The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-11
Letter From Bristol.

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Your editorial intuition doubtless perceived
that IL city of so many literary celebrities
as Setastopal boasts, no ordinary man could
hope to make his mark. Depending on the
darkness of the night for the brilliancy Of
their light, literary asplrants have little to
hope for here. Hoping to be king among
fools, it is humiliating to find we have only
been playing the fool among kings. SO,
leaving my literary contemporaries to think
what they please OF my newspaper gymnas-
tics, again address myself to the dic.ation
of letter for their criticism.
To msn of humble pretension, there IS
nothing so bellttling as to fall under the
shadow CT superiors, I say this merely to
put myself on fair understanding with my
conJsre here, and to let you know Mr..
Editor that it takes some courage to vault
into print hailing from this place. But by
the powers of this frozen ink and this old
steel pen, which has oft threaded the subtle
mazes of metaphysics, and the perplexing
windtngs Of philosophy, ksve put my hand
to the plow, and through am going.
If any description of mine would be oil
any use, should try and tell you how cold
the weather was. But despair of doing
any justice to the subject. When the Their.
mometer gets In the teens below zero. it is @
matter of sublime Indifference how much
lower 1t goes. Positive, comparative, or
|snperlative, are all swallowed up In the
rough and tumble to keep from fleeing ;
just as an unfortunate swimmer with his
head barely under water, would as socn be
at the bottom unless he can get out of the
az ueous element. Deep, deeper deepest,
ne Leaves ior the grammarians TO discuss,
while he tussles for dear lite. l have heard
OF hot alterations, warm discussions, pun
gent sarcasm. boiling passion Can't you
give as little something CT the kind in
your sheet, Mr.. Editor, as friend W. does
in his ? Anything to keep from freezing.
We must have longer thermometers, or we
shall be obliged to fetch them Indy the fire.
envy you, Mr.. Editor, who can abide in
your sanctum a1d freeze where it is a little
com Portable. While am about it let me
ask you philosophical question. When a
man is frozen stiff can he be frozen any
stiffer2 Or is this thing OF degrees {? Un-
less some comet comes ronnd soon, to bring
old Sol buckload of fuel what are we going
to do?
Something however occasionally trans
pires among us, to show you that we are
not all frozen up. In spite OF old Boreas
and Jack Frost MIR. Charles Bishop has
been making some ominous visits over our
way. Last evening however I learn that
be and his friends met with warm recep
ton where he had been in the habit of max
ing his calls. To cap the whole perform
ance the minister was there, who babe Mr..
B. and Miss Mary Kineman join hands, while
be repeated something which be affirmed
made them one forever. l wish Mr.. 3.
much joy, the minister a good fee, and the
Editor some emembrancer which will keep
has been repeated at Asbury Chapel with
considerable eclat. And since there has
been "chiel among them taking notes."
let one outside the curtain suggest TO the
performers, to be little bliefer next time.
As is often the case, think the performers
put their best foot forward" in what was
least priced by the thinking part of their
audience. Too little attention was paid to
the old songs, which never lose their power
N their simplicity, and too much to what,
[, in my simplicity, did not expect at all.
submit the question, whether it is quite
air to mimic The more ridiculous part of the
singing of our grandfathers and grardmoth-
ers,' without their religious fervor and
devotion. Were those present with their
as with them. there would
20 little to laugh at.
[ notice that our worthy Lord Mayor,
Who keeps the depot, has been set upon by
Yrs Gummidge in the Waukegan Gazette
s a person not fit to live in the din and
lproar of city. because be has been annoy !
d by those of the Eight fantastic toe"
way. Your correspondent happens to be one
# the weak ones, whose intellects never run
much to legs, and so, can sympathize with
ur worthy Mayor. AS soon as we get the
oYld IS we wish it. we are going to stop
hat kind of business until then we are
esoiyed to endure this indisy ensable of city
ife. Perhaps we can secure the services of
Bishop George occasionally to lecture them. !
had hoped ere this to he able to write the
obituary of the Old Woodstock, which has
0 oft nearly unjointed our necks, as she
ugs the Rocky Mountain express but she
GEMS as tenacious of life as a. equity old
,achelor, who lives on through thick and
hin, to the no small disgust Of expectant
leirs. Ii some one of my contemporaries !
loes not soon attack her in poetry or song,
here is no telling what the MUSES. may pro-
,oke me to do some day, with all my unfit
ness to DO her justice. Our German friends