The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-03-04
EXCHANGE EXPRESSIONS.

WHEN whisky gets the better of man
he may be sure the devil is foreclosinu
his mortgage. South Bend Herald.
A YOUNG lady sends us in a poem on
decorations of the pottery. We can't
publish it, because it is too verse o'ile.
-hokOmo Tribune.
SOLOMON, remarks the Boston Globe,
chad seven hundred wives" That's the
way the wisest man of his time Utah
lied women.-OSUego Palladium.
A FELLOW who married poor girl said
he married her to take care of her, but
now when he stayed out late at night she
took hair of him.-Syracuse Standard.
THE person who would pick upon
banjo is entirely capable of pounding
piano, squeezing life out of an ACCORDION,
or beating a drum.-NetO Orleans Plea
y9tlle
HERE is a dog graveyard in Virginia
Clty, Nevada. A thousand-acre cemetery
OF this kind, kept well filed, should be
the ambition of every city.-LouisviUe
Courier Journal.
The time has arrived when an invita-
ton to wedding is equivalent to lend
ing the groom ten dollars and feeling
thankful that he didn't ask for more
Detroit Free Press.
INDIANA has a law to prevent weak
minded people marrying. A crustv
bachelor insinuates that the weak
minded are the only persons who ever
think of marrying.-BOstOn Transcript.
THE inventor of the goddess of liberty
was benefactor of humanity. He ena-
bled ladies to display themselves in
tableaux, in very scant raiment, without
being guilty Of impropriety.- Boston
Post.
In making 'pure ground coffee" the
rule in Boston and New York Is to mix
one bushel of beans and one of roasted
peanuts with one bushel of cheap coffee.
The package is then labeled: 'None
better-beware of limitations. Detroit
Free Press.
A PEDANTIC contemporary, in noticing
the advent of new paper, says it ''has
a future before it. j." The editor of the
new journal would have been more star
tied, perhaps, if he had been informed
that his paper had future behind it
NOTTiStO3On Herald.
IT is said 1.-the town of Lansing,
Tompkins County, New York, has a
growing girl of seventeen who now
touches seven feet, and is still evolving
upwards" That is nothing; we know q
boy in Boston, only twelve years old,
who touches 100 feet. He is a boot
black-BO8t0n Post
We sincerely hope that in the art de-
partment of the projected Worlds Fair
in New York, the artists of the liver-pad
renaissance will be properly represented.
They have done too much for art in
America to be ignored, as the pictorial
advertisements of the daily press attest.
Boston Transcript
Amdre,US' american Queen believes
in the good old doctrine if man smite
you on one cheek smite him as hard as
you can on the other It says: "The ST.
Louis Globe Democrat charges the
Queen with robbing it of an original
paragraph. 1t lies like a tombstone,
We never did any such thing, and that
paper never had any such paragraph"
DIR. JEFFRIEs says the children should
be instructed in colors and their names.
And not children alone, but great grown
men are going about utterly ignorant in
this matter, men who couldn't for the
lives of them tell dying frog from ele-
plant, or London smoke from ashes of
roses, and who have no proper cOncep-
ton of Bismarck, SolferinO, Magenta or
cardinal. Oh, it is lamentable !-B0sto'a
Transcript
A s1x-FooTER and his friend, who had
been rolling ten-pins yesterday, were
walking down the street, when one called
the other into an alley and was in the act
of settin up the drinks from pint bot
tie just as three policemen appeared.
The six-footer knocked two of the police
men down, and then said to his friend,
'Let's go jim; they are ell down but
one-you can set 'em up in the next al
ley. "-KokOnlO Tribune.