The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-09-03
General Notes.

432. SO in six months.
OF forty-nine railroads in Illinois
only seven pay dividends.
THERE is drive Of wood ten miles
long in the Carson river. It is thought
to contain 1000 cords.
WASHINGTON never was so healthy as
now, say the local papers. CONGRESS-
has adjourned, and doctors have nothing
to do.
SHAKESPEARE birthplace, at STRAIT
ford on-Avon, was visited by 1O,25O
persons last year and Mahomet's tomb
was visited by 100000.
The late Mr.. Daniels copy of the first
folio of Shakespeare's plays 1929 was
recently bought by the Baroness Bur-
dett- Coutts for 81, 218.
The Earl of Caithness has been max
ing himself useful by inventing and
patenting machine for washing and
brushing railway carriages.
ABOUT a ton of ice is used everv night
to cool the air that is pumped into the
House of Commons. The air is filtered
and rendered abs olutely pure.
GUESTS from sixteen different States,
from Mexico, France, Russia, England,
Africa and Germany, dined one day
last week at Des Moines Qowa) hotel.
IT is only thirty years since the first
electric telegraph line was established,
and at this time there are many more
than a million miles of telegraph wire
in use.
In 1857 Russia had 800 miles of rail
road; now she has more than 10000
miles, showing growth almost equal
to that which has characterized Ameri-
can railroads.
Our of total population of 100000
in the province of Liwa, in which
Jerusalem is situated, Mohammedans
number 100, 900, Christians 10000, and
Jews only 10000.
AT the almshouse, Blackwell's Island,
New York, the average number of pau
pers is about l 200 to 300 in the win
ter months, and from 800 to 1000 III
summer.
A COMPANY is being formed to work
the great salt deposits west of San
Antonio, Tex. These are of pure salt,
and the most extensive of any in the
world.
BUSINESS men every where say that
their July bills were paid this year
more promptly than usual-the most
encouraging sign yet for trim trade in
the fall.
IT is rumored that Sir Seymour Fitz-
gerald is to be sent as British Minister
to Washington. He has never been
abroad as Minister or Secretary before.
1t seems pretty tall mission to begin
on.
The first photographer has opened
his saloon in Truckee, New, and has
been shot by miner, who insisted on
having his picture taken by lamp-ight,
as he was going away early in the morn
ing.
DURING the war of 1870, a German
painter, having nothing else to do, fres-
coed his own dining A dealer
coming there one day was socharmed
that he gave him 60, 900 thalers for the
work of his leisure hours, and the panels
containing the coveted paintings were
carefully removed.
THE New York Mail denounces as a
double distilled fool young French
man who, seeing the dead body of a
very beautiful woman displayed at the
morgue, went and killed himself, first
writing a letter stating that he commit
ted the act in order to have his cadaver
put on the next slab to hers.
Mr.. STURGEON says he never had the
ability to manage small church. They
are like those canoes on the Thames
you must not sit this way or the other,
or do this thing or that thing, lest you
should be upset. His church is like a
big steamboat, and he can walk here or
there without any danger of upset
ting it.
DURING the Industrial Exposition
which opens in Chicago on the 7th of
will give his world-renowned impeIsona-
ton of Rip Van Wrinkle" at McVick-
er's theater, thus affording visitors from
the country an opportunity OF witness
ing one of the most affecting dramatic
exhibitions ever placed upon the stage.
AN instance of plucky women to be
noted is the walking tour of the Misses
Ward and a party of five American la
dies, who are now journeying on foot
through Germany. The ladies are &C
companled by lad of ID, and they are
travelling with sketch. books and light
haversacks, picking up information and
making an art tour of the German
towns.
The London Times Paris correspond
ent, writing twelve days before Marshal
Bazaine left his island prison, said /:
''There is much talk as to an attempt
by Madame Bazaine, accompanied by
several influential personages, to obtain