The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-19
PERSONS AND THINGS.

WINE is made from oranges extensively
in st. Augustine, Fla.
WIDOW CHARLOTTE, ex-Empress of
Mexico, is only 81 years old.
New YORK city has, it is said. an ex-
cess OF 10000 manageable women.
Boston is beginning to feel anxious
about its export trade, which is deserving
it.
IT takes $1O6, 0OO,O worth of LIQUOR
year to assuage tho thirst of New York
city.
A YOUNG Englishman of fortune has
been sent to Jail for driving two horses
to death.
IT is said that one-half the horses sold
by public auction in Denison. Texas.
are stolen property.
Two thousand American firms have
announced their intention of contribut-
ing to the Paris Exposition.
The San Francisco Bulletin thinks
that California and Oregon will have
about 425, 600 tons of wheat to export.
THE French Mint has struck 10000
francs worth of centime pieces in bronze,
about the twelfth of an American cent.
A RECENT Investigator says that there
are Ii, 900 Jews in Jerusalem. of whom
over 5000 are wholly dependent on char
ity.
Ii you go in swimming and get cramps
IN the legs, turn your toes up toward
the knee. Some one says that the move
ment gives instant relief.
AN Albany woman, after looking under
her bed every night for man for more
than twenty years, found one the other
night. He was burglar.
Thus far in 1877 thirty-seven persons
have been executed in the United States.
for murder There are many more
who should have been hanged.
A HINDoo jury consists of five persons.
of which two are selected by the plain
tiff, two by the defendant, and the fifth
by the administrator of justice.
SOUND travels in one second through
the air the distance of 1, 142 feet; through
steel II, 900 feet; in gas IL, 900 feet and
in wood from 1900 to $4,000 feet.
ONE Of the attendants in the British
Museum was recently frightened into
commissions because he thought an
Egyptian mummy, 4, 1000 years old, spoke
to him.
The most interesting thing in Toledo
golden wedding was dance by the
brldegroom's father, aged 1O6, and the
OLD mans Observation-Disclosures,
aged 16.
The Board of Health of Milwaukee has
authorized the employment of "com-
potent person to test the various fancy
drinks made and sold at the retail bars
in that city"
ALEXANDER Fl. STEPHENS, when asked
for an opinion on the European war, an
swered, ct hate all wars, and will be
satisfied if dogs whowill fight keep away
from my door,"
GREECE has 101 journals and periodi-
cal publications, which gives one for
each IA, 434 inhabitants. The number
of political journals is eighty-two, of
which thirty-six appear at Athens.
SEVERAL English railway companies
are noted for the fast time made by their
locomotives. One, for instance, has
made a run equal to 70 miles an hour.
another Is, others p, 70, SO, 81, etc.
A JESUIT missionary, who had Just re-
turned from among the Indians in Ore
gon, told Cincinnati Commercial re-
porter that for ten years of his life
among the savages he did not see a white
man or newspaper. During three
n0nn4hc ho 1iryo1 a.
was unknown by the tribes in which he
labored, and their chief food was root
called camas
According to the researches of Herr F.
Muench, our earth has at one time or
other been inhabited by 1876, 900 kinds of
animals, of which 20, 900 are now extinct,
while the other 1876, 900 are still with us.
Among the survivors are 1000 varieties
of mammalia, 1000 of birds, 1.5O0
" creeping things" 5000 Of fish, 100000
OF insects, 4, 900 radiata, $500 polypifera,
l, 400 infusoria, and Herr Muench him
self.
A METHODIST church in Topeka, Kas..
was tom down after having stood seven
years. The receptacle in the corner stone
was opened. Among the various things
such as are usually preserved in like
sanctifed places, was found, to the hor-
TOR of the brethren, bottle of whisky
that some irreverent wag had slipped in
when the stone was cOnsecrated. The
pastor poured the rare old liquor on the
ground.
GOODNESS and courage saved Henry F.
Sutton from being lynched in Port
Townsend, Ore. Having shot and killeda
man, he walked back into the saloon from
which he had sailed to commit the deed,
took all the money he could collect, re-
loaded his revolver, and, grasping a rife
and shotgun, threatened to kill any
one who attempted to oppose his prog
ress. Leisurely walking to the wharf,
hegot into sailboat moored in the river,
and, spreading the canvas, calmly pointed
his vessel toward British soil. To9