The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-11
Persons and Things.

VI Ill SOTla.
ST. LOUIS has $3,OOO,O 900 planted in
Utah mines.
CINCINNATI has raised 500, 600 for s.
clubhouse.
CLEVELAND handled ITO, coo, 600 feet of
lumber last year.
AENIA, Ohio, has postmistress with a
salary Of $500.
SENAToR-ELEcT CHRIsTIANoY's father
used to peddle salve.
OF lightweight counties in Ohio, oDlv
eight are without railroad.
DULL times and sharp weather make the
meanest team ever hitched together.
FLORA TEMPLE, the famous trotter.
is still alive, and in a stable on Long
Island
The Fairbanks Scale Company. at st.
Johnsbury, Vt, had orders for 4. 734
scales in January.
If Congress hadn't been kind Minnie
Sherman Fitch would have had to paw
$75, 1000 to get her diamonds.
Fay" of the Comier-Jouy7aaz. pro
nounces the famil y circle at the White
House the happiest in the world.
JOHN Observation-Disclosures was
married to Julia Soloskiminniewinniehi
XII, at South Bend, Ind, last Sunday.
THE new Western Union Telegraph
building at New York, opened Monday.
contains 100 tons of electric batteries.
CLOSE on the heels of Trask's death,
the Lorillards open q new tobacco
factory in jersey City, employing 1000
hands.
ROBERT CHANNEL; Newmarket, n. H.:
80 III March; has hauled saw-logs twelve
miles every day since Dec. 1 uses to-
bacco.
THE present indebtedness of the CITY
of Paris is over $3.50, 100000, vet it is
not satisfied it wants to borrow $4,000
more.
SAID Dubuque Alderman "Whar
the eagles are, there Will the carton be
gathered together" and he offered to
back the assertion with two-pound ink
stand.
COZ! for those good old days."
signs an Indiana editor, "when this Office
received enough Patent Office reports to
keep every stove red hot from November
to March"
ONLY eleven cents for the heather ~
exclaimed. Georgia colored minister
give it back, brudder Jones-de
Lord nebber heard of dis one-horse cor
gregation p
IT is rumored that Aft Tennyson has
telegraphed Ben Butler that if he ever
dares quote him again, either in public
or private, he'll introduce him as one of
the leading characters in the next "Idyl
of the King. st. Louis Globe
THIRTEEN million dollars is paid annu-
ally to the postmasters and clerks of our
beloved country and if we could receive
our first love-letter again we shouldn't
hesitate to remark that their services
were worth twice the money Rochester
Democrat.
KALAKAUA said CT think American
women are handsome, bold and forward.
Why, [ actually received several letters
from ladies in New York, Washington
and Boston, plainly proposing marriage.
L am bachelor but when want to mar
ry woman will ask her. Idonot iketo
have women propose. 1t is, in my opin-
ion, wrong"
WHEN Jesse James sits down to dinner
he lays his Henry rife across his lap.
puts navy revolver on each side of his
plate, buttons up his coat, distributes
four other revolvers conveniently about
his person, and then "pitches in" to
the unqualified delight of the other
guests at table. This is only On full
dress occasions, however.
THERE is to be a great international
chess match between English and French
players. The last was thirty years ago,
and lasted two years, when the English
were beaten. They have now challenged
the French to another trial of strength.
Three days will be allowed for each
move. The stakes to be played for will
probably be $4,000, and the match will
be carried on by telegraph.
THREE Saginaw girls having met to-
getner, concluded TO pray Tor the welfare
of their lovers, but the first one had not
got far along in her petition when it was
discovered that tn y were all engaged to
the same man. The religious exercises
were at once terminated and an indigna-
ton meeting organized, the result of
which was that the gay deceiver was OBJ
hged to leave town.
MORE than a hundred murders have
been committed at Jerusalem within g.
year, and not one of the murderers has
been punished. An ex-employe of the
Custom-House, named Said, recently at
tackled a young woman who was walk
ing along in vineyard at Bethlehem,
and having put out her eyes, cut off
her ears, decapitated her, took
every article Of value on her person, and
escaped.