The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-11
BREVITIES.

GERMANY is now overrun with be
gars.
SCHUYLER CoLFAx has laid up $4,000
from lecturing.
ILLINOIS unimproved lands are b
ger than Massachusetts and Connectic,
put together.
Mrs. ROBERTS, now living in Hem
county, Tenn, claims to be the fir
white woman who crossed the Tenne
see river.
NEXT year will see the great cathedrs
at Cologne completed. The first ston
of this immense church was laid on th
14th of August, 1913.
PROF. SARGENT, of Harvard College
is to have charge of the investigation,
OF the forest wealth of the Unite
States for the next census.
DALLAS, Tex, has the deepest arte
sian well in the State. Water wa
struck at 615 feet, and flows fftee,
gallons per minute.
Mrs. AMY HARRIS, of Syracuse, til.
widow of an English officer, has becom.
the helress of $1,000,O00 by the dealt
OF her former guardian in Quebec
Mr.. ". P, COLE, of Limington. Ne.
found six coons in one. tree, and sue
ceeded in capturing them all. Thei
united weight was seventy pounds.
In IT'S the Cowthorpe oak, in York
shire, covered half an acre. It had
girth almost equal (sixty feet to til
base of the late Eddystone lighthouse
IT is estimated that the fashionabl
society of New York-that is, the pei
sons who habitually entertain and go t.
parties-do not number more thai
1000 persons.
HENRY LAVA SELwYN, full-bloode,
Sioux Indian, and son of a leadin,
chief of the Yankton tribe, has bee1
ordained pastor of the church at Yank
ton Agency.
In Paris kitchen utensils used by al
hotels, restaurants, confectioners, etc.
are periodically inspected by public
officers, with view to saving the public
from poisoned pies, etc.
The Vesuvius railway is finished
from the station at the foot of the
mount to the observatory at the her.
naitage, half way up; the remainder OF
the road to the entrance of the crater is
in progress.
GEN. BIDwELL is one of the
richest men in California. In his plan
tation are forty miles of drives, lined
on either side with trees, either fruit Or
nut bearing. His place is a Spanish
grant of lao miles.
IT is marvellous what awful shocks the
British constitution has survived. NV
Lords" said Lord Chancellor Eldon,
II you abolish the ancient pastime Of
cockfghting you will sap the foundation
OF the constitution and endanger the
stability of the throne"
ERASMUS WILSON, the great English
authority on skin diseases, who paid the
cost Of erecting Cleopatras Needle in
London, is about to spend 100000 on
sea-bathing inirmary for the scrofu-
lous. A much better way this Of spend
ing money IMAM Gho OCnef.
| ITALIAN trade returns for 1879 compare
well with those of 1878, but the enor-
nous taxation keeps the people deplor-
ably poor. A united Italy has Teen
found to be a terribly costly luxury,
and the absurdly expensive army and
navy now maintained aggravate greatly
the situation.
PRINCE BISMARCK gets low, and says
that not all his great doings have made
himself and others any the happier; and
old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough,
who is gorged with gold and weighted
down with honors, recently wrote Of
herself to Lady Mary Wortley Mont
ague as most miserable being.
EXTRAvAGANCE in language is one Of
the peculiarities of people in Southern
countries. CASTELAR,, on hearing the
long winded tendency Of his country
men commented upon severely, replied:
"You are perfectly right, gentlemen,
but you don't know how difficult it is
to hold ones tongue in Spanish"