The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-10-24
Miscellaneous Items.

There is gentleman in Troy, a wellto-
90 merchant, aged sixty-five years, who has
a mania for life insurance He has thus
tar secured policies on his life to the amount
of $685. 600. He has it son the brain"
The cultivated lands of Australia are in,
creasing rapidly with the encouragement of
the steam plow. Vast reservoirs are being
built for irrigation.
A man in Connecticut recently had five
men moving in his hay field at one time,
the youngest of whom was Ga and the eldest
so years Of age.
The yellow fever is epidemic in Memphis.
There were forty seven cases in twenty four
hours
Statistics show that 50 900 less acres are
under cultivation in Ireland than in 1866,
and there is great falling off in the amount
OF live stock. During seven months the
population was diminished by "a, $50 emf
grants.
Poetry doesn't pay in America Julia
Ward Howe received only IS for her IA
nous Battle Hymn of the Republic
Rev. Philips Brooks, Rector Of Holy Trim
ity Church, Philadelphia. has been invited
to Grace Church, New York, at salary of
$4,000
The oldest inhabitant in Allegany county
Maryland, was married the other day, at
the ripe age of 102, to a second wife.
Seven young ladies from Lowell, some of
them OF the first families" are going to
Europe, unaccompanied by malo attendants.
They leave on the 9Th inst
A Democratic badge has been worn at
campaign meetings in Ohio, having pic
tuTe OF white man treading on a negroes
neck, with the motto ''White mans gov
Hnment' over it.
The citizens Of Columbus, Texas, are en-
camped outside the town to avoid the yellow
fever.
The European steamers now arriving in
this country are all filled with American
tourists, returning from the Paris EXPOSE
ton and tours on the Continent AS the
outward tide was strong last spring, SO now
the homeward current is equally swollen
There is Hamburg grape vine at Hamp
ton Court planted in glass house aud COW
ers z, 200 square feet, producing annually
eight hundred pounds of grapes.
In Houston, Texas, a worthy old German
stricken by the yellow fever refused to have
physician called because he was too poor
to pay for it. He died, and $4,000 cash
was found in his trunk.
Charles Sumner will ''do" Sc, 600 of lee.
turing in the West before Congress meets.
Rev Albert Barnes of Philadelphia, has
been compelled to abandon all work and
study, in order to save himself from total
blindness.
Rev, DR.. Spring, Presbyterian minister,
was present at the dedication of DIR. Tyng's
Episcopal church, in New York, in a black
gown, and said the concluding prayer.
N. B. Davis. of Youngstown, N. Y, has
fifty year old apple tree which yields this
year twenty-five barrels of greetings.
There are fifty thousand places of
worship in the United States.
Japanese history represents the islands of
Japan as the first created, and the best eff
fort of divinity.
In twenty five years the Baptist denom-
nation i'll this country has gained sixty-one
per cent IN churches, seventy-seven per
cent. in ministers and ninety eight per cent
in members; and in twenty seven years the
contributions for home and foreign missions
have increased 1884 per cent.
Barnum has bought another lot adjoining
those previously purchased, and now has
ITO feet on Broadway, aud l08 on Houston
street, running through to Crosby street
The whole lot cost him half million and
he is soon to erect new museum upon It.
Governor Seymour, of New York, in con-
versation with a gentleman in the central
part of the State, the other day, said that
he does not take political paper, and has
not for a long time. Neither do the maas
of his followers, Reading men are Repub-
licans
Clayton county, Iowa. the home of Colon
ell Merrill, the Republican candidate for
Governor, gives him 1900 majority. Last
year the Republican majority was only 90.
Gain, o er 100.
The mackerel catch off the Massachusetts
coast will not be more than two thirds the
average this season Prices will be higher
however, and the fsherman's profits large.
One hundred and nineteen thousand bush
els of wheat, valued at nearly $25O,OOO.
have been forwarded East by single firm
in Alton, Illinois, since the middle of July.
Two stockholders in Paris have made a
bet, it is said, Of one hundred thousand dol
lars, that General Grant will or will not
be Emperor of the United States within five
years
One hundred and eleven years ago the
first paper ever issued in New Hampshire
was printed in Portsmouth, aud is still print.
ed under its original title-the Neao Hamp-
shire Gazette.
In New Orleans according to the Newspa
pers OF that city, there have been no les:
than 40, 000 people who have had the vel
low fever the present season.
One cause of the high price Of butter i:
the large quantity of milk used in the man
ufact ure OF cheese.
: Parton says Ms. Stowe has lost 5000
600 for want of an international copy
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