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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-12
Rum-BOught Wealth.

I have loathing, have thorough dis
gust, for the gew-gaws of rum bought
wealth. When L get into the horse
cars and smell the foul stencil of liquor,
when l 90 into the streets and find the
same, | see behind me that brown stone
mansion on our neck, built by rum,
and behind that again l see the pallid
faces, shivering forms and iluttering
rags of numberless host. And 1
would have one of the fine daughters of
the owners OF that mansion stand at the
door and watch her fathers victims as
they march into the docss of the police
courts every day. 1 would take another
CHI Id, and the police should lead her
through all the dark alleys and pas
sages where broken-hearted mothers,
and children without parents or food,
attest to the manner in which her par
ent made his money. Intemperance
can not be cured by legislation or by
sermons. The runs seller is at the root
of IL evil, and unit it is made crime
TO sell Intoxicating beverages, intem-
perance VIII continue to exist. Ven
dell Phillips.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-12
Temperance Items.

DURING the prevalence of cholera in
India two bodies of troops were sta
toned close together. One, of
nence, and the other, of three hundred
men drank as usual. OF the former
group only one was attacked and recov-
cred, of the latter thirty died.
AN eminent physician says: "When
taken only or chiefly with food and as
constituents OF general free living, fer
mented liquors, beer or wine contribute
to the production of an abundance Of
-assimilated, overheated blood, which
either finds vent in eruptions of the sur
lace, or as local hemorrhages, or causes
vertigo, stupor, bilious attacks, govt,
g avel and dyspepsia"
II Munich, where the average
amount of beer consumed is greater
than anywhere else in the world, being,
in 1882. 432 litres to the individual, lis
found that the average weight of the
heart is greater than elsewhere. The
London Lancet, which makes this state
ment, says that it is agreed that the
habitual consumption of large quanti-
ties of beer tends to this effect
AMONG the laws of heredity. as it is
now called, is fearful one, which sci-
entific men consider well established.
Mr. Darwin states it, in a free way,
thus: ut is remarkable that the dis
eases ar sing from drinking spiritu0uS
or fermented liquors are liable TO be-
come hereditary, even to the third gem
Grafton, increasing, if the cause be con-
tinued, till the family becomes. ex-
tinct."
Now AND then a criminal gets into
Clerkenwell Prison, London, who is not
drunkard. The occurrence would
seem to be somewhat rare, however;
for the prison chaplain, who is presum-
ably acquainted with the facts, declares
that three quarters of the twenty thou
sand persons who have been incar-
cerated in the prison during the year
were confined for crimes directly or
indirectly attributable to drink. IS. S.
Times.
AN English saloonist or publican"
as these people are called across the
water, was charged with selling intox.
icating drinks to drunken person and
had defended himself by saving that
neither he nor his servants noticed the
person was drunk, as he was perfectly
quiet; but the magistrate. finding that.
as fact, the person was drunk, con-
ylcted the publican. The publican APP
pealed, but the Court of the Queens
Bench, London, upheld the magistrates
decision, on the ground that the
licensed person must take the risk Of
the persos being drunk.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-12
The Compass.

The compass is supposed to have
been invented by the Chinese 1884 B..
c., or more than 1880 years ago. 1t
was undoubtedly used by the Chinese at
a very early period, being mentioned
in their ancient books. Its first men
ton in European history was. IN the
twelfth century AID, when9it wasssaid
to have been used in ships at sea about
the year HOO. The magnetic meridian
was discovered by accident from the
Incorrect pointing or variation Of the
needle, first noticed by Robert Norman
in 1880, who found the variation to be
then j deg. ID min. east. at London.
In 1857 there was no variation there,
and in 1915 it was "a deg. 27 min.
west. In 1862 it was explained by DIR.
Haley in q paper to the English Royal
Philosophical Society. He showed that
the variation was due to the magnetism
OF the earth, which had what he then
called magnetic poles, differing from
the terrestrial poles He also showed
that the variation was not constant and
differed in various localities The north
magnetic pole is about 20 deg. from the
geographical pole. The. magnetic
needle points to the north on both sides
of the equator. N y. TIMES.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-12
Immense Shrinkage Of Real Estate

I have for long time felt that we
must look for simple and natural
explanation CT earthquakes. / never
felt much favor for the hypothesis, once
so popular, that earthquakes are due to
electrical disturbances, though they are
often attended by electrical or magnetic
phenomena. The latter should regard
as the effect rather than the cause of
the quaking. 1t is very probable the
earth is shrinking, and this contraction
has first tendency to consolidate and
then to wrinkle the crusts, as it were.
Biologists tell us that the Atlantic
coast in these latitudes is slowly subsid-
ing. The same phenomenon has been
noticed elsewhere on the globe. Now
one can-easily see that if the interior of
the earth is molten either in the mass,
or in separate masses divided by solidi-
fed matter, as Is more probable, these
molten parts must be radiating heat
and consequently contracting all the
while. The globe will be growing
smaller all the while, and the outside
she'll or crust will get too large for the
kernel within, and must shrink, too
forced down by its weight At first
there would be a condensation of mat
ter. Strains would be created, until
finally the shell would give way at some
weak point; there would be an upheaval
or wrinkling of the earth's crust or an
earthquake along the line of least resist
ance. Possibly the mountains were
formed in this way; and this hypothesis
furnishes very acceptable explanation
of the faults and displacements of strata
which geologists have observed. In
fact, rather think that biologists have
used this hypothesis, but have not the
data at hand to verify my impression
A complicated theory, involving assures
in the earth's crust, cavities containing
molten matter, and sudden precipita-
ton of water into these cavities with
generation of steam under enormous
pressure, has also been advanced to ac-
count for earthquakes. But the idea
that earthquakes are simply the result
of the gradual contraction of the earth
that is going on all the while seems to
me both natural and logical. Prof,
Boss.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-12
Food For Fattening Pigs.


Prof. Samson, of France, has been ex-
periInentings on the relative value of
carbonaceous substances for the fatten-
ing Of pigs. He selected a Windsor pig,
aged ten weeks and weighing sixteen
pounds, and a Yorkshire, aged eight
weeks, weight twenty-four pounds.
The first was fed from December TO-,
1880, to April II, 1881, exclusively on
barley, amounting to two hundred and
one pounds, when it weighed at the end
of four months tifty-two pounds, thusrep-
resenting a net augmentation OF twenty
eight pounds. The Y berkshire was sled on
barley. potato starch and sugarf from No
vember II, 1881, 10 February %, 1882,
in the total proportions of seventY-five
pounds of barley, sixty OF starch and
seven Of sugar. AT the end OF the ex-
pertinent it weighed fifty-four pounds,
or an augmentation of-thifty pounds.
In one hundred and Twenty e gbt day IS the
Windsor gained twenty eightpapounds:
in one hundred daysitbe Yorkshire had
put up thirty pounds of flesh, Or re-
spectivly, an augmentation at the rate
of three and ,one-half, to four and three
quarters ounces per day. The Profes-
SCR concludes that for young pigs, a
highly, carbona2eous food is not that
which is conducive to their develop
ment or even most favorable to the
the production offat, though, the latter,
he maintains, be formed from the hy-
drates of carbon and not from the pro-
tein compounds, as German scien-
lists maintains The practical i'm
ference is that the pig, being an
omnivorous animal, it stands in
need, when young, of an aliinen-
tailor that will develop the body rather
than produce flesh, and that, during
the period of growth, the food ought to
contain large proportion Of animal
matter, as dairy and kitchen refuse,
and the cooked debris from slaughter
houses and packers, yards, These adj
jnncts viii supply the protein com
pounds. 81 C0Lmaaa' s R4rat World.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-12

press or allow themselves to believe
that nothing could be done to stop the
increase of drunkenness, but to 90 on
with the fight, and make total absti-
nenee their battle-cry. He then point.
ed out what he said were the five prin-
cipal facts proved by the first century
of Temperance warfare. Physicians
everywhere, he said, were unanimously
of the opinion that the use of alcoholic
liquors in any form was injurious to
the health. Lager beer was particularly
injurious. An eminent doctor had said
that forty-nine out of fifty cases of
Bright's disease which he had treated
was caused by drinking beer. Lunacy,
that was yearly on the increase, was
chiefly 'ssaloonacy." Suicide, which
was committed largely among the Ger
mans, was a result of beer drinking.
The United States census was the au-
thority on this 1t cites Milwaukee,
German city, where lager beer is made
and drunk in vast quantities, as having a
larger percentage of suicides in proper
ton to the population than any other
city IN the Nation. Insurance statis-
tics show the greatest longevity in
those sections of the country where to-
tai abst nenee prevails. Intemperance
was the DIRECT cause of nine tenths of
the crimes commit ed. The speaker
cited a remark of a Justice of the Peace
who had told him that niue out of
/ every ten who came before him in the
course of a year charged with crime
| or misdemeanor excused themselves on
the ground that they were drunk at the
time. Alcohol had dozen aliases, but
! it was the same criminal under them
all. The story of Horace Greeley's ed
itorial was told by the speaker, in which
| that great journalist said that alcohol
was devil, whether in whisky, beer,
champagne or Heidsieck. His fellow
editors laughed at him and said that
Heidsieck was only a brand of cham
payne, not a separate liquor. "Well,
boys" said Greeley, 'pm the only
man in the Office who could have made
such mistake" The failures of the
century, said the speaker, had been the
| license system aud the moderate drink
ers. Prohibition was the only cure, and
no other proof was necessary than to
point TO the fact that saloon-keepers
spent vast sums of money to prevent
the enactment of Prohibition laws. But
prevention was better than prohibition.
The greatest work. was to save the
drunkard before he became one. This
must be done in the churches. at the
homes and iiresides. During the Tenn
perance crusade, q saloon-keeper,
whose place was entered by band of
praying women, said: ''Why do you
come here to save the men? We punch
the last ticket here for hell. Save 'em
uptown, before they get down here"
! - ChicnOO NeqDs.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-12
Rev. W.. F. Crafts Points Out Various
Evils Of Intsmp ,ranee.

~ hat the First Century of Temper
ance Work Has Made Certain About
the Cause of Intemperance, was the
subject selected by Rev. Wilbur f.
Crafts for his morning discourse at the
First Congregational Church Yesterday
The speaker reeounted the history of
the Temperance cause from the time
when DR.. Rush and the Philadelphia
College OF Pharmacy sent a ser.es of
resolutions to Congress IN 1853. asking
for a heavy tax on alcoholic ii iu0rs. to
the General Assembly Of the Congre-
gationalists in 1886. when Dr. LYMAN
Beecher. as chairman of committee
to report on the lest means of checking
the evil of lntemperance. urged upon
the churches and members not to ex-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-12
VIRTUE ITS OWN REWARD.


The FZingsof Somewhere loved the Queen
Of Some Whereise most dearly,
Andfn his courtier Gobetween
Confded he sincerely.
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The Courtier was pleasant man,
OF readiest invention,
And always had some clever plan
= To hold tie Kings attention.
The Queen was coy and hard to please,
b As best beseemed her station;
The King upon his Bonded knees
She kept in supplication.
No favoring answer would she give,
No smile of kind cOnsenting;
And while the King was fain to live,
Yet life was all lamenting.
At last he prayed his Courtier wise
sTu.aid in his proceeding:
The Counters ready wits devise
Plans worthy of his breeding.
He FASTENED to the naughty Queen,
And praised his Royal Highness;
So WHY was this Gobetween,
8 He chuckled Ger his slyness.
The Queen was softened by his art,
And when her sutton rendered
His royal kingdom fand his heart,
She graciously surrendered.
The King and Queen lived happily,
In hand and heart were welded;
AS for the Counterfeit me see
Oh, yes site was beheaded. M
= Stanley Wood, IN Century.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-12

Lieutenant Schwatka, who has re.
Gently been exploring Alaska, foa-..
there, among the Aleutians, group of
islands bathed by the warm Japan cur
rent and possessing perennial verdure.
These. it is said, he and a Scotch syndi-
cate propose to '.gobbie'' and convert
into great stock ranges.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-12

Stanley the African explorer, do
scribes strong man who was six feet
five inches high, and rather dispropor-
tionately slender. He could toss an
ordinary man ten feet in the air and
catch him in his descent. He would
take one of the large white Muscat
donkeys by the ears, and with sud-
den movement of his right foot lay the
surprised ass on his back. He could
carry a three-year-old bullock half way
round his masters plantation. Once
he actually bore twelve men on his
back, shoulders and chest, distance OF
three hundred feet
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-12

"A new thing in window ornaments
is observable uptown in New York in
some of the fashionable houses. Bee
hives have taken the place of costly
plants, and the drowsy hum of the in
sects about the pretty straw hives is a
noyelty.-M, I, lMal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-12
Good Night.

The clock on the mantel tolled one a.
M. and little past, and still the Knight
fingered, trying to think of something
to say. although it was painfully evi-
dent that the Baron's daughter was just
too sleepy for anything.
II am afraid,n he said at last, s'that
| am like an auger."
Wherefore, sir Knight" she asked,
yawning with that high-bred courtesy
appertaining to the upper classes.
Because / bore you" he said, smil-
ing proudly at his good right wit.
'Ah no." she said. ''you remind me
of an old flint-lock musket."
spoken like soldiers daughter,'
quoth he, land as to how?"
Takes you SO long to get off," she
said, kindly"
At lis a. m. the portcullis fell with
a clang, the draw-bridge was raised,
and the castle slept. Away in the star
lit distance good knight tramped
YEARLY i'll the wake of the last car,
which had sailed two hours ago, and
bitterly reproached himself 1or not
thinking to tell the naughty Baron
daughter that her joke was too awfuIly
premature, because muskets weren't
going 10 be invented for nearly one
hundred years.-R J. Burdette, in
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-12

1t is curious, says an exchange,
how few people know the benefit Of
fruit at breakfast time. A saucer OF
berries, an orange or banana. pear or
apple, at six in the morning will make
the sky look brighter and fill the world
with sunshine even on cloudy days;
and yet many people never think of
eating fruit in the morning.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-12

Sliced cucumbers, an English pa
per states, if placed over freckles will
in due time eradicate these annoying
blemishes.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-12
Mrs. Tom Harding.
Miss Teahal Eord

old miller bent over her chair, as she
anfered.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-05-17
Removing Warts.
Cor. Country Gentleman.

Cor. Country Gentleman.
In your issue of April 18th, l notice
an inquiry for a remedy for warts on
cattle. l purchased fine heifer in
the fall of 1881, and soon after noticed
a large wart on the shoulder. This
cut off by keeping fine silk thread
tied tightly about it. Soon afterward
l detected scores Il speak within
bounds) Of warts making their appear
ance on her udder and teats. Those
on the udder were of the size of pig.
cons egg. Desparing of any success
full remedy, | tried strong applications
of common baking soda made moist
with. water, which ! rubbed in with
the hand. l alternated this treatment
with free applications of turpentine
two or three times aweek. The result
of this treatment was simply miracu'
lous, as in less than sixty days the
warts have almost entirely disappeared,
This is my own experience and I give
it for what it is worth. The remedy
is simple and easily applied. S. S. o.
Lansing Mich.
For the benefit of H. H., page
1886, and also s. D. S., l will state
that l have cured some very large
ones on cattle by simply cutting sill
through the centre of the wart and
filling it full of finely pulverized blue
vitriol, then covering with common
tar to hold it to its place. l will war
rant the wart to disappear, and tn,
place become smooth. / cured a baC
wart on cows teat last summer by
pulverizing blue vitriol as fine as -four
mixing with old grease to thick past
and applying it daily. l always pull
them off from teats, if not too large
and apply the paste every time milk
it is perfectly safe.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-05-17

OFFICE OF THE CouRIER-J oURNAL, LOUIS
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Your Cure broke them at once, and there
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has an earlier and a later crop. The
scalybark for autumn and early food,
and the large Scalybark, the pig-nut
and "nigger.head" for spring eating.
The grape crop is also very imporN
tant as mast, and few people in cities
can estimate value or extent of the
wild grape. 1t does not con6ne itself
to what we call the summer and win
ter grape, but includes the other men,
bers of the great family of fox grapes,
such as the muscadine, the scupper>
nong and the alluvial forests Of West
and Middle Tennessee are rich in the
delicious growth. In times of scarcity
of other mast, cattle will live luxuri.
ously on the, to us, vile beggers lice,
Spanish needle and its kindred pests;
while hogs will find beneath the sur
face supply Of food. In short, ma
ture provides bountifully for its chill
dren, and a failure now and then,
never complete, seems intended to
keep the numbers within bounds, other
wise the earth would be overrun with
an excess of animals.
The mast is so important that where
it "hits" no other food is required to
fatten hogs for bacon, or provision
made to winter stock. The bacon is
rather oily to suit the delicate palate
Of many people, but that can be corr
rected by feeding on corn week or
two after fattening on mast. When it
is plentiful, those dependent on it have
plenty of animal food, and when it
fails there is real distress and heavy
want. In the lowlands bordering the
"Barrens," many of the farmers drive
their hogs there and let them remain
until killing time. Thus it is that
mast expresses millions of money lost
or gained.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-05-17

Hog Cholera 6e Sold everywhere or sent by mail for 15e
stamps Furnished In large price 81 90; by mail 81 ii
Circulars free. l. S. JOHNSON q CO., Boston, Mass.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-05-17
Excited Thousands.

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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-05-17

II find nothing equal to sorghum
cane for stock" says writer in the
Spirit of the Farm, "and l do not think
l am overestimating it in saying that
three acres of sorghum, cut and fed to
to my mules, fattened them more than
six acres Of corn gathered and fed in
the ear. l can say to all, grow sor.
ghum for stock feed"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-05-17
Testimony Of VIM. ChriSman,
Chief of Fire Department,
IefferSOuVtlle. Ind

DR.. Wintersmith, Dear Sir Il had dumb
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used quinine aud various other remedies
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WIN. CHRISTIAN,
Chief Fire Department. Jacksonville, Ind.
marl5t4
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-05-17

Prot. Stewart states that 10 pounds
of turnips with one and half pounds
of corn will fatten a young sheep or
lamb faster than three pounds of corn
alone.