Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1846-08-11
mol prevent the appointment of a commit.
tee OF ladies' TO call and examine Mrs. Van
Volkenburg's jaw.

PENMANsHIP.-A scrawl is the perfec-
ton OF modern penmanship, upon which
many ind viduals value themselves
Speech, Ialieyrand remarks, was given 10
mar TO conceal his thoughts, plain and
honest man would have said that it was
rather given 10 express thought. So with
letter or business writing. 1t seems, in
the philosophy of some, that writing was
invented 10 puzzle readers more than any
thing else.
! know an eminint physician in Phila-
delphia, who was notorious in this respect,
On certain occasion, having an unu
suaily bad pen, he wrote recipe which
was taken 10 the apothecary who usually
lie up his prescriptions; which the boy
to whom ii was handed could not, with all
his eilolts, decipher. He gave it 10 his
| principal, who was also at fault. The
messenger was sent back to the physician
who wrote it, The whole case had pass.
ed out of his mind, and after repeated scru-
Tiny, he was obliged TO confess that he
could not read it. In this dilemma he in.
CURED into the case of the invalid, and as
soon as he could identify tho man and his
Sickness, the prescription became perfectly
!egible, and being read off TO the messenger
and by the messenger TO the apothecarv,
the patient got his medicine.
An anecdote somewhat similar is told
OF our fellow citizen, Mr.. Longworlh.-
He wrote an order for his carpenter to se,
supply of shins les, who sent it by dray
to the lumberyard. The lumber merchan n,
failed TO decipher it, and inquired of the
draymau what the order was for, and who
sent it. The drayman knew who had
written II, but had not been told what il
called tor. In this difficulty the drayman
returned TO Longworth, and said that they
could not read the order at the boardyard,
and asked him what he wanted to get. Mr..
l.. put on his spectacles and pored it over
very lliberately, but with equal i'll sue.
cess. odd write lhis?" at last he inou,r.
ed of the drayman. 81 suppose so." was
the reply, ''ior you handed ii to me p
"Well." said he, 81 doubt it. can't read
word of it at any rate. DON'T you know
what il is for?" The drayman answered
OF course, "No," and it was not ill the
carpenter came home TO dinner ard enouis
ed for the shingles, tina, MIR. Longwor;f
was able to ascertain the purport of the or
der. Pulling it out of his pocket.book ane
re-perusing it, ''thc man," said he, "doesn'
know how TO read-fve thousand single:
its as plain as words can make it.''
Justice Baldwin, of the United States
Supreme Court, was another indivdua
Of this class Of writer's. During the ag,a
ton of the Tariff question in 1916, he wa
member OF Congress from The Alcghan,
and Butler District in Pennsylvania, ant
generally wrote home TO his consituenc,
at Pittsburgh twice week, to advise it
progress. When letter of this kind cam,
general gathering was held of his init
mates, each being expected 10 contribute
share 10 the deciphering Having offer
Witnessed this, | can safely aver that
never heard a letter from him read through
short Of the labors Of five individuals a
the least TCfst's Gin. Adv.