The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-02-25

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The wooden mills of California used
four or five million pounds of wool
last year, and those of Oregon one mil
lion.
The Waukesha FREEMAN claims that
Mrs Duer, who resides there, and is 101
years old, is the oldest person in the stat e.
She is native of Scotland, but has been 4
in this country 70 years.
Daniel Whittemore, offspring Prairie,
Walworth county, owns a Durham calf
seven months old that weighs 625 pounds.
An individual from the rural districts
dead-headed to considerable extent
lately in Burlington, VT, on the strength
of being connected with the press" On
inquiry it was ascertained that he tended
q cider mill.
A Boston "servant-gal" who had ''fol-
lower" told the lady with whom she
sought situation that she preferred that
he should be kept in ignorance of the fact
that she was doing house-work, as he sup
posed she was boarding"
Some one in Ohio wants to make We
locipede to run on one rail of railroad
and thinks it can be propelled at the rate
of hundred miles an hour.
Captain E. B. Ward, of Detroit, Mich,
the champion financier has lately been
divorced on the petition of his wife ION the
- ol, &c
yearly was awarded, and no defense was
made. s#KH6 &<gE
DISCONTINUED Democrats in Iowa are
emigrating to Texas. They can be spared
from Iowa and cannot make Texas worse
than it now is. ,B ErH
A home has been established in Florida
for children whose fathers have been killed
by the Ku-Kluksa and Others because they
dared to be loyal.
Oregon begs two hundred and fifty
servant girls to come and do its house
work wages $25 in gold, per month, and
from four to ten suitors each.
The cork is the outer bark of species
of oak that grows in Spain and some other
parts of Southern Europe Under this
there is another hard bark that protects
the tree, which keeps on growing, and in
four or five years the outer bark is renewed
then again taken off Cork, it is well
known,is used for great variety of pur-
poses besides for corks.
It is asserted in Texas that ever since
the close of the war there hasbeena system
of Matchmaking and numbering of Texas
drovers as they pass through Missouri and
Kansas.
Denver, Colorado, is buying coal for
$3.50 ton mined near by.
Louisville, KY, fines its schoolmasters
So for getting drunk in public.
The present Protestant population of
France IL estimated at 81 100000.
The immense Maxwell House, in Nash
vile, which, in its unfinished condition.
was used as military hospital during the
wa4, is nearly ready for occupation. It's
Cost approaches 100000, and it is one of
the largest hotels in the country The
lot on which it is built was bought, in 1880,
for eleven dollars.
Where the buffaloes have lived, herds,
Of cattle innumerable can be grazed,
Where the antelope has sported, focks of
sheep beyond counting can be fed. Hence
on the plains east Of the Rocky Mountains
and in the valley of the Platte, there will
soon be beef, mutton and wool gathering
to supply half the world.
A young man asked an old man for hi
daughter in marriage. The answer was
"Go into the orchard and bring in num-
Der ofapples. GIVEN half the whole
number, and the mother half of the balance
and half an apple over and to the daughter
one half Of the remainder and haitian apple
Overland have one left to yourself, without
cutting an apple; and then if she is will
ling, yon can have her" He solved the
question. How many did he bring?
A doctor was very much annoyed by
an old lady who always stopped him on
the street to tell him of her ailments.
Once she met him when he was in great
hurry. "Ah! I see you are quite feeble"
said the doctor. ''Shut your eyes and
show me your tongue" She obeyed, and
the doctor moved off, leaving her stand
ing there for sometime in that ridiculous
position, to the infinite amusement of all
who witnessed the fnnny scene.
Lewis Farley, late of Marion county,
Ind, who was recently killed on the plains
by the Indians, was member of the 18th
Indiana regiment,and noted for his brave
~ and daring as a scout. Inhis last fight
with the Indians he killed three of the
redskins while he was lying on the ground,
wounded. A
One of the leading merchants of Shan
ghai, China, is a genuine live Yankee