The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-06-03

completed at the stock yards of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad
company in Milwaukee, is proving per-
feet success. The well is 1,0484 feet
deep, of which 10 feet were bored
through earth, 685 through magnetism
lime rock, and 1884 through sandstone.
The water flows at the rate of 5000 gal
Ions per day. While the temperature of
water in ordinary wells is 164 degrees,
| the water in the artesian we'll is Sc de-
grees.
The bachelors of Madison have formed
society ito promote happiness and
prosperity; advance marriage and other
blessings Each member, to this end,
takes a solemn vow not to keep company
with, nor to take to the opera, b all, or
theater, any young lady who, in her
every day sphere, appears In any other
than calico dress; and this dress is not
to contain more than ten yards-+eight
less than now used. The young bachelors
claim that if this rule is adopted and
strictly observed, the ministers will reap
a harvest in brief period.
AN application was made by the Up
per Chippewa river lumbermen and
others, some time since, asking that the
Supreme Court restrain the constru ction
of the celebrated Chippewa Dells dam,
at Eau Clair. On Monday the Sup reme
Court made decision, claiming jurlsdic
ton over the river, ON the ground that
the river was public highway, and held
the law of last winter, authorizing the
construction of the dam, to be uncdnsti-
tutional, and will grant the injunction as
amended, so as to charge the intention
upon the city of Eau Claire to build the
am.
AN interesting event transpired the
other day at La Crosse, where fifty Win
nebago Indians, having complied with
the law in abandoning their tribal rela-
tons and adopting the customs OF civil
ization, made their appearance at the
Land Office and proceeded to enter forty
acres of land each under the Homestead
act. The land is located near the Black
River Falls, and the Indians will at once
occupy their new possessions, where they
will erect farm houses, establish schools,
and generally cast off the generic habits
of their race.
JOHN G. GAULT, a railroad manage of
long experience, and one of the best
business men in the West, is a great
humorist The following, which we
take from the Wisconsiaa, will be relish
ed, especially by those who favor Gen.
Warren's plan Of improving navigation,
by building a canal all the way wis
consin river has been great source of
speculation among engineers, as to now
to secure the bottom against the CON
slant shifting of the sands. The Assist
ant General, Manager of the st. Paul rail
way has hit upon an expedient that would
clio credit to Lesseps, "or any other
man"-it is to l0th and plaster the
bottom"
Two PROFESSIONAL men, lawyer and
a doctor, who have been having some
intellectual sparring in court of late, met
on the street corner i'll GAINESVILLE the
other day, and renewed their war OF
words. AS the contest grew warm and
exciting, a iackass at the lower end of
the street commenced braying furiously.
The lawyer, who has not been on friendly
terms with the doctor of late, although
the latter was formerly his family physi
clan, exclaimed, '::Doctor, don't allow
me to detain you from your business;
some one down the street is calling you. +"
''That's so, ? replied the doctor, but I
never should have expected that any of
your family would have called me again. "