The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-10-17
Miscellaneous Items.

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Miscellaneous Items.
a new instrument for measuring the inter
sity of light, called the "Cucimeter." ha
been invented by Frenchman.
Peaches twelve inches in circumference
were exhibited at Fair In Illinois last week
Twenty thousand Methodist churches in tn
United States accommodate six millions of pee
pie.
London proposes to establish temperanc
CLUB with capital Of half million.
drop of human blood placed under mi
croscope magnifed twenty million times
would show all kinds of animals that now ex
lst or that ever existed on the face of the
earth. So says German Professor.
The English language has 10000 words-ir
the dictionaries. Good takers and writer.
use but 5000 in all, and foreigner can trave
on 500.
| The arwaada brazilian bird smaller thar
a pigeon, sounds note much resembling a
! tolling bell
The Austrian army intend to drop their ia
nous white coated uniform for gray.
Tom Winans has given a herd of fifty-two
deer to Druid Hill Park, Baltimore.
There is dog iu Lonoon twenty-six wears
| old, OF the New toundland breed His black
, coat has been turning gray for the past two
years, and is now nearly white
Never so much rain in August in California
as this year.
West Virginia reports the finest grape crop
ever gathered there.
The New Harlem bridge at New York, which
has been seven years building and costs ST.
100000 is almost done.
Ninety feet more are to be added TO Trinity
Church spire New York.
u 1t would really seem that the ancients did
surpass their descendants in the perfection
of their arts. A fire and burglar proof safe.
which has been subjected to volcanic erup-
ton, has been discovered among the ruins of
Pompeii, its contents uninjured. 1t very
much resembles modern safes
Seventy-fve hundred volumes of Long-fel
lows DANTE" have already been sold and the
demand is increasing for it. This is altogeth-
er the largest sale ever made in this country
of book so expensive and of such a charac-
ter.
The farmers of Maine are making prepara-
tions to SOW great quantity of wheat the
coming year, stimulated by the high prices in
flour.
Washington dispatches say that the general
feeling among Republicans there in view of
the late elections, is that General Grant will
be the most available candidate for President,
1t is reported that the Feuians bought
one of the best of the Government vessels
at the recent sale at Brooklyn.
The Convention has been called in Ala.
bama by II, 200 majority, and in Louisiana
by 1000.
Both the Kansas United States Senators
favor the famale suffrage movement in that
State.
Williamsville, Cass county, Michigan, is
community Of colored people who left
their masters at the South in the DAYS of
slavery and sought home in the North.
They number about two thousand MANY
OF them own good farms, and they have
two good churches, support good schools,
and some OF their young people are seeking
an education in the higher seminaries and
colleges.
The Topeka (Kansas) Leader saws it
would publish the list of candidates for
sheriff in that county, but for the fact that
1t would be impossible to print them all,
before election at the rate of three columns
per day.
The New York correspondent of coup
try paper says that Edwin Forrest has been
converted to Spititualism, aud talks in his
room all night with the shades of his de.
parted frieuds
Bonner says he prides himself on two
things These are, In demonstrating that
paper OF high moral tone will be the most
successful, and that private gentleman
can own and drive the best horses in the
country without making a gambler Of him
self"
The fashion reports from Paris announce
that large hoops are again to be in vogue
and short dresses be again worn only bv
young girls
Chief Justice Chase recently said in a
speech at Manchester, SIT was in New
Hampshire church that experienced that
spiritual awakening which leads one to look
forward trustingly TO the life eternal.
Horace Greeeley's latest ''Reccollections
of Busy Life, contributed TO the New
York Ledger, are devoted to the exposition
Of bis belief in UniversaIism
European meterologists are predicting an
early and hard winter this year, for the
reason that the birds of passage have begun
their migration southwark at least a month
earlier than usual. Storks, wild ducks and
other birds are reported to be passing south.
ward over France and Belgium 10 large
numbers.
A furnished house nineteen feet front on
Beacon street, the Fifth Avenue of Boston.
has been let for one year al a rental of four
thousand a year.
A shrewd william in Nashua, New Hanlp
shire, on Thursday, walked deliberately ur
TO store window and broke in a pane Of
French glass, and when asked to pay for ii
as deliberately drew out a 800 bill, which
the storekeeper took, giving him $40 il
change. The bill proved to be counterfeit
The sparrows in the public squares o.
New York are increasing rapidly. Union
Square has 500 of them. Fifty additional
sparrow houses were placed in Madison
Square last week.
On Wednesday morning, in Warren. O.,
a Mrs, Brooks was killed instantly by light
ming while closing n window in bar -, L.