The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-02
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

four cents in New York.
| n,vtvn to We war the tax on sheep IN.
Turkey has been doubled
IT takes, as sccrdinS I / a scientific
Journal, 1000 bumble-bees to weigh a
pound.
THERE were distilled in 1876 in Gin
clnnati nearly 100000 gallons of
spirits.
IT is stated that the United States
Government still owns one-tifth of all the
land in Alabama.
A FELLOW is on trial in Fort Worth.
Tex, tor using profane language in the
presence of ladies.
THrNNEss is an objectionable fault in
Turkish woman, and is considered as
good ground for divorce.
SINCE the LIST of January 11O.357
pounds OF opium have been received at
New York, valued at 1857, 199.
In the kingdom of Prussia, among
6,0O0,O 900 births, there were seventy-nine
cases OF four at birth, and one case of
five at birth.
A NEBRASKA farmer bitches a pair of
COWS to a wagon when he journeys, and
milks them when he comes to a toll gate.
paying the toll with the milk.
SOME of the Canada doctors said at
their recent Toronto meeting that whisky
was the bane of the profession, and
carried off more of their number than
any disease.
IT is noticeable fact at all the sum-
mer resorts that the visitors are not
spending money as in the days gone by.
There is vast cutting down in the list
of s'extras."
AN Englishman who is clever at ana
grams has amused himself by transpos-
ing the name of DisraeE and Gladstone,
which somewhat appositely resolve
themselves into Z" I lead, sir" and sc
leads not"
THE United States produced last year
cotton crop worth about $3.50, 1000 600,
and a corn crop worth about $3.50, OOO,-
900. Of a total agricultural product of
81, 900, 100000, the corn crop forms the
largest item.
A SUDDEN draught of hot air is re-
ported to have passed through a cotton
field and peach orchard in Western
Texas, few days ago, scorching and
killing every green thing it touched for
a space of 140 yards wide and 400 yards
long.
INDIAN famines are usually in conse-
quence of failure of the water supply.
Artificial irrigation was in former times
extensively used under the native princes,
but most of the old reservoirs and canals
are now in ruins-a fatal neglect which
sooner or later must be repaired.
THERE is a most interesting widow in
that appropriately-named town, Hazard
vile, CT. This lady has lost five hus-
bands by powder-mill explosions. Is
she alarmed? Is she discouraged? Not
at all. She is about to be joined to the
sixth, and he is powder miller also.
FINLAND has more blind than any other
country, in consequence of the huts
having no chimneys. Norway suffers
from the same cause, but in a less
degree. A comparison showed that while
in that country the blind were 1876 in
10000, in Finland there were 24.4
IRELAND sends 103 members to the
House Of Commons, GA of whom repre-
sent 80 counties, Dublin University,
and 81 represent 81 towns. These last
81 towns, which return more than one
third of the Irish members, have only
So, 1853 electors, among population of
882, 146.
WHEN postage was cut down to cents
the Scent silver wafer was coined.
Nearly all of them have gone into the
postofice. Two offices sent to the de-
partment recently 10000 Scent pieces.
The department turned them over to the
treasury, which gave them full credit for
them-a losing operation.
JOHN GAsFoRD joined all the churches
in Dale, KY, ten years ago, and has
since united with every new one immedi-
ately on its formation. The number is
now eight, comprising wide range of
doctrines. He says that probably one
out of the lot is right, and by embracing
all he will be sure to save his soul.
How LITTLE the American parent
knows of what his child is doing has
just been illustrated in Connecticut: ga
South Norwalk miss, while herself at
tending an uptown day-school, started
a private school in the city, and main
tanned it in fourishing condition several
months before her father discovered the
fact.
DIR. BowDrrCH thinks that the Anglo
Saxon race in America is not dwindling
away, after all, and gives the statement
of lady Of his acquaintance, that "Lon-
don dealers in children's ready-made
clothing recommend to American Gus
toners sizes adapted to English children
one year older than those for whom the
garments are purchased. :"
Two POUNDS of black bread and one
quarter pound fresh meat, or bacon in
lieu thereof, with garlic, salt, and plenty
of tea, seem to be the daily rations of
the Cars soldiers. Occasionally they