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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-26
home, FARM AND GARDEN.

SCOT: If you drop SCOT on the car
pet cover shickly with salt, and it may
be swept mp without backing the car
pct.-Ths Rousehold.
1T is said that borers can be kept
away from apple and peach trees BY
driving nail in the tree near the
ground Chicago Journal.
In sowing timothy With wheat and
other grains the best results are OBJ
tanned BY having the ground dragged
and rolled first. Cincinnati Times
-Mince-meat, says the Caterer, is a
gastronomic miscellany that allows the
inscriptions ingenuity of the manu-
facturer to play upon our gullibility
without limit.
The old-fashioned pear trees that
came from seedlings were not only
hardy, but grew to very large size and
lived for many years. They were not
subject to blight or other diseases. The
blight was unknown until the system
of grating became extensively prac-
ticed.-Troy Times.
Wipe carpet, after sweeping off
the dust with tea leaves, with a square
of coarse flannel that has been dipped
in hot water, and kept constantly hot
and wrung out 1t must not be wet;
only damp. This viii brighten an old
carpet, and need only be done once a
fortnight. 1t cleans off the dust that
will not come out with the broom.
Boston Globe.
Dried Apple Cake: Two cups of
sweet dried apples, soak over night
and chop; two cups of molasses, and
let itsssimmer two hours, when cold add
one cup of sugar, two eggs, .one-half
cup each of sour cream, sour milk and
butter, two teaspoonfuls of soda, four
cups of flour, four teaspoonfuls of Gin
namon, one teaspoonful of cloves, and
one nutmeg.
"A well known horticulturist says
the best time to take off cuttings of the
gooseberry and currant is in August or
early in September, that the natural
warmth of the soil may operate as bot
tom heat before chilled by frosts.
Shoots of the current years growth are
cut eight inches long, and placed
vertically in compacted soil with an
inch of the top exposed. albany JouY-
nal.
Apple Dessert: Pare and core large
sweet apples, and fill with butter and
sugar. Set each apple on round
piece of stale, crustless bread. Put a
little water in the pan, sprinkle sugar
over all, and bake till done. Carefully
remove the serving dish and cover with
icing made with the whites of two eggs
and powdered sugar. Dot over with
bits of red acid jelly. Or the apples
may be baked without the bread, piled
up in pyramid form, and frosted. Dos
tom Bulletin.
All kinds of stock eat and seem to
relish their feed better when it is
slightly sailed, and it is a good plan to
season the feed for the stock just the
same as for human use. This method
has several advantages to recommend
it, among which may be reckoned the
regularity of the sailing thus secured.
There is no danger of any animal
overgorging itself with salt, and stock
will relish its feed better and eat it up
cleaner, and will, as a consequence,
do better National Stockman and
Farmer
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An Uninformed Maiden.

A bright-eyed little girl OF nine years was
on board Kansas Pacific train bound for
Denver. She had never before been beyond
the limits OF her Eastern home and mani
tested unusual interest in all she saw.
The wide plains and prairie dogs inter
ested her, but she was most anxious to see
a genuine specimen of that purely Western
product cowboy.
The train was waiting at station in
Kansas when the longed-for cowboy APP
peared. He was a typical specimen-wide
sombrero, leather breaches, red flannel
shirt, belt filled with knives and pistols
and a desperate-looking character gener-
ally.
There is cowboy for you, whispered
a gentleman to the little girl.
"Whatl that?" she asked, in unfeigned
surprise and evident disappointment.
"Why! I. always thought a cowboy was
part boy and part cow."-Detroit Free
D.
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CURIOUS CUSTOMS.
Habits Obtaining Among Tobacco-Cor
Stunning Savages.

Habits Obtaining Among TObacc0-COn-
Stunning Savages.
The Indians were accustomed to in
sert the forked ends of hollow cane
into the nostrils, and then apply the
other end to the burning leaves Of the
weed, or to the dried and powdered to-
bacco, thus inhaling the smoke or snuff,
as the case might be. In Micronesia,
all smoke-men, woman and children
though the habit of sitting down
alone to enjoy smoke is never prac-
ticed. On the assembling of crowd,
chief calls for his pipe. This is
brought, filled and lighted by little
boy or girl, who, in the process, takes
early lessons in the fine art. When
the lighted pipe is handed to the chief,
he passes it to chief higher in rank,
andhe again. to one still higher, till
the topmost man is reached. This
man takes few whiffs, then hands it
to another, and so on, till all the COM
pany are served.
DIR. Titus Coan, the venerated mis-
sionary of Hawaii, says of the Patago-
mans: They would inhale the smoke of
tobacco, hold it for time in their
mouths, then blow it out through the
nostrils or swallow it into the lungs
and become deadly drunk. / have been
aroused at midnight by the most fear
full groans of savages in the wigw ans
near by, and on entering these huts
have been struck with the ghastly and
cadaverous look and chilled with the
agonizing groans of the Indians, drunk
with tobacco fumes. The same was
true of the Marquesas group of the Ha-
waiian islanders, of the Polynesians
generally and of all savage tribes SO far
as can learn"
OF the snuff-taking habit among the
Zulus, Rev. Josiah Tyler, who has been
q missionary in Africa over thirty
years, gives the following account:
1.-The Zulus make their snuff of tobac-
co, dry aloes and ashes, grinding it
very fine. 1t is exceedingly pungent,
| causing the tears to flow profusely
| down their cheeks, which they wipe off
with snuff-spoon, made of bone or
horn, this being their only handker-
chief. Old and young of both sexes
carry snuff-boxes made of small Gala
bashes tied to girdle around the
waist. Sometimes diminutive reeds,
full of snuff, are inserted in holes in
their ears. When they meet, after the
usual salutation-I see you, friend
the snuff is passed around, each one
taking good pinch. 1t is a nasty
habit, and their nostrils, after this oper-
alton, are generally covered with filth,
and it is also injurious to health. Zulu
men, especially young men, are becom-
ing fearfully addicted to smoking. and
| perceive, after thirty-two years OBJ
servation. that it makes serious inroads
on their constitution. ~ hiidde1plssa
Isyu
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A LAUGHING CHORUS.

Oh, such connection under the ground
When March called: "Ho, therel h0l
Such spreading Of rootlets far and WIDE,
Such whispering 10 ana frol
And Are you ready?" the Snow-drop
asked;
"'Tis time to start, you know
" Almost my DEAR the Sciila replied;
" I'll follow as soon as you GO
Then, HAL ha! hal" a chorus came
OF laughter soft and low
From the millions of flowers under the
ground
Yes, MISUNDERSTANDING to grow.
I'm promise my blossoms" the Croeus said,
when hear the bluebirds sing
Aud straight thereafter" Narcissus cried:
Ny silver and gold III bring"
And ere they are dulled," another spoke,
The Hyacnth bells shall ring"
And the Violet only murmured: I'm
here" -..-. 4 4
Then Hal ha! hal" chorus came
Of laughter soft and low
From the. millions of flowers under the
Yes, millions beginning to grow.
Oh, the pretty. brave thfngsl through the
coolest days,
Imprisoned in walls of brown.
They never lost heart, though the blast
And the sleet and the han came down,
But patiently each wrought her beautiful
dress
Or fashioned her beautiful crown,
And now they are coming to brighten the
Stlll shadowed by winters frown:
And wen may they cheerily laugh; Hal
hal" lt osrt
In a chorus soft and low,
The millions of flowers hid under the
ground r1A1 EE4 FL
Yes, misunderstanding to grow.
--MGfVdTet Eyttnge, IN HdTpef's Young People
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ing small gong to announce its arrival,
and also dropping one of the fingers on an
annunciator. More than this, it sends the
half-inch wide tape spinning through the
register, which much resembles a stock
ticker" and prints upon the paper first
three dashes and then six. This is re-
peated half dozen times, to preclude
the possibility of error. But before it
has registered the second "36" the
alert operator has caught the number
and stepped back q hall dozen feet to
the gong repeater, This instrument is %
wonderful collection OF wheels and ratch-
cts, contained in glass box about five
feet long and two wide and>deep, and one
of its sides contains four dials each
marked with the nine numerals. This lit.
tie box cost IS, 900, and is the only four
dial gong repeater in the world. No other
city possesses an instrument SO large and
costly as this one. With two quick mo-
tions of his right hand, the operator
places the finger on the first dial at I" 8"
and the finger of the second dial at &C."
Then he moves little lever, the machinery
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TEMPERANCE READING.
!" GIVE US A CALL"

[Suggested by seeing these words in a sa-
loon advertisements
Give us call! We keep good beer.
Wine. brandy, gin and whisky here
Our doors are open to boys aud men
And even to women, now and then
We hghten ther purses we faint their
breaths,
We swell up the columns of awful deaths.
All kinds of crimes we sell for dimes,
In our sugar'd poisons. so sweet to taste
II you We money, position or time to waste,
Give usa cab.
Give us a call! In pint of gin,
We sell more wickedneSS. shame and sin
from dawn to darkness, could preach away.
And in our beer, though it may take longer
To get man drunk than drinks that are
StrOngerl,
W., We sell out property shame and woe;
Who wants to purchase? Our prices are low,
Give us call
Give US q CALI Well dull your brains,
wei Civ Q you headaches and racking pains
Wen make you old while you vet are young,
To lies and SANDER we'll turn your tongue:
we make you shirk from all useful work,
make inert and forgery seem fair play,
ana murder pastime sure to pay.
Give us call.
Give us CALI We are cunning and wise;
we are bound to succeed, for we advertise
IN the family papers. the journals that claim
TO be pure in morals and fair of fame
Husbands. brothers and sons will read
Our kind invitations and some will heed
And give us call; we pay for ali
The space in the papers we occupy.
And there's little in life that money won't buy.
If you would go down in the world, and not nm.
II you would be slain by the snake in the Gun,
Or lose your soul in the flowing bowl,
1t you covet shame and blasted name,
Give us call.
In
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woke the echoes of the old rookery with

woke the echoes of the old rookery with
fifty-three alarms.
One second before you pulled the lever at
the corner of Clark and Madison streets
500 men and more than $50 horses were
sitting or standing at ease in three dozen
engine-houses. Perchance the men were
playing cards or reading the Herald, and
the horses no doubt were contentedly
munching hay in their stalls Within ons
second after you pulled the lever 500 men
and more than 150..horses we're in state
of exciting activity.
The same electric current which tapped
the small gong in the central office and
registered '.36" upon the tape performs
the Office in every engine house in the city.
Almost simultaneously the $4,000 gong
repeater strikes the large gong in every
house, filings open the doors of every
horse-stall, and sends men and beasts fly
ing to their posts. The horses know their
places quite as well as the men, and are al
most as quickly at their stations under the
hanging harness. Two men stand ready
to receive them. "Snap" go the two col
lars about the animals necks, the men
spring to their seats upon the en-
gines, and all is done. Within seven
or eight seconds from the instant
the lever of box SO was pulled three
dozen steamers, a dozen hook and ladder
trucks and as many chemicals, besides hose
carts, are ready to rush into the street and
away to the fire. As soon as the alarm is
finished all of the machines in the district
rush out, with foot-gong changing and
sparks streaming in their rear, while the
others stand ready to follow on call. Fire
is not kept under the steamer boilers while
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smooth tube he drops to the bottom like a
falling brick. First one and then another
plunges down, and woe TO the man who
fails to keep up with the procession.
The creased pole originated in the Chi
cago Fire Department, being the invention
of Captain Kineon. who was killed last
year while the department was responding
to an alarm from box At, corner of Dear
born and Monroe streets. Captain Kineon
never patented the device, as he might
easily and proftably have done. At first
the poles were made OF wood, but they
slivered up to dangerous extent, and had
to be abandoned. Metal tubes are now in
use for this purpose in the best fire depart
meats of this country and Europe, and are
even used in some hotels to enable servants
to quickly descend from one floor to an
other.
1t is the use of the sliding pole which
makes it possible for the sleeping iremen
to rouse, dress, descend to the ground
floor, and take their places ready for the
word ''go" within fifteen seconds after you
pull the lever at the corner OF Clark and
Madison streets.
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Beer Authorizations.

The New York Mail and Express
has been at work among the breweries
to ascertain the composition and char
acter of the beer that good many peo-
pie drink in the metropolis, and it finds
that much of the stuff is not lager beer
at all, but compound which contains
one or more of such ingredients as
nuassia, &loes and nux vOmica, and
very little of hops. 1t has interviewed
a number of physicians on the effect of
drinking such compounds, and finds
them generally agreed that the drink
ing of beer tends to disease more di-
rectly than the drinking of liquors.
They found among their patients who
used beer habitually a general relaxa-
ton of the system and degeneration
of vital power, and among the more
specific effects a marked tendency to
Bright's disease.
1t might be pertinent to ask, in this
connection, how many people fifty
years of age ever heard of Bright's dis
ease twenty or thirty years ago? It
was an almost unknown ailment then;
now it is quite common affection and
terribly painful one, with results
almost invariably fatal. 1t is true that
people have it who do not drink beer,
but there can still be no doubt that
habitual use of impure beer is respon-
sible for the rapid multiplication of
kidney difficulties since brewers learned
the art of cheap adulteration. The
Mail and Express says there are num-
Der of stores in New York that keep
brewers supplies" some of which
undoubtedly go into beer. Some of
them are to give it the bitter taste, some
to make it foam, and some to age it
artiiciallv, but all are harmful and in
the end destructive. -Kingsto'a IN. "
Freeman.
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sional brief leave of absence OF course he
must sleep at the engine house. Upstairs
is q dormitory, containing a bed for each
man, on which he sleeps in more or less
comfort and in about the same attire bar
ring boots, in which he appears in public.
When an alarm'i is sounded at night an en-
CINE house is no place for stranger. He
is likely to be knocked down by hustling
fireman whose eyes are only half open, or he
might fall through the trap door and break
his neck. To the stranger an engine house
at such moment is scene of the widest
confusion. But not SO to the firemen.
Though only hall awake, they scramble
from their beds, mechanically but quickly
draw on their boots and then make run
and a dive through an opening in the floor.
There are three of these openings. and in
each is brass tube or pole extending from
the ground floor nearly to the roof. This
is the fireman's grand staircase when he is
in hurry. Entwining himself about the
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in the house, but, instead, the boilers ara
constantly charged with twenty or TWEEN
tv-five pounds of steam from a stationery
boiler in the basement. An automatic
trip releases the connecting or supply pipe
and closes it as the steamer moves out.
At the first tap OF the gong the stoker
seizes his tor h and sets fire to the shay
ings in his fire-box, and before the fire is
reached the steamers gauge shows work
ing pressure. The tackle which supports
the hanging harness is also released auto
matically, and the firemen actually have
nothing to do but snap the collars togeth-
er and spring to their seats. If they had
much more to do an engine could not be
on it's way to the fire within eight seconds
from the pulling of the lever in the alarm
box. ~
Firemen appear to have an easy time of
it. At almost any hour OF the day they
may be seen in their coy houses surfeited
with leisure. But their life is not all idle
ness and pleasure, and they knownot what
moment they may be called out to remain
all night or all night and day, fighting
like heroes. Occasionally there is a funeral
in town, and here and there are graves and
widows and orphans, which show that the
freman's life is not all play. At best his
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open the door and seize the lever. BY so
doing you will not attract as much atten-
ton as you did in the old days when you
ran through the streets crying ''fire! fre!'
to the full capacity of your lungs, rousing
housewives and maid servants and bark
ing dogs, but you viii accomplish more,
and with greater ease. You don't feel SO
much like hero as you did when you ran
!. to the village hose-house, threw open the
clumsy doors, yelled with all your might,
and by the aid OF several half-awake COM
patriots finally succeeded in pushing and
hauling a wheezy old hand-engine or
awkward hook and ladder truck into
the street, but with less exertion you
do society a much greater service.
By pulling that little lever you set
in motion toothed wheel, release
marvellous power, and as with magician's
wand, give life unto q wonderful system.
No man can tell you what electricity u.s. but
it's works are manifest. 1t is q faithful
servant, perfectly trained, always ready,
ever speedy. In this case it takes the form
OF a telegraph message, the message being
the number of the box, and flies away YER
itably on lightning's wings. The toothed
wheel knows nothing but the numbers IS !"
and 's6, but this it knows well. 1t never
makes a mistake. Mistakes might cost
hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece,
and there is a tradition that some such
blunder once had something to do with the
burning of a city OF 100000 inhabitants.
This simple message flies to room on the
ground floor of the City Hall, where two
men always stand ready to receive it.
Though not a welcome guest, it is prompt
ly received and well taken care of.
Upon table forty feet long. covered
with hundreds of Geographic keys and
saunders, the electric current leaps, strik
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SENDING IN AIN ALARM.

The Wonderful Workings of the Machinery
of q Modern Fire Department in Large
City.
The following interesting description OF
the manner in which the Chicago Fire De
partment is managed is taken from the
Daily Herald of that city, to which paper
we are also indebted for the use OF the ac-
companying cuts:
Suppose an incipient fire is discovered
near the corner of Clark and Madison
streets. in the very center OF Chicago. A
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The very sweetest orange and the
richest is the black or rusty-coated
fruit. Pick out the dingiest oranges in
the box and you will get the best.
Another way to choose oranges is by
weight. The heaviest are the best,
because they have the thinnest skin
and more weight of juice. Thick skin
oranges are apt to be dry; they either
weigh less because of having so much
skin or because of the poverty of the
juice in these particular specimens
Cincinnati Times.
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Teacher Instead of Pupil.

Mrs. Fizzletop overheard herson Johnny
swear like a trooper.
why, Johnny" she exclaimed who
taught you to swear that way?"
Taught me to swear?n exclaimed John
nv, why it's me who teaches the other
boys. Texas Siftings.
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hours on duty
are long. He
comes on watch
at noon and
G o e s off at
twelve IN. In
other words, he
works twenty
four hours n
day, barring the
time necessary
to get his meals
and an occa-
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A TEACHER asked boy who ysas the
meekest man. Moses, SIR was the an
was the meekest woman!'' please, sir,
there never was any meekest woman"
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the corner,
hastily opens
the door and
pulls d 0 wn
t h e lev e r
which hangs
in plain view.
This is the
work of a few
seconds, and
t h e civilian
) may perform
it as well as
t h e officer.
Only a few
alarm boxes
in Chicago
a r e k e p t
locked. a nd
there is moth
49, L. IL lL
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TIE Queen of Madagascar, who is
generally considered semi-barbarian,
wrote in her last proclamation: az
can not consent, as your Queen, 10
take a single cent of revenue from that
which destroys the souls and bodies of
my subjects. y
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IT costs twenty EIGHT dollars week to
feed circus tiger At that rate what
would the monthly board of catamount
tol--CAicago Telegraph
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LIQUoR-LovING mankind may vel
consider the monkey. Brehm mem
tons having made some North African
balloons drunk on strong beer. The
following morning they were very
cross and dismal, held their aching
heads with both hands and wore most
pitiable expression" But when the
same intoxicant, or wine, was again
offered they turned away with disgust
Likewise, Darwin refers to an Ameri-
can Ateles which. having once fallen
victim to brandy, would never torch it
again, "and thus was wiser thar many
men, These facts are agricultural
from the livestock point of view, at
least, since they tend to promote re-
spect for the animal creation, albeit at
expense of the human beings who
''sink themselves below the brutes. -
N. Y Tribune.
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The most remarkable product of the
Temperance agitation of late years is a
German anti-lager-beer organ. Der
Deutsch-Amerikaner.
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The drunkard, the epicure, the
miser, the ambitious man, the osten-
tatious man, the deyotee of art, each
finds less pleasure in the things for
which he loves as the days go on; and
since he lives chiefly for these things,
since life has no real significance to
him save in the possession and use OF
these things, his life, as a whole, be-
comes less and less satisfying to him
the longer he lives; the keen pleasure OF
existence Is gone; it may even become
a burden to him, and he may hasten
with suicidal hand to put an end to bis
pain aud disquietude. STANDARD.