The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-07
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Ex-Q QUEEN Isabella has been reduced
to 1874 nighrgowns.
A WOMAN in Berlin, Germany, has
forty-nine children.
The new army bill In France increases
the army to 100000 men.
AN Iowa father of seventy-fve au-
tumns is gladdened by 12-pound
scion.
EMIGRANTs received at Castle Garden
since January l, 1874, 131, 1872.
THE chandelier for the new opera
house in Paris will cost $1,000.
LONDON expects to have 250,000,000
people before she stops growing.
THE law-abiding Bostonians have
violated the building law 1,010 times
this year.
FROM the army of her Majesty, the
Queen of England, about $50 men
desert annually.
ACCORDING to the, military survey of
the Russian empire, the monarchy ex-
tends over 400, 227 geographical miles,
or one-sixth of the inhabited globe.
JOHN ALLEN, of Pierpont Manor,
Jefferson county, N. Y, has just been
elected Justice of the Peace by the
Republicans for the thirteenth term of
four years each. Squire Allen is 80
years CT age.
AMERICAN cities pay roundly not to
have their streets poorly cleaned. Paris
receives $3.50, 600 year for the privi-
lege from contractors, whomanufacture
the refuse into compost and sell it for
$500, 0O0-a clear profit OF $38O,OOO.
WILLIAM MORAN, of the Philadelphia
Sunday Chronicle, was convicted few
0aysa ago of a singular libel upon George
E. Hall, member of the Common Coun-
Gil. He charged Hall with picking the
pocket of a marble statue of George
Washington. 1
AnEoK STEPHENS is growing quite
corpulent. He now fills out several of
his old wrinkles, and only one of his
knee Joints squeaks for want of grease
when he walks. He weighs sixty seven
pounds, eight ounces, and seventeen
drachms, apothecary's weight.
IT is stated as probable that one of
the Paris theatres will adopt the rule of
closing the doors as soon as the curtain
rises and keeping them vigorously
closed while the curtain is up, SO that
late corners may not interfere with the
comfort of all who are seated betimes.
In the great chop district" of New
York-comprising the counties of Her
kimer, Madison, Montgomery, Oneida,
Otsego, and Schoharie-not more than
1900 bales of this seasons hops are
now held. The price from first hands
ranges from IS to 45 cents. Brewers
are now pretty we'll stocked up. Roch-
ester en- ~ Union.
GEORGE LABAR, whose death, in
Pennsylvania, at the age of LOT years,
we reported last week, left 816 descend
ants. His father, when IS years old,
married a woman of 80, who thought
she would worry him out, perhaps :
but he proved to be like Joey Bag
stock, old and tough, and outlived her,
dying at the green old age OF Ill years.
A TENNESSEE paper celebrates The
achievements Of the "best man in the
county" In single day, last spring,
she dug six pounds of ginseng, captured
and killed two rattlesnakes with eleven
and thirteen rattles, and gave birth to
twins. But she can't do it every day.
Rattlesnakes, not to mention twins, are
not to be had more than once Or twice
a week.
Mr.. BANCROFT continues to drive
his inexorable quill with vigor. He
rises at 6, lights his fire, and works until
summoned to breakfast at s. After
breakfast he resumes his labors until l,
when he stops for the day, and usually
takes ride on horseback, followed by
CONSTITUTIONAL walk of two or three
miles. The evenings he devofes to So
cial enjoyment.
CoINER BABooCK, of the United States
Mint, San Francisco, Dec. II, delivered
to Superintendent La Grange the sum
OF $3.50, 900 in double eagles. This is
the largest days work ever performed
by any mint in the United States. In
the three days, terminating with Satur-
dey, the mint has turned out 81 900, 900,
the largest amount of coinage ever run
In the same period.
Mrs. JOAQUIN MILLER has written a
drama founded upon the incidents of
her chequered life. Joaquin is a char
acter in the play; so is Mrs. 10; so are
many living " Oregon characters" of
note. Climax of Act T.: "My marriage
with joaquin Do. of Act H.: His
departure, and Myself standing on that
lonely rock, watching the receding
ship
A LIBEL suit in Lowell involves the
question of how much publicity is
given, in the eyes of the law, to matter
written Oh postal card and sent
through the mail. The defendant
wrote letter to the plaintiff on pos
tai card, accusing him of forgery and