The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-08-27
General Notes.

THE real estate of New York is valued
at $3.50, 100000. re~V rrr-rg,
GAME is plenty at Cape May. It is
principally euchre.
A LITTLE ammonia water is one of the
best head-cleaners there is.
IT is now alleged that the odors of the
alianthUs sti6e the mosquito.
THERE were only thirty-three sum-
mer resorts opened this season. l*
WATER forms nearly three-fourths
OF the entire weightlof the body. 81
A FEW weeks ago therewer 1 ,093, 900
bales of cotton in the port of Liver
pool. Ia
THESE are the days in which to ask
favors. Everybody is in melting
mood.
CHINESE laborers on Georgia planta-
tons give satisfaction to the owners of
the lands.
FLORA MoFLIMsEY surpasses even
herself this season by wearing colored
silk hose worth IS a pair.
In London churches they are giving
notice that Five minutes after the bells
cease to ring all pews are free"
EIGHT colts which had taken shelter
under tree in Lancaster county, Pa,
were killed by stroke OF lightning.
A BEL1EvILLE Gil. hermit has sold
his farm for $4,000 in gold, refusing
greenbacks, as he had no faith in them.
IT took the hides of 1875 cattle to fur
nish leather for three huge belts lately
sent to Augusta, Ga, by manufact-
Urer at Chicopee, Mass.
AN old gentleman died recently at
Allentown, Pa, who had been married
four times, the ceremonies having taken
place on his fortieth, fftieth, sixtieth
and SEVENTEEN birthdays. "
EVERY true Anne rican is born in a
fever, lives ON dyspepsia, and seeks re-
lief in death at every railroad station,
ferry and crowded thoroughfare. Dom
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A PENNSYLVANIA farmer states that
he cured his daughter of the Grecian
bend bypouring water on her and hold
ing her out in the sun till she warped
back again
AN official return gives the total num-
Der of the forces lately engaged in
the Ashantee war at 1857 mer. The
total casualties. including those from
disease, were 723.
"YoU hear me is going out of fash
ion. "That's me that's coughing" is
absolutely the latest way of emphasiz-
ing and calling attention to your re-
marks. - Chicago Tribune.
WHEN. a well-known Omaha thief
meets policeman and hands him SIS it
is the duty of the officer to go and sit
down in an alley and see nothing for
the next nothing but the S..
A SOUTHWESTERN journal informs it's
readers that at night, "when you see
the big dipper with it's handle toward
you and the tail of the comet in the
bowl, it is about time to go home and
go to bed
The triumphs and the troubles of
any of us don't seem so important after
all, when we reflect that each of us is
but one of the 1891 ,032, 900 who are
creeping, walking, or tottering over the
earth's surface.
THE steam shovels used On the Cen
trial road along the Mohawk Valley, in
New York State, cost $1,000 each.
They scoop one and a half yards of
gravel at one motion, and load plat
form car in three minutes.
A NEGRO who lived near Madison,
Fla, went with his son to watch for a
bear that had been eating his corn. He
told the son to fire on whatever passed
certain point, and the consequence
was the boy killed the old man.
PACIFIC coast salmon are being
shipped to the East and to England by
the overland route. The rivers of the
Pacific States are teeming with salmon
of the choicest quality, and there is
prospect of great trade with the East
that will bring down the price of this
delicious fish.
THERE are said to be 800 paper mills
IN operation in the United States, with
a capital investment of $40, 600, 600 and
a total production of $1,000, 600.
These mills give employment nominally
to 10000 people, whose earnings are
footed up at $40, 900, 900 annually. Last
year was not profitable one for the
manufactures.
Cause of Imperfect Vision.