The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-01
PeOnIA and Things.

People ana Things.
FIVE THOUSAND men are now employed
on the centennial buildings and grounds
in Philadelphia.
TIE total assets of the eight life in
srrance companies of Hartford figure up
to within 2 fraction of $100, 100000.
In two years the number Of cases tried
in the San Francisco Police Court
has increased from 500 per month to
1000.
TEE total value Of the WOODEN goods
turned out from the Maine mills during
the past year is placed at some ST.
100000.
FLORA TEMPLE is thirty years old, and
her kindhearted owner is doing ali that
he can to sooth her pathway to the glue
factory.
A MAN from the north Of England stood
higher in French in the examination at
Woolwich than did the French Primo
Imperial.
SOUTHERN journals are urging upon
the farmers Of that section to plant less
cotton and more oats and corn the com
ing season.
The 15S savings banks of New York
hold an aggregate of 1903, 935, 900 of
savings placed to the credit Of 872, 49S
depositors.
A LAW forbidding the payment Of DIFF
ferent salaries in the public schools, on
account of sex, has just passed the Legis-
latJre of California.
THERE are in Massachusetts 10000
children growing up in ignorance, in
consequence of their exclusive employ
ment at too early an age In factories.
THERE is such an increase of the dis
gushing habit Of snuff-dipping among the
factory operatives of New England that
snuff factories are increasing with the
demand.
New JERSEY has just passed law in
posing fine of S., 900 and Imprisonment
for a term of one year upon any per
son who shall transfer his property to
avoid taxes.
MARCH 1, 1864, the New Haven papers
published list Of 125 people in that
city who were over 70 wears of age.
March 1, 1875, there were but eleven Of
them living.
Mr.. MEDRI says British farmers pros
per because they have at their doors con-
sumers III the manufactures, while the
corn and wheat producing countries have
not these advantages.
Down in Connecticut butter is being
made at cost of three cents a pound.
When an unfortunate man gets a mouth
full of the compound, his chief anxiety is
to get good place to have fit.
OF late, that is to say within the last
year or two, titles and grades of honor
have become abundant in Berlin, where
everybody, says a writer, is now field
marshal or a professor Of something.
IT appears that the last cotton crop
was not large one, after all, and that if
the Southern planters had not marketed
their staple SO soon, they would have got
two cents a pound more, amounting to
some millions Of dollars.
THERE are only five states in the Union
where the Governor receives a salary Of
of but 81, 900. These are Michigan, Ne
braska, New Hampshire, Rhode Island
and Vermont. Louisiana and Indiana
pay S., 600, and Pennsylvania $40, 900.
The contractors who have undertaken
to furnish 100000 headstones for the
national cemeteries, cut the names in
their works at Rutland, Vt, by means Of
the sand blast. This cuts a name in four
minutes, and they complete 500 stones
daily.
Mrs. LUCY HOOPER tells us that they
make infinitely better butter in France
than we get in America solid cream,
with breath of milk il it, " she calls the
French best. And as for the cheeses-
we don't know much about cheese, with
all our factories.
The Boston Traveller states that the
Board of Underwriters will take up at all
early day the discussion of the subject
of reduction Of insurance Rates in that
city, it being proposed to place the rates
twenty per cent. lower than those gov
erning transactions at present.
IT has frequently been maintained;that
wetting coal increases the amount of
heat given out in combustion. buta care
full inquiry has shown, FIRST, that there is
no increase of heat second, that loss
of heat always follows the addition of
water third, both the amount of heat and
the temperature of the fire are consider
ably diminished.
THE Poughkeepsie Eagle, in speaking
Of the reduction Of the wages Of the l, 100
engineers in the employ Of the New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad
Company, says: "The main cause of the
reduction is the extraordinary light
freight and passenger traffic. Business
was never so light on the Hudson River,
railroad as now"
Boys Will BE Boys.