The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-06-11

A man who only does his work by halves
THE oyster-opeuer
Philadelphia receives $780, 900 per annum
for water rents
1t is said that with Yankee, every day is
day Of reckoning"
Error loves to walk arm in arm with truth.
to make itself thought respectable.
Faith, like a feather-bed is generally i'm
proved by an occasional shaking up.
Heaven could execute its purpose Just as
well without great men as without little
ones.
The sound of kiss is not so loud as a can
non, but its echo often lasts much lon
ger
Rich men place their own busts in their
halls, but put the statues Of the gods ont in
their yards.
Many women think of nothing but dress
! To them the horizon is but the blue crino-
line ofcreation.
The worlds experience breaches in vain,
every man thinks himself an exception to all
general rules.
He who reforms himself has done more to-
wards reforming the public than crowd of
noisy patriots.
a Philadelphia editor affirms that the po-
etical age of woman is thirty, when they be-
gin to love conscientiously.
Fashionable society has generally two faults
first in being low-headed, and second in
being hollow-hearted.
"a little nonsense now and then,
Is relished by the wisest men,"
Reformation is the guard preventive of rev.
olution.
Faith is great lady, and good works are
her attendants.
Pride would never owe, and self-love would
never pay.
The sitting of congress is often as fruitIess
as the sitting of hen on chalk eggs.
"Whose son are you, my little boy?" Il
amt anybodys son; FIN Mr.. Thompsons
nephew, sir"
If husband and wife are fast couple, there
is danger in their case, as in that OF a fast
team that the coupling will break
"a say, Bill, where am de best trout fishing
in the United States ?" 'Gubs um mp" ''In
de acGteT, to be sure"
A Dutchman was summoned in court to
identify a stolen hog. On being asked if the
hog had any ear marks, he replied: ''The only
car-mark dat saw vas his tail was cut off. "
The letters that spell debt are the initials
of the sentence, ''Dun Every Body Twice );
and the letters that spell credit are the initials
Of the sentence, Call Regularly Every Day
I'll trust"
A laundress advertising in New York
paper for situation, exacts the highest re-
spectability from any who wish to employ
her-''to save trouble none but the highes
families need apply"
How that pretty little Spanish French En-
press filings the money about. The last ex-
travagauce we read Of is the bestowal o
Ia jewelled mitre of great and costly spIendor
upon the new Archbishop of Paris.
marriage notice appears in an exchange
in which the happy pair are unusually explicit
in stating their position. They say ''No
cards, no receptions no wedding tour" 1t il
well to let folks know about such things.
Mr. Gavin GaskiIl, of West Glouceste
(Mass. has son five years of age, VIII,
weighs one hundred and twenty-five pounds
He enjoys excellent health, and bids fair t.
eclipse Daniel Lambert in size, should he at
| tain manhood
The ambition to be witty sometimes over
+ comes even youths filial affections. 'Johl
said fathev to his son, on the day he wa
twenty-one, you have got fool for you
master now" YES, said John, land hav
had these twenty years.