The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-22
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

III.
Mass, and 5000 voters.
Texas confidently expects to have
lo,OOO,O 600 people by 1900.
Our commerce with France now foots
up $lOO. 100000 per annum.
Why does perspiration take the starch
out OF your shirt? Because it's sweat.
The laws of Mississippi forbid the
marriage of widow and her father-in-
law.
RECENT advices make the population
OF China between 20O,O0O,OO0 and 900
100000.
The sale of ex-Queen Isabella's Jewels
in Paris has brought $4,000, and she
has jewelry left.
SAN FRANCISCO exported over $2. OOO..
600 OF products in July, and over S13.-
600, 900 since Jan. 1.
DURING the first series of bull-figbts
at Madrid, this year, 80 of those animals
and 143 horses were killed.
THE Connecticut national banks show
a surplus fund of $6,270,0OO, and the
Rhode Island national banks surplus
fund of So, 591, $40.
PRINCE BISMARCK signed the treaty of
Berlin with an eagles quill, ornamented
with silver figure of an angel of peace.
which was presented to him for the pur-
pose.
The time of the year has arrived when
every person should carry around an
onion to rub on mosquito bites. The
Juice of the fragrant vegetable will cure
the irritation on the spot.
Con, yes" she said, "I'm very fond
OF little boys" and, as she tripped on a
string stretched across the pavement,
she added: CT feel as though / could eat
a couple of 'em this minute, raw"
IT has been discovered by Minnesota
farmers that two acres of sunfiowers will
supply family with fuel through long
winter. The wood of the stocks and the
oil OF the seed make roaring and cheer
full fires.
A YOUNG man named Reynolds, living
on Greenwich street, Boston Highlands,
after being treated month for cancer in
the stomach, and growing very thin on
light diet, became disguised and ate a
hearty meal, which his stomach at once
rejected, and a lizard two and a half
inches long.
No MAN can go down into the dungeon
OF his experience and hold the torch of
truth to all the dark chambers and hid
den cavities and not come up without
shudder and chill as he thinks of the
time he undertook to talk politics with
the deaf old father of his sweetheart
while the girl was present.
IT is still question whether the ex-
plosion at Kars was the result of Russian
carelessness in removing explosives used
in mining the Notifications during tine
late siege or the result of Turkish fanat-
lclsm. The fire injured the town, but
did not make Kars any the less formida-
BILE as fortress.
IDY1 Of pastoral life in Jack county,
Texas: Nine cattle-drovers, while making
up herd, include steer of old gentle
man. Old gentleman and attendant I'M
dertake to rescue steer. Old gentleman
is killed, and attendant goes off for re-
Inducements. Reinforcements come up.
Nine little cowboys, but the Jack Regu-
lators killed seven of 'em, then there
were two. They were tracked by the
blood from their wounds a distance of
ten miles, but escaped.
A CONGRESS of fathers of families is
to be held in Brussels for the purpose
of petitioning the King of the Belgians
for the pardon of the $4,000 deserters
from the Belgian army who have fed
to other countries. They wish their
sons again with them. The press of
the country is opposed to their desire,
saying that the population is already too
great, and that work is difficult to pro-
cure. If $4,000 men were added to
those seeking it, the pinch would be
still more severe.
They say that the reason certain
reigning belle was not asked to the Prince
of Wales garden party at Marlborough
House was because at previous gar
den party the lady in question, intoxi-
Gated by the affability Of the heir-appar-
ent, forgot the distance which separates
subject from royalty and playfully
dropped piece OF ice down Ell. r. HIS
neck. That august parsonage resented
the familiarity, and under the circum-
stances it is not surprising that royalty
should give the presumptuous beauty
the cold shoulder.
SCENE, Chicago court: District At
torney-"You have testified, Mr.. Law
renee, that you consider the defendant
law. abiding citizen?" Mr.. Lawrence
81 have, and I do SO consider him.
District Attorney You know that he
has been gambler?" Mr.. Lawrence
st know he has," District Attorney
do you consider it exactly proper to
call professional gambler law-abiding
citizen?" Mr.. Lawrence" so long as
the District Attorney allows gambling
to be carried on in the city without re-
straint of or punishment by law, con-
slider it perfectly proper to describe
professional gambler as a law-abldlng
citizen"
How TrOtting is Cultivated.
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