The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-03
BREVlTIES.

DIE F11lESe
FATHER, son and grandson were
caught stealing together at Hubbards
ton, vt.
The 1890 miles of French railroad
brought in last year a revenue Of
$181,177,O43.
The officers of the five degrees of the
Legion of Honor receive respectively
$50, $10O, 5000, 5000 and 81 200 a year
The custom of saddling districts in
which disturbances occur with the cost
of an additional police force has worked
very successfully in Ireland.
Two BOYS of years went on the wa
ter IN boat, at Senickley, Pa One
fell overheard, the other plunged in to
rescue him, and both were drowned.
GEN. WALKER, who is to superintend
the United States census of 1880, esti-
mates that the population will be be-
tween forty-six and forty seven millions.
The latest official returns show that
the war with Turkey cost Russia $685.
000,O00,o of which $50, 900, 900 was spent on
artillery and Notifications, and the rest
in the actual conduct of the war.
For want of tenants, Sir John Rams
den, who owns Huddersfeld, England,
and has an income of 100000, has been
compelled to take six of his huge Scotch
sheep farms into his own hands.
NAToHEz, Miss, has built cotton
factory in the past two years, every dol
lar of the stock being owned at home,
and it is said that the return on the
investment is now nearly 20 per cent.
ALTHOUGH Henry Lunday, of STRAIT
ford, Ct., was 70 years old, he not only
fell in love with woman of 20, but was
hopeful that she would marry him. She
was cold and persistent. Finally she
forbade him to cali on her, and then he,
after bequeathing all his property to an
Episcopal Church, committed suicide.
THE Bank of France had an invisible
Photographic studio behind the cash
ier's desk, whence ikenesses can, at q
signal from the latter, be taken. The
camera is much used, too, IN the exam
ination of documents An erasure is
often obvious in the photograph of a
document which is not seen in the doc
ument itself.
THERE is a religious movement
against tobacco in the Oneida Com
where the weed has been freely
used. The reformers do not take any
pledge, nor abstain whenever they de-
sire to smoke or chew, but pray for
God to remove the appetite for tobacco,
and many declare that they have thus
been entirely cured.
The misappropriation of funds by the
Treasurer of the Home Missionary So
ciety, according to the official report to
the Massachusetts Congregational Asso-
citation, amounts to $4,000, and in
cludes all of the society's investments.
He destroyed his correspondence and
books, SO that his operations cannot
be fully traced.
The gallery of the Paris Louvre
seems to be a school Of morals as well as
of art. a mother, in showing her little
boy the Venus Of Milo, was asked by
him, "What did they cut her arms off
for?" Because she put her fingers in
the sugar bowl, was the reply. Little
Jacky secretly resolves to be no longer
liable to such terrible infection.
AT q sale of portion of the Firmin
Dldot Library, few days ago, in Paris,
a missal bequeathed to Queen Gather
inc, wife Of Henry V. of England, by
her father, Charles VI, and afterward
the property of Henry VI, Henry VII.
and Henry VIII, was bought by a Paris
bookseller for $4,000. A manuscript
which belonged to Mary, Queen of
Scots, fetched $4,000. The tive days
sales realized $l26,600.
The widow Ashlock, aged 48, lived
on her own extensive farm at Elizabeth
town, KY, and one of her employees was
William Lewis, aged Is. She fell in
love with him, and he doubtless fell in
love with her money. The relatives
opposed a marriage, and drove William
away from the place with guns, but the
determined widow joined him in In
dianapolis, bought him new suit of
clothes, married him, and took him
home.
The Interior Department has accept
ed the map of the amended route of the
Northern Pacific railroad through
Washington Territory, and, as conse-
quence, millions of acres of land in that
Territory, up to this time withdrawn
from settlement, are thrown upon the
market. The route of the road through
this Territory, as originally contemplate
ed, followed circuitous course through
the northern part, and the land for
forty miles on each side of the proposed
route was reserved for the benefit of
the road. The amended route is much
shorter and more direct, running from
the main line to Puget sound in a
northerly direction.