The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-18
Persons and Things.
THURMAN is q great snnff-taker.

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Cuba.
The mummies belonged to the first fam
lies of Egypt.
AN unpublished poem Of Millions has
been discovered.
The Erie railroad killed ety-eight
people last year.
SAM WARD, the lobbyist, is brother to
Julia Ward Howe.
The silver mines in Massachusetts, will
amount to something after all.
TRAsK, the famous anti tobacconist, died
at Fitchburg, Mass, recently.
IT is fact that the Yale College Trus-
tees pay Evarts' fee for defending Beech
err
JUDGE REED, Of Iowa, has decided that
paying for a game Of billiards by the
loser is gambling.
MARTINsvILLE, Ind, has produced a
hog weighing l, 122 pounds-the heaviest
in the United States.
Two MILLION fish, last year, were
Matched for the government at the State
Hatchery in Michigan.
The grand jurors of Lucas county,
Ohio, have presented church raffies as
an illegality and nuisance.
PERHAPS we hadn't better exterminate
the Indian. It cost $411, 200 to bring
Modoc Jack to the gallows.
THAT famous hotel, the Aston House, of
New York, is to be closed on May
l, and converted into business Offices.
In Dewitt county, Texas, fifteen in
dictments have been found against as
many persons for carrying six-shooters.
IT is whispered that christening may
occur at the White House in the spring,
which hasn't happened since Tyler was
President.
WILLIE Goo1DY, of Terre Haute, aged
II years, travelled con his own hook to
San Francisco and back. Now his parents
call him Windy, because he goeth where
he hsteth, and no one knows whence he
cometh or whittier he goeth.
SOMEHOW one can't help thinking of
that citizen of Syracuse who has thirteen
children, all girls. Probably there is not
a corner of the bureau in that mans
house that hasn't cold chew of spruce
gum sticking to ii. -MiloU0ukee Sentinel.
The following are the statistics of the
schools in Japan: Public schools, 1895;
private schools, 5,721; total, 1916.
Scholars: Boys, 978, 800; females, 310,-
ATT; total, 1,289,307. Percentage of
scholars in proportion to population,
Alb.
THERE is man in the condemned cell
in Paris who cannot be guillotined until
the authorities ascertain his name. He
was condemned by name since found
to be false, and there is no precedent for
the execution of man whose name is
not known, SO he must wait.
THERE is no question as to the profta-
bleness of some of the Nevada silver
mines. The Belcher mine was sold in
November, 1870, for $20,800. Since that
time it has declared dividends Of $12,-
$4,000, and called in assessments of
So, 246, 400; and the present value of the
mine is estimated at S., 10000. Here
is clear profit of $15, 932, 800 on 800, 800
in four years. The Virginia consolidated
mine has risen in value from $4,000 to
1853, 1870, 900, besides dividing $64S, 000in
dividends. Other mines have proved
quite as profitable.
MISS MINNIE HAUCK, at the close of a
short but very successful engagement at
the Royal Opera House of Berlin, has
gone to Weimar In October she is to
begin another series of " star" per-
formances at Berlin, and after
that she will enter upon a several
years engagement for a season of six
months annually in the German capital
The prosperity of our young country
woman, whose artistic career and
estimable personal character have both
been so creditable to America, will be OBJ
served with great satisfaction on this side
of the ocean.
DIR. GEORGE N. BEARD, of New York,
has been challenged by the Eddy
Brothers, "mediums," Of Chittenden,
Vermont, to prove that they are trans
parent and INSCRIPTIONS humbugs."
They offer to put up 81, 900 in the hands
of three umpires, one competent scien-
tific man to be chosen by DIR. Beard,
another to be chosen by the Eddy's, and
these two to decide upon the third
They offer him every test that won't
"infict pain or bodily harm on the me-
dunn, and darkened room as the only
condition. If the doctor establishes
fraud in the manifestations he is to have
the $4,000. If he fails the medium is to
receive it.