The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-11-02
Pe0nIe and Things.

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this year from eight acres of black
berries. ~
A MANS reputation for sobriety often
hangs upon breath, says the New Or
leans Republican.
DURING its 40 years of existence, the
Presbyterian Church at Cranberry, N.
j., has had but six ministers. r70
IMMENSE herds of buffalo have APP
peared on the Red river, in Manitoba,
after ten years of total absence. -9aI,
IT is asserted that a snake with fin
has been captured in Maine. Even the
snake stories are becoming fishy.
In Vergennes, VT, the other night, a
| young woman attacked a burglar and
scratched and bit him so that he was
glad to get away. ,...
IMITATION Limburger cheese has been
manufactured so successfully in Wiscon-
sin that families living near the factory
were obliged to close their windows.
BAYARD TAYLOR thinks that what loaf
ing round bar-room is to the body, the
humorous newspaper writing which turns
suffering and death into derision Is to
| the mind. eia
| The Boston Boniface In one of the
swell Anglo-AMerican hotels remarks,
stIWe sharn't take any one heah whose
in trade, and I've to be awfully careful,
don't you know"
THE " cubic air law y in San Fran
cisco is persistently evaded by the Chi
nese, who seem to delight in crowding
themselves into spaces where white men
xuOu1d he s11ffOcated
PARsoN MURRAY expresses a willing
ness to do a little lobbying for law
compelling parishes to lock their church
doors on Sunday afternoon against all
who had worshiped in the morning.
FRANK BUcK1AND, the English nat
uralist, tells of finding a trout lying
dead on it's back with dace fixed tight
in one of its gills. The big fish had
tried to swallow the little one, and both
had persisted in the attempt.
A VERY precise person, remarking
upon Shakspeare's line, f3Iisaag
g The good men do Is oft inferred with their
bones,' p
carefully observes that this interment
can generally take place without crowd
ing the bones.
| World, at least engenders the chivalric
sentiment, which is still good thing,
and worth looking after in our work-a-
day world. So is playing poker. It's a
nightly sort of thing, and introduces
lot of kings and queens, not to mention
knaves, who generally play the deuce.
SIR GEORGE ELLIOT is interesting him.
self in raising Egyptian donkeys on his
estate in Glamorganshire, Wales, and it
| is expected that these animals, which
are very tractable as well as pretty to
the eve, will soon be in great request In
the fashionable world of England for
ladies' saddle use and for use In pony
carriages.
THE splendid orang outang in the Ber-
lin Aquarium died of consumption. It's
friend and playfel'ow, the chimpanzee,
died the next day of consumption and
grief. The young gorilla, the only hv-
ing specimen ever brought to Europe,
is still alive, but ailing. Hamburg not
long ago offered 100,O ZOO marks for the
gorilla; it is feared that he will soon be
sold for less. 48anu 1a #a 81 a
NEW JERSEY sportsmen have taken to
hunting cats, and recently ffty-seven
were killed in q day. Rabbits were
plentiful there till some years ago, when
the cats commenced killing them, and
eventually took to the woods themselves,
and the result is, the rabbits disappeared
almost entirely and race of semi-wild
cats sprung up. Hence the war of ex-
termination that the hunters are waging.
In the London Divorce Court, lately,
a woman prayed for dissolution of her
marriage on the ground that she was
insane at the time it took place. She
was then 50 FRUSTRATED with grief at the
loss of her husband as to lose her reason,
and a man in a much humber station OF
life than herself persuaded her to marry
him. She had been in an asylum, but
was now sane. The evidence being per-
fectly satisfactory, the marriage was dis
solved. .
! ONLY WEEK AGO.
Only week ago the warmth and glow
5. Of sweetest summer time ss p. ts.5
/ Only a. week ago the bud and blow
/ Of some fair tropic cline. 20 fGat.@ ~ go
| Only week ago, and now the glow ..at s#-
| Of fervid heat has turned
To wintry snow, and sharp winds blow
Where tropic splendors burned.
Only a week ago-ah, very low +t4s .tt f'}e
! Ny cherished buds are lying;
| SO low so low, do not know
If they are dead or dying. 1I u
So low, so low, drenched all with mire and snow,
] Their beauty smirched with earth
| So low so low-only Gods breath can blow
Them back to fresher BIRTH
Nora Perry, IN the GALAXY. 81
A PARIS landlord, not being able to
squeeze the rent out of one of his ten
ants, recently made a visit to the fifth
floor and caught him in the act of con-
ceaiing something under the tablecloth.
The poor ledger finally yielded to threats
and showed the landlord a bank-note OF
SO francs which he had been copying.
ssYou scoundrel,'' said the landlord,
care you running the risk of the galleys
for miserable sum of 80 francs2'e
"Ah, Monsieur" whined the ledger,
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