The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-11-05
Current Paragraphs.


T AUBURN Prison contains 1913 con.
yicts. ratara.s ~,
2IHE average car horse endures four
years. 10 9irIqigs 10 soa9o ,saiI5si gofa.
j ENGLAND has surplus of 100000
women. observation-disclosures,
FoREsTvnLE, Conn.,, turns out 1000
clocks daily. IN
The school population of Kansas has
doubled in FIVE years. al
In 1873 the population Of Austria ex.
elusive OF Hungary, was 20, 1000.
In ST. Peter, Mimi, is a pig only six
months old and weighing 270 pounds.
INSCRIPTION on a fence in Hardwich
Mo-: =" Nobuddy hich bosses this
fens."
A WONDERFUL chicken in Bowling
Green, KY, has a, coat of red hair in.
stead OF feathers. . 0"'
THERE is a musician in Cincinnati
who plays simultaneously Cor nearly sol
upon sixteen drums. an 1897 wfYr11
A sEvEN-YEAR-o OLD boy is awaiting
trial at New York for stabbing a play
mate of 10, who called him names.
The drought has been unprecedented
along the Rio Grande the past year. In
many places it has not rained for over a
year. -rli3 lt5a Yttaup .f...-.
PATTI receives higher pay in London
than Nilsson; the former getting two
hundred guineas night and the latter
two hundred pounds. -a5ol {A #a
The King of the Friendly Islands is
licensed Methodist preacher, and his
wife. Queen Charlotte, class-leader of
the same denomination.
EACH thing lives according to its
kind the heart by love, the intellect
by truth, the higher nature of man by
intimate communion with God. fa -
BENDIeo, formerly a noted pugilist,
is now Methodist preacher, deYoting
his time to the spiritual interests of the
lower classes of Great Britain.
THE ''Army of the James," at it's re-
cent reunion, refused to Join in the
movement to secure the re-opening of
the case of Gen. Fitziohn Porter. ~.r
CHICAGO has figured up her fruit
trade and finds that it amounts to a
daily total Of about $4,000, or over
$ll, 900, 600 for the six months season.
PROF. GOODWIN SMITH has introduced
at Cornell University one of 2Oxford's
genial customs, that of inviting the
senior class to- dine with him at the
close of his lectures. =. 'Sloh Gag %. i
A LITTLE girl in Paris who was play
ing with toy balloon drew in her
breath while initiating it, and the col
lapsed balloon went down her throat
and choked her to death.
The explosive force o. the fire
damp, which is the cause of so many
accidents in coal mines, has been calcu-
lated TO be equal to 146.6 atmospheres,
or more than 1000 pounds to the inch.
ACCORDING to an official report. there
were no less than 433, 295 cases of chol-
era in Hungary last year. Of this
number 237, 718 recovered, 1872, $40 died,
and the remainder were under treat
ment. The deaths were therefore about
AZ per cent. -. i. tat
THE statistical editor of the Times,
Grand Island, Neb., says 10000, O00,-
600, 900, 900, 900, 600, 900, 600, 900, 100000
grasshoppers, at least, passed over here
yesterday. There might have been
fcrr nNn n1a 10%
them very closely.
A FRENCH writer declares that Tur-
key is in a much better financial con-
dition than France. The expenditures
are less per head than those of France,
the taxes 20 francs per head, against IS
in France, and the debt 174 francs per
capita, against $40 in France.
EVEN as the New York Tribune is to
honor it's founder by full-fgured
colossal statue at the doorway of it's
new building, SO the Louisville Journal
is to honor tn man who made it
famous with statue of George D.
Prentice at the portals of it's recon
structed domisile.
A MILK adulterer was lately arrested
in Sheffield, Eng, and during his exam
nation admitted that he carried in his
cart a can of milk and can of water,
and mixed the liquids according as cir
cumstances favored the adulteration.
No chalk was found in the milk can,
and he was discharged with repri-
mand. .a.. s.... .,,s.
A WONDERFUL clock has been in
vented by German ieweler living in
Norwich, Conn. The whole discern
ible mechanism is transparent dial
plate and pair of black walnut hands.
The latter turn loosely on pivot, and
i whirled in different directions will
Immediately readjust themselves to the
exact time.
Our English visitor, Mr.. Forster,
finds himself surprised at the early
start our democracy takes, as shown in