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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-02
HOME, Fsam AND GARDEN.

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-Roasted almonds are growing in
favor at dinner parties as substitute
for olives. - Chicago Tribune.
Strong brine maybe used to adj
vantage in washing bedsteads. Hot
alum water is also recommended for
this purpose.-Erchange.
If you happen to have wood ashes
the kitchen garden is good place to
apply it as top-dressing. If leached
for making soft-soap it is still valua-
ble.-C Cleveland Leader.
Southern Pudding: Three eggs
beaten separately, two cups of white
sugar, one cup of sweet cream, one cup
ct butter, two or three tablespoonful of
Hour. Flavor with lemon and bake
in crust. Will make three buildings.
The Household.
strawberry plants should be set
out in early. spring or in August, in
both cases the object being to derive
the advantages of the early and late
rains. The plants should be set one
foot apart, in rows three feet apart, and
not be allowed to fruit or run the first
year.-The Gardener.
Mock Mince Pie: Nine small But
ter crackers, two cups of cider or one
cup of vinegar and one of water; half
cup OF molasses. one cup of sugar; a
piece of butter the size of walnut,
one cup of chopped raisins and spice to
taste. Mix all the ingredients together
and set them on the fire until they be-
come hot, When quite cold fill the
pastry-lined pans, cover with a top
crust and bake.--M Y Commercial
advertiser.
Sows often do not give enough
milk to rear their brood. The best way
to counterfeit this is to commence feed
ing laxative feed before they farrow,
and continue on until their pigs are
nearly ready to wean. Let their diet
be loosening-such as oats, grass, bran,
Stops, etc., with very little corn, and
if this plan of feeding is followed out
there need not be any trouble about
good, healthy sows not giving enough
milk to raise their pigs.-N. Y. Wit
ness.
Prof. G. V. Riley, the entomolo-
gist OF the Agricultural Department,
has issued bulletin showing the re-
suit OF experiments with various insec-
ticide substances, chiefly upon insects
affecting garden crops; experiments
with an emulsion, composed of equal
parts-kerosene, molasses and water
is not very satisfactory. The result of
experiments with cold water as remedy
for cabbage worms prove that it's value
as an insecticide has been over-esti-
ed Washington Post.
-Crisped Pork: Soak slices of salt
pork in sour milk and water twelve
hours, or over night. In the morning
wash in clear water, fry until half
cooked, pour off all the fat, place pork
again in frying-pan, with three chopped
onions, little pepper and pinch of
sage, fry until we'll cooked, then take
from the frying-pan, add to what fat is
In the pan, one teacup cold water, in
which you have stirred one-half table
spoon of flour, let boil and serve in a
bowl with the salt pork and baked po-
tatoes.- Christian Union.
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THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION.

A Few Sensible Remarks Concerning the
Dangerous Habit of Tampering with
Strong Drink.
We are frequently asked by friends to
give more editorial space 70 this ques-
ton. Certainly it is an important
question. But what can be said on it
that will convey the slightest informal
ton to any intelligent human being?
Here is Temperance lecture, and all
that can be said: Friend, you are run
ming fearful risk every time you lift a
glass of liquor to your lips; you are
doing violence to the membranes of
your stomach, an injustice to society,
and are probably boiling tears 10
scorch the cheeks of wife and children.
Ninety-nine out of q hundred who
drink die from alcoholic poison and be-
come paupers and nuisance. This Is
strictly in accordance with our own OBJ
serVatlon. Reform, after years of
1rlnklng. is Eeetty nearly impossible.
II man drinks liquor until he is forty
i've years old it is not likely that he
will ever permanently reform. There
are exceptions, but the statement we
have made is also in accordance
with our extended observation. If
drinking man forty-fve years old should
read this, let him try it, and if he can
show us that we are wrong, write us
and we will give him credit Now,
this is about all that can be said on
Temperance, and the most that has
been said is well known to every drink
ing man. A man runs no greater risk
in eating arsenic than he does in drink
ing rum. The arsenic kills a little
quicker, but though it takes little
longer, you will get there, friend,
through the rum bottle. 1t is possible
for an individual to take arsenic regu-
larly and yet live for years. Generally.
however, It is a dead shot In drink
ing the shot is just as deadly but it re-
quires more time. The dangers, there
fore, are about the same. The vast
majority OF people are fully aware of
what they may expect if they take arse
mic, and do not take it. The majority
too, know very we'll what they may ex-
pect if they drink liquor, but they
drink it, and if these very men should
see anybody else doing half so foolish
a thing, how quickly they would pro-
nounce him fool.
We have great sympathy for the man
who is addicted to intemperance, and
yet there is much sympathy wasted in
this direction. 1t is regarded as an ex-
ceedingly tyrannical habit, and as it is
generally viewed by the Incorporate it
is. But the view is wrong. The aver
age drunkard thinks that he has all the
rum in the universe to fight, and it
looks like big job, and il it were true
it would be, for there is rum enough
almost anywhere to float the Great
Eastern. But all the fighting a man
need do, and all he can do, if he wishes
to reform, is to fight one glass of liquor.
1t is pretty poor sort of man that
can not whip one glass of grOg. A
child could throw that in the gutter,
and it would look much better there
than a man does. That is all we have
to say about Temperance to-day
Western RuraL
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TESTING SEEDS.
A Simple Method of Which Every Farmer
Can Avail Himself.

n ShuiPie MetnOu OF winch Every Farmer
Can Avail Himself.
The plan of testing seeds by seeds
men before sending out is more and
more appreciated. In fact, before or
dering the years supply, seedsmen now
generally test samples-at least the
better class of them do. It is no less
essential that buyers test seeds before
planting. This is fairly accomplished
by placing the seeds between folds of
flannel or blotting-paper, and keeping
them moist and at temperature of
sixty-five to seventy degrees Fahrenheit
For testing seeds in a large and crit
ical way, however. many different
plans have been devised. Perhaps the
most complete, insuring proper warmth
and at the same time constant moisture,
is that of a prominent seed firm of
England. 1t may easily be applied to
the testing of seeds on the farm, where
considerable number of samples is re-
quired to be tested. The arrangement
consists of wooden frame with sloping
glass cover, inside of which is fixed
shallow tank of water. In this tank are
placed bricks of the ordinary size and
of porous nature, the surfaces of
which stand well above the water,
but in a position to absorb sufficient
moisture to cause termination; and on
these bricks the seeds being tested are
laid.
The surfaces of the bricks are divided
into spaces sufficient to contain one
test of from two hundred to three hun
dred seeds, and numbered for the sake
of accuracy in registration. The Gem-
perature is kept at about seventy de-
grees Fahrenheit, and at this point tests
of clovers and some of the grass.seeds
can be completed in from two to three
days. Its advantages are that seeds
can be watched in the actual process
of termination, and non-germinating
seeds examined for the cause. The
ease with which a humid atmosphere
and even temperature can be obtained
and preserved when the bricks are once
heated is apparent. The regular sup
ply Of the exact amount of moisture
without its having to be applied by
hand at almost haphazard, as in the
case of tests in soil, and speed, ac-
curacy and simplicity in working, are
also apparent Chicago Tribune.
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TEMPERANCE READING.
AouAM BIBAMus..


ITO the German melody Ergo Btbamss.''1
For song and good cheer we're now gathered
But, if you please, Gqt1m bibamts:
We've given up whisky and cider and beer,
so, II you please. dqtdm bibdmus:
we've Iouno tnat cold water is good taken
We've found It's not lacking in sparkle or
We've found, taken straight, that It's not
very dear.
So. if you please, aquam bibdmH.
Wen drink to our wives and daughters SO
fair,
But, if you please aQuam btbanSrS
Wen take only that which they with us can
share,
So, if You please, aqudm bibamts;
1t never brings headache, it never brings
Nor doctor nor blisters, nor tempts us to
swear,
Or to do wicked deeds, which no man should
So. if you please, aquam bibamus.
Wen drink to cur churches, our country,
our schools,
-, But, if you please dQtdm bibanus;
Wen drink to good laws, good habits, good
So, if you please. aQuam bibamus;
Wen drink TO good worknen, good masters,
the fools,
And the good time a-coming, when they're
crowded from stools
SO, II you please, dQttdm bibdmtLs.
Wen drink to our boys, who are watching
our phrase,
But if you please dQltdnt bibdmts:
Wen drink to good women with prayer and
with praise;
So, if you please, dQlLdfn bibdfn,s:
Wen drink to the coming of hygiene DAYS
But drink that never will poison or craze
Wen drink, but Wen do it in god Christian
ways,
So, if you please, aqtam bibamlts.
Let us drink water
u e. Rankin, d. d., in Temperance ADVOCATE.
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DO YOU WANT A DRINK
Interesting Information as to How "Rye''
and Bourbon" WHISTLES and Other
Poisonous Drinks Are Prepared.

Interesting Information as to How "Rye"
and Bourbon" Whistles and Other
Poisonous Drinks Are Prepared.
A manual for the guidance of rum
sellers and bar-keepers has recently
been issued. 1t gives Instructions for
the preparations of various drinks,
from which instructions we CLEAN the
following interesting information: In
preparing low grades of so-called
''rye" and bourbon WHISTLES bour-
bon oil and rye oil are used Bourbon
oil is distilled from compound of
fusel oil, acetate of potash, sulphuric
acid, sulphrate of copper, OXalate of
ammonium, and black oxide of man.
ganese. Rye oil is distilled from q
mixture of fusel oil, enauthic ether,
chloroform, sulphuic acid, and chlorate
of potash. Sulphuric copper is dead
ly poison. Oxalic acid is poison that
sometimes kills in a few minutes.
Fusel oil is said by some authorities to
cause the dyspeptic and nervous dis
orders that follow the habitual use of
alcoholic liquors. Those who would
like to know what effect these ingredi-
ents have upon the human system
will find an abundance of information
in any Dispensatory. Jamaica rum
is made out of esprit" New England
rum, and rum essence. This essence
is mixture of sulphuric acid, black
oxide of manganese, pyroligneous
acid, acetic ether, butyric ether and
oil of birch. The ingredients of the
essence by which Spirits is trans
formed into apple brandy are fusel oil,
sulphuric acid, valerianic acid, acetic
acid and oil of bitter almonds. "The
oil of bitter Almonds" says the Dis
pensatory, ''is hardly inferior to dilute
hydrocyanic acid in its poisonous
power" Valerianic acid quickens
the hearts action. It causes debility
and then paralysis. There is a long
list of cordials and wines for the man
ufacture of which the manual gives di-
rections. Two kinds OF blackberry
brandy-one, ga superior article'A-
are described, and there is no trace of
the blackberry in either of them. Oils
and acids are there, however, in
abundance. Cherry brandy, favored
WIFI UBo OIL Vi DlUUer dlHlOnuS, II
spoken of as ga much better article
than is usually sold" The cost is six
ty cents a gallon. Muriatic acid is
used in making maraschino. "The
methods and recipes contained in this
work, =" says the author, ''are all given
by one who has been in that line of
business for many years, and they are
substantially those in general use at
the present time. Irish World
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-02
HONEST CONFESSIONS.
-Four Detectives Admit That Luck
Enters Their Profession.
Pair of Spectaeles Gave the CIue-A
Tidy Second Girl-The Lost VIII
The Surprised Man with
the Gold Tooth.

A few weeks ago the writer spent
several hours in country inn with
number of detectives, and the following
adventures are given just as narrated:
Luck has much to do with success
in our profession, r" said a short, thick
set man with iron-gray hair as he tilt
ed back against the wall. Indeed, if
you are following a blind trail you
must depend upon luck to help you
out. A few years ago was summoned
by telegram to Small town in Ohio to
take hold of murder case. An old
lady living alone on the outskirts of
the town had been found murdered,
but the crime had occurred at least two
days before discovery. That robbery
was the motive was proved by the fact
that the house had been thoroughly
ransacked. She was known to have
had several hundred dollars in money
and some valuable heirlooms, and
every thing had been taken. The
search had been so thorough that it
was likely the murderer had spent sew
eral hours in the house after his horri
BILE deed. He had even taken the old
woman's spectacles, snuffbox, thimble
and other triies of the sort; but he had
come and departed without leaving a
trace.
"Well, the first inference was that
he had come and gone in the night.
The next inference got me into trouble
at once. The sheriff and constables
and all the townspeople had made up
their minds that the murderer was a
young man named John Winthrop, the
old woman's nephew, who hung out
around Cincinnati 1t was known that
he often appealed to her for money
when hard up, and that only two or
three weeks before the murder she had
refused to advance him another dollar,
sMd that ne had gone away cursing
her.
lit was fair clue to work on, and
went to Cincinnati to work up John
Winthrop. He could not be found.
but ! found friends of his who strength
ened the case against him. The day
previous to the murder he was hard
up. and trying to borrow money. The
day after the murder he had plenty of
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-02
GRAPE MILDEW.
Efectual Remedies for the Treatment OF
Two Vine Diseases.

Efectual Remedies for the Treatment of
Two Vine Diseases.
Prof. Riley furnishes the results of
some of the Investigations which have
been made for destroying grape mil
dew. After pointing out the difference
between the two most common forms
of mildew, which require unlike treat
ment,. he gives the following remedy
which promises success in the treat
ment of the downy mildew (Peronos-
poraj, which usually shows itself on
the under side of the leaves in the form
of small patch of whitish down, the
tissues afterward becoming scorched
and turning brown as if sun-burnt The
under side is finely sprayed with the
ordinary milk-kerosene emulsion in
connection with two to five per cent.
of carbolic acid and the same quantity
of glycerine, diluted with from twenty
to fifty parts of water to one of the
emulsions. But more effectual RENE
dy is Stacked lime and Sulphate of cop
per, applied in June. This preparation
is made by dissolving a pound of sui
plate of copper in gallon of water.
Then, in separate vessel, apply
quart or little more of water to two
pounds OF unslacked lime, and mix the
contents of the two vessels together,
making blush thin paste. Mix
thoroughly, and apply lightly to the
leaves-not the fruit-with small
broom. Sulphur for this form of mil
dew has proved a failure. 1t is devel-
oped IL osG in wet weather.
The other form, or powdery mildew,
fiourishes most in dry weather. 1t is ex-
hibited chiefly on the upper side of the
leaf, producing a white POWDER ap.
pearance, which is much less conspicu-
GUS on the lower surface. This form is
less injurious to our native grapes than
to the European grape and its hybrids.
Sulphur is the most efficient remedy,
and Prof Riley indorses the mode
adopted by William Saunders, of Wash
ington, who uses weak solution of
lime and sulphur obtained by pouring
water on lump lime, and adding one
fourth as much sulphur This is
sprayed on the vines. The powdery
mildew is the UncinaIa spirGlis, and in
its conidial form it is known as Oidiana
tgckeaI Country GentleaaGa
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-02
A CHEAP DINNER.

How Travelling Gentleman Got Ahead
of a observation-disclosures.
A colored man walked into cheap res
taurant in the eastern part of the city the
other day and inquired how cheap heeould
get dinner.
Our prices are fifteen, twenty and TWEEN
ty-five cents, was the reply.
Can't you do better dan dat?'
''How cheap do you want meal?"
Two cents
The restauranter looked at MIN for a min
ute, and then said:
alright Sit down minute and Wen
fix youup two-cent NEAL
When the negro was invited into the din
ing-room he found only a glass of water
and g bottle OF horse radish on the table.
lie did not make a single complaint. but
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-02

Two pretty quick-witted minds came in
contact when Rev. DR.. Vincent introduced
at Chautauqua a Chicago clergyman who
was to lecture on "Fools." The prelimi-
naries to the lecture are thus reported:
"We are now to have lecture on fools
by one" Ia very long pause and loud
laughter from the audience when the presi-
dent concluded with the saving clause) "of
the wisest men in the country"
The lecturer advanced to the desk, and
responded: Il am not half SO big fool as
DIR. Vincent" (another very long pause,
and still more hearty laughter from the
audience) would have you suppose.
Youths Companion.
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THE BURGLAR ALARM.
Glad Tidings from the South.
[Tid-Bits.l

When the news reached Boston1a last week
that bean had been grown in Northern
Georgia that, in aroma, bouquet, taste,
color and peculiar delicacy of flavor, could
hardly be distinguished from the blue
veined bean OF st. Botolphsburg, congre-
CATION of six thousand people swarmed in
to fremont Temple and sang: "The morn
ing light is breaking" Truly, if Georgia
hath done this thing, then is the Remote
ness of her Beginningness less Futurely than
that which Now Is would have deemed the
Going to Be possible in the light of the
Used to Was. How, in the glad light of
the Reckon it VIII, pales the smouldering
fires of the Had Ben.-Burdette, in Brook
IYn EARLE.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-02
A SIur on HnmnonathY.

Citizen Ito homeopathic physician) u
haven't seen your partner, DIR. Pellet, re-
Gently. Is he out of town?
Homeopathic Physician-He has charge
OF our Albany branch Office.
Citizen-Have you much practice in Al
bany?
Homeopathic Physician--No, none at
ALL DR.. Pellet stays in Albany for the
purpose of mixing our medicines. You see
he pours few drops OF our powerful RENE
dies in the Hudson river every morning,
and on the following morning dip out
what | want off Jersey City. In that way
we get the correct proportiops.-M Y. Sun.
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emptied the contents of the bottle Oh HIS
plate and scooped it up with his KNIFE
inside OF two minutes and that without
making a wry face Then he drank of
the water, pushed back his chair and walked
of picking his teeth.
How much are you ahead?' asked par
ty who had witnessed the transaction.
Say" replied the restauranter, '.that
bottle OF horse-radish cost me just ten
centsl Detroit Free Press.
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The foreign influence on art is still felt is
America and even newspapers must bow
before it. They were talking about the
Bull Run cyclorama as work of art
'Is it really artistic?" asked reporter
"Most decidedly" replied the editor.
care there any artists OF merit engaged
in the work."
"Merit," replied the editor, slapping his
hand down on the paste pot. "Merit
Well, should say SO! Why, some OF them
artists can't speak a word of English" p
Washington Critic.
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Innocence Imposed unon. )

A traveller in Western Iowa, noticing on
the wall OF the paror OF the hotel the leg
end "Ici ron parlo irancais,' said to the
proprietor:
Do you speak French?"
French2 No; United States is good
'nough for me-"
"Then why do you keep that legend on
the wall. That means French is spoken
here.''
" Is that sou
Certainly"
"Well, I'm a half breed from up the Mis-
soury if a teller with a wart On his nose
didn't sell me that for Latin motto God
bless our home. '"-C Cincinnati Enquirer.
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A Fixed Determination.

"Don't you think Roberts is compromis
ing himself by marrying Miss Hughes"
Certainly | do. The girl hasn't pen
ny"
But can't something be done to dissuade
him from doing it?'
mo, sir. Entreaties are of no avail. He
says he'll have her or no one. Why, l verify
believe he would marry that girl if she had
fifty thousand dollars. - Tid-Bits.
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Fatal Effects of Alcohol.

According to DIR. Richardson, alco-
.aol cuts down by disease, in England
and Wales alone, one thousand per-
sons week. What, adds the doctor,
If any any other cause of mortality did
the same? What if one thousand per-
sons per week died, in the same area.
from the bite of the rabid dog or the
snake, by the swallowing of arsenic,
opium or prussic acid? What if some
thousand persons week were known
to be killed by the secret devices of the
slow poisoner, who, under the guise OF
friendship, went about and instilled
into bis victims some subtle drop
which led to the shortening of their life
and to the production of lingering or
ganic fatal disease? What, indeed,
then would be the cry and the action?
Why, all through the ranks of the great
profession of medicine there would be
a tumult of labor and toll such as new
er before was seen, to remove the ca
lamity. Men would be ambitious to
be first to discover by experiment, by
experience, the cause of so fearful an
evil, and to remove it instantly; while
he who won the victory over the calam-
ity would be extolled as illustrious,
and, crowned with honor, become a
household word among the children of
Esculapius. Yet here one single cause
making this deadly havoc, cause well
known and easily removable, in spite Of
its evils and in face of its easy remov-
al, is permitted to remain in sight
with majority of the army of medi-
cine looking on in apathy, plying us
"poor foolish fanatics who are exer-
cising our limited powers to uproot it,
and some, with the rest of the world,
so sharing the calamity as to become
copartners in the destruction. which
follows from the participation. Sci
entifc american.
--1 -
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A Tough-Looking Calf.

In little circle of acquaintance was
a very rich old banker, to whom the
most assiduous attentions were shown on
all sides.
"See how these fellows worship the golden
calf, " said one.
Cali! calf thought he was much older.
He is the toughest-looking old beet critter
I've seen in many day. replied stock
man who was present.-Texas Siftings.
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Dangers of a Little Learning.

Teacher-Why, Freddie, how did you get
those black and blue welts on your arm?
Scholar-Them's your fault, teacheri
Teacher-My fault? What do you mean?
Scholar (sobbing reminiscen tly Why
you told me it was poor rule that didn't
work both ways. So, when | went home
/ took pas new two-foot rule that doubles
up on hinge, and bent it back till it
worked both ways; and then pa said I'd
broken the joints, and he went and got his
razor strop. think it was mean trick
to play on Teller, and III never forgive
Bits.