The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-29
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THERE are sixty Chinese laundries in
Philadelphia.
HE Portuguese population of Cali
fornla IS estimated at $4,000.
HE number of cattle annually slaugh-
tered IN this country is 1900, 600.
IT is estimated that California will
have 100000 tons of surplus wheat
for export.
HE Rev. Mr.. Haskell, of Lewiston.
Me-, set fy-trap and captured 7.O01
flies IN fen days.
HE Glasgow Times says next to a
young rabbit nothing is so hard to raise
as young newspaper.
THERE is no egg of bird known which
is not good food, or which could not be
eaten by hungry man.
The King of Burmah recently impris-
oned all his Ministers for several hours
because they were not punctual in at
tending council.
KANSAS has increased her population
over 100000 during the year ending
June 30, and over 100000 acres Of
Government land were taken up.
THE names of several London public
houses have been changed to "The
Beacorefield, as has also that of Alex
andra Music Hall in South London.
The Wahabees have posted notice in
the mosques of Northern India inform
ing the faithful that the world is to come
to an end on the 18th of July, 1879.
EMPORIUM, Pa, must be a nice place
to live in. The man who does not at
least kill one rattlesnake day in the
streets OF that town is not regarded as
an enterprising citizen.
HE number of native Christians in
India is given in the new Missionary
Directory" as 266,391, an increase of
AZ, l33 IN four years, and of native COM
municants 68, 689, an increase of Is, 1913.
The Postofice Department has ruled
that man has no control over the cor
respondence of his wife. If she requests
the Postmaster not to place her letters
in her husbands box, it is his duty to
comply with her request.
NOTWITHSTANDING all the talk about
the depression of the iron business, it
appears the production of pig-iron in
1877 exceeded that OF the previous year
225,OO0 tons, while the production of
1876 was 2, 093, 1856 tons as against 987,-
500 tons IN 1860.
THE Emperor of Morocco, was. at last
accounts, dangerously i'll. AS result of
the famine now raging in great part of
his dominions an insurrection has
broken out in two provinces. One of
the Emperor's nephews, sent at the head
OF troops to quell it, was killed.
The following advertisement is en-
titled to the palm for muddled English
Ii the gentleman who keeps the shoe
shop with the red head will return the
umbrella of young lady with whale
bone ribs and an iron handle to the slate
rooted grocer's shop he will hear of
something to his advantage, as the same
is q gift of a deceased mother now no
more with the name engraved upon it.
AN authority on the subject estimates
that not more than 5000 Indians have
been killed by the whites since 1889,
about 400 having been slain in the en-
counter with Wayne, and near the same
number during the famous Seminole
war, which lasted seven years, at an ex-
pense Of $4,000, 900, making each In
dian cost $4,000. The Comanche,
Grow, Sioux and Ojibway tribes are
steadily multiplying.
The carbonate territory in the region
south of Pixies Peak, over the Arkansas
river, is frightening out. Some of the
acknowledgement mines are turning
out rich beyond calculation, the ore
proving a thick chloride. Excellent
hard carbonates and high grade chloride
ores are brought to light every day.
There are crowds of people in the re-
gion, yet it is hard to get the right kind
of men to work for good wages.
IN MARBLE.
No wise God sculptured thy bold, queenly face
And queenlier breast;
Yet all thy radient beauty stands contest
IL living and thrilling harmony of grace.
Thy pallor seems
The moonlit glory of dim, dying dreams.
Oh my chaste love. thy snow-cold lips mute
One word of thine,
More sweet to me than lfe-one word divine
Like magic melody of Tyre or lutte,
Would wake the soul
TO hope of loves imperishable goal.
All what are love, and life, and death to thee,
| Sunlight or gloom?
Thy curved, coied body is rayless tomb,
Superb in soulless immobiity.
Why weep moan
For thee, alas "a death-born dream of stone;
-Scr5bne1'S Monthly for September.
A PARTY of men had started out for a
sail on Lake Rideau, Ont. One of
them, named Flavier, waded in the lake
to push the yacht into deep water, and,
while doing so, fell into hole. An
other of the party, named Adams, who
was in the boat, reached over to secure
him, but was dragged into the water.
Paul Leeds, who was on the boat and
saw the accident, plunged into the lake,
but, on reaching the other two, they
grasped him round the body, and all