The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-03-29
STATE NEWS AND COMMENT.

The Sun Prairie Countrynan is re-
sponsib1e fcl She statement that. in
that very diminutive village are dogs
enough, if stood side by side, to make
a continuous string from one quarter
to half mile in length. This is not
half mile of dog, head and tail, but
half a mile of dog broadside. That
must be the land of doggerel
Racine boys persist ia throwing ice
balls at passing s1eighs and people.
There were no bad lads in the city of
the West when I lived there. Alas!
Alas! the world gets wusser, and wus-
ser, and wusser.
Rev. Judson Ellsworth has : strong
tendency to tell stories. Assuming the
complexion of Sheldon he has written
a novel, ''Ned Morgan, different
chapters of which he is weaving into
his regular Sunday evening discourses.
Even greater than he, told stories,
A patriarcha1 Ghost; has resided in
an old house, one mile east of Ridge
way. The cruel specter has killed
three men who had too much curiosity.
1t is awful! Very awful! But would it
not be convenience for every Ameri-
can 1andho1der to own at least one
ghost? Then tramps would stear clear.
fruit stea1ers and harvest sneakers will
go a long way round to avoid that
place. A big ghost would be better
than bulldog.
The big clock in the tower of Pr bst
building in Milwaukee is soon to dis
appear. Workmen are busy removing
it. The dial is fifteen feet in diameter.
Bunde and Upmeyer will now keep
time in that tower.
F. A. Linderfe1t, formerly Public
Librarian of Milwaukee, died in New
York a few days ago. He was a class
ica1 scholar. While librarian he was
arrested and discharged from custody
by Judge Sloan, of Beever Dam.
Beloit College will sustain summer
school or Madeline Island School
viii begin August LIST and close Sep
tember 1st
How mathematical people are becom-
ing? Such is the present beer-keg con-
troversy that we hear the rotund brew
ers talking about one-sixth and one
eighth and are almost as befoo1ed and
befuzz1ed IS over 1-to-16, or that puzzle
folly -, IS, IA. And we are given to.
understand that somewhere between
one-sixth and one-eighth there is great
loss or great gain for the breweries.
EWhat fools we morta1s are!''
Minor, of the eighth district, is IN
Congress and believes he can stay
there. Tanner, of Kaukauna, thinks
he can tan the political hide straight
off from the present encumben and
FISHERMAN is sure that he can knock
out both candidates in one round.
Students of Racine college now have
military uniforms. You may give a
boy a gun or a sword, but he will feel
only little of the passion of patriotism
bursting from his noble breast until is,
presented to him trousers with stripes
and jacket covered with brass buttons.
A boy in uniform can lick any two lads
ununiformed.
Isaac Stephenson, of Marinette, Sat-
urday completed the largest lumber
! deal of the year and one Of the largest
that will be made in the United States
in 1900 He sold to the Edward Hines
Lumber company of Chicago, the COM
ing seasons product of two mills, The
sale will aggregate 45,0O0,00O feet or
more, and the consideration is 81, 0Q0,-
900.
tom Thunder, big medicine man
of the Winnebagoes, refuses to submit
to White Buffalo, who is a Chicago
Irishman. He will not permit White
Buffalo to be crowned the chief but
will wear the crown on his own brow''.
One of the ladies of Clinton hung
her night dress on the coal stove to
warm it. Returning in few minutes
from an adjoining room, she found her
room on fire and her robe was heap
of smoking debris. This reminds OF
another story. A storm tossed timer
ant sought harbor in the hut of woods
man; he climbed the Underway, and
| thrust his panta1oons athwart the
stovepipe in the attic. Early in the
morning the farmer started the fire.
| When the itinerant aroused from has
s1umbers he had lost the only pair of
trousers he possessed in the world.
Madison has told the best fish story.
It was bass weighing eight pounds
and ten ounces and worth Sc, 600.
To My Republican Friends.
desire to extend to nv Republican
friends my sincere thanks for their