The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-09
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.
BERLIN is to have q race course which
will cost 100000.
THREE Governors Hoyt hold office in
the United States.
| New YORK city reloiees in the pos
session of 1000 hotels.
The worlds production of gold is one
third less than in 1850.
A TUNNEL under the Mississippi river
! at st. Louis is projected.
The English duty on tobacco amounts
to some $45,oO0,000 year.
An art critic says: Never show the
world what you cannot do"
The race of mankind would perish
did they cease to aid each other.
In 1880 there will be an international
exhibition of sea and river tishing-taekIe
al Berlin.
SEVEN wife-beaters were recently ar
raigned in an Edinburgh police court
in one day.
P. T. BARNUM would be willing to
represent Connecticut in the United
States Senate.
THE period of the free import of cattle
has been prolonged for year by the
Brazilian Government.
The hard times in Berlin are largely
due to the wide investment in second
mortgages five yesrs ago.
The Protestant church authorities of
Gotha, Germany, have prepared ritual
TO be used at cremations.
MAINE gets all of New Hanapshire's
tramps since the passage of the anti
tramp law In the latter State.
SWEET cider, even if just from the
press, is condemned by the Massachu-
sets Total Abstinence Society.
The national debt of Great Britain is,
in round figures, 5G775,O00,000 sterling.
That Of France is G94O,000,O00.
A BosToN physician of very large
practice says that he has never known it
to be so sickly in that city as now.
A ST.. LOUIS merchant was enticed
into gambling den in New York, and
swindled out of $3.50 at "baneo."
| MASSACHUSETTS officials have OBJ
served that inconsistencies is frequent
| cause Of insanity among immigrants.
Mr.. FORBES letters from India to the
London Daily NetUs are telegraphed to
England at the rate of SLIP word
BAYARD TAYLOR was city editor of the
New York Tribune at one time, with q
salary of $12 per week, and one as
| sistant
Morn timber is used under ground
in the Comstoek lode than has been en-
pIoyed in the construction of San Fran
/ cisco.
THERE has been an increase of 439
last year. The school attendance is
III, 239.
MOSES, Of South Carolina" has
passed through the successive stages of
rebel, radical, Governor, robb8r, million
aire and beggar.
The famous theologian, DR.. Newman,
regards abstinence from flesh meat as q
decided advantage to an intellectual and
sedentary person.
The proceeds of breach-of-promise
suit are to be appropriated for repairs
on q church at Bowling Green, KY. The
girl sues for no other purpose.
The Indiana Supreme Court has de-
cided, in the suit Of church against
member, that subscriptions made on
Sunday cannot be collected by law.
Il COULD not but feel for him." ever
lily, friend" replied the Quaker, "thou
didst right in that thou didst feel for
thy neighbor; but didst thou feel in the
right place? didst thou feel in thy
pocket?"
The clergy of st. Patricks Church,
Quebec, are making an active war ON
dime-novels and trashy literature of that
kind. A quantity of the stuff found in
the possession of their parishioners has
been lately consigned to the flames.
A GAS clock has been placed on ex-
is hydrogen gas, produced by the action
of sulphuric acid and water IN zinc
:: globe. AS the gas is generated it raises
a glass believer, which, as it rises.
moves a lever that controls the hands of
, the clock.
The Virginia City New Enterprise
lectures the people of the city roundly
for their extravaganza. A dime is the
smallest currency employed in ordinary
transactions, SO that, if person buys
10-cent article and gives the dealer a
quarter, he only gets 10 cents change.
The laborers on the Comstock smoke
, 25-cent cigars, drink 25-cent whisky,
cut the tenderloin from porter-house
steaks, and chuck the remainder in the
waste barrel.
How Lincoln Got His Pass Renewed.
J Here's souvenir of the great Abra-