The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-11-07
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A GEORGIA man killed 5000 bats
found in his garnet.
The Germans grind their finest -four
with glass mill-stones
TRoLLoPE, the novelist, has bought a
great estate in Cape Colony.
RUTLAND county, Vt, averages about
thirty divorces a year, in population of
10000 +f#< ti5 si - an .n0
The wine-growing interest of Califor-
MIA yields fully 100000 annually to the
revenue of that State.
| WAGONS carrying loads of iron in the
streets OF Paris have to use rags or straw
to deaden the noise.
A PET canary, raised and owned by
Mrs. A. P. Frary, of San Diego, died
recently at the age of 81 years.
The old capitals Of Maryland and Vir-
glnla are now pasture grounds, not even
a relic of building remaining tf
PARIS boasts it's fnger-nail shops,
where the greatest skill is brought to
the proper trimming of the nails.
AMONG the most remarkable inven-
lions represented at the recent paper
exhibition at Berlin were paper teeth.
MASSACHUSETTS, is kind to bachelors
and unkind to old maids, there being
5000 of the former and only 1853 of the
latter married in that State last year.
MOORE county, N. c., has twenty
eight gold mines, six silver mines, eight
copper mines, nine or ten iron mines,
and general assortment of other min
erals.
The Danbury Neavs suggests that
when a scythe is not in use it should be
buried in deep trench in some piece
OF woods, and guard of armed men
should be kept around the woods.
On autopsy, the brain of Modelling,
the would-be assassin of Emperor Will
lam, appeared normal, but the skull was
somewhat obliquely shaped as is often
found in persons of unsound mind.
Mr.. CRossLEY, of Halifax, in England,
has succeeded in hearing the tramping
of a fly from distance twice as great as
that between Bradford and Halifax
that is, over some twenty miles of tele-
graph wire. ,..
JAY GOULD is described as being a
very singular structure, physically
speaking. He is small in frame, scarce
ly bigger than puny boy of Is, with
black beard, black hair, black eyes, and
a shrinking manner. ..
SOME idea may be formed of the prog
ress of China within recent years from
the fact that, of the 9,269,O00 tons of for
eign-built vessels engaged in the local
carrying trade between the treaty ports,
the Chinese themselves own 1886, 900
tons.
A wORKNGwoMAN says if the sturdy,
industrious girls should stop marrying
and supporting the fellows who stand
on the street corners and smoke 15-cent
cigars for living, there would be ten
tramps on the road where there is one
now.
The young Duke of Norfolk is ground
landlord of nearly all Sheffield, the home
of cutlery, and has in the neighborhood
place called Sheffield Farm. In hon.
or of his recent marriage he there gave
a magnificent ball to 900 guests. When
the leases fall in, his income from Shef
field will exceed ST. 100000, annually.
A REMARKABLE specimen of meteoric
iron has been received at Yuma, Cal,
from Mohave desert. It weighs about
a pound, contains gold, is not magnetic,
and has successfully resisted simple and
compound baths of acid, and has defed
| the best cold chisels in the blacksmiths
shop, and has not broken or Clipped I'M
der heavy blows.
A WRITER in the Lancet condemns
the planting of trees in the streets of
towns as unsanitary, taking the ground
that the circulation of fresh air is
checked by the foliage of the trees, and
in the narrow lanes, where the poorest
part of the population are packed to-
gether, anything that interferes with
the freest possible circulation of air is
injurious to health.
Is it raining little flower?
Be glad of rain!
Too much rain would wither thee
Twill shine again.
The clouds are very black 'tis true,
But just behind them shines the blue.
Art thou weary, tender heart?
Be glad of pain;
In sorrow sweetest things will grow,
AS flowers in rain.
God Watches and thou wilt have
! When clouds their perfect work have done.
/ --Folded Hands,
GREAT attention is now being paid by
the inhabitants of the Argentine Repub-
lie, South America, to the cultivation of
wheat along the river Plata. There is
every reason to believe that in a few
years that region will be one of the most
extensive grain producing localities in
the world. Many italian, French, Rus
sian, and other settlers are now breaking
fresh ground there.
AN old-fashioned barbecue near
Worcester was recent incident in But
ler's Massachusetts, canvass. A large OK
was roasted over big fire for twenty
four hours, and then carved, after the
speeches, for multitude The meat
was tough and badly cooked, most of it
being either raw or burned, but it was