The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-09-23
People and Things.


Y, are rapidly decreasing in strength.
THE proudest people are invariably
those who have the least to be proud of.
The number of patents granted in the
United States up to August 10, 1876, was
166, 676. =
A FIRM at Columbus, Ga, has ordered
a key of one-cent pieces from the Phila-
delphia mint.
Rev. GEO. w. WILLIAMS edits the
Conanaosaer, a new Washington organ of
the colored race.
IDA LEWIS has been married and di-
vorced, but she saves drowning men all
the same, nevertheless
GALVESTON papers report fair pros
poets for an unusually good yield of cot
ton in Texas this season.
Don RAFAEL GONZALES, who lately
died in Cuba, lived to be 1O5 years old,
and was never sick but twice.
DAVID E. PORTER, son of Admiral
Porter, has sailed for Egypt to take
position on the Khedive's Staff.
/ BOSTON has had eleven Postraasters
since 1889, and all but Jonathan Has
tings and Aaron Hill are living.
/ DIR. MoBNs, a scientific man, has just
discovered in Knox county, Me-, ma
rine worm nine hundred feet long.
| NEwBURYPoRT has had but one house
burned during the last ffty-one years.
No wonder that the fire companies have
dlsbanded.
IT is pretty well decided now that in
stead of an insurance of $3.50, 900, the
late ex-President Johnson had none
whatever on his life.
The New York Commercial insists
that the barber is a man of parts.
Which is really very weak compliment
to the great head scenter.
Mr.. JOSEPH O'CoNNoR, late editor-in-
chief of the Indianapolis Sentinel, has
accepted position on the editorial staff
of the New York World.
THERE is blind man In Des Moines
who never had any eyes. The skin
grows over the place usually occupied by
them, the same as over the rest of the
face.
Mrs RACHEL GARDNER, of Salem,
Mass, celebrated her Tooth birthday on
the 4th instant. Her descendants num-
Der III, and eighty of them are now
living.
A BALD HEADED Bolton, Conn, man,
who tried the experiment of going bare
headed for two years, now has a lUxuri-
ant head of hair, the result of exposure
to the sun.
YOUNG MAN, go to Boulder City, Col.
No taxes have to be paid there. The Ii
censes for saloons, shows, ETC., pay all
the city expenses, and there is a pretty
balance left.
SENATOR DENNIS, of Maryland, re-
Gently captured a shark weighing 600
pounds, whose liver nearly filed -four
barrel, and yielded seven and half gal
Ions Of lubricating oil.
PEnEG IL. GALLUP, of North Stoning-
ton, Conn, has found turtle in his
meadow bearing the date of 1853 cut into
it's shell, together with two initial letters,
too faint to be decipherable.
A MAN in Philadelphia has a postal
card with over 4, 700 words written upon
it, and he expects to write 1000 words
to be sent to the Centennial Exhibition.
A GIRL in Iowa was bitten by rattle
snake, was cured by whisky and soda
water alternately, and now the doctors
are bothered to know whether it was the
whisky or the soda water which saved
her.
INDIANAPOLIS Journal. Robert Dale
Owen drove into the city yesterday
morning with DIR. Evarts, Superintend-
ent of the Insane Asylum. He looks
quite well, and appears to be very nearly
If not quite recovered.
ACCORDING to Vicksburg newspaper
there is not broom factory In the South.
If there was a market for broom corn,
farmers could realize 800 per acre by it's
production, and the capital invested in
it's manufacture would pay 40 per cent.
A REMARKABLE cat, belonging to r. G.
Russell, of Fair Haven, which reioices
in twenty-five toes, four. more than the
regular allowance, has just given birth
to kitten with twenty four, seven on
each fore-foot and five on each hind foot.
A. B. SEYBoLT, of Chenoa, Ill, caught
a boy stealing apples from barrel in
his store, and tied his hands behind him
and fastened him to the railing in front
of his store. The result is suit for
So, 600 damages, brought by the boys
father.
BIG men and women are the remarka-
BILE productions of California. In Men
docino county is the Hogan family. Pa
ter farniias stands 6 feet inches in his
stockings; son No. / is feet 6 inches;
No. 2 is 6 feet 81 inches, and No. is 6
feet inches.
IA GENTLEMAN who is farming near
Macon, Ga, heard smart futtering in
the water the other day, and upon inves-
tigation found that large water moe