The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-02-01
People and Things.

AOUpAO nAN AAAASSe
ALEXIS whiskers have realized their
original promise.
A DAUGHTER of George Francis Train
is favorite in Washington society this
season.
A MISERABLE Minnesota man named
Peter L. Green speaks of his wife as
Mrs. P. I. G.
The latest paragraph from a Georgia
paper has it that sLucille. q Western
actress, is dead"
Miss COLEMAN, daughter of the late
Robert Coleman, is the wealthiest lady
in Washington.
The sweepings of Paris are sold for
5000, 900 per year. The old paper col
lars alone bring $4,000.
GAIL HAMILTON has another yelume
in press, and literary editors are send
ing their shears to be ground.
THE editor of the BROOKLYN Jefferson
ian lodges the snow as q subject of
editorial comment because it is so deep.
ABDUL KERN, the Turkish command
er-in-chief, is Prussian. He has been
in the service of the Sultan since 1912.
DIsRAELT is still reported verbatim for
the London Times by the scribe who
took down his maiden speech forty years
ago.
The Baroness Coutts has purchased q
property in Shoreditch, London, for
1000, in order to establish an institute
of science for that district.
THREE HUNDRED bouquets, sprinkled
with $4,000 worth of diamonds, was
what Patti had to hop over to get off the
stage, at her Moscow benefit.
Mr.. RUSSELL SAGE, who aspires TO
succeed Vanderbilt as the King of Wall
street, is now worth $4,000, 900, and
began life as a counter-jumper.
IT takes German ife-insurance agent
to overcome the uninsured. The Ger
man word for life insurance company is
neutrality-suspicious..
THERE died in Middlebury, VT,
few days ago, cabinet-maker named
Nahum Parker, in whose shop Stephen
A. Douglas served an apprenticeship.
PETER COOPER will be 81 rext month.
and is one of the few milIionaires who
enjoy sthe distribution of their wealth
among the people during their own
lives.
In the New York Assembly the other
day Senator made speech on life in
suranee, and he asserted that there were
not four reliably sound companies in this
country.
But little is heard of Boss Tweed
these days. It is stated on good author
ity, however, that he is still sat home"
and that he will stay there until some
thing gives way.
Mrs. LANDER, it is asserted, was the
original of Miss Crummies, the infant
phenomenon in gauze and long pant
elettes, who ornaments the pages of
" Nicholas Nickleby."
OLIVE HARPER says that the Turkish
women are short and fat, ignorant, ex-
travagant, deceitful and gossipy. They
are Informed and not handsome, and
make unfaithful wives.
IT is said that the late Commodore
Vanderbilt once bruised and battered
Yankee Sullivan, the pugilist, and that
Mr.. Sulhvan's nose never pointed
straight ahead after the encounter.
The great French publishing house
of Firman Didot, which dates back into
the seventeenth century, has $50 female
compositors, and its collection of Greek
classics has been entirely set up by them.
MRS. AMELIA BERRIAN, phonographic
writer of New York, wrote the other day
the extraordinary number of 1 1854 words
In four minutes, an average of 1854
words in minute. She wrote 3O7
words IN one minute of the four.
"WHAT are another's faults to me-,
I've not vultures bill,
To pluck at every straw see, 49,.
And make it wider still.
1t is enough for me to know So.
I've fOllles Of my own,
Ard on my heart the care bestoW, .-.,.
And let my friends alone"
THIRTEEN advertisements for young
women to accompany young men on the
Queens birthday have been clipped ont
of Glasgow paper by M. D. Conway
and sent to the Cincinnati Commercial.
to show that personal advertisements in
Europe are as bad as those published
in America.
SwEDENBoRe was five feet ten, slim
and of dark complexion, though he was
seldom without smile. His clothes
were usually of black velvet, and he wore
rufaes and sword, and carried gold
headed cane. His style OF writing was
operose. Kant tried in vain to CORE
spond with him.