The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-10-07
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FRESH TOPICS.

FRESH TOPICS.
NEVER have the State, county and dis
trict fairs in the West been as successful
as those of the present year.
In a test case it has been recently de.
cided by the Old Catholics in Germany
that priest may lawfully marry.
LADIES, beware of those striped hose
that are just coming into fashion. They
produce eruptions on the limbs.
A MEDICAL journal published in Cleve-
land has made the discovery that bald
headed people are exempt from con-
sumption.
The afflicted editors of Fort Wayne,
ind, have induced Judge to declare
insane and commit to the lUnatic asylum
a man with an ungovernable penchant
for writing poetry.
HERE IS favorite camp-meetihg
chorus Of the Georgia negroes at their
revival meetings
Forty-seben bull-frogs all in de row.
Down in de lagoon, latin at de crow;
Bress de good Lord, how dc cullud angels YELL
Hand out de dimes. or you all gwine to hell,
Bress de good lord.
RosBwATER is the name of gentle
man who writes rosy editorials for the
Omaha Bee. He is evidently not the
fighting editor, as he was badly thrashed,
the other day, by wrathy individual
who refused to take rose-colored view
Of one Of his playful paragraphs.
CHICAGO has improved on the inven-
ton OF card inscribed "hire hall"
or "this man was talked to DEATH" in
tended for the encouragement of pro-
/ fessional bores. The present device is
a small cork fastened by thread to the
. button-hole. When the speaker has
out talked his welcome, the victim calm
" places abe cork in his near ear.
Now THAT there are so many ambi-
tious candidates before the country it is
time they should know where they got
their names. Cd11d6dets means white,
and in old Rome men who offered them
selves for office were g candidate" be-
cause they wore very white robes, which,
by the way, they sometimes chalked,
or, rs we should say, whitehead" and
when they proceeded to go round
a1716ire-and solicit votes, they were
ambitious. Candidates, please take no.
tice, and keep clean.
THAT copper-colored statesman, ora
tor and warrior, Hon. Spotted Tail, in a
speech to the Black Hills Commission
ers, the other day, gave vent to this
burst OF eloquence Yesterday, when
we called on you Commissioners, you
ere all drunk, and you tried to throw a
.rket over NY head. To-day breathe
the free air Of heaven among my own
people, and can now talk to you what I
did not wish to say yesterday. If you
want our land we want the boundary
line of Nebraska changed, the reserva-
ton enlarged, and we want to know what
you say" Ugh
An Ohio correspondent of the Spring
field Mass Republican draws this pen
photograph of the venerable William
Allen He is tall, angular, loosely
built man in closely fitting suit of shiny
black His head is covered with a shock
of short white hair, every thread of
which looks as if it might be clinched on
the neither side Of his tough old scalp;
deepest, snappish eyes, a nose that would
put to shame the Roblest Roman Of them
all; large, obstinate mouth; "a massive
face without one serene spot upon it, but
deeply furrowed over by the passions of
a strong, combative nature--these are
the Immediately striking characteristics
of our own modern political Rip Van
Wrinkle "
Elk SENATOR JAMES r. DooLTTLE, in
his recent address at the Winnebago
County (Ill.) Agricultural Fsir, proposed
a novel scheme for reform in elections.
His plan includes he following meas
ures: % The subdivision of electoral
precincts until not more than $50 votes
shall be in any enc, legal requirement
that every citizen who cannot give