The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-06-08
People and Things.
A TERRIBLE bIow-b'low zero.

puppy.
If men would set good examples, they
might hatch better habits.
In some of the Wisconsin streams sun
fish are SO tame that they may be caught
In the hands.
DALLAS, Texas, has increased it's pop
ulation of 1000 in 1871, before rail-
road touched it, to $4,000.
Doc stealing has increased SO much in
London that the magistrates infict two
years with hard labor for the ofense.
The sixteenth annual meeting of the
National Educational association will be
held at Baltimore July 10, IL and IL.
POETRY by the Tennyson of the New
York Commercial advertiser
We have time to laugh we have time to cry;
We have time to smile, we have time to sigh:
We have time for eating and household chores;
But we haven't got time to talk to bores.
HARLAN county, Neb., has sent
delegation to the Centennial, consisting
of buffalo, an antelope, wild cat, a
badger, swift, two jack rabbits, two
prairie dogs, and one owl.
WHEN two Dyaks in Borneo have to
decide which is right they have two
equal humps of salt given them to drop
into water, and he whose lump dissolves
first is deemed to be in the wrong.
ABOUT this time the woods resound
with the voice of the Fourth of July or
ator practicing on his "Mister Presi-
dent, ladies and gentlemen, for-r-rty
millions of people" etc., etc.-Boston
Post.
NJ Trua1r of 4ba CooOY,J Pox,a1
Surrey militia, has saved forty-nine lives
from shipwrecks during the past eight
years, and has been awarded the gold
medal of the British Lifeboat associa-
ton.
They say it is impossible to cheat
with one of the turnstiles used at the
Centennial Exhibition yet one of the
gatekeepers turned in $50 more than his
registering apparatus called for the other
evening
RAILROAD building is experiencing a
revival. Thus far the present year there
have been built, according to report, 532
miles, as against 220 miles for the same
period in 1875, 375 miles in 1874, and
654 miles in 1873.
SOME careful and deep-thinking stu
dent has discovered that the word debt
is composed of the initials of "Dun
every body twice." Credit is formed
of the initial letters of "Can regularly
every day I'll trust"
A CINCINNATI scientist, who allowed
himself to be stung once day for three
weeks by bees to ascertain the effect OF
the bites, says that after about the
tenth time the pain and swelling were
slight, the body seeming to become in
oculated with the poison.
THE WonoGaa's Journal claims that
women are equal in endurance to men,
but, until women can work hard all day
Watching game of base ball, and then
sit up and play billiards till o'clock in
the morning, there doesn't seem to be
much need of arguing the point.
POLITICAL discussions wax so furious
in Partisan private circles, that several
hostesses have determined to taboo them
altogether. Accordingly, instead Of the
ordinary formula "dancing" on the
cards of invitation, the guests find the
intimation "politics prohibited.
The United States troops stationed at
Port Gibson, Miss, volunteered as fire.
men at recent fire, and through their
efforts the city escaped general cont1a-
grafton. The people were so pleased
with their conduct that they held pub
lie meeting, adopted resolutions Of high
regard, and invited them to picnic.
A FOOLISH young man has written to
one of the newspapers in New York that
he proposes to get drunk every Sunday
until the law forbidding the sale of
liquors on that day is repealed. 1t is
thought that if he should terminate his
career in his frenzy the result would not
be so severely felt by the community as
by himself.
ALTHOUGH the camel has the most
beautiful eyes of all quadrupeds, it
boasts of ugly teeth and vile temper.
Two unsuspecting keepers at the Lon
don Crystal Palace lately found this out
when dromedary suddenly attacked
them, and tore the ankle joint of one out
of it's socket, so that the foot had to
be amputated.
SOME deliver in forgotten lore has dis
covered that Victoria l., as she signs
herself, is the second Empress England
has had, and that the first one, oddly
enough, bore the same name as her pres
ent Majesty, while no intervening SOW
ereiQn was imperial in title, or bore the
name. Empress Victoria " fourished
1000 years ago.
AN enormous block of granite was be-
ing lowered into the foundation for
dock at Haulbowline, Ireland. A labor
er fell under it unobserved, was crushed
into the layer of concrete upon which
the stone rested, and his body will re-
main there, as the truth was learned too
late to recover it, except at great ex-
pense and trouble.
POOLE, the famous English tailor, who