The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-07-04
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

SUNDAY is the gayest day of the week
at the Paris Exposition.
PURE silver clocks from Peru are feat
ures at the Paris show.
CHINESE claim that King Fo Wiling
invented the telephone in the tenth cent
ury.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SEVEN cases
OF twins have occurred in Ohio within a.
year.
The total number of Slavs is 90, 4O2.-
100, chiefly inhabiting the empire of
Russia.
UNUSUAL activity is reported at the
steel rolling mills Throughout the
country.
DIR. LIE MoYNE, the Pennsylvania Gre
mationist, has given 800, 900 to a colored
school In Tennessee.
VEGETABLE acids cool and dilute the
blood, and generally refresh the system.
All fruits contain acids and salts. which
exercise cooling and invigorating in
fuence.
The people of Maine will not consent
to any modification Of the Prohibitory
Liquor law, and both parties have been
compelled to drop the subject in their
platforms.
The Supreme Court of Alabama has
decided that a pig is hog. A Con-
necticut tribunal has just ruled that a
turkey is not an animal, though a
goose is.
By Communicative is the differ
ence between procuring work and de-
frauding wholesale dealer? One is
getting job and the other is "getting''
a jobber. Sentenced to be hung.
AT Miss Platt's wedding at the White
House no lace was worn on the brides
dress, there were neither groomsmen nor
bridesmaids, and there was no wine, but
lemonade, tea, coffee and ce-water.
CHRISTIAN K. Ross, father of the
stolen child, has been appointed Harbor-
master of Philadelphia, out of sympathy
felt for him because of his losses in bust
ness since little Charley Ross was taken
from him. ..-...
ENGLAND is good to her army officers.
For Isl regiments she has 828 Generals.
about 1900 Colonies, and nearly 1000
Lieutenant Colonels. The United
States has one General and three Major
Generals,
THE Brandon (Miss.) Republican
says that lands can be purchased in that
State for 10 cents an acre, while whisky
costs Is cents drink; and yet there are
people that are landless who spend 81
day for whisky.
A CURIOUS bit of philology is conveyed
in the name of the familiar brier-root
pipe. It has no connection with any
brier, such as the sweet brier or black
berry, but the word is merely corrup-
ton of 6raGyeTe, the French for heath.
THE extent to which gambling on the
turf prevails in England is illustrated by
the case Of Sir Charles Nugent, officer in
the Seventeenth Lancers, who has Just
appeared before the Bankruptcy Court
with liabilities of $50, 900, and assets of
500. He possessed property in Ireland
worth $50, 900 year, but he went on the
turf and lost all.
The first piano manufactured in the
United States is believed to have been
made by John Belmont, of Philadelphia,
in 1775. Chickering was established in
1923, and Steinway's house dates from
1853. Up to 1920 most pianofortes in
New York bore on their plates the name
of J. J. Astor, having been imported by
the original John Jacob from Broad
wood or Clement, of England. Some
of them are yet in old houses.
THE Chinese have habit of carrying
material for alcoholic drinks about with
them in the form of powder called Kin tsu,
for the preparation of which certain manu-
faoturers have obtained great celebrity.
The powder is made from wheat or bar
lev. with or without certain aromatic
herbs, which has been subjected to fer
mentation and then puiverized. Rice is
also used to make liquor after similar
process. A spoonful of the powder
mixed with water gives drink which is
greatly in request In the Flowery Land.
Good brandy in this form would be In
valuable in a campaign. afli
li A GREEN HERON. 1t
Where bright creek into the rivers side
Shoots its keen arrow. green heron sits
Watching the suufsh as it cleaning dts
From sheen to shade He sees he turtle glide
through the clear spaces of the rhythmic streams
L ke some weird fancy through poets dream;
He turns his golden eyes from side to side,
In very glad Tess that he is not dead,
While the swift win STREAM rpples overhead, ct'
And the creeks wavelets babble underneath
D, bird, that in a cheerful gloon dost live,
Thou art to me type of happy death;
For when thou fiest away no mate will grieVe
Because lone, strang spirit vanishethl
-M0@rice Thompson, in scribfser for July.