Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1859-04-28
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III all Inc water OF lne Atlantlc were steamed
away, there would remain enough salt deposited
from 1t to cover an extent of Eseven millions Of
square miles one entire mile deep.
A law passed in Maine establishes the annual
salary of members of Legislature at SI50.-
They can sit twelve months if they please fer
this princely sum.
Gold having been found in the crop of de
funct turkey at Wesley, Arkansas, the neighbors
OF the man who found it ara killing their turkeys
and prospecting for gold.
A CAPTAIN of privateer, who had been in
an engagement, wrote TO his owners that he
had received but little damage-having only
one OF his hands wounded in the nose.
Education used to be regarded in its perfec-
ton as "a sound mind in a sUnnd BODY But
this eccentric notion prevailed before the mod.
ern times, which seek to develop prodigies and
precocious juveniles.
A lot OF negroes were baptized in the river at
Louisville Ky, on Sunday. One of the men
was 50 big and heavy, that as he went under he
drew the preacher down also. Not even the
reverence due to the occasion could restrain the
bystanoers from laughing at the scene. But
flesh is weak.
There are many people who falter and trcmbla
as long as there is any mixture of doubt in their
minds as to what they can or what they Dug bit
to do, but who, the moment that doubt ceases,
nave power and Will to dare anything.
A CERTAIN amount of experience is indispens-
able to success in any business. Half at least
of the successful merchants in the country have
Jailed once, and many of them two or three times.
Adversely has its uses; and the best philosophy
eXtant Is that which leads men to turn misfor-
tunes to profitable account
SOME sensible but saucy newspaper philoso-
pher gives the ancient and honorable order oil
grumbers smart slap. He says: Those people
who turn up their noses at the world, might do
well to reflect that it is as good world as they
ever were in, and much better one than they
are likely to get into again.
Eg FANNY FERN says, eff one halfof the
girls knew the previous life of the men they
marry, the list ofo!d maids wonld be wonderful.
ly increased"
The Boston Post asks:
1t the men knew, Fanny, what their future
lives were to be woulden't it increase the list OF
old MAIDS still further?''
ABOUT 1890 miners are at the Kansas gold
mines, but some 81 only are at work. Most OF
the party are engaged in building houses on the
various town sites. The Indians are gathering
in great numbers in the ncighborhoOd of the
settlements, and their presence excites appre-
tensions of trouble.
II was stated by Il leading dentist of CHICAGO
in recent address to his brethren, that the
amount of gold plate and leaf used in the United
States for the replacing and repair of defective
teeth was $2,250, 900. This is fact which at
tests the existence of a high civilization and a
good deal of toothache i'll this blessed land.
A young fellow writes from a U. S. vessel on
the coast of Brazil: Our principal sport is
shooting monkeys and alligators, and can tell
you, uncle Louis, that roast monkey or monkey
pot-pie is not such n bad dish after all When
a monkey roast comes on the table, whole, it
looks very much like cooked baby; but after
being in mau-of-war three months, we don't
mind trifies, and can enjoy everything and any.
thing"
Administrative Springfield Repub.
lican says that even in Massachusetts,
where the laws are supposed to be as
clear and CONSTANT as in any state, in
the attempt to enlarge the legal domain
of woman, the statutes are so fixed that
a wife is under no legal obligation to get
breakfast, sew on buttons, or nurse the
baby even, unless her husband pays he1
for it.
PoMPEY AND Observation-Disclosures,
said Pomp Flatfoot, learned darkey,
while conversing with another ''gem-
man of COLOR" sis herbacious, zoolog,
ical vegetable, what grows all under
the ground 'eept de top, and dat bears
a carniverous flower at de bottom
Potatoes is berry good billed, and den
dey am better roasted; but if you can
steal de lard, de best way Of all is to fry
him, bekase den de 'tatoe am meat,
drink and sleep" Such am de great
merits Of potatoes"
LONDON LANCET AND THE BEARD.-The
following singular letter appears in the London
Lancet
'As qualified surgeon, beg to appeal brief
ly to yourself and yeur readers against an extra
ordinary custom to which we Englishmen are
prone-viz.: that Of shaving. After residence
abroad, where of course, l allowed my beard to
grow as nature intended it, l returned to my
native land, and anxious to do in Rome as Re
mans do, at once had recourse to my long neglect
ed razor. A severe cough and continued neu
ra!gia have been the result. Smarting under an
anguish almost inTolerable, wish to know if any
OF your contributors can assign Il scientific o.
even plausible reason why the practice should
continue. 1t wa first adopted by the natior
under the reign OF the most licentious and effem
mate ct our kings. The beard has been worI
by poets, philosophers, and divines, (men o
whom the world WAS not worthy. 1t is NOR
than ordinarily required in variable climae
and have yet to learn valid reason for tn