The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1860-12-20
WHAT NOT
Yours truly,
G r d


owe 1t to ourselves not to forget.
Read not books alone, but men; and, chiefly,
be careful to read myself.
Always be quite as careful in your business
transactions of taking credit as of giving it.
Ifa ship is of the feminine gender, why are
not fighting vessels called women-of-war, in
stead of men-of-war
The love of pleasure betrays us into pain; and
many man, through love of fame, becomes
infamous.
Good men have the fewest fears He has but
one who fears to do wrong. He has a thousand
who has overcome that one,
Men of the noblest dispositions think them
selves happiest when others share their happi-
ness with them.
distinction is an eminence which is attained
but too often at the expense of a freside.
People would rather pardon the defects YOU
have, than the affectation of virtues you have
not.
FEMININE HEADACHE-A fictitious disease
,by-&hich women seek to conceal their heart
ache.
The greatest coward may avoid shaking in
his shoes by wearing boots or going barefooted.
More than thousand years ago the Chinese
built suspension bridges of more than four
hundred feet span
Rhyming lovers generally WOO their sweet>
hearts in such wGetched verse that it is no
wonder so many of them are Tilted.
1t was wittiIy, but sometimes ungaantly, said
that woman is the very reverse Of her mirror
the one reflects without talking, the other
talks without rejecting.
EB An orchard of 800 acres, at Marysville
CAL which yielded one hundred and TWEEN 4,
ty-tour thousand dollars worth of fruit, this
season is u p for rattle at $6Cc, COO
Laziness begins in cobwebs and ends in iron
| chains. 1t creeps over man so slowly and
limperceptibly, that he is bound tight before he
knows il.
No doctrine is worth anything that does not
| cave behind it an ethereal furrow, ready for
the planting of seeds which shall spring up an
bear abundant harvest.
| Some sensible chap says, truly, that person
who undertakes to raise himself by scaadalizing
others, might just as we'll sit down on a wheel
barrow and undertake to wheel himself.
| A wag, on being asked what he had for din
ner, replied, :" A lean wife and the ruin of man
for sauce" His dinner consisted of a spare rib
of pork and apple sauce.
"Will you marry me miss ?" "sir YOU
know very well have often declared would
never marry" "Oh yes if l hadn't known it
l shouldn't have asked YOU
A fellow has been collecting money of the
verdant in Michigan by pretending to be the
son of the first Napoleon. He gratefully raised
one of the men whom he duped to the dignity
of an archduke,
Garibaldi has decreed the adoption of the
decimal system for the coinage of Sicily The
new pieces bear the head of his Sandman mai
esty with the legend, Victor Emanuel, Kin Q
of Italy.
A guest at the Duke of Wellington's table
blurted out the question, Pray, Duke. were
you surprised at Waterloo ?" With what a
neat and easy turn of the wrist he ran the un-
happy man through, No, but l am now"
| farmer who occasionally accommodated a
neighbor with fitch of bacon at the killing
season, being applied to as usual replied :" I
hanna yet made up my mind whether / shall
kill myself this year, or take a side of my faith
err"
Ola truth, home wi thout girl is only hal
blest it is orchard without blossoms, a
spring without song. A house full of sons is
like Lebanon with its cedars, but daughters by
the hreslde are like roses in Sharon.
! In Norway, eagles destroy oxen by the fol.
| lowing continuance They dive into the sea.
and then roll themselves in the sand, and after
wards, b. tapping their wings and by shaking
their feathers into the eyes of an OK, they blind
1t and overcome it.
Flame is one of the most beautiful things in
the world. Not sunset sky in summer, not a
| full blown trOpic flower IL more brilliant than
flame; flame is the flower of fire. The ivy has
no splendor like the mantling fame it reddeus
like the thyrsus Of the gods.
clear stream reflects all objects that are up
on its shore, but is unsulied by them; so should
it be with our hearts; they should show the
effect OF all other objects, and yet remain I'M
harmed by any.
| Were we to ask hundred men who. from
small beginnings have attained condition of
responsibility and influence, to what they impu-
ted their success in life, the general answer
would be. . 1t was from being early compelled
to think for and depend on ourselves"
young lady who was employed in braidine
guard chain for gentleman's watch, was
asked what 1t was for. g A bell rope SIR" re
piled she | acknowledge it is belle rope,
replied he, 4" and pretty one too out l sus
pect We sh all find beau attached to it when i,
is finished"
A country apothecary mot little distinguish
ed tor his impudence, with the hope of discon-
cerung young clergyman, whom he knew to
be man OF singular modesty, asked him in the
hearing OF large company, Why the patti.
: archs OF old lived to such extreme old age Pr
To which the Clergyman replied, II suppose
the ancient patrlachs took no physic."
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