The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-23


fire, he knocks down his adversary with he
Quit end OF 1t = but generally he talked
like poor Poll, - and when ne made an ace,
dental nit, soon neutraliz,d it's effects by
something exquisitetv foolish Neither
Cornril.e, the great French s.ist, nor
Marmonlel, the novelist, were masters OF the
utellectual tolls. The eloquent Roeseau,
whose writings have pew}tchod thousa nos,
confessed that when forced 10 open MS
mouth he infalliuly Ia KIDD noBsense: |
hastily gable over Number OF words with
out ideas EspLy only when they chance TO
mean noLhtAg; Linus, endesVorng 80 cos
quer or hide my lncapSci'y, | rarcly fail 10
show II The wiz Charles III rho was
so charmed with the bamor of Hulibras hat
he caused himself TO be introduced 10 ne
au' nor, found Butler an .nfolerapiy duil
companion. He wa confident hat 80 u.
p'd fellow never wrote the hook The
Earl o. Dorset, no sought an interview with
he great sstirist, was similarly dlsappoint.
I'd. Taking 'hree bottle o ne wish him,
he found the poet dull aud heavy after the
hrst had been drained som ,what spark lug
after the stcScd hoTtle, aud, after he third,
more stupid and muzzy lhau ever. "Ynur
friend " said he Earl, after he had EFT with
his iniroo ucer, els like nine-pn iitilc al
both ends and great IN he !, iddic." God
win. the anthor of TIL Political Justice. was
As dull as Butler. According % Hazitt, ne
had NOT word to throw IT, dog. HstsIk
was AZ Il aL as q pancake. Ali his genlRs wae
boarded Tor his books he had no iLeA OF
anything till TIC wac wound up like u clock,
not TO speak. bat to wrie e, and then Ice
~eemed like person -isen from sleep or
from the dead.
II would tie an inexcusabie omission In an
accounC of the great t,Ikers to say notb,nZ
of the ancients. In Conversation, Az in ora
tory, they probably Outshone the modern. :;
he printing-press has damaged the Una
hogany" even more than il has damaged the
husfiugs. Socrates, Is We sce him in the
: Memorabilia" barefoot, and plainly lad ,
intxorably logical, aud the Incarnation OF
coInmon-sense, must have heeu one OF the
most brilliant and instructive takers ct
elias ic times. Chatting In the axora, the
gymna-Ia, the shop OF The c rse, maker, IN
the studio Of the stAiuary and at the tai BILE,
tie must have been kind OF walking enc, +.
clop8dia, colege on legs; and the whole
State must have felt The influrnce OF his
philosophy In al! the veins of Iis moral be-
ing. The few sayings we have of Themtsto-
cIes and AlclbiAdeS are "steepec the very
hrin If nd hi q
Most OF he rcpor ed naots OF Dlogenes are 20
puugent and rscy. that we regret that there
"as no Bpzzy 10 give us more OF them. TIE
man who coined he word cosmOr0litr,"
must have BEEN, In spite OF his cynicism, u
rare and catholic thinker.
| Cicero was most brilliant talker, and
must have been what Sydney Smith calIs
"a dlner-Out OF the highest Iustic" He was
a wit a. well ~ an orator, and even 6eig md
O pun when be could hit hard by doing 20.
| He was so famous for his bon -Y1sosa, that Cae.
"ar employed d man like Baron Grimm o
send him q collpetIon OF them from time TO
| tine to any place where he might oe en-
camped Though but few of his jess were
preserved. the Libsr Joctidris, or collect lion
of the IN by his freedman. Tlro, having been
st,-yet they are OF such a quality as 20
show that he had .rompt "a we'll as a razo, :
Hike wit, that could draw blood when he
chose and 1t IL " wonder that some Of them
die not coat him his head. A Roman lady
having told him that Nhs was but thirty
years old =" 1t must he true" replied Tully,
fnrT k,ov g. 81, 3
When Pompey, who had married Cassr's
daughter, asked Cicero, referring to Dolo-
helIa who had Joined Caesars party
= Where Is your son-in-'aw?" Cicero retOrte0,
With your iather-in.law." Qu,ntilian cele.
bratos Cicero's arbamtaS by which the an
clients expressed that peculiar delicacy and
e!uquence OF huInor that smAeks of she CULT
yation OF q capital; but the great orator
sometimes stoored TO coarse Righteousness,
ss when, in allusion to the Oriental custom
man oil East, rn and serviie descent. who
com pl aimed that he could not hear him,
Yet you have holes ia your ears"
JoeSMiller is the great s;Orehouse to which
1t is supposed that most OF he mo iern jack
DAVIS of wit go tor their fire feathers But
in the = Ana" Of antiquity, aa an English
writer remarks, we shall find more than one
jeW d'eSpva which now adorns tho brazen
ron' OF the plagiary. What can be tiner
han Foote's reply to the English Lord who
was Boosting the great age Of the wine
winch. in his parsimuny, he had Caused to be
served in extremely small cIasSeS---" IT Is
very little of its age?
Yet this lder,icsl witticism, says Mr.. Har-
nay. is in Athen8us, where it is assigned to
woman whose jokes were better than her
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