The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-16
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| "SILvER to any amount taken at par 3"
is the sign that meets the eye at every
turn in San Francisco.
Coz. FRED GRANT saved his father
from being run over by street car the
other day, and wretched little one
horse car at that.
Don CARLOS is not yet twenty-eight,
and If he lives may be regular King of
Spain. It's slippery situation, though,
and much avoided by solid men.
GEORGE ELIOT, it is said, thinks out
her books even to the structure of the
sentences before she begins to write
them. The printers like her for it.
A PROMINENT lawyer at Petersburg,
Va, was so confused recently by the
entry of his wife into the courtroom, as
a spectator, that he broke down in his
argument.
PRINCE ALFRED stood it all until his
wife swore at him In Russian, ard called
him third-rate fiddler. Then he or
dered up his ship for two years cruise
In the Mediterranean.
SURGEONS say that finger nails, bitten
off, often find Judgment in the stomach,
where they remain for years adhering
to the tissues and running ones feelings.
Don't bite your finger nails.
MASSACHUSETTS expects soon to have
quorum of ex-legislators In State Prison,
and is reserving for Winslow cell adj
joining that occupied by ex-senator Pond
and ex-Representative Best.
The Khedive has a passion for improv-
ing Egypt, where he is at once the viz
trlal sovereign, the largest land owner,
the principal farmer, the most consider
able merchant, and the leading hotel
keeper. His ministers call it public
spirit.
A MAN will see, where there is house
full of children, one or two of the eldest
are restricted and the youngest ruined
by indulgence; but in the midst there
are some that are, as it were, forgotten,
who many times, nevertheless, prove the
est.-B0con.
A MAN in New Bedford is fitting up a
steamer for the purpose of towing ice
bergs to India, where they sell for six
cents pound. Another proposes to do
still better-to fit screw In the iceberg
itself. and thus avoid the expense of
shipbuilding.
AT the Dublin Lord Mayors banquet,
the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland said the
country had been more prosperous last
year than ever before. Emigration and
pauperism had sensibly decreased, two
prominent banks were paying a divi-
dend of IL per cent, and the deposits
in the Bank of Ireland amounted to
FL, 900, 900 more in 1876 than in the
preceding year.
SUCCESSFUL experiments have been
recently made in France with view of
determining whether lines could be sent
ashore from stranded vessel by the
aid of pigeons. The pigeon from the
wrecked vessel, when set free and nat
urally flying to land, is able to convey
thread 400 feet long and two-thou-
sandths of an inch In diameter. People
on the shore, by pulling the string,
obtain cord, and at length strong
rope, by which communication is had
with the ship.
A YEAR ago there were still living five
college graduates of the last century.
Four of these have since died: William
Hall, of Wilmington, Del, graduate
of Harvard, aged 81; Samuel Swift, of
Middlebury, VT, Dartmouth, aged SO;
Horace Binney, of Philadelphia, Har-
ward, aged 959, and Judge Herring,
Princeton, aged nearly SO. The only
survivor of the five is the Rev. DIR.
Thomas Williams, of Providence, r. L,
a graduate of Yale, and well advanced
in his 9th year.
Mr.. BURROUGHS, of South Africa,
having no dog to love, bought an o.
trich, and now he advertises as follows
/" 910 Reward-Lost, tame ostrich.
Said ostrich was missing yesterday, di
rectly after having devoured certain
pieces of machinery, which one of the
ladies of the advertisers household had
apart and was cleaning on the front We
randa at the time. The pal is wanting
are face plate, needle-bar and shuttle
of sewing machine. 1 am not particn-
lar about the ostrich.
The Virginia Chronicle reports that
the Consolidated Virginia mine is now
taking out $50 tons of ore per day, and
the shipment of bullion for the first sew
enteen days of February amounted to
81, 126, 527. In the California mine they
are now working 1,7OO feet below the
surface of the earth. The Belcher yields
daily $50 tons of ore. In the Grown
Point they are also LOO feet below the
surface. In the Julia mine the shaft has
perpendicular depth of 1850
feet. The Sutro tunnel now extends
IL, 242 feet into the mountain.
BEFORE GOING TO SHEEP.
Dear Father all this lovely day
My baud has lain warm in thine
That all along the fair, Powered way,
Mine eyes have seen Thy footprints shine.
Follows upon Thy day sweet night;
When I creep closer to Thy heart,
Reminded of that hour whose flight