The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-23
BREVITIES.

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has eighty colporteurs. They visit
$4,000 families every month.
HERE is Spanish proverb whish
says: when you choose a wife. sbut
your eyes and commend your soul to
God"
M. ALEXANDRA DUMAS PLAYS billiards
with his friend Vollou, the painter the
former stalking books, the latter pict
ures.
DURING Georgia revival meeting a
few evenings ago a shouting negro
woman kicked sister on the leo and
broke it.
HE Fenian organization in Manches
ter, Eng, has been entirely broken up
through the vigorous action of the Ro-
man Catholic authorities.
The ravages of the phylloxera in the
vineyards throughout Switzerland and
Italy are reported by the local papers to
have been greatly exaggerated. There
will be an average crop this year.
The MARY" who chad a little lamb"
was Mary Sawyer, of Sterling, Mass.
--AHS ROShA WUo W1lUUSO S1AUy
years ago, by John Roulstone, a Boston
boy.
The Montreal Witness la annoye
because Montreal cabs are decorated
with such American emblems as the
eagle and the stars and stripes. Uncle
Sam is good enough, thinks the W5t-
ness, but the Queen is better.
Il is stated that in Eastern France
and the North of England hawks have
learned to notice the railway trains
"put up" coveys of birds as they rush
on, the birds, like unframed animals,
being startled by the noise. The hawks,
therefore, fly after the trains, and, when
tue birds have risen in alarm, pounce
upon their prey, and then fly after the
train again.
QUEEN VICTORIA once s;;gnifed to
Viscount Macduf, now Earl of Fife,
that she would not be unwilling to
have him for son-in-law. The noble
man respectfully declined the honor.
He is not yet 80, was schooled at Elton,
has eight residences in the Highlands,
and is warml y spoken of by all classes.
His four sisters are ladies of extreme
beauty, but have not all been enviable
in their welded life.
GEN. SToNEMAN derides Gen. Ere
naont's scheme for turning the waters
Of the Colorado into the desert basin of
California and Arizona. He says that,
presumlng the connecting canal to be
1000 feet wide and ten deep and run
ming at five miles an hour, it would
take 200 years to fill the basin. After
being filed it would, he asserts, require
an additional cutting of the same depth
and $50 feet wide to compensate for
evaporation.
THERE are now at the Johns Hopkins
University, in Baltimore, four gradu-
ates of Harvard, four of Yale, four of
the University of Virginia, and form
one to three from Amherst, Dartmouth,
Williams, Bowdoin, Cornell, Hamilton,
Princeton, Rutgers, Lafayette, Column
bia, Washington and Lee, Hampden-
Sidney, and other colleges, and from
Leipsic, Gottingen, and London univer-
sites abroad. This shows how high the
university ranks, and how widely it's
fame is extended.
The President of the Wesleyan Con-
ference, in England, has issued circu-
lar to the superintendent of circuits
suggesting that day should be set
apart for humiliation and supplication
before Almighty God on account of our
national sins, and with especial refer
ence to the depression of our agricult-
ural and our various manufacturing
interests, and the lamentable wars in
which we are engaged, as we'll as to the
decrease in the number of members in
our societies."
To THE circular of the English Bish-
ops warning the churchmen against rit-
ualism two signatures were wanting,
those of the Bishops of Salisbury and
Durham. The former, a ritualist,
would not censure his friends, and DR..
Barring refused TO sign SO milk-watery
document. During his administration
of Durham DR.. Barring, just dead, caused
to be erected in that diocese 119 new
churches at cost of 9363, 900, and 1873
schools of elementary education at
cost of 9137, 600.
RAILROAD companies are interested
in the subject of ties. The scarcity of
timber for the purpose has raised a
question as to a substitute. Cast-iron
ties cost three times as much as che
wood, but the difference is more than
made up by the length of time they
wear. English lines have introduced
glass ties, or sleepers. By a new
process the glass is toughened, and the
cost is about the same per ton as those
of cast iron, but there are about three
times as many to the ton.
The son of German farmer, return
ing from military service, threatened to
commit suicide when he found that his
younger brother had supplanted him
in the affections of a girl. She laughed
at him and said she didn't believe he
could muster courage to drown himself
in the neighboring lake. He said he