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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
THE LATEST IN WRAPS.
What Dame Fashion Says the Ladies Are
to Wear This Winter.

What Dame Fashion Says the Ladies Are
to Wear This Winter.
The newest wrap is the shorHmantle
reaching just below the waist line at
the back, while it is daintily shaped to
outline the figure as much as possible
and yet preserve the effect of drapery,
and having long, square, tablier fronts.
These are adapted to winter wear fully
as much as for autumn, and are made
of brocade, ottoman silk, Sicellienne or
fur. Some rich ones are made of black
velvet figures on silk or satin ground,
tho figures outlined with jet, gilt or sill
yer beads. A mantle of rich goods is
usually studded with passementerie
matching the beads and edged with
fringe of chenille and beads. Ladies
who purchase wrap for general use
usually prefer rich black brocades with
sable or chenille trimmings or else a
sealskin mantle. Undoubtedly the
mantle is the most recherche and is
accepted by Americans rs well as by
the English and fair Parisians, and for
ladies who have but few hundred dol
lars to eXpend it is wise to invest it in a
short sealskin, and thereby obtain a
finer skin, than to purchase "a seal
sacque or dolman of o more questiona-'
BILE quality. But where the purchaser
is not limited to means the long seal
skin dolmans which reach to the hem
of the dress are by all means the first
choice.
A marked improvement on these
cloaks is noticeable this season and an
improvement very greatly needed.
Heretofore any lady who was otherwise
than slender was almost debarred from
wearing a sealskin, as the square, un-
calmly shape detracted alarmingly from
whatever comeliness of form she pos
sessed. But this year a total change
has been effected, and a sealskin, be it
sacque, dolman, cloak or mantle, is
now fitted as closely and perfectly as
ball dress. How beneficial the change
is is amply proved by the number of
of last years purchasing to be refitted.
The Innings in these garments are made
less heavy this season, and in many
cases the satin is not quilted at all, as it
is much more pliable and the cloak
more graceful without the stitching.
For carriage wear, or to match visit
ing costumes, it is the custom to wear
a brocade or Ottoman silk mantle either
the color of the dress or of black,
brown, old gold or any of the popular
grays or olives. These are trimmed
with chenille, fur, or passementerie, and
while they are both rich and effective
are com aratively inexpensive. The
variety of these mantles is absolutely
endless. There are SO many brocades,
plush figures on plush grounds, and
plush or velvet figures on satin, Otto
man or gros-grain, or upon a velvet
ground, and the figures are so innumer-
able that to duplicate any wrap is we'll
nigh impossible, while the trimming is
sometimes chosen to match the ground
in color and sometimes the figure, or it
may be in direct but harmonious con-
trast.-M Y World.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


All proposed improvements may be
eisurely considered at this season, but
10 not let that be the end of them.
Dispose of the small potatoes pyi
boiling and mixing meal with them,
tnd feeding to the pigs. A better feed
tor fatteniRg purposes is hard to obtain.
Toledo Blade.
Make a study of feeding. The
animal which comes out in good con-
Jition in the spring has long ways the
start of one that, from insufficient food,
must take month on grass to get
thrifty again. Exchange.
Hanging plants dry out rapidly.
Plunge the pots or baskets in a pail or
tub of water. and after they have ceased
to drip, return them to their places.
The water, however. should be of the
same temperature as the room.
Oatmeal drink. - Three table
spoonfuls of coarse oatmeal put into
three quarts of cold water. Boil it for
half an hour. and while hot sweeten to
taste with brown sugar; strain. 1t may
he favored with cloves or lemon peel
boiled in it if liked. N Y. Herald.
NO ground should be allowed to
remain unoccupied, even for half a sea-
son; if no other crop is desired, put it
in rye to be plowed under as green ma
nure. For this purpose potato patches
and corn fields need not be plowed,
simply harrow the seed in; if it is only
covered it viii grow.-Prairie Farmer.
Bread Sauce: Pour half pint of
boiling milk on a teacupful Of Gne
bread-crumbs and small onion, stuck
with tnree or four cloves, a small blade
of mace, few peppercorns and salt to
taste. Let the sauce simmer five min
dtes, add small pat of fresh butter,
and at the time of serving remove the
onion and mace.-Bostora Globe
Fried Potatoes: Peel number of
raw potatoes as apples are peeled. Let
the parings be as near as possible the
same thickness and let them be as long
as possible. Dry them thoroughly in a
cloth and put them in the frying basket
and plunge it in boiling lard. When
they are a golden color drain them well
in front of the fire, sprinkle fine salt
over, and serve.-Tbe Household.
For citron pudding take half pint
of cream, one tablespoonful of flour,
two ounces of sugar and little grated
nutmeg. Mix all these ingredients to-
gether with the well beaten yelks of
three eggs. Cut two ounces of citron
into thin slices, place pieces of it in
small buttered molds or cups, fill them
with the mixture and bake until the
pudding assumes light brown color.
This quantity will make five buildings,
which are sufficient for a side DISH
Detroit PoSt~
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
NOT WHAT SHE SEEMED.

The Other Side of the Young Lady the
Men Stared at Through the Window. .
She sat at window on q public
street, and day after day the crow
who passed saw her at the sewing-ma
chine. The old men mentally re-
marked that she was perfect lady,
and the young men voted her the rival
of June rose. If she had raised her
eyes to the window she Nigh. have met
the plying gaze of various bald-heads,
and the admiring chances of legions of
Washers, but she never did so. Noses
were wiped and handkerchiefs waved
within q foot of the glass, but she
hemmed and tucked and gathered and
plated as if utterly unconscious of the
existence of the outside world.
1t is probable that five hundred men
glanced into that window in the course
of the day, but the sewing machine
never stopped humming on their ac-
count.
Things had been going on this way
for months when, only the other day,
widower with heart full of pity for
the unfortunate got himself up regard
less of expense and boldly entered the
place. The charmer was there alone
With melting soul he approached the
sewing-machine and laid his heart up
on it. That is, he coughed, gurgled
stammered and inquired If she
wouldn't prefer to boss fifteen-thou-
sand-dollar brick house rather than
make shirts for seventy-6ye cents per
day.
The charmer rose up. She had a
short leg. That side of her face which
the public had never seen displayed
three moles and bad scar. That eye
which the public had never gazed into
contained squint and she had bad
front teeth. She made y grab at a
yard-stick and said something about
SETTLING an old buffers hash pretty
internally quick" and the widower
broke for out doors His sympathizing
and palpitating heart was left behind
him as he went, but the charmer picked
it up and followed after him and
heaved it into the gutter with the re-
mark:
1--we just been waiting for chance
to break some of your necks, and
don't you put your hoofs in here again
if you wantsto see uext springs dande-
lions. "-Detro1 Free Press.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
PIGS FOR PROFIT.
The Kind of Feed That Is Requisite to Prof
itabIy Fatten Swine.

itably Fatten Swine.
For nearly two years breeding pigs
and making pork has paid our farmers
as well or better than anything else.
Grain has been low, and for farmers
who grew potatoes extensively it has
been possible to keep pigs in growing
condition with refuse that would other
wise be wasted, and thus make large
amount of pork with comparatively lit
tie grain. We can not afford to make
pork oncorn alone, and doubt whether
in the history of Western New York
there were ever three years in success
ion when exclusive corn feeding to hogs
realized to the feeder the market value
of the grain. In the olden times store
hogs were allowed to run in clover dur
ing the summer, with Stops and little
other feed, and then fattened in the fall
on corn in the ear. In this way, by
counting the clover as nothing, an APP
parent profit was figured out, but it
did not pay nevertheless.
My own idea is that pasture and
clover arc the dearest feed that pigs can
have. II fed otherwise as they should
be for thrift, pigs will eat very little
clover, and wherever they trample it
down nothing else will touch it. They
can be fed SO little beside as to make
clover an important part of their
rations, but that is not profitable way
to keep any kind of stock. The gain
fl0m pasture turned into pork, with no
otheE feed, is not more than two dollars
per acre; more often not half that. We
can afford this in orchards for the bene-
fit of the fruit, but nowhere else. Even
in orchards we had better stock so
heavily that the bulk of the feed must
come from the swill-pail.
Few farmers appreciate the value of
roots, especially beets and mangold
wurtzel as feed for pigs. The quantity
that can be grown on small piece of
ground is greater in amount and more
valuable than the grass. Where pota-
toes are largely grown for market a
considerable portion of the tubers will
be under sized or scabby, and these are
usually of little value. These unsala-
BILE potatoes cooked and mixed with
mill feed and corn meal will make pork
as rapidly as more costly rations of en-
tire grain, and at much less expense.
When apples are as abundant and cheap
as this year, the poorer fruit can be used
in the same way more proftably than it
can be sold.
One of my investments this fall is
small steamer for cheaply cooking APP
Piles, pumpkins, small potatoes and 9TH
er refuse for the pigs. 1t has not cost
as much as | expected, and | believe it
will pay better interest than anything
else have on the farm; because it will
enable me to save SO much that would
otherwise go to waste. / look back now
with regret to the bushels of potatoes
that were fed raw to stock, doing lit
tie good, when at so small an expense
they can with steamer be changed to
excellent food for pigs.-Cor. Country
Gentleman.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

THE majority of the five to ten cases
of insanity daily taken to Bellevue Hos
pital for examination are caused by in-
temperance Y Sun
PROF. G. GILBERT WHEELER, one Of
the most skillful chemists of this CITY,
,says that he does not know of the drug
in medicine which can not be prepared
for use as well without alcohol as with
it. Union Signal.
IT is rather strange, but there goes
a man who can never keep money"
Nothing strange about it. He can't
keep money because he can't keep
something else Whats that?"
Sober. u - WIJltarasport Breakfast
Table.
+ IT costs about forty-fve cents per gal
lon to make the best quality of whisky.
Those who are accustomed to pay ten
or fifteen cents for " two fingers" Of the
fluid can make their own estimate of
the profit that somebody makes off their
unfortunate appetite. Chicago Tribune.
ONE of the most striking facts de-
veloped in our attempts to enforce the
laws against those who are selling in
toxicants to children, keeping saloons
open on Sunday, and in other ways vi
olating the law is the readiness with
which such persons invoke the protec-
ton of the law whenever the slightest
occasion offers. If one of their custom
ers, who is peaceable and quiet when
sober, disturbs their peace while under
the influence of the liquor they have
sold him, they at once SUMMON the of
officers of the law and ask to be protect
ed. There should be reciprocity in
these matters, The man who seeks the
protection of the law should come pre-
pared to show that he Is lAw-abiaiBg,
THAT the law Nay protect al, each Is Iii
lapY heaAe to yi6la obedience
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
YOUTHS DEPARTMENT.
RINGING IN THE NEW YEAR.

TSey are ringing out the Old Year,
They are ringing in the New!
Teddy, Neddy, May and Goldie,
Such jolly little crew!
From the garnet to the cellar
Sounds the jingling. jangling din
OF the dinner-bell and tea-bell,
With horn or two of tin!
They are ringing in the New Year,
They are ringing out the Old!
Down the stairs are bobbing. bobbing
Heads of brown and head of goldl
Down to grandpa'S room. where grandpa
Calmly reads the morning news,
On they come; and which the merriest
1t would puzzle me to choose.
Now, togetherr' whispers Teddy,
Mischief sparkling in his eye;
. Get your bells and horns all ready
lis more fun than Fourth Julyl
One, two, three-nowr' What racket!
Jingle, jingle! tootl foot! tootl
Ho! he'll buy us off with apples
And some candy, too, to bOotF'
Then the door is flung wide open,
And lusty, laughing shout
Mlngles with the bells and trumpets,
In the merry-making routl
Louder. faster, foot and jingle,
Grandpa smiling, never hears;
Why l-now, grandpa!" quick cries Goldie
g You're got cotton Ia your edrSr'
How they fly at him, those babies!-
How they hang about his kneesl
And they smother him with kisses,
And they give him little ease
TIL he turns upon them bravely-
Drives each little man and maid
With arattling charge of candy
And an apple cannonadei
ada Carleton.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
FAREWELL TO THE OLD YEAR.

Farewell, Old Year. farewell to you;
You've been for many day
A friend most tried, friend most true
And as we bid you our adieu,
We give our heartfelt THANH TO you, 4
And speed you on your way.
We've had fun many merry time
Since first we met, Old Year.
You've sung for us the Christmas rhyme.
And f1ng for us the Christmas chime
And many a joy at Christmas time
You brought with hearty cheer.
You crowned the woodland banks with bloom
OF roses red and sweet
You gave the volets their perfume,
Ripened the cornfield's tasseled plume,
And filled the mill-wheels running flume,
. To grind the golden wheat.
You brought the yellow daffodil
To blossom in the spring
strewed cuckoo-fowers on every hill,
And cat-tails by the ripping rill-,
And taught the lonely whip-poor-win
I His yesper song to sing.
You turned the ivys green to red,
The maple leaves to gold
Purpled the clusters overhead,
And showers of ripened nuts you shed,
When fallen leaves lay thickly spread
Above the forest mold.
And if you gathered some fair flowers
That biossomed on your way,
You bore them to fairer cline,
Where neither cold, nor care, nor Time
Could blight them in their golden prime,
Or touch them with decay.
And ali you brought, Old Year, Old Yearl
One tiny baby flower
To nestle on its mothers breast,
And close its blue eyes into rest,
When song-birds seek their cradle-nest
At twiGght's shadowy hour.
And now, Old Year, farewell to you!
We grieve to lose you So
You've been a friend both tried and true,
And as we bid you our adieu,
We give our heartfelt thanks to you,
And sigh that you must go.
Helen lVlsftneU Clark. in Dem0rest's Monthly
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02
GAS TAR.
1t Will Make Fence Posts Proof Against
the Weather for Years.

1t Will Make Fence Posts Proof Against
the Weather for Years.
In the manufacture of illuminating
gas from bituminous coal, large guam
tity (amounting to about eight pei
cent. of the coaD, of thick, black,
strong-smelling liquid is collected,
known as gas tar and coal tar. This is
very complex substance, and by els
tillation yields several oils, etc., leaving
behind solid pith, called coke-pitch,
and incorrectly asphaltum, true
asphaltum being natural product.
Gas tar, as it comes from the gas works,
is used for various purposes, among
others, for the preservation of timber,
especially fences and fence-posts, for
the making of roofing composition, and
in laying what are called asphalt walks.
We have had complaints that it APP
peared to be of little value in preserv-
ing wood, and several have inquired as
to the proper method of using it. 1t is
not unlikely, as there are different
kinds of coal used in gas making, that
the tar varies greatly in its properties.
In England, where it is much more used
than with US, one writer recommends
as follows: Three gallons of coal tar,
in an iron kettle, is set over o slow fire
and allowed to simmer for about an
hour. This should be done in the open
air, as there is danger of its taking fire.
After it has simmered for this time, add
a handful of fine quick-lime, and stir
well together. Remove from the fire,
and add quart of benzine or naphtha,
or sufficient to make it work well from
a brush. The coal tar thus prepared is
applied to fence-posts and other wood
while hot. The writer says: 1.-TWO
coats will do, and will make any kind
of wood proof from all weather for
years" Another writer advises to
make use of the tar as it comes from
rne gas works, adding enough benzine
from half a gill to one gill to each
quart of tar), to make it work like thin
paint. 1t is to be applied with an old
brush to the wood, which should be
perfectly dry.-Anerioan Agricu1tarist.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02

The most serious problem now de-
manding solution at the hands of the
farmers is how to reach consumers di-
rect with their farm products. Our
farmers to-day are not so much con-
cerned in widening the area under.culti-
walton as in growing larger and better
crops on present areas and in securing
more remunerative prices for thai
which they do raise. The middleman
exacts- by far too large a percentage o.
the farmers profits for his services
Some practical system of cooperation
among the farmers in buying and sell
ing is essential to their success.-M Y
Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02

Five hundred dollars for a pair of
shoes seems high price, but it has
been paid by one Of the society bellies of
New York. They were of white satin
and embroidered with pearis.-M T.
Sam
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02

The Philadelphia Press has discoy-
cred that you can tell an ex-schoolmas-
ter every time. He always tries his
chair with his hand before sitting down
on it.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02

There will be many new ice-hoats
Gu the Hudson this winter and lively
sports age anticipated, Trey asanes,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02

Wilmington is said to he tbs largest
city IN North Carolina. lis present
population i ghalt tYsaty Aagsaadi
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-02

Mahogany Is coming more apa
mora into use in tho manufacture 81
furniture - Chicago 9ifasss
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was written in shorthand. -
DEAR P-Fve got a clew to the most sensa-
tional thing that has yet come TO light in con
nection with this Welby fracaS Nothing
definite yet, and it will take considerable
| bribery of the servants to get at what want
| Please send by bearer all the money due me SO
| that will not be hampered if find liberality
| in this direction necessary. / write this in
! shorthand, and it will be impossible for the
/ bearer TO find out what i send for; so if YOU
put up the money in a package so that he will
not suspect what it contains, he will return
with it all right ''MCC"
put up the money as he requested
and the boy made off with it,
That night, as usual, Watson again
went to the Welby house, and from the
note we received in the morning we an
ticipated something intensely interest
ing. had given orders to the foreman
in the composing room to hold several
columns of space until we got McCar-
ley's copy. When Watson returned ]
never saw look of more profound per-
| pleXity or dumbfounding chagrin than
was depicted on his face.
Il have crawled over every foot OF
that front lawn" said he, land not a
page of copy could / find. even
knocked at the door of the house and
thought | would try and see Mac him.
self on some pretext or other, but ]
could rattle no one up"
We were surely in a pickle now, and
the conversation that took place during
the next hour concerning the subject ]
am afraid McCarley would have
considered far from complimentary to
himself could he have heard it. 1t would
hardly have been the thing, either, to
reproduce it here to be read by people
who are unacquainted with the peculiar
livid and sulphurous character which
makes the language of printers, and
regret to say sometimes editors and re-
porters as well, of such pronounced
force.
There was nothing to be done under
the circumstances, however, and con-
seqpently the only thing the Mercurg
OF sha aaxt Ioraiug contained Id refs
agsAga IL the allyshseyhiag tenin VS. a..
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HOW 1T HAPPENED.

The Boys Adventure In Car A Tip-Top
Fellow, but One THAT Things Happen
To, and He Can't Help It,"
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-09-05

the Police Jury Ecets II October
confront them with a LIT Of what
has been prepared, AZ far as can be
asccrtaineA, and ask pecuniary AZ
siatancc to have il sent TO New
Orleans TO tic Exposition.
In this way, Madison can make
. very effective showing, and DEM
onetrate her superior advantages
It = shameful that she should not
be represented. The matter should
have been taken up long ago, but
it is rot too late, to DO great deal,
yet. There's, however, no time to
waste, and every one who Is going
to do anything, should be Up and
doing. Either get at it, and stll
around, or sit down and crosk
Which shall 1t bo2
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-09-05

&c might be expected from g gen
tle,nan AZ we'll vcrsod in statocraft
rs Senator Gibson is known 70 he
It utterly fails. 70 explain his de-
rarturc flccn Inc principles of De-
mocracy for which Processes so
much attachment, and from the
rules fox the reservation of the i'll
tcgrity of ;ho Democratic party as
he defined them in 1879 Or the eve
of his election to The exalted posi-
ton re holds ny the votes Of a
united Democracy, whose accrcdit-
cd representatives, in his state, he
and his colleagues have not on Y
ignored but permitted 10 DO held
up before the President and the
country in he worst ligh; conceiy.
able .-Cap;tol:an -hivoca:c.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-09-05
NOTICE TO TEACHERS.

The public schools of Madison Parish
white and Colored, will be opened on
the first Monday, the 5tn day 81 Octo-
Der. and The schools are located, and
teachers assigned as follows:
Delta, Miss Saiiie +. R,magc LIST Grade
Mil'iken'S Bend, Miss n. y. Mcclellan,
Omega, Mrs. NJ. A. Hynos,
Ta.;ulan. Airs. G.. Hawkins
White Church. Mrs. L. ii. Sheriff. do
Wsveriy, Mira. :. r.. Wallace, DO
Mounds, to be- filled.
rhe SALARY of first grade teachers is
forty We dollars per scholastic month
of ~ DAYS.
Omega, f. Mcclellan, second grade
Millken's Bend, louisa Francis, do
Duckport. Il. w. Fletcher, do
Mounds, NJ. Temple. do
Denoss', Laura Lewis, 90
Tallulah, Il. W. Moore. do
Chocluist, J. II. Scott, do
Sargeuts,' a. l.. Jamison. DO
Brown & Johnson, g. W. Greenwood
........... second grade
Delta, to BE filed.
Tal'abena, 20 be filled.
The salary Of second grade teach
ers ia thirty dollars per scholastic
month Of 20 days.
The session will be of five
months duration, and will close on
the first day Of March, 1886.
BY order OF the Board
A. C. MoNETrs.
Secretary & Superintendent
Taliulah, La. Sept, 2, 1885.