The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1896-12-24
tFrom SATURDAYS Daily.
roads are getting better.

this city Friday.
]. E. Harod, of New York, was in
this city Friday.
| j. FL. thurman, of Milwaukee, spent
Friday in Kenosha.
G. A. Anne, of Minneapolis, visited
in this city Friday.
A. E. Ginaud, of Chicago, transacted
business here Friday.
Expectoration is revolving habit,
especially with ladies'
c.. w. Gilmour, of Chicago, trans
acted business here Friday.
Miss Susie Breitzman, of Milwaukee,
is here to spend the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Williams, OF
Bristol, were in Kenosha Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Smith, OF
Pleasant Prairie, spent Friday in this
city.
About fifty young men in Waukegan
are talking of enlisting in the Cuban
army.
Why is it that the spectacle craze
follows so closely upon the agitation OF
warlike relations with Spain?
If you find four-leaf clover in your
breakfast biscuit it is sure sign that
the -four barrel has been tempered
with
If this thing goes on much longer it
is likely that our own business men
may have to resort to the store detect
i've idea.
To drop piece of bread on the floor
signifies that the butter will at once
enter into hearty collaboration with
the carpet.
To move on Saturday is forerunnel
that host of friends will arrive or
Sunday when you are least prepared tc
meet them.
A little caution is worth great dea
of cure. If people would button up
their overcoats they might save q
doctors bill.
To change your place at boarding
house table brings bad luck, unless you
get up and 60 out to a restaurant
That signifies a square meal, generally
While dressing, to accidentally put
on any article of clothing wrong-side
out, signifies the expulsion of some pale
blue language just as soon as the mis-
take is discovered.
Isn't there any way to stop it No
law to prevent that ancient chestnut
Uncle TOMS Cabin" from being
played here? What fearful fate fol
such a meritorious work.
Racine police say they would not
know how to arrest man now if they
had to. There is not a great deal OF
crime in this city, but our police don't
get rusty, Notwithstanding.
Although there are many who go to
Chicago to do their trading, just now
there are a good many others who
come in from the smaller towns Of the
county to do their trading here.
To lay an umbrella down in any
public place and turn around three
times with your eyes shut, is an omen
that you will have to buy a new one or
get wet the next time YOU go out when
it rains.
J. C. Dowse came in town today to
pay for another year of the TELE-
GRAPH COURIER for the fifty seventh
time. He became d subscriber in 1910
when Frank & Sholes we're the pro-
pretOrs.
Girls, stop and think! Your chances
and opportunities are getting desper-
ately close to stand STILL There is
but a little over week Of leap year
left, and you will have to wait eight
years for the next.
To open an umbrella and hold it
over your head in the parlOr signifies
the entire demolition of the chandelier.
unless You use electric lights. In any
event it is Il sure sign that you have
lots Of spare time on your hands.
If. after getting shaved in barber
shop, You offer in payment $40 bill
and tho colOred attendant goes out to
get change and neglects to come back,
It is considered very lucky for the coon
If the police don't catch him, and
they won't in Chicago.
There has been some complaint made
Of the negligence of physicians. and
ministers in registering deaths, births
and marriages. Some divines would
require a private secretary to register
all their weddings.
To dress the right foot first with
stocking and shoe, and then find it
necessary to crawl under the bed in a
northwesterly direction in quest of the
rest of your foot gear, signifies that you
should have retired the night previous
in more systematic manner.
To drop comb signifies disappoint-
ment and late arrival at the theatre
unless you are baldheaded, in which
case you can get along very nicely with