The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ILOILE AMI THINGS.
In India the legal rent of land is one
half the produce.
GAAIBETTA is making furious speeches
throughout France
MISSOURI has no State agricultural
society and no State fair.
PRESIDENT IMAGINATION is ceasing to
exist as power in France.
A wAsHBoARD lately passed through
the mail at Washington, Pa.
THERE are at present in France 2,65S
parishes unproyided with pastors.
PRINCE BIsMARcK's official salaries
amount to $4,000 marks, nearly $4,000.
NEARLY all the British East Indian
troops have been sent home from Cy-
prus.
The importation of cigars into New
Orleans has fallen from 100000 to
100000.
The Duchess of Edinburgh's girl
baby is Queen Victoria's twenty-sixth
grandchild.
JAMES Ell. SLATER, the new Demo-
cratic Senator from Oregon, is an Hi
nois man.
AN American doctor has been giving
the Spaniards kerosene baths to cure
them of consumption.
YELLOW fever was epidemic on the
site of Memphis in 1928, when Mem
phis was barely town.
ABOUT 1900 women and girls are en-
ployed in the different printing offices
of the city of New York
A CORRESPONDENT says there has
never been so much building going on
in Washington as at present.
TENNYsoN and Victor Hugo are
friends and mutual admirers. They
send n"h other fattering letters.
The measures adopted in Prussia for
the determination of the Colorado beetle
are said to have been entirely successful.
The boss boy of Herkimer county, N.
Y, stands six feet in his stockings,
weighs 243 pounds, and is Is years of
age.
In number and value the houses
erected in New York city this year will
exceed those of any other year since
1871.
The crop of tobacco in Connecticut
is secured, and is the largest growth and
finest quality grown during the past ten
years.
A NEGRO woman in Lowndes county,
Ala, after being wrought up by relig-
| ious excitement, fell dead on the church
steps.
DANCING for a rooster is popular
pastime among the Germans. The
man who makes the highest kick carries
off the prize.
The engagement of Belgian Minister
Delfosse to Miss De Hon, of Boston,
sister-in-law of the late Sidney Brooks,
is announced.
IT costs the English Government
$4,000 year to repair the damage to
insulators and telegraph wires by stone
throwing boys.
The East Indian budget of Holland
shows a deficit of 100000 forms,
whereof 100000 forms were expended
in the Acheenese war.
SMITH COLLEGE, for women, at North
ampton, Mass, has begun it's fourth
year with 144 students, of whom sixty
five are in the entering class.
The consolidated and floating debts
of Turkey now amount to about 81 ,000,
100000, and the annual expenditures
greatly exceed the revenue.
WASHINGTON has population of 1884,,
900, of whom $4,000 are colored. There
were found twenty-five colored persons
over 100 years old, one being reported
as old as ITO. Seventy persons were be-,
tween 80 and 100.
BEARD more or less still clings to
certain proportion of French women;
chin whiskers, black in youth and gray
in age, are very frequent; stray tufts
| of hair are common, location some
where between the temples and the
avs.
The weekly Madison (Wis.) State
Journal is 40 years old. When paper
gets as old as that it ought to pool it's
issues. Gen. Atwood has been its editor
over fifty years.-Pecks Sam. They
used to "pull" their issues when the
paper was younger, George, but now
they use power press.
| PERHAPS the largest tract of land
that can be cultivated in Arizona is
that of the Salt river valley. Here
the amount of rich tillable soil is esti-
mated at fully 100000 acres. It is
rich allluvium, capable of producing,
with irrigation, twenty five to fifty BUSH
els of wheat, corn or barley to the acre
Pumpkins, melons, beans, sweet pota-
toes, and other roots and vegetables
grow and thrive well. Hemp, tobacco
and sugar cane are successfully cult
waited, also peaches, pears apricots,
nectarines and grapes, besides all other
kinds of small fruit such as is raised in
Southern California.