The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-07
BREYITIES.

NEW YORK is the city of undiscovered
crimes.
fHE man who was hit in the eve with
q lump OF anthracite explained to his
friends that he had merely got coaled
in it. ~
MRS. CUNNINGHAM. who was a promi-
nent figure in the Burdell murder. is
now living at West Haven, CT.
IHE cultivation of sugar in the
southern provinces of Cuba has greatly
increased this year. ~,
OVER 10000 pounds CT plvcer;ne ora
used annually in the United States for so
mixing with beer.
HE amount of fresh fish distributed
from the center of London reaches over
$4,000 tons in twelve months.
A BELL COUNTY (Texas) woman's pan
of eggs, which she placed on a shelf and
forgot, Matched out into brood of
chickens.
SINGLE trees have been burned in
America in log heaps, which, cut into
veneers, would sell for more net cash
than the whole farm where it grew.
When our forests are as well treated as
those OF Europe few trees will be cut ex-
cept by the advice of forest engineer.
HE strangest feature, observes the
London Telegraph, in the history of the
cat-o'-nine-tails is that no antiquary has
been able to tell with precision when
the implement of torment was invented,
wehnce it came, or, if a foreign importa-
tion, at what period it was introduced
into England.
The heavy supply of American wheat
and corn has depressed the grain trade
OF Russia, as we'll as of England, France
and Italy. During the month of May
there was large demand for Russian
grain for the Italian market; but at
once the competition from the United
States set in.
The philanthropists of Boston will
give eight free excursions this season,
for the benefit of poor children. Eight
years ago the cost for each child
was $1.25, but experience has enabled
the managers to cut this amount down
to 80 cents, without abridging the
pleasure of the children.
THERE now stretches between Titus
vile and Bradford, Pa, what those
cities claim to be the longest telephone
in existence. It is 100 miles in length,
but passes perfectly audible sentences
up and down the line. In fact, the voices
OF persons speaking at one point were
recognized by those at the other.
A NEW method of laying the flooring
OF ground stories of barracks, hospitals,
churches and court houses has been in
PRODUCED in France, and is said to pre-
vent damp and vermin and unhealthy
exhalations from the soil below. In
stead of laying the flooring on ioists, it
is imbedded in layer of hot asphalt.
A FRENCH Imperial1st newspaper pro-
poses that Frenchmen take some French
soil to Chiselhurst and make grave
for the Prince Imperial. ellis sleep
will be easier" it says, IF he lies in
morsel of that country which he loved
so much, and whose glory, at the cost
of his life, he went to plant like a flag
at the other end of the world.
A VALUABLE silver lode has been dis
covered at Acton, in York county,
Maine, which bids fair to become of
great value. It is some three or four
miles long and from four to eight feet
in width. The ore is argentiferous ga
lena. assaying from 500 to $500 per
ton. Several claims have been sold at
prices ranging from $4,000 to $4,000
per each 500 feet in length.
A NEW variety of sweet potato is being
cultivated in Kern county, the extreme
southeastern cornerof California. They
call it Ocean Queen. Picked specimens
weigh from fifteen to eighteen and
twenty-five pounds. The yield is so
great that they are fed to hogs, which
thrive amazingly and make extra pork.
Recent tests suggest that they will make
better and cheaper sugar than beets.
The temperance movement which
began in Ireland year or two ago, and
resulted in the early closing of all the
saloons in the country and cities on
Sunday, is extending to England. AL
ready petitions, containing nearly
100000 signatures, have been presented
to Parliament for closing public houses
in England and Wales on Sundays.