The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-15
People and Things,

A BABY III Milwaukee has been chris
tened "Zero, " in honor of the cold Sun
day upon which he was born.
The Hon. D. A. Coney, as Mayor of
Augusta, Me-, stepped into an office that
MS father had held twenty one years ago.
The new three-million-dollar hotel at
San Francisco will contain, among other
features, billiard room for the exclusive
use of ladies.
A SWEET little 12-year-old of Browns
vile, Tenn, is on trial for poisoning
three little children. She did it .:iust
to see 'em die"
Ex-Gov, Moses, of South Carolina.
has filed his petition in bankruptcy. His
liabilities amount to 1902, 451. so; assets
next to nothing.
LUNY THAYER has been Justice of the
Peace In Parish, Fulton county, n. Y,
for over thirty years, and has never had
a decision reversed.
In France man has been condemned
for libel which he wrote with a sharp
stick on the skin of q green pumpkin
growing in the fields.
The debt owing by bankrupt foreign
States amounts to no less than :e24O,-
600, 900, of which the greater partial
most al-is held in England.
Col. J. G. LANE, of the United States
army, will have command of the expedi-
ton to be sent out by the American So
ciety for the Exploration of Palestine.
TREASURER SPINNER has served in his
present capacity for a period Of four
teen years. His brilliant and familiar
signature will be missed from our future
issues of currency.
In Missouri wolf scalps are received
In payment of taxes, and the Legislative
committee appointed for that purpose
burned about Sc, 900 worth, that had ac-
cumulated during the last two years.
IT is said that since the passage of the
Civil Rights bill the Pennsylvania Col
onization Society has received applica-
lions from eighty-six negro families in
Alabama for transportation to Liberia.
A DEER, owned in the county of Linn
eriek, Ireland, recently jumped over a
wall thirteen feet in height. It had been
separated from his companions, and to
rejoin them took this extraordinary leap.
A YOUNG woman in Macoupin county.
ILL.,, recently sawed cord Of hard wood
In 1O5 minutes, cutting each stick twice.
Pretty and not quite Is, she performed
this feat because her mother told her
that she was good for nothing but to
read novels.
A STREET preacher of San Francisco,
being disturbed during a sermon, Sun
day week, pulled out police whistle
and began blowing it, but those who
disturbed him skedaddled, and the po-
lice arrested the dominic for blowing the
whistle without cause.
A LIEUTENANT in the Russian navy
publishes device for quickly stopping
holes made in ships by collisions It
consists Of waterproof, pliable patch,
with mechanism by which it may be ad-
justed on the outside of the leaking sur
face. The Russian men-of-war are being
supplied with it.
WHAT in the world is Patti going to
do with all her diamonds? At the CON
cluslon of her recent engagement at ST.
Petersburg she was presented with a
magnificent diadem of diamonds and
sapphires, by far the handsomest gift
she has received during her several visits
to the Russian capital.
The duties of Connecticut school
master in 1861 were as follows: FtTo act
as court messenger, to serve sum-
monses, to conduct services in the
church, to lead the choir on Sundays, to
ring the bell for public worship, to dig
the graves, to take charge of the school,
and to perform other occasional duties.'
BRET HARTE once worked for his
board mp in one of the Sierra valleys, but
the old fellow he lived with thinks he
hardly paid his way: "Do you see that
fence?" said the old man to a party of
visitors lately, pointing to stump-and-
brush affair around his garden. sFWen,
Bret staid with me two year, an about
all he done was to help me build that
Two HUNDRED and thirty-four millions
of oranges and lemons were sent from
Italy to New York during 1874 33 per
cent. OF the oranges and IA per cent. of
the lemons spoiled in the Atlantic pass
age. Over 1,270,861 boxes of fruit of
all sorts were sent from italian ports to
the United States during the same year.
The business is regarded by the Sicilians
in particular as very profitable.
A BOY at work in Pittsburgh glass
factory went off the other day and had
glorious drunk. The firm, having no
sympathy with glorious DRINKS, dis
charged the drunkard. Then the other
hands in the shop, taking sides with
glorious DRINKS, refused to work unless
the drunkard was restored to his place.
Result of the movement, the firm shut
up shop and will not reopen until Sep
TENDER, and seventy-fve hands are out
of work
RAPID PRINTING. Glasgow NeaOs
says "The change of proprietorship of