The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-09-08

The French Generals bearing Irish names
are described as more French than the French
themselves. Nc Mahon received deputaton
of patriots from Dublin, who brought him
subscription sword, with extreme hauteur
and indifference.
young fellow in Nashua, n H., recently
got angry with his sweetheart. and for re
venge took her to ride and lett he on the
steps OF a country hotel several miles from
home to find her way back as best she could
The girl one evening afterwards Induced HIM
10 dive her to visit sister, twenty miles DIS
tant, and while lie was out of the buggy
endeavoring to decipher the name of a door
plate, she drove of and left him to go houie
when he got. ready. The fun cost him TWEEN
ty dollars. fsass s1,s ~.
Strakosch recently wandered into Gin
cinnati saloon to absorb few glasses of beer
and was so delighted with the singing of all
inebriated young man chat he placed him
under instruction, and now they say he is
gifted and will make his debut next season.
The ladies who ride in cars out of New York
ought to be careful not to keep their heads
too close to the windows near the platform at
the railroad depots. A fashionable lads
bound for Saratoga, while thus situated, re-
Gently had valuable diamond earring torn
from her ear by thief s53 Is sfIa
in a serious complication with his landlady a.
few days since in consequence of his failure
to pay a board bill. When the woman found
that she could get no money, she - went
through his specimens with poker, and
destroyed ifty-siH glass bottles.
The Peterson family, one OF the largest
in Central Ohio, had very happy reunion
recently, near Xenia, i'll that State. The
table used on the occasion was 600 feet long
There were 325 persons present, the eldest
being ninety-four and the youngest six
months. An emigration pass used by the
founder of the family, dated 1876, was the
principal relic exhibited II saaat az
A hint to afflicted parents is afforded by
the following advertisement published in an
English Church paper =" Home wanted for
an unmanageable boy, aged ten, with q cler-
gyman. Strict disciplinsrian, accustomed
and willing to birch. Liberal terms sings
in choir" 4o'@ .D
A story that 5000 men are left to shift for
themselves upon the (Tortugas) Island upon
which Fort Jefferson stands, is supremacy
ridiculous. Unless they lived in the fort,
one-sixth that number Of men conld not
find room to stand upon that island The
whole of the saad-bank, for that is about all
that 1t is, does not comprise twenty acres,
and OF these the fort covers twelve Of there
abouts
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Numerous cases have occurred in which
persons struck by lightning have been said
on the body picture ola tree near
Induction coil of the. London Poly
technic seem to prove that the supposed
arborcscent mark Is the definition, SO IS to
be seen on the surface, OF the branching veins
OF the body 1t is possible, as has been often
asserted in cases Of death by lightning, that
q oil 1hafta y
their traces on the body in the shape of film
Of gold or silver. t~
A military commission at st. Petersburg Ia
actively engaged in studying some modifca
ions which it is proposed to introduced into
luapsacks. A French doctor has laid be-
ore the commission knapssck which by
means OF a simple piece of mechanism can be
brought round to the front, and made to
erve at the same time asa breast plate forithe
Older ana rest for his rife. Economy in
space Is the order OF the age.
TRAIN OF CARS ON A BENDER. The Albany
ournal says About eleven O. clock,sa train
II freight ears, attached to locomotive were
tanding on the track between this city and
" est Albany, when the brakes were loosened
o allow the train to proceed on its way west.
happening to be on the grade, before they
'ould bestarted up, the entire train comm
nceo TO move backwards to the city, and in
pite OF brakes or the efforts of the engiA,
o go IN anopposte direction, their bac
yard pace rapidly increased. s Warnings wcsr
ounded as they came on, and the track W
Don cleared, giving them free course. aud l.
heir headlong speed was not checked until
hey came to the Hudson River Bridge. 1t
Eas feared, that as it was about time for the
hudson River express train to arrive, thel
7oud be collision on the bridge, but luck
~ was behind time, and the freight trai
1as got out OF the waylbefore it arrived. The
nglne attached to the runaway train, in its
forts TO check the speed, blew out both
ylnder heads and broke the parallel bars, j..
lightly htHa@ 't@a 1ts~.ta y3fa91e- f'I {