The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-07-27
People and ThingS.

CAPTAIN WEBB is going to swim from
Scotland to Ireland.
LADIES are to take off their hats In the
theaters of California.
F'IRFoRAcKERs destroyed o ten-acre
grain field in Lehigh county, Pennsyl-'
vania.
A GEORGIA hotel advertises: emusic
three times day. Teeth examined be-
fore each meal. -
Four hundred and twenty-nine car
riers deliver the letter and paper mails
of New York.
The prisoners in the Pittsburgh Peni-
tertiary are allowed to subscribe for
newspapers and periodicals.
MoLL PITCHER is called "Mollie on
the monument lately erected to her
memory in Pennsylvania.
PATRICK QUEENY died the other day
in Dublin of starvation, while he was
possessed of property worth 81, 500.
Mr.. MOODY will begin his revival work
In Boston in January. The three pre-
vious months will be given to Chicago.
A SIGN of hard times at the watering
places is the substitution of Irish servant
girls for French house and nursery
maids.
A WOMAN in Anderson county, KY,
gave birth to five children one day last
week. Four of them are living and do
ing well.
SAN FRANCISCO complains of the inn
mense number of unemployed clerks,
statesmen and other men of that class now
crowding the city.
A PARIS gardener put romance into
his suicide by hanging himself from a
weeping willow, his feet touching clus-
tiers of immortelles.
WILLIAM FOSTER died of cramp in
Stamford, Conn, from the effects of be-
ing soaked with water by firemen who
were ducking each other.
CHRISTIAN DIEH1 was caught around
the neck by the rope of church bell he
was ringing at Lancaster, n Y, and
hoisted twenty feet in the air.
BUFFALO BILL is a scout with Gen.
Carr's command, on the plains, and adj
vertises that whoever appears on the
stage in his name is q swindler.
In France, out of population of
100000, only 100000 live on the
revenue of accumulated wealth, the bal
ance depending on the produce of
labor.
THE Professor of Medicine at Kings
College, London, recommends total
change Of diet, without the aid of med
icine, as an efficacious method of treat
ing nervous diseases.
QUEEN VICTORIA now stands fifth in
order among the sovereigns of England
for length of reigns. She is only junior
to Elizabeth, and the three long Thirds.
Edward, Henry and George.
In EIbert county, Ga, Mr.. Enoch
Bell, while shoeing horse under tree
in front of his shop one day last week,
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed. The horse was also killed.
The city of Cleveland has erected
liberty pole of Bessemer steel, composed
of cylinders, fush-iointed. Ito feet high,
with top-lnast Of wood sixty feet fur
ther. It is expected TO be there July 4,
1876.
A WELL-DREssED, audacious fellow
eats large meals in Baltimore restaurants,
tells the cashier he has no money to pay
with, takes a toothpick, and coolly walks
out. His first reverse was a vigorous
kicking.
CHARLES LE1EvAIN, who died recently
III Paris, bequeathed to the French
Academy 100000 francs, the interest of
which is to be yearly given to "some in
dividual considered most worthy for his
virtue and probity."
A MISSIONARY in India has sent an or
der to New Haven for a vehicle which
can be travelled in by day, slept in at
night, and preached from at any time.
It will be furnished with cooking uten-
sis, bedding, and books, and six oxen
will draw it,
NOT long since freight train ran off
the line of the Great Western road in
England, doing much damage to the
line, though no injury to life or limb re-
suited. On receiving telegram an
nouncing the accident, the inspector at
Bath fell dead.
Mr.. J. HOWARD JONES, of London,
an experienced mining engineer, pro-
nounces the mines in North Carolina
superior to any on the continent. He
says that the only trouble is, when the
people get to the depth of $50 feet they
stop. The best mines are around Char
lotte and Salisbury.
A SAD accident occurred at the funera
of young girl near Berlin the other
day. Her mother, an old woman of 60,
who was standing on the edge of the
grave with head bowed down with grief,
suddenly uttered piercing shrek and
fell headlong into the open pit. She was
raised at once, but life had fed.
Two CH1NAMEN of them 70 years
old-were drawing water from well in
San Juan, CAL, when the old mans pipe
fell into the well. He Immediately got
into the bucket, and his companion
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