The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-13
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

1relgnt steamships Is gaining success.
SOME OF the mails in the Epner
Peninsula of Michigan are carried by
dog trains. .5s5 -
The Postmaster General has issued
an order aboishing all agencies in
Washington for the sale of postage
stamps.
| SEALING-wAX was first made in Eu-
rope by the Portuguese, who learned
the Eastern method in their Bengal set
Elements.
DURING the year 1878 the Coroner of
Storey county, New, held 81 inauests.
vi these "a were the results of mining
accidents. :, EIGT1es
ENGLAND is pushing her way into
Africa, and that continent, like Asia,
Will soon be largely tributary to the
prolific mother of colonies. f5.4.oalI
This is the seventh year. Rain
prophets say that wet years were ex-
perlenced in 1880, 1887, 1874, 1851.
1905, 1860, 1872, and may be expected
| ig 1879. u. ~.4l -.-.9 ~ .
BRIGHAM YoUNG's grave is guarded
against resurrectionists by two men day
and night. The wives of the Prophet
rarely visit the tomb, and many have
remarked. "-tL #.-. - ail. IT,
PROF. BARKER, of PHILADELPHIA. is
making an effort to equalize the salaries
of men and women who render eoual
service as teachers in the public schools
of that city. .. E.f
Miss ALICE BLAINE, the eldest daugh-
ter OF the Senator, retains no trace of
the wound in the face which she acct
dentally gave herself. last year. She is
still at school.
A THOROUGH training in the arts of
the dairy, of both girls and boys, in the
rural schools, has become the subject
of earnest consideration on the part of
some of the French agricultural socie-
| ties.
The late State Treasurer Mackey. of
Pennsylvania, left 100000, and was
supposed to be bachelor, but woman
appears upon the scene and claims to
be his widow, and wants share of the
money. ... .t. ....
MRS. JOHN JACOB AsToR wore dia-l
monds worth $250,0O0 at ball in New
York, few evenings ago. They were.
the family diamonds and consisted of
necklace, earrings, comb, four bracelets
and tiara, and we're remarkable for their
purity and beauty. .,.. ...,~ ........
VENICE, with its GLORIOUS climate"
had from the middle of October until
near the middle of December almost
constant drenching rains, and then
there was week of snow and frost,
during which time travellers, not finding
fires, were compelled to go to bed to
keep warm!
The Cherokee Council seized and
ordered the sale of the Little Rock and
Fort Smith railroads property in the
Indian Territory, but the company dis
mantled and removed it's buildings, and
took up its track as far as the Arkansas
line, and all that remained to sell were
a few rotten ties and seven two-inch
boards. .-..-, ...t.1-... f. ...
SCOTLAND has been considered the
most wary, cautious and hard-headed of
all lands, and yet the scheme of paying
the debts of shareholders in the city of
Glasgow Bank through colossal lot
terry is to be tried. Six millions of So
tickets are to be issued, and half of the
proceeds is to be paid to the iquidators
and the remainder is to be apportioned
among the shareholders as prizes.
ttf WINTER. .....
The daisies sleep under the snow;
| The pansies and violets blue
Have closed their sweet eyes to the light of the
AS though of the winter they knew
The robin and buebird are fed.
And the lark has forgotten to sing
The sunshine but seems the pale ghost of the
/ CLEANS
That gladdened the far-away spring
All things are forgotten and sad
And hushed is the pulse of the year
But we know that the rest of nature is blest
| And the time of AWAKENING is near.
| --.Hj2n1ie C. Ballard.
A SUSCEPTIBLE young gentleman.
who was engaged to beautiful lass in
Montreal offered to give her all the
money he had saved, amounting to sew
eral hundred dollars, and it was depos-
tied in bank in her name. Not long
afterward he fell in love with another
girl and was anxious to have the money
refunded. The first sweetheart was will
ing to cancel the engagement, but re-
garded the bank account as matter of
business, and refused to refund the
money. t.-- -
A RETURN has been issued of the
nationality English, Scotch and Irish
of the individual members of the
British army. Of the total of 1860
men not quite 10000 are Irish, that is
to say, about % per centum. The pro-
portion according to the ratio of the
population of Ireland to that of the
whole empire would be only about II
per centum. Scotland contributes A.
900 men to the total, or about per
centum, while her proportion would be
nearly 10. England, including Wales,
contributes the remaining 70 per CEN
tum, which is not far from her ratable
| allowance