The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-02-04
miscellaneous Items.


Sunday and evening mission schools
have been established in California, IN
which some 200 Chinese are being taught
the English language, tits proposed to
extend these schools along the coast, and
to have central school of higher grade
at San Francisco.
Ex-President Roberts, of Liberia, was
one of the guests at Senator Summers din
ner table last Thursday evening, the first
instance in which colored man has been
invited in Washington to dine with aSen-
atOr.
A Democratic wit in reply to the cues
ton "Who will save the Republican
party?" replies, "The devil" He for
gets that the devil takes the hindmost,
and that the Democratic party has been
unqualiiedly hindmost for the last ten
years.
A man from the interior on Pennsylvania
lost his pocket-book day or two ago. A
bvstander saw the theft, but refused to.
describe the pickpocket. In explanation
Of this strange refusal, he asked the vic
tim. why did you charge me ten cents
for drink of water when was IN the
army at Gettysburg?"
It is reported that Strahan & Go. are to
give Tennyson $4,000 for the right to
publish his poems two years.
Motley's dutch Republic has been
translated and republished at the Govern
ment Printing Office at Warsaw.
The Danville Qll.) Commercial pub
fishes the names of subscribers who pay
their Indebtedness to the establishment
under the head of "Roll of Honor"
A man in Greensboro, VT, nearly broke
his wife's neck, recently, by playfully
shaking her. Her neck cracked, she be-
came partially paralyzed, and was confined
to her bed seven days.
The provisional government of Spain
las issued an address tending to restore
calmness to the public mind. They de
cline to take active steps against reaction,
but declare that they are closely watch
ing it, and, if necessary will combat it.
All religious questions they leave to be
finally disposed of by the Constitutional
Cortes, which is soon to assemble.
MoNTANA.-The Montana Legislature
adjourned on January 18th, and, unless
called in extra session, will not reassem-
b lie until the first Monday in December
1870 Helena is to have the capitol, and
Deer Lodge the penitentiary.
Gen. Hawley refuses to be a candidate
for Congress from the first district of Cor'
necticut &@- @4
The Boston IraUeler says the question
Of prohibiting corporal punishment in
our common schools will again tax the |
wisdom of our legislators this winter.
There is a feeling abroad that Solomon
did not quite understand this matter, and
that his wisdom was only old fogyism.
A correspondent of the N. Y. Journal
who has devoted considerable time to the |
business, has discovered that nearly one
fifth of the employees in the various de-
partments at Washington are from the
district of Columbia, or from the neigh
borhood in Maryland Virginia.
It said that the diary of j. Wilkes
Booth, found ON his person after his death
contained this record, made on the day of |
the assassination: "Until to-day nothing
was thought of sacrificing to our country
wrong"
A Glen's Falls IN. W paper chronicles
the marriage of Cyrus Smith and Mrs. S. |
Stanton, of Bolton. The happy bride
groom launches out for the first time on
the sea of matrimony, at the mature age
of ninety two years.
A Southern paper states with italics
and exclamation points, that the Superin-
rendent for the education of freedmen in
Georgia, "has had the impudence," to in
vite white Sunday Schools to unite with
negro Sunday Schools, in great celebra-
ton to be held at Macon at an early. day |
Lombardy, Italy, claims to have the old.
est tree in Europe It is one hundred
and six feet in hight and ten feet in cir
conference at one foot from the ground,
and is believed to have been in existence |
forty-two years before Christ.
A pucky Greene county Gowa) girl
getting Tilted, instead of taking arsenic,
took a stout stick and licked the fellow
handsomely.
A Berkshire girl, says the Boston Post,
walked fourteen miles through the snow
t other day to marry young man who
couldn't come to'her house fol fear of a
six shooter which the stern parent carried
an exchange in an article upon the pro
priety of round Dances" gives the fol-
wing, which is worth thought: "a
t w years since man well known in
s'ciety-not young, and who did not
dance-was sitting at party, near young
lady and watching the mazes of
German He turned to her, knowing