Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-01-24

| Senate the petition OF the Atlantic aud PacIhc
Telegraph Co. for subscription OF 3OO,0o0,
in aid off Telegraph Line from the Mississippi
to California, to be finished in Eighteen months
from the passage ofthe bill.
| DEATH-The Racine Union notices the death
of Mr. Ludlow T. Lewis, formerly of Racine
who was carried off by cholera at Santa Clara
California about two months since. lie was ex-
pected home in some six or eight months from
the time of his death, and leaves behind hima
wife and two children TO mourn his loss.
New York city has 200 common schools
which were attended by l06,796 scholars during
the last year, the average attendance beng 81
40. Besides, 1868 pupils have received iui@
ton in evening schools, 2,570 OF them being over
Is years old.
Socrates used to say to his friends that his
wife was his greatest blessing, since she was
never ceasing monitor Of patience, from whom he
learned So much within his own doors that all
the crosses he met with elsewhere were light to
him.
DR.. John C. Warren says that "every man
who chews tobacco may consider himself partc-
ulary exposed to the danger of having cancer
in his lip or tongue"
Modern bonavolence is defined by popular
author to b8subscrbing fifteen or twenty dollars
where ones gift is published with his name at
tached, and refusing q shilling TO get mccoy
man night lodging.
" Anowly married lady requested her "liege
lord and MASTER" the other day, on going to mar
ket 70 purchase a foot of mutton for dinner
That goes ahead Of that lady who complained OF
being disturbed BY the noise ola gentleman hen.
u GLOW is your son, to-day?' asked a friend
of stock-broker. Very bad, replied the old
gentleman, trying to compose his agitated tea-
lures every bad indeed! l would not give ten
per cent for his chance of lteP'
Recommendations, wots monomany o.
"Why you see, Dick, when poor fellow
steals, it is called larceny; but when it's rich
'un, the jury saysit's monomany, and they can't
help it--ihat's it,
" Such was the demand for horsefesh on
Christmas day, in Albany that towards evening
a gent who had been trying to get up ride all
day, finally succeeded, by hiring two year old
heifer for dollar an hour. The Albany Knick'
erb0cker says this.
The latest joke perpetrated was the sending
Of tabby cat, carefully boxed up.to an old maid
in Jefferson street, on Monday. A lad repre-
senting himself to be an express man brought
it to the door, and received sixty-two cents for
the precious box, as the price Of its freight from
( Chicago Albany Knickerbocker.
Mrs Forrest and her sister, Mrs. VOORHEES,,
are employed as vocasts in the choir of Trinity
Church, New York.
Several officers Of the U. s. Navy are now
sojournng in Cincinnati
The Royal Standard Of England is thirty feet
long and eighteen feet deep. It is of strongly
wrought fine silk. and cost $1,000.
The True american states that gentleman
in Trenton has purchased the night 10 Paine's
Gas for Mercer County.
Whitney is lecturing in Washington on his
Pacific Railroad project
1J'"You've very striking countenance," as
the donkey said to the elephant when he hit him
ever the back with his trunk.
U-Why is Young lady like confirmed drunk
ard? Because neither of them are satisfied with
q moderate use Of the glass
IT "You look as you were beside Yourself"
as the wag said to fellow who stood by don.
key.
When is high wind mathematical wind,--
When it has extracted great many roots.
The following toast was given at public din
ner in Connecticut THE Nutmeg State
where shall we find crater u
1t is computed that 5000 persons persisted the
past season on the overland route to Califor-
MIA.
a Fir. SchofTman has received $4,000 of the
Boston and Worcester railroad COS for injuries
done TO bis wife in 1913.
The editor of the Waukesha Democrat saw a
man in the Rock river woods last Friday, who
within few days had killed 81 deer.
twenty-five disteries in the vicinity of East
on, Penn, destroy 400, 900 bushels of corn and
rye by converting it into alcoholic poison.
The Supreme Court has decided in favor of
U. S. against Jesse Hoyt, q1ondam Collector of
New York, for over 100000.
New York ships four-6rths Of the breaL stuffs
that are exported from the United States.
On Sd ult., 1000 returning Califo,nans, were
coopeG in San Juan Nicaragua, for want of ship
accommodations TO take them home.
The building for the Grea, Fair is completed
externally.
The British Parliament has been summoned
to assemble on the 4.h February
"A IobbIItc "iCIIiIs ny AJLldiluudIluSs DEIOUglDR
to the late Duke Of Cambridge, has been sold for
s577 and another by the same maker, for 800.
M Sever, the world-renowned cook has taken
the residence of the late Countess of Blessing
ton, for an hotel during the worlds fair.
Andrew Smith, G. d., inventor of the wire
rope manufacture says he has discovered the
identity of aerial electricity and terrestrial mag
netsm.
Tbs English Navy at present, consists Of GIL
ships of war; Of which 1T are armed steamers
Of from 100 to 700 horse power engines; exclu-
sve of 1000 steam vessels in the mercantile Ma
rine.
A party Of sporting men at Aylesbury Eng.
| brought a horse up stairs into the dining room
and leaped him over the chairs and tables.
NJ. NJ. Ho7w,z and Harrwitz, the celebrated
chess players, announce their readiness TO check
mate the whole world, during the Fair Of MAJ
A bronze statue of the late Sir Robert Peel 10
to be erected at Leeds Eng
From 500 to 1000 persons die in London per
week.
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