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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-22
Personal AND LITERARY.
Henry Ward Beecher can't a.

Henry Ward Beecher can't save
anything out of an income of nearly
100000 year.-M Y. Sun.
-Four baggagemen who run on q
New England road are named Love-
land, Lowering, Lovejoy and Lovely.
-ExUnited States Senator Davis. Of
West Virginia, used to be a brakeman
on the railroad which he now nearly
owns.
The coincidence is noted that Mr..
Blaine was born in Brownsville, Pa,
and Mr.. Logan in Brownsville, III
Chicago Herald.
George Augustus Sala, in his jour-
nalistic career of thirty-fiye years,
claims to have written over 1000
newspaper essays"
"A twelve year-old school girl was
lately married to an eighty-year.old
physician. at Boykin, S. c., with her
parents consent.--St. LOFTS Post.
Most of the japanese newspapers
are modelled after the English journals,
but one of them reads from the bottom
of the column upward.
James Watts workshop, at Heath
field Hall, England, is preserved Just as
he went out of it--eVen to the leather
apron thrown across the wise.
A correspondent OF the Baltimore
american, writing from Long Branch,
says that General Grant will soon
write, from a strictly impartial stand
point, an account of General Lees sur
render at Appomattox.
Harvey Wakefield, who died re-
Gently in Colebrook, Conn, at the age
of eighty-two, had a passion for saving
all sorts of articles that people general
ly threw away. In his barn is a huge
pile of newspapers, and it is said that
every newspaper he had received in six
ty years lies in that heap. Hartford
Post
In the year 1904 the second edition
of Hamlet was printed, and proba-
bly, revised by its author. In the same
year land suit was begun at Wetzlar,
near Coblentz. This lawsuit is still GO
ing on, and the Duke of Brunswick is
defendant Perhaps Shakespeare had
the spirit of prophecy when he wrote
the words: "The laws delay" This
is the best instance of it on record.
Mrs. Custer, the widow of General
Custer, is at the Ocean House, Swamp
scott, accompanied by her sister-in-law,
Mrs. Calhone. BY a singular, as we'll
as sad coincidence, both these ladies
lost their husbands in the same battle
with the Indians on the Yellowstone,
and it is said that both received the
news of their widowhood the same day
and hour. Mrs. Custer rarely refers to
her dreadful sorrow, and lives under it
patiently and meekly.-M 7. Herald.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-22
HUMOROUS.

-"I could but love thee when saw
thy face" writes Lila Cushman. We
thought you acted rather queerly, Lila
That is why we ran. philadelphia Call.
Several young girls have been APP
pointed station agents in Minnesota,
and engineers are keeping sharp look
out for miss-placed switches. ST, Paul
Herald.
"A cook and housemaid had little
difficulty in the kitchen the other day,
and presently matters became SO quiet
that you could hear a rolling-pin drop.
Chicago Tribune.
The girl who succeeds in forcing
young man to spend his last cent in
treating her to ice-cream renders her.
self liable to arrest for robbing the
male. philadelphia Chronicle.
AT the Rink
She went to the reller-skating rink,
And put the sliders on;
strap or two about her shoe
And thensshe's off and gone.
She Slid, she Slode, she Gid, she glode,
Unheld by fear or fetter,
But at last the gentle maid was "throwed,"
And the rOller-SkateS upset her.
-E1chanae.
-s'No," said Mrs. Briny to an inquir-
ing stranger, 1--WE don't have malaria
here, admit, but it's the best boarding.
house on the bay shore, and my daughter
Sally makes lemon pies that can't be
beat round these parts. When the
visitor had gone, Mrs. Briny said to her
daughter: ''Well, Jane, / guess we'll
have to lay in q stock OF that malary,
for all of 'em as comes here keep askin'
if we've got it. Golden Days.
YES" said the young man to the
lecture committee, 81 want to deliver
temperance lecture in your town. -
"You don't look like man who has
had experience in drinking" remarked
the chairman, suspiciously. Have you
ever been drunkard?" 81 lectured
all through the South last winter, and
in Florida, where l saw swamp-snake
fifty feet long, IL "Pardon my curl
osity. SIR" interrupted the chairman,
hastily; "when do you want the hall?''
Graphic.
The wayfarer who is Obliged to
take ''pot-luci1'' at all sorts of eating
houses is not the happiest Of mortais.
There is something wrong with the fare
usually. and when the beef is not over
done it is apt to be underdone. A steak,
placed before such traveller at hotel
one day last month, was so rare as to
be actually raw. Waiter" said the
guest. "Yes, sah!'' "Waiter, take
this beef out, please, and kill it. The
poor waiter crawled into a napkin-ring
and disappeared.
Here is pleasing CATCH" by
means of which one may make fun at a
party. Put the following questions If
horse spells horse, then house
spells house, and h-o-a-r-s-e spells
hoarse. Now, what does hours spellp
In reading the question, it seems easy
enough to answer; but when asked of
persons who are not familiar with it,
they generally declare that no such
word as h-o-u-r-s exists. Of course the
word hours is, on the contrary, very
common. Harper s Bazaar.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-22
4 Well.Known Female Journalist Dies.

WASHINGTON, Aug. l9.-Mary Cleminer
Mrs. Hudson) died at her residence here
last night of hemorrhage of the brain. She
had been too i'll and feeble for several
months to keep up her usual literary work,
but it was not until last Wednesday that
the rupture of a blood-yessel in the brain
produced complete prostration, ending final
" in death.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-22

The following is a complete list OF the
State and county fairs to take place this
fall, together with the time and place Of
each:
STATE AaO SPECIAL FAIRS
Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. Mad
lson. September 10. 10, II. Is, 19.
Southwestern Wisconsin Industrial AsS0ciar
zion. Mineral Point September 4, 3, and Z.
Central Wisconsin Agricultural and Mechan-
ieal Association, Waterfowl. september Il, IS
Lodi UnIon Agricultural Society, Lodi. Sep
TENDER 26 "a, Is
Rip0a Agricultural Society, RipOn, septem-
Der IL, IL, IS, j.
Association, Boscobsl. October ., 3, 4, o
Eastern Monroe County Agricultural Soci-
Baraboo Valley Agricultural society,"
Reedsburg, October 9, 10. IL. :
REGULAR COUNTY FAIRS
Adams, Friendship, Sept. p, Is, q.
Barron, Chetek, Sept u, 1s, -
Brown, Depere. Sept. %, &C. q, IS
Buffalo, Alma. Sept Il, IL, Il.
Burnett, Grantsburg, Sept 70, q, y.
Calumet Chiffon, Sept 70. q, e.
Chippe~a, Chippewa Falls, Sept. II. L, ID, Ia
Clark, Neiilsviile, Sept. Is. 20, q, % =
Columbia Poftaee City, Sept, Is. 10, 20
Crawford, Seneca. Sept. p, 26, q.
Dodge, Juneau, Sept. 2e, p, Is.
Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac. Sept. 20 70, y, ~
Grant, Lancaster. Sept. p, p, rs.
Green, Monroe, Sept. rs, p, IS -.
Iowa, Dongeville, Sept. is, 10, %.
Jackson, Black River Falls, Sept. q, %, q,
Jefferson, Jefferson. Oct. Z, 3, 4, ).
Juneau, Mauston. Oct. 3, 4. 5.
Kenosha, Kenosha Sept. Is, 10, 20, p, % :
La Crosse, Salem, Sept. p. &c, y.
JafaSette Darlington, Sept. IL, Is, IL.
ManitoHoc ClarkS Mills, Sept p, 20. 70.
Marathon, Wausau, Oct. 8 4.
Marquette Westfieid, Sept. q, Is.
Monroe, Sparsa, Sept. Is, -. 20.
Outagamie, Hortonville, Sept. 20, u, zS-
Ozaukee, SaukYille, Oct 2, 3.
Pepin, DGraI6. Oct. 3. o. :.
Pierce, Prescott, Sept 20. 81
Portage, Amherst. sept. 70, 20. "a.
Racine, Burlington, Sept. Is. 10, 90 q.
Richland, Richland Center, Sept. 26, q, rs.
Rock, GAINESVILLE, Oct. 2, J, T. 5.
St Croix, Hudson, Sept. Il, ID, II.
Sank, Baraboo, Oct 2. 3, j.
| Shawano. Shawauo. Oct 2, j, 4. ..
Sheboygan. Sheboygan F,sls, sept 20 20, Y.
Taylor, Medford, Oct. 3, 4.
Trempealeau, Gainesville. Sept 10, 20, II.
| Vernon. Viroqua, Sept. 10, %, 81.
Malworth, Elkhorn. Sept. %, 25, 81. 2S-
| Washington. West Bend, Oct. 8, 4 5. =
Waukesha, Wauk esha, Oct. 2, 34, }.
! Naupaea, Weyawega, Sept. p, g. 27.
! Waushara- Wautoma, Sept. rs, %, 2S.
Wood, Grand Rapids, Sept. IS, 10, 20, II.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-22

The latest theory about the interior
of the earth is that it is twice as dense
as the solid materials of the surface,
and, though very hot, no portion Of it
is in liquid condition.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-22

The tips OF the fingers may be
hardened tor guitar. either and violin
playing by rubbing every evening with
arnica and water.-M Z. Herald
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-22
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
state and County Fairs.

The following is a complete list of the
State and county fairs to take place this
fall, together with the time and place OF
zach.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-22

Z
question of imported labor IS touched upon
at great length. On this subject the General
says:
and the use of convict labor at a nominal
price wherever it could be had, thereby debas-
ing and lowering the high standard of Ameri-
can labor, the perfection of machinery, by
which so great share of production is
effected, has so lesSened muscular effort in
labor that capitalists have been enabled to
utilize the labor of women and children to a
very large extent to do that work which men
formerly did. Thus the workingmans wife
and sisters arc made the instruments of lower
ing his own rate Of wages. But it viii be said,
surely to employ the women and children
probably can not be Objectionable. Certainly
not if it is profitable to themselves, their
fathers and husbands and the country.
ow stands the faet2 Womens labor is
employed IN manufactures at very much
less price than mems labor, even that poor
quality Of mems labor imported from abroad,
while women, and even children, can do that
class OF labor equally well with the best OF
men. IabOring men thereby are thrown out
of employ, or else compelled to work at unre-
munerative prices. Thus capital gets still
further advantage of tariff put on imported
articles to enable the American producer to
pay more to American labor than the foreign
laborer receives as wages. 1t will therefore be
seen that capital, thus taking to itself as a rule
from the poor mechanic, who inventS them,
all the good gifts of God given to mankind in
improvement in machinery for production,
uses those very improvements for the pur-
pose of still further lowering the wages OF the
American workman by the employment of
women and female children to tend the i'm
proved machinery. 10 illustrate the extent
to which this has gone, there are 10000 fe-
males in Massachusetts alone, one-siXth of the
wage people, working at wages out of their
own homes at an average not more than fifty
per cent of what is paid to males.
'These wrongs faint the very life-blood of
She people. This condition of things is not
one affecting economic questions alone, but
it goes TO the very vitality OF the Nation. l do
not say that workingman employed at the
bench or the mechanic can not be the father
of as healthy children. both in body and mind
esif not so employed. But do say that no
wife or mother from whom Psychologists tell
us the child must receive largely its mental
endowments, was intended by the Al
mighty to spend her young years of
mature age in standing for many hours
day behind the counter. or confined in tend
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-22
FASHIONS FANCIES.

The close English couture still prevails.
Russet brown is preferable to gray for brides
travelling dresses.
Round-crown 'Terry' turbans are in the list
of new spring hats.
The rage for embroidery will be as great the
coming season as ever.
White dresses are likely to be more popularity
worn than they have been any time within the
past two years.
Jet embroidered Jerseys will be very fashion
ably worn this season over jet-trimmed skirts,
and apron tunics of black gros grain silk.
Chemisettes russo and guimps, made of very
fine white ''all over" embroidery, will be worn
with zephyr .ginghams, sateens and French or
CANDIES.
A new design in Saline represents a large gray
wafer upon a black ground, with delicate half
white flowers upon the waters. These make up
charmingly over plain black Saline skirts.
There is every evidence that black and white,
in varied forms and combinations, will be ex-
tremely fashionable during the coming season.
Gray and black will also have a high vogue.
The only universal feature of the new draper
les is that the fullness begins at the belt, not
several inches below it, as its design primarily is
to enlarge the hips, and secondarily, to soften
the severe outlines of the whole costume.
There is an effort to introduce larger and
longer sleeves, and these are seen on imported
dresses; but modistes say their customers will
not accept them in lieu of the graceful elbow
sleeves for full dress and close fitting coat sleeves
for general wear.
Many skirts of plain wooden materials are com
bined with corresponding substances in basket
patterns. Occasionally it is a lozenge spot or
crescent, or some other set pattern worked in
silks of mingled colors. One imported costume
designed for afternoon at the sea shore is made
of almond colored French cashmere, over a skirt
of dark plum colored velvet. The long apron over
dress and bodice are covered with dark plum
colored flowers in detached sprays appliqued at
intervals over the entire surface.
Simple dresses of white, pale yellow, gray and
blue linen, and other light solid materials are
being made with short skirt tucked lengthwise
from the bottom to the top. TIL bodice is round
and belted in, or the skirt may be accompanied
by a blouse waist, also tucked and belted. This
lengthwise tucking is light and lovely in simple
summer materials, and is especially adapted to
delicate tints and summer afternoon wear. But
it is folly to overload it with drapery, because
that destroys its motive and is entirely out of
harmony with its idea. Lengthwise tucking is
more becoming to almost all figures than the all
round tucks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-22
BITS OF WISDOM.

From ''Vestigia. - by 'Dudu'' Fletcher. Collated for
the indianapolis Journal.
An old OK keeps a straight furrow.
Patience never spoilt any mans luck.
It's only in a storm we can find out who's a
good sailor.
Not to trust in others is to reduce life to a
mean habit.
'Twould be a poor way of travelling if all the
crew wanted to steer.
A sound man is a young man, and the only old
men are the dead ones.
When a man lets his net down to the bottom
he's sure to catch mud,
A man who doesn't live at sea doesn't know
the meaning of a prayer.
There are no depths for a brave heart from
which hope cannot mount.
1t is better TO be the head of an eel than the
tail of the biggest sturgeon.
You might as we'll ask for a fish without bones
as for life without trouble.
A man lives with his enemies, If he is lucky,
he may meet with his friends.
It's a poor sort of business towaste your breath
whistling for yesterdays breeze.
To keep faith simply and joyously is to reach
and hold the essential best of life.
It's only a fool would expect the wind to be
always blowing from the same point of the com
pass.
Society cheapens life, makes it full of small
interests, small %tliumphs, small, bitter disap-
ments.
Happinessis of the swift footed immortals, and
descends only on the garlanded affairs of her
worshipers.
Things change in this world; it's a pity, while
they're about it, they don't sometimes change
for the better.
Women are never the worse for being kept
waitingi in fact, it does them good, and their
hearts get softer with time, Just as a peach soft
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-22
THE SHY 7 7 BOY.


Written for the indianapolis Journal.
Oh, he is so very shy! has been so from his
earliest babyhood; so every one has remarked.
He has a round face, pretty soft brown eyes,
brown hair without anything like a kink in it
his temperament would never go with a curly
head-a low, soft. beseeching voice, and is the
lovingest little creature in the world, but, so
shy.
Grandmothers, grandfathers, uncles, aunts,
cousins, to the third generation, as well as his
own young father and mother, lavish so much
love on him, it may be that his instructive
modesty makes it almost a burden to receive so
much, and as there is no escape from it, and as
he is quite too angelic-in their eyes that love
him soto grow vain, he just grows more and
more what he started out to be-a shy little
boy. .
When scarce three years of age, and on the
very day that one of his relatives had expressed
the fear that he would always be girish, yet
lacking a girls impulsiveness, he sat on his faith
er's knee. in a crowded railway station. The
train was not on time, the company in danger of
growing cross. One eXasperated individual
croaked out in an exasperated tone that he did
not believe that the train would come for an
hour yet, when our little hero flung out his right
hand by way of emphasis and cried out in dulcet
tones, "Whatu you bet that train will not be hore
in two minutes?' Hats were thrown up, men
cheered, laughing and stamping, good humor
was restored, but now the little prophets face
assumed its wonted gravity, and everybody said,
"What a shy little boy!"
Time sped on and his birth days had num-
bered five, and now all friends declared there
never was such a shy little boy, even when,
one summer afternoon, a dear old
lady went by with a covered basket
on her arm, and he lifted up his brown eyes to
her face and said, please, what have you in
your basket" and as she passed on after answer
ing, heard him call, "Well, can you play shinny?'
She turned and smiled on him, not thinking him
forward, but, on the contrary, a shy little boy.
Walking alone, he reached a crowd gazing in
wonder at the teats of a mountebank, and when
the performer said: Il now propose to build up
a pyramid of these chairs, five in number. By the
rung of the lower one l will balance all in my
teeth; and now, if some little boy will be so good,
he shall have a seat in the upper one, and need
not fear" Shade Of Zaccheus! who went for
wardl Who was seated in that chairl Who sat
with unmoved muscles and Observation-Disclosures
air, away above the heads of that crowd, but the
shy little boy!
Women shuddered and men held their breath,
and all the little rowdies around envied him the
admiration and the eclat that must surely be
won. But that child came down. The mounte-
bank even said nothing iocose, nor patted him
on the head, but only remarked, what a shy
little boy" and the crowd echoed, "What a shy
little boy!" LOUISE V. BoYD.
DUBLIN, Ind, March, 1884.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-22
An Astonishing Bridal Costume.

Pottsville, Pa. Special.
The courthouse was crowded this afternoon
during an examination in lunacy, in which the
subject was a middle-aged widow named Mrs.
Margaret Thies. She appeared in court in a
bridal costume. Her dress was white and but
toned with silver buttons. 1t was trimmed with
white Spanish lace and very green and frosted
artificial oak leaves. Around her waist she wore
a ribbon sash of the Prussian tri-color. Across
her right shoulder, falling upon the floor on the
left side, was a regaia of red, white and blue
her head she rore a black Grape bonnet, which
was hidden under clouds of white illusion, which
fell to the floor behind in the form of a bridal
veil. This was literally garnished with oak
leaves. Some difficulty was experienced in get
a certain physician of Philadelphia, with whom
she is in love, and to allow her to make a speech,
she came in. 1t was proven by neighbors that
she claims to be inspired by God, and that she
will shortlv -ecome the mother Of a second Mes
siah.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-22

The trunk of a ycamore near New Madrid, is
40 feet in circumference.
An oak in Barnwell county, S.. c., measures
"a IL feet in circumference IL inches above the
ground.
A white oak tree on the premises of Amos
Harvey, of Mansfield, Burlington county, New
Jersey, measures 81 feet in circumference.
An apple tree in Mercer county, Kentucky,
has borne fruit for sixty seasons without fail
ing. Five feet from the ground its trunk is 10
feet and 9 inches in circumference.
A lemon tree on the farm of Thomas Kennedy,
at Noonan's lake, Florida, is nineteen years old,
has borne fruit eleven years, and has earned for
its owner $l06 in a single season.
In the negro cemetery at Americas. Ga, is a
cedar tree that was planted in a pitcher at the
head of a grave ten years ago. 1t burst the bot
tom of the pitcher and rooted in the earth. The
pitcher still encircles the bottom of the cedar,
which is ten feet high.
The "Maior Oak, Edwinstowe, Eng, fell be-
fore the recent gale there. Its trunk had a girth
of twenty-nine feet, and the circumference of
the top was 240 feet. The hollow stem was used
by picnic parties, and seven persons had, at one
have stood 700 years,
Delos Hotchkiss, of Marion, Conn, has an APP
pie tree in his orchard that is supposed to be 175
years old. Its annual yield is about eighty-ive
bushels of apples. The circumference of the
trunk is sixteen feet, near the ground. 1t bears
fruit on five limbs one year, and on four different
limbs the nextyear. In 1876 it bore fruit on all
its limbs.
The soft maple tree that was cut down on the
White House grounds last December had many
historic associations. President Lincoln had a
habit of stopping at this tree, when thoughtfully
strolling about the grounds, and pulling a twig
from it. Then he would Jake out his pocket-knife
| and slowly white the stick as he walked on.
The tree was planted during the administration
of Andrew jackson.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-22
t. W. Higginson on Outdoor Life.

at is very certain that all the physical uni
verse takes the side of health and activity, WOO
ing us forth unto nature, imploring us hourly,
and in unsupported ways, to receive her blessed
breath into body and soul, and share in her eter-
nal youth. For this are summer and winter,
seed-time and harvest given; for this do violet
and blood-root come, and g~entian and witch hazel
60; for this do changing sunsets make yon path
between the pines a gateway into heaven; for
this does day shut us down within the loneliness
of its dome of light, and night, lifting it, make
US free of the vast fellowship of stars; for this
do pale meteors wander nightly, soft as
wind-hlown blossoms, Town the air; for
this do silent SHOWS transform
the winter woods to feathery things that seem
too light to linger, and yet too vast to TAKE their
fight; for this does all the fair creation answer
to every dream or mood of man, so that we re-
ceive but what we give. All is offered to us to
call MS from our books and our trade, and sum
mon us into natures health and joy. To study,
with the artist, the least of her beauties; to ex-
plore, with the man of science, the smallest of
her wonders; or even simply to wander among
her exhaustless resources, like a child, needing
no interest unborrowed from the eye-this feeds
body. and brain. and heart. and soul together"