The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-08-22
More anon,
Poor Practices.

Cosmos" who edits the rural column of
the Saturday EUening Post, thus enumerates a
list OF pretty poor practices:
1t is pretty poor practice for farmer to dig
and delve, tug and grub and clear up fifty
acres OF land, at cost of 81, 900, and then in
the third year surrender about fifth of it to
the briars, brambles and ox-eye daisies.
Poor practice to half manure, half plough,
half seed and half cultivate field, and then
harvest less than half a crop.
To keep two inferior, scranny, scrub COWS
for dairy purposes, that give less milk than
one good one, and consume more food than
three.
To purchase in town five hundred loads of
livery stable manure, and suffer six hundred
of better homemade manure to run to waste.
To attempt to fatten three hogs into twelve
hundred pounds of pork on just as much feed
as would keep two nicely growing.
To estimate agricultural fairs as arrant hum
bugs, and spend three days every month sa-
wing the country at political meetings.
To depend upon borrowing your neighbors'
rakes, mowers and all sorts of implements
in haying and harvest time.
To house up thousand bushels of grain,
waiting for q rise, till one-tenth has gone to
feed rats and mice, and the remainder smells
like the essence of rat, and the price is down
40 per cent.
To plant out an orchard of choice fruit trees,
with.a first thought of money making, and
leave them to do or die.
To keep two fancy $500 carriage horses, and
pay six dollars day for team to plough
It is positively poor practice to call "book
| larnin" all bosh, to ignore news and agricul-
| tural papers, and attempt to keep up an even
| yoke with your progressive neighbors by main
strength and stupidness.
A'young lady, engaged to be married, and
getting sick of the bargain, applied to friend
to help her unite the knot before it was too
| late.
ooh, certainly" he replied; at is very easy
| to unite it now, while it is beau knot
| The duke de Require was one day told that
two ladies of the court had quarrelled and
very much abused each other.
"Have they called each other ugly?' he
asked
''No."
every WE'LL" said he, 81 can reconcile
them"
| MULTUM IN PARvo.-They have little
town ''out West" which appears to have
been overlooked by Dickens and other English
travellers, and which sis all sorts of stirring
place.
On one day recently they had two street
fights, hung a man, rode three men out OF
town on a rail got up q quarter-race,a turkey
shooting, gander-pulling, match dog fight
had preaching by circus rider, who after
wards run foot race for an apple jack all
round and, as if that was not enough. the
Judge of the Court, after losing his years sal
airy at single-handed poker, and whipping a
person for saying he didn't understand the
game, went out and helped to lynch his grand
father for horse-stealingl
A Frenchman stopped a lad on the street
to make some inquiries as to his whereabouts
'Mon fren, watts re name Of zis street,"
well who said 'twan't."
"Wat's you call zis street?"
/ ''Of course we do"
cell him.
Eyes, Watts we call it,"
Glow you call re name of zis street."
watts street, old Teller, and don't yer e
to make game on me-"
"sacre mon dieu! ak you one, two. tree
sey'ril times, often, will you tell me re nam'
Of re dam street, ell ?"
Watts street, I told yer. You're drunk
amt yer" -
"Men leetle fren, we're you life?"
''In Yandam street."
) sch bienl You live on dam street, an yol
J is one dam fool-by DAMP