The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1860-11-29
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EE Dickens has produced SO success
sive works i'll twenty five years.
w Every argument in favor of liq-
uor drinking is like the liquor drinker
himselt-it falls to the ground.
Rain never falls in Peru. The
trade winds, blowing across Brazil
condense all their moisture upon the
Andes.
s5g- Every household has it's pet
names. Mr.Jones enchants his helpmat,
by calling her " his idol" Jones, how
ever, privately spells it idle.
AN ITEM-The sponges gathered at
Key West, Fla, last year, realized $72,-
1000.
We denominate this the original way
OF " sponging money"
LODGINGS TO BE LET. Passing along
the street few days ago, we observed
IN the window of a partly vacant house,
the following notice: "Thc upper
part of this house to let, containing three
rooms,a cellar, kitchen and back yard p
D3~ " DO you want to employ car.
penter? :" said Yankee mechanic to a
planter, whom he met on Mississippi
steamboat. "No," was the reply, :" ]
bought a couple of carpenters the other
day"
W Oliver W endell Holmes saws be-
lief depends in a great measure upon
what one eats-upon his digestion and
constitution. The faith of onion eaters,
hen, must be very strong.
saY Father went to the BARRIERS, and
had his whiskers taken of: Upon res
turning home to tea, he was met by his
little daughter, (three years old,) who,
running up to him, saik, Why, papa,
you don't lock alike ~
8s3y1 A year or two ago, Jon Butter,
worth, youth residing in Bedford Co.,
Va, found an old Englishman intoxica.
ted and freezing by the roadside, whom
he carried home and nursed until restor-
ed. The old man then went to Texas,
where MS died recently, leaving the
youth Butterworth an estate worth
100000.
A NUT FOR S. C The Post Office
receipts of South Carolina for the year
ending June 81, l $40 were $lO7, 536, 10:
expenditures $319,0OO,lO; excess of
expenditures over receipts, $2I1,53l,
Now the utter righteousness of seces>
sion on the part of South Carolina, is
manifested by the necessity of here re-
ceiving nearl y quarter Of million of
dollars from this government, every
year, for the transportation of her own
mail matter!
ES-The Fort WayneO ndiana) Times
says that most terrible tragedy occur
ed in that State, few days previous.
A woman, about to churn butter. threw
some boiling water into the churn, into
which her little girl had, unnoticed by
her mother, placed an infant, and it was
lnStantly Scalded to death. In her fren.
w, the mother seized chair and i. fiict-
ed death blow upon the little girl
After realizing what she had done, she
threw herself into the well, and was
drowned.
WARNING TO LADIES TRAVELLING
ALoNE.-A lady travelling without a
male companion, should be very careful
how she accepts favors or assistance
prottered by strange men. Even in
such common case as where the lady
has young children, it would be better
for her to request the conductor to as
sist her in changing cars, or to purchase
her tickets, than to accept the offers to
perform those services from man who
Is a total stranger to her, and who may
be one of the greatest scoundrels on the
face of the earth for all that she NAV
know to the contrary.
The FROG REMEDY FOR CoNsUMp.
TIoN.-A Teledo Ohio paper SAYS :
Some question has arisen aDoong our
exchanges as to the truth of the state.
ment that female OF this cityis In the
habit of swallowing six live frogs as a
remedy for consumption. We viii sim
ply state that there are at the present
time more than six ladies of this city
swallowing live frogs daily in hopes OF
permanent eradication of that disease,
ana II we may credit the statements OF
. our practising physicians, they are up
' per ten, too.
oNE SERMON A DAy.-Henry Ward
, Beecher well says -
: " Where one hears two sermons q
day, and, still more, where one beor'
; three, (which Is an abomination before
God and man Tor any man TO preach \
not much of either can be retained
think there is not more than one man il
= a thousand that is fit 10 preach NOR,
than once day, and / think there il
not one man in ten thousand that is fl
to hear more than one sermon a day
or that is fit for anything else after b,