The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-02-14
Women admire handsome men, and


catching the humps
The railroads war on the pur-
chasing agent seems to have ended.
While man is thinking how a
thing ought to be done a woman will
do it.
What this winter may lack in
length it promises to make up in Sc
verify.
Gus Jacobs has returned from Sa-
lem. where he has been spending most
of the winter.
Washington's birthday will be
properly observed by the school chill
dren of the city.
Capt. Kleist, Of the base ball club,
says he saw a live fly in the ice box
Friday morning. Geel
DIR. Farr has moved all his goods
and chattels from G. H. Hurd's store to
the Starkweather & Co.'s.
Nothing new at Brassville and one
sees or hears nothing put the constant
monotonous hum of the brass mill.
Chief St6mm, the, health officer,
says that no case of dangerous conta-
geous disease has been reported this
week.
Keep your eye on certain swell
Prairie avenue family. There is to be
wedding there when the robins nest
again.
Mr.. Ayers, of England, is visiting
at Mr.. and Mrs. E. D. Tuttle's. He
will probably be employed at the brass
mill office soon.
Here is the way a?,wicked Chicago
paper talks about the aesthetic Mil
waukeeans: :" Milwaukee is clamoring
for an academy of design. Most OF
the drawing up there is now done with
faucets"
-" The Man Without q Country"
presented at the Rhode opera house
was met with a very small house, prob
ably owing to the severity of the
weather. The play is quite a strong
one and the company was good.
An estimate has been made by a
clergyman that out Of the 5000 people
in this city it is safe to say that fully
5000 of them do not attend church
Sundays. That is allowing literally
for the catholic and foreign language
churches.
An editor of an exchange says he
has been furnishing his paper to sub
scribers at the ratio of Is to THAT is,
sixteen get the paper, while one pays
for it. He continues by saying that
money is close, and unless it gets lit
tie closer it will not do him any good.
People in the southern end of the
county are afraid Of being drowned out
if the Fox river is damned at McHenry.
The legislature has just adopted me-
mortal addressed to the Illinois legisla-
ture asking that it refuse to grant Il
charter for the dam on account OF the
| damage it would do in Wisconsin.
-Kenosha ladies ought to take off
their hats at the theater, especially if
their hats are big and they have front
seats. This is the fashion in Chicago
and other large places where seats rise
in tiers. 1t is a1mark of good nature,
good sense and regard for the comfort
of others and makes friends for the
ladies. Those who persist in keeping
big hats on ought to be cut dead by
the gentlemen and sensible ladies.
John Blackman, the dairyman, had
a narrow escape from being killed
Thursday by an incoming train at
North Kenosha. Mr.. Blackman was
crossing the track driving a team OF
horses attached to his milk wagon when
| the evener broke and left him almost
| in the middle of the track, but seeing
the train approach he hurriedly got his
| wagon off, and badly froZe one side of
his face in so doing.
No matter how strong and robust
man may be, you will see him these
frosty days with his fur cap pulled down
over his ears, his fur collar turned up,
and invariably kicking about the cold.
| But with woman, lovely woman, it
seems to be different. She wades
around in the snow with pie plate
| perched artistically upon knot OF hair
on the back of her head, but no matter
how near the thermometer comes to
zero you hear no complaint.
Animals at Lincoln Park, Chicago,
visited by many Kenosha people, have
died from the cold and other causes.
The young puma's tail was frozen in q
pool of water while it was asleep and it
died in few days afterward. A sick
monkey was SO badly bitten by a jeal-
Gus companion that it had to be chic
reformed and a beautiful fallow deer
had to be similarly treated on account
of an injury to it's shoulder received a
month ago. A fine buffalo has been
gored by another of the herd and may