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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-18
BIRD-ENEMIES.
How The Owl Preys upon His Small
Victims.

How The Owl Preys upon His Small
Victims.
The great bugaboo of the birds is the
owl. The owl snatches them from off
their ROOFS at night, and gobbles up
their. eggs and young in their nests.
He is veritable ogre to them, and his
presence fills them with CONSERVATION
and alarm
One season, to protect my early
cherries. placed large stuffed owl
amid the branches Of the tree. Such q
racket as there instantly began abou5
my grounds is not pleasant to think
upon. The orioles and robins fairly
..shrieked CIT their alright The
news instantly spread in every direc-
ton, and apparently every bird in town
came to see that owl in the cherry tree,
and every bird took cherry, so that /
lost more fruit than ii / hsd left the
owl indoors. With craning necks and
Mortified locks the birds would alight
upon the branches. and between their
screams would snatch Of: cherry, as
if the act was some relief to their out
ragged feelings. John Burroughs, in
Century.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-18
HUMOROUS.


-"Was Rome founded by Romeop"
inquired pupil of the teacher mo,
my son. replied the wise man. "Is
was Juliet who was found dead by
Romeo
AT the theater: Wife-Are you a
medium Husband-Wh a ridiculous
question! Wife-Not at all, not at all;
for you seem to have spirit call after
each act.-Bostop budget.
The woman who made pound of
butter out of the cream of joke and
cheese from the milk of human kind
ness has since washed the close of q
year.-Boothbay Register. And hung
them out to dry on the line storm.
Gorba11a Mouataaaeer.
-Spoodle was saying that when he
was abroad he was presented at Court.
'.The deuce you were!' exclaimed
Fogg. 'How did it happenp How
much did they fine you?'' 1t is
Spoodle's opinion that Fogg is very
ignorant fellow, you know. Boston
TRANSCRIPT.
"A Hartford sportsman went out to
try his skill at breaking glass balls
with rifle. He reported grand sue.
cess on returning to the city, saying
he broke nine OF a possible ten, but
didn't mention that he did it by drop
ping the basket while getting over 3
fence.-H0ftford Cour0nt.
The papers have much to say now
about s'the Balkan attitude" All mule
drivers know what that attitude is.
The animal puts his fore feet out rio-
idly in advance, and his hind feet in
the rear and points to the north sta,
with both ears. Then he won't move
until you build fire under him
Ptttsburqh Chronicle.
If the sun rises in the East and sets
in the West, and the bullfrog sings
sans in the marshes, and thare ain't
no pulling hair in the family circle,
things are about az near right az WI
can get them. ....Should there be no
dew on the grass in the morning before
sunrise, it il an infallible prognostix
there didn't emmy fall. Billings.
Young Highcollar-Beastly wealth
aw, this, Miss Symphony, bah Jove!
Miss Symphony (tired) -Youought not
to decry the weather, no matter how
bad it may be, Mr.. Highcollar. If it
were not for the weather you would be
at q loss for something to talk about.
Now take etc mamma, N 7. Times.
''Ma, did you know old Mr.. Slim
kins?' asked Mildred. "Yes, dear"
replied the old lady. ssHe is dead. -
Now, that's too bad; / have known
him so many years" 1.-THE paper says
he was an oetogenarian.' sob; no;
there must be some mistake about that.
He's been Cumberland Presbyterian
ever since | knew him. - ittsburGb
Telegraph.
A butcher entered a lawyers office
and said: ''Sir, when dog does any
damage is not his owner responsible?
.'Certain1y.' THAT being the ease, as
your dog has just carried off lnagnifi-
cent leg of mutton from my shop, you
owe me three dollars. y stNothino
could be more just" replied the law
yer, ''and, fortunately, that is exactly
the price of the consultation / have Just
given you. So we are just even" IN
Z. Ledger.
That man is plirenologist, Pat"
"A phate' asked Pat, puzzled. "A
phrenologist' ''Phat's that?' '.Why,
man that can tell by feeling of the
bumps on your head what kind of
man you are.n Bumps on me head,
Is it?' exclaimed Pat. '.Begorra, then
I should think it would give him more
of an idea phat kind of man ME wife
is!'-N E. Farmer.
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the student Of sucIi books to weep at home
and work up their honest perspiration into
scasding tears, far be it from me to grudge
that poor boon.
| hope that all who may read these lines
and vino may feel that the pores of thor
skin are getting torpid and sluggish, owing
to an inherited antipathy toward physical
exertion, and who feel that they would
rather work up their perspiration into woe
and shed it in the shape of common red
eyed weep, will keep themselves to this
poor boon. People have different ways OF
enjoying themselves, and ] hope no one
will hesitate about accepting this or any
other poor boon that do not happen 10 be
using at the time.-Bil! Nge, a. Boston
GL0Ile
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-18
LATE FEEDING.
The Damage Done by Cattle Feeding in
Moving Fields.

The Damage Done by Cattle Feeding in
Moving Fields.
Those who will persist in pasturing
their cattle in their moving fields in the
autumn should remember that if they
will take them out early enough to give
the grass time to start, so as to afford
some protection to the roots when cold
weather comes, the injury to the next
years crop will be much less than if
feeding is continued until winter sets in.
There is another reason why late feed
ing should not be permitted, which is,
after the heavy rains come the
ground softens so that the feet of the
cattle, especially on low land, sink in
quite deep, not only making the sur
face OF the land very uneven, but press
ing many of the grass roots so deep
that they send up but q feeble growth
the next year, and it also exposes the
roots of the grass on the edge of the
holes, SO that many of them are entire
ly. killed by the winter.
While we do not believe that now
ing fields should be fed at all, exceptin
very rare cases, and for some especial
reason, we are willing to admit that if
fed only in the early part of the au-
tumn, when the. land is hard, and there
rs yet time to give the grass a chance
to grow enough to protect the roots
during the winter, the injury is COM
paratively light, SO that with plenty of
manure the crop the next year may be
quite large; but when farmers will per-
sist in feeding so hard and so late that
the grass roots have no protection, the
loss isiIreparable;no amount of manure
viii secure large first crop Of hay the
next season; besides, the land is made
SO uneven by the feet of the cattle that
it is difficult to cut the little grass that
does grow. The farmer who is short
of pasture in the latter part of Che
season had better hire a pasture
than to injrre his moving land by
feeding it; orif he can not readily hire
a pasture, it would be better to feed his
cows at the barn night and morning a
few months. We have seen two NOW
ing fields side by side, where one was
fed until winter set in and the other
never fed; and Notwithstanding the
one fed was heavily MANFRED every
year, and the one not fed MANFRED but
very lightly once in several years, the
field that was fed was winter-killed so
bad that it did not produce so much as
the field that was not fed; in fact, often
a considerable portion of it would be
so badly Winter-killed that it would
produce but very little except worth
less weeds. AS there was nothing but
fence that divided the two fields, and
the soil being alike, it was full proof
that the cause of being winter-killed
was the late feeding. The owner CON
tinued the same course year after year,
though the evidence of his bad man
agement was continually before him
Massachusetts, Plougtnaan.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-18
MAKING GLOBES.
Where and How the Miniature Earths Arr
Manufactured.

Where and How the Miniature Earths Are
Manufactured.
It is q fact not known, perhaps, by
many readers, that Troy is one of the
largest and best producers of school
and library globes in the country.
The manufacture was begun in this
city in 1852. At first only ball
five inches in diameter was made, but
ten-inch terrestrial globe was soon
added. The list OF sizes was rapidly
increased. The balls are made in Bos.
ton, but the appendages are supplied
and the globes are mounted and
shipped in this city, where are ow ned
the plates from which the maps are
printed. Globe-making is a skillful
and delicate process. The maps are
printed in small sections on English
draWing-paper, and these segments
must be so nicely put upon the hollow
ball of PAPER mache that there shall
not be the slightest break in the align
ment of letters or the continuity of
lines when the smooth and painted
surface is complete. Three months
are required to construct one of these
worlds in miniature, from the time that
the ball is begun until it rests in its
frame or sits aloft upon brass, bronze
or nickel standard 1t must be SO
trimmed and mounted that it will have
no dissemination to change its inclina-
ton in the frame, and will hang SO
truly in space that it will halt in its
revolutions at any time when so CON-
manded, and remain motionless, as II
its center OF gravity were in truth equal
" distant from all points upon its cir
cumference. If the globe refuse to
rest with any other country than Amer
lea on top, the maker will be deemed
more patriotic than skillful. The sizes
manufactured range from three to thir-.
ty inches in diameter, and from two to
two hundred and twenty-three dollars
in price, and are mounted IN forty diff
ferent styles. The constantly increas
ing demand for these portable orbs is
very foreibiy shown by the fact that
the shipments from this city last wear
were fifty per cent. larger than during
the preceding year.-Troy (N. ~
Times
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-18
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mrs. Miialovitch, wife of the Ser
Wan Minister to Great Britain. is an
American woman.
George w Cable, the novelist, has
become Sundayschool teacher at his
new home in Northampton, Mass.
There are 633 German papers pub
lished in the United States, of which 80
are daily, rs Sunday and 474 weekly
papers. The circulation ranges from
400 to $4,000.
Mary Anderson, the actress, has
her life insured for 100000, the larg-
est policy on the life of an American
woman Clara Morris is insured for
S25, 000.-N. i. Sun.
DIR. Morton w. Easton, Professor
of Comparative Philology in the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, has studied no
less than twenty-five different Ian
g.uages, both ancient and modern.
A popularity Of the late Horace B.
Claim, the great New York merchant,
was that he would never disclose his
age to any one except his wife! He al
ways responded to inquiries with
..Nell, I'm over forty. Y Taib-
Nile.
The second King of Siam, who died
the other day, had q great many
names, most of them unpronounceable.
When he was Prince he conceived a
f0ndness for this country, and affixed
to his titles the name of George Wash
ington, Harper Bazaar.
boc bann 11-- I-..a,x-.,
that Mr.. LongfelloW added to his
poetic gifts those of an artist. The BIZ
ography which Samuel Longfellow is
preparing will contain letters and
diaries written by the poet while
abroad, and charmingly illustrated BIZ
him with dainty little pen-and-ink
drawings, which are carefully repro
duced. - Chicago Tribune.
Il heard good story about General
Sherman the other day. Some one
wrote him 3 letter requesting lock of
his hair and an autograph. In reply
the General said: Il regret to state
that as my orderly is bald, and as the
man who formerly wrote my auto
graphs has been dismissed, can not
comply with your request" This was
mailed without his signature. -Phjla-
'delphia Inquirer.
The death of General Joseph S.
Smith, of Kingston, N. Y. recalls the
days when the mails were carried on
horseback. At the age of seventeen he
entered the United States service as
mail-carrier, carrying the mail on
horseback from KinostOn To Delhi and
to cambridge on the Susquehanna. He
rode forty miles each day for three
years, travelling 81, $50 miles during that
time, and receiving $3.50 year for his
services. troy Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-18
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

DURING the past year seventy-fve
new w. c. I. Unions have been organ
lied in Illinois.
In one year $14,3O0,000 were spent
for liquors in Liverpool, or an average
of $120 per week for each saloon.
A ROMAN CATHOLIC Bishop recently
said: at is not the English laws, the
land laws or the landlords laws; it is
the drink traffic that's the curse of Ire
land.
SUNDAY closing of saloons is now agi-
tating the people of several cities East
and South. With open saloons Sunday
has become in all cities the star day for
crime. Chicago Inter Ocean,.
Elk Presbytery, Tennessee, took
firm position in regard to Temperance,
declaring that church members should
not use liquors as beverage in any
form, neither sell their fruit or grain to
the distilleries.
TIE sale of brandy, either wholesale
CT retail, is forbidden IN Norway on
Sundays and other festivals, or on the
evenings previous. 1t can not be sold
on any day before eight a. m. or to
children or apprentices.
THE Autocrat of all the Russians has
just promulgated degree that no liq-
uor shall be sold at retail in his do
minions, except in hotels and eating
houses. This win close ninety thou
sand saloons the first of January Des-
potic power is good thing sometimes.
Union Signal.
The Knights of Temperance is the
name of a new organization just started
n New York to do battle against King
Alcohol. The ritual and insignia are
modelled after those of the knights
Templar. The badges and standards
are inscribed with the motto: "Sobri-
etas, Reverentia, Puritasque."
A CONTEMPORARY, referring to the
recent Temperance uprising in GeGr-
gia, complacently remarks: cit is
good thing-the negro and whisky do
not get along well together" But why
say "the negro and whisky" When
did whisky and white men get along
well together?-InGer Ocean.
ONE of the most revolving instances
of runs "deadly doings' recently oc-
CURED in Hoboken. N. j., where a
young man voluntarily gave himself up
for arrest, stating that he had quarreled
with his wife and hurt her so that she
might die The police fastened to his
rooms, where they found the wife w.
ing on the floor quite dead, her throat
being cut across. By her side sat her
baby boy, five months old, dipping his
fingers in his mothers blood and
smearing his face with it, innocent of
the great tragedy about him. The
neighbors bore witness TO the indus
trious character oi the wife, and that
she was not given to quarreling. The
husband had been drinking heavily,
and was filed with maddened rage
when be did the awful deed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-18
A LIVING TEAR-JuG.
BIZ Nge's Pathetic Description or q
literary Womanss Emotions.

literary Woman's Emotions.
have not written much for publication
fately because did not feel well. I was
fatigued. / took ride on tho cars last
week, and it shook me up good deal.
The train was crowded somewhat and so
sat in the seat with woman who got
aboard at Minklin's Siding. I noticed as
we pulled out of Minklin's Siding that this
woman raised the window so that she could
bid adieu to man in dyed moustache
do not know whether he was her dolce far
niente, Or her grandson by her second hus-
band. know that il he had been rela-
tive Of mine, however, would have cheer
fully concealed the fact
She waved little two by six handRer-
chief out of the window, said good
bye" allowed fresh zephyr from Cape
Sabine to come in and play a xylophone in
terlude on my spinal column, and then
burst into paroxysm of damp, hot tears.
/ had to go into another car for a mo-
| nient, and when / returned a pugiIist from
Chicago had my seat. When travel | am
uniformly courteous especially to pugil-
lists. A pugilist who has started ont as an
obscure boy with no money, no friends and
no one to practice OH except his wife or his
mother, with no capital aside from his bare
hands; a man who has had to fight his way
through Tife as it were, and yet who has
come out Of obscurity and attr icted the at
tention of the authorities, and won the
good will of those with whom he came in
contact, will always find me cordial and
pacific, and allowed this self-made man
with the bro ID, high, intellectual shoulder
blades, to sit in my seat with his feet on my
new and expensive travelling bag, while I
sat with the tear-bedeWed memento from
Minklins Siding.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-18
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.

There's subtle air of mystery about the
house to-day;
There are whisperngs and hidings, but not In
merry play:
There's a sound of shutting boxes; there's z
noise of scampering feet,
Then the children come with sober steps, with
faces grave and sweet.
There are breakings-up of savings-b banks, odd
pennies from papa;
There are earnest consultations with aunty
and mamma;
There are calls for scraps of satin, skeins OF
zephyr, shreds of floss,
There are searchings in thick folios for au-
tumn leaves and moss.
The artists, too are busy painting horse shoes,
tiles and shells;
hear half whispered comments: "Those
lovely lilybells,"
"What color Is jessamlne?' II want a light
er blue"
:" think I'd put darker shade in that If
were YOU"
What quiets all the busy tongues? they hardly
dare reply
TO the simplest of questions, but hesitate and
try
To be strictly non.committal. "Hush-sh-sh!
be careful now, don't tell
There are smiles and words half spoken, but
they keep their secrets well.
Lol the mvsterys unraveled, for upon the
Christmas tree,
by lne lIghC OF cOIOfeQ tdpofS, 1alf ana Deau-
tiful to see
Books and statutes, toys and vases, but the
dearest gifts OF all
Are the work Of tiny fingers, planned aud
made by children small
See! cushions, book-marks, pen-wipcrs of ev-
cry size and sort,
And what IL graudma's foot-stool has a leg
tr.ile shOrtY
1t is covered with gay patchwork of very
crazy kind,
And the rick racks verv crooked-wCll! they
tell me love Is blind
Here are lovely glowing pictures; car it be
the leaves and fern
That we gathered in tho autumn to such gems
of art could turn?
Those "colored outlines might not do for the
French Academy,
But they hold the place OF honor upon our
Christmas tree.
No diamonds ever shone as bright as mothers
eyes to n ght,
And no gifts with money purchased could
give such rare delight
Though the st tches are uneven and the blum
ders not "A few,
We only see the perfect work our darllngs
tried to do.
-Kate Laurence, i'l Youths Companton
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Its Success IN Canada.

Reports from Mayors of several towns
in Canada show the success of the Scott
act. Mayor Noxon, of Ingersoll, says:
Since the introduction of the Scott
act, all visible signs of drinking have
almost entirely disappeared from our
streets; before drunken men were on
our streets every day of the week, Sun
day not excepted. 1 am sure facts viii
bear me out in saying that there is not
one glass Of liquor sold in this town,
where fifty were sold before the act
went into operation. No business has
been injured except the liquor business.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-18
A NEW TRICK.
How Member Of the Wandering Pro-
fession Grows Wealthy.

How q Member Of the WANDERING. Pro-
fession Grows Wealthy.
An elderly. charitable-looking gentle
man, wearing an air OF prosperity. was
rushing into the post-office on Sunday
when he was approached by dilapi-
dated. seedy-looking tramp. The lat
ter held in his hand q sealed envelope
directed in lead-pencil and smeared
with the marks of grimy fingers. "Wil
you please give me a couple OF pennies
to send letter to my mother, sir? I
have just got out of a hospital and
want 10 send for money to go home. Z
The gentleman was overcome BY the
piteons appeal and dropped coin in
the outstretched hand. As he issued
forth from the other end Of the big
granite structure he was met by the
same individual with the same story
and the same dirty envelope. why,
you scoundrel, just gave you enough
to send your mother a dozen letters, :
shouted the benevolent gentleman.
You miserable wretch You're an
impostor. q
'sThat's a new racket, said the
policeman on the corner. and that
rascal has been working it very success
fully. too. Nearly every one he asks
gives him something. ! have driven
him away again and agalH, but he
comes back. - Philadelphia Record.
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Soc Et Tuum.

"Sir.'' said the wanderer, as he entered
the sanetum. Il come to ask your assist
ance have lost my right leg" ''AdYer-
tise for it" said the busy editor without
looking up from his paper. Special rates
in lost and wanted column. and half money
refunded if article advertised for is not re-
covered Aud the bewildered applicant
felt that there were some things sadder
than living, and SO. turning dejeetedly
away. opened the wrong door. and fell
slowly down the elevator well, falling upon
tie oIiice boz. killing him instantly This
generous ret OF man who had been l1arsn-
Is sn,llbesl. so affected the entire stall, that
HE. raised purse for him, and oIered
ii: twenty-five dollars more it he w,'uld go
t,,-.tasts again and Try it on the iaD!tar.- n
Es.s7slic, id BrooksJaa Eagle
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-18

The difficulty in enforcing the act has
not been great.
Mayor Grant, Of Woodstock, concurs
in this testimony adding: Hotels run
about as before. and are doing better
tnan they expected. On TIE whole. the
act has succeeded as well as its best
friends could have hoped
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-18

The improved kind of explosive
known as cocoa powder is said to pos
sess such superior value for many pur-
poses that it has been introduced into
the famous Krupp factory. in Germany.
1t is asserted that, with equal pressure,
this substance gives greater velocity to
a ball than can be attained with ordi-
nary powder, while its smoke is found
to be less dense and to clear off more
quickly. &,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-18

-"Was Rome founded by Romeop"
inquired pupil of the teacher. 'sNo,
my son, replied the wise man. "Is
was Juliet who was found dead by