The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-12
PERSONS AND THINGS.

CANADA is now sending beef and beer
to England.
A CATHonIC priest is building achurch
in Deadwood.
LARGE linen cuffs are fastened with
gold pin instead of sleeve buttons.
NEwsBoYs began in America in 1S48,
with speech of Daniel Webster's.
The area under wheat in Great Britain
was y per cent. less in 1876 than in
1860.
A MAINE man, while fishing recently,
raised bag of old silver coin out of the
river.
Two WOMEN have been appointed
photographers to the Supreme Court of
Maine.
IT is estimated that 2, 600, 900 of buffalo
hides are awaiting shipment from the
trading points west of Dallas, Tex.
The Mayor of New London, Conn.,,
ordered the police to kill all unmuzzled
dogs. His own pet was the first one
brought.
The State of Kentucky pays a dollar
for fox's scalp, and this year nearly all
the taxes in Adair county have been paid
with scalps.
THE Count of AbriaI. whose father was
a peer of France under Charles X, and
whose grandfather was Senator under
Napoleon, is head waiter at a Paris cafe.
His daughter is cashier.
STATISTICS show 2,019 manufacturing
establishments in Rhode Island. with
$50, 100000 aggregate capital, and en-
ploying 56,450 hands, who receive an
nual wages of 1913, 707, 513.
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany has
ordered life-size portrait of himself for
presentation to Minister Washburne, in
recognition of his services in behalf of
Germans in Paris during the Franco
German war.
Con- SELLERS, otherwise J. T. Ray
mond, passed the Treasury Department.
in Washington, the other day, and said
mildly: ''There's millions in itp-and
Immediately added, refectively, there's
millions after it.
RRoF. ROBERTSON SMITH, of the
Scotch Free Church, was suspended be-
cause he wrote that certain passages in
the Pentateuch were not written by
Moses. e., that Moses did not write
the account of his own death and burial.
All JAW, a Ohinaman in San Francis
co, was held by one of his countrymen
while another cut off his arm with q
heavy cleaver. This was in retaliation
for refusal to pay debt. All Jaw re-
ceived prompt surgical attention, and
will recover.
THE Marquis Mantegazza, condemned
to imprisonment for having forged the
signature of Victor Emanuel, is now
undergoing his sentence at the prison of
San Giorgio, near Lucca. He asked not
to have his head shaved, but the favor
could not be granted.
THE price of a Chinaman's head has
been fixed in San Francisco by the Mon
golians themselves. One was arrested
recently for carrying concealed weapons,
and pleaded in court that, as he knew
secret enemies had offered $500 for his
head, he felt justified in preserving it.
BENATAH GIBBS, the fashionable tailor
Of Montreal, lately died and left an i'm
mense fortune, his picture gallery alone
being valued at$150,000. Eighty of his
best pictures, building and lot of
land, and $4,000 have been bequeathed
by him to found a public art gallery.
THEIRS is hale and hearty, and his
walk, carriage, dress and conversation
are not those of an old man. He wears
neither whiskers nor mu8tache, and like
the Iron Duke Of England, shayes him
self with an untrembling hand indeed,
the morning hour devoted to the razor is
his favorite time for receiving visitors.
TT is said that the late General-Ad-
miral Ward of China, who was a native
Of Salem, Mass, bequeathed his fortune
of $10,000,000 to his Salem relations
but, as he was a Chinese subject, the
money went back to the source from
whence it came, although his father
spent eleven years IN China In vain eff
fort to bring the officials to terms.
Mr.. THOMAS BRAssEY, eldest son of
the great railway contractor who left
each of his three children upward of
$40, 900, 600, contrived to get leave Of alb
sence from his Parliamentary duties, and
make tour in his steam yacht around
the world in forty-six weeks. Mr.. Bras
sey passed the examination for a certifi-
cate of seamanship some time ago.
By connecting the New Mexico and
Arizona telegraph systems near Santa
Fe, New Mexico, recently, the only con-
tinuous southern line across the cOnti-
nent was formed The next step proposed
is to connect the military line Of Texas
with that of Arizona and New Mexico by
running $50 miles of wire down the Rio
Grande from Messilla to Fort Stockton.
ONE of Sherman's soldiers cut paint
ing from it's frame in one Of the Rhett
family mansions in South Carolina, and
sold It in Philadelphia for ten dollars.
Neither he nor the purchaser knew that
it was more than two centuries old, and
was valued high among the thousands.
It has Just been discovered in Cincinnati,
and probably the rightful owner will get