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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-24
About Mustard PlaSters.

The person who first pointed out the
usefulness of the matter in question is
dust long since, no doubt, and his name
forg But this is really not very
strange, seeing that our knowledge of
mustard extends back over two thou
sand years, and that, as the world goes,
homely remedies, like homely people,
are often sighted Some readers prob
ably know all and others nothing about
mustard plasters. For the edification
of the last it will now be told what these
are good for, how they should be used
and how they may be made, taking oc-
casion to say just here that first class
mustard plaster can lie bought ready
made in any good drug store for a
quarter.
One tablespoonful of ground brown
mustard seed, mixed with two table
spooniuls of luke warm water, will
make very efficient plaster. Lay this
between well-worn muslin and fold the
edges, that the linen Of the bed or per-
son may not be soiled.
For delicate person use half mus
tard and flour; for child, use four of
flour and one of mustard. 1t is said
that. a mustard plaster that has been
mixed with molasses will not blister.
These plasters should never be left on
an unconscious person more than ten
minutes, otherwise a blister, exceeding
ly painful and difficult to heal, may be
formed. No person should 90 to sleep
with one of these plasters on any part
of the body, fol- the reason just
named. An ordinary mortal will quick
ly tell how long a mustard plaster may
remain on; on a child it should be
shifted as soon as the skin reddens a
tride.
For the relief of pain, for sick stom-
ach, for acute general weakness, for
hysterical manifestations and for uncOn-
scious9ess these plasters are of great
service. Pain in the head often is re-
lieved by 3 mustard plaster to the back
of the neck or temples. Pain in other
locations generally calls for the appli-
cation of the plaster to the painful part.
In sick stomach apply the plaster to
the region of the organ. Shifting the
plaster from place to place adds to its
usefulness For the relief of acute gen
eral weakness, as when a person may
swoon, apply the plaster to the region
of the heart stomach or spine. If it is
attempted to rouse an unconscious per-
son by the use of this remedy move the
plaster from place to place, paying.
special attention to the region of the
kidneys, stomach, spine and to the
arms aud legs, always keepingsin mind
to shift the plaster on an adult every
ten minutes an on child as soon as
the SIX n may be redeemed. -KhjJadel-
phl0 Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-24
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Feed we'll. 1t is hardly the thing
to have to lean a cowup against fence
to milk her.-E1chanqe
= In turning under sod or green ma
terial a sprinkling of lime viii be very
beneficial. Chicago Times.
-Sharpers are now swindling farm
ers by getting them to invest IN bogus
cattle companies. = Chicago Journal.
Cut the black-knot on plum trees
as soon as it appears, then wrap the
wound with sulphur and grating wax.
The Massachusetts Pgoughman be-
lieves it better to apply manure to land
year before blowing than to pillow it
Immediately after the application.
Peach and plum pits should not be
planted in the fall, as many of them
will terminate if allowed to remain out
all winter. 1t is better to keep them
indoors until spring, then crack and
plant very early.-I0tedo Blade.
Pressed Chicken: If You want
nice dish for lunch, roast chicken I'M
til it is very tender. Then strip the
meat off the bones and mix with the
stutfing; press in dish, let it stand I'M
til cold, then cut in slices. Boston Bud
get.
Crooks of butter to be kept for sew
eral months should never be placed
upon the cellar bottom. This causes
two degrees of temperature in the
crock, which will be at the expense of
the quality of the butter near the top.
The crooks will keep their contents far
better if placed at least foot from the
cellar bottom upon bench and thick
wooden cloth thrown over it.-Troy
Times.
"A nice tea dish: Make short
sweetened pie-crust, roll thin, and part
ly bake In sheets; before it is quite
done take from the oven, cut in squares
of four inches or so, take up two dag
Onal corners and pinch together, which
makes them basket shaped now fill
with whipped or white of egg,
or both, well sweetened and favored,
and return to the oven for few min
ptes. N. 7. Tribune.
Smut in corn is becoming more
troublesome every year, partly from
lack of care in destroying smutty corn
before taking to the crib. 1t is most
prevalent on land where corn is grown
year after year, showing that some of
the germs remain in the soil through
the winter. AS it appears first on the
tassel, or male flower, it is well to 90
through the field and destroy all that
appear diseased. The smut falls from
the tassel to the silk, and is thus prop
agated in the ear.-P'Grje Farmer.
Mr.. L. B. Arnold, in conversation
recently with the editor of the New En-
gland Farmer, said ne had solved the
problem of keeping butter sweet for an
indefinite period by taking it from the
churn in the granular form, and after
rinsing it sufficiently in water or brine,
packing it in firkius of strong brine
without any working whatever. A
mistake made by many butter-makers
is that of working their butter too
much; it is sufficient to work Just
enough to distribute the salt evealy
through it.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-24

with me, and pn introduce you to my
daughter at once.
Scarcely knowing what he was about
Willoughby did as he was told. They
crossed the street together, and the
Captain opened his door with latch
key.
''Oue moment, if you please said
Willoughby, who was titivating his
hair and arranging his cravat.
"Are you ready now?" asked the
Captain.
quite"
''Mr. Willoughby Vanea cried the
Captain, ushering our hero into the
drawing-room. Then waving his hand,
he added: '.Allow me to introduce you
to my wife and daughter
Willoughby looked exceedingly fool
ish as he bowed to the two ladies. On
couch by the fireside sat his enchant-
ress, looking more bewitchiugly radiant
than ever, her vis-a-vis being the tall,
thin, angular woman in black that he
had frequently noticed from over the
way.
What a contrast thought Will
jug HDsSs UObW0Su 1HOtuOL anu ia II
ter"
"Annie, my dear, Mr.. Willoughby
Vane is nervous, no doubt. You know
the adage. Let us leave the young
people together, aud he IL soon find his
tongue then, III wager said the Cap
tain, addressing the younger of the two
ladies, who Immediately rose from her
seat.
"stay, sir-there is some mistake
here . said Willoughby. This lady
is''-and he pointed to the gaunt fe-
male.
"My daughter, sir" said the Cap
tain. '.My daughter by ny first wife. y
"And this" calculated our hero,
turning to the yong lady.
sis my second 0lfe, STRIP
Mr.. Willoughby Vane fed from his
home that night. About a month later
his almost bFoken-hearted mother re-
ceived letter from him explaining the
whole affair; and the post-mark bore
the words; Montreal. Canada. -
Godey'S LGdy's Book.
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The Whipping Pest.

Seven prisoners, convicted at the pres
ent session of the County Courts for
various attractions of the criminal laws.
ishment in the Jail yard this morning.
A crowd of about four hundred people,
including the rabble and gamins of the
CITY, witnessed the laws Vindication,
and extracted much amusement from the
writhing contortions of the suffering
victims. Sheriff Martin applied the
scat vigorously, holding it in his left
hand and cracking it smartly with tell
ing effect over the shoulders and backs
of the men bound to the posts. All the
prisoners showed that the punishment
was severe, but some neryed themselves
and stood the seat with but little
cringing. The first prisoner brought
out was Edward Bedden, convicted of
horse stealing. At ten o'clock the pill
lory was opened and received his neck
and wrists. He held the position one
hour evincing great anxiety to be re-
leased toward the latter part of his
stand. At eleven o'clock he was re-
leased and walked down the ladder,
saying he felt quite as well as
when he left the cell. He was
afterward given twenty blows with
the scat The first half of them he
bore fairly well, but the last ten set his
muscles trembling and painted his back
and shoulders red. He tried vainly to
dodge the blows, and looked first de-
family into the Sheriff's stern face.
George Stewart, the other white ran
whipped, was convicted for the theft of
harness. He got ten lashes, lightly laid
on, his punishment being made as light
as possible on account of his suffering
with consumption. The blood began
trickling down his back as he left the
post. Harrison Rothwell, alias Sugar
Awful, notorious negro thief, who
pleaded guilty to larceny on four in
dictments, got the most severe punish
ment of any of the culp rits. His
sentence was twenty lashes, and they
were most vigorously laid on. Each
stroke Of the lash curled up the black
skin in welts, but the young miscreant
did not show by his actions that the
Sheriff's blows were terribly painful.
James E. Groom, quite as notorious as
Sugar Awful for his participation in
thefts, was a candidate for twenty
lashes. The cat was laid on heavily,
but the thief grinned and bore The pain
without an exclamation. Isaac Hen
derson received twenty lashes, welllaid
on. He squirmed and kicked a good
deal, and gave vent to his feeling in
profane EXPLANATIONS, which, however,
did not have any effect upon the Sc
verify of the punishment. George Nor
ris and Frank Congo, fpr larceny, were
punished with ten lashes each, which
they bore without murmur, the cat
being lightly applied. - Wilmington
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Look Ahead, Young Man!

He was a youthful, smooth-faced
prisoner and stood awkwardly at
the Yorkville Police Court railing
yesterday.
"Michael Mulligan," said Justice
Murry, you are only nineteen years
old, and yet you were found drunk in
the street last night
The prisoner laughed.
Don't make merry over your dis
grace" said the court. sternly, "for
this is nothing to be proud of. Michael,
just forget that you are in court and
try to imagine yourself bloated drunk
AID with ragged clothes and trembling
limbs--a man who sleeps in the gutter
and is Stunned by every one. Look a
little further on and imagine gray
haired, half-naked corpse being buried
in grave in the potter's field. Michael,
you are looking upon your future self
unless you give up this terrible vice"
"Me ladder keeps e; gin mill down
in de Sixth ward. Dye s'pose he'd
send me to de potter's field?" retorted
Michael ''Ah, come Off"
Justice Murray gave a disappointed
sigh, the court officer looked shocked,
and Michael with his hat over his
left eye. walked gayly into the prison
to wait for somebody to pay his fine.
M 7. Herald.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-24
What Is Mind.

Go and touch the two poles of a gal
vanic battery. What is it that thrills
through your bodies, and perhaps even
burns the skin of your fingers; or even,
if the current be strong enough, strikes
you dead on the instant? Galvanism.
What is galvanism? A force Yes
and so is light a force, and heat, and
gravitation. But, when / am tod this,
| am just as far from knowing what any
one of the forces is as I was before. All
that you could do, if persisted in ask
ing for fuller explanation, would be
to tell me something of the origin and
properties of the force in question, and
in this way / should obtain some idea
of its characteristics, and should be in
no danger OF mistaking it for any other
force. That is what your Professor
of Physics does for you, and, if you
have only rrofted by the instruction
you have received, you have store of
facts at your command that will en-
able you to recognize heat, light,
electricity, gravitation, magnetism,
whenever you see them manifested.
When, therefore you ask me what mind
is, [ answer that it is a force possessing
peculiar properties, and developed by
substance constituting part of the
nervous organism of man and other
animals, and known to the anatomists
and Psychologists as gray and nerve
tissue. This is similar in all essential
respects, so far as its terms are con
eerned, to the definition that you would
give me of any other force. OF course,
it can be made more precise and ex-
tensive, but no enlargement would
change its character. DR.. Hammond,
IN Popular Science Monthly.
There are thirty-six varieties Of oak
u the United States.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-24
An Affecting Scene at Jail.

Quite an affecting scene occurred at
the visiting window of the Maiden Lane
Jail this morning. A young man
about eighteen years old was incarcer-
ated, awaiting transportation TO Dame
mora Prison, where he is to serve a six
years sentence. The prisoner was a
fine-looking young fellow. His father
an aged ministcr-had come to visit
him. The son stood with shamed face
on one side of she grating and the grief
stricken father on the other. Drink had
been the cause of the boys troubles.
The father pleaded earnestly with his
child to reform while in prison, to read
his Bible and improve all spare time in
study. ''Son," continued the father,
''if you had the grace of God in your
heart you wouldn't be here. If those
cursed grog-shops were swept away I'd
have been spared all this. Let it be
lesson to you, boy. This is the last
time you will probably ever see me. I
am old and probably won't live your
six years out. o, my boy, promise me
to give yourself to God thatI might see
you over yonder." The boy promised
and the old man went his way.-C0r.
albany On. Y. Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-24
THE ROOM BENEATH THE RAFT
Fps

sometimes when have dropped to sleep,
Draped in d soft luxurious gloom,
Across my browsing mind will creep
The memory of another room.
Where resinous knots in roof boards made
A frescoing of Aght and shade.
And signing p0plars brushed their leaves
Against the humbly sloping caves.
Again / fancy in my dreams
I'm lying in my trundle-bed.
! seem to see the bare old beams
And unhewn rafters overhead;
The hornets shrill falsetto hum
] hear again, and see him come
Forth from his mud-walIed hanging house,
Dressed in his black and yellow blouse.
There, summer dawns, IN sleep / stirred,
And woVe into my fair dreams wool
The chattering OF a martin bird,
Or rain-drops pattering on the roof.
DR., half awake and half in fear,
/ saw the spider spinning near
His pretty Castle whore the fly
Should come to ruin by and by
And there / fashioned from my brain
Youths shining structures in the air.
did not wholly build in vain,
For some we're lasting, firm and fair.
And ! am one who lives to say
My life has held more gold than gray,
And that the splendor of the real
Surpassed my early dreams ideal.
But still ] live to wander back
To that old time and that old place;
To thread my way DER Memory's track,
$ And catch the early mornings grace
n that quaint room beneath the rafter,
That echoed to my childish laughter;
10 dream again the dreams that grew
More beautiful as they came true.
--hld wheeler WGJcOC, IN KotJtbS Companion.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-24
Lime Water.

The housekeeper should never be
without bottle of lime water. To
have it always ready and in good order,
with little expense, place in tall quart
bottle of any kind gill or so of good
lime just slaked with water. Then fill
the bottle with rain or other pure wa
ter and allow it to stand quietly, well
corked. The lime will settle, leaving
clear lime water at the top. Pour this
of gently, as wanted, adding more wa
ter as needed. Lime water. even when
closely corked, ten deteriorates; the
carbonic acid in the air unites with the
lime and settles as an insOluble carbon
ate on the sides of the bottle, which is
nearly impossible to remove. This will
spoil the bottle for any other use.
Therefore select one from the storeroom
which is not valued, but which has
good tight cover. A wide-mouthed
bottle is preferable. The lime should
be removed and fresh put in once
year or so, unless kept very tightly
corked. A pint of cold water dissolves
less than ten grains of lime, and warm
water still less. The uses lime water
may be put to are innumerable. Ii good
milk disagrees with child or grown
person, three or four tablespoonful of
lime water added to a pint of it will
usually help digestion and prevent fatu-
lence; it also counteracts pain from
wind in the stomach caused by eating
acid fruits. Over-eating of candies and
other sweets will sometimes cause aciii-
tv, for which this is asoyereign remedy.
A tablespoonful for child of two years
old to gill or more for an adult is an
ordinary dose, while considerable will
have no bad results; in fact, it is sim
pie anti-acid and slightly tonic. A
snail cuantity put into the tooth-mug
with the water for cleaning the teeth
will harden the gums and prevent soft
decay, which is a serious evil which
MANI desire to avert. For burns and
zeal s, TO two parts Of linseed oil add
on p.ff ct lime water, and spply With
SUI i.iisa.-~ isossQA 6Ndgek,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-24
Temperance Reading. .
NOT ONE DROP.

: No, Tom. thank you, not one drop
Of whisky, now, for me.
I'll tell you why, before stop.
That you the cause may see.
Ny wife has chung to me in tears.
My children cried for bread:
For me she's wept and PRAYED for wears.
Her hopes were well nigh dead,
And she has struggled on alone.
Uncared for and disgraced.
She cared for me with love her own:
Hg love was all erased.
One night staggered home in glee:
What sounds fell on my ear?
l heard my wife, in prayer for me;
Her voice rose loud ami clear;
"0h, save my husband saver she cried,
Oh. make him as beforel
My children bread have been denied;
They beg from door to door,
And when their little forms see,
Their hollow. Sunken eyes,
lis worse than all he puts oname-
Their walls, their woes and criesw
This is the reason, Tom, you see
Why l will drink no more.
l heard her prayer; it sobered me;
- signed the pledge, and swore
NO more to grieve my Mary's heart,
No more TO cause her pain;
from strong drink then and there to part
Nor ever drink again!
Toledo Blade,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-24
w. H. H. Ransom, a prosperous

W. H. H. Ransom, a prosperous
merchant of Ransomville, Erie County,
n. Y, has been accustomed to take his
money from the store to his house in
shot-bag A year ago he went home
with $1,000 in his shot-bag. When he
reached his house he noticed gate open
near the barn, He placed his bag of
money on his front steps and went and
closed the gate. When he returned the
bag was gone, and he never discovered
any trace of it. The other night he
put five hundred dollars in shot-beg
and closed his store. He met an &C,
quaintance at the door, and the two sat
down on the steps to talk. Mr.. Ransom
placing the bag by his side. Five min
utes later it was not there. There is
no theory as to how the money could
have been taken, and no suspicion as
to who could have taken it. Bqfaso
EvpTeSs,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-24
Miss Jennie Blackman, of M

Miss Jennie Blackman, of Mill
Plain tDanburyl, arose from her bed
while asleep the other night and
wandered some distance from the house
to brook, in which she was found
asleep in two feet OF water. with her
head resting on the bank. After being
awakened she expressed herself ig.
norant Of what lad happened. Miss
Blaekm is eighteen years of age, and
has ha attack Of Somnamhulism be-
5ora. saggrl Conn Times,
Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-03

Parties having large or small amounts of money which they wish to invest safely and proftably should read in to-day's issue ad- vertisement of manufacturing stock offered by the Foote Patent Pin company of New York, paying 20 per cent. yearly.
 iy31 3m
Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-03
de2Snnaf2taw
de2Smaf2taw Seven Per Cent. First Mortgage Improved City Real Estate, Costing nearly four times the amount
 of the Iiaort@aSe.

OI the mortgage
 MEsSRs. PooR, WHITE & GREENoUGH, 45 Wall Street. N. Y., are authorized to re- ceive subscriptions at 1O1 and interest for any part of $40OO00 per cent. bonds, forming the only incumbrance upon improved real estate situated in the heart of the city of Minneapolis, and costing $1 00000. The bonds are for $1 0O0 each due July 1st 1884, with interest at seven per cent Jan- ary and 1st of July payable in gold at the Farmers Loan and Trust Company of New York, to whom the mortgage deed is executed, with all the usual provisions of real estate mortgages including poi ces of in surance payable to said trustees
 The mortgage property comprises the land and buildings90ox170 feet Hennepin avenue, known as Vests Hotel and stores. The hotel is magnih- cent fireproof structure, eight stories high, con- taining 400 rooms. unsurpassed by any similar building in the United States, and the six stores ad joining have annual rental of S24 coo while the hotel would readily command rental of S75, ,OOO It is now fully opened and equipped, and doing the anticipated large business under management of the owner, who has gained fortune proprietor of the NicoIet House in the city. The need of increased hotel accomm odation has been universally in Minneapolis to meet the extraordinary increase of population and commercial activity in that munity, which comprises 100000 people of a character lending profitable supportto most extend ed hotel accouam odation.
 The safest guide, however, to investors will be found in expert and disinterested local opinion re- garding security; hence the subjoined certificates have been obtained from the most competent and trustworthy auth critics in Minneapolis concerning the prooerties securing the mortgage.
 First-Certificate from the constructing architect showing that the property cost 8, ,500OOO.
 Second-Opinon of the six leading National banks of Minneapolis that under imaginable con- tingency can the security prove insufficient.
 Third-Opinion of four leading attorneys of that city that the titles of the premises is perfect
 These certificates appended in full in the prospectus, together with form of bonds.
 In view of the above evidence, confirmed by our personal examination and investigation, we have hesitation in recommending the above bonds unusually safe and profitable form of investment.
 The public is familiar with the same form of se- curity based farm mortgages, but the present is opportunity to obtain equal rate of interest with city property as security.
 Subscriptions for bonds should be addressed to the undersigned prior to the 4th of October. Orig- nals of the certificates above described may be ex amined at our office together with abstract of ti fle
Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-03
PUBLIC GARBAGE.

Should the town continue to maintain it's present engagement for the removal of the public garbage, it may be worth while to ex- tend the sewerage tanks for its reception and it is quite certain that system of composing this material with abundant absorbents and use of disinfectants will prove wiser from a sanitary point of view If it be not also more economic) than the present method of dump ing it in the pie-yards