The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-19
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

LONDON possesses nine cemeteries,
with q total area Of 1926 acres.
THE British Government is said to
have 10000 tons Of hay in store.
The months of July and August of
1873 will be memorable for their heat
and storms.
THERE were 100 miles of tunnel in
Great Britain in 1877, which cost about
$50,O00,000.
The slang word "boozy" is derived
from bouza, Coptic word, meaning in
toxlcating drink.
HANDKERoH1EFs for ladies' and gentle
mems wear are plain hemstitched, with
polka-dot centers.
A CHILD, perfect in form, but weighing
only two pounds, was born at Savannah,
Ca, last week, and lived two days.
The girls of San Antonio, Tex, wear
broad brimmed felt hats, hang parasols
Like swords at their belts, and look like
bandits in skirts.
UP to the 9th ult. 6,676,513 visitors,
including both the solid public and the
deadheads, had entered the Exhibition
buildings at Paris.
IF you want to call man circum-
stantial liar now, you must say that he
is ''inebriated with the exuberance of
his own verbosity."
EMIGRATION to the sparsely-settled re-
gions of the Southwest and far West is
daily increasing beyond any other period
since the panic Of 1873.
A LARGE district of Siberia is being
ravaged by hordes of bandits. They
consist Of escaped convicts-men who
have been sentenced to the mines of
Siberia.
The Memphis Appeal notes the fact
that, although Cinnamon reside and do
business as laundrymen in the infected
districts, not a single one of them has
yet taken the fever.
JAMES BARRY, "a years old, of Utica,
while catching in q game of baseball at
Boonville, N. Y, was hit in the stomach
by foul tip. He picked the bali up,
threw it back to the pitcher and dropped
dead.
FIFTY THOUSAND eucalyptus trees are
to be planted about the City of Mexico.
These trees grow very rapidly, and in a
few years will make material modii-
cation in the rainfall about the Mexican
capital.
A LETTER recently produced in a
breach OF. promise suit as evidence con-
tanned the following sentence "Dear-
est love-I swallowed the postage stamp
on your letter, because knew your lips
had touched it.
ACCORDING to the report of the Com
missioners of Lunacy, there were in En-
gland and Wales, on the LIST of January
last, 81, O24 males and 26,514 females
registered as lunatics, idiots, and per-
sons of unsound mind.
THE United States is the only great
nation to-day in the happy condition of
exporting much and importing little.
All the others are compelled to go out
side Of their limits for bread and meat
and other necessaries of life.
THE once-famous Sadler's Wells
Theater, London, where Phelps once
produced his long list of Shakspearean
plays, and all the world went to see
them, is again for sale. The theater is
113 years old, and was once the glory of
London, but now it does not pay.
BEEcHER is an object of great interest
in California. The Spectator who bar
gained to pay him $40, 900 for ten lect-
ures is likely to clear as much as that
on the enterprise. The people crowd to
see Beecher wherever he goes, the pho
tographers are selling his pictures by
the thousand, and the newspapers mi
nutely describe his movements.