The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-20
People and Things.

People and Things.
PAUL BoYToN is cold water man.
The Fifth Maryland regiment will act
as the Presidents escort to the Bunker
Hill Centennial.
The income of the wealthiest man in
the English House of Commons was
So, $50, 900 last year.
The existing general peace in Europe,
of more than four years, is of longer du-
ration than any since 1848.
BRIGHAM YOU'VE and his thirty-six
wives are advertised at a show in Man
chester, England. Admission sixpence.
The Chinese population OF San Fran
cisco have heathenishly bestowed upon
Hammond the title of s'Muchee Jump
ee.
R1sToR1 will go to California. on the
LIST of June, Notwithstanding all the
warnings to emigrants to stay away from
there.
THE French Minister of the Interior
has notified the newspapers that they
must abstain from discussing military
affairs.
JOHN MoRRIssEY has already arrived
at Saratoga, and is advertised by the
New York papers as being ready to Gre
ceive " as usual.
A FRENcHMAN describes Earl Russell
as one in whose awkwardness there is
nothing Of the perfdious art of some of
his contemporaries"
"TExAs JACK" is still advertising in
the London papers for Young English
men who want to travel and STAY the
buffalo on the prairies.
FROM arrests recently made in New
York, it appears that the servant girls of
\ that city have to large extent been Co
operating with burglars.
OREGON, Washington Territory, British
/ Columbia and Alaska are the best wood
/ ed and watered, and fish, fruit and wheat
countries on the face of the globe.
! The strength Of paper barrels is said
ito be greater by four times than wood
en- barrels, while they are only half the
weight, and cost twenty per cent. less.
HEREAFTER all circulars, professional
or scientific papers, digests of opinions,
etc, to be issued from any bureau of the
War Department, are first to be submit
ted to the Secretary of War for his in
spection and approval.
| A HUMAN fiend, named Martin Helbert,
residence Brooklyn, set bloodhound
upon his wife, who was fleeing from his
cruelties, the other day, and the poor
woman was shockingly torn and barely
saved from death by the neighbors.
The Golden Age having said that TO
nance was better than rum, the Literary
World retorts that bad romance is
more harmful than frst-rate rum, mas
much as it reached and demoralized
class young girls-which is secure
against the attacks of John Barleycorn.
! This question was lately put to a can
t1idate for a position in the English civil
service: What is the distance of the
sun from the earth 2" The reply was
but he didn't think it was lear enough
to interfere with his duties as postofice
clerk.
A CoHoEs dentist killed man the
other day, trying to pull out one of his
teeth. There was considerable fuss
made about it at first, but a believer in
providence finally quieted them down
by remarking, "'Tain't no good reason,
this amt, for riot. Like enough if
he'd livod much longer he'd been
hung"
A MEMORIAL theater, in honor of
Shakespeare, is proposed In his native
town of Stratford-on-Avon. The amount
required is $&5, 900, and already $15, 900
has been raised. Two acres of ground
have been presented for the site, and it
is thought that the work can be begun
within year. It is intended, ultimate
ly, if the funds will allow, to establish
dramatic training school and college in
connection with the theater.
THE kingdom of Prussia at its last
census had "a, 693, 487 inhabitants 49,
O41, 215 Of these, or nearly two-thirds,
were Protestants 383, 1868 were Dissent
ers, principally Jews and s, 268, 800, or
precisely third, belonging to the
Roman Catholic Church. The latter in
1864 employed 6,706 priests and other
members of the clergy in 8,115
churches and chapels. They had also
243 houses, with 5,279 members of re-
hgious orders.
RoBBER1Es of ladies' in the streets of
New York in broad daylight, and in the
most frequented streets, too, such as
Fifth avenue and Broadway, are becom-
ing more and more common. The other
dau q thief StnnnAd a lady in Fifth ave