The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-06-27
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The Golden Mean-Misers.

The Golden Mean-ATisers.
hunter bags his game; a airt sacks hers.
Be sharp if you please, but never become a
sharper.
Cover fool with gold, and he will pass cur
rent
The editor keeps the worlds day book: the
| historian keeps the ledger.
There Is no such thing as an easy chair for
disconnected man,
Nature has granted to all to be happy if we
did but know how to use her benefits.
Ink is a caustic which burns oftenest the
fingers OF those who use il.
To be angry, is to ayengo the faults of others
upon ourselves.
Domestic Cann:bals-Back-biters
Every act is best taught by example good
deeds produce good friends.
He who feels his own deficiencies will be
charitable man for his own sake.
No maiden ever unlocked her heart TO q low
er, but KISS was the first prisoner 10 fly out.
Surely we may be excused for occasional
freaks, when Nature herself is full of them.
Artists may not be guilty Of direct falsehoods,
but they generally give things a color.
Any merchant may make his house custom
h0HSe by attention to its dutjeS
Some minds will always be slow till you cut
them to the quick.
Worth Having "A still tongue in a backbi-
ting company.
The Right spirit--To be abused and not lose
| your temper
The bread Of life is love; the salt of life is
work; the sweetness Of life, poetry; the water
of life, faith.
Fun is worth more than physic; and whoev-
er discovers new supply, deserves the name of
a public bcnaactor.
They who walk on the heads of the multitude
walk insecurity. Mems heads are dangerous
footing
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, aud
may pass upon weak men, Just as pertne8s is
often mistaken tor wit, and gravity for wisdom.
Censure is most etfectual when mixed with
praise. So when fault is discovered it is well
to look up virtue to bear it company.
Good temper is like sunny day, it sheds a
Brightness over everything, it is the sweetener
OF toll and the sootber OF di>quietude.
1t IS little troubles that wear the heart out
1t IS easier to throw a bomb-shelI a mile than a
teatheF--even with artillery
Why are ladies' like bells because you can
never find out their metGJ until you have given
them ring.
An Irish loverremarked that it a great plea
sure to be left alone, especially when your
''swateheart is wild Ye."
There is firm in Elgin, ILL.,, known as Gray
q Lunt'" Half the letters come directed to
Lay & Grunt."
Even if a woman had as many locks upon her
heart as she has upon her head "a canning rogue
would find his way into it.
Prehaps, afte. all, the husst philanthropists
the dearest lovers Of race, are the fleas, mos
quitoes, and South Sea cannlbals.
Loves sweetest meanings are unspoken.
The full heart knows no rhetoric OF words; il
resorts 10 the pantomlme Of sighs and glances.
Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy
An interruption breaks it; nothing is so DOW.
etful' even to the overturning Of mighty en-
pires, when it reaches maturity.
The best government is that which teache.
a man to govern himself; the next best, that
which teaches him how to govern his family
the third, that which teaches him to govern .
community.
There are four things that look very awk
ward in woman to see her undertake to
WHISTLE; to throw stone at hog to smoke
cigar, and to climb over garden fence.
a contemporary says that some miners have
found silver on one Of the slopes OF Mount Par
naSsus They are more successful than most O
the poets have been.
In most quarrels, there is fault on both sides
Both hint and STEEL are necessary TO the produc
'lon OF spark; either Of them may hamme
On WOOD for ever, and no fire will follow
Dr. Holmes tells of "Inen SO utterly mean
Inat II the archaugel should offer to save thei
sous Tor a sixpence, they would give sixpenc,
$ with hole Until"
The less man knows, the wider he wear
ms mouth open 1t is as impossible for foo
70 hegp ms Jaws smut as it is for an oyster Il
keep his she'll closed.
! Don't imagine girls lips all sweetness be
cause they happen to look so. The mind YER
often aosorbs the sweetness of a fair mouth
just as the sun withers the lily.
v 1t is bad sign to see a man av into mas
sion over simple joke. 1t looks very muc
ed of,
When you see girl with clear, sunny brow
!. SOFT souI,lit eyes; lips that pant not save
breathe charity and love; form whose face
m1odesty' then you may safely conclude tbs
sue VIII make good wife for a good man.
:. Mnen You see man making great sho
s. OF his money, you can. with much safsrv %,
clude that what he shows is all he possesses.
tnat ne Is either COMMUNICATION a nil rohha