The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-05-20
(From Saturdays Daily }

f. Fl. Graves, of Milwaukee, was the
guest of friends here Friday.
A large number of second hand
wheels are changing hands.
Born-Friday, May IA, to Mr.. and
Mrs. John Greenwald, boy.
Frank Schmitt has resigned his
position with John Beyersdorfer.
No man of good character wants to
thoroughly understand two women.
The only people who know much
they don't tell are editors and milk
men.
Thomas Scuffle and Thomas Drew,
of Waukegan, transacted business here
Friday.
The work of cleaning up the lake
shore is at present in a state. of sus-
pension.
When the Union gets stirred up all
over it gets quite comically hyoce-
phalous."
George Schaeffer, who was injured at
the Sterling factory Friday, is progress
ing faVorably.
The longer a man is married the
less room he finds for his clothes in
any of the closets.
W. j. Burnett and F. Kirby have re-
signed their positions at the Sterling
and gone to Chicago.
The people who pray hardest for the
millennium wouldn't know what to do
with themselves if it really came.
Hunting is in great favor just now
among the small boys, especially the
hunting of singing birds.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. S. VanIngen gave
dinner party Friday evening to the
Twentieth Century club.
When it's himself, a man says he has
accepted a position; when it's about
the other fellow, he says he's found a
job.
A woman knows just about as much
about politics as a man does about
when to leave off his winter under
clothes.
Streets in Kenosha will be in a
decidedly torn up condition this sum-
mer owing to the laying of pavement,
sewerage, etc.
After woman has heard hard stories
about man she always wonders how
he can go around so without a look of
shame on his face.
AS soon as a woman gets an idea
that she is the intellectual equal of
man her husband begins to get along
with picked-up dinners.
Herman F. Hoehn has opened up
grocery, fruit, confectionery store and
ice cream parlor at the corner of Eliza
beth street and Fremont. avenue.
The man who kicks the hardest
about the way the city cleans the
streets, is the same small boy that
always used to walk in the gutter.
When a woman tells story to COM
pany about man whose hand trem-
bled and he began to cry, she general
~ says it quivered like an aspen leaf,
and his eyes grew moist.
The sentiment that reigns at Paxton
that " Hartman" expiated the crime of
Mrs. Hilgendorf's murder with the rest
of his sins on the scaffold Friday, does
not quite jibe with the sentiment of
this community.
With the number of hobos in the
city that are here at present and have
been here for the past few weeks, it is
only safe for the Wheelmen to keep an
eve on their wheels and to lock them
when it is necessary to leave them.
About forty young men are on the
anxious seat on account of the civil
service examination atIthe high school
Friday. From the reports it would
seem likely that they will be kept in
suspense for some weeks, at least until
after the first of next month.
Such questions as g What is the
boundary between the state OF Cali
fOrnia and the District of Columbia, !"
and g What river rises in the southern
part of Colorado, flows north and
empties into Pixies. Peak" puzzled the
heads of those who took the eXamina-
ton for the position of local mail car
riers at the high school Friday
morning.
Judging from the reports that are
continually coming in from the four
quarters of the state with regard to the
outrages committed by tramps it
would be advisable for the members of
the police force to go about armed to
the teeth and wearing under their
their coats the hidden gcorslet. The
epidemic seems TO have spread to all
representatives of the genus, even those
of our city are inclined to be trouble