The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-01-17
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The Delaware peach crop Melted ST.
100000. I'D
The telephone is spreading all over
Europe.
Do NOT entertain visitors with your
own domestic troubles.
Two THOUSAND Milwaukeeans hav
signed the temperance roll. ..
ONE THOUSAND polygamous marriages
took place in Utah in 1877.
Two DEATHS have just resulted from
vaccination in Sheffield, Eng.
THE highest salary paid to any bank
President in Philadelphia is $4,000.
MILLIONS have been lost during the
past six months on sales of imported
sugars.
ARCHIBALD GORDON, of Granville, N.
c., is the father of twenty seven sons by
one wife.
THE shock of the Negaunee nitro
glycerine explosion was felt fourteen
miles distant
OVER $4,000 Mennonites have passed
through Kansas City during the year, en-
route IOr Gu0 W0SG.
The other day man in Union county,
Ore, killed three deer at one shot at
distance of $50 yards.
PUTNAM COUNTY, Mo-, claims to have
gold AMI silver in unlimited quantities
hid away under its sod.
IT is estimated that holders of sotcks
in Boston will receive during this month
in dividends $10,O00,0O0.
LAFAYETTE COUNTY, No., is so over
run with rats that the people turn out en-
masse to exterminate them.
ICELAND has sent 1900 ponies to En-
gland during the year. Icelandic ponies
are used in British coal mines.
JAMAICA began quinine planting in
1860, and now has $4,000 trees, of which
experienced chemists report most favor
ably.
THE Central Pacific Railroad Company
have ordered 100000 trees, to be set out
along the line of their road the coming
season.
THE muskrats imperilled their repuGa-
ton as weather prophets by building
thick and warm.
THERE are now 851 manufacturing es-
Establishments in San Francisco, whose
aggregated products amount to 1862, 1885,
600. They employ over 26, 900 persons.
LYNN is said to be losing it's trade in
boots and shoes, which used to be al
most monopoly. Western manufact-
urers are getting large share of the
business.
SATIN is now the rage. It went out
of fashion in England twenty-eight years
ago, when Mrs. Manning, celebrated
murderess, at one time lady's maid to
the late Duchess of Sutherland, was
hung in a black-satin dress.
New YORK is suffering heavy loss of
revenues through the cigar-makers'
strike and the action against the liquor
dealers. The deficiency will become
serious if continued for any considerable
time.
PEORIA has eight distilleries, which
manufactured So, 937, 167 worth of high
wines in 1877. The money value of the
-four manufactured in Peoria during the
year was $870,528. The revenue col
lections for the district were Sc, 592, 098.
IT is calculated that the Cerro de
Pasco silver mines in Peru, which Meiggs
was tunneling when he died, have
yielded in past ages $500, 900, 900 in sill
yer, and that an equal amount will be-
come Immediately accessible when the
present works are finished.
FROM 1870 to 1874 the profits to the
Government from public lotteries in
Austria amounted to nearly $35, 900, 900.
The prizes won by ticket-holders in the
same period amounted to $16,500,000.
In italy the net receipts of the Govern
ment from lotteries in three years reached
$40, 500, 900, while the sum won by the
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