The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-11-14
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Boston is going to have an elevated
railroad.
No INFIDEL books are published in
the Welsh language.
CORDUROY is becoming very popular
as material for children's clothing.
BosToN's police force numbers 1876
members, of whom Gil are patrolmen.
The city of Manchester, England.
manufactures and supplies gas to it's
own citizens.
The silver product of this country is
estimated at 100000 to 100000 ounces
per week.
A MAN has his hands full when he is
five miles off shore and nothing but
water to catch hold of.
A CONNECTICUT manufacturing com
pany have received an order from South
America for 5000 plows.
IT was found, while exploring Chi
nese josshouse, that there was but enc
female Celestial in New York.
THE wool clip of Oregon, this year, is
about 100000 pounds, being about
l 100000 pounds more than last year.
my Grandfather's Clock was writ
ten by Henry G. Work, nearly ten years
ago, and attracted no attention at the
time.
A CLEVELAND paper states that there
are in that city no less than $40 lawyers,
or one to eighty-seven male adults of
the population.
W. T. THoRNE, who was in 1874 ex-
PEELED from the North Carolina Legis-
lature for denying the existence of God,
is now candidate for Congress.
A WESTERN editor thus kindly alludes
toa contemporary: "He is young yet, but
he can sit at his desk and brush cob
webs from the ceiling with his ears"
The Commissary General, in his re-
port, favors making cheese an army ra-
ton, if it be of good quality, made to
keep, and sold at a reasonable price.
THE Chinese have a law that any
military officer making his house a place
Of gambling shall be cashiered and for
ever debarred from holding public office.
The cottonwood telegraph poles used
on the line of the Southern Pacific
road have sprouted, and give promise of
supplying a continuous line of shade
trees.
Mrs. MEDoRA E. WHITE, of Cam
bridge, Mass, who recently sued DR..
Hiram Chase for $4,000 damages for
malpractice in treatment at childbirth,
RECEIVERS $4,917.
The first installment of steel rails for
the Arizona extension of the Southern
Pacific railroad has been forwarded;
ties are arriving at Yuma at the rate of
5000 per day.
Mr.. RHODES, Snowman in Sheffield,
Mass, stuck his finger into a box of rat
tlesnakes to stir them up, and was bit
ten. He swallowed a quart of whisky
and two ounces of morphine, and re-
covered.
A PORTLAND, Ct, young woman was
nearly choked to death, recently, while
trying to swallow a chickens heart
whole. It lodged in her gullet, and the
efforts of two doctors were necessary in
relieving her.
Two MINERS named Peter Chlode and
Joe A. Golf, engaged in st. Louis tun-
mel, Big Cottonwood, Utah, were carried
by snow-side over a 500-foot precipice
during a snow-storm, and received but
few bruises.
GREAT patience and ingenuity have
been displayed by Arlin Evans, of
Horse Shoe Bend, Ala, who, though to-
tally blind for many years, has just COM
pleted a gin house, cotton screw and the
running gear of the gin, doing all the
framing and laying Of timbers unas-
sisted.
SOME negro boys organized a mock
court in Baldwin, Ca, condemned a
playfellow to death, and hanged him
from beam. They supposed he would
tell them when to let him down, but he
only kicked, and they took that for
sport. He was choked to death.
THE Japanese boy who, as brother of
the Tycoon, headed the embassy that
came to this country eleven years ago,
is now student in Paris. He would
now be the Tycoon had be not led
futile revolutionary movement, but he
retains an income of 100000 year.
THREE tramps, who have lodged for
several weeks in barn at Burlington,
Mass, were arrested the other day I'M
der provision in the Riot act forbid
ding the assemplage of two or more
men for unlawful purposes, convicted
and sentenced to ninety days apiece in
the State workhouse
A TRAVELLING fortress, an ironclad
coach, is running on the Cheyenne and
Black Hills stage path. It is made of
thick boiler iron, with four portfolios,
is bullet proof, carries two well-armed
guards inside, and runs for the sole pur-
pose of transporting bullion for the
California quartz mills.
The mulattoes who have been play
ing a musical burlesque in Hamlin's
Theater, Chicago, are warmly praised by
the newspapers of that city. The sing