The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-12-07


on the bank ola stream with angling
rods, and their faces come together
in osculatory exercise, is.that fish
ing smack ?
A boy Of five summers, in New
England, recently, while at his de-
votions, surprised the family by pray
ing that he might have sixty brothers
and one hundred sisters.
Luke Smith, of Shapleigh, Maine,
shot and severely, if not fatally, in
jured his two sons while under the
influence Of hquor, on Sunday last.
Smith has been bound over for trial.
The ice is two inches thick
throughout the whole section of the
Erie Canal. The canal is frozen
tight east of Utica. No boats are
moving, and the weather is cold
and freezing.
a Louisville boy tried to scare a
rat to death, but the joke was revers-
ed when the rat ran up his trowser's
leg and used his claws and teeth with
such effect that the boy dose not sit
as comfortable as he did before.
"Glve me a pound of OYSTERS"
said man to an oyster vendor who
was going by. Il sell by measure,
not by weight said the oysterman.
"Then give me yard Of them,''
said the man. Theoysterman shook
his head obviously and passed on.
Louise, Marchioness of Lorne is
making friends very fast among her
husbands countrymen, and is busy
seeing all that is to be seen in that
bonnie and cannie land. On Wednes
day she attended the opening of a
grand bazaar at Glasgow.
The japanese Government has
signif;ed its wish that the American
Woman's Missionary Society should
undertake the education of woman
Of the higher classes in Japan, and
numerous applications are received
for teachers.
Six books and a panorama already
announced, will post the people in
regard to the Chicago fire. There has
been SO little in the papers about
this fire, that the authois have taken
pity on an ignorant public and pro-
pose to let the people know something
about it.
Lady Burdett Coutts is to erect a
red granite monument, with drink
ing fountain for dogs, in honor of the
Edinburgh dog who insisted in sleep
ing on his masters grave for ten
years after his death. 1t is to be sew
en- feet high and surmounted by a
bronze figure of the animal.
Ihe Steamer Iloga OF the Union
Steamboat Company, which cleared
from Detroit for Buffalo Friday
night, had among other cargo, two
barrels Of choice family flour direct
ed to Her Majesty Queen Victoria,
London, England" manufactured
at Milford, Michigan.
The Chicago papers all say that
carpenters, bricklayers, stone masons
ect, cannot be obtained half fast
enough to do tho work required in
clearing away the ruins and rebuild
ing the city. And yet the trades-un,
ions of that city are sending circu
lars all over the country, saying that
there is no chance for work in that
city.
We want an intellectual pulpit.
The demand is everywhere for intelli
gence and power 1.-THE people are tc
listen to teacher, they expect him
to bring such a message as will In
struct not only but impress them at
the same time. Mere exhortation and
rhapsody are no more in place. The
religious mind has grown beyond
these. 1t is the intellect of the pull
pit which at the present time secures
to it its hearers.
1t is announced from Japan that
about five hundred of the more adj
vanced and promising pupils at the
Yeddo Government School have been