The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-01-07

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~ A lady was reading to her five
year old boy the story of the little boy
whose father was taken i'll and died, after
which the youngster set diligently to work
to assist in supporting his mother. When
she had finished the story, lslesaid; 'now,
if pa, were to die, wouldn't you work to
help mammA?" Why, ma, said the
little fellow, not realizing the idea of
work, "what for? Amt we got good
house to live in, and everything SO nice? F"
/" Oh, yes, my child" said the mother,
but we can't eat the house, you know"
well, amt we got plenty of things i'll the
pantry" said the young hopeful. Ger
tainly, my SON replied the mother, but
they will not last long-and what then 2"
well, ma said the little incorrigible,
"an't there enough to last till you get
another husband?' Ma gave it up.
UNION OF CHURCH AND SHop. A Salt Lake
correspondent writes "We have new
feature herein sign boards-by Divine
commando If is said, Each saint who
keeps i; store nluat hlvca sign by which
The "fAithfhi" Will know where to trade;
and they are forbidden under penalty OF
being cut off from the church and CON
sequently nevea seeing Paradise), from
dealing with any others. The signs are:
holiness to the Lord" in an arch, with
the Cali Seeing Eye" inthe centre; 'Zion's
Mercantile Institution | am sorry to
say that some Of the Outsiders, or 'sGen-
tiles, very irrcverently call them ''bull's
eye shops" and | am still more sorry to
ctn IN hat
the fear Of Brigham before their eyes,
will quietly slip int a"Gcntile" shop to
make some purchases particularly if they
know they can save at least 80 per cent.
by it. when they are III duty bound to
that extra for the sake of :'building up
Zion"
Reports are current in New York Of
the failure Of several large dry goods
houses, two of them connected with the
lowell Mills and Boston firms Serious
tronblc is predicted this week among the
jobbing houses many of which have been
paying eXorbitant rates of interest lately
and carrying immense stocks which they
could not dispose OF iiAAA Uea 2i
The vote of Florida will have to lie
dropped from the Grant column. The
Legislature voted for electors, and when
the electors met it appears there was no
quorum present; go the election is void.
Runlors prevail that President Johnson
is DESTROYS of having with
Grant, and that Secretary Schofeld has
been requested to be the medium Of bring
ing this about. Grant and johnson have
mot spoken since the Stanton imbrogio.
I A. single firm at Boston, engaged in the
manufacture of clothing, employs 30 cut
tiers and $500 sewers, and they are send
ing out every week 300 huge cases Of cut
garments to be made up in Maine, New
Hampshire and the interior OF Massachu
sets.
A citizen Of Indiana who has had the
I experience of eight wives, says divorces
are much cheaper than funerals as way
of disposing Of an uncongenial partner
It is said that castor oil makes shoe
leather soft and piiable, and quite imper-
Ivious to water ~ q
t0cA manufactures in Berkshire county,
Mass, has offered to giyeto the ladies in
his town1all the cotton cloth they will
make up fer the poor Of that town during
the winter. 3!Go i 9dmaE
. A method D. sewing boots and shoes
with copper wire instead Of the common
thread has been patented, the advantage
being that at a very small increase In ex-
pense, the durability and strength of the
work are very much improved
b A man IN Bath N. T., attacked his
wife with knife, threatening to kill her
because she had been baptized against his
wishes f.fa IBa iai 81 59H9.a s.
A Georgia editor has received a water
melon and basket Of Strawberries as a
Christmas present.
Charleston, S. G., has u Ladies Fuel
Society" which has been in active, benev-
client operation for forty years,
A German suicide in st. Louis required
one hundred and forty four pages of man.
uscript to state the causes of the deed to
his friends.
THE ARE> os Cries Cincinnati is about
enlarging her boundaries Her population is
nearly as large as that of Chicago, but her
areais two-thirds less. The. following table
will'prove interesting. Philadelphia has not
only the largest area of any cityin the United
States. but il is larger than Paris, and nearly
equal to thatlof3 London: "a tamruol 81
Cities, sd hfifar # ,gaa Square Miles
New I0Tk .................... .6S Il
fnitadelaphlas.-... ,..,.. ........s..
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