The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-06-18
Miscellaneous Items.

t. and OF unsual size in various parts Of Mon
d tana.
!, Free public baths are to be established
= in Detroit.
Y New figs are plenty in New York mar
e ket at ten cents a pound.
The New York News Association re-
ports that there are less than one hundred
and twenty-five competent photographic
; reporters in the United States
+ One hundred and seventy one German
Z newspapers are published in the United
| States, OF which forty-six are dailies.
More than eighty thousand Free Masons
are reported in New York City.
, Mount Vernon is sadly out of repair. 1t
ought to be preserved by something
There are seventeen acres Of flooring in
the Pacific Mills, in Lawrence which it is
q claimed is more than in any other build
ing in the world
A French chemist has invented new
crystal that will make diamonds and Jew
elry cheap.
A Yankee in Paris has invented a style
of luminous printing which can be read in
the dark
The plasterers of Indianapolis are ON
strike for $3.50, and the painters for So
per day.
Fifty tons of rhubarb are sold daily in
Boston, and it retails at two cents per
pound which amounts to over $4,000 per
day
The peat speculation has proved UNI
profitable in Connections Losses have oc-
Cured in Hartford and Tolland counties
to the extent of about 100000 in this
speculation and large sums in other parts
of the State.
A Presbyterian church in St Louis,
with salary of $4,000 to offer, is look
ing out for pastor
The yellow fever is raging fearfully in
Lima, where deaths from it average
something like two hundred and fifty per
day. Captain Blakely, the inventor of
the renowned Blakely gun, and Sig, Pedro
Fortuna, a well known opera tenor, have
fallen victims to it.
The crop reports from Mississippi, West
Tennessee, Arkansas, and other regions of
the Southwest, are of the most encouraging
nature, and, more than anything else, they
give hope of the reign of order and peace.
| Wheat and corn are excellent Teconstruc-
tors.
8 The word dts" is nowhere to be found
in the English version of the Bible. cts"
the possessive Of iii" was not in our Ian
guage till about the beginning of the
seventeeth century. The Anglo-SaXon
word is "his," and this is the word for
'its" used by the translators
Fifteen years ago man left Gardner,
Me, to try his fortune in Chicago He
had $500, when he invested in buying
house lots about amile from the center of
the then city To-day that same property
would sell at auction for $250,00G. The
spare change he got from practicing law
he put into house lots and then into a
banking house, and now pays a tax upon
So, 000,0 900 of save investments, while he is
one of the leading Republican managers
of the whole Northwest
Great exertions are being put forth
to complete the Central Pacific Railroadto
Salt Lake in advance Of the Union Pacific
Iron is being Transported by the Isthmus,
and arrivals cirCape Homare noted every
week
PREcocloUs--An uIchin. leading small
dog along the streets was accosted by a
gentlemen as follows
We'll, boy what's your dogs name?'
"Han't got any name yet"
"Wcll why don't you name him ?" give
I l. NO him, Toparol
Butler"
81 don't like to do that, T'would be
disrespectful to the general"
"Well then, can him Andy Johnson"
81 won't do that neither, for it would
be disrespectful to the dog"
The curious figures sometimes found
on agate may be initiated by drawing the
design with common goose quill, wet
with a strong solution of nitrate Of silver
and exposing it to sunlight At first the
color will be brown, but if retouched two
or three times, it will become reddish. If
the solution contains one-eighth of com
mon SCOT and one-eighth of biturtrate of
Of potash, it will give grayish brown
color A violet color is obtained by sub
stituting alum for the two substances last
named
A solution Of choloride Of gold gives
light brown color, and nitrate Of bismuth
white and Opaque appearances These col
ors are unaffected by the atmosphere; they
will reappear after washing when exposed
to sunlight.
A leading journal of Maine informs US
| that syrups Of several qualities OF sugars
are now successfully made from corn, at
handsome profit. Several attempts have
heretofore been made, but none Of them
have succeeded in saving the product
from tendency to starch" or "glue" up.
A company is now operating at Green
Point with large capital,and every pros,
pect of success If sugar can be extracted
from beets, why not from sugar corr, when
is much sweeter to the taste,
'Buy any butter here?" said a county
customer, who walked into dry goods
store in :. Western city mo sir we don't
wish TO buy any," "Want any eggs" No,
sir we keep a dry goods store" $50!
well then. may be you'd like to buy some
fat chickons, fat as pigs and mighty
siobt nicer tew." "No, sir, ! tell you we
| don't deal in anything but dry goods.
Couldn't / sell you a nice fat shoulder Of
pork 81 tell you sir we deal in dry goods
exclusively. ''Wa'al, what'll you give for
dried apples ?'
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