The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-03-04
Miscellaneous Items.

the redemption OF young InoH nv"
bad habits. Each Of the members
has pledged herself not to receive
the attentions of any young man who
uses liquor, tobacco, or profane Ian
guage.
The pope has written letter be-
slowing his apostolic blessing on the
Catholic World Father HIEcKER,
its presiding genius.
The other evening couple of
young men were exhibiting a patent
churn in Canton, Ill, when a humor-
some old lady averred that the ma
chine was humbug. To disprove
the assertion, they offered to make
butter within ten minutes. The old
lady filled the churn, the patent-right
heroes set to work, and spent two
hours in perspiring and relieving each
other, to no purpose, before the jocu-
lar matron informed them that they
were churning butternlilk.
A California Irishman, James M.
Quinn, has just received proofs of
his noble origin, which makes him
Earl of Dunnraven, with accompa-
nying estates. He is going home to
take possession.
During the last thirteen years SIX
undred and twenty-five homicides
ave been committed in New York
city. 1t has never been discovered
who perpetrated one hundred and
ffty-five of them, which shows the
extent to which +" murder will out. ;"
During the war a woman went to
a grocer's shop, and found she was
paying double for candles, so she
asked the reason why candles were
SO dear, The grocer replied, "Oh,
it is the war; ''Dear me-" said the
woman, shave they got to fighting
by candle-light?"
King John, of Saxony, has COM
pleted his translating Romeo and
Juliet next. The King recently
said to bookseller that, fine lived
long enough, he might translate the
whole works of Shakespeare. The
old monarch is exceedingly active
and industrious. Herises at q o'clock
in the morning, and often works
until after midnight. He is by all
odds the most refined and best edu-
Gated of German sovereigns.
News from India is to the effect
that the long-dreaded famine has
come, and is spreading fast in large
ly populated districts. The Govern
ment is making every effort to re-
ieve distress by furnishing both
food and employment to those who
need it. To one native State the
sum Of f10, 600 has been lent on the
the security Of its revenues, to be
used III this way.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
One hundred and ten years ago, there
was not single white man in Ohio,
Kentucky. Indiana and Illinois.
Then, what is now the most fourishss
ing part of America was as little
known as the country around the
mountains of the moon. 1t was not
until 1857 that Boone left his home
in North Carolina to become the first
settler in Kentucky, The first pio-
neers of Ohio did not settle until
twenty years after this time. A
hundred years ago, Canada belonged
to France, and the whole population
did not exceed million and a half
of people. A hundred years ago,
the great Frederick Of Prussia was
performing those great exploits which
have made him immortalin MILITARY
annals, and with his little monarchy
was sustaining single-handed con-
test with Russia, Austria, and France
the three great powers of Europe
combined. A hundred years ago,
Napoleon was not born, and Wash
ington was modest Virginian col
onel, and the great events in history
of the two worlds, in which these
parts, were then scarcely foreshadow-
ed. A hundred years ago, the United
States were the most loyal part Of
the British empire, and in the politi-
cal horizon no speck indicated the