The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-12
PEOPLE AND THINGS.


MIR. SANKEY is singing his way through
England.
BRIGHAM YoUNe's favorite wife, Amelia.
has married again.
FAILURES in England have been heavier
this year than last.
A WEALTHY East Boston widow has
eloped with her milkman.
ONE can live on 81 month in China
The thing is to get the So.
CERTAIN locomotives are deemed nm
lucky, and drivers dread to travel ON
them.
COLORADO will have surplus of onlv
900 bushels of wheat to export this
year.
MOSQUITOES are so thick in Strstford,
Ct, that some of the farmers find it diff
ficult to harvest their crops.
A FRANoo-JEw1sH company has OBJ
tanned a monopoly for the extraction of
bitumen from the Dead sea.
AT Bath, Me-, recently, young
couple were introduced, engaged, mar
ried and divorced-all within week.
IT costs the English Government $50
900 year to repair the damage to insu-
lators and telegraph wires by stone
throwing boys.
OLE BULL is delivering farewell con-
certs in Norway, after which he will
come to the United States and give new
series of them here.
SwARMs of venomous flies have made
their appearance in and around San
Andres Chalchicomula, Mexico, which
have caused the death of whole focks
of sheep.
A MAN was hung recently at Union
Springs, Ala. Before the procession
formed the military band played
''Dixie" and "The Girl I Left Be-
hind Me-"
Ex-GOv. HENRY Ell. HA1GHT, of Califor-
MIA, died at the Office of his physician,
in San Francisco, where he had gone
for medical assistance on account of
sudden illness.
A STRANGER had to carry his child's
body in a coffin through the streets of
Portland, from the wharf to the depot,
the other day, as the city fines any one
not licensed undertaken who conveys
body in a carriage.
A BREAD-FRUTT tree has been accli-
mated in the State Capitol grounds at
Sacramento, CAL, and is in healthy
bearing. The fruit is pear shaped, four
inches long and three in diameter, with
a cantaloupe favor.
QUEEN VICTORIA has her carriage seat
arranged in such manner that the mo-
ton OF the vehicle sets it rocking. In
this way she can keep up a perpetual
bowling to the populace without exert
ing her royal spine.
The earliest known English epitaph
recorded is that inscribed about 1870 in
the parish of Brightwell- Baldwin, Ok
fordshire, to-John the Smith. Ana
grams were considered rather the thing
up to the time of James [.
HORRIBLE murders have of late be-
come as frequent in France as in the
United States. A whole family, consist
ing of man, his wife and two children.
we're lately found murdered in their
rooms at Ribiere-au-Gay.
A GIRL in disorderly house in Edin-
burgh, learning that the police had
been sent in, leaped from second
story window, and her leg came in con-
tact with spike on the iron railing,
which ran quite through the limb and
held her suspended in great agony until
blacksmith could be got to cut the
railing.
A NUMBER of unemployed young men
in San Francisco have combined to es-
tabiish laundry in opposition to the
Chinese, who made laundry keeping one
of their chief industries. Some unoccu-
pied public buildings have been offered
them by the Common Council without
charge for their experiment.
Each Speaker of the House of Com
mons receives a pension of $4,000 a
year, with remainder to his eldest son,
at whose demise it terminates; but there
is only one ex-Speaker- Viscount Evers-
ley, Charles Kingsley's friend and neigh
bor-who has such pension, and he has
no son. His successor, Mr.. Denison,
created Viscount Ossington, refused
pension. He died childless.
AMONG the candidates for the Presi-
dency of the French republic in 1880 are
Duo d'Aumale and Leon Gambetta.
Marshal MacMahon will be pushed for
reelection by one party, d'Aumale by
the Orleanists or Monarchists, and Gam
beta by the Radical Republicans. The
Bonapartists hope that the political diff
ferences of 1880 will bring the Prince
Imperial to the front as sort of COM
promise candidate.
LAST year 3O8, 665 British vessels en-
tered at ports in the United Kingdom,
1872, 0O3 being sailing vessels and the re-
mainder steamers. In point of tonnage
two-thirds of this total were under steam.
There entered into British ports from
France 1922 vessels; from Russia,
1880; from the United States, 4, 1876.
The extent of the Russian trade with
England will surprise many. London
had 1858 foreign entered, against 4, 1874
at Liverpool.
A SUGGESTION is made by CORE
spondent of French paper that bodies