The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-25
Persons and Things.

Persons and Things.
Texas has 100000 acres Of publ,
lands.
THERE are 1875 Y. M. G. A. s in Penn
sylvania. a aaaAn M nam
HE man who works with d will-The
Probate Judge. |H 'sa0 ad al
GREELEY, Col, has just shipped twelye
bales OF buffalo robes.
CHINESE maxiim-Never rub your ewes
except with your elbows. ..a ar
FIFTEEN years ago there were scarcely
ten m1lllonaires in America se
PHILADELPHIA has more variety halls
than any city in the country.
In Japan there are Is, TIC schools, and
the scholars number 1,289,307
PENNSYLVANIA still produces $40, O00,-
900 worth of lumber annually.
THERE were SOS deaths in New York
last week, and only 504 births.
A NEGRO is to be executed in Jacnel,
Haytl, this month, for cannibalism. He
ate his victim all but the head.
SIX g mock SUNS" and an inverted rain
bow were seen loafing about the sun at
South Pueblo, COL, few days ago. .
The Albany Penitentiary cleared.
$p3O, OOO last year, which shows that crime
can be made to pay if it is well managed.
RICHARD GRANT WHITE holds German
to be "the most horrible combination of
sounds with which the human ear can be
tormented"
THE fisheries on the coast of Scotland
during the past season have yielded more
than 8O0,0O0,000 of behring's, affording
an unusually good harvest to the people.
CONGRESS consists of seventy-four (74)
Senators (when all the States are fully
represented) and two hundred and nine
ty-two (292) Representatives. The basis
of representation is about 100000.
Mrs. GRABAcH, Of Omaha, killed her
little step-daughter by stamping on her.
She says she was possessed by devil,
which is not complimentary to Mr.. G.,
TO whom she was given in marriage.
But pohteness is not characteristic of the
species.
TYPHOID fever prevails in the city of
London and vicinity to an alarming ex-
tent. Several members of the royal
household, including Prince Leopold,
have been very sick with it, and several
deaths Of military officers have resulted
from it.
In the preparation of epitaphs, says
Lord, noted writer, nothing is so de-
s1Table as conciseness. We do not re-
member to have seen a more concise
statement of mans virtues than is
contained in the following, from an Ore
gon paper
Tie angels tonight in their mansions of light
Are waltzn round Anthony Mink:
ZIG wds pn Was liz 2p fa An4 as you1 nno
THE brightest of the American women
in Paris is Mrs Hooper, Of Philadelphia,
the wife of Robert NJ. Hooper, the
American Vice-Consul at Paris. She
writes q brilliant leading editorial weekly
for the Anaer5cua Regdator-brillianf
enough to tempt the Figaro to translate
it for it's gay and witty pages.
THm production of EtHenry v" at
Booths Theater, New York, requires
actors and actresses, 412 su-
pernumeraries, and ffty-fve ballet girls
In the battle scene at Agincourt there
will be more than 800 persons on the
stage at one time The production of
the piece involved an outlay Of $40, 000
THERE is woman in Paris who pro-
poses that she shall be declared Queen
of France and Navarro, and Immediately
married to Alfonso XII. Of Spain, in or
der that by the union of the two king
doms there may be no longer any Pyr-
eneess The police, not approaching poll
tics, have sent her to lrlnatic asylum.
THE government has derived an in
come from Alaska, since the acquisition
of that Territory, FROM taxes on seal
skins, of ST., $50, 219; rent for fur-seal ISL
ands, $I70, 1902; sale Of seal-skins taken
by government agents, under section 6,
act of July l, 1870, $29,529.18; total
income, 1850, 229.67-
AT the beginning of the last year the
German army consistedo of 81 $50 officers,
1896, 5000 men, 314,970 horses. 2,700
feld-guns, and $50 siege-guns. The fig
ures do not include the fourth battalions,
consisting of 3,400 officers and 152, 100
men, which are to be formed in case of
war, OF the la2adstasr21e, to be raised under
the new law, which would bring into the
field force of at least 3, 718 officers and
202, 800 men.
WHEN Bismarck undertakes to sneeze
he does it thoroughly. Firsthe becomes
red in the face, and his body becomes
very much inflated. Then his chest
heaves, he throws his head back, clenches
his hands, and steps back, military style.
Suddenly his head comes forward with a
jerk, there is an awful roar and explo-
cian ona tho prfnoo cnovohpS for hIS red