The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-11-30
People and Things.


! LOOK out for spurious quarters.
The rolls of paper used by the New
York Times are five miles long. 4 "a e
SENDING postal card with some mean
words on it has just cost New York man
$500. IN. .{ 81
WHILE Mary Smith was laying out q
corpse in Liverpool, she fell dead on the
top OF it. '''tt te
THE Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians
will not allow negro children to attend
their schools. Ho5hotl8Q8 80 ,2Hit
"BUsINEss is bad-there ere no Amer
leans in Paris, is the CRY of a thrifty
i Frenchman. 81 te la-Ib ea8
THE vote of Cincinnati in the late
election was Al, 900; of st. Louis, 48, 315;
of Chicago, $4,000. ST. eq ae
THE annual death rate intLondon now
Averages Is per 1000, il Edinburgh IL,
Glasgow 81, in Dublin 10. .....
The Amazon river drains 100000
square miles OF land, and is navigable
for 2, 200 miles from its mouth.
Mrs. KIMBERLY, the woman who has
stock farm in Iowa, has taken over
So, 900 worth of premiums this fall ON
her stock. = 5l!# s}aal sHa ii
AN Irishman fought and killed two
bulls in the arena at Barcelona, and then
made three new ones when telling the
reporter about it. a. .,.f9e M bre t
The French Government has ordered
that hereafter the second and third class
| cars on railroads must in some way be
heated in winter.
/ DIR. S. J. JAMES has grown black tea
at his place, five miles from Thomasville,
Ga, which compares favorably with the
best imported from China.
A MISS, IL years old, named Bewley,
won the prize at a cooking match which
was one of the features of fair at
Anderson, s. c., a few days ago.
The cost of sendinga soldier to Cuba
1 is officially stated in Spanish journal to
be 1856 pesetas or francs. Each soldier
receives a cash bounty Of $50; substi-
tute receives 500 extra. A."T
Miss MARY FLETCHER, of Burlington,
VT, has given that city $150.0OO for the
establishment of pEblic hospital, W. -cb
is to bear her name. It will be the only
institution of the kind in Vermont.
PHOEBE CeU7Ns declares that the fe
male Prohibitionists are to leave the Dem
ocratic party on Mount Nebo, and the
Republican party in the Valley of Je-
hosaphat, and pass on to the promised
land.
IT is roughly estimated by the New
York World that 5000 Western girls
have taken husbands this year for the
only reason that they were thereby en-
abled to visit the Centennial at somebody
else's expense. 4sga ~ te# nultBG
I Mr.. UPPER is much struck with the
Improvement of the moral tone In Amer
lea. There has been of late, he says, so
vast stride toward absolute temper
ance that America may now be called
water drinking people. ...,
i THE largest box of layer figs ever
brought to this country has just been
received at Boston from Smyrna. 1t is
4 feet long and 3 wide, weighs 800
pounds, and contains over II, 900 figs.
The ordinary boxes weigh 10 pounds.
MARTIN WEIGH, of Baltimore, for
himself and children, sues the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad COmpanylto recover
$4,000 for the loss of his wife, Anne
Weigh, who was killed by a train while
/
The husband of fashionable dress
maker in Washington, who had intrusted
$15, 600 of her savings to Boss Shepherd
/ for investment, fell in a fit when he
| became aware of the loss. He realized
what he would get when he reached
home. -t'' 95"3 s4tJ
MISUNDERSTANDING large meat importa-
| - e,,o,,o. 41ocS o+oe tho II ON
don butchers keep up their prices so
high that the Globe advises corpora
tio1, and that families should jointly
market through ajdelegate, who would
receive small commission.
IT is said that the copy of Eliott's In
dian bible has been sold more frequently
than any book in this country. It was
sold again, the other night, to Mr..
Cook of Providence, r. l., for 5000.
At tine same sale copy of the first book
printed in Connecticut brought $50.
DURING their short stay in CONSTANT
nople the Emperor and Empress OF
Brazil received hundreds of petitions for
aid, written in, great variety Of Ian
guages and dialects. On leaving they
distributed 100 Lire among some OF the
petitioners, and sent $3.50 to charitable
institution. as r.
/ WHERE can the miner of olden times
have gomez I see no Starbottles, nor
John Oakhursts here; not even Green
Russell or a John Gregory, to bring
the smile down to Colorado. Z The
miner of to-day is a bitter disappoint-
nent to Bret Harte's readers. Com
mon, matter-of- fact fellows; ! grieve to
say that even buckskin shirts, long
hair and bowie knives are falling into
| disuse. DeGdaO0od Letter.
4 CHINA has its big trees as well as Cali