The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-06-22
People and Times.

Mr.. GRE-AT-NoIsE has been admitted
to the Alabama bar.
The Emperor of Brazil wants to be
granger, and with the grangers stand.
A NEW HAMPSHIRE farmer has be-
lieved in the proftableness of hogs since
one of them rooted up a box containing
$500.
The latest natural curiosity il London
is dog which has whistle growing at
the end of his tail. He calls himself
when wanted.
The Rev. DR.. Newman Hall says the
churches of Great Britain have lost
| 80, 900 members within three years by
| intemperance.
Mr.. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, who
sits in the Harper Brothers " Easy
Chair, receives $4,000 a year for his
editorial services.
Yesterday, an eccentric character in
New Albany, Ind, has devoted ten
years to learning the Bible by heart, and
has nearly completed the task.
A WISCONSIN newspaper says ''The
Board of Education has resolved to erect
building large enough to accommodate
500 students three stories high"
The experiment has been made in
Germany, thus far with remarkable sue
cess, of substituting lettuce for mulberry
leaves, as an article of silkworm diet.
A WOMAN in Westfeld, Mass, fought
with her husband until the noise aroused
the neighborhood, because he would not
let her go to church and be confirmed.
A New YORK lady who is accomplished
in swimming, intends organizing classes
of ladies, to whom she will teach this
art at the several prominent seaside
resorts.
Mr.. J. Fl. R1NQ has fulfilled the long
est consecutive engagement of any actor
in America, having played continuously
at the Boston Museum since Tuesday
evening, August Is, 1858.
In a recent address to female candi-
dates for confirmation the Vicar of Ken
sington, England, reque sted them to SO
arrange their hair that the Bishop might
really lay his hands on their heads.
AN amendment to the State Constitu-
ton has been introduced into the Con-
necticut House declaring that clergymen
shall not be eligible to election to the
Legislature while engaged in ministerial
work.
AT Baden, Ont, last week, a Miss
Zeiple and a Mr.. Steinmetz were mar
ried. A supper and ball followed the
ceremony, and, while the bride was
dancing, she suddenly fell dead of heart
disease.
A PORTION of human skeleton was
found in an ancient mound at Nevada,
Mercer county, KY, recently, sur
rounded by about ten wagon-load OF
rocks. The body had been buried with
the head to the east.
Mrs. JOSEPH RYAN, of Christiana,
Rutherford county, Tenn, while eating
green apple, day or two ago, placed
some strychnine upon it, thinking it was
salt. Her life was saved with difficulty.
Always have strychnine handy III the
pantry.
IT is said that the Usage Indians have
manuscript written in Spanish on parch-
ment that is 139 years old, and it is now
in fair state of preservation. Several
of their ancient documents were dated
at New Orleans.
DISTINCTION WITH DIFFERENCE.
The esthetic French have taste in all they do
| That grosser Anglo-Saxons are without,
For partial nature, that to them gave govt,
To us, alas has only given govt.
| But ali decide not in such needless haste,
| To incomplete analOgies appealing,
| French govt is only superficial Taste,
While English govt is deep, inseated Feeling.
QUEEN VICroR1A's levee on the 22d of
May was held by the Prince of Wales,
the presentations being equivalent to IN
Productions to the Queen. The list OF
names of the persons presented on the
occasion takes up five closely printed
columns of the London Times.
SINCE the passage of the act of the
California Legislature providing for the
punishment Of wife heaters by public
whipping, wife-whipping has largely in
creased throughout the State, and the
Police Commissioners think of organiz-
ing Sunday raids on the dwellings OF all
Benedicts.
AN illusionist in San Francisco causes
the mysterious disappearance of a cage
containing canary. 1t is thought that
the cage is made of rubber, so as to be
wadded in the hands, and that bird
is killed at each performance OF the
trick. The Bergh Society OF that city
will investigate.
Nor long ago billiard player in Lon
don, in lighting his cigar, accidentally let
his match fall on billiard ball, which
at once began to burn with flame that
could not be extinguished. It was, ap-
parently, an ivory ball, but was made OF
celluloid, a mixture of gun-cotton and
camphor, compressed and dried.
THE latest "Order," s" huts F" of which
are daily being established in the South,
is the & OrientaI Order of Humility.
The officers are Most Potent Grand
Seigniors, Noble Viziers, Reverend Fri
ars' Reverend Monitors, Chief Heralds,
and Seneschals, all of which proud title
suit we'll with an order so very 'umble.
, TIE bellies of Seville have adopted a
new and ingenious device. They keep