The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-01-14
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
The University Glass Examination il
England elicit some very absurd answers
especially to questions on English anq 81
blical history. The following settles. 81
questions and answers is the last absurdty
of this kind we have seen. @. What
animal in Scripture is said TO have spoken:
A. The whale. @. To whom did the
whale speak? A. To Moses, in the bul-
PUSHES. O. What did the whale say?
A Thou art the man @. what ara
Moses reply? A. Almost thou Persaad-
est me to be Christian. G. " Aaf was
the effect on the whale? A. re rushed
violently down a steep place IN inc sea
and persisted in the waters.
A london letter-carrier, with children
and a sick wife to support ON nine
sbillines q week, stole twelve postage
stamps from letter, and has been sent to
prison for five years. Economy would
suggest an increase Of salaryas the proper
remedy for his case.
Steam-pIowing in California promises
to be a success. The machine Is their
own invention. It cuts burrows nine
feet wide, and from five to eight inches
deep, pulverizing fine travels six miles an,
hour, and weighs only seven tons.
The Church NonthJy an organ of the
Episcopalians in its October number,
comes out sduarely for ritualism, which, it
saws, dis a system that belongs to the
church by righto inheritance. It is no
innovation, but resurrection from tn.
dead" s q
At Pembina, 500 miles north Of ST..
Paul, they raise so bushels of wheat to
the acre; there are beautiful prairies and
groves, and summer day is three hours
longer than at Cincinnati.
I. beet sugar farm Of 5000 acres is to
be established in Bueha Vista County,
Iowa Near Clinton, in the same 5tata, a
farm of 260 acres is to be devoted TO the
growing Of garden and flower seeds.
The advocates Of a prohibitory liquor
law claim two thirds majority in each
House of the Massachusetts, Legislature.
A misery human monster, living at
Wesport, Mo. the other day offered to sell
his little boy fer six dollars.
A young lady in New Albany received
sixty calls on New Years day and sang
Captain Jinks fifty FIVE times,
The National public debt statement for
Jam airy shows that the metz deb on that
date Was ,540.707.20l25.
Six hundred live quails we're shipped
from Dubuque to Massachusetts, q few Ga! s
ago.
Congress has one hundred and ten bills
before it, and in the hands Of Its commit
tees, asking aid to Pacific Railroad
schemes.
Judge Ingraham, Of the supreme Court
Of New York has granted an injunction
restraining the consolidation of the Mer-
chants Union with other express compa-
MES.
On Tuesday woman named Will
ans, residing in Hampton villag{ Canada,
in a fit Of insanity, drowned her two
children in a barrel Of water, and vas
discovered in the act of ending her aWn
life by getting in the barrel head firsi.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton of st. Paul's Methodist Episc pal
Church, Wilmington Dell have been de
batting She question, SHOULD the whip
ping-post be abolished?' and have decided
it in the negative.
A strong movement is on foot in RUSSIA
to givea higher and more complete edu-
cation to women.
A Portland, Me, mechanic ha, made .
fine cambria needle which can beunscrtw-
ed, and which contains in hollow with
in, another smaller needle.
Within the last ten days many failures
have taken place among the dry goods
houses Of New York, one correspondent
placing the amountas high as $10,000,000.
The Ku-Klux Khan made raid on a
negro school house q few days since. at
Bedford, Tenn with the intention Of
burning it, but they were driven off by
the negroes, who fought with spirit
Eight burglars, who have been opera
ting EXTENSIVELY in Warren, O. were LACEY
captured
A grand row took place among the
New York Democracy, on Wednesday
night, at meeting of the Democratic
Union General Committee and it became
necessary for the police to interfere tC
prevent bloody fight.
Brigham Young has telegraph wire;
leading to his Office and connecting viii
- every hamlet in Utah---a line 500 miles