The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08
People and THINGS J.

People and Things.
The Esquimalx sell their babies.
RUSSIA has 16, 100000 of horses.
HERE are more than $4,000 lepers in
India.
A MAN named Noah was drowned bv
the late food in New York.
HE little province of Nova Scotia
last year saved $4,000 on a revenue Of
$7S8, 900.
A NEW silver coin, equivalent in value
to the American trade dollar. is about to
be issued from the mint in Japan.
One hundred and fifty thousand acres
of woodland are annually cleared in
Minnesota for building purposes and for
fuel.
LONDON has more Jews than Palestine,
more Scotchmen that Edinburgh. more
Irish than Dublin, more Catholics than
Rome
ACCORDING to the new military survey
of the Russian empire, the monarchy
extends over 10000 geographical square
miles.
In England there is one locomotive to
each half mile Of railroad in Scotland.
one to two miles and in ireland, one to
four miles.
The citizens Of Ticonderoga, N. Y,
will celebrate the centennial of the cap
ture Of Fort Ticonderoga by Ethan a
len, May 10.
Two words on which even good spell
ers generally are caught are 90 separation y
and maintenance. They spell them
"seperation and =" maintenance. -
AN English farmer, by picking over
his seed wheat with the utmost care. and
planting a grain in place, at intervals of
foot each way, produced 1852 bushels
per acre.
The time for the opening Of the great
National Centennial Exhibition, at Phila-
delphia, has now been definitely fixed
for May 10, 1876, and it vii close No
vember 10.
A NEW plan for steamship Iocomotion
is suggested in providing screw propel-
lers at each end of the vessel. One Of
them is thus constantly in the water, no
matter how rough it may be.
An inmate of the Rensselaer, N. W
County House, George Greenwood, aged
80, is entirely hairless, not having sin
gle hair about his head and body. He
is even void Of eyebrows and eyelashes.
EDGAR A. PoE's memory is to be hon
ored with monument at last. The sum
desired, 81, 500, has been raised through
the efforts Of the Public School Teachers
Association of Baltimore, and the work
will be begun at once.
THE Popes cast-off garments. are al
ways burnt It is said that his Holiness
wears out six white silk capuchins every
year they are chiefly spoiIt by his habit
of taking snuff. Each Of the garments
costs the owner sixteen pounds.
KING1AKE, in the last volume of his
" Crimea, " says that the phrase " biting
the dust is merely figure of speech.
A man suddenly killed, in the act Of
strenuous bodily exertion, will, by mere
muscular action, appear to bite the dust.
A GOLD knee buckle Of good workman
ship was recently found by citizen Gv-
ing in the vicinity of Braddock's Field,
in the western part Of Pennsylvania. It
is thought to have belonged to one Of
the unfortunate victims Of Braddock's
defeat.
In space Of ten years not much less
than two millions of British subjects have
left their native land. Some went to
Australia, some to Canada, and more to
the United States. Until lately the Irish
emigrants were In excess of the English
or Scotch. Since 1869, however, the re-,
spective rates are reversed.
A MOST unwise law exists in Massachu
sets, which requires those who wish to
fish for shad or herring to purchase a
privilege. These privileges, says the
NelO England Farmer, are owned by
the towns, and are sold to the highest
bidder. "Reminiscences against the law
are sent to the Legislature in large num-
bers. The people ask the privilege Of
fishing so many days in the week for
their own benefit for the use Of their own
families.
THE New York Times publishes a let
ter from Chinaman named All sin. The
substance of it is that he gets no part Of
the school system in America. He puts
the case as between himself and the Irish
American citizen as follows: Why me
no all same 'Paddy?' Paddy cally bod.
Ne sell cigals. ST.. Patlick good man.
Confucius good man. Me no like Nell
can schoolee. AL same 'infdel Me
want schoolee. No get schoolee. No
washee. No sell cigals. All SIN"
HERE are your personal statistics
Bismarck will be 81 in April, and Won
Moltke IS in October of this year Gorts-
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