The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-03-25
Miscellaneous Items.

Every Southern State has an agricult.
ural paper except Florida.
N. S. Morse, business manager of the
New York Ne'cs, gets $4,000 a year
A lady who writes in the I1adependent
says that the Judges of The Supreme
Court are chiefly remarkable for their
grave faces aud immense stomachs.
A colored man in Bridgeport, Conn, re-
Gently lifted key of nails, weighing 100
pounds, by the chime, with his teeth, held
it out in horizontal position full min
ute, and won bet of ten cents.
The bill to strengthen the public credit
which failed to become law under Pres
ident Johnson, has again passed both
houses of Congress- and will be the first
measure approved by General Grant
One of the New Haven Aldermen
Democratic of course-who desires re-
election, is excellently situated to obtain
nomination, having family In two
wards, and therefore being eligible in
either.
Nearly two-thirds of the persons that
are nowadays presented to Piusth Ninth
are Americans Russians who visit Rome
carefully avoid coming in contact with
the Pope or any Of his dignitaries Next
/ to the Americans, Frenchmen aret the most
numerous of those who wish to get &C.
quainted with Plus Ninth.
| The young ladies of Keithsburg, Iowa,
in caucus assembled, have "put their foot
down." and resolved to go to no balls or
parties where Everybody is cordially in
vited," and where men smoke drink and
quarrel.
The cotton crop of South Carolina for
1868 is now ascertalned to about 100000
bales, which, at 500 per bale, will be $685.
100000. 1t has more money value than
any other ever produced, although falling
short $4,000 bales.
Any person of good moral character,
being voter, may practice law in In
diana.
Knife handles and fine-tooth combs are
now made from potato pulp by chemi-
cal process.
A prophet is said to be often without
honor; perhaps honor is quite as often
without profit
Miss Maria L. Sanford is candidate
for County School Superintendent, in
Chester County, Penn
The Taxas newspapers continue to be
filed with accounts of robberies and
and assassinations in that State.
Wheat is doing finely in Texas, and
corn is knee high in Florida.
In New York city $4,000 persons are
crowded on each square mile
Two hundred and fifty school houses
were built in Kansas last year.
A land certificate for twelve hundred
acres was sold in San Antonio, Texas, for
twelve cents per acre.
The London underground railway has
only recently been completed so that it is
available for inhabitants for all parts of
the metropolis. Seven hundred trains
run over the various lines daily. The
system of signals, to prevant accident. is
said to be wonderfully ingenious A col
lision is almost an impossibility.
Madam Vauges, the leading huckster-
woman Of the Partisan market halls, La
Rois'e ds8 Holes, as she is called, is worth
half a million francs, but is to be found
all day at her stalls, selling turnips and
cabbage heads
At the election in Memphis, Tenn, on
the 9th instant, the entire Republican
ticket was successful, the candidate for
County Commissioner receiving a majority
.of 317 over all his competitors and the
County Trustee 354 majority The Board
Of Education stands IS Republicans to 5
Democrats.
Decatur, H., is mulcted in IS, 900 dam
ages for injuries to Miss Ada Fisher be-
cause of adjective sidewalk.
Giaard College has SO orphans stu-
dents, IL sixteen classes and its expendi-
lures, last year, were $135,648.
In 1913 gentleman who was about to
leave Worchester, Mass, wanted to sell
els farm in the south part of the city He
was offered $1,000, but demanded $1,000.
It was left with agents for sale, and they
have lately rcnlittM to 100000, and have
one half Of the farm still on hand
The Ito!ig, Of Naples, announces that at
Pompcii there have just been discovered
two marble busts-one of Pompey and
the other of Brutus They are both OF
fine executions, and have been placed in
the national museum
A meeting of prominent members of
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, has been
held, to raise the sum of $4,000 for a
colossal sfatueof Rev Henry Ward Beech
er, which is to comprise one of the thirty
SIX figures designed to adOrn the National