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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-09
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

AT Weatherford, Tex, John Hud-
son and Mrs. Leave were married by
telephone.
Representative L. P. Poland. of
Vermont, is mainly distinguished as the
only man in the House who persistent
" appears in the old time blue swallow
tail with brass buttons. - dshinqton
Star.
Cora F. Mitchell, Boston book
agent, has received from Mark Twain's
business manager $500 as a reward for
the sale of 2, III of '.Life on the Missis-
sippi,' within eight months. Boston
Herald.
George Vanderbilt, the literary
member of the family, is the owner of
the chess table and chessmen that for
merly belonged to Napoleon l., and
which he used during his exile at st.
Helena.
William Black, the novelist, some
times smokes as many as forty pipes
day while writing. His copy is so bad,
however. that his daughters time is
occupied in translating it for the print
ers.-G Chicago Inter Ocean.
The latest return of the number of
volumes In the British Museum is Just
over 100000. There are 100 miles of
shelves, and about twenty more miles
to be filed. 1t is calculated that about
enc ton of literature day is sent into
that institution.
General George Washington Gusts
Lee, the eldest son of General Robert
E. Lee, has the reputation of being the
handsomest man in Virginia. His bear
ing as he grows older is remarkably
ike that of his father. The youngest
son Of the family is quiet farmer near
Richmond.
About year ago tie late Mr..
Danielson, of the Providence Or. I.(
Journal, wrote Senator Anthony's obit-
uary, expecting to use it shortly in the
paper. When Mr.. Danielson himself
died, short time ago, by a strange
chance it was Senator Anthony who
wrote his obituary.
-Ex-President Hayes is said to have
a more elaborate set of scrap books,
classified and indexed, than any other
public man in the country. He began
the collection Of scraps when he was a
young lawyer in Cincinnati. When he
was President he kept one of his
clerks constantly busy cutting and past
ing slips from the newspapers.
Carlos Aquero, the Cuban revolu-
tionary leader, is man below the me-
dunn height and weighs only lis
pounds. He has black curling hair and
small mustache which turns up at the
ends. His smiles are grim and there is
look of fierceness about his face, but
ordinarily he is the most harmless per-
son imaginable in appearance. Aquero
belongs to wealthy family in Puerto
Principe. He is not yet thirty. and has
been in arms against Spanish authority
in Cuba almost continuously since he
was fourteen. No one who knows him
doubts his bravery. = Indianapolis
Journal.
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Does it Pay the World to Grow Meatsg

Considered merely from an economic
view it may well be asked whether the
use of flesh for food is profitable to the
world. That the manure made by stock
will increase the fertility of the farm
may be granted only with some limita-
tions, for the animal can, it is quite
clear, give to the soil no very consider
able quantity of matter which it has not
first received from the earth. The
dairy farms of the East have become SO
impoverished by continual grazing and
cropping that it has been found neces-
sary to add largely to the animal ferti-
lizers left by the herd to enable the
dairyman to raise good calves or other
animals, although great quantities of
food are brought from other farms for
the cattle. It is of course true thai
there has been profit in the livestock
business, but that by no means shows
that meat-eating pays mankind.
1t may be assumed that the average
production per acre of corn will be forty
bushels. This, with the grass, hay, or
other necessary fodder, will keep a
bullock on full feed for 160 DAYS. At
that rate 80 bushels of corn, the yearly
product of two and quarter acres,
will be required each year for at least
two years, or the equivalent of that
time and quantity, for the production
of the bullock of l, 40 pounds. Such q
bullock, if well grown, will yield about
800 pounds of meat, fat and bone, or
an average of about 100 pounds per
year per acre of nutritious food, not
taking fat and bone into consideration.
1t will be seen that this amounts to less
than half pound per day for each
acre cultivated or grazed. For this the
consumer will probably pay from six
to eight cents, which certainly seems to
be a small price for great deal of
work.
The land required for the support of
bullock should produce 5000 pounds
per year of meat free of offal, or 10000
pounds of food at least as nutritious as
fresh beef, pound for pound; or it will in
two years yield 1900 pounds of wheat;
or in like time 5000 pounds of oats,
which will be equivalent to thirteen and
three-fourths pounds of corn, five pounds
of wheat or six and one-half pounds of
oats per day. Or the two and one-half
acres may be made to produce each year
30, 900 pounds Of potatoes, or eighty-two
and one-fourth pounds Of food per day.
The curious might go on through the
list of best-knoWn grains, vegetables
and fruits IN this way until they would
cover the entire list, and find few, if
any, which do not for given amount
of labor yield much larger return in
nutrition than is obtained by raising
beet, pork, or mutton. Chicago Trio
sssae.
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HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Dissolve some alum in the white
wash to keep it from rubbing off.
In planting your garden you can
save much hard work by planting
everything in drills as far as possible.
so as to permit of cultivating with o
horse. - Chicago Times.
Stable manure to be used in the
garden should be worked over and over
again until it is thoroughly composted
and as fine as possible. This wilt put it
in excellent condition for use in hills,
Cincinnati Times.
Caution is necessary, in using com
mercial-f fertilizers in the garden, that it
is not brought in direct contact with
the seed. Thorough mixing with the
soil is the only absolute safety at all
times. = Cleveland Leader.
1t is said by one who has tried it,
that if you forget to put dried corn in
water to soak all night, steaming it for
two hours will soften it much more than
boiling for the same length of time, and
it will retain its sweetness and distinct
i've flavor better also-M. Y Tribune.
"A correspondent says that young
horses should never have shoes imposed
upon them until it is well proved that
they can not do without them. He pre-
diets that the day is not far off when
some humane benefactor his kind and
horse-kind will produce a breed of
horses having such firm, tough feet in
addition to all other good qualities, that
shoeing will be unnecessary. En-
gland Farmer.
-Custard made in in this way is de-
licious for the filing of layer cake:
Heat cofee-cup of sweet milk in a
bright tin basin. beat one egg very
light, and beat with it until smooth
one heaping tea-spoonful of -four, add
sugar to suit the taste; when the milk
is hot stir the flour, eggs, etc., into it;
it will thicken in very few minutes
Take it from the fire and flavor with
lemon; if you choose, blanch some
almonds, cut them in three or four
pieces and stir into the custard.- M Y
Post
TO cure weak eyes battle your eyes
daily in salt water; not salt enough
though to cause smarting sensation.
Nothing is more strengthening, and we
know several persons who, after using
this simple tonic for few weeks, had
put aside the spectacles they had used
for years, and did not resume them,
continuing, of course, the oft-repeated
daily use of salt water. Never force
your eyesight to read or work in INSULT
cient or too broad light. Reading with
the sun upon ones book is very iniuri-
GUS to the eyes.-EGchamge.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-09
HUMOROUS.

"A goat ought to be frst-class ma
better butter than the goat
A man named Limberger has turned
up at Rochester, N. Y, who claims that
he hasn't scent to his name. = Yo7akers
Statesman.
"A gun that is charged with powder
is likely to go off-so is a treasurer who
is charged with embezzlement, if he
can get chance. Boston Star.
..Well, I am glad the days are
growing longer and the nights shorter, !"
remarked Jenkins, as he crawled into
bed at five o'clock in the morning. "A
fellow will be able to get little rest
IN. Y Mail.
-"Ya'as," continued young Smythe,
81 suppose everything created has some
use, but 'pon me honah it's deuced hard
to believe it, don't cher know?" eyes,
replied the young lady, looking him
over intelligently, lit is, indeed. p
Philadelphia Call.
The Greatest Joy
You may shout at the spIendor of spring,
OF its sweets you may soulfully sing,
And declare that it's simply immense;
But to youth there is naught that can bring
More pleasure than some circus-ring,
For it is then their joy is in tents.
~. Y. Morning Journal.
Here! Do you know you are riding
in the wrong directionP This train
doesn't go anywhere near Philadel-
phia. ''There! I kept a-tellin of him
that 'twa' Mt right to be ridin back ard;
but he lowed he knowed it all. Men
is dreadful smart, arays. Philadelphia
Press.
A young man who believes in self
improvement, having recently married,
suggested to his wife that they should
argue some questions frankly and fully
every morning, in order to learn more
of each other. The first question hap
pened to be "Whether woman could
b. expected to get along without hat, !"
and he took the affirmative, and when
he was last seen he had climbed up into
the hay-loft and was pulling the ladder
after him. -AMba149a NeaOS and Bulletin.
50 Hello, Henderson,, said Mr..
Greatheart to his friend the other day,
II hear your salary has been raised. !"
"Yes,n replied Henderson. How
much are you getting nowp' queried
the philosopher. 'Seventy-fve dollars
month"; was the answer. "Seventy-
five dollars a month"; calculated Mr..
Greatheart. "Why, before you were
getting a hundred eyes, | know.
The raise I got is spelled with q I"
- Washington Ratchet.
'By Jove, said the lynx-eyed proof
n
go down and kick Slug Nine into the
street. Here's three times I've marked
beans on him in that poem of Julia
Ward Howe's, and every time he spells
it 'p@ans.' My soul sings p@ans to the
gods of spring. There's lots of sense in
that, isn't there. Where'd he ever
learn to spell beans that way?' And
his face was livid with wrath, as once
more he saved the poem from destruc-
ton. "-AIbaey ATgus
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Temperance Reading.
/" ONLY THIS TIME y

Only this time is tie drunkard's cry.
AS he staggers and reels through the BARI
room door,
His blood on fire with a strong desire,
"0nly this time, and I'll drink no more"
Only this time," says the tempted youth
Ae he enters the gamblers gilded den
With pallid face. by Gods good grace
never will do this thing again.
I" Only this time. only this time!"
Is the frenzied cry of many a soul
That stands on the brink of yawning gulf,
Till it loses forever its self-control.
(" Only this time" to break Gods law:
Only this time to tempt high Heaven;
" Only this time, meath dust and CRIME,
Tie trample the blessings He has given.
Only this tImel" Oh! stop, my friend.
Stop, ere you enter that fata! door,
For he that goes in shall feel the sting
OF the serpent that biteth forevermore.
Mrs. N. a. Kidder, IN Irish H0rid.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-09
Our Young Readers.
MAMIE s REQUEST.

Dear Rain. without your help. know,
The trees and flowers could not grows
Ny roses all would fade and die,
If you staid ur behind the sky.
But lonely little girls, like me,
Don't like to stay indoors. you see,
All through the long and lonesome day
I'm tired of books. I'm tired of play;
I'm tired of listening to the sound
" pattering drops upon the ground,
And watching through the misty pane,
The clouded skies, 0 dreary Rain!
And so wish you'd tell me why,
Just to please me, you couldn't try
To let the bright Sun shine all day,
And in the night, when he's away,
And all the world is dark and still,
And I'm asleep-theIl, if you will,
Come down, and make my flowers grow.
Dear Rain, and viii love you so.
-YOlIth'S Communion.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-09
A Few Words to the Boys.

Come, now, my lad, but you want to
run away. No boy ever yet reached
the age Of fifteen without having several
times firmly resolved to leave home.
When boy has made up his mind to
a thing of this sort he ought to carry it
out by all means The first step in the
programme is to begin saving up bread
and meat When you have bushel or
SO of provisions hidden in the barn or
under the wood-shed you are ready for
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-09
ROBBLE,S RIRTHDAY PATTY.

Ring the bells on every spire, make the
steeples swing and rock!
Bid the loud-mOuthed cannon ire with heir
echoing thunder shock!
Make the shrilling bugles soundl Have the
sweetest music play!
While Robbie turns the world around; he's
seven years old to-day!
Tell the Presidenthe'I have to wait,
He's only in the way,
And If the King should come in state,
lie cant come in to-day.
Butthey IL have welcome hearty
II they come to dance and sing
at the Princes birthday party,
With the children in the ring.
Ha, ha! Jingle, jangle, Jingle,
Who is coming, Robbie knows
How she makes the music Jingle
With the bells upon her toes.
And Jack and Jill will tumble
With our sleepy-eyed Boy Blue,
And in noisy tumble
Come the children from the Shoe.
With his pipe and bowl you'll find him,
Happy jolly old King Cole.
And his Fiddlers sit behind him,
With fiddle, every sOull
And with funny Mrs. farley
See the gracious Queen draw nigh
With the pudding made of barley
And the dainty Blackbird Pie.
Hi. hill Jack, the giant killer,
Hang your sword up on the rack;
Now, you're welcome, Dusty Miller,
With your hand upon the sack.
HOl with song and shout and clatter,
Come the Little Indians all
Mercy on US, what's the matter?
Humpty Dumpty's got fall
Little elves 80 bright and airy,
From their home beneath the hill,
Many dainty, star-crowned fairy,
Laughing nymphs from brook and rill;
Giants, tall as any steeple,
And the Three Bears from the wood,
Come to meet the little pee Pile,
For on birthdays they're all good.
How the noise will shake each rafter
In the House Jack built himself,
When with shout and song and laughter,
Giant, Fairy, Bear and Elf.
Dish and Spoon, and Cat and Fiddle,
Cow and Dog and everything,
Dance and sing, Hi diddle diddlei
With the children in the ring.
30 his years are crowned with flowers and the
sun shines all the time,
And with dancing feet the hours tell his days
with song and rhyme
SO withdreams his life is rounded, and old
Time must smile and say:
why, another cycles bounded; Robbie's
seven years old to-dayI'
Huntington HatOlceye.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-09

Thus, all unknown to himself, those
calm eyes had pierced through the abb
surdly rough husk Of cynicism, and
saw beneath a kernel of manhood so
true, so tender, so pure, that, in her
heart Of hearts, she made a resolve,
which, out of consideration for her, I
will leave the reader to surmise.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-09

A paper in Minnesota starts out
with, sOnr platform is the abolition Of
poverty, ignorance, wickedness, un-
chastity, drunkenness, injustice, per
version of law. oppression and evil .
Its success is looked for with feverish
interest.
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WHAT THE PEOPLE PAY FOR
LIQUOR.

The cost of LIQUOR, in money, to the.
consumer. the man who drinks over the
bar, is the least of its cost to the coun-
try, but is well enough to know what
the people of the United States are pay
ing for it, in money, and comparison
Of the expenditure for drink with that
for other purposes is instructive.
The expenditures for various purposes
per annum in the United States are as
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-06-17

AGENTS Wanted ss sr .s:as:ss aass. q
s.p pss. a'ssa .:1iss issIiis.s; issss; Books & Bible,
stsas sverywhere; Liberal terms. Bradley. Gss.
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FROM WASHINGTON.
PENSION BILL
Presented to the Senate BY Senator
Cameron of Pennsylvania.
WASHINGTON, June 16.

WASHINGTON, June 16.
Senator Cameron or Pennsylvania, today,
introduced in the Senate bill whichlprovides
that all persons on the pension roll and all
persons hereafter granted pensions, who
while in the military or naval service of the
United States and in time of duty have lost
an arm or a leg shall be entitled to pension
of $40 per month; that those who have lost a
hand or feet be entitled to pension of $50
per month and ifIthey have received wounds
or other disability in addition thereto shall be
entitled to $50 per month; all persons who
have had a leg amputated at the hip joint and
all persons who had lost an arm at the
shoulder jointlis entitled to $50 per month.
and that all persons who have lost an arm
and leg shall be entitled to S72 per month.
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IMPORTERS TRICKS.
A Put up Whiskey Job and Tea That Is
Shady.

OTTAWA, June 10.
Application has been made from Kentucky
to the department Of customs for permission
to bring whiskey into Canada and thence to
New York as ex-warehoused from this coun-
try. The ostensible object was to enable
shippers to pay duties in New York instead
of Kentucky. The application wac refused.
Application has been made to the customs
department to allow the importation of an
article called tea dust. The analysis of this
article shows it to be composed of tea with a
plentiful admixture of sand and other ingre
dients. Inland revenue authorities have de-
cided this article was injurious to public
health and could not be admitted into Can
ada.
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TEXAN CROPS.
A Generally Good Outlook Although the
Crops are Late.

GALVESTON. June 16.
The News publishes the crop reports from
over 200 points of the State covering the
counties embracing the agricultural district
of Texas, The reports show the condition
of cotton to be very materially improved
within the past three weeks, that while the
rains did serious damage to plants in low
lands the uplands were correspondly bene-
fitted. The season will be late but every in
dication now points to full average crop.
In view of the statements recently published
and general apprehension, this announcement
will prove Important to the commercial
world.
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AND COMMERCIAL.
New York Produce Market.

NEW YORK, june 10.
FLouR-Recepts, l4,6S3; exports, IL 800 sales. 49,
100; No. 2, 10 IS; fancy white Western, extra,
0 25 a so; common 10 good, 90 as 90, good q
choice, 3 rs a 65c; City mill extra, sos 8 l0s
superiue,2 rs a 3 IS; 81. Louis extra, 8 SO 20;
winter wheat extra, 20 a64 40; Minnesota extra
8 10 a d so.
wHEAT-Reoeipts. 24.soo; exports. its,si7; sales,
277 900; No. red. %; No. red, 0l1, elevator
No. Red State. III; No White state, ii6.
KYE-nrmer.
BARLEY-easier.
CoRN-Receipts 272,5ss bushels exports. Il, ,l24; |;
sales, 2s.. 900; spot No 3, $50; No 2. GA.
OArs-Receipts. 800 l50; sales. l4s,0o0; No 3. 50;
do White. IS; No 2, S73 a 80; do White. s9s seA
No !, ss; do White. a; Mixed Western. S7a w;
White do, IS a Al; White State, Al u A.
SUGAR-Cut loaf and crushed ~ a "a granulated.
81 white extra C,b 81; yellow, a5l; mould,
71.i6
PETRoLEUM-United, IN bid.
TALLow-steady.
BEEF-Quiet
PoRK-Mess spot, 10 s7i a IL 90; clear back,
10 50.
LARD-at 10 a II; refined, 30.
BUTTER-weaker.
CHEEsE-steady.
Freights-steady.
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THE COMMITTEE
To Notify Blame OF His Nomination
To Arrive Friday Night by Spec.
Ial Train.

DOVER, N. H., June l6.
The Eastern Railroad Co. has rendered the
committee appointed by the Chicago conven-
ton to notify Blaine of his nomination the use
a special train to convey the committee from
Boston to Augusta.
The offer has been accepted by Senator
Rollins in behalf of the committee, and the
train will leave Boston for Augusta at
o'clock on Friday afternoon. Senator Rol-
lins arrived here from Dakota this afternoon
and expresses himself as thoroughly conf
dent for the republican success now, no
matter whom the democrats may nominate.
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MAINE DISPATCHES.
OPENING THE CAMPAIGN.
Blaine and Logan Clubs Organized in
Bangor and Brunswick.

BANGOR, June 16.
The republicans opened the campaign to-
night by raising Blaine and Logan flag in
West Market Square with cheers and music
by the band. Adjourned to City Hall when
a large meeting organized Blaine and
Logan Club. J. G. Clark was chosen presi-
dent, with five vice presidents, three secre-
taries, a treasurer, finance and executive
committees. Speeches were made by Hon.
s. F. Humphrey, Hon. S. H. Blake, ex-Gov.
Davis, President Clark. Much enthuiasm
was manifested.
BRUNSWICK, June 16.
A large and enthusiastic meeting of the
republicans was held this evening for the
purpose of forming Blaine and Logan Club.
The following officers were elected:
President-Frank Adams
Vice Presidents-Frank Roberts, A. Whit
more G. d. Parks, w. c. Whitehouse.
There was also present large Blaine and
Logan Club from Bowdoin College.
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The Democratic Convention.

BANGOR, June l6.
A large gathering of democrat delegates to
to the State and district conventions was held
tonight. greater number will come by
special trains and boats tomorrow. An ex-
citing discussion is going on before the State
committee on the admission of the contesting
delegates from Lewiston. No names are
prominently mentioned tonight as candidate
for governor. The temporary organization
will be as follows:
Chairman-Atwood Levensaler OF Thom'
aston.
Secretaries-George Donworth of Houlton,
J. C.. Wilson of Orono, A. L. Farnsworth OF
Portland, E. c. Moody of York, j. IL. Childs
of Pennington.
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The Friends at Newport.
Providence. r. I

TKONIDENCE. n. l.. June 10.
The Friends yearly meeting was contin-
ued at Newport, this morning. The discuss
ion regarding the condition of the society
was continued for two hours, being at times
interesting. The trustees of the Mosher
fund reported having invested $4,000 in
Boston registered per cent. bonds.
The Friends at Newport this afternoon
listened to several reports and engaged in q
discussion over the custom of sexes setting
apart at the meeting Earnest remarks were
made against the practice BY all speakers,
and the depletion of the ranks of the Friends
and the loss of children to the society are
attributed to this custom.
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SPORTING.
THE OAR.
The First Of the College Boat Races to
Take Place Today.

New LONDON, CT, June l6.
The first of the college boat races on the
Thames will take place Wednesday at two
o'clock between Harvard and Columbia Uni
versity. Both crews pulled over the course
on time this evening and covered four
miles in less than 25 minutes. Harvard
pulled long and powerful stroke, almost
faultless and averaged So to the minute.
Columbia showed fine form, pulling shorter
stroke than the Harvards and varying from
IS to AZ per minute. 1t is believed the COM
ing race will be close with the Harvard as
favorite. The betting is now five to three
for the Harvard.