The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-22
PERSONS AND THINGS.
ISIS MAYS health has improved.

LHE Mayor OF Boston sets apart one
day III the week to receive applications
for office
The wife of Backus, the negro min
strel, displayed $50, 900 worth of diamonds
at the charity ball in New York.
A Boston woman has just received a
SO, 900 legacy from a Western farmer,
whom she refused to marry few years
ago.
JOE HOWARD has been dangling (by the
hands, from the wire rope at the Brook
YIN and New York bridge for the fun of
the thing.
A TEXAS stockman recently sold to
parties In Southwestern Kansas 10000
head of cattle and 1900 horses for
$140, 900 in silver.
A WOMAN in Illinois has been three
years in making quilt of $3.50 pieces
OF stuff and it is said to be as ugly as an
earth and water fence. .t....
Mrs. JULIA WARD HOWE is not regu-
larl y-ordained Universalist preacher. She
is a Unitarian, and has not hitherto
sought or received ordination.
ALvID GOULD, who is claimed as the
discoverer of the Comstock (Nev. vein,
or one of the aids in it's discovery, wants
the State to allow him pension.
WHEN the Earl of Salisbury went to
Constanhnople the Turks called him the
New Broom" When he left they
dubbed him the cold Trumpet"
MISS VAN PEnT, IS years of age and
thirty-six inches in height, one of the
most comedy dwarfs exhibited in this
country, died In New York city on Satur-
day night.
MAGGIE MITCHELL had a narrow es-
cape in st. Louis lately. AS the curtain
dropped chandelier fell, narrowly miss
ing her head, and making hole in the
stage close by her.
The Chicago Stonecutters' Union sent
a man to urge the Illinois Legislature to-
prohibit the employment of convict la
Dor, and it was discovered that he had
learned his trade in the penitentiary.
ABOUT third of one of Mrs. Flori's
legs was cut off by locomotive in st.
Louis, and jury awarded her $4,266-
$50 damages. The amount indicates that
the jury estimated the entire leg as worth
$12, 800.
J. G. JACOBSEN is the name Of
benevolent brewer of Copenhagen who
has given whole million of crowns for
the promotion of mathematics, natural
science, philology, history and phil
osophy.
ARTHUR CHAMBERS, the pugilist, keeps
a drinking saloon in Philadelphia, and
his advertisement offers the following in
ducement to customers "The skeleton
hands OF Tom Hyer and Yankee Sullivan
on exhibition at the bar"
A NUMBER of Germans residing in
France have received, since the begin
ming of the year. an invitation from the
German Government to return to their
country before March, if they wish to
avoid serious legal consequences.
SOME curious compiler of statistics and
genealogies has discovered that eighty
nine descendants of the Huguenots ban
ished from France by the revocation of
the edict of Nantes returned to that
country in 1870 as officers in the German
army.
JOSE MARIA IGLEsIAs, ex-Chief Justice
Of Mexico and claimant of the Presiden-
cy, is a man of learning, and at % had
already been for some time a college
professor. He is distinguished for his
classical attainments, and has been
historian and an editor.
LIGHT
The night has thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of whole world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of whole life dies
When love is done.
Coz. BoUDINoT writes from Washing
ton to one of the Indian Territory papers:
"The removal of the Sioux to the In
dian Territory should be prohibited by
law, and I hope to see that done this
season. You may depend upon it, the
Sioux Indians will never be removed to
the Indian Territory
A FRENCH chemist thinks that it is
not the arsenic in green colors that is so
deleterious to health, but the green ray
of light reflected by it. This opens up
the question of whether ray reflected
from a metallic green can be different
from that reflected from vegetable
green. The latter is conceded to be
conducive to health, or else the mortality
in summer would be universal.
LEONARD HARPER JOHNSON, of Vir-
ginia, has devised new religion, based
on new Bible Of his own composition.
This pretended revelation of divine will
constitutes him high priest, with right
to claim one-tenth of the income of his
followers, and to have as many wives as
he can get. He has secured three wives,
but no other followers as yet, although
he breaches his doctrines eloquently.
RICHARD A. PRoCToR, writing about
the probability of there really being
such things as "sea serpents,' says it is
not likely that naturalists know all the
forms OF animals that exist in the oceans.
He reminds us that the first account of a
giraffe was laughed at, that the gorilla
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