The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-06-25
Afectionately.
NJ, A. b.
gtenas.

IN this world full often our joys are only
the tender shadows which our sorrow cast.
Great powers and natural gifts do not bring
privileges to tier possessors SO much as they
bring duties.
Good nature, like bee, collects its honey
from every herb Ill nature, like spider,
sucks poison from the sweetest flower.
Nineteen thousand widows have applied for
pensions at Washington. Their husbands
have been killed in the civil war.
The amount of postal currency in circula-
ton is stated At fifteen million dollars. This
issue is to be called in, and it's place supplied
by new one.
The true motives of our actions, like the
real pipes Of an organ, are usually concealed.
But the gilded and hollow pretext spompous-
ly placed in the front for show.
A Boston merchant has started West III
pursuit Of a runaway wife, who eloped with
his book-keeper., carrying off $4,000. The
money is worth chasing but we doubt if the
wife is.
The oldest newspaper in the world is pub
lished in Pekin. 1t is printed on large sheet
OF silk, and, it is said, has made a weekly APP
pearance for upwards Of thousand years
Man is inclined to thank God for an out
ward and tangible piece of good fortune
But slow is he to be grateful for holy, beauti-
full feelings which rise in his soul, a benefit to
his inllermost life, which comes not less from
the Father Of light than do Objectionable bles-
sings.
Eg- A private in one of the regiments at
Salamanca cried out during the hottest part
of the action Och, murder, Pm kilt entire
ly :" Are you wounded ?" inquired an Off
Ger near him. ''Wounded,i is it, your honor ?"
replied the gallant Emeralder, ''by jabers, I'm
worse than kilt out and out; wasn't | wait
ing for the last quarter Of an hour for a pull
at Jim Murphy's pipe, and there now, it's
shot out Of his mouth"
GE Do you not see that never any man
made his own cunning and practice his foun-
dation, but lie overbult himself and in the
end made his house windfall lord b.
con.
| cannot call riches better than the baggage
of virtue.--Ijid
Great riches have sod more men than they
have bought out.-Ibjd,
Seek not proud riches but such as thou
mayst get justly, use soberly, distribute cheer
fully, and leave contentedly.-Lbjd.
We are not sent into life as a butterfly is
sent into summer gorgeously lowering over
the flowers, but to laapr for the worlds ad
vancement, but so through toll and achieve
ment to gain happiness lwould rather break
stones upon the road if it were not for the dis
grace Of being in a chain-gang, than to be one
of those contemplate ijoy-mongers, who are
so rich and so empty that they are continually
going about to find something to make them
h0fPy.
Why is delirium trelnens like pinching
boot?-Because it's tight fit.
An arch girl should always be an archer,
for she can bend her beau as she pleases.
Why is hungry boy, looking at pie, like
the president Because he desires a peace.
Why is lovely young lady like hinge
BECAUSE she is something to adore.
A man who marries the lady he adores is
| 'ioned to his idol"
Don't take too much interest in the affairs
of your neighbors. Six per cent will do.
A FLUSH of hope renders toll and trials beau
tiful, and the sunbeam gives a sparkle to the
winters frost.
! The Lady whose heart swelled with indig-
nation, has had it reduced with poultices.
Why is washerwoman the most cruel
! person in the world Because she daily rings
mems bosoms.
Mrs Darlington considers that washer
women are particularly silly people to at
tempt to catch soft water when it rains hard
There is a family in Vermont so lazy that
1 it takes two of them to chop off a stick Of
wood Siah chops while jim grunts, and
then for change Jim grunts and SiaE
chops
I'm like Balam, said dandy, on meet
ing a pretty girl in narrow passage, stopped
/ by an angel" ':And am ike the angel,
said she, stopped by an ass"
What is the difference between a mischiev
Gus mouse and beautiful young lady p
One harms the cheese, and the other charms
the he's.
\ YOUNG Copperhead attending school II
Boston, who interlarded into National song
which the children wer singing, the words
/ ''Jetf Davis is our leader" was suddenly
seized by the collar by Miss. H., the teacher
and taken across her knee, and the incipieni
treason spanked out of him. Miss IL. is {
spirited girl, and deserves some gallant sol
dior for a husband -(lb0rLest05ryj- 4lrfgSfiSeF