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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-05-11
The MOuSe'S Last Dance. i.

Did you know that the little creatures
were fond of music? Jennie Smith, a
Pansy correspondent from Washington,
tells of a mouse that made a perfect
nuisance of itself in friends house.
Various ways were tried to get rid of
mousie; but she was too smart for them
all, and nibbled around in her small
world in high glee over the fact that
neither trap nor cat could catch her.
But alas for mousie! 1t happened
with her, as with so many others in this
world, pride got the better of prudence.
One fine evening the lady whom she
nightly tormented with her sharp teeth
had company-a gentleman who played
the violin beautifully. AS the friends
sat enjoying the music, who should
steal out of her room but small
mouse dressed in gray velvet.
She had sat with her bit of tail
curled up about her, for some time,
thinking the matter over. "Ah, but
that is too lovely for anythingr' she
said to herself, as the soft, sweet strains
from the violin stole in to her. "Why
couldn't slip out there where I could
see as well as hear? I'd risk my being
caught; I'm too quick motioned for
anybody to hurt me. Now he is play
ing that lovely tune I've danced to so
many times. Dear me! 1 can't stand
that; l just know / can dance charm
ingly, and I'm so tired of hopping
around in this dark room with nobody
to see me, I'm going out this minute.
I'm not in the least afraid of being
caught" And out she went.
For time all went merrily. Miss
Mousie in her gray velvet under the
shadow of friendly rockingham
skipped about to the sound of music in
a way that she imagined was perfectly
charming.
At last to her great delight she was
discovered and exclaimed over. She
came out from the shadow of the rock
jng-chair in order to give them all
better view. How should she know
they were plotting her ruin? Too late
she discovered it. Dizzy with dancing,
and grown reckless with pride, she
actually whirled herself between the
feet of a man with poker. And that
was her last danee.-Papsy.
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Making Paper Money.

My DEAR Young FRIEND:-I have
said to myself, over and over again, to-
day, that [ must write you and tell you
about something which has interested
me very much, and which / am sure
will interest you. You will open your
eyes little, perhaps, when l tell you
it is about how money is made; but |
don't mean by that quite what your
papa and business men mean when they
talk about making money. What |
really want to tell you is about the
place where the handsome dollar and five
dollar and ten-dollar bills are printed,
and something about how it is done.
Yesterday | went through the inn
mense building, which is block in
length, and is called the Treasury De-
partment. It is owned by the United
States. Here all the paper money is
made for all the banks in the country
every dollar of United States money
A guide showed me through the i'm
mense building, and | had an oppor-
tunity of seeing pretty much the whole
process of making paper money. How
much do you suppose is made thus in a
day? / won't bother you with any fig
ures, but if you could have as much as
is made there in half an hour, you
could live comfortably on it all your
life, venture to say. Almost million
of dollars of old, worn-out money is
counted and destroyed there daily.
Count thousand, see how long that
takes; then count eight hundred
times . many, and you win get at
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Temperance Reading.
The Beginning and the End.

It began this way: Two boys came To
the city from the country. They left
home with kindly words of advice ring
ing in their ears. Their parents babe
them remember the good counsel given
them in youth, and earnestly entreated
them to resist the many temptations
which the city would place before them.
And they promised to remember the
words of loving counsel, and went out
from the hearthstone of home to face
the world and fight the battle OF life,
brave of heart and hopeful of overeom-
ing in the strife.
One day they were going by a saloon.
On the screen, which stood little wav
back from the open doors hiding from
the passers-by what took place within.
was displayed a card on which was
written: q Fresh lemonade. Only five
cents a glass.
"A glass of cool lemonade would
taste good this hot day, said John.
"Let's go in and get some.
I'D like the lemonade well enough, 4"
said Philip, "but 1 don't really fancy
the idea of going to saloon to get it.
"Pshaw!" laughed John. "What
difference does it make whether you buy
your lemonade here or somewhere else?
We needn't drink anything else if we
don't want to.
81 know that" answered Philip, hes
itatingly. 81 was thinking that father
wouldn't like it if he knew He's OPP
posed to saloons, you know"
"Yes, but how's he to know anything
about it?" urged John. "Come on; I'll
paw for the lemonade And he drew
his companion into the saloon.
They drank their lemonade. The
proprietor exerted himself to make
their call pleasant, and when they were
going he urged them to have another
drink.
" Better have little something in it
to give it the right kind of flavor" he
said, smilingly
All right, said John; and the man
poured some of the contents of a long
necked bottle into each glass. The bows
drank it down. The LIQUOR was strong
enough to produce considerable effect
upon them. 1t made them ''iollv,n they
told each other; but don't think either
OF them would have called the effect that
if they could have foreseen what the end
would be.
Well, they went to that saloon again.
TWAS not long before they felt kind of
contempt for a man who would drink
anything as mild as lemonade. That
might do for boys, but they were men
and they could drink whisky and brandy
and gin. And they could smoke, and
play cards and billiards, and talk slang.
This kind of an education is acquired
with wonderful rapidity. In six months
they were good scholars in the school of
ruin.
The end came to one two years ago.
In drunken brawl he was stabbed to
the heart. To the other the end came
only last week. 'Died of delirium ire
menS,'' friend said.
1t is sad to think that daily boys are
beginning this kind of life, and sadder
to think what the end may be. o boys!
be careful, be careful. B.. ReG-
ford, IN Youths Temperance Banner
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Warrantee Of Farm and Garden Seeds.

We have several inquiries as to the
liability of persons selling farm or gar
den seeds when there is failure to
grow This subject has been aroused
by an article we published month ago.
There is no doubt about the law, and it
applies as well to a person selling only
a few bushels as a regular scotsman.
Ii a person asks for and obtains from
another person, for a valuable consid-
Grafton, certain designated kind or
quality of seed, and the dealer delivers
it pretending it is the kind or quality
inquired for; and if he represents the
seed to be good and the quality desired,
this constitutes warranty that the
seeds are sound and of the quality
asked for. And if it should turn out
that the seeds were unsound and would
not grow SO as to produce the usual
crop, the dealer would be liable to the
farmer or gardener for the damage oc-
casioned thereby. The damage in the
case would not be simply the price of
the seed, but in case The crop was not
the kind represented, or if the seed was
so unsound that sufficient per cent. of
it did not grow to produce q crop, the
measure of damages would be the diff
ference in value between the crop
raised, and what it would have been If
the seed had been good, or of the right
kind. Ii there is an entire failure of the
crop by seed failing to grow, or if the
crop fails to ripen when it was guaran-
teed to be seed which would ripen in
this latitude, then the measure of the
damage would be the reasonable value
of the crop for that year
In the State of New York a dealer
in seeds sold gardener seed which he
represented to be the Early Flat Dutch
Van Wycklin cabbage seed, but they
wholly failed to produce crop of cab
bage, and the dealer was compelled to
pay the garden farmer the value of a
crop of cabbage of the kind men,
toned. SO N. Y, 81.
In another case the seed was repre-
sented as Large Bristol cabbage. But
it was shown that while the seed was
raised on the stocks of Bristol cabbage,
yet they were grown in close proximity
to cabbage of other kinds and were
fertilized by the pollen therefrom, SO
that the crop raised was, by reason Of
the crossing of the different kinds of
cabbage, a crop of no known variety,
and wholly useless except for fodder
for cattle, and in this case the dealer in
seeds was compelled to pay the dam
age. II N. Y, 118.-IoUG State Reals
ter.
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Sweat.

The skin is an orange as much as the
lungs AS the latter contain millions
of minute cells, by which their princi-
pal work is done, so it is with the form
er. These cells, in both cases equally,
connect with the external world by
means of tubes through which waste
products are conveyed out of the sys-
tenn.
Most of the organs of the body, bes
sides their own proper work, do more
or less 'svicarious'' work; that is, work
belonging to some other organs. So
the sweat-glands, when the system is
specially charged with poisonous mat
ter, or other organs are partially OBJ
structed or permanently destroyed, may
carry off more or less of the special
poisons accidentally taken into the sys-
tenn, as well as the systems own waste
products. In rare cases, the sweat has
contained blood.
But the chief product of the sweat
glands is water, holding in solution
chloride of sodium, or common salt.
This varies greatly in different persons
and in different circumstances, but av-
erages about two pounds day. Under
the influence of cold the glands are
much less active; under heat, much
more so.
Thus nature utilities the sweat to reg
ulate the temperature of the body.
Certain drugs, also, increase the amount.
and thus hasten the elimination of waste
and poisonous products. In this way
colds, and some other feVerish condi-
lions, may often be checked.
1t is now known that there are special
nerves that control the action of the
sweat-cells; that sweating is due to the
action of certain nerve-centers; and that
it is on these, primarily, that heat and
sudorifcs Sweating drugs act, though
there are some few drugs which act di-
rectly on the glands.
In the same way, certain emotions act
on the nerve-centers, and thus cause
profuse perspiration. So also does a
certain condition of the blood in the
sweat preceding death, - Youth's Com
peptos.
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"DntY Before Pleasure. !.


Clinton Mills went into his mothers
room with a light heart and bright
face.
Mother" esaid, sis it not splen-
did day for a drive. l am going to tell
John to get out my pony, and then |
am going to take my cousin down to
the beach. 1t will be great fun
Mrs. Mills dearly loved her merry
boy, and could not bear to say anything
to mar his joy; yet she answered in a
very different way from what he ex-
pected:
Have you learned your lesson, Clin-
ton?"
90 no; forgot" said Clinton. '.But
what if | do not learn that stupid lesson
just for once?"
" Your teacher complained of you
yesterday, Clinton"
"Well, what if he did?'' said Clinton,
hastily. This charming weather is
too tempting. / can not stay in the
house and fix my mind upon my book. "
"But it was just the same in the win
ter"
81 know it. But then there was the
coasting and skating; | could not re-
sist them. 1t is no great matter if I DO
not get on very fast in my studies; my
father is rich, and I shall have plenty
Of time to 60 to school"
'And so, because your father is rich
you choose to be an idle, ignorant, use
less man?N said his mother, sadly"
Clinton looked both grieved and
vexed.
''Why, mother" he said, show you
do talk to me! You know that do not
choose to be such man as that; mean
to be like my father, and to have every
one respect me-"
"Then you must begin to form such
character now" said his mother.
"When your father was a boy he made
this maxim a rule of his life: Duty
before pleasure And however rich
you may be you will never succeed in
any useful pursuit unless you do the
same thing. A baby can not learn to
walk unless he uses his limbs, and q
boy can not grow wise unless he uses
his mind
Clinton was lad of sense; he saw
that his mother was right. He took
his book, threw himself face downward
upon the carpet, and SO applied himself
to his task that he soon sprang to his
feet. crying out:
II know it now, every word of it."
"And there is plenty of time left for
your drive responded his mother, as
joyfully. ''You can now take your
pleasure with a clear conscience. -
$50 | CAM said Clinton. I am so
glad that 1 did not 90 right off. Fathers
rule works pretty well, I find"
''Take it for yours, them" said Mrs.
Mills. wherever you are, in whatever
circumstances of life you may be placed,
attend to duty before pleasure. Thus
duties will not seem half so irksome
and pleasure will be doubly sweet. y
R1anafiot MLooLLL
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-05-11
Shakespeare'S Macbeth Taken From
the Bible,
Christian Union.

You will find the principal characters
of macbeth " in the Book of Kings.
Jezebel in the Bible is "Lady Macbeth
in the play. She it was that stirred up
her husband to do all the deviltry he did.
Then take Hazael, a servant to the King.
Under the influence of his wife, Jezebel,
he plots to kill his master, and become
King of Syria in his stead. This plot is
successful, and Hazael is crowned King.
This character exactly suits that of
g Macbeth. The minor characters can
also be found in the Bible. Of course
Shakespeare has altered the words, but
the plot and characters are to be found
there. DIR. Halsey, in his lectures on
Shakespeare in Princeton College,
stated that Shakespeare regular prac-
tice was to study the Bible seven hours
a day. There were not so many Bibles
in his time as there are now, but al
though very costly, he had one, and
made daily practice of studying it.
Where DIR. Halsey got his information l
do not know, but presume he is correct.
Though Shakespeare was undoubtedly
a great man, think he is considerably
oyerrated, so far as his originality is
concerned. think he was not endowed
with the genius of originality, but rather
with the genius of arranging the writ
ings of those gone before, and re-
writing them in an attractive STYLE
ReU. Richard Lee, ID. ID.
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Our Young Readers.
WHOSE BOZ AM n


Well-whose boy am I, anyway
fell down cellar yesterday
And gave my head an awful bump
flf You had only seen the lumpD:
And Mamma called me when i cried.
And Rugged me close up to her side
And said: IN kiss and make ii we'll.
Mammals own Boy. How hard he feuT'
When Papa took me out to play
Where all the men were making hay
He put me on old Dobbin's back;
And when they gave the whip a crack.
And off he threw me, Papa said
when got up and rubbed my head
And shut my lips and winked nv eyesl:
Papa's brave Boy. He never cries
And when go to Grandma s-well,
You'd be surprised if | could tell
OF all the pies and ginger-cakes
And doughnuts that she always makes,
And all the jam and tartS and such,
And neuer says: Don't take too much
Because, she says, he must enjoy
His visit, for he's Grandma's BoyI
& And Grandpa says: IN give him soon
A little pony for his own.
He'll learn to ride it well, know,
Because he's Grandpa's Boy Hol hol
And plenty other people say:
well, how are you, my Boy, to-day?'
Now, can you tell me. if you try,
How many little boys am I?
Sydney Dayre, in ". Y. Independent.
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The story is being whispered around

The story is being whispered around
that some time ago-months, not years
AN eminent Boston philosopher felt
the need of wife, presumably to COM
fort his declining years. Choosing
among his lady acquaintance a rather
bright woman, possessed of consider
able property, and the one who tells
this story, he offered himself to her.
The lady was presumably surprised; at
any rate she refused him decidedly,
and, as she thought, finally. He, how
ever, persisted in his wooing so manful-
ly and SO vigorously that in despera-
ton she told him that if he would
cease to press his suit she would give
him 1000" and-he took it.-Boston
Post.
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HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.
The parsnip is one of the best Of
I rccts Tor nailch COWS

The parsnip is one of the best Of
ali roofs Ior mich cows
The cider barrels are getting empty.
To prevent them from becoming nusty
this summer leave a few gallons in
them and bung up tightly Chicago
Journal.
-Molasses Cookies: Two cups
molasses, one cup lard, one-half cup
either cold water or buttermilk, two
large teaspoonfuls ginger, two large
teaspoonfuls salaratus and a pinch of
salt.-The Household.
Every cook knows how long a time
it takes, when it can least be spared, to
look over one or two quarts of beans.
Put the beans in a colander and all the
fine dirt viii be shaken out, and the
beans that are specked can be picked
out with ease, and in a very short time.
The granary should be entirely
cleansed at least once a year, or it may
breed weeyl in the old grain. The
wheat needed for -four for family use
should be ground during some warm
day in spring and kept in barrels in a
cool place during summer. - Cincinnati
Times.
The common harrow can be applied
to many more purposes than its COM
mon one of preparing the ground for
seeding. 1t is one of the best nipple
ments for fning manure after it has
been spread broadcast, more thorough
ly mixing it with the soil and making
the manure doubly effective. n 7.
Post.
The Gardeners Monthly advises
owners of fruit-trees to remember that
the trees, like grain and vegetable crops,
must have manure to keep up their fer
tility. An annual top-dressing is best.
Ii the manure can not be had, fresh
earth from bitches or foadsides spread
half an inch or so deep under the trees,
will have wonderful effect.
1t is every mans duty to avoid a
hen war by yarding his hens whenever
there is a possibility of their iniuring
his neighbors' property. The cost of a
hen-yard large enough for twenty-five
hens need not be very much A very
good fence can be made of small posts
set eight feet apart, with three strips of
boards four inches wide nailed on them
two feet long, and on the top four feet,
thus making fence six feet high. NJ
Y. Herald.
"A correspondent of the Toledo
Blade recommends the method follow
ing to rid the garden of moles: take
handful of yellow dent-corn and soak
it in hot water until the thin skin of the
kernel can be loosened; then take each
kernel and prick the skin over the
sprout Just enough to admit some ar
senic or Paris green. | use of the latter
mite as big as the head of pin; then
let the skin lie back over the hole and
dry. Second, take a small stick and
push it down in the dirt directly over
their hole (be sure not to go deep, then
drop in kernel or two of corn. The
moles will discover the corn and eat the
sprout." nN
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"A clever Yankee in Paris recently
opened booth on one of the boule-
wards and invited the public to enter at
an admission fee of three sous and in
spect the fashions of the times. One of
the conditions of admission was that
visitors were to say nothing outside
as to what they had seen. What they
saw was their own images in q large
mirror,
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Mr.. Brinkerhoff was rich, and gave
his property to his wife. That lady
divided it among her relatives and cut
Mr., Rrinkerhoff off without q shilling.
Mr.. BrInkerhoff sued to recover and
won the aait,-N 7. affbssle,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-17
BASEBALL.
Tho Anlhracitos, of PottsvIIle,

Tho AnIhracitos, OF POtLsvllie, In Town.
This afternoon tho game between the
professional Anthracites. from Pottsviile,
and the Ironsides club, is taking place on
the grounds of the latter. Tho strangers
arrived at $40 this morning, and arc stop.
ping at tho Stevens House. Their mana
ger, John A. Sullivan, Bryson i. McCool,
Counsellor Healy, II. NJ. Herr, and other
POttsville gentlemen, accompany the nine.
The battery of the visitors for to-day is
Welsh, pitcher, and Grudy, catcher, Mil.
Ter, the strong pitcher plays right field.
OF the home team. HofTord pitches. with
Sixsmith, tho new man, as catcher, Zecher
plays short with Schiller, another new
man at the first base. For the first time
the handsome score cards were sold on the
grounds to-day for the accommodation of
tho audience.
Yesterday tho Anthracites played tho
Active team of Reading and defeated them
by score of 4 to2. To morrow they 60
to Harrisburg and expect to vanquish the
nine there as they did on Saturday. The
Harrisburg team had considerable diff
Guilty in defeating the Brooklyn nine yes
terday, and only did so after fight of
eleven innings.
The 3" Fat" and Lean" mines OF the
Lancaster Mannerchor will play 4 match
game on the Ironsides grounds on Thurs
day afternoon.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-17
A C0po May Swell.

The chief dandy at Cape May changes
his suits five or six times a day. Early
in the morning he puts on q corduroy coat
and knee breeches, or knickerbockers,
such as bicycle riders wear, and in which
he takes a walk. On his return, he dresses
for breakfast in suit notable for wide
checks and loud yellow. At bathing time
he saunters down to tho beach in a
pajama that is to say, a loose
sack and wide trousers made of light
colored stuff, girlishly trimmed. and nor
mally worn in ones bedroom His advent
on the sands in such rig astounds those
who have not become accustomed to him,
and alarms them little, too, because they
get the idea at first that he is lunatic It
might be expected that he would be still
more remarkable when attired for the
water, but here comes disap.
pointment. He appears in a plain
and conventional bathing suit of
loose flannel, because he knows that his
attenuated form could not stand a com.
parison with those robust fellows who
bathe i'm scant tights. In the afternoon
he exhibits himself, for lounging or driv.
ing, in costume of white and in the
evening he squeezes himself into a seem.
ingly impossible black frock coat and
dark trousers. The former is conceiv-
able," says the writer, /" if he wears cor.
sets, as they say he does but how he gets
his pantaloons on is a problem. His legs
are small enough for the purpose. But do
his feet screw of and on, or has he dis
covered way of donning them shirt
fashion over his dear little head ?"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-17
SLIGHTLY nEmOKALIZED.

Sudden ChsDge OF mind by u Loving Couple.
Overheard in a Pullman car at the
Lancaster depot. Young married couple
on wedding tour
"Oh, George, what place is this ~
"This is Lancaster, dear. What do
you say to getting off here?'
Let me see, isn't this where President
Buchanan is buried ?"
g. Yes, love-"
ooh, then We mM stop here. You
know, George, how awfully anxious am
to SEQ the presidents graves, and l have
seen them nearly all, and Buchanan's is
one of those haven't seen yet Yes, well
stay here a day or So"
They reach the platform. Newsboy
cOnfronts gentleman.
Evening paper, sir Lancaster In
TELLIGENCER Ten new cases of small.
pox to day. Have a paper, sir ?"
Delicate shrek from young lady. ooh,
George, love, they have that hOrrid
smallpox here. We won't STOP"
They resume seats, aud tho train takes
them along.
The presidents s grave remains unseen.