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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-19
The Perennial Complaint.

Nov, my dear" said Mr.. Younghus-
band to the partner of his joys, who was
about to start forth on Christmas shop
ping bent, get presents for all the family
law and buy nice lot of things for
the boys; but don't spend more than a
hundred dollars. We must live within
our income"
why, George" replied the lady, in an
aggrieyed tone, you told me we had $500
this month you know you did,"
And Mr.. Younghusband only sighed.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-19
Appropriate Christmas Presents.

Have you decided on your presents for
the boys yet, my dear?" asked Mr.. Hen
bricks, after the lads had left the break
fast-table for school.
Not quite all. But I have decided,
William, that they shall all be given
something useful. There is no use in
wasting money on useless toys for them
to break-and, by the way, we need new
rug for the parlor and dozen tumblers,
William"
"Ah! Well, why not get the rug for
George. and give the tumblers to John?"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-19
Some SeasOnabIe Signs.

There's a box in the cellar a bundle upstairs
And the family cherubs are whispering in pairs
It's all about Christmas,
/ know it is Christmas,
Old Christmas once more.
When venture to enter where laughter is rife,
you cannot come in, cries the voice of my wife.
IT'S the sweet sign of Christmas.
The coming of Christmas,
Old Christmas once more.
When I open closet to look for my hat,
7 fnd-but no matter; it is not the cat;
1t is something for Christmas,
A comfort for Christmas,
Old Christmas once more.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-19

and their faces were at once mantled in
smiles of satisfaction. They had no
doubt expected the death sentence, but,
on not hearing it read. felt themselves
in unexpected luck. In short, Burke,
O'Sullivan, and Coughlin we're happily
disappointed.
None of the members of the prisoners
families were in the courtroom at the
time. Hence there were no affecting
scenes such as when the verdict in the
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-19

It was some seconds before Kunze,
who sat at the other end of the dock,
realized his fate. When he did he filed
up like whipped child, and at once
commanded the sympathy of the large
assemblage, including court, jury and
lawyers. He could not long restrain the
sobs that rolled up from his bleeding
heart, and quickly gave vent to his grief
in cries and complaints. Kunze has been
the happy go-lucky, playful occupant of
the dock all through the trial. By his
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-19

IT is a fact worth bordering that
though the night falls around us ii
never breaks, whereas the day breaks
but never falls. We offer this delicate
fancy to some struggling aspirant for
poetical honors.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-19

attitude he convinced all that he expect
ed to be discharged, and when he buried
his face in his hands and cried bitterly
over his three years sentence, the people
responded with smothered expressions of
compassion.
With the other three it was vastly diff
ferent. They were unconcerned until
they heard the verdict read, and then
they, one and all, gave a sigh of relief,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-19

To ADD to our knowledge of terrestrial
magnetism it is suggested that regular
magnetic observations be established at
Cape of Good Hope and in South
America.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-19

ONE little Akron boy who was proud
of his latest acquisition surprised his
mother by saying: I'm going out OF
doors to show God my rubber boots.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-19
.CHRISTMASEVE VISITOR

ITUATED betw e 9 n
the parallels of TWEEN
ty and twenty-s seven
degrees south lati-
tude, territory nOmin-
ally embraced within
the boundaries of the
Argentine Repub | C
and B o | ivia, lies
t h e Gran Chac o
(Gr e a t w il d e r
Iness), which is proba-
bly, at present the least
known region of it's
size on the earth s
surface. Nor is it a
desert tract, as the
reader might at first
conjecture, but, on
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-19
A Present from His Wife.

4Darringer, Christmas always knocks
the stufing out of two weeks of my
salary"
why, how so, Bromley2"
well, you see, give my wife all ]
earn the week before Christmas to buy a
present for me, and it takes all I earn the
week afterward to buy one for her"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-12-19
WISCONSIN BRIEFLETS.
NTE STING TIE MS GATH lie RED
GROIN VARIOUS SOURCES.

What Our Neighbors Are Doing Matters
General and Local Interest of Marriages
and Deaths-Accidents and Crimes-Per-
sOna1 Pointers.
Articles of association have been flee
in the Secretary of States Office by the
following corporations:
The Garth Lumber Company, of Waasau ,
capital, $780, 900; incorpOratOrs, Jacob Morten-
son. Christopher G. Barker and Flower p. Stones
of Wausau John II. Garth, of Hannibal, Mo. ;
Arthur f. Davis, of Fayette, Mo- The Milwau
kee Egg Case and Filler Company; capital S10.-
600; incorporators, Vim. SchOrse, T.. G. Bower
Henrietta Schorse, and Mary Bower. The Island
View Hotel Company, of Bayfield,; capital Ss5,-
600; incorporators, Isaac II. Wing, Robinson ID.
Pike, Currie 6. Bell, Fred. Fischer, and Erwin
Leahy.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-02

THE dotted line represents perfora-
tons for convenience Of detaChing the
counterfeit. IN the example the voter is
supposed 10 have marked his paper ia
favor OF Richard Roe
Tae deputy returning officer presiding
at the polling place puts his initials on
The back Of each ba lot before banding it
to the voter. IN addition the clerk puts
a number opposite the voters name in
t6e pol book. and tAe presiding officer
put the same number on the face Of the
counterfeit.
The voter marks aDd folds his ballot in
secret "a ia tue c!se already described.
| and, rcturniAE, hands the ballot to tbe
deputy returning officer, who, after salts
flying himself vi Ms identity by eXamina-
ion Of his initials and the number on the
countcrIoil, detachcs and destroys the
countcrfol. and puts the ballot inthe box.
| II will DC observed that the purpose Of
the countcrfoil IS not, AS in England, t0
make il subsequently possible 10 trace
the ballot TO the voter, but simply TO az
ford a security additional 10 that given
by the initials on the back that the baIloi
cast is the II given to the voter.
At the close Of the poll the ballots are
counted ateach polling place ny a deputy
returning officer in charge in the presence
OF the candidates or their representatives
Should any ballot other than those Off
clolly supplied be found in the box, il is
rejected, as arc also all on which votes
nave been given for too many candidates
or on whica is found any mark or writ
ing 10y which the voter could be identi
fed. The ballots given in favor Of each
candidate, and also all defective, spotted
or unused ballots are sealed up in sepa-
rate packets, and put into the ballot box,
which, sealed and locked, is sent to tire
returning officer OF the district with a list
of the votes a. counted and Of rejected
ballots.
At the final summing up by the return.
ing officer, should the vote be found &c
have resulted in a tie, he has himself the
casting vote.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-02

Where are the guests who danced the
floors Of the Alhapbra, Or the Persian
palaces OF Ahasuerus? Dust Where
arc the musicians who played and the
orators who spoae, and me sculp ors
who chisled, and the architects who
built In all the centuries except our OWN
Dust The greatest library OF the world.
that which has the widest shelves aud
the longest aisles and the most multitud-
nous volumes and the vastest wealth, is
the underground library 1t is the royal
library, the continental library, the hem
ispheIic library, the planetary, the H.
brary Of the dust. And all these library
cases will be opened, aud sll these scrolls
unrolled and all these volumes un
clasped and as easily as in your
library or mine we take up a book,
blow the dust of of ii, and turn
over It's pages, SO easily will the Lord Of
the Resurrection pick up out of this
library Of dust every volume Of human
life and open it and read it and display
il. And the volume will be rebound, to
be set in the royal library Of the Kings
palace, or in the prison library of the self
destroyed. Oh, this mighty literature Of
the dust 1t Ii not 90 wonderful after al
that Christ chose, instead Of an inks,and,
the impressionabie sand IN the floor Of al
ancient temple. and instead Of a hard pen
put forth his ~foreinger with the SANE
kind of nerve, and muscle, and bone. anC
flesh, "a that which makes up owl
forehnger, and wrote the awful doom o.
hypocrisy and full and complete forcgiv
ness for ~repentant sinners, even Tia,
worst.
And now ! can believe that which
read, how that q mother kept burning
candle in the window every night for ter
years, and one night very latca poor wall
of the street entered. The aged woman
said to her, ''Sit down by the fire" and
the stranger said, why 90 YOU keer
that light in the window" The aged
woman said: That is TO light my way
ward daughter when she returns. since
She went away ten years ago, my hair
has turned white. Folks blame me for
worrying about her, but you see | I'm her
mother, end sometimes, half "a dozen
times q night, | open The door and look
cut into the darkness ond C;y.
'Lizzier IizZior But | must not
tell you any more about my trouble,
Tor ] guess, from the way you
cry, you have trouble enough Of your
own. Why, how cold and sick you Scent
Oh, my can it be? Veg, you are Lizzie,
my W lost child. Thank God that you
are home again. And what a time Of
rejoicing there was in that house that
night And Christ again stopped down,
and in the ashes OF that hearth. now
lighted up not more by the great blazing
logs than by the JOY of a reunited house
hold, wrote he the same liberating words
that he had written more than / 800 years
ago ia the dust Of the Jerusalem temple.
Forgiveness! A word broad enough and
high enough to let pass through it all the
armies of heaven, y million abreast, on
white horses, nostril TO n%ostril, flank TO
flank.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-02
Miscrics of High Life!

Mrs. Wcetend-On, such a time nc
three this week for not keeping the
chiidrcn quiet. and it hasn't done a bit
OF good.
Mrs. Tip,op-I notice the noise from
the nursery is terrible. Well, | have
the same trouble. and my husband,
who is getting deaf, actually refuses
to be treated for it. / cant see what
sort of creatures these child's nurses
can be. They don't seem to have a
bit of cnsc. ] actuily caught one
buying cheap candy with her own
money to keep the ~li,tlvangels quiet.
just think of the iinpnience of the
thlng-putting cheap candy into the
delicate stomachs of my children.
Well, ! said I'd discharge her if she
repeated that o~t!ense, and what do YOU
suppose she did nextp Why, when
they began to yell and kick at her for
not buying them a locomotive and cars
big enough To ride in she actually
threatened to have their father whip
them, just AS il she. n ionO-
rant nurse, had "A right t o keep their
father, my husband, at her beck and
Will Nv Noh''tI tuc C!iluTeU ltuglCu,
and then yelled louder than ever.
Even they could see the efrrontery Of
The thing.
Mrs. Westend-Well. I'd send her
flying. Dear me! What n racket!
Hark! All! | understand it now. That
miserable creature who calls herself u
nurse is trying Il stand little Billy in
the corner for nothing. Isn'titawfulp
Now, if she hits him III just send for
the police just viii. | shan't be cOn-
tented with "a simple discharge. It's
high time these creatures were taught
q lesson.
Mrs. T%iptop-I think so, too. No
wonder tie little dcars learn to yell
and kick and bite when they have such
examples set them. They see it's u
mere question of physical strength
brute forcc-of course they DO. Why
don't these nurses keep the children
amused? That's what they are hired
to do. Well, ! must hurry. for | have
an engagement ut the Intelligence
office for this hour. want if possible
to get Il nurse to replace the n l
have now. Since dear little Bobby
kicked her sbins back and blue she
has hated him. and it. almost breaks
my heart to hear the poor little fellow
Phtlddeipbi0 Record.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-02
"Them Dudes is Cute"

He was what might be safely and
tr%uthfnlly called a ''howling swell"
A microscopic Derby surmounted his
smoothly-partcd head OF hair; Il long,
pale : archaeological, gray checked
ulster swung gracefully from his s!op-
ing shoulders; his loOsely-cut trousers
fell without a wrinkle over his bril-
liantly vanished shoes, and he swung
a Brobdignaggian zane with an airy
ease that would lead tue ordinary OBJ
server TO suppose he had the key to
the gate in the high picket fence that
surrounds the Four Hundred. He
stopped alongside the leader Of the
usual string of cabs on the Madison
| square side of Fifth avcnuc.
Il say, cabbie, will you take me TO
the seventh house around the corner
for u dime, you know"
The cabnIan rrowled a surly assent,
ana the young man was whlried around
the orncr in grand style, and ran M The
stOop Of IN imposing brownstonc a
sion after slamming the cab-door with
noise enough to rouse tue entire block.
''Do You often do That SORT Of thing2"
asked a quiet citizen rs the cabnan
anchored iguISNI on the avenue again.
.'Do wc?' was tAD reply. Wen, /
often picks mp a dollar Of n eycn.n'
heipiu item ,GUulerjampin' dudes to
Keep up appearances. INC idea an't "A
new oHe. Iicm ic,icrS walks fifteen
or twenty L!0cAs e. save car fare, aHd
w,iSE up 10 tnclr best girDs house IN
- way chat would pas ~ Vanderbilt 10
the DlusH. O. goa Kin bet them dusies
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-02
HO w 1aEY VOTE IN CANADA
Operations or the Australian Sys.
ten in the dominion.

The experience Of the dominion Of
Canada with the Australian system should
be of srecia! interest to Us. says the Hart.
ford Register. for while the law itself
presents few novel features, the similarity
OF social and political conditions between
ourselves and our nearest neighbors gives
il a claim upon our attention lacking in
the case Of the more distant communities
of the old world and the new world Of
the antipodes.
The dominion act has been in success
full operation since 1874; the provincial
laws were assimiiated to it a little later.
In order 10 avoid useless repetition il
may be stated that the procedure follows
pretty closely the British model, and as
regards details left unnoticed may be un.
derstood as being substantially the same
as that already described.
Any twenty five electors may nomi
nate "A can iidate for the dominion par
liament, or SO many candidates rs are tc
be elected in the district. The nomina
ton paper must contain the name, resi-
dcDce and description of each candidate
SO as TO sufficiently identify him. In al
dltlon the paper must contain the writer
consent of the candidate to the nomina
ton, unless he is out of the province, il
which case the fact must be stated. Tn,
nominating paper must be filed with tn;
returning officer 1T or before the time Sc
FOX making nominations, and the person
ding the paper must make oath that hC
knows The : eners to be qualified electors,
that they signed the papers in his pres.
enCc, and bat the candidates consent
was signed in bis presence, unless in case
OF the candidatc's absence from the prov
ince.
Al the same time that the nomination
is filed q SUM OF 300 must be deposited
y i'll the returning officer by the candi-
date or in his behalf. The sum ia subse-
qucntly returned TO him if he is elected,
or If he pO.is "a number OF votes equal To
at least half the number received by the
successful candidate. If he fails TO poll
SO many votes the money is forfeited to
the public treasury.
The ballots are printed with the names
Of the candidates in alphabetical order,
and the description attached to each. A
margin is left at the right hand side. A
blank counterfeit is attached to the bot
tom OF The ballot. Following is the
model annexed TO the statute:
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-02
TWO STRANGERS IN BOSTON
Female Critic ism Of q Recent Pops
lar Work OF Fiction.


Boston Transcript: Young Woman in
Plush Sack-What's that? Robert
Elsnere?' How far we you got?
Young Woman in Turb&n Hat-Fin-
ished it last night.
Plush sack-Did you? Now tell me,
how did you like it?
Turb9n Hat-Lovely.
Plush Sack-What Is it al about' I'm
dying TO know.
Turban Hat-Oh, lis a love story
about q minister. you know.
Plush Sacks it, Awfuily nice, l
s'pose.
TuIban Hat--Yes. Then there's m
other couple that aye ia love-t any rate
she IS, but he's an old stick and she
don't love him after all, but marries an.
other fellow. ] was awfully glad thai
she took him and not the other one.
Plush 9ack-But wha. is there in the
book that all the folks are talking
about?
Turban Hat dcn't know. I dida't
sec any thing peculiar 10 it-just liEc all
love siCries. IS l4r / could sec-itt.e off
%f4rent, of course, but rot 30 very ciief
eat either.
Plush Sack-Dut the ministers are al
preaching sermons aDout it.
Tuib4n HAL know it, but ! can SCI
why
Plush Sack-something about religion
| rucSg.
Turban uat-P'raps so. There is lot.
of religious stuff in it. But Of cOu1s.
! couldn't waste my time readin!
that. All / cared TO know was how i
came out.
Plush dack-Mr. Milding told my
father that it was g very dangerOul
book. He said it w0s full of matter tha
tended 10 corrupt The young and mex
perienced.
Turban Hat-Funny; butt didn't SEE
anything out o the way.
Plush Sack-Do YOU know, I'm just
dying TO read it2 But then ] haven't 60
any time. 1t makes me 80 sleepy 10 read
too. Wonder who this Mr. Gladstone is
that's been picking it to pieces.
1'urban Hat don't know, I'm sure
Isn't that a pretty bonnet over there or
the other side?
Plush Sack-DO you thirk eoE
Turhan Hat-Yes; don't you?
Plush Sack-Kinder. Did you SCI
that fellow that just went through tn
car?
Turban Hat didn't notice him par
ticularly-whyy
Plush Sack-Oh, nothing.
Turban Hat-You know himi
Plush Ssck-Not much; seen him ono
or twice. He told my brother that Rob
ert Elsmere' was one Of the most nota
bic books Of the nineteenth century
That's just what he said. | remembe
it, because I've heard Fred say it over
dozen times since. 1t was n OF thu
most notable books Of the nineteenth
century, he said, and one which woulc
set the world TO thinking.
Turban Hat-Men are funny things.
Plush Sack know 1t. Do you &c
out here' Well, goodbye.
Turban Hat-Good-bye.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-02

More than 100 languages and dia-
iects are current in India and British
Burmah, with their ESQ, 900, 900 of peo-
pie, and the district a~lphabets of these
countries, many OF which arc very
elaborate. out-number all Others in the
world. Some forty different alphabets
or syllable systems. each having from
$50 to 500 combinations, are used l0
represent the sounds Of tho $50 lam
guagcs, and more than 10000 different
signs and types nave been elaborated
from the original alphabet to represent
the fifty different sounds-ail that tie
combined Indian y~crnaculars contain.
AS these simple sounds cannot be ~.
presented by the twen,y-six letters 81
the English alphabet t~wcnty-fonr let
tiers OF the English phopntic Alphabet
are captured and made 10 do service IN
this new English phonetic a%ipnahrt,
aud we en- tave Que SIMPLE alphabet
taking The places ~ forty or more and
becoming available % he wri'tcn
language of 2J9,G COB, go people who
have no wr,ttou alphabet, because
they don't know just how to use one.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-02

Primes are very ancient aud were
grown ages ago ~ tho East. Eleven
varieties were t4pWn 10 ancient Hu-
man h0rticuiturists. and in the REGION
around Damaarls a vigorous and wild
variety thriycd that WAS much uscd ~
Z stoc, for GraEiing. AMI is 80 used 10
tbs day. FraDcc got the prune from
the Crusaders, and it, was first ca.!i-
waited near C,airAc BY the inmates OF u
convent. Some Of tao best and most
famous prancs are now grown IN tho
extensive French orchards. The prunes
Of commerce are ciassed by numbers,
No. /, the smallest, taking 80 To ~ to
the pound. the largest. ID to 81 30 the
pound i00d H3pSckcepin9.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-02
Something New ia Glass.

A new Persian industry i the manu-
facture of boar frost glass, which is Gov
cred with feathery patterns resembling
those naturally produced upon window
panes in cold weather. The glass is
first given "a ground surface, either by
the sand-blast or the ordinary method,
and is then coated with soft varnish.
The varnish contracts strongly in dry
ing, taking with j: the particles 81
glass t. which it adheres, and this pre-
duces very accurately the branching
crystal of frostwork. A singic co:h
gives "A delicate effect, and several
coats Weld n bold design.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-02

Douglas, the American statesman, was
no beauty, but he certainly had the al.
vantage of Lincoln in looks. Very tall
and awkward, with q face Of g~rotesque
|ugliness, he presented the strongest pos.
sible contrast to the thick-set, burly bust
and short lees Of the judge. They tell
this story Of Lincoln IN southern Illinois,
where he resided. Being out in the
woods bunting he fell in VIII q most
truculent looking hunter, who immedi
ately took a sight of him with his rifle
"Halloar' said Lincoln, what are you
going to do. stranger?" See here,
friend, the folks IN my settlement iodine
if | ever saw d man uglier than | was
then | must shoot him, and I've found
him at last" Well" said Lincoln, after
a good look al the man, shoot away, 70;
If ] am really uglier than you arc | don
want to live any longer. Toronto Mail
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-02

At Alton, H.. a dairyman reported
that in 1883 he fed 10 tons of ensilage,
the expense for which Gncluding cost Of
silo, filing, growing, etc was 81
cents per ton on which he fed twenty five
COWS for six months. IL was grown on
less than nine sores Of ground, the cost
Of The cow being less than 81 so, or 70
cents per month. Such a report places
ensilsge ut the front as an economical
food.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-02

Tho greyhound Happy Hlrnpdelle Il
thougbt % be the best dog seen IN England
since the memorable wonders Master MEG
and COOmaseto.