The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-09-25
BREyITIES.

ago.
The population of New Orleans is
100000.
MILK is 35 cents gallon at Lead
vile. ..,
CHICKENS sell at Quincy, Fla, at
cents each.
The biggest tale is that of the sea-
serpent.
GARBALD1 has settled down in Can
rera for life.
The weight of champion Florida
watermelon is los pounds.
The Kentucky Mountain Scorcher
is to be enlarged and improved.
ENGLAND is full of foreign Princes
visiting about at country houses.
LAST session of the British House of
Lords sat 206, and the Commons 1.O1O
hours. a+
VINE made from Florida oranges.
three years ago, is now said to taste ike
sherry. .n..... 80.
The rain and caterpillars are playing
havoc with the cotton in many parts of
the South.
SHIPMENTS of live cattle between
Montreal and Great Britain are in
creasing.
MIR. GLADSTONE, the great English
statesman, has reached his three-score
years and ten.
A DEBT of $4,000 still fingers in and
around the Permanent Exhibition at
Philadelphia.
AN old lady was struck by lightning
while kneeling at prayer at her home
in Stafford, Can.
Gov. FREMONT is credited with doing
much toward forwarding the prosperity
of Arizona Territory.
IT is estimated that the average wheat
crop OF. the province eff Manitoba ex-
ceeds thirty bushels per acre.
HE richest university in the world is
that of Leyden, in Holland. It's real
estate alone is worth over $4,000,0OO.
Man wants but little here below, and
the McGregor Qowa) NeaOs thinks he
can get that quickest by advertising.
The State of Ohio stands fourth in
manufactures, the value of the annual
product being valued at $270,OO0,OOO.
PEOPLE engaging in church lotteries
IN Boston are threatened with arrest
and prosecution by the Rev. Henry
Morgan.
MRS. LYDIA MARIA CHILD, the author
ess and anti-slavery agitator, is now II
years old, and lives at her old home in
Wayland, Mass.
THERE are in Great Britain eight So
cieties laboring for the conversion of
the Jews, and on the continent of Eu-
rope dozen more.
APRIL %, 1880, will be the centennial
date of the settlement of Nashville.
Tenn, and a grand celebration of the
event is actively canvassed.
THERE are sixteen Irish peers and a
similar number of British peers who
can trace their descent in all unbroken
line from the Plantagenets.
AwoLAN was told to make oath" in
a New Haven court. She blushingly
said Damn it," and protested against
the rigor of legal necessity.
EXTENSIVE saltpeter beds have recent
~ been found near the track of the
Pleasant Valley railroad, few miles
from Springville, Utah Territory.
Mrs. GROVER, of Brimfeld, Mass.
has reached the great age of 1O5 years.
She is able to 60 about the house with
out assistance, and bids fair to see sew
eral years more Of active life.
ZEE millionaire (Roman Catholic)
Marquis of Butte, has been married seven
years, but has no son and only one
daughter, born in 1875. His heir is his
first cousin, a Protestant, aged IS. Lord
Butte is 80.
The Spanish Bishops, making proba-
bly, a virtue of necessity, have agreed
to give up for the present fourth of
their salaries. Their pay has been
the Primate getting over
$250,000 a year. .....
JOHNNY" said fond mother to her
boy, (which would you rather do, speak
French or Spanish ?" IT would rather"
said Johnny, rubbing his waistband and
looking expressively at the table, IT
would rather talk Tu rkey"
GEN. BUTLER receives in his Office
with his back to the window, and the
light in the visitors face. In that way
he studies countenances, while his call
ers are dazzled and overcome by the
reflection from his bald head.
JONATHAN HAsKALL, the Reformed
Clown" is Western temperance lect-
urer. At Monroeville, Ind, he elected
a popular rumseller from a meeting,
and was subsequently driven out of
town by mob that pelted him with
eggs, mud and tar.
The Lexington CKy.) Press says that
the Mammoth cave has been purchased
by party of Eastern capitalists for
and that they will complete
the railroad from Glasgow junction to