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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-03-02
Cured of a Bad Habit.

Little Matte was always getting into
mischief because she would not heed
what older and wiser people told her.
She always wanted to see for herself if
things were just as they were said TO
be.
One day she told her sister Amy, who
was much younger, that she was going
to get some honey out of the bee-hives.
The bees will sting you," said
Amy.
= l am going to see if they will. :"
said Matte; and she ran to the hive
and overturned it.
Out swarmed the bees in great num-
bers. They were very angry at being
disturbed, and lighted on Msttie's face,
neck and hands, singing her so badly
that she fell to the ground screaming
with pain.
The cook ran out of the kitchen and
picked her up. She was sick in bed for
several days, and you may be sure she
ne yer went near the bee hives again.
But she was not cured of meddling.
One day she leaned over the well-curb
to see how deep the well was
Take care. you'll fall in," said
Amy.
"No, won't fall in," said Matte;
but just as she spoke, over she went.
The well was not very deep, and
Matte did not get hurt at all: bnt she
had time to get very wet and to cry al
most a teacupful of tears before her
papa came and drew her up in the
wel-bucket. She caught cold, too, and
had to stay in the house for week,
and take very bitter medicine
But she was just as meddlesome as
ever and it took q very severe lesson to
cure her of her bad habit
Che day her brother Joe left his gun
in the hall while he went into the
kitchen for drink of water.
:" Don touch that gun, Matte, he
said cit is loaded"
Matte was playing with her dolls by
the hall door; but as soon as Joe went
away she ran to the gun and stroked it
with her hands.
She took hold of the gun and tried
to lift it, but it was too heavy. 1t fell
to the floor, and went off with loud
noise. nd Matte fell, tco, shot
through the knee.
1t was many weeks before she could
play out doors again, and then she had
to walk with crntch But she had
learned to let things alone. She was
cured of her bad habit. --(IWr Little
| Ones
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-03-02
Fast YOYageF.

In 1850 the average time between
New York and Liverpool was fifteen
days. In 1855 it was cut down to four
teen days. From that time to 1865 the
time was further reduced to eleven and
a half days, and this was considered,
and then was, extraordinary. But two
years later great improvements were
made, and eight days three hours and
one minute were re; orded, the exact
ness of the reckoning, even to a second,
being somewhat remarkabl when, I'M
like yacht race, no fixed point of de-
parture and arrival are established.
During the next ten years the fastest
voyage was made in December, 1865
seven days twenty hours and thirty
three minutes-but the average in 1875
was eight and half days, while the
best time in that year was seven days
fourteen hours and twelve minutes.
From that time down to 1883 came the
seven-day runs, and within the past
week one passage has been made
in foIr hours less than seven days;
but this. can hardly be placed on
the record to the credit of the
ship aking it, as the reckoning was
made from Sandy Hook to Fastnet
Light, at least four hou to the west
ward of Queenstown, to which point all
runs are generally calculated. But
these figures 90 to show what advance
ment is being made in the speed of
ocean steamships Y. Cor. Chicago
Tribune.
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"What does it all meanP William,

"What does it all mean? William,
my son, what the matter?''
William had no answer in a good
shape to give, but there were four or
five eager voices quite ready to explain
the matter, and then he almost wished
he had gone in the opposite direction
when he left the school house. His
mother and his two aunts and his sister
not one of them but took the words
right out of Polly Burbank $ mouth, and
said them all over, with a good many
more like them.
"Pelted home from school by all the
girlsr' exclaimed Mrs. Henderson at
last, with very red face. Come
right in here, William. Pm woman
myself Wen see about this. Go home,
girls all of YOU.
Mother" said his sister, ''we'd all
better go to the school-house with Viii
ham tomorrow morn ng. :"
"Of course we WILL :" said both his
aunts in breath; but they could hear
Polly Burbank say to little Kate Hen
derson:
lid you hear that? Guess he'd
rather be pelted, don't you?''
Guess he woald; but we've done all
we could for him. -
So they had, and that was the last re-
bellion of the kind that took place dur
ing all the time Miss Varick taught in
that district. = William 0. Stodddrd, an
HGrper's l0ung People.
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Temperance Items.

THE LIQUOR DEALERS cry out in IA
vor of "personal liberty" but by their
traffic they take away the personal lib
erty of large share of their victims
and leave them hopeless wrecks of hui
manity. -Baptist Weekly.
TIE SORROW which intemperance
causes was sadly lustrated in New
York court the other day when drunk
en- mother was sentenced to the Island
for six months. One of her little girls
begged the father in piteOus tones:
"Oh, papa, papa, don't send mamma
away" The husband, however, would
not relent, and the mother was taken
nto the prison with baby in her arms.
The GOBLET
Touch the goblet no morei
1t will make the heart sore
To its very core!
It's perfume is the breath
OF the Angel of DEATH
And the light that within it lies
Is'the flash of his evil eyes.
Beware, o bewarel
For sickness sorrow and care
-IOnq fetoW.
A TEMPERANCE LECTURER in London
gave some rather startling statistics the
other day about the amount expended
in drink in Great Britain The annual
average for ten years past he put down
at 81, 200, GOO, 900, or $50, 900, 900 every
month, $15, 600, 900 every week, and
S25 every second, night and day. He
calculated that there are 3.50S, $50 let
tiers in the Bible, and if 5000 were placed
on each letter the total would not amount
to quite the entire expenditure.
A CORRESPONDENT OF the Christian
Register writes that he has discovered
q town near Chicago in which there are
no sa'oons, and, consequently, no
drunkenness. Being in Pullman, the
other day, he inquired: "Where are
your policemen?'' 1--WE have none, and
we don't need any, was the reply.
THE demon of drink is excluded.
Pullman is Prohibition town. There
are no saloons; consequently no drunk
enness; therefore no pol cemen are To-
guired! What a lesson to other towns.
Hyde Park for instance, which pays not
much less than $50, OC0 for drunkenness
in the pol ce and poverty rendered nee
sssary and growing out OF it.--ea'ca9o
Standard.
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Our Young Readers.
MASTER QUTG.

This tales of little Master Ouig.
Who, being little, wasn't big:
And many said, who understood.
That, being bad, he wasn't good
When from his school he ran away,
Most people thought he didn't stay:
And / have heard, from those who know,
When he ran fast. it wasn't slow.
He always studied when compelled,
And always staid when he was held,
And always slept when not awake,
And left the thing he could not take.
To go to sea one day he planned,
And being there, was not on land;
And so stuck on a bar-alasl
For, being stuck, he could not pass.
The dark CHIT found him in a fright,
For, being dark, it was not light.
The big waves rose and filled the boat,
And being full, it could not ho3t.
And so. as | have heard it said,
They found him in the morning dead,
And m en- of sense DO still maintain
He never more was seen again.
-NdTy A. Barr.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-03-02
A CHANGE In FORTUNE.


Mr.. Timothy Bloom, salesman in Mr..
Crabb's big retail dry-goods store, was
stealthily eating his lunch in dusty
corner amongst some empty packing
boxes. 1t was not very good lunch,
and warm as the day was, he had but
one glass of ice water to drink with it.
A very mild, pleasant-looking young.
fellow was Timothy Bloom, with ewes
Ike n pretty girls, and fair hair parted
down the middle; but he was rather
doleiul at this moment, for Crabbe. SEN
iol, had just been abusing him for per-
hitting q lady, who was not to- be suit
ed by mortal salesman, to get off with
out buying anything, and had likewise
informed him that he had been five sec
onds late that morning and would in
consequence "be deducted an eighth"
on Saturday evening"
That was not pleasant and Mr.
Crabbe manner was not pleasant, and
the dusty corner and the stale sand
witch were not pleasant And who can
wonder that poor Timothy Bloom, look
ing up at n row of decorated corset
boxes above his head, anil taking his
idea from the winged in ant pictured
upon them, remarked, under his breath
II wish was a cherub.'
AT this moment, even rs the wish
UTTERED up to the corset boxes, a little
boy, about three feet high, bearing on
his bosoma badge with the enormous
numI er1lS', came around the counter.
and hXed his pathetic eyes on Mr.
Bloom glass of water.
M Dloo,..
pathetically, 'won' you give me lust q
mouthful of that waterP Mr.. Crabke
says us eashes amt to have no drinks.
and I'm chokin' /"
Mr.. Bloom smiled pitifully at the
child, forlorn widows bread-winner.
and said mildly, as he held out the
glass:
Here, Johnny, take half. I'd t
you have it all if we were not limited to
one glass ourselves"
Guess water is gettin' dear" said
johnny, eagerly swallowing the share
allowed of the cooling draught, but
scrupulously careful not to exceed the
permission
Thank zee. You're a brick. Mr..
Bumps hit me lick when asked him.
Here, have the paperp A customer left
it on the desk. Save it for me to take
home to mar when go home tonight.
She likes to read the murders and them
things"
Cash 11s9r' shr;eked a fema E
voice. %Cash! Cashm
Its Miss Pringle. | mu 90"
whispered Johnny, and sped away in
terror ~
There We're ten cash boys in the store,
and they had been numbered high to
sound well.
Mr. Bloom peeped around the boxes
at the clock, saw he had ten minutes
more to himself, and opened the paper.
The first thing his eyes lighted upon
was an advertisement of fine country
seat for sa e. and he read it through
the description OF the stables, barns.
bath tubs, consept atory, veranda, lawn
ana kitchen garden; the well. the octa.
gon parlors and the cupola; the tiled
halls and frescoed ceilings, as though he
intended to buy it Tor himself that after
noon.
Then he cast his eye upon an account
of how Mr.. Mullen had beaten Mrs
Mullen, and been arrested for so doino.
and then he found himself reading y
paragra h to the effect that the hers OF
Timothy Bloom of Lancaster, England,
i living, might hear Of something to
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-03-02

said Hetty; for, after all, money isn't
everything
It seemed too sudden to last" said
Mrs. White. Inever trust these law
yers.''
& So the good souls comforted him.
and after a while. when he asked Hetty
to take little walk with him. she con
scented.
There was little park on the OPP
posite side of the street, and though
the. gates were locked they wake j
around its ratings. Their talk was lone
and earnest, and at last Timothy said:
well, Hetty, poor as / am, will you
promise to marry me some day?n
And she had answered, eyes, Tin"
very simply and so it. was settled; and
for a young man, recently reduced from
aHuence to poverty, Mr.. Bloom certain
" looked very happy as they went home
together. But it was only when Mrs.
White had given her loving consent to
his marrying Hetty when they had
enough for bread and butter, that he
made confession:
II can't keep it to myself any longer,
grandma. / wrote that letter myself.
I'm as rich as | ever was, and I've
tested my friends. Old Crabbe has
proven false, and you have proven true.
Ifelt sure about Hetty all the while;
and when we are married you must live
with us. and there shall be no more
hard work and boarders for you in this
world, you dear old soul
After which the reader is to under
stand a wedding and happy life for
all.-Mdry KyEe Dallas. IN N Z Ledger.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-03-02
An Al sen.-lIinded Farmer.

Wednesdays Times contained some
singular accounts of absent minded
ness. which, it is believed, are rivaled
by the freaks of a farmer living at
Shuts Corners, hamlet two miles
from Coble kill. Last summer he
drove to Cobleskill, accompanied by his
wife to do some trading. After spend
ing several hours in the village. he drove
home alone, did his chores and.
upon going TO the house, was provoked
that his better-half, who was not to be
seen, had made no preparation for sup
per. Hefailed to find herin the house,
and in a few moments she arrived home
in conveyance rom the village, where
she had been anx olsly awaiting her
husband appearance. At another
time he rode horse to the village to
have it shod He was engaged until
evening, when he walked home, after
waiting some tine for a rde His vie
recalled 10 his mind the fact that he
had lett his horse in the village, and he
returned or it, Troy ca. T.. Times
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-03-02

They are now telling story about
a Chicago girl who insisted on throwing
her shoe after a newly married couple.
The carriage is total wreck, a doctor
has the b ide and the horse under treat
ment, and large numbers of men are
searching the ruins for the groom. =
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-03-02

"A lady writes You say that girls
who want to ha good mplexions
should wash their faces with almost
boiling water. Not only girls should
do this, Tut women who do not want
to have wrinkles. lam abo fifty. and
/ have not cot a wrinkle. This is due
to my having washed my face night
and morning with very, very hot water
The water tightens the skin. and pre-
vents it from wrinkling. "-Lopdora
Truth.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-03-02

The old mathematical problem Of
how to ,uare circle has been solved
at last, as furnished by a subscriber to
the New York World. Here it is
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$50 you say he called you liar and
kicked you twice. Now what did you
give him back in return for these as
sets?' inquired the Austin Recorder oil
the accused.
/ just kicked him twice and called
him a liar was the reply.
" Did you kick him with the same
emphasis with which he kicked you,
and on the same portion of his body?''
| did, your honor"
Then you paid him back just as
much as you g t?.''
81 die"
''Then l dismiss the case. This
court holds that where litigants among
themselves harmon;ously make friend
" exchange, each one receiving a valu-
able consideration for services rendered,
the arrangement between them will not
be disturbed, the object of the law be-
ing to promote the harmonious rela-
tons already established. Ieras ,SStt-
t9ags.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-03-02

The New York Commercial -Adver-
User says that it is difficult to conceive
how so large and unwieldiy body as
a railroad car could be smuggled, and
yet the Toronto car work people at
London, Ont, declare that $50, 900
worth OF American cars have been
smug9led into Canada. 1t would not
surprise us to hear that an entire court
house had found its way into the do.
minion.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-08-18
ruy cyo,yp,

The health authorities hctc are on the
alctt 10 takc cvcty prccaution in Honolulu
In case cholera. which Is now In London,
Paris, Alexandra and parts VI Russia. shall
come here via New yotk and san Fanciaco.
Il must hr remembered thar The health authnr
ties NJ Honolulu have iof thcii head the man
of all oihcr who IS chiefly responsible fot
tdlng with lrpoy In our midst, and who
recently, after q gtcit parade about saving the
community and the native race from the
horrors ot smallpox, In the Madms mu,,llc. dill
the ycry thing he had positively refused to do,
on The ground II pretended health consde,.
aiions, and allowed hundreds II passenger. ia
land, among whom many were ~ with the
disease The question of the possibility oi
cholera entering our port " one not a. h.
passed ovct lghllYl and, should II oncc become
rpMtmif here, Wr much mhiuigr lhr cum
munity u i,s demand lor a fcnspn he oppressed
In any uncertain tone, II will hc only we'll
iot the health authorities, II they are, a. the
organ says, con the alert to take every PIE
caution In Honolulu, and at MI Other port,
Of entry on The islands Il need moi declare
itself here, II fRffy precautions arc adopted.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-08-18

The first document promulgated owe, the
signature oi the new minister OF the interior Is
stated by competent authorities to contain two
mis.staiemcnts, one regarding the amount Of
fdim required, and the other that hard epi an |
no, hard plfd is the food required A GOOD
commencement; how will it he when tenders
oi more complicated natures are issued. can
the public be justified in having confidence in
the statements p Uaauiian Ga.fkte, August
18th.
The above paragraph is incorrect as to fact;
and rs to inference, more than necessarily
Synioal. Hard poi, and not hard paiai. Is
properly descriptive Of the article required.
What is wanted at the prison, is taro suff.
ciently well pounded and free liom Jumps TO
bc ready for use upon mere mixing with the
hand. and yet sufficiently hard to obviate
RAPID fermentation. g Hard paiai," is the
crudcs' form of pounded taro, too lumpy to be
made into ordinary poi Tor al wali) without a
great deal OF further pounding. As To the
mistake IN naming the quantity needed, the
responsibility is with some one else than the
minister of the interior-morc properly. per
haps, the marshal
The readiness here shown 10 cayil is no,
honest opposition; and the ground Of objection
would be only trivial, even il the statements
relied on, were actual facts. Fair opposition.
on principle, TO public man, will always be
distinguished by intelligent people fron that
which thinks nothing too mean 10 fling N an
oPt,,'hent-, OPPOSITION.
Honolulu, August II, 1854.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-08-18
ROND IRREGELIRIrIES.

| How alou, "Trcasury Bondsp" Section /,
Of the Session Laws Of 1852, reads as follows
| All sums borrowed OF authorized TO he ap
Piled under this act shall be paid TO the min
.''e' VI hna'''c, a,' s''a' pe nun P'ce'
Fund. and NO nan o( Tho money hall on an,
pretencc be paid. used or applied, directly OF
indirectly, either temporarily on otherwise, te
~ 'ot any pubic use OF Pulpose o,nei mar
hc,.rv d;,ec,cJ 10 he ,n,i;eJ
section or,mo,,,.. ,ho.. ,t,.,rnos..r =.
c,u,
N"'''s anu p''"geS "nu ran roaa custom
mouse an1 S'o'es; hah"'ui custom mouse ana
works, tax.assessor, etc. /; iire.proof buildings
for supreme court and other records building
ana repairs oi court houses ana ioek-ups'
Of landincs. cnra,r,ccmcn, Of inn,io,a,ion
Th,, r,,r,, ;rs,on.as If onor ,.;o,,,ior .,
bo,b the lotto, anil s,,;,;, NJ ,b;s i,,, bo,, o.
eprred is fac, p,,rn, 10 al, A,borcb tho
l,,y ;s d;s,inc, IN, co,s,,ue,;o, i, ,ec,,1 :,
the issu,nc. If honds r., c,sb onI, !, l. ac,
tba, bonds have M, orl, bcen nail M, in can.
collation. of debt. but have been used for nur.
nos.s o,he, ,h,, ,hose s,,,c;,,.d &c ,h,. ,,,,r,,
h.Id :, c,n,o,,,I,,;,,, ,c tho 90, Con,,.o,o.
who have done ,ove,rmen, vo,l h,ve,ecc;y,.1
,he;, n,vmcr, in honJs and h,,,. og.rcd II
the morLc, the bords en- oo,,cn for s,I, AZ ,
6c,re Ices IN, NAM, no, con, ,b,, ,,c;r l,,..
value. They have becr.,,,,,. loo. for purcbases
in direc, contrayen,ion of law. and notably so
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-08-18
rHE Madras AInnL cAsE.

a decision in admiralty was rendered last
Monday by Chief Justice Judd, in the case OF
the libel Of the president Of the board Of health
against the steamer Madras. The testimony
on which the decision was rendered was in
effect resume Of what has already appeared
IN the columns Of the Press and other papers.
The concluding portion Of Judge Judd's deci.
sion is interesting, as il clearly sets forth the
common sense view Of the whole subject al
issue. II the advice Of the most intelligent in
the community hal not been set aside by the
board Of health, the final action Of the hoard
would have been its initial action large
sum OF expense would have been saved to the
tax payers and the peril Of death among the
Madras passengers greatly decreased. Perhaps
no more stupid mismanagement Of an i'm
ponant case was ever made by similar public
body and made, too, with the apparent
mc,ive OF gaining popularity among the natives
by posing as defenders of the public health
against dreaded discase This was done To
the injury Of the owners, agents, officers and
passengers Of The ill.faied Madras, which was
kept with infection on board long after
humanity and common sense dictated trans
lei of either the sick or the well to the reef !;
ami was done without protecting the public
one whit better than lawful and sensible
quarantine would have done,
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-08-18
Prolan,,u al Nnmsen,,,.

EDITOR SATURDAY PREss-Sir. On 'tb,
PLAINS, near the Lunalilo Home, an ALLEGED
gentlemen who glories in the martial title o
"cap,ain, daily indulges in the pas,imc o
putting decidedly awkward squad of dozcr
OF less through series of cvoutions, tlieni6ed
IN the mind of the Constructor by the name
of cavalry tactics.
Without pausng to inquire whether this al
legged 'captain" ever held a more exalted
place in any foreign service than tha, Of lance.
corporal in the Royal Invisibles, or Stopping
to criticise his military genius in having utter,
lailed to elevate the standard Of excellence in
his command TO grade above that usually
possessed by the Sedentary Militia, | would
call attention 10 one feature Of his teaching.
which IS probably no, in his contract Of ser.
vice. refer to the proiane volubiliiy or vol
ube profanity, by which that hero Of Heaven
knows how many fights distinguishes himself.
on each occasion OF a muster for drill.
The Captains" lungs are remarkably well
developed, the trade winds are most effective
IN carrying his voice to the contiguous homes
oil numerous citizens to leeward, and the effect
oil his billingsgaie upon the sensitive cars of
ladies', who cannot escape hom the ordeal
without renouncing their homes, may he mag
med but nor described. The appropriateness
OF the provcrb, "swear like a trooper.n has
been demonstrated to The residents OF that loss
caliy since the advent of the polished moralist
named, and the compulsion Of listening TO his
daily indulgence in profanity Of extreme em.
phasis and faultless iluency. The alleged
captain should not now consider himself
discoursing for the ediication Of Aa6if,.fy of
pot'houses or provincial barracks, but should
recolect that he is in the midst Of a respectable
community, andgovern his tongue accordingly.
=. OccAsIA
Honolulu, August IS. 1885,,