The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-10-28
People and Things.

People and Things.
The turkey might as well get ready for
Thanksgiving.
/. ON1AwGARAH is said to have been the
original name of Niagara.
STANLEY says that African mosquitoes
are as big as Kentucky chew of TO-
bacco.
SEVERAL Atlantic clues are trying to
put down the fidding, harping, and beg
ging nuisance.
A CALIFORNIA butcher hrs found an
Indian arrowhead well imbedded In the
liver of an OK.
THERE are 500 students in attendance
at the Valparaiso Normal School. One
fourth of them are ladies.
STANnEY's experiences in Mpwapa,
Usagara, Kagehyi, Mgongo Tembo, etc.,
have w-breaking flavor.
THE Ames Plow Company, Easton,
Mass, which in good times employs $50
men, now only has six at work.
ITALIAN wines are getting to be fash
ionable in Germany and France. They
are of improved quality, and very
cheap.
The skeleton of mastodon has just
been unearthad in Broome county, N.
Y, the tusks of which are ten feet in
length.
PRINCE BISMARCK recently prosecuted
| in person washerwoman who had spoken
with contumely of him in a beer saloon
at Konigsburg.
CALIFORNIA hunters saw that grizzly
bears, when captured alive, though not
wounded, soon die of broken heart, in
duced by excessive rage.
Gov. OSBORN says that the surplus
grain raised In Kansas this year, If
loaded in cars, would make train 1000
miles long.
THE reports of the Minnesota wheat
crops are to the effect that the yield will
average not less than 80 bushels to the
acre throughout the State.
MARK ANTRIM, deaf mute, dying re-
Gently at Antrim, N. H., his funeral was
attended by fifteen deaf mutes, to whom
the sermon was interpreted by signs.
LARGE apes are now regularly en-
ployed on the island of Ceylon, India, to
pull cocoanuts. They are said to select
suitable fruit with great discrlmina-
ton.
IT is estimated that 5000 speeches
were made in Ohio during the canvass.
Wind enough was expended to drive
the wind-mills of Holland for CEN
fury.
A GEORGIA Judge instructed jury a
few days ago to the effect that an officer
who shoots q man whom he is trying
to arrest for q petty offense is guilty OF
murder.
A DRUGGIST in Bethel, Me-, after
closing his store, the other night, was
attended home by large bear, which
made no threatening demonstrations,
but only left him when he got inside his
house.
A RIGHTEOUS and an upright Judge on
the Indiana Supreme Bench has decided
that the habit of requiring the loser In
playing billiards to pay for the game
does not constitute gambling.
Mrs. CASE, of Shoals, Indiana, during
the course of single week knocked one
tramp down, broke rib for another.
shot at third, and knocked fourth
SO vigorously that he he'd to go to
the hospital. This is the hveliest Case
on record.
A SINGULAR parcel recently passed
through Omaha. 1t was box, one foot
square, filed with fish worms, and was
addressed to Lieut.. Fowler of the regu-
lar army, Fort Sanders, Wyoming. The
worms were sent to start colony In
Wyoming to furnish the officers with
fish bait
In Holt county, Mo-, the early lover
catches the bride. Alice Carson engaged
herself to Mr.. Wheeler and Mr.. Kretzer,
naming the same day and hour for her
wedding with each. Mr.. Kretzer was
SO fortunate as to reach the church with
his clergyman shortly after Miss Carson
had become Mrs. Wheeler.
Mrs. BLACK, whom Byron apostfo
phized as the g Maid of Athens, is still
| living in Athens, and is now az old
lady about Is years of age. A CORE
spondent who lately visited her describes
her as a tall old lady, with features IN
spring reverence and showing that she
had been beautiful woman.
A CURIOUS little Bible, said to be the
smallest ever made, has been sent to the
London Standard from the Oxford Onie
yersity Press. It is printed on tough
India paper of extreme thinness, meas
ures A. by % by inches, weighs, when
bound in limp Morocco leather, less than
81 ounces, and can be sent through the
post for penny. 1t is also beautifully
printed.
THE steamer Chancey Lamb, while on
her last trip up the Mississippi, between
the Minnesota and Wisconsin shore,
sighted fine buck swimming across the
river. Another boat made the discovery
about the same time and lively chase
ensued. The men on the Chancey Lamb
we're successful in capturing the
prize, however, and he was taken on
board alive.
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