The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-04-18
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A sNow-wHrTE robin is in o store in
New York.
TAME offers and seals are the latest
pets In fashion in England.
IT is calculated that if all the insects
of the world were piled in one mass the
heap would be greater than that of all
the beasts and birds.
HARTFoRD's greatest income is from
insurance stock. The residents OF that
Connecticut city hold 81, 474, 951 of such
capital, as against only 81, 729, 826 of
bank stock.
AFTER July next kilograms throughout
France are to cost one sous Co fraction
less than cent? G. word, but those con-
tanning less than ten words will be
charged ten sous.
THR Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
holds that new receipt upon q piece OF
paper containing a due bill acts as an
extension of time when the due bill ex-
pires by limitation, as though it were an
alteration of the original transaction.
The Peabody educational fund, devot-
ed to educational purposes in the South.
which in 1875 yielded an income of
800, 900, has produced only $50, 900 for
1877, and promises yet smaller sum for
1878. Depreciation of real estate is the
cause.
AT Montreal, last week, man of Is
was photographed who has six hands,
four tiny ones growing on his breast.
He says the extra hands began to grow
upon him in 1860, and that he feels that
two more are about to make their ap-
pearance.
AN association of rich business men of
Philadelphia pension off literally for
life any old merchant who may fail, un-
less fraud is involved. The names of
the pensioners are kept secret, and the
public suppose their wives to have
small incomes or wealthy relatives.
Tom THUMB and Commodore Mutt have
been vainly endeavoring to pass on one
ticket on an English railway, on the
ground that they were not bigger than
boys of IL. The authorities, however,
decided that they were to all intents and
purposes men, and so mustpay full fare.
THE Boston Transcript tells us ST.
600, 600 per week of American products
have been shipped from that port since
the beginning of the year, making 81
100000 more than the entire exports of
1870. The principal export was "of
raw provision products from the West. F."
OoNNECToUT's new State House has
been built without any increase of the
appropriation. The statutory limit of
$500, 900 year has not been exceeded;
the building has been paid for out of the
proceeds of current taxation, and the
State will not owe dollar on it when it
is finished.
THE editor of the Detroit Record has
been summoned as witness in the
United States Court at Yankton, Oak,
to testify to the sale of pineapple bitters
without license. The editor confesses
that he tasted of the liquor, but thinks
it hard to travel [, 400 miles to tell what
he knows about it.
| ACCORDING to DR.. Bertherand, there
are 1855 centenarians in Algeria, thus
proporEoned: Eighty-eight persons are
100 years old, of 101, 7 of 1O2, 9 of
1O3, Is of 104, 6 of 105, 6 of 1O6, 5 of
LOT, of 1903, of 100, 8 of 40, Q Of III,
2 of 112, ] Of 113, 2 Of ia, of115, Of
1T, and / of 118 years.
"ON1Y twenty poets," says Miss
Braddon, fare born in century. :"
Twenty Great Shakespeare what q
blunder in the countl Look at that
/ bursting bushel basket But hold-she
qualities" and about 10000 rhyme
sters." All yes; good-very good.
The amendment will do.-Bre0kfa8t
Table.
AMERICAN danes will have another ep-
portunity to go daft over Royal Prince,
this time heir to a crown, and that an
imperial one. Prince Rudolph, the
Prince Imperial Of Austria, is, after a
sojourn in Prague, to make voyage to
the New World. He will visit the
United States and Brazil, returning
round the Cape of Good Hope and
through the Suez canal.
| IT is reported that London firm has
purchased one OF the finest tracts of iron
land in Tennessee. The property men
toned is known as Lagrange" and
has been owned and operated by a
Northern company, of which J. O. Car
rett is President. It is situated on the
Tennessee river, and embraces 10000
acres. with three furnaces.
| THE Capitol grounds at Washington
have had nearly all the shade trees i'm
proved off of them. They have lost
their former beauty of foliage, and are
now exposed to the full blaze of the sun.
Until they were delivered over to the
tender mercies of theoretical gardeners,
they were among the most beautiful
public promenade grounds in the coun-
| try.
4 IMMIGRATION is picking up little.
The number of foreign settlers in this
country landed at Castle Garden since
JAM l is 3,219, against 1881 during the
same time last year, and it is thought
that the excess for the whole year will
be 10000. The expectation of war in
Europe has something to do with the
movement The able-bodied start for
the West Immediately on their arrival.