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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-02-09
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Wild mint scattered about the house
will rid it of rats and mice.
Warm soap-suds will keep the bugs
off house plants and make them grow
very fast.
"A paste made of whiting and ben
zoin will clean marble; and one made of
whiting and chloride of soda, spread
and left to dry Tin the sun, if possible)
on the marble, will remove spots. Chi
cogo journal.
"A rich rice pudding cold is excel
serve on small plates. 1t should be
made early enough in the day to be
perfectly cold at dinner time, or it will
be impossible to cut it in slices. m 7.
Post.
-Gilded frames of mirrors and pict-
ures are beautifully cleaned by apply
ing the white of eggs with a camel's
hair brush. To prevent flies settling
upon them, wash in garlic or onion wa
ter. Do not fear the odor. as it soon
dies away, and brightens the gilt.
To make nice sliced apple pie,
line pie-plate with crust, sprinkle it
with sugar, fill it with tart apples sliced
very thin, with little sugar and cinna-
mon scattered over them; add few
small bits of butter and tablespoonful
of water if the apples are not Juicy;
sprinkle with -four, cover with top
crust, and bake for about quarters
of an hour. - Chicago NeaOS.
"A correspondent of the MasSactat-
sets PEowntGn says that potatoes
greened by exposure to sun and air
while growing, if planted for seed are
quick to grow, but the resulting crop
consists largely of small sized tubers.
Unripe potatoes used for seed do not
give quite as good results as those
which are fully matured.
White worms, which infest occa-
sonally all soils where plants are kept
in pots, may be removed as follows:
Lime water may be sprinkled over the
soil, or little. slaked lime may be
sprinkled also on the earth and in the
saucer of the pots. Lime water may
easily be made by shaking a large piece
of lime in pail of cold water, letting
it settle. and then bottling for use.
Give each pot tablespoonful twice a
week.
Here is recipe for molasses cook
les, and if it is followed exactly the
cookies are excellent Two cups of
New Orleans molasses, one scant cup of
brown sugar, eight tablespoonfuls of
boiling water, one cup of shortening
Clutter and lard in equal quantities is
bestN, three teaspoonfuls of soda, one
teaspoonful of salt and one of ginger,
two eggs, well beaten, added the last
thing, flour enough to make a soft
dough. The only danger in making
these is that you will be tempted to
make the dough too hard at first. You
must bear in mind the fact that the
dough becomes harder after each
kneading. N. Y Post.
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A Comedy of Errors.

A ludicrous incident recently took
place in Liverpool. There are two
brothers who parted many years ago
when boys, one of them going to Amer
lea to seek his fortune and the other
remaining in Liverpool to make it.
They have both been eminently success
full in this respect, and not long ago the
brother in America determined to visit
the brother in England. The time of
the visit was settled by correspondence,
and the American set sail. The English
man is a notorious wag, and arranged
that an acquaintance should meet the
American as his brother and conduct
him to the hotel. The Amer. can, who
was also great wag, on the trip de-
cided to play exactly the same joke on
his brother, asking an acquaintance
whom he had met on the ship to per-
senate him for a few hours. The &C
quaintance entered into the spirit of
the joke, and when the vessel arrived
at Liverpool was found by the person
ator of the English brother and driven
to the hotel. The real American broth
er followed more leisurely, chuckling
over his joke. In the meanwhile the
English brother had also gone to the
hotel, bursting with merriment over his
Joke. 1t happened that the two real
brothers met in the lobby of the hotel,
and, though they had been parted so
many years, they knew each other. At
first, with blank amazement, they
greeted each other; and then, as they
explained their mutual jokes. laughed
long and heartily. But the climax was
vet to be reached. An explanation in
regard to the gentlemen who had per-
sonated them, and who were now, as
they imagined, playing huge joke on
each other. showed that they also were
brothers who had been separated from
boyhood, but who did not know each
other when they met. The first pair of
brothers hurried up to their parlor, and
after the situation had been explained
all around, the comedy of errors was
pleasantly ended by an old-fashioned
English dinner. London Truth.
Jay Gould has appeared in the role
of improver of public morals. When
he discontinued the late trains over the
Metropolitan Elevated Railroad. he gave
as his excuse that they were ''condu-
Give to late hours and dissipation. "
's1f they do not rum he argued, ''peo-
pie who do otherwise, will go home,
and the tone of society will be i'm
proved. ''-N, 7. AGil
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Rules for Pies and Puddings.


In boiling buildings, mind that the
cloth be perfectly clean. Dip it in hot
water and dredge it well with flour If
bread pudding, tie it loose; # batter
Pudding, tie it nearly close; apple and
gooseberry pudding, etc, should be tied
quite close. When you make a batter
pudding, first mix the flour well with
milk, and stir in the other ingredients
by degrees; you will then have it smooth
without Jumps The best way. however,
for a plain batter pudding is to strain it
through course hair sieve, that it may
have neither Jumps nor the treadings of
the eggs, and for other buildings strain
the eggs when they are beaten up. Be
sure the water boils when you put your
pudding in, and that it keeps boiling all
the time, and that you keep it always
covered with water; yoI sho I'D also
move it about two or three times at first
or it may stick to the pot; dip the pud-
ding into cold water Immediately you
take it out, which prevents it sticking.
If you boil your pudding in a dish or
basin, butter the inside before putting
the pudding in; the same should be
done to the dish for baked pudding or
pie.
The quality of the pie crust depends
much on the baking. 1.-THE en- be too
hot, the paste. hes les being burned. will
fall; il too slack it will be soddened,
and consequently heavy. e
Paste should be made on cold,
smooth substance, such as marble, with
Eight, cool hand. 1t should be, m ide
quickly; much handling makes it heavy.
Great nicely is required in wetting the
paste; too little moisture renders It dry
and, crumbly, while, too much makes it
tough and heavy, and in either case the
paste can not be easily worked. Prao-
tice alone can produce perfection in this
art.
Before commencing to make paste
for pies OF pudding, tits necessary to
place near at hand everything likely to
be wanted, to inspect all the utensils, to
prepare all the ingredients, and though
last not least, to wash the hands and
nails perfectly clean, for the hands are
the best tools to make, paste with.
Always use good sweet butter, drip
ping or lard for pudding crust Some
persons entertain the mistaken notion
that butter which can not be eaten on
bread will do very well for paste; on the
contrary, the making or boiling of ran
cid fat increases the bad flavor. It is
good plan to wash the butter in clean
spring water before using it. Make two
or three holes with fork in the cover
of your pies, that the steam NAV es-
cape. = Germ G7atO1O71 Tel graph.
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Youths Department.
.MAMMHs LITTLE COMFORT

know little grille
With loving dyes so blue,
And lips just made for smiling,
And heart that's kind and true.
She wears no dainty dresses,
No jewels does she own,
But the greatest of all treasures
Is her little self alone
Her name Is Mothers Comfort"
For all the live long day
Her busy little fingers
Help mothers cares away.
The sunshine loves to gIisten
And hide in her soft hair,
And dimples chase each other
About her cheeks so fair.
Oh. this darling little grille,
With the diamonds in her eyes.
Makes in mothers heart a sunshine
Brighter far than foods the skies.
But the name that suits her better,
And makes her glad eyes shine,
Is the name of Mothers Comfort
This little treasure mine.
Mary D. Brine, in Golden Days.
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strong and sincere this time. And Jane
heard that young decorator from New
York had come up to attend to the
paper and the ceilings. This young
man came to see her one day, sending
in a modest card:
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.The Meanest Bnsiness on Earth.

A dealer in Lowell, Massachusetts,
told me in private conversation: g 1t is
the meanest business on earth; | would
not do it but to make money. And
when in a few years have n, ade enough
to be independent, solemnly swear I
will never sell another Drop
This acknowledgment brings cut a
practical point. 1t tells Where the money
goes. The drinkers money goes to
make the dealer rich All the dealer
cares for man is his money. When
he has no more to spend at the bar he is
cast INTO the street as indifferently as the
orange-peel is robbed of its juicy pulp.
Now, young man. and all men, want
your manhood to rise in self-respect
and say: This thing shall stop; will
not be bled to enrich ano.her.'' The
pocket-nerve is one of the most sensi-
tive, and | press the instrument on this
nerve to make it throb with pain at the
thought of spending another dollar for
that which is not bread, and your hard
labor for that which satisfeth not.
Spending money for that which is n t
thread =" means TO spend it for that
which does not. benefit us. Giving the
lrulG OF - LABOR Tor what SatlSheth not
is giving it for what does not minister
to our welfare. No expenditure of
money answers 70 this Indictment like
the useless, wasteful. destrdctfd squan-
dering of it for intoxicants as bever-
age. 1t yields no benefit, but always
loss always injury, to mind, body and
estate. 20
You pay money to the merchant, the
grocer, the butcher, and get fair re.
turn in clothing and food. You spend
money for books. concerts, lectures, art,
music and churches, and get informa-
ton, culture. refinement, improvement.
But the money expended for intoxicants
yields no return of benefits. but brings
poison poverty, distress and ruin
Req. j. o. Peck, D. d.
On THE SIJNDAY which preceded last
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GRANDPA'S VALENTINE.

may not claim her lovely hand,
MY darling and my pridel
Irnay not ask her tobecome
My bright and beauteous bride;
The measure of my love for her
May not be said or sung;
And all because I'm rather old,
And she is rather young.
may not clasp her slender waist,
And thread the may dance;
may rot drive her in the Park,
With steeds that neigh and prance.
may not tempt her with my lands,
Nor buy her with my gold;
And all because she's rather young,
And am rather old.
She leaves me for younger swain,
a plump and beardless boy.
She Sights me for a sugar-plum,
Neglects me'fOr toy. .F
And worst of all, this state of things
Can never altered be;
Fer / am nearly sixty-eight,
And she is only three.
-YO1nI'S Communion
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IT HAS BEEN DECIDED by a jury in
Cortland County, N. Y, that lager
beer is Intoxicating, and an unlicensed
seller of the beverage has gone to iail
for couple of months
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Girls and the Pledge.

uOn see WnaC 5 Cno use OF girls
signing the pledge and joining Temper
ance societies and such things,n said
pretty Minnie Proctor the other day, as
she tossed back her head and seated her
self at the piano. ''Girls never drink,
anyway; it's only men and rough boys"
"Guess your education's been neg
lected in that direction, Min," said her
brother Harry. ''Girls ought to sign
the pledge if for nothing else than to
help them keep from offering wine to
callers on New Years Day. Lots of
them either drink, or help to make men
drink, and l guess they need a pledge
as much as men and boys do
80, well, l suppose some of the rich
ones do. where they have vine in the
house all the time" returned Minnie;
"but we don't have it. What do want
to sign a pledge for?''
"1he time may come when you II
need it as much as Harry ever will, )"
said Uncle Fred, looking up from his
paper. 81 am not sure but that wom-
en- are in almost as much danger now
adays as men, I've just been reading
something to the point in the morning
paper. Listen:
"' Yesterday morning, about two
o clock, drunken woman was found
half dead in the refuse race near the
gas works From what could be
learned at the time, she was under the
influence of liquor, and had fallen into
the ditch while walking about looking
for more of the stuff.
Even though you may never be
tempted to drink or to put the cup to
the lips of another" continued Uncle
Fred, '"you ought to put your name to
the pledge. It might influence some
one else to do the same thing, who
would otherwise yield some day to
temptato on, and get as low as this
drunken woman who lay in the ditch
yesterday morning. Don't always
think of yourself, Minnie, when such
matters as this come before you. Learn
to act for the good of others
Minnie Pro tors name looked up
from the pledge after hat day, sending
out its in iuence in favor of total absti-
nence. Did you ever think, girls, how
much it may mean just TO have your
name written where it will cast an in
fiuence for good?-Royat Road.
The LATE CAPTAIN EPHRAIM MUIR
DOCK, of Winchendon, Mass, would
allow no liquor to be sold on his real es-
tate. 1t is related that on one occasion
he had learned that grocer who rented
one of his stores was selling ardent bey-
erages on the sly. Captain Murdoch
visited the store and charged the dealer
with the offense, but the latter denied
the charge. "Bring out those liIuor. or
l will pull the store down over your
headr' exclaimed the decided owner OF
the building. The grocer knew that his
landlord made no lille threats, and
promptly rolled out the liquor casks.
~
THE CRIMINAL COURT GRAND JURY
made special report at St. Louis. re-
Gently, stating that eighty per cent of
the crime and pauperism of the city is
attributed to the saloons, and recon-
mending that the minimum license of
places where whisky is sod be fixed at
$1,000, and that wine or beer dealers be
taxed $500.
IT HAS BEEN DECIDED by a jury in
Cortland County, n. Y, that lager
beer is Intoxicating, and an unlicensed
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On THE SUNDAY which preceded last
Christmas, there were twelve murders
reported in this country, and liquor was
responsible for eleven OF them. -Detroat
Post.
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Lazy OF worth ana beauty 1alr,
In whom dwell all sweet gifts of grace,
My heart, my love, my thought, my care,
Are slaves before thy gentle face!
YRt, dare ask? Obi grant, to me
The gift of kindly thought from thee!'
And putting the box with the cups
and the verses under his arm, he walked
in the dark February evening to Aunt
David's house, to leave the gift for
Mistress Jane.
Time went on. Nor did Mr. Hart
speed in his wooing. Aunt David babe
him persevere, and he and Jane had
many a long talk. He was very good
and true, Supplemented and strong,
and she could not but like him. He
even talked again of love, but she
begged that he would not mention that
word, Friendship was possible, but
And the doctor came to get his
thanks. Sly doctor; he began to teach
her to paint on china; she, the artistic
girl, who loved beauty and art, and
hated the ugly and the tasteless. They
copied the cap with the mirror. It
seemed to be James favorite, for what
may we not hope who seek for visions
in the haunted land behind the looking
glass. 1t is a magical experiment, this
looking in the mirror.
And then came dark shadow across
the mirror, and Aunt David, strong and
well the day before. suddenly lay down
and died. Perhaps she had suspected
that all was not well with her; perhaps
she had not been so unwise in her ad-
vice to Jane, for after tea cane the cold,
hard, disappointed George retterton.
and she, who was so beset with lovers,
she, poor Jane, was turned out of
house and home, penniless young
girl.
And over the doctor had come the in
evitable end of extra agance and I'M
/ paid bills Parrot Folly'' was sold
over his head. and his collections were
scattered to the winds. Urania was a
/ desert.
/ But Mr.. Hart remained, fervent true,
constant, loving. He succeeded so far
with Jane that all her friends began to
demonstrate with her for her folly and
cruelty; but she finally begged of him
to silence them and to desist from see
ing her until her year of mourning
should be at an end. He o eyed. Such
obedience was but a part of his manly
devotion. Nor did he end here. Strange
and unusual orders came to the crewel-
worker from the Decorative Art Club,
and never had the bits of brown linen
been so well paid for. The china paint
ing rather languished, for Jane said her
eyes, which had Eeen so strong. were
now strangely weak; the turpentine
made her teas come Poor Jane!
Somebody had bought parrots
Folly and was building it over again,
Morris tribune., 1883-05-12
WHYNO SCOTCHMEN GO TO HEATEl

WHY NO SCOTCHMEN GO TO HEAVEN.
Long years ago. in times so remote
that history does not Gx the epoch, q
dreadful war was waged by the King Of
Scotland. Scottish valor prevailed, and
the King of Scotland, elated by his sue.
cess, sent for his Prime Minister, Lord
Alexander.
"Well, Sandy" said he, sis there
ne'er King we Gamma conquer noo?"
cam it please your Majesty, ] ken o
King that your Majesty Gamma van.
quish."
can who is he, Sandy?"
Lord Alexander, reverently looking
up, said, :'The King o Heaven"
"The King O whur, Sandy?"
"The King O Heaven.
The Scottish King did not understand,
but was unwilling to exhibit any igno
rance.
,"Just gang your ways, Sandy, and
tell King O. Heaven to gle up his do
minions, or I'll come myself and ding
him cot O. them; and mind, Sandy, "
dinna come back to us until ye haze dune
DOR biddin'."
Lord Alexander retired much per
picked, but met priest, and, treasured,
returned and presented himself.
"Well. Sandy" said the King, "ha
ye seen the King O Heaven, and what
says he to DOR biddin'?"
cam it pleases your Majesty, I have
seen ane O. his accredited ministers.
"Weel, an w'l,:t says hep"
"He says your Majesty may cen hae
his kingdom for the skin O. it."
"Was he sac civil ?" said the King
warming to magnaninity. "Just gang
your ways back, Sandy, an tell the
King O. Heaven that for his civility the
dell Scotchman shall set foot in hi.
kingdom.
Morris tribune., 1883-05-12

Napoleon could be liberal for his own
sake to those who could help him, always
on the condition of their absolute sub
serviency. But he appears to have been
almost destitute of real generosity OF
soul; he took positive pleasure in
wounding sensitive natures, and he was
given to indulging in outbursts of bru.
tality which sometimes passed from
rough language into actual violence. As
for that matchmaking mania of his,
there are two instances among many
which are strikingly suggestive. One
was his actually proposing, after the
divorce from Josephine, that she should
bestow her hand ON the Prince of Wurt-
emburg, who, having come to Paris ON
political business, had been greatly taken
by the fascinating Empress. Though
the proposal was certainly made, it could
scarcely have been serious; at all events,
the Prince would have had reason to
repent the match, for Napoleon was in
love with Josephine to the last, and
proved his capricious love by his irrlta-
BILE jealousy.
In the second instance to which we
refer, marriage was really brought of
in a style that reminds us of the Eastern
seraglo or the guard-room, and one OF
the victims was no less person than
Davoust. Napoleon suddenly announced
to his brother-in-law, Gen. Leclerc, that
he Neclerc) was appointed to the COM
mand of the st. Domingo expedition,
and must sail Immediately. Leclerc re-.
monstrated against the hasty departure.
A sacred tie bound him to France. He
had sister who would be left alone in
the world.
owe must have her married directly
to morrow, for example"
"But I have no fortune to give her. ,
cam not here? Tomorrow your
sister shall be married. I don't know
exactly to whom.
Shortly afterward, Davoust entered to
inform Napoleon that he was about to
be married.
"To Mile. Leclerc! find the match
very suitable. ;"
"No, General with Mime"
"To Mile. Leclerc."
And Davoust was sent off to Mime.
Campain in search of his future BRIDE
London Times.
Morris tribune., 1883-05-12
EXPERT PENMANSHIP.

At the Omaha National Bank may be
seen 800 bill executed entirely with a
pen by some expert penman and forger.
1t is very skillfully done, and not one
person out of LOG would detect it with
out the closest examination, and even
then the chances are that the detection
would be purely accidental. 1t is exc
cuted in all the various colored inks
used on bank notes, and even the paper
itself is made to look like bank-note pa
per by little strokes of the pen. This
bill is really wonderful curiosity. It
was paid to the bank by Government
official, through whose hands it passed
without detection. It was received at
the bank, but its true character was soon
afterward discovered.
The execution of the bill probably re-
CURED two days hard work, which would
give the forger $40 day for his labor.
he has probably set afoat many Of these
bills, as well as bills of larger denomina-
tions, and it is likely that the 500 bill
above mentioned has passed through
hundreds of hands without detection.
Morris tribune., 1883-05-12
STAINED GLASS.

In 1870 there was celebrated at
Tegernsee, Bavaria, the 9OOth anniver-
sary of the stained-glass factory there.
For period, dark age in art, the
method of staining was lost, and its
revival is thus explained. An English
man, bargaining at Nuremburg early in
this century for some fragments of old
stained glass, remarked before one Sieg-
mund Frank, cabinet varnisher, that
there was fortune for any one who
could revive the lost art. Frank took
the hint, and got the sympathy of the
Government. In 1916 an establishment
was opened at Munich, under Mr..
Ainmuller, who had been associated
with Frank, which has become world
famous. Within recent years England
has rivaled Munich in this art industry.
Morris tribune., 1883-05-12
SWISS GIRLS HARs

Thousands of girls in Switzerland,
Germany and Norway devote themselves
to the cultivation of their hair as reso-
lutely as farmer does his crops. Once
year the merchant, very often an old
woman, arrives in the village, and a
brisk trade is carried on. The Swiss
girls make the most, as nature has be-
slowed on them an abundant crop of the
blonde color, which is hardest of all to
obtain, and the climate is evidently pro-
pitious to its growth. The price OBJ
tanned depends on the length of the re-
dundant tresses hair eight inches long
is worth Is cents all ounce, while that
thirty-six inches in length viii bring the
fortunate possessor So an ounce, and in
cases of exceptional beauty and thick
ness even $35 an ounce may be realized.