The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-06-24
People and Things.
KENTUCKY has no public debt.

! The Baltimore school-teachers' monu-
ment to Edgar Allen Poe will be dedi-
Gated in September.
The spelling-match struck Honolulu
in the middle of May and knocked it in
to the middle of next week.
IT is estimated that there are over 500
| tons of old rubber shoes manufactured
into car springs in Boston annually.
SALT LAKE, Utah, is shuddering over
a new horror-the discovery of human
skeleton in an old abandoned well.
| Six points on the Union Pacific are
now advertising "the shortest and most
practicable route to the Black Hills. I"
"THE conversational shrek of the
| American female voice is denounced In
q recent number of the London Times.
| LAST year we imported from Great
Britain about 100000 yards less linen
an9 100000 yards less cotton than we
did two years ago.
THE Independent Freight Carriers
Union of Buffalo is rapidly increasing in
members, and the scalpers propose to
cooperate with it.
DIsRAEII, In all the course of his pub
lie career, has held but two official posi-
tions-those of Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer and Premier.
JUNIUs wrote to Woodfall GO have
lived long in this world, and | affirm be-
fore God that / never knew scoundrel
who was not unhappy"
MARY JANE BROWN, of Maine, offers
to fight any woman in America for 500
side, half the gate-money to go to the
grasshopper sufferers.
OscEonA, the great Pennsylvania lum-
Der center, so terribly scourged with the
extensive fires of that region, shipped
last year $4,000, 900 feet of lumber.
THE London Spectator is good enough
to say of our Supreme Court at Wash
ington that it is "probably as ably
manned as any bench in the world. !"
SERGEANT BATES is numerously re-
quested to buy a Boyton dress, and take
a. trip round the world in the Gulf
Stream. "Forever float that standard
sheet"
FROM the Lincoln (Neb.) Star it is
learned that large quantity of goods
shipped from the East to the relief and
aid societies of Nebraska have been sold
to pay express charges.
A MASSACHUSETTS boy recently found
a. pocketbook containing large sum Of
money, and spent twenty cents of his
own funds and two hours time In find
ing the owner, who rewarded him with a
dime.
A New YORK paper says that the trip
to Europe has become so cheap as to be
plebian, and people of superior clay are
beginning to hesitate about the propriety
of going there They can fall back with
confidence upon Niagara Falls.
To COMMEMORATE the services of his
grandfather and eight others of his
kindred at Bunker Hill, Mr.. E. G..
Spaulding, of Buffalo, has erected
monument at West Lawn Cemetery,
which was formerly dedicated on June
18th.
b>T the Fort Pitt foundry, Pittsburgh,
where the great Union guns were cast
during the war, the same machinery that
turned out guns is now employed in saw
ing marble into slabs possibly for tomb
stones for the very men who fell before
the guns.
SIX hundred thousand dollars have
been subscribed to start a paper in
Vienna, from the editorial departments
of which all Jews or "persons of Israel
itish extraction . are to be excluded. All
the other Vienna papers are, in a great
degree, in the hands of this race.
SOME of our young men who answered
advertisements lately of 'correct like
ness of yourself, and your fortune told,"
for fifty cents, have been badly sold by
the receipt of three cent mirror, and
informed that they can tell their own for
tunes by counting their money. Served
them right for being thus taken in
VScksbatTg Herald.
HUMANITY is its own reward, in New
Orleans, at least. The Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in that
city not only interferes to protect
animals, but it gathers in all the stray
COWS, horses, mules, etc., charges So per
day for detention, and at the end of
eight days sells them and puts the money
in the pockets of the agents.
DIR. A. MoRAND, South Boston
druggist, who has been for some time
suffering from thefts of hair oil by a
number of young women, prepared de-
coction of gum arabic and sugar, which
he delicately tinted and placed on his
counters, and since one girl has used it
and had to cut off her hair close to her
scalp, he has not been troubled.
The rabbit forms an important article
of food In Great Britain and Ireland.
In addition to the very large number
imported from the continent, it is esti-
mated there are annually sold for food