The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-06-07
PERSONS AND THINGS.

ENGLISH imports are largely increas-
ing.
The Boston Herald claims an average
daily circulation of 103, 773 copies.
In Waco, Tex, which has a popula-
ton of 10000, there were but two deaths
in five weeks.
The peach crop in Delaware will be
enormous this year, and the shippers are
puzzled how to get it all to market
In Barron county, Wis, deer are so
plenty as to seriously trouble the farm
ers by foraging on the growing crops.
IT is said that Alexander Fl. Stephens
derives great help from obituary notices
of himself, in writing mis- autobiography.
THE inner channel ways of the harbor
of Norfolk, Va, which is one of the
finest in the world, are gradually filling
up.
A MONUMENT is to be erected on the
site of John A Suffers mill, at Coloma,
Cal, in honor of Marshall, the discoverer
of gold.
ATTLEBoRo', Mass, has lost it's Oldest
inhabitant, Hugh Gillian, aged 1O7 years
10 months and days-a native of Ty-
rome county, Ireland.
The R0jlUay Age says that 395
American locomotives, worth S.. 400. $40.
have been exported in seven years, and
that " the reputation of American en-
gines is steadily increasing"
ANN TAYLOR never had sick day in
her life. She was never out of the vii
lage (dolbrook, Eng J in which she was
born. She left daughter 80 years old.
She was herself 102 years old.
S Sa@ AN investigation shows that 800, 900
has been stolen from Luzerne county.
Pa, in the past seven years by dishonest
officials, some OF whom have already
been convicted and are in prison.
BISHOP PAYNE, Of the Southern Meth
odist Church, is II years old; Bishop
Kavanaugh is rs; Bishop Wightman, So;
Bishop Doggett, 81; Bishop Pierce, IS;
Bishop Keener, 56; Bishop Marvin, 81;
and Bishop McTyeire, SO.
DIR. LANDS and Prof. Trimble began
to perform comparatively in "Hamlet,"
in Philadelphia, appearing in alternate
acts. The play was not completed, be-
cause the occupants of the gallery threw
-four and cabbages atthe tragedians.
A VIRGINIA CRY Chi1aman tied his
donkey by rope to the front-door knob
of a mans house, who owed him dol
lar for frewood, and let the beast howl
while he sat on the steps and waited.
The besieged man capitulated in three
hours.
A PROMINENT divine of New York city
recently said that he knew Of no civilized
country in the world where it was so diff
ficult to speak out frankly and fully, es-
pecially on politics and religion, exactly
what one thinks and feels, as in the
United States of America.
THE "Sandiak Sheriff, " or STANDARD
of the Prophet" which the Turks threat
en- to raise, is believed by the Moslem
to be piece of curtain which hung
before the apartment of the Prophets
favorite wife, Ayesha. The Moslems
who would rally under it's folds number,
it is said, 100000 souls.
A WEALTHY Dublner Of the strongest
Fenian proclivities made will, in which
he bequeathed to Cardinal Cullen for
the church $25O,0OO; but, when his
Grace refused to permit the body of
Col O'Mahony to lie in state in any
church in the city, the testator cancelled
the will and disposed Of his property
otherwise.
A PECULIAR newspaper has just APP
peared in Paris under the title of
LAutre Monde It is printed in fiery
red type, on black paper, and is adorned
with numerous emblems of death. It's
contents correspond with its exterior.
The leading articles, news items, letters
from correspondents, and advertisements
all refer to the dead.
AN undertaken in San Francisco has
discovered process of preserving bodies
of deceased persons by washing them
with a chemical solution and inclosing
them in a casket containing antiseptic
chemicals under false bottom. He
keeps a corpse for show in his ware
rooms, and has one now which he pre-
pared forty days ago. It is that of a
Swede who died in the County Hospital.
The body remains free from discolora-
ton and the joints are as supple as in
life.
STORM MUSIC.
List through dusk silence warningly there steal
The first, low notes of airy ViOlins.
With one shrill chord the symphony begins,
While oft the thunder's diapason peal
Rolls through the fame-lit sky-Gods chariot wheel.
And bark. what trumpets blow from yon black
cloud,
While the strong trees, in sudden terror bowed,
Seem from the tempest fleeing then reveal
The horror of their anguish by deep means
And waiings keen, far tossing to and fro
Their tangled branches, where the angry wind
Wreaks all his mighty passion unconfned-
Then leaves them shattered like brave men laid low,
By wars hot breath, to die mid battle groans.
for Ju1'e.
AN Ohio paper says Private Dalzen
never wrote but one letter under ten
pages in his life. It was to Ben Butler,
when the spoon scandal was at its
height. It read: "Gen. Benz. T.
Butler-Are you thief? An early an
swer will oblige, Private Dalzell." The
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