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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-10-26
Little Freaks Of Fashion.

The English fashion of cropping the
hair short all over the head and form
inc it into little loose rings has again
reached America, and many ladies are
sacrificing their luxuriant tresses to the
Moloch of the present mode. During
an afternoon drive through a prominent
city in Canada, the writer lately no.
ticed no less than q score of ladies, both
English and American, thus shorn.
With this style of couture the jockey
hat is usually worn, excepting where
the fashion is followed by, middle-aged
women; in this case thet oque, or English
walking hat, is seen, as no larger or
broader hat can very well be kept Sc
cure without braid or puff to which it
may be fastened, These short ripping
locks are to great degree charming on
some heads-mostly with the round,
rosy-faced girls in their teens, or not far
out of them.
"A party of English young ladies, well
chaperoned. recently sojourning at
Montreal, Canada, carried slender
switch-canes of ebony, with small gold
heads, richly chased, and wore Jockey
caps of plain black velvet, which were
most becoming and natty looking. Both
cane and cap are said to be very fash
ionable abroad, both in England and
France.
Wide bracelets, heavily chased, and
bangles, lace-pins and dog-collars Of
various patterns, all of solid silver, are
again in the height Of fashion.
Trimmings of silk or satin upon trav-
cling dresses are new considered wholly
chad FORM
Painted lace capotes viii be the lead.
ing opera bonnets this year.-M 2.
EUeni9ag Post.
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per could not be made from II The e.
called rice-paper is made from rios
straw, and it is easy to imagine inst
how much rice there is in it. The
cigarette papers are neither more nor
less than a kind of tissue paper Of
different degrees of fneness; and that
statement came from the same manu-.
tacturer who told about the poison.
III IS well known that tobacco acts to
a certain extent upon the brain as
liquor does. Not long ago q gentleman
who was anxious to know how this
stimulant or narcotic-since it acts on
different natures in both ways-might
affect the brain of a growing boy, asked
one OF the leading physicians in this
city what his opinion was in regard to
the matter. This is what the physician
replied:
Il can tell you what You want to
know, or | can tell you how to find out,
without any of the bio words YOU are
afraid OF. Smoke one cigarette. then
put clean cambria handkerchief to
your mouth, and breathe through it two
or three minutes. You will find vel
low deposit which went into your lungs.
and If you have any common-sense Won
can tell yourself whether it is likely to
be injurious Had this physician
known of the story with which this
article begins, he could have said to
what extent it might be injurious.
Tobacco does not often kill people.
for we know lots of old men who have
always used it, and they are lively as
crickets, some bright boy may urge.
But if he will study into the mat
ter a little further he will prob
ably find out that these men
either did not use tobacco when they
were growing boys, but only when they
became men. with their minds and bod
les developed and hardened to endur-
ance, or that they had strong constitu-
lions, such as we seldom find among
our city lads of to-day.
And now, boys, for last argument,
even though it seems trivial one after
the terribly sad story which has been
told you. This smoking of cigarettes
makes you ridiculous. Grown people
think you silly and laugh at you when
they see you trying to be men by this
silly caricaturing of what all grown
up smokers themselves pronounce q
foolish and senseless habit-HGrper's
Young People. aseut Eht--
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A Chinese Restaurant in Paris.


An enterprising Chinaman has re-
Gently opened a restaurant in Paris,
and is now endeavoring to educate the
Western palate to appreciate the subtle
excellences of rotten eggs and BIRDS
nest soup. In order to prepare the
former luxuries in their full perfection,
fresh ducks eggs are covered with a
mixture of cinders, chalk, I've, soda,
powdered Iquorice-root, and oil, and
are then left for several months, until
their yelks become first grey and final.
ly black. The darker the yelk tbb
greater the delicacy. The birds nests
from which the far-famed soup is madH
are built by species of swallow that
abounds on the coast of Java, Ceylon
and Borneo, and practically consist OF
gelatinous substance Obtained from
marine plants. The nests are boiled
either in chicken broth or in milk of al
monds; and the result very much re-
sembles vermicelli soup, save that It is
far more costly The Chinese restau-
rateur also offers his customers smoked
sharks fins, dried cuttle-fish and salted
rats; but whether he will make a living
by the sale of such toothsolne dainties
as these to the Parisians is more than
doubtful. -St. James Gazette.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

President Arthur pays taxes in New
York on 1886, 600 worth Of property
~ r Times.
1t is said that Henry Ward Beecher
netted 5000 by his recent lecturing
tour.-Brooklyss Eagle.
m. Worth, the Partisan fashion
king. is fifty-five years old, fat, pleasant
looking and very bald-headed
Miss Chamberlain, the famous
beauty who has been the social sensa-
ton in England for couple of years,
has returned to her Cleveland home.-
Cleveland Leader
John L. Stoddard, the lecturer
upon European travel, who began his
course in the Brooklyn Academy the
other night, receives $4,000 a year sal
airy and all his expenses from his mana
gers.-N Z. Sun.
Mrs. Reynolds, daughter of FL
mira's millionaire, DR.. Eldridge, has
created sensation there by sending
her husband adrift because he was
spending the 50, 100000 she had Inherit
ed, foolishly.- Buffalo (N. - cypress.
Rev. H. Root, a bank President at
Valley City, Dakota, sued the Times of
that place for $4,000 damages for
charging him with perjury, embezzle-
ment and stealing Sunday-sehool cop
pers. The jury awarded him six cents.
Detroit Post
Bill Nye, the Western humorist, has
resigned the postmastership he held in
Laramie City, as well as his connection
with the Boomerang. He has concluded
to publish book to be called ssBaled
Hay" He thinks the title an improve
ment upon Walt Whitman's Leaves OF
Grass. - Chicago Journal.
Rosa Bonheur is sixty-one years
old, but is said to be full of energy and
in excellent health. In conversation
with a young artist not long ago she
said: ''My dear, you can't afford to ig-
more the opinion of the world, even in
small things If you do, you are sure
to suffer. 1t doesn't pay to be eccen-
trio, even if your eccehtricity helps you
along in your studies. You must re-
member that all studies are means to
an end, and you are to sacrifice nothing,
nothing whatever, that can defeat or
hinder that end. N Y. Graphic.
The editor of the Christian Com
maona0ealth, being asked if it is right for
Christians to read novels, answers as
follows: s'We do not see any more
wrong in reading a novel than in read
ing anything else, provided that novel
is worth reading at all. Truth may be
set forth in fiction in very forcible
way. The parallels of the New Testa-
ment are for the most part doubtless
constructed with imaginary characters,
but they are for the purpose of teaching
some important truth. When a novel
does the same thing it may be read with
profit. Still, we do not recommend the
reading of novels where the tendency is
to destroy the taste for more substan-
tial reading
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Lost and Found.

Company was expected at Vine Cot
tage. Jennie'S mamma had been busy
all the morning. She found small time
to look after her little girl. ~
Noontime came, and with it Jennie's
papa from his store. The store was not
far from Vine Cottage, and on the Same
street. 1t was in a small country town,
where grass and tall rank weeds were
allowed to grow on each side of the
streets.
Mammals eyes opened wide with sur
prise when she saw papa enter without
Jennie. where's Jennie?n were the
first words that greeted his entrance to
the kitchen.
"She has not been near me to-day,
the darling" said papa
''9ou surely can not mean thisp' eX-
claimed mamma ''She is always with
you at the store when not at my heels. y
"When did you last see herP' asked
papa, anxiously.
''She came to me about ten o'clock,
and asked tor her little pink bingham
sun-bonnet. | tied it over her bonny
brown head, and she scampered away,
throwing back kisses to me- said
mamma.
''Three hours ago! Bless her little
feet, where may they not have carried
her in that time?' 1.,.f ....
Papa's eyes grew misty as he ordered
a search to be made for the little lost
one. Every nook in the old house was
searched. Mile, the cook, even looked
into the great stone churn, though it
was one-third full of rich sour cream.
Mammals eyes were red and swollen.
No chip had been left unturned, under
which Jennie might be concealed. Once
Sue thought they had found her ''swate
gossoon; but jist We wait a bit!''
Pinned between pair of fine sheets,
in Jennie's little bed, was the old house
cat, Tom. He had on Jennie's night
gown and cap. 1t was no wonder he
had been mistaken for his little mis-
tress.
Papa says: 81 wonder where Rover
is!'' efr d. 7'9f.
Sure enough, where was Rover?
Papa found him locked in the store.
He remembered his coming and his
strange behavior. How his small, yell
low legs did fly when the door was
opened up the path which led through
the tall, rank May-weeds to the house!
Papa followed as fast as he could.
Rover stopped halfway up the path,
and looking towards papa, whined.
Coming up, papa saw something that
made him glad, There, Graded deep
among the white blossoms, lay Jennie,
fast asleep. Kisses awoke the wee
maiden, and she rubbed her sleepy
eyes.
And now. whenever I walk through
country lanes, recall with smile the
monday nap took. There, little peo-
pie, I've let the old cat out of the bag,
but never mind.-O Our Little Ones.
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HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Always separate sick animals from
The others. Y Herald.
1t is thought that farmers have seen
the worst of the potato bug.
Pumpkins are good food for mich
COWS, but are Of little value as fat-pro-
aucers.
If you see a toad by the wayside
carry him home and put him into your
garden He will kill the bugs, says an
exchange. Wait till next season now
"A reasonable application of wood
ashes is very beneficial in a garden.
But it is comparatively an easy matter
to make the application too strong,
especially if the ashes are unleached. =
Farm and Garden.
Minute Pudding: One quart Of milk,
salt, two eggs, about pint of flour.
Beat the eggs well; add the flour and
enough milk to make it smooth. But
ter the saucepan, and put in the re-
mainder of the milk well salted; when
it boils stir in the flour, eggs, ETC.,
lightly, let it cook well. It should be
of the consistency of thick corn mush.
OefVe Immediately With the following
simple sauce, viz: Milk sweetened to
taste and favored with grated nutmeg.
Detroit Post
An experienced gardener, of Indi-
ana, according to the Farmers -4dco-
cate, is of opinion that very few per-
sons who plant currant cuttings do il
at the right season of the year. 1t is
usually done in the spring, when intact
it should be done in the fall. He says:
Il have had a good deal of experience
in preparing cuttings. / always plant
my currant cuttings in the fall as soon
as the leaves fall off. They will make
durable roots two to four inches long
the same fall, while the buds remain
dormant. They will make double the
growth the next season if set in the
fall, that they will if not set in till
spring.
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HUMOROUS.


One thousand dollars i'll gold weighs
four pounds. That is why so many
newspaper men are ound-shouldered.-
CHICAGO Telegram.
Darwin says that Che monkey can
blush. He certainly ought to when he
sees the way his descendants are cut
ting up. Darlington Free Press.
"A case is on record where barber
and his victim were both happy. The
former talked on without interruption,
and the latter was deaf. NJ Y Mail.
Offended: II did not think my cousin
would have taken offense = said Mrs.
Ramsbotham, "but to my surprise he
retired in high gudgeon. "--Londom
Puncb.
"Oh," blushingly said the young
lady who had been offered congratula-
tions by a friend, "I'm not engaged
yet-but and she blushed more
deeply | expect to be by next week. =
The congratulations held over. LoWeD
Citizen
"A colored girl was heard the other
day to remark confdentially to a
friend: ssYes'm, 1 done write to my
gemman frien' dat Gle next time Iset de
day fur de ceremony it'll have to come
off; an he knows rs in earnest, for
put it in parenthesis. - Chicago Irib-
at7ae.
-Of the rich newspaper men, James
Gordon Bennett runs two yachts and
four-in- hands; Robert Bonner is the
owner of one hundred and seventy
horses Charles "A. Dana keeps a Pull
man parlor car, while we are putting in
a foundation for a barn. Marlboro
Times sa
-s'Begorra!n said an inebriated Hi
bernian, the other day, as he saw a
Chinaman's head sticking out of coal
hole in the pavement, ''phat do thin
haythin divils care for a tratie, at all,
at all, whin they've dug a tunnel clane
through, SO they havep'-Saaa Fran
cisco Post. gs
John Gyumber, the famous Hun
garian sleeper, was married few days
ago. From which it may be inferred
that John has not yet got his eyes open;
but married life will open them for him,
and keep him awake, if anything will.
AS the poet would say: ''Not another
long slumber for John Gyumber. y
.NorY1stoa01s Herald
Papa, can't / 60 to the store and
get me new dress?'' ''Why, child,
you have got plenty of good dresses"
Eyes, papa, but they are out of style. ;"
\ ."sNonsense, girl! the trees always come
out in the same style every spring, don t
theypn Eyes, papa, and they always
look green, too. = call right, 90 to
the store and get a dress. "-Boston
Post.
& s.You certainly play very well.'
said the music-teacher, encouragingly,
''but you have not had good instruc-
ton. If you will promise to practice
four hours daily will make an artist of
you in two years, and only charge you
my regular rates. By the way, where
do you ivep'' ''Next door; just got
lodgings there ''Oh! ali! yes-I for
got to say that your lingering is bad.
and it is now too late to correct it.
Take my advice and give up music al
together. - Chicago Times.
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Youths Department.
THE BOY TO THE SCHOOL
MASTER.

MASTER.
You've quizzed me often and puzzled me
TYou've asked me to cipher and spell,
You've called me a Ounce if l answered
Or doit If failed to tell
just when to say lie and when to say Ldu
Or what nine sevens may make,
Or the longitude of Kamschatka Bay,
Or the tforget-what s-its-name lake,
So think it's nv turn, do,
To ask a question or so of you.
The schoolmaster grim he opened his eyes.
But said not word for sheer surprise.
Can you tell what ''phen-dubs' means2 I
can.
Can you say all off by heart
The ''onery twoery ickery ann"
Or tell alleys and commons" apart?
Can you fling top, ! would like to know,
iii 1t huns like q bumhle-beel
Can you make a kite yourself that will go
Most as high as the eye can see,
Till it sails and scars like hawk on the
wing,
And the little birds come and light on its
string?
The schoolmaster looked, oh! very demure. n
But his mouth was twitching, I'm almost
sure.
Can you tell where the nest of the oriole
swings,
Or the color its eggs may be?
Do you know the time when the squirrel
brings
Its young from their nest in the tree?
Can you tell when the chestnuts are ready to
drop,
Or where the best hazel-nuts grow?
Can you climb high-tree to the very tip-top,
Then gaze without trembling below?
Can you swim and dive, can you jump and
run,
Or do anything else we boys call fun9
The masters voice trembled as he replied:
"You are right, my lad, I'm the Ounce" he
sighed.
e. j. Wheeler, in Wide Aicake.
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carried poison, and were firmly resolved,
if the summons should come, to die
rather than be taken. =
But great as was their love for each
other, their devotion to that which they
believed to be their duty was even great
er. Eugene, with the full consent of
her husband, placed herself unreseryed-
ly at the disposal Of the Executive Com
mittee, and offered to go Whithersoeyer
her services might be most useful to
the cause. But none had the heart to
require from them so terrible a sacri-
fee, and they remained together to the
last.
After the death of Alexander III. they
left st. Petersburgh-which had become
more dangerous than eyer-for the
south Of Russia, and from that time
forth, owing to Andres increasing
weakness, they were unable to take any
further part In the revolutionary move
ment. Early in the present year it
was deemed expedient for them to leave
Russia, and in May last they arrived in
Geneva, where they received warm
welcome from many old and faithful
friends. But death was written in AM
Dire face, and none who saw him could
doubt that the end was near. Eugene
never left his side; her devotion was
heroic, and the calmness of her manner
and the serenity of her spirit surprised
all who were admitted to her intimacy.
We knew afterward that it was the Sc
renity of irreyocable resolve, resolve
neither in life nor in death to be sepa-
rated from him she loved.
At nine o'clock on the morning of
August z, Andre, after cruel suferings,
closed his eyes forever. cit is i'm
ished, y said Eugene, turning to a friend
who was with her; sshis troubles are
over I am content" Then she ar
ranged the chamber carefully, as if she
expected solemn visit, and dismissed
her friend with the remark that, after
so many sleepless nights, she felt the
need of rest. When left to herself she
sat down and wrote a letter of farewell
to her friends. This done, she sat
down on the bed where lay the corpse,
swallowed large dose that she had
brought with her from Russia, and,
lying down, drew over herself the
same cloth with which she had yelled
the face of her dead husband. An hour
later, when member of the household
in which they had dwelt entered the
chamber of death, Eugene, though I'M
conscious, still lived, but it was impos-
sible to save her, and at three o. clock
in the afternoon she breathed her last.
Husband and wife were laid side by
side in the communal cemetery. and
followed to the grave by many mourn
ers who knew the touching story of
their lives 8t
In the Franjolis the party has lost
two of its most devoted members
but their deaths will not have been in
vain, and their friends will never for
get them. "They were noble repre-
sentatives," said one of their most in
innate friends in his funeral Grafton,
"of the Noradnaio VOLTA party. Let us
think of them as often as possible; let
the recollection of their heroism and
devotion encourage and strengthen Us.
To those who are not of us their lives
and their deaths will not only show
how Nihilists love one another, but how
they love their cause Genera Goa, an
London Daily NeDs. W @
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An Island Pond (Vt.) journal tells

=
the subjoined: Among the parties to
divorce cases held at the recent term
of our County Court was a couple who
had been engaged in an irrepressible
conflict for months, and so bitter were
they that they would not speak one to
the other. But as soon as the decree of
divorce was made and they left to take
the train, the emancipated man took the
valise of his amorette to the cars and
showed her the politest attention, and,
although their routes lay in different
directions, he accompanied her thirty
miles toward her home, when they went
into an artists saloon and had their
pictures taken together, and then left
in opposite directions.
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Neglected His Family.

mo, sir, I utterly and positively re-
fuse to listen to any excuse from you, =
said the Austin Recorder, impatiently.
but, your honor
s'There are no mitigating circum-
stances whatever. / have no sympathy
for the man who neglects his family
81 didn't neglect my family. I only
gave my neighbours boy warming
up"
That's just it. That's the trouble.
Here you have house full of children
of your own and yet you 60 out on the
street and wallop strange child to
whom you were under no obligation to
whip and leave your own children I'M
punished. Yes, sir, you are mulct, sir;
actually mulct in the sum of ten dollars
and costs. Call the next case. - eros
Siffi9ane
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The Latest Mississippi Story.

In Yazoo County, Miss, a party of
punters killed deer that had a human
skull impaled on prong Of his horn,
supposed to be that of a negro. The
prong had entered the cavity occupied
in life by the eye, and had grown up
around the bone, showing the skull
had not been put on recently. There
are various conjectures as to how it got
there, but the most prevalent opinion is
that the animal was wounded and
brought to bay by a negro, and had
killed the latter in the conflict which en-
sued, the prong entering the eye and
piercing the brain. The body of the
eer showed other wounds. He was
about as large as two-year-old cali.
Memphis l1san.l 6cinsefer.
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"7,HE GAY YOUNG NAN FROM
TOWN"

With fork in hand, one summer day.
Making a feint of tossing hay,
The gay young man who came from town
Talked with maiden small and brown,
With hazel eyes and chestnut hair,
Aud quiet way and modest air;
Nor did he seem to care or know
Jnat her blush was quick and voice was low,
For merely to fiirt with the maiden brown
was the ann OF the gay young man from town.
At incoming next the young man sat
beneatn an apple tree-sOur at that
ANA chatted with Susy such her nance
ABOUT the city from whence he came,
It's long, wide avenues, buildings vast,
lts ease and luxury unsurpassed;
While she, with bashful afr and shy,
Dropped low each eyelid over its eye,
a deep flush reddening features brown
AT words of the gay young man from town.
Some days he had spent in this rural spot,
Where health was plenty, and style was not;
Had left his club and his friends behind
For life that was true and unconfined,
With study lthe latest novel; worn,
With loss Of his hunting-dog forlorn,
And because of a sad dispute he had
With his governor" he styled HIS dad
All this he explained to the maiden brown,
With sigh, this gay young man from town.
First days, then weeks and where Susy went
The steps OF the gay young man were bent,
And sentiment followed flirting then,
AS CHANGED to many man of men;
FOR ne found his pulses quicken and stir
Whenever he saw or thought of her.
And learned alone to dream and sigh,
Or stammer and blush when she was nigh;
The eyes and blush of the maiden brown
Had captured the gay young man from town.
So he told his love and as he bent
in hope and fear to ask consent,
He told her the real reason why
He had cast his.home and xinsfolk by:
His father had babe him settle in life,
And had chosen for him proper wife,
Who did not stand on her worth alone,
With rich old father, and cash of her own,''
But he fed from her and his fathers frown,
And found his fate afar from town.
The maiden listened well the while,
And over her features came O smile.
Her father, she told him. had a plan
TO make her wife to a gay young man
Who did not stand on his worth alone,
With rich old father and cash of his Own;'
Reputed he was a handsome catch
But she objected to such match,
And, afraid to face her fathers frown,
Had lied to her old nurse here from town.
He stared; she smiled. Around her waist
lis arm in loving way he placed.
- n spite Of Will we must confess
The old folk triumph, nevertheless;
1t seems we ran from love away,
And lived to love another day;
And, plghted, going back again,
Our sires will laugh at us--what then?
Ills better far to laugh than frown''--
were the words Of the gay young man from
town.
Thomas Dunn English, IN ". ?. Ledger.