The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-21
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

SECRETARY EyARTs is go years old.
KENTUCKY viii reset the old Whipping
post.
Mr.. Ross has examined 375 lost Char
leys.
IRE Chinese nation has just cele-
brated It's 36Oth centennial, or 36, 0OOth
New Year.
ONE-HALF the wire is laid on the great
suspension bridge between New York
and Brooklyn.
Ii is rumored that the Grown Prince
of Austria is soon to wed the Princess
Beatrice of England.
A TRAMP was taken in at West6eld
Mass, who boosted that he had been
on the road since 1852.
Mrs. MARGARET HERBERT and Mrs.
Catherine Tilton, twin-sisters, of New
Jersey, have celebrated their Goth birth
day.
RUSSIAN officers consume great uuan-
titles of champagne. The general staff
of the Russian army lately ordered
$50, 900 worth from Paris.
The Gear of Russia is not strong. and
fears the early approach of death. He
will be so if he lives until April, an age
beyond which no previous Romanoff has
lived.
KING HUMBERT, of Italy, thinks his
father ran things little fast, and has
commenced cutting down expenses by
selling off 1000 horses kept in the royal
stables.
IT is regarded in New York as really
quite surprising that James Gordon Ben
nett, with his extravaganza life in En-
rope, is making his fathers fortune last
SO long.
THERE are living in Belgium, France,
Austria, Italy and America 100 families
OF the descendants of Rubens, repre-
sented by $50 persons. Most of them
are of noble birth.
WOLVES in Eastern France are unu-
sually bold this year, and have commit
ted many depredations. An instance is
cited IN which courier was driven by
them from his regular track.
SIN this great court that wears the
golden epaulets of JUSTICE" said Gin
cinnati barrister, "where are the great
waves that wash the shore of Justice %
His client was sent down for thirty days.
THE telephone develops more practical
value in England than here. The Lon
don Daily NeaOs uses it to get reports
of debates direct from Parliament, con-
nections being made with the ordinary
telegraph wires.
STANLEY is man who is cruel to his
most devoted friends. An African ma
tive became so fond of him that he
begged Stanley as favor to kill him
and eat him, but the hard-hearted ex-
plor9r peremptorily refused.
WINTER.
Lastly, came Winter, clothed all in frieze.
Chatt'ring his teeth for cold that did him chill.
Whilst on his hoarv beard his breath did freeze
And the duh drops, that from his purpled BILL
AS from limbeck, did adoWn distil;
In his right hand tipped staff he held,
With which his feeble steps he stayed still:
For he was faint with cold, and weak with ED;
That scarce his loosed limbs be able was to weld
Edmund SpenSeT.
The Prince and Princess of Wales
show IN many ways most kind hearts.
They have provided for Sandringham
and the other villages adjoining excellent
school-rooms and teachers, and on hoi-
days they give the children treats and
serviceable gifts, the Princess and her
little one distributing the latter with
their own hands.
M. DUaUE, a Partisan dramatist, had
nearly 800, 1000 in gold in his desk, and
beside the gold was sack full of bright
new sous that his wife had long been
saving up, in accordance with the super
stition that their presence brings luck.
1t did; for an enterprising burglar, tax
ing the sous for forty, franc pieces, car
ried them off with the next bag, and left
$4,000.
FRESH flowers are daily planted around
the tomb of Napoleon Ill, at Chisel-
hurst, by direction of his widow,
Eugene. 1t is next in order to transfer
his ashes from the island of England to
the banks of the Seine, to be buried
among the people who were dearest to
him when alive. The Hotel des Inva-
ides is waiting to receive the nephew Of
his uncle.
Mr.. JAMES F. DowNEY, editor of the
Louisiana (Mo.) Journal, having been
assaulted by Alderman W. W. Anderson,
publishes a card containing the following
business-ike proposition Z" I will meet
him anywhere his friend and my friend
may select, both to be unarmed, and if
[ don't thrash him inside of five minutes
[ will make public apology and admit
l am no man. [ am in no condition to
struggle with a man, but [ am strong
enough to whip hypocrite and
coward"