The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-12-05
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What tribe of Indians could obtain LOAF
with the most ease Pawn ees.
youths love is more passonate-a virgin
! love more virtuous.
Very few persons have sense enough to des
pse the praise of a fool.
Somebody says that every cord of wood giver
to the poor is recorded above.
If you do good, forget; if evil, remember ant
repent oft.
The most mischevous liars are those who
keep just on the verge of truth.
! Follow the fashion you had better display
other peoples follies than your own.
Those who heed not God, s writ are often fore
ed to heed the sheritf's.
Women never truly command till they have
! given their promises to obey.
The wise man justly regards goodness as some
thing to be attained.
What burthen is leisure to mind unpre-
pared fol its enjoyment.
Live down calumny the best reply to SIAN
derous reports is good life
In the end all men find the devil work the
hardest they ever undertook.
An angry woman, like an angry snake, makes
terrible exhibition of tongue.
Some people are so obtuse that one would
hardly think they could have an accute disease.
He who knows his ignorance is the possessoI
of the rarest kind Of valuable knowledge.
1t is not likely that tomorrow will prove a
more convenient season for your reformation
tt an to-day. Reform noac
The superficial must converse with others,
but the wise can, in addition converse also
with themselves
What it takes to Put Down the Rebellion
Plenty of bullion, and we must put good face
upon it.
Mrs. Darlington says that there is not enough
of the spirit of '76 in the South to fill fluid
lamp.
Why do our soldiers need no BARRIERS? Be
cause they are regularly shaved by the Govern
ment contractors.
They pass best over the world, said Queen
Elizabeth, "who pass over it quickly for it is
but bog-If we stop we sink.
endship-Prosperity is no just scale; ad-
Versity is the only balance TO weigh friends in.
-Plutaich
Chiidren-The smallest are nearest God, as
the smallest stars are nearest the sun.-Wdit,
a German poet
Vanity-The vanity of human life is like a
river, constantly passing away land yet constant
ly coming on--Dcan Saolt.
Eorgivness, the noblest of all self-denial, is a
virtue, which he alsne who can practice in him
self can willingly believe in another.
1t is curious to note the old sea margins OF
human thought Each subsidng century yields
some new mystery; we build where monsters
used to hide themselves.
People who are always talking sentiment,
have usually no very deep feelings. The less
water you have in your kettle, the sooner it be-
gins to make noise and smoke.
Learn in childhood, ifyou can, that happiness
is not outside, but inside. good heart and a
clear conscience bring happiness, which no rich
es and no circums tances alone ever do.
Man--Man is a glorious poem; each life a
canto, each day line. The melody plays feeb-
ly at first upon the trembling chords of his little
heart, but with time gains power and beauty as
it sweeps onward, until at last the final notes
die away, far above the world amidst the mel
OQleS OF heaven. -G0ethe.
Education-What sculpture is to block OF
marble, education is to human soul, the phil.
osopher, the saint and the hero the wise, the
good, or the great man, very often lie hid and
concealed in pleban, which proper educa-
ton might have desinterred and have brought
to light.-Spectator.
| The same object, seen from three different
points of yiew--the Past, the Present, and the
Futnre-often exhibits three different faces to
US like those sign-boards over shopdoors which
represent the face of lion as we approach, Of
a man when We are in front, and of an ass when
We have passed.
He who is open, without levity; generous
without waste; secret, without craft humble
without meanness; bold without insolence
cautious, without anxiety regular, yet not for
NAL; mild, yet not timid Grm, yet not tyran.
nica lis made to ~pass the ordeal of honor
friendship, VIRTUE.
Leisure HOurs-There is room enough il
human life to crowd almost every art and science
in it. If we pass to-day without a line-visi
no place without the company of bock-we
may with ease fill libraries, or empty them o
their contents. The more We DO, the more W,
can do the more busy We are, the more leisure
we have.-HazLiH.
w are 100 apt TO forget our actual depend
ance on Providence, for the circumstances o
every. instant. The most trivial events may de
termine our state in the world Turning up on,
street instead Of another. may bling us int
company with a person whom we should no
otherwise have met and this may lead to
train of other events, which may determine til,
lhsppinesS or misery of our lives
Whatever definitions men have given of re
hgion, / can ind none so accurately DESCRIPTIVE
OF it as this-that it is such belief of the Bib
as maintains a living influence on the heart
Men mag speculate, criticise. admire DISPUTE
about, doubt or believe the Bible but the re
ligous man is such because he so believed it, a
to carry habitually practical sense of its truth
on his mind.
1here is not a nobler sight in the world thai
an aged and experienced Christian, who, hav
ing eeen sifted in the sieve of temptation
Stands forth as confrmer ofthe assaulted
tesutying, from his own trials the reality of re
ilglon; and meeting, by his warnings and di
rectlons and consultations, the eases Of all wLc
may be tempted to douht it.