The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-03-07
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ONO has $50, 900 German Catholics.
MRs. A. T. STEWART owns a S35. 600
diamond.
FIRE is destroying the great forests of
California.
SoTHERN, the actor, served in the
Confederate army.
SENATOR WINDOWS Washington resi-
dence cost $85, 1000.
BosroNs new Postofice has already
cost over $4,00O,OOO
A PEsTInENTIAn disorder has attacked
the cattle in New Jersey.
THE salary of the Governor of Louisiana
is to be reduced from 5000 to 1000.
THERE is no harbor for 800 miles
north and 500 miles south of San Fran
cisco.
The hog cholera is said to have dis
appeared from the northern part of In
diana.
The second revision of the New Tesla
ment has reached the middle of Ro-
mans xi.
PATTI can only be lured to a night of
opera with $4,000 check, signed and
delivered.
Forty people have been poisoned by
water from poisoned well at Richford.
Vt, some Of them fatally.
PRoF. SUMNER, of Yale, after critically
examining some Of the boys story pa
pers, is convinced that they are extreme
~ pernicious.
CALIFORNIA has $780, 600 fruit trees
and 36, 100000 grape-vines, and harvests
from 300, 900, 600 to 500, 100000 pounds
of fruit yearly.
ACCORDING to the statistics from the
ST. Paul Chamber of Commerce. the
yield OF wheat in Minnesota for 1877 was
10000, 900 bushels.
STEPS are about to be taken to obtain
a quantity of good tobacco seed from the
United States for cultivation in the
northwestern provinces of India, in time
for this years sowing.
ASAN FRANCISCO tailor advertised that
he would make dresses for women, and a
fashionable dressmaker, resentful of the
rivalry, advertised that she would make
mems clothes Sin the latest styles, at
low prices, and warranted to fit. !"
A CURIOUS candle used in Alaska is q
fish eight inches long, almost transpar-
ent, and very fat, the fat being pure
white and very sweet. The Indians
dry this fish, then light it at the tail,
and it burns with a clear. sparkling
flame, which the wind will not extin-
guish.
AN soil smeller .. of Titusville. Pa.
has over 500, 900 worth of dry wells to
remind him of his folly. He has de-
fusion that Theoretically sealed bottle.
held by string near the ground, viii
indicate the existence of petroleum /. 900
feet below the surface. He located eight
dry wells last year.
On Wednesday, Jan. 30, all France
began drawing at the ballot-bo for army
service. When the drawing for the First
district Of the city of Paris came on. the
name Of Bonaparte was called, and
Prince Joachim Murat presented him
self as relative in place Of the ex-P Prince
Imperial, who, being the eldest son of a
widow, was, on that account, excused.
MARX TWAIN says that, though the re-
port OF his becoming editor of the Hart
ford C0ur0rat was incorrect, he was ex-
ceedingly gratifed to receive a number
of subscriptions for that newspaper on.
the strength of il. His Joy was only
clOuded by the reflection that an equal
or larger number of persons must have
written to the editor of the Coetraqat dis
continuing their subscriptions.
A BALTIMORE druggist openly adver-
tises sulphide of arsenicum, a prepare
ton of arsenic, as a beautifer of women.
DO you wish to be beautiful ?" he asks.
and then continues, "Your complexion
can be made like milk and roses" He
also promises that the poisonous prepa-
ration "can do no HARM" but, on the
contrary, is highly beneficial and
will "cause the most angular and scrawny
to become plump and rosy"
FROM September, 1876. to September.
1877, seems to have been the darkest
period Of railroad history in this coun-
try. The Railroad Gazette says that.
taking sixty-four roads, covering 1881
miles, the receipts show that with an IN
crease OF 1.3 per cent. in mileage. the
profits fell off 4 per cent, though the ex-
penses had been reduced more in pro-
portion than the earnings.
A RELIGIOUS paper out West addresses
its readers in the following pathetic
strain: =" Your mother read the AduO-
cate before you were born, and read it
many day as she rocked and hummed
you to sleep. She has gone home to
heaven. This years AdOocate may
guide your feet safely to that same
heaven. Brother, can you afford to
hush these memories and quenoh this