The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-03-18
Persons and Things.


EIGHT thousand four hundred gas Jet
III the new Paris Opera-HOuse.
OF $40 Welshmen who live in Liv
erpool, %, are church-goers.
A LITTLE boy in Albany BIT his tonguc
while rocking in chair, and bled t.
death.
Mrs ROBBINS, of CONWAY, n. H., ha
added four young robins to her nest il
IL months.
4 CINc1NNATI pork-dealer proposes tc
furnish the world with his ought to-buy-
biography.
A MINNESOTA man makes the winter
seem short by giving his note payable in
the spring.
The King of Burmah is going to start
a newspaper to be published in Burmese
and English.
THE number Of sheep last year in
Australia was 55, 100000 It has doubled
iii twelve years.
In the Gardner (Me.) Methodist Con
ference there are sixteen persons between
the ages of 80 and 100.
THE total strength of the volunteer
forces Of Great Britain was at tn end
Of last year 236,J683 men.
In Minnesota wood is only 81 a cord.
but then it takes a cord Of wood to warm
one side OF man up there.
SERVED him right An Indianapolis
bigamist has gone crazy for fear Of being
prosecuted for his dupicity.
WHEN the thermometer marked 43
degrees below zero in Sioux Falls. Iowa,
the people were afraid to go to bed
The foremen of the Cincinnati brew
cries are paid $4,000 per annum, which
is more than a Circuit Judge gets.
THESE hard times are enough to make
man hang himself c. Aultman, OF
Canton, only made $130, 900 last year.
The patLieua of an Archbishop is
made from the wool Of male lamb,
which is usually killed for the purpose.
! A DRUGGIST in Lewiston, Me, declares
that over a ton Of snuff is annually con-
sUlmed III that town III dipping, chiefly
by women.
( SIa WILLIAM VERNON HARCoURr is
said to be retained as the counsel Of the
claimant, Orion Tichborne, in a motion
for writ Of error
In the next House Of Representatives
there will be eighty-six ex-rebel officers
and soldiers, and twenty-three Union
officers and soldiers.
IT is estimated that Chicago will Tpt11-
die hundred million bushels of grain
this year. Last year the quantity was
nearly ninety-six millions.
THE Centennial buildings in Philadei-
phia will cover twenty acres, and to
lessen the fatigue Of a thorough visit, an
elevated railway is projected.
Mr.. ALEXANDER XERMUs. of Dunn's.
Lake, Fla, has found skeletons of by
4 gone race i'll the mounds on his planta-
ton, nine feet long, and traces Of gold
also.
In England, recently, d tin of beef,
which had been prepared for the soldiers
In the Crimea in 1856, was recently
] opened, and It's contents found perfectly
sound and wholesome.
A KENTUCKY young lady, who prom,
lsed her grandfather never to marry a
certain young man on the face Of the
earth, went through the interesting care-
mony In the Mammoth Cave.
The present city horse-car companies
IN Nov N<O7sI-, H. IL ~
RED l4O, 800, 600 passengers, OF & number
more than three times larger than the
population Of the United States.
! DOUBLE eagles to the amount of
! $3.50, 900 were turned out III q single
day recently at the San Francisco Mint
the largest days work ever performed
by any mint i'll the United States.
I A JACKSON Glenn. man has built
house seven feet high and ten feet by
twenty feet area, upon wagon. It has
two rooms and four windows, and ac-
commodities his wife and three children.
The Good Templars of town in Cali
fornla have leased a column in the local
paper for the PRONUNCIATION of the tenn
perance doctrines, and hope by this in
genious device to make many converts.
SOME Of the extensive prehistoric ruins
IN Southwestern Colorado, discovered by
the Hayden expedition last fall, are Of
such liliputian dimensions that they
must have been inhabited by mere hu-
man wrens and swallows.
LENTEN dinners are becoming fashion
able, the aim being to give as great va
rlety as possible in the kinds and cook
cry of fish. A printed bill of fare on
one of these occasions mentioned fifteen
different fish served in & multiplicity of
ways.
A TRAIN on the Albany and Susque-
hanna railroad was lately thrown from
the track, near Binghamton, by a