man was right. AL the cows in
Florida seemed to congregate In the st.
Johns. There they stood in the water
all day long, slashing the mosquitoes
with their tails, while their heads are
under water eating grass. It is strange
thing. indeed, to see droves of cattle
feeding along river with their heads
under the water. They look like lot of
cattle without heads. They will put
even their horns and ears under when the
grass lays deep, and keep them under
sometimes two minutes. They get to be
as amphibious as the crocodile. A SUBJ
marine COW pasture is an institution en-
joyed by the State of Florida.
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The Baby Smile.

Whether man or woman is any
richer for having beautiful smile, may
be mooted point; but one thing GER
tain, the world is richer for it. There is
notling more potent for good; no such
inestimable blessing to others, as tie
warm, intelligent smile. Every ole,
probably, can recall some one whose
smile seems to open the paradise of a
loving heart, and invite admission. And
yet such smiles are rare, scarcely one
person in a hundred reaching the acme
of perfection in this respect. The per-
son who smiles is not always laughter.
Indeed, the smile is not the true indica-
ton of humor at all. 1t rather reveals
the genial and loving qualities of the
heart. The person who smiles may also
laugh, but it is because he combines q
sense of humor with the warmth of
genialty. The person is not only blest,
but blessing, who combines the two.
Perhaps nothing In all the world is so
beautiful as the smile of child. Only
grave babies smile. The majority Of
them bubble over in such madcap
laughter, the remembrance of it's catch
ing. But the recollection of the grave
baby's smile seems somehow to bring
the tears to ones eyes. The parting Of
the beautiful lips, the revealment of the
white teeth closed, the slow emergence
into life of the coy and half reluctant
dimples and note this (not the brighten
ing of the eyes, but the slumbrous depth
of inner feeling revealed by the softening
and hanging over of these luminous
windows of the gentle, reticent and low
ing young spirit Helen Wilmans.
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Baby's Lamp.

Mamma was upstairs. Papa and Bir-
die were out on the piazza. But where
was baby? Her real name was Louie,
but mamma called her baby.
She was not In the house, and it was
growing dark. Mamma listened. Very
soon she heard her little feet coming pit
a-pat, pit-a-pat, across the room below.
At the foot of the staircase they stopped
and all was still. Mamma called out,
Babyl"
"What is it, mammal"
care you all alone? You had better
go out to papa and Birdie. I cant
come down just yet. "
"Ill just sit here. mamma. I'm not
afraid. I've got light.
"You didn't touch the matches, did
you, Babyp / told you not to do so.
No, mamma, I just caught some
fre-bugs out there"
And sure enough, when mamma came
down soon after, there sat baby on the
lowest step with some fre-bugs in an old
bottle. Her curly hair shone like gold
In the light Of the little lamp.
Papa came In and said, eve will
light a real lamp now, Baby. Maybe
we had better let the pretty bugs CO."
"Ohl no, papa, don't let them go.
I had such hard time to catch them.
So papa said no more about the mat
ter; but that night, after baby was all
ready for bed, ind mamma was reading a
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-07
Wooden Flour.

There is danger ahead for the EG14.' hg
fraternity, and it may be as we'll to tak>r
time by the fetlock and prepare to mset
it. Good Health says bread of highly
nutritious and palatable character may
be made from wood. Think of this for a
moment. When the price of wood pulp,
for paper manufacture, falls below a
profitable point, the pulp can be con-
verted into -four, and this can be sold at
a price far below that of flour. Why?
Well, there will be no necessity for mid
ling purifiers, as there will be no middI-
ings; the germ will be so large it cam
be chopped out; the bran (bark) can bes
hewed off with broadaxe. Big thing,
amt it? Here's the process:
"Every thing soluble in water is first
removed by frequent maceration and.
boiling; the wood is then reduced to a.
minute state of division, not merely into
fine fibers, but actual powder and after
being repeatedly subjected to heat In an
oven, is ground in the usual manner OF
of corn. Wood thus prepared acquires
the smell and taste of corn-four. It is,
however, never quite white. 1t agrees.
with corn flour in not fermenting without
the addition of leaven, and in IS case
some leaven of corn-hour is found to
answer best. With this it makes per
fectly uniform and spongy bread, and
when it is thoroughly baked and has
much crust it has much better taste Of
bread than what in time of scarcity is
prepared from the bran and husks of
corn"
There has been at times great scarcity
of medium and low grades of -four for
export. There will be no need for this
hereafter, as exporters can cut down a
few telegraph poles, wooden hitching-
posts, or even carry off their enemies
front door-steps, convert them into
highly nutritious article of -four, and
ship it abroad to supply the wants of the
down-trodden laboring classes of Europe
When the manufacture of wood -four
gets fairly under way, how would it do
to convert the big Pillsbury and Wash
burn mills into a Miller's College?
There might be something in this sug-
pestion,-IMiLLi7lQ World.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-07
Stories Of Talleyrand.

TaIleyrand was the only Bishop pos
sessing benefce IN France who took
the new oath required by the State.
Mirabeau early deserted the talent of this
extraordinary man, "who dressed like a.
coxcomb, thought like deist, and
preached like saint. Perceiving the
wide range of his abilities, he distin--
guished him as one OF the most power
full and versatile of the men of genius
who then aboundedin Europe. Through
everything Talleyrand preserved asGng-
froid which was inimitable. 1t was
seen alike in small matters as In great.
One day, as he was mounting the steps
of his carriage, he spoke to an inividual
whom he had hitherto pretended, not to
recognize, but whom he knew very well.
This person he had seen for days near
his door. "And who are you, my
friend?" "I am your coachmaker, my
lord" "Ab, you are my coachmaker
andwhat do you want, my coachmaker =
81 want to be paid, my lord" " All.
you are my coachmaker, and you want
to be paid you shall be paid, my coach
maker" "And when, my lord p "You!
are very inquisitive," said the bishop,
as he settled himself in the new car
rage which he had not paid for.
Many were the scenes which took
place between him and Napoleon. On
one occasion, Napoleon having said that
if he thought his own death likely, he
would take care that his Vice-Grand
Elector should not survive him, Talley~
rand quietly replied that he did not de-
sire that reason. for hoping that his
Majesty's life might long be preserved.
Another scene has been thus described
by M. Mole: cat the end of the Coun-
Gil of State, which took place Just be-
fore the Emperor started for the cam
paign of 1914, he burst out into some
violent EXPLANATIONS of his being sur
rounded by treachery and traitors, and
then, turning to NJ. de Talleyrand, he,
abused him for ten minutes in the most
violent and outrageous manner. Talley
rand was standing by the fire all this
time, guarding himself from the heat of
the flames with his hat he never moved
q limb or feature any one who had
seen him would have thought he was the
last man in the room to whom the En-
peror could be speaking; and finally,
when Napoleon, slamming the door
violently, departed, Talleyrand quietly
took the arm of NJ. Mollieu, and limped
with apparent Inconsistencies down
stairs. But on getting home he wrote
a dignifed letter to the Emperor, say
ing that if he retained his present dig
nifty, he should be by right one of the
regency and that, as he could not think
of holding such charge after the
opinion His Majesty had expressed of
him, he begged to resign his post, and
be allowed to retire into the country.
He was informed, however, that his
resignation would not be accepted, and
that he might stay where he was" 1t
ia reported that Fouche and Talleyrand
acfn,' lily came to blows in the very closet
Of the Emperor upon the subject of the
misapplica, ZION of the secret funds, OF
which they n, 'ltually accused each other.
After After listening i !. their accusations and
iustifications on boz. sides, Napoleon
turned them out Of the ronm, say
ing, $50 along you arr both OF you
rogues. "-LOndOn Society.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-07
Parader of Morality.

A man has right to take pride in his
moral character. 1t is the one thing that
counts with men in the long run down
the ages. Intellect coupled with infamy
does not last. Time covers it with neg
lect. Intellect to live, must be associ-
ated with some right principle, and cor
rect conduct. There must be something
manly about it. A great many things
are pardoned to private conduct when it
is known that the mans public princi-
pies are pure and noble. There can be
no question but Webster, in private life.
had many shortcomings, but where do
you look for healthier, or more manly
words than You find in his letters and
speeches There is this, too, to be said
of him. He never made any lofty end
ostentatious display of his sentiments.
He was conscious of his principles, but
he never made them Extensively promi-
nent. In excusing the faults of Lord
Bacon, the Pail Mall Gazette says: "The
most offensive part of Macauley is this
assumption of lofty moral tone when
he is ibeling great man. In the case
of torture, as in the latter case of cor
ruption, it is clear beyond doubt that
Bacon's error or weakness consisted in
this, that he was not SO far in advance of
contemporary morality as we might have
desired. But there is wide distinction
between a man who breaks accepted and
recognized rules and one who is only not
in advance of them. A compliance with
questionable, but hardly yet questioned,
practices is compatible with lofty and
patriotic aims, whereas man who,
Judged even by the contemporary stand
ard, is contemplate sneak can hardly
be credited with any kind of virtue.
Now, Macauley gets cheap credit by
refusing to allow this plea of Bacon. To
the average common sense Of mankind
it looks very virtuous to say that cruelty
and corruption is corruption all the world
over Indianapolis Herald.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-07
Blood Curdling Story.

We find the following going the round
Of our exchanges There is lonely
place near Mt. Nebo, where Yellow
Creek flows through deep gorge, on
one side of which is cave which is re-
garded with horror by the superstltious
people here, who tell the following
strange story. Twenty years ago two
peddlers sought shelter in this cave
from binding snow-storm on a cold
night. Before lying down to sleep enc
of them counted out large quantity OF
gold and put into his belt. He then lay
down and was soon sleeping heavily.
His companion then arose and gazing
into the face of his companion to see it
he was sleeping, he plunged the blade OF
his clasp knife into the peddler's breast.
The dark blood gushed from the wound
in a stream, the form stiffened, and all
was over. The murderer secured the
belt, shiny with blood, and poured out
the, gold. Suddenly he saw the blood
forming into pool where the gold lay,
and he realized What an awful deed he
had done to get the gold. He threw the
body far into the cave, buried the gold,
and rushed out of the cave, intending
to go back some day. He cut the trees
along his way to guide him when he
should return. He was found miles
away from the cave in the snow, with his
hands and feet frozen, and was taken to
the hospital at Cleveland. After long
sickness he told the story of his crime
to his niece, and died. After the funeral
the niece and her husband went to the
cave by means of the trees, which were
cut to guide them, but found that the
roof of the cave had fallen in. They
hired help and began removing the rocks
and earth, when they were startled by
unearthly voices and lights, and they
gave up the search, the cave filling up
again after them. Since then many I'M
successful attempts have been made to
secure the hidden treasure. One party
went out, and while sitting around the
camp fire, the ghostly figure of ped
der appeared. The hair of one of the
party turned perfectly white, and they
say he died the next day. Another man
worked alone to find the gold, but told
Mr.. Ditmar, in an excited way, that
the re was no use hunting for the gold
any more" and disappeared. The peo-
pie of Mt. Nebo have given up the
search for the hidden fortune. -Steuben-
vile (O) Herald.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-07

little Bible story TO her, something funny
happened to baby's lamp. Each bright
little spark spread its brown wings ouk
in the garden and few away, nobody
knows where. Sometimes I think papa
knew something about it; but papa,
never told, and baby forgot to ask hiIe.
The old bottle was found lying among
the rose-bushes near the window. But
the pretty sparks were gone, and after
that the wisest man in all the world
could not have found baby's lamp.
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been filed
With certain strong misgivings, son, that somehow
won't be stilled;
There's something tells me plain as words that you
have erred IN marking out your course, and youn
repent Of it.
The time win come when you win sigh had but
only known
what DO now, the good old farm, with ali its hills
and stone,
Would not have driven me away to hnd, when hope
That Fslhe does not bessow her wreath on any sort
Of head
vim talking plainly, that know, but, Reuben,
That Fame's far-oH target that million marks
men miss, 8Fe&
Then, some fine day shot is heard that rings
throughout the land,
And Genius pops the buAs-sye, square, with steady
eye and hand.
"Tou may turn out genius, Rubea rally hope
You know Fsmes temple crowns the top Of an Onor-
nous Hill,
And tens Of thousands bound that way, with resou-
Eavs found their way completely blocked By stu
, pendous H.
"Ths II is very hard to elimb-it seems to touch
Montpelier went over in his primeval balloon
But all along the way this side youn hear the dreary
means
or sbe rising Smith and Jenkins, and tho gifted
Brown and Jones.
SNOW, Reuben, when you reach that sIP youn
show good judgment, son,
by striking cross-ots for the farm and homefolks on
erun;
Stay there and toll as have done, and you may get
to be
deacon in the church, perhaps, or, may be, q
school trustee
"'Al thae be blowedp Well, go your way, you'n
have my earnest prayers;
Ven always keep in order, son, your coy bed up
stairs,
For you may yet return, convinced that wreaths Of
Fame are rare,
And that your old straw hat best suits the color Of
your hair"
Detroit Free Press.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-07

Viola, with her lovely blush. !. could
not have worn it had it not been cut
open at the instep-I have not an aristo-
cratic foot-and that Is how, the stitches
that held the friendly rosette giving
way, came to lose it.
"That thank fortune might find
it. And now, Viola dearest"
But what need of saying more? You
can all end the story yourselves, am
lived to be 100 years old, and that never
was fairy godmother SO loved and
petted as shss-Hdrpefs Weekly.
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and would allow no one in his stall save
his regular boy, to whom he was much
attached. Parole has fancy for hand
kerchiefs protruding from gentlemen's
pockets. and of robbing the ladies of
their cloaks. Harry Bassett hated bare
footed stable boys and would bite their
legs. Blackburn could never be got to
extend himself unless the jockey wore
his colors.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-07
OUR LITTLE FOLKS.
An Anil Girl.


The girl that Is born on an April day
Has right to be merry, hghtsome, gay;
And that Is the reason dance and play
And frisk Ike mote in a sunny ray
Wouldn't you
Do 1t, too,
II you had been born on an April day7
The girl that Is born on an April day
Has also right to cry, they say;
And so sometimes do give way
When things get crooked or all astray-
Wouldn't you
Doit, too,
If you had been born on an April dayf
The girls Of March lore noise and FRAY:
And sweet IS blossoms ars girls Of May:
But belong to the time midway
And SO rejoice in sunny spray
OF smiles and tears and hap-a-day-
wouldn't you
Do 1t, too,
II you bad been born on an April day3
Heighho! and hurrahi for an April day,
It's cloud, its sparkle, its skip and stayl
mean to be happy whenever may,
And cry when must; for that's my way.
Wouldn't sou
Do it, too,
If you had been born on an April day?
larry Mapes Dodge, in St Nicholas for AprsI.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

CHNRaz cotton Is yellow, and hence
the peculiar color Of the fabric called
nankeen.
In NEW MEXICO the inhabitants sup
plement their dinners with plateful of
honey-ants for desserts.
A WIND of twenty-five miles an hour,
or what sailors would call a stiff breeze,
travels SO. 81 feet per second.
THE artifcially-fatted ortolan becomes
such ball Of fat that, strung on a wick,
it is said to make very good lamp.
Two hundred beetles, out of 500
species known to inhabit Madeira, are SO
far deficient in wings that they cannot
fly.
In AFRICA vegetable butter is made
from the fruit Of the shea tree, and is Of
a richer taste than any made from cows
milk.
THE waste ashes of wood fires are
leached for potash, and the waste of lin
seed oil manufacture used as food for
cattle.
RESEARCHES among the rock forma-
tons of Western America show that it
is to the New World we must look for
perfect pedigree Of the horse.
The Oldest map of the heavens is in
the National Library at Paris. It was
made by the Chinese about the year 600
B. G., and contains l, 400 stars.
To GIVE ightness to what would be an
insupportable weight, the cranial bones
of the enormous head of the elephant
contain numerous air-cells.
THoUGH the multiplication table was
in use by the Arabians and Italians at
an early age, no notice was taken of it
during the Middle Ages in the rest of
Europe.
THERE is on record the case of lady,
subject to nervous headaches, who always
finds next morning patches of her hair
white, as if powdered. In few days it
regains its natural dark color.
SOME one explains the custom of plac-
ing plumes and cockades of hats always
on the left side, by the fact that large
plume sucha as was the fashion in Charles
Ii. IS time, for instance impede
the free use of the sword.
IT IS found that the clothes fitted to
new recruits in the English army soon
become too small across the chest and
too tight around the neck, owing to the
increased development given by gym
nastic and military exercises.
IT IS said that the name alligator arose
from the expression of Spanish sailor
on board an English ship, who, seeing
an alligator in one of the tropical rivers
Of America, said, "that's a lagarto,"
that being the Spanish word for lizard.
THE demand for good carpet designs
far exceeds the supply, and American
manufacturers are sending to Europe,
particularly England and France, for
hundreds of thousands of dollars worth
of designs yearly If the same quality
of designs could be made in this country
the manufacturers would gladly patronize
home talent. One carpet firm alone pays
800, 900 per year for its designing de-
partment, and of this sum several thou
sands of dollars go to foreign markets.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-07

and IN artificial manures, still the differ
ences IN form with which these substances
are met greatly affect their value. The
present method of Analysing manures
does not properly recognize these dis
tinctions, and the valuations founded
upon these analyses are altogether false
and erroneous.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-07

IF we were provided with a sense Of
smell as acute as many animals possess,
it would probably be a great aid in dag
uosis, for there are some diseases that
are accompan ed by definite odor, and
possibly all are, to some extent.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-07

NEXT to locomotives race horses seem
to have the most marked personal pc
culiarities. According to the New York
Hour, Springbok was a perfect savage,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-07

He THAT doth not know those things
which are of use for him to know is but
an ignorant man, whatever he may
know besides.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-07-24
204213

ID VALUABLE LOTS AT.AUCTION-Th
IL property of the Sisters of the Good
Shepherd to be sold at public sale-I will
sell at auction on the premises, corner OF
Wilkin and McBoal streets, on Tuesday, July
25th, beginning 10 o'clock a. m, IL lots
comprising the entire block bounded by
Wilkin and Elm streets and the bluff, at pres
emit occupied by the Sisters of the Good Shep-
herd, together with the improvements there.
on,which consist of one three story stone build.
ing of about twenty rooms, suitable either for
hotel or q genteel boarding house: also one
three story frame building with basement.
This valuable parcel of land is situated in the
very center of the city, in the midst of fine
neighborhood, among whom may be men
TONED Hon. Alexander Ramsey, Hon. w. L.
Banning, Hon. James Gilfllan, Messrs. J. L.
Forepaugh, CD. O'Brien, l.. Maxfeld, VIM.
D. Rogers, Il. Sahlgaard, e. 8. Chittenden,
Rev. d. G. Lyon and others. The view from
the bluff, upon which this choice land stands
is magnificent, embracing the Mississippi val
ley and surrounding country for miles. IL
addition to this the property is but few min
utes' walk from Bridge square, and within
two short blocks OF the street railway Tht
drainage is perfect and the location all thai
can be desired. Terms liberal.
P. T. KAVANAGH,
2O4-2O6 Auctioneer.