The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-07-09
Mu.uuItO Experience.

MusquftO Experience ..--. 4.
The day has been too hot The night Is
lsultry. You are nervous and restless. NO
place 80 good az the bed, and to the chamber
YOU repair, hoping soon to lose all remen-
brance of your cares and troubles in sleep
The light is extinguished, and you resign your
self to the pleasing sensations of approaching
rest When 10 o thin, piercing sound salutes
Won! 1t needs no Interpretation. 1t is mus
onto come a serenading. Is there any trum-
net that can wake anervous man more quick
Ifv or more entirelyH Every sense is attent.
Now the sound comes near, now recedes, now
is lost. It soon comes again, and watching
your opportunity, you give yourself broad
Sian upon the face, hoping that musquito
shared it with you! Fora moment ne seeIns
dead. You experience minute satisfaction
of petty revenge. But soon the inevitable
sound comes again, but with hlther ana
thither motion. You are acutely attentive
This time, to make sure, your hand 10 dlsen-
gagged, and lies outside of the coverlet, ready
for surprising blow. He alghts. You zeal
his delicate touch upon your forehead. Ouics-
er than winking, your hand follows INN wlth.
srch a slap as makes the room echo. But be
| Is onicler than YOU are, and BESIDES sees iB
darkness much better. He is off like sprite
and sings and pipes in distant corner. By
this time YOU are quite excited---you discourse:
"The thief (some men put naughty adjectives
before the noun, if he would hold his peace and
come and eat his fill, and be off, heshould be
welcome.
| But the intolerable piping is worse than
surgeons lancet Suppose, my friend, that you
should get up, light the gas hunt for him!
You had better close the blinds for, however
suitable your condition may be in itself con-
sidered, yet if seen fromIA neighbours window
a night-capped man in search of mosquito,
at twelve at night, en- diShGbiLte, must subject
himself to some ridicule. There, now, return
to your work. You cannot find him. After
all perhaps, that last slap did the business
for him. 1t certainly did for you. See how
red your much abused face ID Why not let
him take little blood out of it It would be
improved.
The hero returns to his couch, and the tiny
foe returns to the hero. Again the horn
sounds and again he strikes out at him, and
again misses At length, tired out the VIC
tim falls asleep. The little trumpeter draws
near and sounds challenge. he circuits all
about and sings every note in his serenade.
At length he alights upon chosen spot, and
having satisfied his hunger, retires to some
dark corner, overswollen, to collapse apd
die.
All this would not be worth telling but for
its application. see on every hand, men
engaged in beating themselves ON account of
fears, cares and petty annoyances.
The mother sits by her child slightly ILL.,
She imaginss all possible evils-she torments
herself for hours and days at possible but i'm
probable results. 1t is a mosquito game
The real evil is petty, and if quietly taken
&c ;4oalf Rt,f che ,1nI1of
punish herself by every ingenious magma
ton. Love has its mosquitoes. How many
sounds does jealousy hear. How many breads
does anxious love breed. How many
''what ifs.
Much of the anxiety of business rs mere
mosquito hunting. When see man pale
and anxious, not for what has happened, but
for what may happen say, ''Strike your
own face; do it again and keep doing 1t, for
there is nothing else to hit"
Everybody has his own mosquitoes, that
fly by night and bite by day. There are few
men of nerves firm enough, to calmly let them
bite Most men insist upon hagellating
themselves for the sake of not hitting their
troubles.
Henry Ward Beechers 'Eyes and Ears."l
Putting the screws TO COpPerheRd.
The Chester (Pa.) Republican gives the fol-
lowing, which probably narrates fact:
SoENE-A machine shop in philadelphia, say
in Quarry street. Enter opperheGd-L0y-
al Quaker at the desk in coUntiag-room.
CopPERHEAD-'Do you keep screws here
large enough to be used in removing build
ings?"
LOYAL QUAKER-'Yes, friend, manufac-
ture them. Fine morning this. l find good
news in the paper to-day from POIice-cFcer
Grant before Vicksburg. Hast thou read the
morning Press 2"
c. looking pretty mad -"No, l don't read
the Press"
L. Dwell, now, it is very clearly
printed newspaper-very reliable-and friend
Forney we think most excellent editor"
C-"How do you sell your big screws
let me see one of them-square thread want"
L. Q-"Where does thee live, friend?'
CO live in West Chester
L. Q.-"Very loyal good people up there.
Does thee follow the business of removing
buildings in West CHESTER"
C-"Yes; | keep steam saw-mill, and al
SO remove buildings when called on"
L. Q-'Dont thee think we shall pretty
soon get big ScreW under this rebellion, and
pull it from it's foundation as thee pulls one
of the buildings the removes?"
CT don't believe the South can be whip
ed. They are strongly fortified, and Jeff. Da-
Wis is one of the smartest men in this country.
| am for the Union as it was and the Consti-
tuition as it r!
L. Q-'Friend, believe thee to be a Cop
perhead!"
CT am Democrat-don't know what
you mean by Copperhead !"
l.. Q.-"Does thee support the Government
in its efforts to put down the rebellion?"
CT am for the Government, but oppos-
ed to Abe Lincoln and all his Abolition par
ty."
L. Q.-''Now friend, thee is certainly
Copperhead."
C.-"Well, want to buy big screw"
L. Ge.--t'Tl1aa can't I,,s' :. big screw in this
house. Thou art an unmitigated Copperhead.
Thee art an offence to me. Thou must take
thy frame out of this Office, or / will put the
screws to thee and hoist thee higher than
kite. | sell nothing to a traitor to his coun-
try, and thee must go elsewhere to buy thy
SCREWS
EGjt Copperhead.1
The PACIFIC ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS has
been received from Kansas to the effect that
the first forty miles Of the great Pacific Rail
way will be completed during the present
year. 1t commences at the mouth ofthe Kan
sas Or Kaw River, and follows the valley Of
that stream. Four hundred miles of the lins
are under contract, and the work will be push
ed rapidly forward. The Pacific Railway Of
Missouri proposes to extend its line SO as to
connect with the eastern terminous of the
great national highway.
NEW YORK, June 80.
A rumor is very prevalent that Gen. Hal
leck has been removed and Mcclellan appoint
ed his successor.
A dispatch dated Fort Washington, ON the
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