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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-31
Beautiful! Lunar Phenomenon.

A Greifswald correspondent reports
beautiful lunar phenomenon seen
there some evenings ago. The cres-
cent clearly defined was in the south
western heavens, when, suddenly, at
its right sido, an enlarged reflection of
the crescent appeared, just as sharply
defined and shining as clearly as the
original crescent, which it gradually
seemed to, embrace. After some min
utes, there appeared on the left side a
further reflection ef this original
image, but less bright and distinct.
Both images remained visible for a
considerable time, and then faded
gradually away with the deepening
darkness, leaving the crescent moon
shining brightly as before -Calogase
Gazette.
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0MunepNNnklr1sa...
A TURNIP-HEAD BABY.
The Wonderful Freak Born to q Well txss
80 ST. Louis Mother.
TSt Touis Chronicle1

The Wonderful Freak Born to a Well tsss
40 ST. Louis Mother.
Est. Louis Chronicle]
The reporter and one of the oldest prac-
titioners in ST. Louis, stopped at the esi-
dence of well-to-do if not rich merch mt,
not one hundred miles from Fourth and
Olive streets.
" Now, remember you are medical sCu-
dent" said the doctor, warningly.
The old physician pu led the bell, at the
same time remafking that he had been the
family physician for ten years The coor
opened and o matroIly lady OF forty ap-
peared on the threshold.
Good morning, doctor, Quite stranger,
when we measure time"
After an introduction the doctor re-
marked: "We have called to- see the baby,
and"
There was an expression of sadness that
quickly crowded itself into the face OF the
lady, and after glance at the reporter,
and searching gaze into the earnest
face of the doctor she said, with sighi
Well, if you desire it."
Of all the monstrosities that have beeA'
ushered into the world, perhaps there was
never any that lived, in perfect health, that
is such perfect wonder as the one that
was then brought into the presence of the
reporter. 1t looked like human child as
far as the body was concerned, except that
it's head resembled a hairy turnip. The
, face was square on top of the head, and the
neck came out of the back of it,
The reporter took the child on his lap,
and it was not necessary to bend over tc
| see it's face. That face-a fat, expressions
less countenance Yves always looking up
1t bent it's neck as much to the side or
backward as it did at the point beneath its
| chin, but in no way could it see in any
other direction than toward the ceiling.
! The head can only be likened to turnip,
and the face is not any better shaped than
that which a boy could cut in the top of
| big Spanish onion. The skin is tightly
| drawn-so tightly in fact that the eyes and
! mouth never shut
lis il true" asked the reporter, "that
the chill can not shut it's eyes or mouth9"
''It is simply impossible for it to do 80.
| When it wants to sleep we throw vail
| over its head and that seems to satisfy it
! and it sleeps. The eyes are always open,
| poor little thing 1t rests just as well on
one side as the other, or on its back or
stomach; it seems to have no preference"
The spinal cord enters the center Of the
| head and the hair grows all round the
/ skull.
students in the college of this city several
| times in the demonstrating lectures it is
said, and is pronounced the most wonderful
/ freak that ever lived in human form. 1t is
| eleven months old and is in perfect health.
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LETTING IN THE NEW YEAR.
What wonder that, as here I sit alone,

What wonder that, as here sit alone,
Counting the steps OF the departing year,
Waiting the slow and solemn chime to hear,
That tolls the requiem of the Old Year gone,
A solemn awe should DER my spirit spread,
A strange, still sense Of mystery and dreadf
What wonder-when know that at my door,
Unseen, unknown, the waiting New Year
stands,
Grasping sealed scroll within his hands
With strange, dim characters inscribed DER
Wherein lies hid in awful mystery
All that this coming year shall bring to met
Perchance, that sealed scroll may hold witbal
Some sad death-warrant for the friends ]
prize;
Or my own name amongst them haply lies;
Or sorrows worse than death yet to befan;
Or there be writ in characters Of gold
Some JOY TO crown my life with bliss untold
watch the old moon in its slow decline;
So pass, Old Year, beyond life's stormy sea
Whate'er the waiting New Year bring to me
Iknow tbs ordered by Hand Divine.
So, fearless, mid the wild bells mingled din,
Icpe the door, and let the New Year in.
Susan archer Weiss, is " Y Ladepe1sdent.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
DIR. Douglass. whe, lost his healf


DR.. Douglass. whe, lost his health
in caring for General Grant, has gone
South to spend the winter.
President Arthur's last words were.
''good night uttered while his eyes
were closed, addressed to no one in par
ticular.-N T. Tribune.
Senator VOORHEES, has moved his
Washington quarters into the house in
which John Quincy Adams lived when.
he was nominated and elected to til b
Presidency.
The late Isaac Church, who died an
Block Island recently, age one hund,.ed
and one years. was the last full-bloc ded
descendant of the aborigines Of that
island.-Boston journal
Father Higgins, a priest of the
Dominican order, has received t'ae de-
gree of Doctor of Theology fronA Pope
Leo. He is the first ecclesiastic in this
country to be so honored. CHICAGO
Journal.
John S. Staples, who was Presi-
dent Lincoln's substitute in the army,
during the war, is still living at
Stroudsburg, Pa. He is q carpenter by
trade, and an industrious, thrifty cit
izen. Pittsburgh Post.
Senator Logan's forsune now con-:
sists of bis Washington home, three::
story house in Chicago, a farm some,
where in the interior of Illinois, his sal.
airy as Senator, and wife who loves
him passionately.-N. 7. Graphic.
Willie Abronson is the mai ne of a
little Russian Jew, twelve years old, at
present stopping in Philadelphia, who
has travelled over Russia, Germany and
England, and is able to blac1t boots in
ten languages-Philadelphia Press.
Miss Clara Sands, sister IF Colonel
Alex. c. Sands, of Cincinna ii, has lust
returned to this country from Japan,
where she has been a missionary for
twelve years. She will return to
Japan after years visit at her old
home in Ohio Cincinnati Times.
The oldest members of the Authors
Club, of New York, are Noah Porter.
late pres dent of Yale, aged seventy
five, and William S. Mayo, aged seven
ty-four. The four honorary members
are Matth ew Arnold, John G.. Whittier,
James r lssell Lowell ard Oliver
Wendell II olmes.-N. Y. Mil.
-Rev. DE-, Witt Talmage rs quoted by
the Pittsburgh Chronicle as saying: 81
prepare my sermons usually by walk
ing the floor or on a rail way train. I
can think better when in motion than
when stationary. I sometimes lot
down notes on a train, though I gener-
ally carry them in my head When
90 off on a journey, 10y the time l get
back home | have sermons blocked out
for one hundred and fifty years.
Mrs. Ere derick, daughter of the
late Colonel William Lewis, of Sweet
Springs, Greenbrier County, w. Va,
has recently been left a large fortune
by gentleln nan named Montgomery,
who courted her in early life. Dis
appointed he went to the East indies
and there acquired great wealth. He
died recently, bequeathing his fortune
to Mrs. Frederick on condition that she
assume his name. Baltimore american.
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HUMOROUS.


There is a great advantage in
dressing quietly. There is no other oc-
casion when it is so essential to be
able to hear pin drop.
Society is improving in the far
West. In many sections it has become
questionable to dance in rubber
boots.--C Chicago Tribune.
Mrs. Bigsby-"My husband just
deteats cabbage. Why do you suppose
he is so prejudiced against it?' Mrs.
Blobson-'I imagine he takes too
much OF it in his cigars, my DEAR
burlington Free Press.
When She Cackle9.--
The festive caczle of tlte hem
Sounds ever light an,2sgay
Whene'er she lays an egg, tits then
She carols forth her hay.
Merchant Traveller.
"A New York party advertises ''Sev-
en-octave pianos for twenty dollars"
It is difficult to understan why pianos
should remain so high, while the other
necessaries of life are coming down.
.NO7Y3St0oC76 Herd vi.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox saws in re-
cent poem: ''Minc eyes are quick to
catch the first dim radiance of the
dawn" This seems to indicate that
Mr.. Wilcox won't kin die the fire in the
morning unless he is spoken to-
Ratchet.
Fair Customer" Have you the
-Lady's Companion?' Clerk-"Fh?''
II am going out into the country, and
I want Lady's Companion to take
with me?'' "You do, ehp Well,
what's the matter with me?"-Teras
Siittiags.
"A foolish exchange wastes valuable
time and space printing an article on
Cooking Aboard Ship" Oh. men
and brethren, the cooking is all right
aboard ship. 1t is the eating that poor
storm-tossed humanity wants to get
onto.--Burdette.
Ibid We read the Presidents mis-
sage, Pat?" "No, did not" "Sure We
ought. He gives good news of Uncle
Mike an his family in old Ireland"
'.Dces he, though. An what does he
say of thim?" ''Sure he says our for
eign relations are all right. "--C Chicago
| NelCS.
"A scientist says that woman who
weighs one hundred pounds here would
weigh twenty-seven hundred pounds if
on the surface of the sun. But not one
woman in thousand will start on
journey to the sun in order to increase
her weight. Now, if it were the moon
it would be different There is man
In that Collaboration Herald
Miss De Crashville-"H isn't an
Adonis, l,ut you know he saved papa's
life once, and we think the world of
him. Mr.. De Topp-"Why, yes, you
must. What were the circumstances
Miss De Crashville.-"Well, you see,
one of our neighbors threatened to
shoot papa if he didn't keep Clawed out
of his yard" Mr.. De Topp (inter-
estedly) Yes" Miss De Crashville-
Eyes, and papa tied him up after that"
| Tls<J Ds.o
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TEMPERANCE READING.
OUR TEMPERANCE SCHOOL.

Think that every boy and girl
10 Temperance school should 20:
There they may learn about the drinks
That poison people so.
mean the drinks that some folks say
Are harmless-such as wines,
Ale, cider, porter, lager beer,
And many other kinds.
1know they're made from fruits and grains,
Cod gives to US for food,
And if we use them as we ought,
They're wholesome, pure and good;
But when We squeeze their juices sweet
Into q jar or kettle,
They soon decay, ferment and change,
BY action chemical,
Into some other substances
So different, that we call
The one, carbonic acid gas,
The other, alcohol
Add when the alcohol has found
Its way into the cup,
1t makes a drunkard Of the one
Who drinks its contents up.
I'd like to tell you moro about
The knowledge that we gain
In Temperance school, concerning things
That poison blood and brain.
But please come now and join our band,
And let US work together
For God and Home and Native Land"
Through storms and sunny weather
-Uaioa Signal.
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CHRISTMAS HAS COME.

Christmas-tlme has come againl
What Joy for girls and boys,
With its snow-balling and fun,
With its sleighing and its noisel
Santa Claus bag is full
OF the sweetest, loveliest things;
Dolls, like babies, beautiful,
Balls, and drums, and glitterlng riugA
Haste and get the little stockings,
Santa Claus you know don't stay;
Always he flies up the chimney
Ere it's light on Christmas Day.
And at night sweet little eyes
Shut as tight as tight can be.
Santa Claus don't like US looking
Leaves US nothing II we see.
Oh, the candiesl Oh, the applesi
Peeping from the stoekingtop;
Nuts and raisins here in plenty,
Gorgeous-looking Jumps of rock.
Oh, the dolls with golden tressesl
Oh, the glorious big drum
Let us I'LL the air with shouting,
Dear old Christmas-time has comet
Every face Is wreathed with gladness.
Oh, it Is sight to see
Such set of lovely fairies
Dancing round the Christmas.treei
Santa Claus has left his treasures
For his darlings every one.
Is not this time Of pleasures?
Dear old Christmas-time has comet
Our LittIS Ones
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we rest content with our own safetye
or will we try to save those who are in
peril even at the risk OF our own
lives? Let US sound the warning before
it is too late. Let us reach the young
people of the present; urge upon them
the necessity of building high" and
the men and women of the future will
not be touched by the wave of in
temperance.
God grant that we may take heed TO
the voice of the rider, and flee to the
hills for our liyes.-R. L. c., in Golden
Rule.
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hundreds of human beings with food, raj
mont and shelter; tells, also, of human
need aiding wealth to increase its glittering
hoaps The building is ugly enough in pro-
portion and detail by daylight; but at the
moment of which we would speak, five
minutes before six o'clock p. m, November
20, 1880, it was transformed into "thing of
beauty by the gas lights which shone
through its numerous large rectangular
windows
A steam whistle sounded from some SUBJ
terranean depth. A bell changed in a small
belfry above the roof The motion Of
whirring wheel and flying shuttle ceased,
and almost as quickly the operatives were
rushing down stairs and out Of the gate. A
motley procession it was, of both sexes, va
rious ages and different nationalities. By
the dim light Of the transformations "
gas burners, which the economical select
men OF Caplaville had distributed at re-
spectful distances, no one would have sin
gled out Julia Leighton from the throng;
unless the start, the involuntary shudder
ELECTED, when profane or coarse words sui
lied the evening air, had been noticed. The
worsteC aube, wound about her head and
throat was not snowy white. The dark
plaid shawl that covered her shoulders
was as coarse as those worn by many of her
associates in labor. Her rusty black dress
was made more rusty by the fine particles
OF cotton that adhered to it.
Poor Julial brought up in af1luence and
taught to be personally neat, almost to q
fault, she had not discovered any miracu-
lous way Of keeping herself in toilet, in
spite Of oily machinery, dust-laden atmos-
phere and scanty time and means. She
walked rapidly on, taking deep inspirations,
grateful that she could, three times day,
I'LL her half-famished lungs with pure air.
"How different my life is from what /
expected" she reflected. "Only two years
ago hadn't thought of this. Father,
dear generous father, was living and sup
plying our home with every luxury. Serv-
ants were ready to wait upon me at any
moment. 1t had always been so; why
should it not always be soi My fear Yves !
should be selfish and forget that ought to
help Gods less favored children bear their
burdens. And l do believe the thought
that troubles me most now is that am
living only for myself. But what can do 2
When father died, and we found the old
home must be given up, was full of hope
that could take care Of myself and more
but one thing after another failed, and !
had come down - work with my hands
only, or consent to be q burden on my
mother and sister Bertha. Now am earn
ing my living, to be sure, but thus far l
have not been able to- doubt if, in this
factory, ever can--do more. am work
ing for self, living for self, and l seem to
have neither time, strength or money for
any thing else"
No family home shed its light on Julia's
dTeary life. The village housewives had
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Had His Hat Under 1t.

'What do you mean by hanging that
dirty, torn stocking on my door-bellln said
an irate gentleman to tramp whom he
found sitting on his front doorsteps or
Christmas morning.
It's der ondly wun got, boss, an got
me lat under it ter catch any Wittals IS
drops frew der holes.''
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Pro- Shelton finds that orchard
grasses will stand close growing, and
he thinks it one of the best grasses
farmer can cultivate. - Chicago If5buag.
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A RESIDUARY LEGATEE.
a Cup Of Gold Water and a New
Years Present.
tOriginal.l

HE immense pile Of
bricks a n d mortar
standing near the riv-
er side, in Caplaville,
tells the most casual
observer of accumu-
late d wealth join
ing with muscle and
endurance to supply
The Cecil Whig., 1886-05-08

How We Get Our Bunting.

!''.' '"' .''t. f''" I'f'tt''''
The Morrison tariff bill was under con-
siIorati0n among party Of gentlemen at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, when General
3. T. Butler told about the experience
OF the manufactures Of bunting, in which
he was a pioneer lie was in the War
department one day when he happened
to take : Aag in lis hard and to ask
where they got flags. He found that
they were manufactured in Eagland ard
was told that no one III this country
knew how to make bunting. lie sent
some samples to two young friends who
where in the wooden manufacturing buSi-
ness. They came to Washington and
sain they could make anything i'll the
shape of wooden fabric. But when they
brought him samples ot what they in
tended should have been bunting it was
only ilanrei, which creased when folded
and which would not loat in waves on
the breeze. There Butler supposed the
matter lad dropped, but about six
months a(tCyward one Of these men cane
to him y III a sample Of bunting. 1t
was exec lent lie had been working in
a bunting factory in Manchester, Eng
land and came home with the secret of
how to make the fabric. General But
ler furnished him the money to start in
business aud for years they enjoyed a
monopoly almost of the trade in this
country.
II speaking of the fact that it was IL c
tariff that had made it possible for Ihis
manufacture to be started here, General
Butter also elucdated the other side of
the protective tariff argument that home
market and competition had Immediately
served to reduce prices until the goods
were now as low as could be secured by
importation it there were no duty. The
start could not have been made but for
the protective tariff In tie expert
mental stages it was bulwarH of safety
to the capitalist and the workman alike.
The General has some nieces, who sew
eTal years age, while in the factory one
The Cecil Whig., 1886-05-08
{)o'"s Of the #l'''o'.
THE WA\DFRER.

Joiner, joining the oaken seam,
All SO lonely and dusty gray,
Shaking thy head in a waking dream,
Where he thy fellows of yesterday!
Past and gone from the troddru sill;
Each on his errand: and all for naught,
For men are coming and going still;
But still must the ioiner's task be
wrought.
Why, well thru sayest, thou nournfu
wight
But dost thou remember the students
four,
Who sang, of old, in the waning light
OF the golden evenings, before thy door >
And, do remember? And vast thon
OF that boa>tful band For mine eyes
are dim,
Nay. for with tempest, ami foreign sun,
Scarrd thou seemest, and swarth and
grim
}
vows;
And the maidens listen'd, in hut and
hall
And still they talked, as they held carouse,
OF what should happen and what befall :
Aud one mast rail at the misel S greed:
And he Of them, only, hath learnd TO
hoard,
And one should win, with the poet s screed,
What he hath won with the v:ctor's
sword
And one should journey before the foam;
And never his eyes beheld the sea.
And one of them, only, shall hide at home;
Aud half fancy that thou art he,
% veX thee not with the plans planud;
But tell me;-what of thy daughter fair?
And wears she ring on the lily hand,
SO smooth and Slender beyond compare
For here be jewels of East and West,
And here be spoils of the southern shell,
Won, with danger, at loves behest,
And who is the giv"r, her heart shall tell
Now what, to thee, is her lily hand
And what, to thee, was her love 50 dear
And how shall She care for thy Jewels
grand,
Now that her coffin fashion here?
Why, truly. truly, if these things be,
There is never solace for those that
roam,
In all that their slumbering eyes may see,
More false than the dreams of the coming
home.
-NWioDt Y0ung
The Cecil Whig., 1886-05-08
\ iEanagcr'5 Enterprise. q.

Manager 90 beautiful yonng actress
vino has just made successful debut y
"You have exceeded my expectations.
You have only to get well advertised and
the public will adore YOU. Are yen ma
ried ~
Beautiful young actrc5a (hesjtatingly.J
IN -n-no.'
M.-"Then you must elopc with some
body at once. 1t don't matter much
who it is, although rich duic would C
best
b. Y. A Gushing deepIy.) 81
beg your pardon. | could not DO that
TO tell the truth, since it must come ont
| am married.
M.-"Oh, you are? Very well then,
You must get a divorce from your hus.
band. Big thing. Full publicity. II
have lawyer draw up the papers right
away"
The Cecil Whig., 1886-05-08

day, took notion to have dresses made
Of the stuff. Then the fashion spread
and soon there was a craze for the fabric.
| Many factories for its production sprang
into existence. Then came the relapse.
| The servant girls wanted to initiate their
mlstreSses, and the mistresses no longer
| wore it at all. 1t became cheap and COM
mon. The price has gone down and
many manufacturers have stopped max
ing it altogether. In General Buffers
view there is no more complete exposi-
tion of the beneficial workings of protec-
tive tariff than in the bunting business
and manufacture.
1t was in the works in which the Cen
eral is interested that the first flags were
made all III one piece. The earliest flags
made in this country were of stripes of
cloth sewn together. The white stars
were sOwn on the face of the blue field.
Buffers associate introduced the manu-
iacture of the entire flag in one piece.
The conclusion of the visit of the
young Yankee who went to Manchester
was somewhat dramatic. lie had songht
employment in the bunting works there
as laborer. His intelligence enabled
him to rise speedily through the differ
ent departments of the works. When
he had mastered the business, he asked
for recommendation and having re-
ceived 1t he quit work. He went to
hotel. had his whiskers shaved off, put
on his best clothes, and then sent an in
vitation to dinner to the manager of the
bunting works. He explained his re-
quest by saying he was American and
would like to have company at dinner.
After dining the two fell into conversa-
tioI, in the course of which the bunting
manufacturer asked: GLOW long have
you been in this country ~ "About six
months" was the reply. "Have you
travelled far?' "No, have been here
all the time" why didu't you let me
see you sooner?" "You saw me every
day." 81 don't understand" The
American took ont the letter of recon-
mendation which his English employer
and guest had written and silently passed
it over to him to read 1t was revela-
ton. 'And you are going to make bunt-
ilg?' Certainly." 1t was all that was
said. but it was enou I'll.
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