The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-02-18
Miscellaneous Items.

The Philadelphia police have been
ordered to max war upon corner loun-
gers" and to prevent boys running to
fires.
John Brougham has made great hit
in his new theater at New York, by IN
tr -ducing scene in which Miss Effie
Germon rides vclocipede IL the stage.
The Bank of Baltimore has lost clerk
who has been in its service for sixty four
years.
The Petersburg (Va) papers are wax
ing boastful over boy Of tive CROWN,
only Z years old, weighing over 2OO
pounds, 4 feet inch high, and feet 4
inches round, yet pleasing in his appear
ance.
The seventeen standard places Of
amusement in N Y. City employ 2,o20
pers ~ The average night y attendance
is 23,360 persons, and the average nightly
receipts $14,668
American managers ar now engaging
the dancing and singing g ris Of London,
by fh. hundred, and pay e salaries that
fairly s,arlle the British profess ionals.
Til, Ohio Temperance Alliance" re-
solved that the state has n more right
to license drinking saloons than it has 10
license counterfeitin@ establishments.
A Peoria shopkeeper has baen fined
for exhibiting goods in his'windaw mark
ed lower figure than he would sell @''
Last week matrimonial eng cement in
high life was broken in New York, in
consequence of the parties having dis
pute is to who should pay for the we'd
ding cards.
In the nortL of Irelan the Catholics
and Orangenen are fraternizing.
Black silks are now the fashionable re-
ception dresses in New York city
A gentleman walking near Oxford was
met by some students, who addressed him
with
Good morning, Father Abraham
II am not Father Abraham"
"Good morning, Father Isaac, said a.
second
II am not Father Isaac" was the reply
"Good morning Father Jacob" said a
third ss
81 am neither Abraham, Isaac, nor Jacob
but Saul, son of Klsh, who went out to
seek his fathers asses, and Lo! l have
found three of them" an al
A horrible shooting and stabbing affair
occurred at Abbeville, Miss, about sixty
miles from Memphis on Monday, between
nixrtxr nd
on one side; and Wimberly and two sons
on the, other Pistols and knives were
used with terrible effect Before. the par
ties were separated. the senior Clark was
shot in the head, and every one engaged
severely wounded. Wimberly is a son-in-
law of Clark. The quarrel was the re-
snlt of an old family feud.
The pioneer settlers of California con-
template an excursion to the Atlantic when
the Pacific Railway is completed.
A saw has been invented which leaves
the wood as smooth as if it had been passed
under planer.
A London, n H., man wears a coat
made of cloth which his grandmother
spun and wove when she was sixteen years
old, and which his mother, now ninety
years old, wore as a cloak when she was
sixteen. STA 4Y 1850 tD s@<A85#4sl
A correspondent of the Winsted Comm
H5rdld, claims to have discovered 100
modes of spelling the the word scissors
A young couple in Rockport Me-,
while counting, walked out together arm
in-arm, and fell through a hole in the
sidewalk, each breaking leg Paradox
cal as it may seem, their fall proved
lift" to them. and set them up in world
"a jury awarding them verdict $4,000
against the town. has aih
The Citizen reports that the most
luxurious house in New York is in Fifth
avenue, near Sixteenth street. The lace
curtains at the windows are so highly
wrought as to be taken for round point
and the furniture is covered Indian shawls,
The doors are very fine bronzes brought
from abroad, and bear the monogram which
also appears through the house, inlaid in
solid silver The lady of the house owns
diamonds ofgreat sple1dor, perhaps the
very finest in America.
Thirty shoe-pegging machines are in
operation in the town of Alton, n. I'll. A
shoe can be pegged in two minutes with
one of these machines.
It having been reported that the peach
crop III Illinois would be failure, The
JoDesboro Gazette says, "The prospects
in this, the largest each-growing county
in the state were never better. One year
ago last August, thirteen car loads of
peaches were shipped per day from Cob