The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-06-14
PERSONS AND THINGS.

IHE egg business reaches s., 0OO, 900
a year in New York.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., has over 800 stores
and 800 tenements vacant
The London School Board forbids girls
to wear curl-papers in school.
The first time an African Prince saw
ice he said it was water fast asleep.
THE United States army has had since
1875 only fifteen Commanders-in-Ch Chief.
THE United States army has had, since
IT'S, only fifteen commanders-in-chief.
A RUSSIAN corvette mas been taking on
ammunition and torpedoes at San Fran
cisco.
SOME chap has misapplied his genius
In the invention of an India-rubber fish
worm.
The English brewing firm of Bass &
Company pay an annual revenue tax of
81, 500, 900.
A BOY has been expelled from Yer
mont school because he habitually car
ried pistol.
MEXICO is about to declare an addition
al tax OF 10 per cent. on all imports into
that country.
The American Consul at Berlin writes
that American leather is fast finding
sale in Germany.
The chiefs of the Cherokee, Delaware
and Seminole Indians are all members of
Baptist churches.
MEXICO is about to declare an addi-
tional tax Of 10 per cent. on all imports
into that country.
By a new law in Indiana marriages be-
tween persons nearer of kin than second
cousins are forbidden.
A SCOTTISH paper says that bottle of
whisky, 1872 years old, has recently been
sold at Edinburgh for 5000.
MANY farms in Maine, it is said. can
be bought for less than the cost of the
buildings and fences upon them.
Texas farmers are beginning to believe
that the grasshoppers were deeply-dis-
guised blessing. It is said that the most
pestilential weeds have been eradicated
root and branch by the locusts.
The municipal clocks of Vienna are
moved in accord, by means Of pneumatic
tubes, with a central clock. Every min
ute a wave of compressed air is sent
through the tubes, causing the hands to
move.
ONLY fifteen years ago China held the
monopoly of tea production; now India
is proving a formidable rival. From
100000 pounds in 1861, the export
from Calcutta advanced to 25,000,000
pounds in 1876.
Mr.. ERAsTUs BROOKS, who retired re-
Gently from the New York Express, after
a service of forty-one years, is, with the
exception of Mr.. Bryant, the Oldest jour
nalist in New York city. He says in his,
farewell that 112 daily newspapers have
started and failed in New York city since
he began.
The French mining engineer, Sineolis,
says that the silver mines of Colorado
and of Northwestern Texas give un-
doubted evidences of great wealth. The
ores are true silver ores, and the mines
are Identical with those of Mexico, of
which they are continuation.
SARAH G. GREGG, of Texas, married,
against her fathers wishes. The parent,
being rather more obdurate than usual,
smoothed away his domestic infelicities
by killing the unwelcome husband then
the Sheriff, in attempting to arrest the
parent, killed him and, finally, the girl
killed herself.
WHEN only 20, Abdul Kerim, now
Commander-in-Chief of the Turkish
army, eloped with a pretty Moldavian
Jewess, the vivandiere of his regiment;
and the lovers Withdrew into a remote
village, where they were discovered a
year after. He was degraded and re-
duced to the ranks.
IT is not known what is the total area
of waste lands in Scotland, but an ex-
ample taken from the Highlands will
convey some idea Of it. In Sutherland
shire, out Of ], 207, 1873 acres represented
in the owners of lands returns, only 3d.
635 acres are under cultivation, being
only little over 2 per cent.
PERTER B. BRIGHAM, an old bachelor,
died in Boston recently, worth several
into the Old South Church and took a
seat, from which the sexton surlily turned
him out. The boy never again entered
a place of worship until he was worth in
the neighborhood Of 100000.
A New BEDFORD man, fearing that his
application for life insurance would be
rejected if he told that his father and
mother had died of consumption, gave
the cause of the fathers death as delirium
tremens. AS the parent had been an
exemplary deacon, great Indignation was
expressed by relatives, and the insurance
policy was Cancelled.
IT is said that Mr.. Motley never recov-
cred from the blow to his amour l0r0pre-
inflicted by his removal from the British
mission, and it caused him to avow more
frankly and frequently than his best
friends could have wished his decided
preference for the English over the
American methods of administration, and
for English over American society.