The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-12-10
Miscellaneous Items.

Hutely perfect and free from typographical
errors. and only three These are: an Ok
ford Bible, the perfection being attained
by means of the standard reward of a
guina for the discovery of a mistake; an
edition of Horace, published in London
and Lei psic; and an American reprint OF
Dante
The BeIoit Journal has an account of a
Fair there, given by the ladies of the Con-
gregationale Society, on Tuesday and
Wednesday, the gros receipts On which
were about $1,000.
Oshkosh claims to have the largest and
best appointed Rink in the State.
A lynx six feet "from tip to tip" was
recently killed in Richland Co
At Neenah, on the 10th, man named
Nc Gin was fined for hunting on the Sab
bath.
S. A. Wood. of Manitowoc, is con
structinga Velecipede Ga machine propell-.
ed by the RIDER that will make from II
to Is miles an hour.
Liberia has 100000 inhabitants, of
whom only $1,000 are American negroes.
Il
THE Commissioner of Agriculture says
that if our soil were cultivated one inch
deeper, $3.50, 100000 would be added to the
wealth of the country.
IN England 600 steam plows are In op-
roeration. In Egypt 200 III the United.
States two. ~
This year hickory, oak, and other mast
rs so scarce in New Hampshire. thatthe bears
are obliged to live off the farmers.
APPLES sell in China for 50 dozen,
gold They are sent from the States packed
Tn ice, and thus entirely preserve their fresh
mess.
In England there are over roo co Opera
tive associations while Prussia has over 1900
WHEN butter was 10 cents pound, it
would buy yard of good Gotten cloth. In
these days pound viii bny two yards. The
truth is farm labor viii bring more money
than mechanical labor. eH
THE latest, the most heavenly new con-
corning education is, that gardening is to be
caught in young ladies' seminary at Ro-
chester as4
-MucH of the butter sent to CONSTANT
Tlople is made from the milk of sheep. Now
That wool growing is Improbable, our sheep
Enen might go into the other business.
Mr. w. SCHULTZ one of the wealthiest
soff bridge abutment at Elkader, few
nights ago, while under the influence of
Eiquor, and fell 9 distance OF twenty-five feet
eon the rocks below. The Elkader Journal
Estates that although Mr.. Schultz weighs 800
pounds, and struck his head severely, he is
recovering from his injuries
"A great hotel is to be built at Cape May
Ut will stand within stones throw of the
surf, and will be in the form of T, the
Enain wing, or leg, ofthe letter, to be 400
feet in length by IS in width, the west wing
cor cross piece of the letter. $50 feet long and
80 wide. It is to be four stories high, with
piazza 90 feet wide, to run the entire front of
the structure. During the fall of 1869 it is in
Eended to construct an addition of another
wing $50 feet on the east end of the main ore
thus giving the entire building the exact
form of the letter H and the body of The
house an actual length of 500 feet.
THERE is an old lady living in Columbus,
End, whose hair is slvered with the frost of
eighty winters, and who is now undergoing
Lshe strange change Of cult her third set of
teeth
THE Managers of the American Bible
Society at the last monthly meeting, made
appropriations and adopted measures for the
immediate distribution of the Scriptures in
Spain.
"A writer from Madrid to the London
Times, says g. believe the reaction in
spain is fully as much against the Roman
Catholic religion as against the Bourbons
'Ehe feeling of hostility against the priests
rs stronger here than it was in Italy,
OLIVE LOGAN receives from one hundred
s&nd twenty-five dollars to two hundred and
t1fty dollars per lecture. Matilda Heron re-
fuses to make engagements before the last of
January. Mark Twain may be head for 500:
Lheodore Tilton and Horace Greedy for $50
TO $175, with notifications whatever that
Enay mean 7. w. Higginson for $50 to SIS
Professor Youmans and e. P Whipple for
from $75 to 500; Murdoch for from $125 to
$3.50 Justin Mccarthy for 500; and the list
varies, the lowest price being $25.
-CALIFoLNIA makes about six million gal.
Ions of wine and brandy this year. The COL
9n State promises to become the grape State.
"A machine has been invented in New
re- and which embosses and cuts 20O, 900 pa
tlcollars in ten hours
A Vermont editor writes obituary no.
res of delinquent subscribers, and in this
ay brings them to life.
The Cedar Rapids Qowa) Times has seen
piece of cedar taken out of the ground
sTom depth of 81 feet, where it has been
Lying for untold ages
Texas raises four crops of figs in one
season.
MISSOURI, it is said, has gained since the
CLOSE of the war $50, 900 by emigration.
THERE will be at least twenty contested
election cases before the next House Of
Representatives,
1T is reported that the Erie Railroad
Company will proceed at once to lay third
Csg narrow gauge to make connection, ala
Suspension Bridge, at Niagara, with the
Michigan Central Road . Chicago.