The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-10-24
SAYINGS AND DOINGs.

his enemy; put IN passing over 1t he is supe-
rior-Lord Bacon.
The Chinese have 100000 square miles of
untouched coal-felds.
poor young man remarks that the only
advice he gets from capitalists is to sliye
within his income, 'iwhereas tie difficulty he
experiences is to live without an income.
An Iowa woman has realized 5000 from
the insurance on the lives of two husbands
and they weren't very good husbands either.
Why is the figure like peacock? Be-
cause it's nothing without it's tail.
Conversation atgthe best is only sprink-
ling ofoccaslonal felicities set in platitudes
and common aces.-Holanes.
Pedestrian tourists will regret to hear that
German miles are TO be made thirty-threc
per cent. longer than they have been hither-
toy. Y. World.
Generosity during life is a very different
thing from generosity in the hour of death
one proceeds from genuine liberality and
benevolence, the other from pride or fear
Ho' ace Mann.
A New York lady of fashion wears a beau
tifully carved, dark, glossy stone in setting
of red gold. 1t is the front of her husbands
favorite meerschaum; having induced him
to stop smoking, Eshe now wears his pipe as
trophy.
Admiral Farragut wrote to his wife, April, |
1862: my country has bestowed upon me
It's highest honors, and must take upon me
the highest responsibilities. I never will ask
my men to go where I am not willing to lead
the way" Words fit for the monument of
hero !
The Levant Times says that Teheran let
ter in loyal Greek paper states that more
than one hundred thousand men, women aud
children have p, rished in the Persian capital
from famine and plague, and that the mum.
Der of victims throughout the country is not
less than three millions.
! The head cook at one of the Saratoga no.
tells gets 81 500 for four months Under him
are thirty Frenchmen as assistants, or cooks
ty-fye women as vegetable cooks.
little girl in New York orphan asylum,
who was punished for scratching another lit
tie girls face by being required to learn
verse from the Bible, was allowed to make
} her own selection, and chose the first verse of
Psalm IA: blessed be the Lord. my
strength, which teacheth my hands to war
and my fingers to fight"
Diamonds and rubies, to the Impractical
eye, says the San Francisco Bulletin, 'are
FOUND in Arizona, but alas the diamonds
pale into into quartz crystals and the rubies
into garnets. The crystals are some of them
very beautiful, perfectly transparent, and
presenting five sided form o. capitalization
very nearly approaching the four-sided of the
diamond, but easily detected by the most
simple means"
Professor Bouss ngault,Iin the AnnaleS de
Chimie ct de Physique for August, records a
series OF experiments, founded on the old ex
pertinent of the Florentine Academlcians of
bursting an iron vessel by the freezing Of wa
ter, which fully prove that if the vessel in
which the water is enclosed be strong enough
to resist the expansive force of the water in
the act ofcongelation, the water will remain
fluid at the lowest temperatures to which If
may be exposed.
There is more than one way of talking on
the subject of religion" and q better way.
evidently, than the old lady found whose
husband was wasting under lingering dis
case. The rector expressed a hope that she
sometimes spoke to him of the future. 81 do
indeed, sir. Often and often wakes him in
the night, and says, John, John, you little
thinks of the torments as is preparing for
YOU
In choosing warm dress get i5 light.
How lightly animals which have to endure
great cold are clothed What is lighter than
feathers or fur? bear can teach us lesson
OF civilized silence, and goose impart wis
dom. When you wish to be protected from
wind as we'll as cold, wear, under a wooden or
furry fabric, the thinnest impervious texture
you can get. Then you have an arrangement
similar to that with which the animals of
cold climates are provided, namely, thin
skin and thick feathers or hair.
The Scotsman, in an obituary notice of
Bishop Terrot, mentions q story which he
used to relate with great gusto. It befell a
dignified clergyma an, perhaps himself. An
Irish beggar was imploring him for charity.
and using an enorm Gus number of sacred OBJ
ljurgations. The digniied clergyman looked
him solemnly in the face: No, 1 will not
| give relief to one who implores me so indie
corousy; but will give you what will be