The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-03-22
PEOPLE AND THINGS.


ding trip upon a vessel ON which she was
born twenty years ago.
The new Sultan of Turkey is the hus-
band of one wife, who is said to be a
Belgian, very pretty and very clever.
THE electric light is becoming com
mon in Paris in connection with works
that have to be carried on during the
night
A LITTLE girl in Savannah, Ga. was
bitten on the finger by playful dog,
and died in nineteen days of hydro
| phobia.
WITHIN five years the police of Phila-
delphia have committed eight murders
and shot seventeen persons without fa-
tally injuring them.
MASSACHUSETTS pays SIS, 600 a year for
the encouragement of horse-trotting, di-
viding the money among thirty so-called
agricultural societies.
AN Edinburgh professor says of liter
airy stimulants that the best recipe is,
"Scott for boys, Thackeray for men,
Shakespeare for heroes.
ANDERSON M. WADDEn1, of Nashville,
gave So, 900 to the widow Of man whom
he had killed. He had been acquitted
on a charge of murder.
A WOMAN in Detroit tried to kill her
self, and the reason that she gave was
4hat she got mad at the world" because
it gave her nothing to eat
BREAD hereafter is to be sold in Read
ing, Pa, by weight. A fine is imposed
for not conforming with the law, as also
for using improper materials.
NEARLY 100000 Germans are settled
in some forty counties in Texas, particu-
larly Comal and Guadalupe, and they are
highly successful as agriculturists.
A NEGRO exhibited in ArnoldviIle, Mo-,
has tail like that of a pig and he can
curl it justas natural as life So says
letter in the st. Louis Republican.
The charger upon which Emperor
! William rode through his battles is dead.
The old war-horse dropped off the other
day, at the advanced equine age of o.
A SUMMONS has been issued at Cardiff
against one DR., Edgar Jones, who, it is
alleged, cut open a woman's wounds after
having dressed them, because she could
not pay the fee.
THERE was a fight at the burial Of
man in Mayfeld, Mich, for the posses
sion of Lis child. The relatives were
divided into two parties, and the hand
to-hand conflict lasted fifteen minutes.
The San Francisco Common Council
has passed special bill permitting
certain Chinaman to carry a pistol three
months because his life is threatened by
persons against whom he has testified.
The old mode of detecting a woodpile
thief by charging sticks with gunpox-
farmer, and it worked as well as ever
4 neighbours stove was blown into
pieces.
A VEIN Of copper has been discovered
at Westboro, on the West Wisconsin rail
road, eighty-three miles above Stevens
Point. 1t is eleven and one-half miles
long aud from one and half to twelve
inches thick.
JOHN Turner, one of the proprietors
Of the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, got
bad shave twenty years ago. Leaving
the BARRIERS shop he said he would be
id if he would ever shave again. He
kept his word, and his beard flows to his
knees.
NJ. GUTLLEMARE has reported to the
French Academy of Sciences that from
the gum of pine trees in sandy waste
between Bordeaux and Bayonne, he has
extracted a very valuable oil, particular
/ ly suitable where a white and steady
light is needed.
A BILL introduced into the Legisla-
ture of Delaware enacts that where q
bride and groom, OF the bride only, are
residents of the State, and leave the
State for the purpose Of being married
beyond it's limits, they shall be guilty Of
a misdemeanor.
COUNT HERBERT DE BISMARCK, son of
tie Chancellor, lately offered himself as .
candidate for membership in the Wen
ma Jockey Club, but withdrew under a
suggestion that he would be blackballed
for his fathers hostility toward the
Catholic Church
SECRETARY robson leaves his office
in good worldly circumstances. Com
modore Aulick, Mrs. Robeson's father
in-law, left her considerable property,
besides 100000 to her son, which, with
the Secretary's' money, gives them control
of some 100000.
A New MILFORD, Conn. maiden, who
found herself in unpleasant company af-
ter accepting an invitation to take
sleigh-ride with young man, dropped
her handkerchief on the road, and, when
he got out to pick it up, piled the whip
and drove home without him.
EDWARD NJ. Fry, San Francisco
broker, married the daughter of mill
ionaire two years ago. They did notg get
along anicably. Lately they agreed
upon a separation, divided their prop
erty, and separated. He has gone to
Europe to live, so as to be as far from
her as possible.
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