The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-12-12
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
| How to take census of the children of 8
neighborhood. Employ AN organ grinder
five minutes
Mr.. Charles Dickens is writing o story
for the atlantic Monthly. which will be
commenced in the January number.
All the crowned heads in Europe visited
the Paris Exposition except the Queen
OF England, the Queen of Spain and the
King of Italy.
Admiral Porter says he never saw a
very old sailor. Sailors generally die
young Of hardship and neglect
IlN city authorities of Eimira, N. Y.
will allow no gift concerts or shows to take
place in that city.
The New York Academy of Music lets
tor $1,000 for one ball night
he New Hampshire farmers are, many
of them, selling off their sheep because OF
the low price of wool.
Gail Hamilton is about to publish new
book Untitled ''Woman's Wrongs" This
apparently partisan title is said to cover
a slap at both sides of the question.
George Francis Train has made contracts
for the erection of an immense hotel at
Cheyenne, to be larger than that at
Omaha.
MJccouY; Soaras GpJc 4, LI,.c;,,o 1900.
in prairie fires. 1t says that the conhag.
rations have wholly destroyed the malarious
poisons, so that although property is lost
health is gained.
The Roman States owe S92. 000,OO0
The Boston restaurants are reducing their
prices.
Dickens walks ten miles every LAY.
New York has 900 miles of canals,
A count was taken, one day last week,
of rhe number of vehicles of all classes
which passed through Broadway, New
York, opposite the Astor House, between
7 o'clock in the morning and o'clock in
the evening. The following is the result
Total of vehicles up Broadway. g, 80
Total of vehicles down Broadway . Z, 491
Grand total of vehicles on Broadway pass
ing the Astor House in / 8 hours IA, sol
The house of John T. Morn, near SCOTS.
vile, Albemarie county, Va, has it is alleg
ed, been flooded nightly for four mouths by
a strange light, not moonlight. The closest
watching has failed 30 discover the mys-
terry.
1hurlow Weed says: ''The Blairs, thank
fortune. have gone back to the Democracy.
This relieves General Grant from an in
tueuce more persistent than the toothache,
and more pestIent than the itch"
Oberlin College has upward of eleven
hundred students, about five hundred of
them being females and about forty me-
groes.
More rain has fallen in 1867 than in any
previous year since observations were kept
at Central Park, n. 7.
The Popes last encyclical is said to be ex
dDublNC. l1O hCHONhSOD NiAO SiN
mics of the temporal power as devils, wretch
es and Havaging wolves.
Lexington, Ky, contains ladies' club,
where smoking, knitting, billiards, crochet,
cards sewing machines and liquor are per-
mitted but man is excluded.
1t being utterly impossible tor fashion to
make them smaller, ladies' bonnets are to
be worn larger this winter.
Anna Dickinson is running a tilt against
the faculty of Yale College, who are not
quite as advanced" as her ideas.
1t is stated by Paris medical journal
that sulphur is cure for severe cases of
Group 1t is to be administered once an
hour in teaspoon doses of a mixture of a
teaspoonfuI of sulphur in tumbler Of
water.
The records of the Post Office Department
chow tb at during the last fiscal year there
were thirteen thousand five hundred chan
ges of Postmasters made, being over fifty
per cent. of the whole number in the CONN.,
try, and 5000 more than were ever before
made in one fiscal year.
The ground has been broken in North
Lawrence, Kan, for Machine shops of the
Union Pacific Road. The shops and appen-
dages are to be about 400 feet long and zoe
feet wide.
FEEDING TURNIPs TO Cows. Young
Dairyman" enquiries if butter made from
COWS fed on turnips will be unsaleabe
Yes, out it is easily prevented. Take fou'
ounces of saltpetre, dissolved in one quar-
of water, and put q few teasp9onsfa's in eact
pan before straining the milk, and you may
feed turnips in any quantity or manner, AM
no epicure can detect the taste Of the turpil
in the butter. have tested this so thor
oughly that have not doubt of its entlr
eficacy.-A. DEwELL in Rural american
CURE FOR TooTHAoHE. AT a meeting G
the London Medical Society, DR.. Blake,
distinguished practitioner, said that he wa
alb lie to cure the most desperate case
tooth ache, unless the desease was connect
ed with rheumatism, by the application
the following remedy: Alum, reduced t
an impable powder, two drachms; nitrou
spirits of ether, seven drachms; mix an