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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
Climate and Liquor Drinking.

No climate exactly suits the constitu-
ton of the drinking man. In the hot
climate he falls an easy victim to chol-
era and kindred epidemics; in the cold
climate he is the first to freeze to death
when cold wave sweeps down from
tho Northwest. With every severe
storm of the past winter the daily pa
pers have made mention of poor besot-
ted drunkards found frozen to death in
country fields or city alleys, where they
have stupidity lain down to sleep. On
the other hand, temperate habits are
known to bring added power of endur-
anss against extremes of heat and cold.
1t ~as said at the time that the sur
vivors of Lieutenant Greely's explor-
ing party were men who had not in
lured their constitutions by even the
use of tobacco. And now attention is
called to the fact that the comparative
" slight amount of sickness among
General Wolseley's troops in the Sou
dan, considering the climate and the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

Feather Cake: Two cups of flour.
one cup of milk, one egg, one cup of
sugar. half a cup of butter, half tea
spoonful of soda, one of cream OF tar
tar. Flavor with lemon.-Tbe House
hold
Little onions, or onion sets, except
. few for early table use, are a useless
and an expensive investment, when
onions weighing two pounds can be
raised direct from the seed in one sea-
son.-Erchange.
Cherries, for home use and for mar
ket' when near shipping point or with
IN reach Of a city, pay well. Plumbs
are generally hardy, and command a
good price in every market. The cur
culio can be fought off, but, as with our
liberties, Eternal vigilance is the
price. Toledo Rtade.
-Marmalade Pudding: To a quarter
OF pound of suet, chopped fine, allow
one-half pound of fine bread crumbs
and quarter of a pound of brown
sugar. Mix all together in a basin and
add a pot of marmalade, reserving
enough to make the sauce, unless wine
sauce is to be served with it. Lastly,
add two eggs well beaten up. Put the
mixture into mould and steam for a
couple of hours. Serve with marmalade
or wine sauce. IN Y Herald.
Lima beans is crop that delights
in warm weather, in warm soil and
plenty of manure or compost. Poles
are used to support them, as rule, but
brush answers as well, and can be easily
procured and cleared away. The tops
of the vines should be pinched off when
they reach the height of five feet. which
will cause a denser foliage and
heavier yield, especially if the pinching
process be extended to the shoots that
are set out The plants should be kept
clear and free from weeds. Troy Times.
Every garden should have small
bed of sage, thyme, savory, parsley and
marjoram. In fact, no garden is COM
plete without them They can be grown
from seed, and once obtained remain
for a long time, being propagated by
the seeds and roots. A vacant corner
serves as a good place for them, or
along the margin of the walks. The
great difficulty with herbs is that they
are usually neglected and allowed to
die away. If they are to be permanent
they should receive not only care but an
occasional manuring, Cleveland (O)
Leader.
After tea has been stepped in boil
ing water for three minutes, over five
sixths of the valuable contitutents are,
extracted. At the end of ten minutes,
the leaves are almost entirely exhaust
ed. Prolonged infusion gives no adj
ditional strength to the liquid, but it
does cause the loss, by volatilization, of
the fayoring principles. Hard waters
are to be preferred to soft waters in the
teapot, as the hard waters dissolve less
of the tannin out of the leaves. The
bearing of these laboratory results on
the art of making good cup Of tea is
obvious.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
CUT-WORMS.
Some Interesting Information Concerning
Agricultural Pest.

Some Interesting Information Concerning
an Agricultural Pest.
The larvae or caterpillars of certain
moths have received the name of cut
worms from the habit of cutting off
tender and succulent plants near the
base. so that, though the destructive
animal may eat but little, it kills each
plant it nibbles at. The cut-worms for
the most part, belong to the genera
Agrotis, Hadena and Mamestris-gen-
era, the caterpillars of which greatly
resemble each other both in appearance
and habits, though the moths may have
striking points of difference. The par
ent moth lays the eggs during the latter
part of summer, sometimes on the roots
of grass and other plants, and some
times or the leaves near the ground. In
two or three weeks the eggs hatch, and
by autumn the caterpillars have
reached half an inch or more in length.
At this stage they burrow in the ground
sufficiently deep to escape from severe
frost, and there remain in torpid con-
dition all the winter. The warmth OF
spring arouses them to activity, when
they seek the surface of the ground,
feeding at night ON almost any greea
thing they meet with, eating with
almost Unsuitable appetites as they ma
turity, and burying themselves during
the day under the surface of the
ground in the neighhorhood of their
depredations. When full grown they
burrow in the earth to varying depths,
and there change to chrysaT1ds, from
which the mature insects escape in two
or three weeks.
The insects are hurtful only while in
the larval condition. As remedies,
showering the plants with Paris green
and water, sprinkling them with air
slaked lime or powdered hellebore, or
strewing lime or SCOT, OF mixtures of
these substances, around the plants on
the surface of the ground, have all
been recommended, and in some cases
have been found useful. Plants have
also been protected from injury by
these caterpillars by strewing around
them little dry sand impregnated with
coal oil, in the proportion of teacup-
full of coal-oil to a pailful of sand,
thoroughly mixed The application
should be renewed every week. This
method of warding off the attacks of
injurious insects by the, use of odorous
substances repugnant to them is rapidly
growing in favor on account of the
success attending its use. This coal
oil remedy for cut-worms is said to be
very effectual, and the cost of the APP
plcation being SO trifing its usefulness
should be extensively tested 1t is
manifest that none of these measures
are feasible where field crops are in
vaded, as the area would be too great
for anyone to undertake to cover with
such material. In such case nature has
crowded efficient remedies to reduce the
numbers of such injurious species.
Armies of parasitic insects prey on
them. Some of these directly devonr
their living prey, others deposit eggs
within the bodies of their victims, which,
Matching into grubs, consume them.
Hence it often occurs that an insect
which is very abundant one season is
scarce the next. From an Address By
the President Of the chronological So
cictg of Ontario.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
POTATOES.

The Kind of Management Required to
Grow Good Specimens and Large
Crop.
Many people think that potatoes will
grow, no matter how poor the seed is
the refuse of what is left of eating
while others plant mixed varieties, all
sorts planted together, and then
complain of poor potatoes. I have
been an observer of the management in
raising potatoes of different kinds for
fifty years; the way have had the
best crops is to pillow up piece of
greensward of good depth, from one to
fifteen acres, as the individual may
want, then harrow lengthwise until it is
well mellowed up, then diagonally, SO
as to have it well mellowed; then with
a light shovel-plow mark out three feet
apart and not cross it, and be sure to
have your rows east and west (corn
rows should be north and south), so the
sun will not burn or heat the hills in
hot weather.
My plan is to sort the potatoes, tax
ing out the two biggest sizes to use,
then take the three next sizes, and
leave the two least and all the ill-shapen
ones of all sizes. AS like produces
like of i'll ones, that is why potatoes
degenerate. I put plaster or gypsum
about one tablespoonful in the hill,
when I drop my potatoes. / plant
them one way and cover with my hoe;
I plant rows three feet apart, The hills
two feet apart.
My mode is to put one potato or
half in the hill with the plaster, of
whatever kind of potatoes plant; the
plaster helps to start the potatoes and
keep them from rotting, which is an
object of late years. One potato or
one piece is enough for a hill. By
planting on sward land the potatoes
are dry and mealy, while on land that
has been plowed several times, the
potatoes will be soggy.
The potato crop is becoming more
profitable, and it is time that farmers
should look out for good seed and
plant good and not poor kinds nor po DOR
potatoes. 1t takes ten or twelve BUSH
els of seed potatoes to plant an acre,
as I plant, and generally from three
hundred to four hundred bushels
product.
I cultivate potatoes when they are
up about two inches high, then use a
shovel plow so as to have them good to
hoe. hoe them when about foot
high, and hill them not too high. Some
farmers pillow deep furrow, drop in
their potatoes and pillow in their seed,
plow up to the lhill and thus pillow out
their potatoes. This is raising potatoes
with vengence; potatoes bruised, one
hundred bushels per acre. and small,
poor ones, at that. Potatoes are one
of our staples for family support, and
should be raised with care to get good
ones.-F'Grnaer and Tribune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
NEURALGIA.
The Prevalence of the Facial Variety of
this Distressing Complaint.

The Prevalence of the Facial Variety of
this Distressing Complaint.
Hundreds of women all over the
country are sufferers from neuralgia to
such an extent in many cases, rs to find
life burden. The following extract
from the ''British Medical Review
gives one solution as to the cause:
There is no recognized reason why of
late years neuralgia of the face and
scalp should have increased so much in
the female sex as compared with our
own. There is no doubt that it is one
of the most common of female maladies
- one OF the most painful and difficult
of treatment. 1t is also a cause of
much mental depression, and leads
more often to habits of intemperance
than any other. This growing preya-
lence of neuralgia may to some extent
be referred to the effects of cold upon
the terminal branches of the nerves dis
tributed to the skin; and the reason
why men sre less subject to it than
women may, to great extent, think,
be explained by the much greater pro-
lection afforded by the mode in which
the former cover their heads when they
are in the open air. Itmay be observed
that the. surface of the head which is
actually covered in man is at least three
times that which fashion allows to
woman; indeed, the points of contact
between the hat or bonnet and the head
IN the latter are so irregular as practi-
.cally to destroy any protection which
might otherwise be afforded. If I were
to report to the journals case of facial
neuralgia cured on the principle of pro-
tecting the lateral and Aonta! surface
of the face as well as the superior part
of the scalp, it might excite certain
amount OF ridicule. | can assure YOU.
however, that my patient considers her
case ought to he reported; for she says
that, if We can not do much for nel,ral-
gia with our prescripti ons, we ought to
oppose fashion when we find it prei;1-
dicial to health and pro luctiye of suffer
ing. Christian Jnion.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
from the King of Jauia a CRY Of greedi-


ness.
And Opening and shutting his eyes,
the King of Jauja devoured platefui
of the compete and prepared to devour
another.
sit would SEEM" said the Queen,
''that the compete does not displease
your Majesty"
"How could it displease me, Senora?
1t is enough to make one eat ones fin
gers! / never eat anything SO delicious
in my life. Is it the thing to ask if we,
may know the maker, the authorPn
.sThe author said the Queen, faint
with emotion. sis your Majestys hum
BILE servant. =
Bravo! bravo!' cried the King of
Jauja, with his mouth full. "How the
deuce did your Majesty ever succeed in
making any thing so delicious?n
81 will give your majesty the recipe,
so that your august spouse
'.Do not take the trouble, your Maj
esty; nobody works in Jauja," inter.
rupted the guest, helping himself to a.
third plateful of the compete, and I'M
buttoning his waistcoat for greater
ease.
The banquet ended gaily. and whilst
the King of Jauja withdrew to his
apartment to rest. the Queen withdrew
to hers with pride beyond that Of a
Queen.
The King of Jauia took his Leave the
following morning, after kissing the,
Queens hand and licking his lips over
it like everybody else, and requesting
for refreshments on his journey what
remained of the compete of apples.
"But look here said King Perico to
his wife, show could you succeed in
making that compete after what you
told me?"
"Wcll, you know, of course, however
rotten bushel of apples may be, there
are always some that have part sound
which is very excellent, as it must nee
essarily be to remain sound in the midst
of general corruption So cut out all
these sound pieces with the greatest
care and used them to make the de-
licious compete which has gained such
brilliant triumph for me. -
Sand what do you do with the de-
cayed pieces"'
4 tuIOW buGlR oil OttL DIT OuGC DIS IT.
fuse"
s'Well! at last I see my way clear
and am going to try if | am as good
a hand at my work as you at COM
Rote."
The following day King Perico APP
peared with his nose swelled like a
tomato, and going among his subjects
separated the few sound ones from the
many corrupt ones and made with the
sound a most excellent compete of
Ministers, Generals, Secretaries and
Judges, etc., and threw out the others
as refuse.
beg all the leading papers to reprint
this story at every Ministerial crisis, and
above all l would request our mighty
rulers to take the greatest care in MAX
ing the compete and be sure and not
put the rotten bits in the compete nor
throw out as refuse the sound pieces
Translated from the Spanish for the
Boston Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
TEMPERANCE.
DRINK PLAIN COLD WATER.
Eminent English Doctors Singing tn
Praises of Temrerance.

Eminent English Doctors Singing TIN,
Praises of Temperance.
At an annual dinner of the Royal College O.
Physicians. Edinburgh instead of such song,
as The Glasses Sparkle on the Board" or
willie Brewed Peck..o' Malt the followin,
ditty was surg:
AIR-"LoUe's Youn0 Dream"
Oh! the days are gone when Claret bright
Inspired my strain,
When l sang on every festive night
About Champagne.
Prime Thirty FOUR
In floods may pour,
And glasses gaily catter,
But there's nothing half so safe to drink
As plain cold water.
Though the bard may make greater noise
Over his wine,
When with other bacchanalian boys
He chances to dine;
Yet if he wake
With a headache
And wonders what's the matter,
He learns there's nought so safe to drink
AS plain cold water.
There's DR. Hassall, he proclaims
That waters full
OF curious brutes with curious names,
In every pool.
Now you will see
That this must be
A most important matter;
For it's clear there's meat as well as drink
In plain cold water.
Professor Clark of Aberdeen
Says chalk is there,
And Monsieur Chatin, iodine
Finds everywhere.
If this be true
Its clear to you
It's just so much the better,
For there's meat and drink and physic, too,
In plain cold water.
So if your health you would keep good,
With wine have done,
And like that wise man, with your food
Drink water alone.
About he drives
And well he thriVeS
And every day grows fatter,
Which shows that folk can live quite well
On plain cold water.
L,;eb HIo,Jd
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Richard Critchett, of Barrit gton,
N. H.. who is now in his ninety-sixth
year, walks perfectly straight, and has
never experienced 8 days sickness
Boston Herald.
Colonel Ingersol was asked to re-
veal the secrets of oratory, and said:
Use small words to express the ides.
and be sure that the idea oYerlaps the
| word at both ends.
Adam Forepaugh was formerly .
butcher in Cincinnati, and got into the
circus business by having to foreclose a
mortage on a show He is worth about
| 81, 900, Y. Sun.
Wendell Phillips left only about
$4,000, though once wealthy. Mrs.
Livermore says tkNt the day before he
died he burned small fortune in notes
he held against people for whom, as he
said, his executors might make trouble
Boston Journal.
-'.As you grow in art, said Gounod
to a young poet, you will Judge the
great masters of the past as / now
judge the great musicians of former
times. At your age / used to say: 4:
at twenty-five l said, i and Mozart at
forty, Mozart and l. Now | say
Mozart. "
"A book is soon to be published en-
titled ''The First Families of the United
States. wealth being the determining
consideration. The trouble with such
book will be the necessity for re-
vision every time there is an important
fall in stockss There should be an
appendix for the Canadian exiles.-
Current.
1.-THE death of Mrs. Yulee the wife
of ex-senator Yulee, who represented
Florida in the United States Senate be-
fore the war, closes a singular career"
says the Atlanta Constitution. She was
of distinguished Kentucky family, and
relgned as a social beauty. Yuiee, an
ungainly young man, sought her hand,
when she laughingly replied that. when
Senator Yulee presented the suit, she
would consent. He went at once to
Florida, and was forgotten by the beau
ty. 1t was not long until he won his
prize, and no one was more surprised
than the lady herself when the Florida
OeHdlOE cIdlLnou Tue 1ulllImenU OF her
promise"
The oldest and hapr;est married
couple in the State of Kentucky are
Dr. and Mrs. j. G. Chinn, of Lexing-
ton. Mrs Chinn is ninety-eight years
of age and her husband ninety-four.
They were married six years ago, and
are as lover-like in their home affairs as
married folks generally are at forty.
DIR. Chinn is an eloquent orator, and at
the last meeting of the Mexican veterans
fairly eclipsed many of the younger
speakers with an address of an hour and
forty minutes duration, which was
afterward published in full in several
daily papers. DR.. Chinn is still quite
hale and hearty, and so is his good
wife. Chicago Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
THE DEADLY SLOP-DRAlN.
A Mysterious Dispensation of Providence
Satisfactorily Lc0:ted.

Satisfactorily Lc0s:ted.
From country house notable for
general neatness a hired girl was taken
i'll of typhoid. Then a hired man left
and had a run of ''slow fever; after
ward little girl ''came down" with
the same disease. Soon 5he mother
was dangerously sick, and finally sag
gravated erysipelas broke out in the
face of the kitchen servant" Here was
series of zymotic attacks. Why? A
Maine Farmer correspondent answers,
with a statement that eliminates the
mystery of the dispensation:
1.-The only thing in this household
which seemed to be at fault was the dis
posal of the kitchen slops. They were
carried from the sink outside the house
through leaden pipe, and this dis
charged into the end of a bored aque-
duct log, buried in the earth and ex-
tending about a rod from the house.
This short log-drain would soon be OBJ
structed, and then the end next the
house would discharge its dangerous
contents into the loose stones which
We're filled in on that side of the kitch-
en-, and thence under the house and
into the cellar; and the same leaden
pipe which carried the water downward
brought the slckening gases upward. !"
One '1better way" safe, if not so
convenient, is by use of slop-pails
kept clean and the contents distributed
over the surface soil at various points
some distance from the house. An en-
largement of this simple and satisfacto-
~ system is fayorably mentioned by
the loaw Board of Health:
a neighbor has kerosene barrel
hung on a pair of old buggy wheels, 30
that it can easily be inverted; he lets it
stand near the kitchen, where all kitch-
en- and chamber Stops can be thrown in
it, and when half full he easily wheels
it On his garden and empties i'm
T. Tribune
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17

circumstances, is owing TO the sparingI
use of stimulants by tue soldiers. The
dispatches state that no liquor can bel
purchased south of Wady Halfa, and
that General Wolseley sternly Furnishes
any native caught selling drop to one
OF his men. Ten thousand gallons of
rum were shipped to the Commissariat
Department in November, but little of
it has thus Ear been used.-S. S. Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
Centennial Temperance Conference.

The project of celebrating the centen-
NAL of the Temperance reform in 1885
is being received with much favor by
all Temperance organizations all over
the country. The week commencing
Sunday, September 20. has been unan-
imously selected by representatives
from the leading National Temperance
organizations of the country as the
time. Ministers of every denomination
are to be invited to preach upon the
subject of Temperance on that day and
Sunday-schools to hold anniversary ex-
ercises in commemoration of the occa-
sion. Temperance organizations are re-
quested to hold meetings on Monday
evening, the 21st, so far as practicable,
or, if preferred, to celebrate on any
other night of that week. Christian at
Work.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-17
HE MODEL YOUNG MAN.


A candid, sincere young man;
a couhtensnceclear young man;
AlOver of truth,
a rare gem forso0th,
And a worthy-of-trust young man.
A prudent, discreet young man;
A tidy and neat young man;
Is ashamed to be seen
In apparel unclean,
And q self-respecting young man.
Not boastful pedantic young man,
Nor, an everromantic young man;
:. No indulger In blues,
But a Observation-Disclosures,
And helper-of-seR young man.
A practical, plain young man;
No-use-for-ac cane young man;
No silly ma, ha,'
Nor abuser of ''ah,"
But shrewd, common-sense young man
A truly ambitious young man;
No immoral or vicious young man;
Not a reader of trash,
Neither hasty nor rash,
But calm, considerate young man.
An affable, kind young man;
a noble. refined young man;
A firm, steady eye,
That means 81 will try"
A never-will-fail young man.
Always-found-in-h Misplace young man;
observation-disclosures young man;
No naughty, vain looks,
But lover of books,
And thoughtful and studious young
man.
Never-uses-the-" tweed" young man;
A Good Templar indeed young man;
A sure. to-say-"no"
When-invited-to-go
To-place-of-evil young man.
An obbging, polite young man;
And "a keen-sense-o f-right young man;
A quiet, demure,
A gentle and pure,
An always-respected young man.
A sure-to-succeed young man,
And q just-what-we-need young man;
Is never profane,
Nor too greedy of gain,
Yet frugal industrious young man.
A hassa-good- young man;
"A observation-disclosures young man;
Is much in demand
All over the land,
Butsa rarely-to-be-found young man.
An honestly-wooing young man;
And mean-what-he S-doing young man
Is faithful aud true
Alasl that so few
Should be found like this model young
man.
Il. o. Chisholm, IN Louisville Cotuier-JOu,ndI
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-01-16
OF THE SOUTH,
FOR THE SOUTH,
FOR THE KHoLEC0UNTRY.

The farmer. tl,e mechanic tho workman. The
merchant. the siaBufacturrr-rrrson In every
avocatiom In lite. members Of every houssholl
The wife and the hsssiscr and The chiIitsu-all
viii md
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-01-16

the size of i big cocoanut. Not until it
reaches this size does the lint first appear.
Then its snowy threads begin to burst
from the boil. One inexperienced hand
can easily gather 500 pounds day, and
fast hands much more. Were the only
saving that in the gathering of the lint,
Mr.. Suber's experiment would entitle him
to the everlasting gratitude of the South
ern farmer. But this is not all-there are
no seeds in the lint. Each boil produ-
ees about two pounds of very long staple
cotton, superior to the Sea Island, and
ut the bottom of the boil there are from
four to six seed, resembling persimmon
seed. This new cotton, therefore needs
no ginning.