The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-27
PeOnle and Things.

who is 81 years old.
CoAn has been discovered in large
quantities near Agency, Mo.
The Watertown, Wis, cheese factory
is in working order again.
THE foundation of the oldest church
IL Norway was laid A. d. 906.
The Fox river at McHenry, ILL.,, is IL
Illuminated every night by fishermen.
The new Postofice Of New York city
will be opened as soon as the Fourth of
July.
DISHONEST distiller, Bristow and
and Washburn are waiting and watch
ing for thee.
LEPINE, the Manitoba rebel, refuses
the conditional pardon offered him, and
will remain in prison till the close of the
two years.
THE ground now occupied by the old
New York Postoffice building has been
purchased as site for the new Chamber
of Commerce.
A GENTLEMAN of Hydetown, Pa, a
few days ago caught young woodchuck
which had three perfectly formed heads
on one body.
THERE are at present but two manu-
factories of half-hose In the United
States A third will soon be established
at Carthage, N. Y.
BURLINGTON, Belle PLANE, and Des
MONIES are zealously reaching out after
new university which the Baptists are
going to locate In Iowa.
PROF. HUXLEY is going to begin a
three months course OF lectures at Edln-
burgh, In place of DR.. Victor Carus,
whose health has failed.
A MAN in Paris sentenced to the gull
lotine, generously offers his place to any
person having a curiosity to experience
the feeling of decapitation.
RICE is now coming into use for brew
ing, and the beer produced from it is
said to be superior in color, favor and
iveliness, to that from any other grain.
THE King of Burmah has presented
$4,000 to the Ceylon government,
to be devoted to the repair and main
tenance of Buddhist monuments in Cey
Ion.
A MORMON preacher has been laboring
with marked success at Lake Crystal,
Mimi, during the past few months,
winning number Of converts to his re-
igion.
THE ST. Louis courts are attempting
to settle the question as to whether or
not the term " shyster is one of re-
proach. The Republican is the victim
in this case.
AFTER critical examination and COM
parison of the raisins produced In Cali
fornia with the Malaga, the New York
grocery trade declare them superior to
the imported article.
A PIUrE Indian, known as Poker Jim,
ON account of his gambling prochvities,
was stabbed by dusky maiden upon
whom he forced improper attentions, at
Austin, New, last week.
GEN. WIN. G. HAIP1NE, Of Fenian
note, was injured by o Third avenue
(Broolzlyn) street car about three years
ago, and has just succeeded III getting
verdict to the amount of $1,000.
MAYOR WIoKHAM, of New York, has
had engraved on his writing-desk
Talleyrand's sad motto /: g For every
appointment I have made / have
gained ninety-nine enemies and one IN
CRATE. y
A PARTISAN writer says it is impossi
BILE to partake literally of the feast, set
with its multitude of rich courses at a
fashionable dinner party there, without
paying for it In dyspepsia for week at
forwards.
CAPT. EADs proposes to realize suf-
fcient capital by making clraughts on
the deposits of the Mississippi. His
ietty system will be sustained by the
banks of the Mississippi. -Nee0 Orleans
Bulletin.
AN old blind horse at Saltwater,
Mimi, walked off bluff seventy-fve
feet In height, and was not hurt, the old
nag walking off about his browsing, as
though he had not just made the best
time on record for a short distance.
THE number Of neat cattle in the
United States at the last census was :
Beeves and store cattle, 13, 566, 005; of
mich COWS, 1886, 1888 of work oxen,
1,319,271. Of this number Texas is
credited with the largest number, 2, $685.,
5S8, and Illinois next, VIZ, 1,055, 1879.
This number is largely increased at this
date.
The number Of languages spoken is
4,064 The number of men is about
equal to the number of women. The av-
erage of human life is 33 years. One
quarter die before the age of 7, one-half
before the age of II. To every 1000
persons one only reaches 100 years, and
not more than one in 500 will reach 80
years.
A HARVARD student, the other day,
concentrated all his force in one mighty