The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

HyPocRITEs sink into lower abvss
than any other sinner.
SCARLET fever is almost an epidemic
in New York city.
JERUSALEM is adding 1900 to its jew
ish population every year.
AN attempt is, to be made to teach the
Colorado Indians agriculture.
MORE men worry and fret themselves
crazy over taxes than over love.
New YORK had 1862 suicides in 1878.
being twelve more than in 1877.
SKATING suits are made of dark blue
cloth, trimmed with bands of fur.
LEE LING, Boston Chinaman, is soon
to marry young white woman in that
city.
The Japanese army, on peace foot
ing, consists of 31,6S0, and in time of
war is increased to 1880 men.
SOUTHERN Senators and members of
Congress who go to Washington rarely
keep house, but live at the hotels.
A TEAsPooNFUL of mustard to gallon
of cold water will destroy vermin in the
earth OF tiower-pots, without injury to
plants. ...
The tribe of Oldtown Indians, in
Maine, is said to have lost, under the
influences of education, almost all traces
of it's native character.
In Siberia you can buy beef for 2
cents a pound, a goose for Il cents,
chicken for cents, horse for SIS, and
361 pounds of corn for cents
Two NEW cables are proposed by the
new French company, one to extend
from Brest to Cape Cod, and the other
from Lands End to Nova Scotia.
A LARGE hawk recently shot at Roy
mond, n. H., had steel trap and three
feet of chain attached to it's leg, which
it had carried from Gambia, six miles
away
The Montana Legislature is COM
posed as follows: Council-Democrats,
s; Republicans, 5. House of Repre-
acknowledgements, 10; Repubi-
cans, Z.
THE alarm felt in some quarters lest
the lawyers should devour the land and
it's inhabitants is not very keenly expe-
rienced as to the Delaware Legislature,
which has doctor for Speaker of the
House, but neer lawyer in either
chamber.
The Postmaster Of Saratoga has just
sent to Washington for redemption $105
in silver Scent pieces. They were
spent by guests last summer for fees to
the once proud and naughty walters
that used to reject with scorn anything
less than 81.
TYPHOID fever is very prevalent
among swine in England, and the mall
ady has just been declared by an order
in council to be a disease within the
meaning of the Contagious Diseases act.
It is commonly known among farmers
as the soldiers disease, or the red dis
ease. .ss ,.5.
SOME of the New York Legislators
tell big stories about their adventures in
getting to Albany. One member walked
thirteen miles through the snowdrifts to
reach the train, while another employed
a score of men for three days shoveling
snow to make a path for his egress to a
railroad
In 1928, New York, with population
of 10000, had thirty newspapers. It
was estimated at that time that the
United States had one paper in every
1890 of population; England, one in
46,500; France, one in $4,000; Prussia,
one in $4,000; Austria, one in 100000;
Russia, one in $4,000; Sweden and
Norway, one in $4,000; Portugal, one in
100000; Spain, one in $4,000. 81:
IT is rumored that Germany, which
declined to exhibit at Paris, is seriously
thinking of an international exhibition
at Berlin for the year 1881. A number
of German engineers have been study
ing all the arrangements made at Paris
for the construction of the temporary
buildings, the transport of goods to and
from the Champ de Mars, and the rail-
way traffic. ...'.;.
The Christian l11telLgencer in
quires "Are fathers and heads of fam
lies justified in taking those papers
which are daily filed with matter which
is only fit for police gazette or dime
novel of the worst. class? Is that the
stuff On which to feed young boys and
girls? Is that the pabulum of the young,
ladies of the household? Is it surpris-
ing that any one who has such vile and
wicked trash presented to them should
themselves catch the contagion of thus
leprosy?" sa3 <ass ~ ......
+ ggsi 8. h. THE FROST KING.
+ = He went abroad last night
= On fierce and wild foray,
4 And treasures bright. in his frosty flight,
lr From the hillsides bore away. e..
81 Earth mourns to-day in gloom '@' ~
! . For crushing hand was laid
! On leaf and bloom, and rare perfume,
s sch In woodland, glen and glade.
- He tore the garlands down ID
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