The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-02
People and Things.

appears CnaJ Z4, UUU BrlLlSn SOluI6IS ttI6
found sufficient to garrison the whole OF
the British possessions, with the excep-
ton, of course, of India.
A LONDON Custom House officer says
that his experience convinces him that
women, as rule. would rather smuggle
their gloves and other knick-knacks
than receive the same as present free of
cost.
A CAREFUL housewife In Altoona, Pa,
put an $18 order and a $40 greenback into
the drawer of the coffee mill last We'd
nesday for safe keeping. Thursday
morning the family enjoyed 1913 cup OF
coffee. t
The valley of North Clear Greek, Col,
above Black Hawk, where considerable
mining was done seventeen years ago, is
again invaded by numerous prospectors,
who think that rich deposits were over
looked.
The only living descendant of George
D. Prentice, is a grandson of IA years Of
age, who bears the same name. He is
now canvassing the South for his
grandfather's forthcoming book OF
poems.
Two BROTHERS named Bean, formerly
of Bangor, suicided in California last
month-one on Monday, by hanging
the other the next morning, by cutting
his throat Their father also died by lis
own hand.
RATS that live in granaries are said by
a professional rat-catcher not to be poi
sonous, while those that live on refuse
meat infict painful wounds. This is
another argument iii favor of the vegeta
rian theory.
THERE is homestead in Kenneth
Township, Chester County, Pa, the
mansion house upon which is at least
$50 years old, and up whose broad Chin
ney gas of anthracite coal never assembled
till within week.
"NEvER re-engage man whom you
have once discharged, "'was Rothschild's
favorite maxim, "he viii probably vince
at your resolve and endeavor to annoy
you, but the wisdom of your decision
can never be doubted.
The season of navigation on the Red
River of the North was 1877 days, during
which the freight transported amounted
to ~, 100000 tons, or double what it was
barges have been employed.
SOME people won't let well enough
alone. Take, for instance, the Jersey
City man who, having been sentenced to
q fine Of $5 and costs, applied for a re-
consideration of the case, and got three
months IN the Penitentiary.
The coarse long hair from the neck of
aA old channels, if drawn between the
finger and thumb from the root to the
point, becomes positively electrified, but
if drawn in the reverse direction it be-
comes negatively electrified.
The habit of Boston dog was to put
his fore paws on people, and tables, and
other things, and sniff until he was salts
fed with his investigation. At last he
tried it on a loaded gun that stood in o
corner, and now he has no nose with
which to sniff.
PoE's monument recalls the epitaph
written for the author of Hudibras :"
While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive,
No generous patron would dinner give;
Behold him now, when dead and turned to dust,
Presented with a monumental bust.
The poets fate is here in emblem shown;
He asked for bread and he received stone.
The great steamer Mary Bell has per-
formed feat unrivaled in the steamboat
history of New Orleans. Arriving at
a. NJ, with 6, 200 bales OF cotton and 49,
900 bags of cotton seed, she discharged
cargo, reloaded with freight and started
up river at p. N. of the same day.
AN aggravated case of mishap is re-
ported from Oil City. A gentleman en-
tering a machine shop there accidentally
fell into tank half full of mud and
water. He sank up to his hips in the
mud, but had just caught hold of the
top of the tank to pull himself out by
main strength, when a workman, who
was near sighted, came along with
barrow full of dirt and dumped it on
him.
The Russian Ministry of Justice has
given instructions to its sub-departments
that henceforth corporal punishment shall
be discontinued in it's application to fe-
males sentenced to deportation. Hith
erto women have been punished the same
as men with knouts and rods. Hence
forth ten days of isolated confinement
are to count as an equivalent of lash
with the knout, and two days a lash with
the rod.
THEannual rate of mortality, according
to recent weekly return in Calcutta,
was 81 Bombay, % ; Madras, 33 Paris,
% Brussels, 81 /; Amsterdam, "a Rot
terdam, % The Hague, 81 !; Copenha-
gen, 26 Christiania, II (; Berlin, 81 i
Hamburg, % Breslau, 26 Munich, 40
Vienna, q Buda-Pesth, 81 Rome, 81
Naples. 80 Turin. Is Florence, %
Alexandria, ~ New York, 80 Brooklyn,
90 and Philadelphia, 20.
THE recognition of the principle of
property in slaves during the eighteenth
century is strongly attested by deed
now in the possession of gentleman of
Hartford, by which Gen. Israel Put
nam, Sc for the consideration of one hun