The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-20
People and Things.

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A HEAD scenter-The pomade manu-
facturer.
The estate of the late Frank p. Blair.
Jr., is valued at $500.
BOTTOM dollars-the fifty thousand
recovered from the wreck of the Schil-
Ter.
ARMoR-PLATEs twenty-five inches thick
are being made at Sheffield for Italian
war vessels.
THE population of Philadelphia is
80, 632 persons, occupying 151, 143
dwelling-houses.
GEN. Tom THUMB is said to contem-
plate the establishment of an extensive
stock breeding farm In Texas.
A NUMBER of ugly bars have formed
this winter In the Hudson river, few
miles below Albany, threatening the
closing of the channel.
Bob WHEE1ER, a colored bootblack,
who murdered Ben. Blumenstein about
a nickel, few weeks since in Mem
phis, has been captured and jailed.
AN English chemist says that there is
more strength in buttermilk than in
brandy. And man can drink more of
it and keep his bank balance in his
head.
The sum of 5000, 900 was recently di-
vided by Liverpool firm among those
of their employees who had been with
them five years and upward. Good
place to work.
GEN. SHERMAN thinks that an officer
almost as soldier, if the necessity de-
mands it, but if he has wife and chill
dren the whole problem changes.
AN amendment to the bill regulating
the admission of attorneys to practice,
which would have allowed women to be-
come applicants for examination, was
voted down in the Maryland House.
A BOSTON preacher said: eff any. So
ciety will take charge of all the cases of
poverty brought on by intemperance,
this church will lake upon itself to re-
lieve all the remaining paupers of BE-
ton"
DIR. S. WELLS WILLIAMS, of Picking,
has just published the concluding por-
tions of his syllable dictionary of the
Chinese language, an immense work, on
which he has been engaged for forty
years.
THE Governor gen eral of Canada gets
$48, 666.66 In gold {. year the Premier
receives $4,000, and the twelve other
ministers So, 900 each. The Lieutenant
governors of the Territories receive
800 each, and the others $1,000.
The Chief Justice has $4,000, the five
Justices 1000.
A YOUNG man and a young woman,
members of " families socially high = in
Troy, names suppressed, rode to the
nearby village of Cohoes, drank inordi
nately of wine, started for home intoxi-
Gated, seii out of their carriage, and were
found by the police lying insensible in
the road.
THE most thoughtful suicide on record
i some who put an end to his existance at
step he made a will directing
that his body be sold to the highest bid
der to pay costs of inquest and funeral,
so that the public might not be put to
any expense on his account.
A HAsTY spirit brought bitter woe upon
a Montreal widow the other day. Her
intended husband offered her his hand
as they were about to take their places
for the marriage ceremony, saying,
"May I lead you3" A sharp glitter
came into the woman's eyes as she an
swered, Yes; for the last time"
/" Good-by," said the man as he walked
out of the front door.
THE Duke of Wellington replied to
every letter, however humble its source.
A clergyman at a distance wrote to him
once for subscription to help to build
up his church. The Duke wrote back,
inquiring why he should be asked for
such favor, whereat the parson sold the
letter as an autograph for 95 and set the
Duke down as subscriber to that
Louis KossUTH wrote to friend re-
Gently, g OF those who were once in our
Fatherland called the Old Guard, few
are left since Deak's death, and among
the few, with the exception of Sigis-
mund Bernath, am the oldest. / am
but living statue tragical monument
of the slandered past in the midst of
desert nothing more. Well, 1 am
ready"
CURTIS GUILD. the veteran editor of
the Boston Commercial Bulletin, adj
dressed company of newspaper men.
The address was on journalism, and
among its many gems occurs the follow
ing summary of the "points OF good
newspaper man:
brain as flexible and elastic as steel,
memory as tenacious as iron,
temper even as that Of saint,
A digestion equal to that of an ostrich,
And the endurance of adamant.
EARL DUFFERIN, according to an OF
tawa telegram, desired to attend the
Centennial, and wished Mr.. Mackenzie
to include an item of 1915, 900, for
state visit, in the estimate; but the