The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-17

The record of steamboat boiler explosions,
kept in the Office of the Board of Supervising
Inspectors, in the Treasury Department,
shows that there were more lives lost by the
Westfield disaster than by oil the steamboat
explosions which have occurred in either of
the past two years. In 1869. there were 81
lives lost by explosions on steamers of all
characters, including river, lake and ocean
craft and in 1870 the number was 81, of
which SO were passengers and 81 crew.
At Heidelberg, in Germany, there is not q
language, ancient or modern, without its COM
petent Professor to teach to all corners. A
japanese student, unable to speak word
of German, found there on his arrival teach
er able to converse with and give him lessons
through the medium of his own language. &
A Pennsylvania paper says that the only
whipping post remaining there, is at Ply
mouth, on Ant Hill-the old elm tree stand
ing on the left side of the road. In Revolu-
House, the auction mart, the forum aud the
election polls, as we'll as the whipping post.
A French newspaper is shortly to be issued
at Green Bay. 1t is designed to be indepen-
dent in politics, and devoted entirely to the
interests of the French speaking population
in Wisconsin and the West. . . ,
The vexed question, whether cundurango
is a cure for cancer or not, will soon be set
tied. A recent arrival in New York has
brought considerable Quantity of the drug,
which is being rapidly scattered through the
country. ..a afs. f.s.. +.-,tr.9 r,rs I
! "A Partisan who falsely denounced friend
during the late troubles has been condemned
before . civil tribunal to pay 500 francs fine,
to print the judgment in the newspapers, and
to circulate fifty hand bills announcing that
he did the deed to crafty his spite. 1'gaag
A Terre Haute paper makes this interesting
statement 80 If the party who plays the acs
cordeon in this vicinity at nights will only
change his tune occasionally, or sit where we
can scaldrhm when the engineahas steam on,
he willhear of something to his advantage"
In an Iowa Falls Sabbath school the Super
intendent was recently reviewing the lesson
and was talkingrofn the verse reading " Let
your loins be girded and your lights burning,
He, asked the8Question, = Why are we com
manded tont grid our loins :" /" and a sharp
shaver sung out, - 70 keep your breeches up.P
A Correspondent of an agricultural paper
asks ,:.""Where can wool be probably grown?''
We are of the opinion that there is no place
where it can more, proftably grown than
on the back of a sheep. basrrIg eW .noefaa
Some of the bathing houses, attached to the
cottages at Long. Branch. areomade with flat
/ roofs with railing around, and benches IN
| them, thus answering the purpose OF sum.
mer house or arbOrl sIa9T JdNll .Aiox W9E
A maintained Hunt, arbutcher in Sacramen.
| to, was bitten on the neck by a'common ny
on Friday, from the effects Of which he died
on Monday night after great suffering In
| : A Western editor accuses contemporary O.
g dirty meanness," and frankly adds: .tsWe
want him to understand that two canaplay at
that game" ogiup2G GosBlBne mor hEf
| A San Francisco doctor advertised for a
"good office cat.H He has already received
243 felines, with the southern counties yet to
near IronHlii gt1aR nB4 uE agiuada yd1Jnow a
| A man in Louisville, KY, named Browne re.
Gently lost his wife by burning He grieved
so much for her loss that, the other day. while
sitting on her grave he was sunstruck, and
has been put where he can beIwith her all the
time. oa an8 I'D h8ilsltaa sha son9i79gEs Eltl
George Francis Train has gone TO switzer.
land, to return to Ireland in September, when
he is to sail for America where's he says, he
has sstwos hundred mass meetings for the
residency.''ol gB lgq setsa o9nd o7 7.an
The appearance of the Asiatic Cholera il
1.-THE Baltic portions of Prussia has caused con
siderable alarm in Western Europe, and many
will be the subject of serious thoughts by tht
i people Of our own country Fl ti.1 IN M Go
t@MNfA NME0A& &s@W JEWS ~ * Z