The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-05-31
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mrs. DAY, of Pomfret, Conn, has had
three husbands within three years. She
evidently looks upon husbands as sort
of spring bonnet.
The Providence Tool Company are
making 600 guns a day for the Turks,
and have yet $50, 900 to make before the
contract is completed.
SEVERAL young salmon have been
taken in the Connecticut river. Thew
are evidently fish Matched in 1875, which
have returned from the ocean.
NOTWITHSTANDING the late frosts in the
Napa valley, Cal, the largest yield of
grapes ever raised in the valley will. it
IS said, be gathered this season.
DURING the past winter it is estimated
that In Western Texas !, OO0,O 900 bison
have been killed for their hides, and the
carcasses left to rot on the ground.
FIVE tons of maple sugar were made
in Gratiot county, Michigan, this spring.
There are yet few hills remaining in
the county which will bear grading
down.
An article quite similar to the common
gum arabic exudes from the mezquite
trees, which are numerous in Texas, New
Mexico, and Arizona Fifteen tons were
shipped from Texas last year.
The Michigan State Fair in 1849 was
held in five-acre lot, with premiums
amounting to only $1,000 Now an
eighty-acre lot is required, and the pre-
mlums aggregate about $25, 900.
PRINCE HENRY, of Prussia, the second
son Of the Grown Prince, has just Joined
the Pruss1an corvette Niobe. He is the
first member Of the dynasty who enters
upon naval career early in life.
The Indians living around Fort Sill
were supplied with horses and mules to
enable them to engage in agriculture,
but the beasts have been stolen. Not
very promising country for farmers.
The Dismal Swamp canal is to be sold
by auction to the highest bidder in Nor
folk, Va, next August. The work cost
over 81, $780, 900, but is not expected to
bring more than a fifth part of that sum.
The Bergen tunnel of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western railroad, which
was begun in 1878, is 428 feet long, and
shortens running time on the line from
100 to II minutes, was opened recently.
The little town of Salem, N. c., ships
annually 100000 pounds of dried
blackberrles to Chicago. It costs one
cent a pound to deliver them there.
where they are sold at fifteen cents a
pound.
HE census returns of Sweden and
Norway for the close of 1875 have just
been published. The former has a
population of 1883, 291, and the latter
of 1,817,237, making the total popuIa-
ton 6,200,528.
The San Francisco papers profess an
apprehension that the Spring valley
reservoirs, from which that city draws it's
water supply, may become exhausted be-
fore rain falls in sufficient quantity to re-
plenish them.
A New JERSEY firm has lost 100000
IN experimenting to find out how to dye
plush for silk hats. The best that can
be produced in America turns brown
under the hot iron. Hence the high
price of silk hats.
A MARBLE mine has been recently dis
covered in Madison county, Indiana.
The vein is from one to four and half
feet IN thickness, and the marble is of
good quality, being of yellow clouded
color and almost entirely free from grit.
THERE are in Russian Poland proper
1000, 900 Poles, 100000 Jews, 700, 900
Russians, 10000 Germans, and 100000
Lithuanians. Of the people 1926, 473
are Roman Catholics, and only 100000
under the influence OF control of the
Greek Church.
AN English woman, who was born
without arms, has just had twins She
wears her wedding ring on her toe, and
does all her homework with her feet
with dexterity that is surprising. How
she will manage to nurse her twin babies
is a problem yet to be solved.
IT is worthy Of notice that the number
of children attending the public schools
port of the Department Of Public In
struction, was 654, 300, while the total
number of scholars attending the Sab
bath-schools in the State is put down at
464, 631.
The State Of Georgia has sold the
labor Of the convicts in it's State prison
for $25, 600 year, which is at the rate
of about 81 year for each convict. The
State appears to have been badly swim
died, as the contractors are now success
fully " sub-letting" the convicts at $50
year apiece.
IRR1GAT1NG the dry lands in Colorado
from wells by windmill power has been
recently found practicable by a farmer
near Evans, in that State. With one
small mill an acre of vegetables was
watered, and the thirst of herd Of
eighty head of cattle, horses and sheep
was quenched.
Mr.. P. T. BARNUM proposes to under
take the recovery Of little Charlie Ross,
and with this object in view will offer a
reward of $4,000. He has made ar
l., a1oo l.