The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-12

is worthy Of his hire" He got $50, 600
for his fee.
People and Things.
LITTLE MARY NEWTON ;nherits a good
scientific name.
A PoMPToN CT. j. man of 50 was
born, always lived and has just died in
the same house.
TIE Times is the only lively news
paper In Philadelphia. It has four libel
suits on hand.
AN Indianapolis dog arrested q burglar
who was operating on his masters resi-
dence, the other night.
SENATOR DORSEY, of Arkansas, is keep
ing the st. James Hotel. New York, for
Senator Jones, of Nevada.
A LAKE In Lower California that In
1878 was $50 square miles in area is now
a small pond, and fast dwindling.
A YOUNG married woman became in
sane while Witnessing circus perform
ance at Nebraska City, the other day.
The Wisconsin penitentiary is going
out of the furniture manufacturing bus
mess, and entering more largely into
the manufacture of wagons.
A TEXAN has musk hog, OF peccary,
that follows him like dog. Its kind
were once numerous In Texas, and very
ferocious in their wild condition.
A RUN on the Dry-Deck Savings Bank,
of New York city, prompts the Sun to
give list of eleven insolvent savings
L 1ox,
been closed within the last five years.
The Old South Church is covered
With posters announcing the merits of
the Police Gazette and similar publica-
tons, and stand for the sale of that
kind of literature thrives at the door.
MABEL, the African dog which faith
fully accompanied the body Of DR.. Liv-
ingstone from the interior to the coast,
and was brought to Bombay in Novem-
5eI last, by Lieut.. Murphy, has died.
MAKE little fence of trust
Around to-day;
Fill the space with loving work,
And thr rein stay.
Look not through the sheltering bars
Upon Tomorrow
God will help thee bear what comes
Of joy or sorrow.
-I1sdependent.
college, and West Point examiners
lament the lack OF thorough training
in common school studies that they dis
cover in students presenting themselves
for admission to these institutions. One
half of the Freshmen class at Kenyon
College were conditioned in spelling on
being admitted this year.
PULLMAN, the palace car man, has
given European lady pull-back. She
asked him why there were 40 locks on
the doors of the ladies' dressing rooms
on the cars, and he told her it was be-
cause if women could lock themselves in
only one would get q chance to dress.
She would hold the fort and dress at
leisure.
For more than two months o street
car has been propelled by compressed
air on a road in Paisley, England. Il
has operated successfully in every con-
ditiOn of traffic and weather, running it's
trip of three miles for each charge of air
at cost of about one cent per mile; and
in good weather surplus of air IS left
IN the tanks.
AT Ceylon, the headquarters of pearl
fishing, the shellfsh are sold by the
thousand TO smallspeculators, who either
open them themselves or retail them TO
oil who are inclined to try their luck, a
general sale of fish taking place every
evening when the boats arrive, as there
are few persons at the fishery who DO
not speculate more or less.
THE total value Of books imported
into the United States from Great Brit
ain in 1875 was 9269, 6O7. We exported
to that country during the same year
books to the value of Ell, 452. AS some
offset to this discrepancy, it must be re-
membered that the Importation was
partly made up of old editions and
books in foreign languages.
THE New York Herald has concluded
that "the brilliant colored fluids which
decorate the average bar derive the least
of their favors from either grape or
grain, but are the fabrication Of so-called
liquor compounders, and are, in reality,
mixtures compared with which the hell
broth of Macbeth s witches may be called
innocent and nutritious soup.
JOHN WALDRMIRE, of Rochester, mar
ried after sixty years of single life. He
had rigid ideas of economy, as shown In
sending his wife with centsto get meat
for dinner, and cents for wine. All
the time his bank account was large.
Mrs. Waldernire bore with his penuri-
BUSINESS for three months, and then parted
with him whereupon he hanged him
self.
A CURIOUS provision of French Ell
quett9 is that which exempts the Duke
d'Aumale from requesting the honor"
of the Marshal Presidents company, as
all ordinary entertainers who are in a