The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-06-28
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Texas papers report grass thirty feet
high on the San Marcos river.
A sALooN-KEEPER at Marion has been
convicted of "selling beer to minors, -
and fined $100.
EACH granite window-cap of the ST..
Louis Postoffice weighs four tons, and
is worth 81, 700.
A FEMALE Justice of the Peace in
Wyoming recently fined her husband
heavily for flirting.
CINCINNATI, in proportion to her pop
ulation, has fewer lawyers than any
other city in the Union. = ...
In May, 1877, 9,S77 immigrants ar
rived at Castle Garden, New York.
against 3,116 in May, 1876.
JEFF. DAVIS is now residing at Beau
voir, on the Gulf coast of Mississippi.
between Mobile and New Orleans. and
preparing his memoirs.
THE British Government has deter
mined to make great changes in the
rolling-stock of Indian railways, so as to
| adapt it to military purposes.
OMAHA will have to build dyke to
prevent the Missouri from making a
short cut across a point of land which
would leave the city out in the cold.
WELL, boys, here's for perdition p
said Alonzo Lester, and he coolly lay
down on bar-room floor in Yolo, New.
and shot himself through the head.
IT is stated that Southern man who.
in the old times, spent princely sums
periodically at New Orleans, is now
laborer on his own plantation at $50
month. ,e :....,.,.
SWEET and fragrant are the amenities
of Chicago journalism. The Times de-
scribes Mr.. Joseph Medill, of the Tr5b-
a@ae, as Zone Of the most canting of
Pecksniffs and dirtiest of moral pole
cats"
A MAN who jumped overheard recent
ly to save his wife from drowning. has
explained his action satisfactorily to his
friends. He said she had a good deal of
iewelry on her person, and gold was
high.
ONE of the New York obituary writer's
says that the Harper periodicals bring
in an annual profit of 100000, while
the whole manufacturing business
amounts to 100000 yearly, one-third
Of which is profit.
SIX tons Of homeopathic pills are laid
to the account of a single pharmacy in
Geneva, n. Y, last year. And yet that
is called infnitesimal medicine; 49,
900 pounds of pellets, and an indefinite
number of establishments to be heard
from .!. So.
WOMEN who go into journalism must
bear its crosses as well as it's crowns.
Mrs. Belle Lynch, of the Ukiah (Cal.
Dispatch, made uncomplimentary men
ton in her paper of Mr.. F. L. Carothers,
whereupon the latter visited the sanctum
and gave her sound Gaming.
STATISTICS taken in France show that
the mortality of infants nursed by their
own mothers never exceeds 10 per cent.
seldom, indeed, rising above per cent. !;
that of infants sucked by other wet
nurses averages about 20 per cent. while
in "hand-fed'' children the death-rate
ranges from 80 to so per cent.
The Transvaal (South African) repnb-
lie, recently annexed to the British
empire, contains 114,O0O square miles,
just double the area of England and
Wales. The white population, chiefly
Beers, is believed to be about 80, 600,
the blacks, 100000. It is a rich but I'M
developed country. The republic was
almost bankrupt.
WHEN Gen. Grant, just before sailing
for Europe, went to order his new uni
form in Philadelphia, his tailor invited
him to step on the scales and be weighed.
''Oh," pleasantly replied the ex-Presi-
dent, g [ know my weight exactly. It's
1876 pounds. That is what I keep myself
at. And, sure enough, the beam
turned at just that figure.
ROME can boast, at the present time,
one of the finest tenors ever known, in
the person of a Franciscan monk, Father
Giovanni. Impresarii have repeatedly
besought him to leave the cloister for the
stage, but he turns deaf ear. When he
sang at the Easter fetes the churches were
crammed to suffocation. He is q fine,
robust man of 80 years.
The will of the late Peter Brigham, of
Boston, beside giving large legacies to the
ICI6tb1FS0 VI Uu6 CACCCctS6ll, ItGfOJtS ucdL1J
three-fourths of the whole estate to a
hospital in Boston for the sick and poor
of Suffolk county. Twenty-Five years
will elapse before the bequest viii be
applied, which, beside other contingent
property, will be equal to So, 100000.
RAILROADS have done wonders in In
dia. The garrison of Peshawar, 1900
miles from Calcutta, can be relieved and
strengthened with greater certainty and
speed than places only a tenth Of that
distance thirty-nine or forty wears ago,
and British rule is considered more Sc
cure with $4,000 European troops and
the railroad than with double that num-
Der before it was made.
QUITE a number Of Frenchmen who
went to Manitoba from Nashua, n. H.,
some time ago, have had enough of it
and are anxious to return, but, as the
railroads which took them out for S13
charge 5000 to bring them back, most