The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-11-05


A Vermont village makes half nail
lion dollars worth Of wooden ware a
year.
The tooth anniversary Of the John
Street Methodist Church New York, was
celebrated Sunday last.
Government made $1,500,000 last year
from the penny-a-box on matches
England has three thousand steam
plows, Egypt two hundred, the United
States two.
The latest theatrical sensation in Lon
don is produced by running pack OF fox
hounds in full cry across the stage.
st is reckoned that the emigrant wagons
between Columbus, O., and Kansas City,
No, bound west, during the present sea-
son, would reach hundred miles if placed
in single line.
The Principal of the Tracy Female
Seminary, at Rochester n. T., has taken
a step in the right direction, by making
arrangements to have the elements of
gardening taught as one of the branches
of that institution, and a greenhouse for
plant culture and propagation is now being
built there.
Europe has 1888, 100000 invested in
America.
1t is proposed in England to try the ex-
pertinent Of cheap fares on the railroads,
passengers to be carried to their dCstina-
tion at a uniform rate, irrespective of dis
lance.
France thinks Of constructing "ma-
rine canal of the two seas" from Adge to
Bordeaux and Rochefort, at an expense of
four hundred and fifty million francs
Some Of the leading lecturers, this sea-
son, are charging the societies as follows
for single night: Theodore Tilton, 1926
to $50; Col tligginson, from $50 to $75;
Z P. Whipple, g. II. Hepworth and Pro
fessor Youmans, $75 to $780, Rev. d. III.
Chaplin, 500; T. w. Knox, an around the
world journalist, $50 to $75; Rev. j. NJ.
Manning, $50 to 500.
Il is said that poor German mechanic
of New York has just invented a sound
ing board which solves the long sought
problem of the prolongation Of sound OF
piano The invention is a very import
ant topic Of discussion among piano
makers, and if the report is true, and the
sounding board should prove to be what
it is claimed to be, the inventors fortune
is made, and the piano becomes at once
the most perfect of all musical instru-
ments.
! a FRENCH IDEA OF AMERICAN WOMEN.
AT the Cluny Theater in Paris they
perform now every night, farce, the
scene Of which is laid in New York, and
in which three strongminded American
women are the leading characters. They
/ appear on the stage with enormous nicer
Ischaums wear ten-poGnd waterfalls, horse.
whip a tinid gentleman, swear dreadiuiiJ
relate 20 one smother what they have seer
Iat tbe rious c,ub-rodm9 make inperti
neut marI-. about Tie passcrs 10y, ane
behave IN the most wonderful manner
! one of 5hem says shs was marfed arc
seem to think that there are plenty o
such characters in America, and that tht
portrait of the women are not exagger
atcd.
Z busy man is i've, and life q tract
Every night he drives into ''the house" AM
stops. Every morning lac is tired up anew
!, and away he goes switching off in one direc
ton and then il another. In this routine Q
business he forgcis that the physical orgaDi
zation Is Of the most delicate kind. II bar
iron locomotive needs constant care, end t
be well oiled up and rubbed of every day
q how much more necessary is it that al me
and women should use Plantation Bitteri
! which are the nc plus ultra Of eyefythin
L which is necessary to keep the system IN
perfect tone OF health.