The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-03-30
NEWS ITEMS.


purse on the nth of May next, in some
part of Canada.
New Chicago, Kansas, is nine months
old, has $50 houses, and a population of
over one thousand inhabitants.
The editor of an Illinois exchange. who
brought to the sanctum of that office \
college education" says the Fat Con-
tributor furnishes an entertainment
worth "thribble" the price of admission
Samuel Lord, who has been for more
than fifty years cashier of bank in
Portsmouth, N. H., died on Tuesday
morning
Those having sickly trees would do
we'll to dig around their roots and put
in plenty oftrotten manure Roses should
be treated the same way.
A religious joke from the Isadepenolent::
When ritualist pastor "in,tones" his
services, does his performance resemble
that of Tony Pastor?
A jeweler in Terre Hante placed his
stock in trade inside of a safe having a
combination lock, and losing the COM
bination, has been unable to show his
goods since.
A sharper in Connecticut is advertising
to give $4,000 to any person who will
adopt an infant two weeks old, adding
that ten cents must be inclosed to defray
postage. The stamp business is what the
is after.
A Springfield, ILL.,, girl sold her lover
to another girl for black silk dress, and
so managed matters that the couple were
married within month after the bar
gain was made.
A dutiful son of Detroit has killed
seventy seven of his neighbors cas- to
get money enough to buy his mother a
set of teeth He made quiet neighbor-
hood where once was bowling wilder
ness.
A new way of collecting old debts is
recorded by the Memphis Ledger, as fol-
lows: "a few days since, on Front street,
creditor asked a debtor for his coat in
payment of debt. The honest but i'm
pecunious debtor took the coat off, hand
ed it to the Shylock, and walked home
In his shirt sleeves"
A Massachusetts, mathmatician has been
working six months for satisfactory
solution of the following problem: eff
Colt pistol made fortune of four mil
lions for its manufacturers how much
ought the horse pistol to make ?"
Bayard Taylor has, within a few DAYS,
sent to market fresh cucumbers, grown
this season at his country place, at Ken
netts Square, Penn, without artificial heat,
The Des Moines Qowa) Register says
that General Belknap's name is being
mentioned repeatedly IN connection with
the Senatorial succession of Mr. Harlem.
An Indiana editor says that he is
forced to believe in total depravity, some
wretch having lately stolen his only pair
of boots, which will confne him to the
house till the opening of the barefooted
season.
Police Captain McCleary, of New
York, who "pulled" Alderman George
FL. Mitchelrs keno rooms in that CITY,
among others, on Saturday week, has
been transferred to another precinct for
doing his duty
The Richmond (Va.) Dispatch says that
the work of cutting out and deepening
Buffers canal across Dutch Gap has fairly
commenced The contractor who has
taken the work obligates himself to finish
it in ninety days. This will shorten the
distance to Norfork by river about seven
miles
A New Hampshire man, when asked
to give his consent to the marriage of
his daughter, turned with beaming
countenance to the applicant and answer
ed frankly: "Yes, yes; and don't you
know some likely young man who will
take the other?
SOCIETY OF WoMAN.-Thackaray in
one of his Roundabout Papers," said:
=" 1t is better for you to pass an even
ing, once or twice week, in a lady's
drawing room, even though the CONVEX
sation is slow and you know the girls
song by heart, than in club, tavern, or
pit Of theater. All amusements of
youth, to which virtuous women are not
admitted, rely upon it, are deleter;ous
in ther nature. All men who avoid fe-
male society have dull perceptions, and
are stupid, and shave grose tastes, and re-
volt against what is pure. Your club
swaggerers who are sucking the butts of
billiard cues all night, call female socia-
ty insipld. Poetry is uninspiring to a
yoke beauty has no charms, for blind
man; music does not please a poor
beast who does not know one tune from
another but as true epicure is hardly
ever tired of water, sauce,and brown bread
and butter [ protest I can sit for
whole night talking to well regulated
kindly woman, about her girl Fanny or
her boy Frank, and like the evenings
entertainment. One of the great bene-
fits man may derive from woman's socie-
ty is that he is bound to be respectful to
her The habit is of great good to your
morals, men, depend upon it. Our ed.
ucation makes us the most eninently sell
fish men in the world. We fight for
ourselves, we push for ourselves, we yawn