The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-06-01
People and Things.


Tom THUMB has purchased Florida
orange plantation.
THE acreage of cotton in the South
this season is 9,518,000
AN excellent quality of tea is being
grown in Jasper county, Texas.
THREE kittens, recently born at To
nesta, Pa, are joined together after the
manner of the Siamese twins.
The first Christian newspaper ever
published in Japan has just been issued
at Kobe. It is in Kama characters, which
all the people can read.
A FLASH of lightning at Cheshire
Mass, tore holes in the ground all about
farmer and the COW ne was milking,
and then knocked both down.
The owners of the Strathmore have
announced their intention of making
Capt. Clifford, of the American whaler
Young Phoenix, handsome remunera-
ton.
A POOR shoemaker at Mort, in France,
is the father of forty-five children, all of
whom are still living. Each of his three
wives presented him with fifteen chill
dren.
Miss HATTIE KIRKwooD, because her
lover was unfaithful, wrote an eight-col-
umn biography of herself for the Oil
City Derrick, and then blew her brains
out, at PatFolia.
THE tooth of mammoth was found
at Fredonia, Wilson county, Kan. It is
an upper molar tooth from the right side
of the jaw. 1t weighs eight pounds, and
Is monster in its way.
A wANT-a crying, beseeching want
is borne to us from Washington Terri
tory upon every breeze. It is WOmoe1a-
they are terribly, painfully short of that
important article out there.
WITHIN the last two years the French
officers andcavalrymenh have been trained
to ride with much shorter stirrup, and
the result is already apparent in their
improved seat and general horsemanship.
In rifing q house at Asnieres, near
Paris, two burglars, finding a set of
dominoes, coolly sat down and had
game, marking their points on piece of
paper, which was about the only move
able thing they left.
TRE San Francisco Chronicle has I'M
earthed new fraud. This time it con-
sists of smart trick Of the importers,
who color fine sugar to lower the grade.
a profit of 81 900, 900 per year has been
made by this species Of commercial
legerdemain.
VERDI insists on twenty francs for his
autograph or likeness from the wives
and daughters of admiring Partisan citi-
zens ladies of quality the composer
charges double. The whole amount of
his gatherings goes to his poor native
village in Italy.
IT don't take Dom Pedro long after
landing in this country to become &C
quainted with its peculiar customs.
When he started for California he left
his wife In New York. He was afraid
the Chicago savages would scalp her,
NOrYSStOaU9a Herald.
THERE was sale of rare and curious
autograph letters in London recently,
among which was letter from Oliver
Cromwell written just after the battle Of
Marston Moor, and one from Queen
Elizabeth to Henry ~, of France, the
latter of which brought $3.50.
THE marriage rate has been low dur
ing the last quarter in English agricul-
tural counties births throughout the
country have been more plentiful by
thousands than hitherto /; wheat and
Goals have been low, potatoes and meat
high pauperism has diminished.
WHEN the Hon. S. S. Cox was looking
at the great Corliss engine at the Cen
tennial, last week, he asked the guard
standing near what horse power the en-
CINE had2 The reply came, with an
amazed look, "Why you fool, you
it don't run by horses /; they use steam"
The English New Testament Revision
Committee have struck out as spurious
the last seven verses of the last chapter
of St. Mark. They have also struck out,
as being false Interpolation, verse in
one of the Epistles which is frequently
quoted as proof of the doctrine OF the
Trinity.
AN Englishman who insulated his bed
stead by placing underneath each post
broken off bottom of glass bottle, says
that the effect was magical; that he
had not been free from rheumatic govt
for fifteen years, and that he began to
improve Immediately after the appllca-
ton of the insulators.
AT Galveston, Tex, recently, the
grave of deceased druggist was opened
and the thumb and forefRger of the
right hand cut from the corpse. 1t is
thought that it was the work of supersti-
tious negroes, who imagine that there is
great curative power in the right fore
finger and thumb of druggist.
A STORY is printed in Paris that the
Gar. while at the bedside of his dying
Younger sister, told her how much it
pained him to see her die so premature
". She replied: :" You know they don't
i've longer than sixty years in the Ro-
manoff family" This speech made