The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-04-10
BRIEF MENTION,


THERE are 10,705,O00 COWS in the
| United States, which represent yalue
of $299, 100000,
A FATHER was on the bench as Judge.
and his son at the bar as prisoner, in a
Cleveland court.
A coLoRED preacher of Cincinnati has
been sent to the penitentiary for steal
ing suit of clothes.
The plea of insanity" will doubt
less be set up in the case of Buford, the
murderer of Judge Elliott.
The rumor that G. W. Childs, of the
Philadelphia Ledger, had purchased
the New York World, is without founda-
ton.
Miss ADA HUNGERFoRD, sister of Mrs.
Bonanza Mackay, was married in Rome,
March Is, to Count Giuseppe Tele-
jener.
A WORLDS fair is talked of in New
York for 1883. Congress will be applied
to for aid. Judge Hilton is active in
the scheme.
A BRITISH professor estimates that
bees, to collect pound of honey from
red-cloyer heads, would have to make
100000 visits
SINCE paper napkins were introduced
by manufacturing firm in Wisconsin.
a year ago, one Boston firm alone has
sold 100000 of them.
The net profits divided by the eight
partners in Bass & Co.'s brewery, at
Burton-on-Trent England, last year,
amounted to $2,100,OOO.
A voUDoo negro doctor IN Georgia,
upon being acquitted of o charge of
killing patient, acquired additional
eclat by stating that he had voudooed
the jury.
A GERMAN dealer in bird trimmings
for ladies' hats has just received a con-
Segment of 10000 dead humming
birds, $4,000 corpses of aquatic birds,
and 100000 pairs of wings.
Count Won MoLTKE recently cele-
brated at his seat in Holstein the six
tieth anniversary of his entrance in
to military service. Congratulations
reached the veteran strategist from all
quarters.
The Sunday law just made by the
North Carolina Legislature provides
against the loading Of freight and the
running of trains on the Sabbath be-
tween sunrise and shutdown. It does
not apply to mail trains.
In Donaldsonville, La, there is a
novelty in the way of Court House. It
is small fatboat covered in. Being
discoy cred floating down the river it
was pulled ashore, and is now occupied
on court days by colored Justice of the
Peace to settle disputes. "
REPORTS from almost every point of
the wheat-growing region of the West
and Northwest show the winter-wheat
crop to be unusually good, its present
fine condition being attributed to the
heavy SHOWS of the past season, which
afforded complete protection.
THE somewhat startling feat of tick
ling man to death was very nearly ac-
complished in Maryland the other even
ing by the mans wife and couple of
young ladies. In attempting to get
some money out of his vest pocket they
tickled him till he became unconscious.
The Pope is understood to have de-
cided that the foreign episcopate shall
be largely represented in the Sacred
College, and, in conformity with this
decision, it is expected that seven Of the
ten Cardinals to be created at the COM
ing consistory will be foreign prelates.
A MAN visiting logging camp in.
Maine forgot to take his mittens with
him when he left, and did not miss them
until he was mile away. He wrote a
note and gave it to his dog, with in
structions to go back to the camp and
give it to the cook, which he did. He
soon returned with the mittens in his
mouth.
WILLIAM GARRETT, who was rescued
from the Indians by Custer, says that
he was Mountain Meadow captive, his
life being spared on account of his age,
which was only 10 years. His younger
sister, taken at the same time, afterWard
became the wife of Red Cloud, the
Sioux chief, and now refuses to leave
him. s.t.r
ID The Russian Government discour-
ages the travel Of its subjects to foreign
countries, for fear of injury to their
moral or political views. In order to
retain them at home, the price of the
pass, without which no Russian is al
lowed to leave his country, has been
lately increased from rubles to 100
rubles for each year of life abroad.
DURING 1878 the American and En-
glish societies distributed $3.50, 376 BIZ
bles, viz. In Russia, 74O,823 in sixty
nine languages; in Turkey, 64,5O8 in
nine languages; India, 343,616; China,
159,1O3; Japan, 61,398; italy, 52,828;
France, 133, 100; Servia and Roumania,
28,17O; Spain, $500; Austria, 274,-
1862; Germany. 468,108; South Ameri-
ca, 35,348; Mexico, 10000. qo2 m 9a
The following nationalities live under
the scepter of the Gar of Russia: Great
Russians, Little Russians, White Rus
SLAMS, Poles, Firms, Estons, Samoyeds,
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