The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-17
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

10y was one OF the earnest metals
known.
| BUoKwHEAr cakes are getting ready
for flop.
TURKEY gets a years rent in advance
from Cyprus.
THROUGHOUT the world I, 100000 Jews
are scattered.
The debt of the city of Paris is equal
to 57,126,82O.
/ COFFEE is successfully cultivated in
San Diego, Cal.
/ THERE are in Mexico eighty-one cloth
manufactures.
| CLEANLINESS is the deadly enemy of
vice and crime.
ENGLISH steel-pens are almost entirely
made by women.
The Postoffice Department has ruled
that husband has no control over the
correspondence of his wife. .f-
The New Orleans Picay4tne esti-
mates the pecuniary loss by the epi-
demic there at over 81 100000 in actual
outlay.
A MONTANA infant used 800 of her
fathers greenbacks to make head-dress
for doll, clipping off the corners to
make good fit.
No WOMAN can be employed in an
Austrian railway Office unless she is un-
der 25, and will promise not to marry
under three years.
HE Indian newspapers are unani-
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Europeans are much excited. Almost a
commercial panic exists at Bombay.
A NEW and valuable variety of table
/ fish, the Norwegian deep-sea founder,
has been discovered by Prof Baird on
the Massachusetts coast.
WE have $4,000 miles of telegraph
to put up, for which 100000 trees are
needed, while repairs require nearly
100000 more trees year.
The Federal Council of Switzerland
has adopted an ordinance making in
struction in gymnastics obligatory for
all boys in the public schools.
TICK, or credit, is word old as the
seventeenth century, and is corrupted
from ticket, as bridesmaids bill was
formerly called. The phrase was origin
ally on ticket"
Mr.. Fl. M. STANLEY, the explorer. has
completed arrangements for the delivery
OF 100 lectures in various parts of Great
Britain, embodying descriptions of his
recent discoveries.
POPE LEO XIII has expressed his sat
isfaction that pilgrimages to the Vatican
have, under his pontifcate, been re-
sumed from all countries, and especially
from the provinces of Italy. ...r.....
The Journal of Microscopy says
the entire Bible could be photographed
on little more than all inch and a half
It could be photographed nearly ten
times on an ordinary postal card.
SIX years ago two young men in Phil
adelphia inherited from their father
about $4,000 each. Since that period
one has died poor and the other is now
driving furniture car for a living.
AN Austrian resident of Bangkok,
Siam, named Pyer, formerly Roman
Catholic in religion, has publicly re-
nounced his faith and been formally re-
ceived into the Buddhist priesthood.
THERE are three houses at Peckham,
London, which have not been opened
since the Princess Alice disaster. All
their occupants were on board the i'll
| fated steamer, and not one returned.
The first Chinese childs magazine
has been started in Shanghai It is
published monthly, contains a variety of
amusing and instructive matter, with
illustrations, and is but fifteen cents
year. .....-' III ...,
Mr.. ssSCHLIEMAN, the explorer of the
ruins of Troy and Mycen@, claims to
have discovered the ruins of the ancient
capital of Ulysses kingdom of Ithaca.
No notable object of art has yet been
excayated.
SOME Texas stage robbers have en-
igrated to Arizona, and the citizens of
Arizona have raised handsome fund to
reward the Pima, Maricopa, Papago and
Yumas Indians for capturing the rob-
bers, dead or alive. n
""THE Claimant" Orion, is now en-
ployed at Portsmouth dock-yard, saving
timber. He is much thinner than he
was. At first they set him to brick
making, but he attracted too much at
tention from curious visitors. II
CoTToN is indeed king in Western
Texas this year. The fields are snow
white, and the yield will be wonderfully
great. One estimate is that the crop
will not fall short of 100000 bales in the
State, and will bring in $30,0O0,OOO.
GAS is sold to consumers in Paris for
$3.50 per 1000 cubic feet, but the city
pays only half that, in consideration of
the monopoly. After the gas company
pays 10 per cent. of its original capital,
half of all earnings in excess of 10 per
cent. is paid over to the city, which de-
rives from this source an annual revenue
! of 81, 100000. $500