The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-08
People and Things.

VAssAR has 3S5 girls by a very STAIR
count.
THERE will be four eclipses this year.
'Clipse this out.
RUBENsTEM can write an opera in
thirty-four minutes.
ENGLAND is determined to build man
of-war which can't be sunk.
A NEW diamond" mine has been dis
covered in Yuba county, California.
The Massachusetts, fishermen took out
223, 713 barrels of mackerel last year.
BOSTON wonders if Mr.. Moody will
get 1888 converts there, as in Chicago.
The rich thieves of the past are fast
becoming the poor outcasts of the pres
ent.
The ex-Empress Eugenie's mother,
the Countess de Montijo, is reported
dead in Paris.
GEN. MoLTKE says that Russia will
whip Turkey in the end. Hope it will
whip both ends.
STATISTICS show that the children of
every class of murderers are almost in
variably criminals.
The success which comes from dis
honesty is the most uncertain and short
lived thing of this age.
ARNOLD, the writing-fuid man, has
made 81, 100000 by it. That's the sort
of an ink-come to have.
POTATOES are fast usurping the place
on the table formerly occupied by pre-
serves and other luxuries.
THE mammoth sponge that was found
in Florida is twelve feet in circumfer-
ence, and weighs nineteen pounds.
MILES STANDIsH is a member of the
Maine Legislature. He is ineal de-
scendant Of the Colonial Captain.
OSTRICH feathers sell to dealers for
about $25 per pound, but after that they
are held at about that much per ounce.
QUEEN VICTORIA is not for war, al
though the soldiery are. This shows
that the hairpin is mightier than the
sword.
The man with an ulster, pair of
boots and shirt collar can wear other
clothes, but they are not absolutely nee
essary.
WHEN proposing to a widow the ques-
ton whether her first husband is dead
or divorced should be put as delicately
as possible.
Mr.. PATTERSON, of Rochester, has
stopped sixty seven runaway horses dur
ing the last seventeen years. Trot out
your medal.
No BOSTON boy can slide down hill
more than twenty times without broken
limb, and yet no boy is satisfied with
nineteen times.
IF the pen is not mghtier than the
sword, why should New York burglars
have made four different attempts to
rob a pen faetory3
PUBLIC opinion is big thing. When
person falls down he always looks to
see if any one observed him before he
examines whether he is hurt.
AN apple-dumplng eating match re-
Gently came off at Allentown, Pa, when
the victor scored twenty-six dumplings
and the next highest eighteen.
A BOSTON medium holds that David
Copperfeld, Dora, Agnes, and Dombey
and Son, are real characters, and pro-
duces their materialized spirits to
prove it.
THE Victoria bridge across the st.
Lawrence is more than foot shorter in
winter than in summer, and If provision
were not made for this change something
would have to break.
In some portions of Tennessee, where
the mercury has not become Injured to
the cold, the thermometers have indi-
Gated as low as twenty degrees below
zero several times this winter.
A RUNNER of errands died in Paris the
other day at an advanced age, and it was
found that, though he had been supposed
to be miserably poor, he had collected
$4,000 francs, which he had stored in q
cupboard in his room.
A TRENTON boy sent off carrier
pigeon the other day, all prepared for a
visit to BordentOwn, and as the bird
raised and was about striking a bee line
for Bordentown, somebody shot. The
affair is now about to end in a lawsuit
AMONG the houses burned at the re-
cent fire at Burlington, N. j., was the
one in which Capt. Lawrence, of the
Chesapeake, was born. It was an old
brick building on the north side of the
main street, painted yellow. The bricks
of which it was built were imported from
Holland in 1877.
ADIEU.
Let time and chance combine, combine,
Let time and chance combine;
The fairest love from heaven above,
That love of yours was mine,
My dear,
That love of yours was mine.
The past is fed and gone, and gone,
The past is fed and gone;
If naught but pain to me remain,
I'll fare i'll memory on,
My dear,
I'll fare in memory on.