The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-08-11
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WHY Is tradesman who keeps charging his
stock, like reptile? Because he is an adder
SINGULAR fact-that thief never hooks a
adys dress unless it is off her back.
THE best adhesive label you can put on lug
gage is to stick to it yourself.
"THERE is no place like home"-except the
home of the girl you after.
THE great art of life is to play for much, and
stake iittle-JOhnson.
A MAN who always minds his P's and Q's
may be said to be very P Q-liar man.
SUNS are the sunfowers of a higher light
Jean Paul Richter.
81 KNOW" said Tinsley, "water is fine
thing, but it is SO dreadful thin"
FEMININE PRovERB.-Love me, love my
crinoline
WHAT I must do is all that concerns me, mo-
what the people think.-EmersOn.
A NAVAL QUEsTIoN.-If boatswain mar
ries, does his wife become boatswain's mate I
THE most austere conduct does not save wo-
man from the attack of maignity. Mans opiu-
ion makes her reputation. -N'So".
THE man who builds house that he has not
The means to pay for, simply provides home to
run away from
TRUTH is the most powerful thing in the
world, since fiction can only please by resem-
blanee of it.
BEAUTIES, in vain, their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms like the sight; but merit wins the soul.
Pope
INSULTS are like counterfeit money; we can't
help them being offered, but we needn't take
them.
THE DIFFERENCE.-We praise men for fight
ing and punish children for doing the same
thing.
OUR passions are like convulsion- fits. which,
though they make us stronger for the time leave
us the weaker ever after.-Pope.
VoLTAIRE, on one occasion, when his friends
were Honversing on the antiquity of the world,
observed, 1.-THE world is like an old coquette
she DISCUSSES her age"
LORD Bacon beautifully said, "If man be
gracious to strangers,.i shows he is citizen of
the world. and that his heart is no island cut off
from the other lands, but continent that joins
them"
THE VALUE OF BIRDS AS WORM DESTRoYERS.
&C, NJ Clay calculates that the birds visiting
his 80 acres of fruit and pleasure grounds de.
stroy not leess than 25.45O 200, 600 caterpilers
and various insects in one year.
SOME one was telling an Irishman that some
body had eaten ten saucers Office cream; where
upon Pat shook his head, $50 you don't be-
ieve it 2" With shrewd nod Pat answered
Il believe in the cream, but not in the sau-
GERS"
AN old lady, meeting Cambridge man, asked
him how her nephew behaved himself. "Trulyi
madam" said he, ''he's brave fellow, and sticks
close to Catharine Hail." (name of a college
II vow,' said she, II feared as much he was
always hankering after the girls from bcy.'
eve indulge in no such horrid anticipa-
tions,' as the hen-pecked husband said when
the parson told him he would be joined to his
wife in another world, never more to be separa
ted from her.
"Parson, hope you will not mention the un
pleasant circumstance again"
RAISING BLACKBERRIEs..--The farmers o
Trimbell county. Kentucky, have recently taker
to cultivating blackberries. Their market il
Cincinnati. With scarcely any labor they fnt
that ground thus planted brings in larger in
come than the same space planted to wheat
when the latter crop brings ninety cents pc
bushel.
81 WISH was ghost, blamed if don't, y
said poor covey, the other night, as he was
soliloquizing in the cold :" They goes wher-
ever they please, toll free they don't owe no
body nothin, and that's comfort. Who ever
hearn tell of man who had bill agin ghostl
Nobody. They never buy hats and witals, mol
has to saw wood nor run arrants, as l do
AM melancholic when thou art absent, look
like an ass when thou art present,wake for the'
when should sleep and even dream of thee
when am awake; sigh much, drink little, ca
less court solitude, am grown very entertaining
to myself, and, as I am informed, very trouble
some to everybody else. If this be not love, /
is madness, and then it ia pardonable. "A Loc
letter of COngreUe's.
| A CONTINGENT REQUEST. "A. Walworth, {
wealthy planter from Arkansas, who is one o
the old haJibue's of Saratoga, has made will il
which he bequeaths $50,00D to the State of New
York, towards founding a hospital for the blind
if the State should refuse to accept it, it is to G.
20 the State of Michigan, and if not accepted b.
Michigan, it is to go to Ohio. Mr.. Walworth i
hi mself blind.
WHAT WE EAT.-A man in active life require
Sc ounces of solid food per day-say9 ounces
of animal and 81 ounces of vegetable-accord
70 established scales of diet in the English and
French army and navy regulations. Of foot
nd drink. a man will consume about ,50t
mounds year. Of course. many persons con
sumo much more food, but this is the averag'
estimate
THE GIFT OF ToNGUEs.-Judge Edmonds
writes long letter to the N. Y. Tribune, il
which he mentions twelve in stances OF persons
under spiritual influence being enabled to speal
Auently languages of which they were before
entirely lgnorant-among these his own daugh
ter, who knows only English and French, ha'
spoken in French, Greek. Latin, Italian For
+uonese. Polish, Hungarian and several dislect
Of the Indian, and they sometimes did not an
} darstand what she said, though it was UNDER
stood by the auditor to whom it was address
ed.