The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-02
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

public education.
NEW YORK bellies dress more richly at
the opera than ever.
THE Khedive and family, including
his secretaries, receive now only ISL $780,
900 year.
The Portland cement of England is
made of chalk and clay from the valley
OF the Midway.
In Thibodeaux, La, there are fifty
lepers. The original one arrived there
twenty years ago.
The oyster business of Virginia just
now employs 10000 men catching, open
ing and shipping.
New ENGLAND railroads have decided
to discontinue the issuance of halffare
passes to clergymen.
ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOU
SAND dollars worth of carriages were
made this year at Amesbury, Mass
FROM the debris of their coal mines
France makes annually 100000 tons of
excellent fuel, and Belgium 100000
tons. @.-
THE first American saint was col
ored woman, st. Rose, of Lima. There
is a church in New York city dedicated
to her.
The English agricultural laborer re-
ceives the year round little more than
IS a week, with a small allowance of
beer money f7
Mr.. Cross, the English Home Secre-
tary, will hereafter refuse to allow re.
porters to witness whippings in the En-
glish jails. E5lss4.
, The Typographical Union of New
York numbers 1890 members. In the
course of its existence it has disbursed
about 100000.
SCOTLAND, says the Edinburgh Daily
RevieaU, is $75,000,0O0 poorer than it
would have been estimated by an actu-
airy few weeks ago.
NEARLY 5000 of the descendants of
the old Six Nations of Central New
York are at Forestville, Wis, on a Gov
eminent reservation.
A CLEVELAND physician has recently
written protest against the custom OF
shaving as being antagonistic to health
as we'll as good looks.
ROBUST women often work in the
Pennsylvania coal mines in male attire,
but without taking the trouble to pre-
tend that they are men.
THERE is negro lunatic in the Dan
vile, Va, Jail who claims to be George
Washington, to be 1000 years old, and
to be worth 100000.
A WOMAN at Lawrence, Mass, has just
given birth to her twenty-second child,
while her two married daughters have
contributed a baby year to the popula-
ton of the State during the seven and
three years of their respective welded
lives.
The Government of Samoa has sent
this country mat six feet square, made
of cocoanut fiber. It is 300 years old,
and valued at $4,000 Inside of it, as a
token of goodwill, was wrapped up
the recent Samoan treaty with our Gov
eminent.
HYDRoPHoBIA has been uncommon1y
frequent in the foxhound kennels of
England this year. Several famous
packs have suffered greatly from this
terrible disease, and now it is announced
that the malady has broken out among
the Queens buckhounds.
The days of public executions are
probably numbered in Paris The dis
graceful scenes which occurred at the
taking off Of the murderers Barre and
Lebiez have led the authorities to con-
slider the propriety of erecting the gull
lotine within prison walls.
New YORK State abounds in lawyers.
In the Senate are sixteen, which is
nearly double the number from any
other business or profession. In the
Assembly are twenty-four, and the same
number of farmers, and these two main
tain numerical supremacy over those
of all other classes.
To BEAUTIFY the coats of eight horses,
value $4,000, and also four oxen, Cam
bridgeshire England laborer put so
much arsenic in their food that they all
died. Sentence: A months hard labor.
This treatment of horses is common at
Vienna. 1t makes them foam at the
mouth, too, or is supposed to do so.
FRENCH FABLE.
King Of Persia, on a certain day.
Rode with his courtiers to the chase away
Thirst overcame him in desert plain;
Long time he sought cooling fount in vain.
At last he CHANGED upon garden fine
Well stocked with luscious orange, grape and pine
Now. God forbid that my thirst should sake, 81
The monarch said, for this fair gardens sake;
For. if one single fruit to pluck dare
My Viziers here will strip the orchard bare"
THE following are the highest prices
of gold for each of the years of sus-
pension:
1852. ..1a 1871. 1883
1863. 1922 1872. .115M
1854. 1873 ........ 1875
1865. 233s4 1874 . 114%
1866 ..............16 1914 1875 4. .117M
1867. .1a55s 1876. .........,.. 115,
1868. ...l50 llSI7. .1t7L
1sG9. ............ 1925 1873. 1G7 !
1870. .... .123hl
DURING the current year the city oil
Providence has provided labor at so