The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-25
How Far Twenty Cents Will Go.


be worth hundreds of dollars per yard.
How Far Twenty Cents Will Go.
The wife of the man next door has q
fertile brain, which is kept actively en-
ployed in variety of directions. Among
her household gods are dozen of
plants in pots, and a variety Of these in
a box mounted on pedestal. The box
she got at the store; the pedestal she
and the boy together made. After it
was done she wanted it painted.
She might have sent it to the painter
for that purpose, but he would charge
more than it was worth. To save the
extra cost she determined to do the
work herself. She could get pound of
paint all mixed in pot, with a brush,
for 20 cents-the pot and brush to be
returned after the work was done. It
was simple thing to paint, and she
could put it on as easily and nicely as
g. trained hand could do it. The man
next door didn't think much about it.
It was not in his line, but he got the
paint.
It was great surprise to the wife OF
the man next door to see how little of
the paint was required to cover the box
and pedestal, and how much was left
after the work was done. What should
she do with it? Not return it, of
course, for she would not be allowed
anything for it. Now that she had it
she might as well use it. There was
undoubtedly something it could be
used on.
She looked around for the object in
question, and was not long in finding
it. There are more or less dingy, bat
tered articles about house which acoat
of paint would improve. Her house was
no exception. Her eyes lighted on a
box holding her securing sand. In
few moments it was a delightful green.
Then she looked around for other
fields to conquer. and presently she
| found them, and continued to find them
as long as the presence of paint made
| it necessary to search for them. She
was nearly the whole afternoon using
| up that pot of paint, but it was time
well employed.
And 1t was amazing, as she admitted
to herself, how far 20 cents worth of
paint would go, iudiciously applied.
She knew her husband would be sur
prised when he came home at night at
all she had done.
And he was.
When he observed the green clock
case and looked at the green paper rack,
and found that he had green writing
desk, and contemplated the green foot
stool, and saw the green coal scuttle,
and got against the green clothes-horse,
he was too full to say word.
Then he picked up his green boot
jack, and when he did that he gave
wild, scared look about the room, sank
down in his chair, and found his voice.
He said:
"Holy fish hooks Do1ab1Ty NeaUs.
The Longest Avenue in the World.
DR.. Finsch, in his just published
travels to Western Siberia, tells us that
the great road from Nijni-Novgorod to
Tiumen, in Siberia, is bordered, with a
few gaps, by an alley of birches, which
are sometimes in double rows. This, as
DR.. Finsch ventures to conjecture. must
be the longest avenue in the world. It
was planted by order of Catherine IT.,
and was to have been continued to Irk-
utsk. It was forbidden under. the
severest ties-banjshment to ST.
IBERIA or death-to fell the smallest of
these trees, a precaution without which
this unique avenue would never have
been finished. M any of these trees
are now shattered by age, and those
planted in their stead are no longer
protected against damage or destruc-
ton by laws SO severe as formerly. But
it is pretty we'll known that the Rus
sian is indifferent or hostile to trees.
On the other hand, as the winter SHOWS
become heaped up in mounds around
their trunks, which renders the road
difficult for sledges, it is serious ques-
ton whether this avenue should not be
taken away.-Lo3edo7a Times.