The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-21

sters. First, to test their utility, he
might try them with small boat; but
to find out their power he must ship
aboard fishing schooner and hitch one
Of his immense steeds to the anchor.
All that is necessary is to form stock
company, buy up Coney Island for
stable, and make application for the
privilege of taking the merchant ma
rine to and fro. "There's millions
in it."-NeO York Tribune.
Profit of Rats.
If bright eyes and smooth fur are
the points of animal beauty, cat
should not be an object of disgust and
aversion; but when the rat appears
in his thousands" he certainly in
spires the greatest possible loathing in
the human breast. The notion of
swarms of rats running over each
other, to reach some hapless victim,
and forming a seething mass, instinct
with hunger and thirst, is one ever
present to sufferers from nightmare, or
students of historical novels. These
unfortunate persons avoid Paris, for, if
we believe some statistics, lately pub
lished, of the number of rats in that
metropolis" the Joyous city" is a
complete rats pest. Thirty thousand
were killed last year in the Central
Hal1es, 10000 in the Market Halles,
100000 IN the slaughter houses, 40, 600
in the butchers shops, 800, 000in the gro
GERS shops, 900, 00Oin the tanners yards.
10, 600 in the canals-a total of l, $780,
70 NH l0oo ID oh
about 100000 rodents which eluded
capture, so that Paris boasts of a
standing army of something like
100000 rats. Some idea may be
formed of the magnitude of this loath-
some host from the fact, that if pro-
cession of Partisan rats, running ten
abreast, we're to start from Paris to
Berlin, the vanguard would reach the
German capital, while the rearguard
was issuing from the gates of the
French metropolis. But then, there is
profit for all in them. Of the 100000
killed, perhaps nearly all went to the
glovers, where their skins are turned
into "prime kid
The Commerce Of Chicago.
The following is an approximation to
the value of our trade in 1874. It in
cIudes only the first selling price, Sec
ond sales not being counted, though
made by jobbers:
M Wno1TSa efnres 1Sa SOO0OV
Total. .......... ................S6S $685., 300, 600
Deduct from this for manufactures in
cluded in wholesale. ................. 43,3OC,OOO
Total business. $685., zoo. 900
Do. in 1873. 596,0OO,OOO
These figures give an increase of 49,
per cent. in produce, an increase of 10
per cent. in wholesale trade. and de-
crease of 81 per cent. in manufactures.
The increase of the whole over 1873 is
Il per cent.
The above figures would be mate
rally increased if we included the
sales of produce to shippers after it
has once been sold in open market;
and no inconsiderable addition would
be made if we should note the street
trade of the city, as ice, milk, vegeta-
bles, dressed hogs, oats, ETC., which go
to the consumer directly from wagon,
without being placed in store. The
sales of real estate are also omitted;
they do not belong to the wholesale
trade of the city.
The following were TIE totals for
previous years, estimated on the same
basis:
Oct H. 1871 to Oct IL, 1872. $3.50, DOC, 900
1870. 4oS,0OO,OoO
1869. 40e,UO0,uOO
1868. acknowledgements. 434, 100000
1860 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 97,000,O00
1880 Observation-Disclosures. 10000, 900
Chicago Tribune.
A TERRIBLE DEATH. = The Buffalo
Courier says: Augustus Catwinkle, of
Salisbury, Herkimer county, left his
home last Wednesday week to look at
some timber land several miles distant.
He became lost, and while crossing a
creek broke through. He pulled off
his boots to empty the water and they
froZe so hard that he could not get them
on again. He then crawled for long
distance on his hands and knees in
search of some refuge from the pene-
trating atmosphere, but death put an
end to his sutferings, and when found
he was in that position. It was seen
where he had attempted to build fire
with bark which he had pulled from the
trees, and in another place he attempted
TO make shelter from the night in the
top of bushy spruce tree. Those who
found him think he travelled at least
dozen miles before he was frozen, and