The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-10-08
Pith and Point.

Pith and Point.
TABBY's "Mew-at-y ou-all Friend -
the nocturnal Thomas cat.
THE child who cried for an hour one
day last week didn't get it.
WHEN must time hang up his scythe?
When he shall be no mower.
A MATTER-of fact old gent thinks it
must be very small baseball that can
be caught on fly.
WHAT'S in name? Not much. But
fancy Joy for an undertaken, Rich for
pauper, or Lamb for a soldier
LAZY California bartenders place the
ingredients of cobler in a tumbler,
and then wait for an earthquake to mix
them up.
A New ORLEANS colored lady remarks
that her husband holds the "stin-
guished position of supplementary on
the metropolitan police.
A REAL estate owner, having let all of
his houses but one, was asked If that
inlet house was his last. eyes; last,
but not leased, was the reply.
HAS any New York Alderman an in
terest in ssbearing" the sausage mar
ket? Six thousand dogs have been
dispatched there since the pound was
opened, and it must mean something
Boston Globe.
THERE is a lively dispute as to
whether Chicago hackmen are as mean
as Niagara Falls hackmen, and all
papers west of the Detroit river are ex-
pected to support Western enter
prise.-DeIojt Free Press.
A ST. LOUIS paper apologies for a
clerical error which occurred in an edi-
torial. These mistakes happen by al
lowing clerks to write leaders. -Nea0
Orleans Republican.
LIVERPOOL was excited over the last
fire there. The scene, the papers tell
us, " surpassed all Dantesque imagin-
ings, and glints of light were revealed
in the heavens which only Dore could
have sketched." It was pier that was
burned.
SMITH has done this in honor of the
lady he has just taken out of the
weeds:
s'The CLEAN of her eye was bright,
The CLEAN of her gold was brighter;
The first was beautiful sight,
The second beautiful sighter."
So ?-Tight-gartering has killed five
women in this country in the last six
months
Whenn'rn we take DIR walks abroad
Some limping girl we see,
Let's cry aloud with one accord:
"Don't garter below the knee"
Boston Courier.
A NERVOUS New Hampshire young
man heard a COW moaning for her calf
the other night, and, misinterpreting
the sound, aroused his companion, who
inquired, "What is the matter?" He
received the reply, I" I should think you
would ask for Gods sake, don't you
hear that man snore
DURING the recent food in Middle
field, N. Y, little fve-year old boy,
when the water had reached the height
of two or three feet around the house
in which he was, fell upon his knees
and uttered the following prayer: go
Lord, don't like this take 1t away.
You said when you set your bow in the
skies you would have no more foods.
Now, how is this :? Amen.
A MAN who had recently been elected
major of militia, and who was not
overburdened with brains, took it into
his head on the morning of the parade
to exercise little by himself. The
field selected for this purpose was his
own apartment. Placing himself in
military attitude, with his sword
drawn, he exclaimed: Attention,
company! Rear rank, three PAGES,
march |" and he tumbled down into the
cellar. His wife, hearing the racket,
came running in, gasping: "My dear,
have you killed yourself ?" eco about
your business, woman, said the hero,
"what do you know about war %