The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-04-23


For a dead opportunity there is no r~esurrec-
ton.
The things that are really for us, naturally
gravitate to us.
Submission to unnecessary evils is coward
ice or laziness.
A noble thought, embodied in fit words,
walks the earth a living being.
The most important trust which God has
given to any one is himself.
The head of a pure old man, like a noun
tain-top, whitens as it gets nearer to heaven.
The coquette pursues her lover, and makes
him think he is pursuing her
Takers will refrain from evil speaking
when listeners refrain from evil hearing.
1t is very unskiIlful fattery to tell a man
that he isn't half so big a fool as the world
thinks him.
When we say of some men that they are
self-made, we do SO out Of respect to our Ma
ker.
To some natures all feeling is passion, and
gratitude the greatest.
The poor are ofetner prayed for than helped.
The reason is, we believe, that air is cheaper
than bullion.
He who asked the daughters hand and
got the fathers foot, had the consolation OF
knowing that his wooing was not bootless.
Some of the young women may think sin
ole-blessedness an excellent thing, but most
Of them know a game worth two OF that.
Somebody CURLY says that advertising for
a wife is Just as absurd as 1T would be to get
measured fol an umbrella!
All excitement declares itself outwardly,
and subsidies enthusiasm declares itself IN
wardly and endures.
Some philanthropists are so bitterly fanati-
cal against hanging that they would glbeet
all who are in favor Of it.
We have seen a couple Of sisters who had
to be told everything together, for they were
so much alike they couldn't be told apart.
y The belIman of Watertown, in announcing
a temperance meeting, said it would be ad-
dressed by six women who had never spoken
before"
A man cannot burrow in his counting room
for ten or twenty of the best years OF hts LIE,
and come out as much ola man and as little OF
a mole as when he went in.
Tom Hood speaks of a bird building its
nest upon a ledge over the door OF a doctors
Office, as an attempt to rear its young nthe
very jaws of death.
Many persons think themselves perfectly
virtuous because, being well fed, they have
no temptation to vice. They don't distinguish
between vice and ~victuals.
1t has been suggested by a crnsty ola bach-
elor, that the talk of cotton famine Is sheer
nonsense, for if the women would but unDos-
ON themselves, there would be no scarcity
Persons often lack courage to appear az
rood as tbey really are, but-says the sage
| Norford. doubtless speaking from his own ex-
perie,lce-there have been some marked cases
ii the very opposite.
The earth is a great factory wheel which,
1T every revolution on its axis, receives ninty
thousand raw souls, and turns OH nearly the
same number worked up more or less CON-
pletely.
There ism use in suffering, if you can hep
if: a good, stout, ~resolute protest would often
he a good deal more wise, and Christian,an
| beneficial, than SO much patient endurance.
1t is not to be supposed that the devil would
give half as much for the services OF a sinner
az he would for those of one Of the folks thai
are always doing victorious acts IN a way 70
make them unpleasing.
The gentleman who returned his neigh-
boris borrowed umbrella was seen aoay or
two ago, walking in company "ltn d youno
| ladv Who passed a looking glass WITHOUT Tax
inc a peep. 1t is believed they are gag
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