The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-01-19

A teacher catechising his scholars put tn,
following question What was m ade tt
give light to the world Pr" Matches,
cried one of the youngsters.
Ninety-six George Washingtons voted at
one of the ballot-boxes in Montgomery, Ala,
of whom ninety-four were colored. And this
is fame.
! herd of about fifty elk made its appear
ance in Lyon county, Iowa, on Wednesday.
the sc ttlers turned out and captured between
fifteen and twenty of them.
| A country paper in Alabama wants to know
wheather Susan B. Anthony is the wife of
Mark Anthony III our contemporary Will
turn to his history Of Rome be will find that
Mark died at least ten years before Susan was
born.
It is Republican claim in New Hampshire
that they have as their candidate for Cover
nor, "a soldier without arrogance,a clergy
man without clerical ignorance of business,
and an advocate of temperance without
tyranny, and politician without trickery."
| young married woman, apparently in
good health, fell dead in Coatesville, Chester
county, Penn, few days ago, while prepar-
ing dinner, and her aged mother, fastening
down staires on being summoned, fell and
was killed instantly.
A member once said to a minister who
wanted little more salary as his family
Increased: :" did not know that you
preached for money" No. don't" said
souls" 6 SO do. But couldn't live on
souls and if could, it would take good
many of the size of yours to make meal.
The night editor of daily paper wrote
this head line to one of his cable dispatches !:
" The British lion shaking his NAME" lie
was unable to eat his breakfast next morning
when he found the printers version OF the
ttoru nj vi Int he ia huc 0 Tho
British lion skating in Maine"
stranger was riding about town the 9th er
day, taking a view of Hartford. Passing
over College HILL on the west side of the
park, he noticed the fine bronze statue of the
late Bishop Brownell. and inquired of the
driver, :" Who is that % ~ dunno" was
the reply: "one o. them brass in surance
men, s'pose."
Max Emanuel Ainmiller, one of the great
est colorists and architectural painters of
his time died, at Munich recently, In the
sixty fourth year of his age. He undertook
the task of rowling the art Cost four centu.
ries ago. of painting on glass in stain work,
and brought it tt considerable perfection.
In the Wisconsin Legislatures, this winter,
one Senator and three Representatives are
natives of the state six Senators and thirty
two Representatives are foreign born. The
oldest Senator is aged seventy one years, and
the Oldest Representative eighty-three years
Sat. Clark has lived longest in Wisconsin,
forty-two years, and has the longest legislative
experience, ten years.
scientific lecturer on walking says his
experiments show that one side of the body
always tends to outwalk the other side. 1t is
not possible, when the eyes are shut, to walk
in the straight line for any length of time, and
it will be found, where persons lose their way
that they almost invariable wander off to the
right rather than to the left.
In the Ohio Legislature. Thursday, on a
vote for appropriating money for bust off
Seitz, of Seneca county, responded that he
voted yes out of respect for the sculptor, but
not for the dead. If the neighbors of that
Seitz keep hen-roosts without putting them
under lock and key, they do 80 on their own
responsibility.
peculiar feature in lot of locomotives
just manufactured at Providence, and shipped |
to Hamilton. Canada, is the arrangement of
the bell, which is located on platform in
front of the cylinder, and SO arranged that
each revolution CT the drying wheels forces
the hammer against the bell, independent OF
the engineer of fireman. On that road it Is |
to be constant lookout for the locomotive
while the bell rings !"
The electricity generated by rapidly NOV
ing belt is immense. The oneleading from the /
fy-wheel of the large engine that drives the
works in Patterson's building, Hartford,
develops electricity enough to ignite a gas.
light situated at last six feet from the belt.
By presenting the knuckles Of one hand to |
the belt and the point of the finger of the |
other to the burner, the gas will be instantly |
ignited.
At the second Nilsson concert in St. Louis
an anonymous gentleman approached the |
footlights and pres ented Miss Nilsson with
beautiful basket of flowers. The inner circle
of the basket contained choice camelias and |
in the center was q monogram with the
words, 6 You Angel ~ worked with violets
on double white primroses. Miss Nilsson
received the simple, yet -aste present, with
a winning smile and low obeisancc.
A Georgia editor in luck Twenty -four
heather Chinese walked into his sanctum the
other day, and, through the medium of an
paid cash down for twenty -four
to his paper. The editor
wondered greatly what thew wanted of an
English paper not being able to read it, and
was informed that they took it for the
:. pictures" in it, the paper having catarrh
cut, q guano trademark, and an umbrella
. picture
A farmer at Helmsville, Iowa, has pocket
book which was carried by his great.grand-
father as long ago as 1850. 1t is singular
piece of worS-made almost entirely ofsilver
scales about the size OF five-cent piece, the
lining having been bright leather of some
length and two and half in width. 1t has
no compartments. It's clasps are fastened
with two minute hooks
A brace of Chicago awindlers have got up a
new game that is rascalIy. They run an .. in.
Lelligenee office.'' Two women testify TO
having been offered the choice of being mat
ron of the Palmer House or preceptress of
French seminary, and to paying five dollars
each for an interview with a gentleman
rOinor tn GERMANY who wants com rinn