The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AN experienced doctor il the West
says his bills are cut down in families
in proportion as they eat fresh fruit.
Strawberries, currants and tomatoes are
better than medicine, than calomel or
jalap, and rather better to take. Apples,
freely eaten, do the work of vermifuge
or lozenges. Every frait or berry has a
mission to man hidden away within it.
THERE is a cypress tree at Somma, in
Lombardy, Europe, which is said to be
the oldest on record on the CONT
nent. There is reason to believe this
tree was in existence at the time of
julius Caesar, forty-two years before
Christ, and is 1,911 years old. It is 1O6
feet high, and measures twenty feet in
circumference at the height of one foot
from the ground. When Napoleon
made the great road over the Simplon
he DETECTED the line to avoid injuring
this tree.
THERE are over $4,000 varieties of fish.
one-tenth of which are found in fresh
waters, The number of men employed
in the herring fishery in Great Britain
is about 100000, with 5000 vessels. In
the town Of Lewestoft, England, in two
days 100000 herrings were caught.
There are sixty-seven lobster canning
establishments in Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick, which use from three to five
tons per day in the season. The Balti-
more oyster beds in the Chesapeake bay
and it's tributaries cover 5000 acres,
and are the greatest oyster beds in the
world. They produce an annual crop
of 25,000,000 bushels. Raw oysters are
now shipped from Baltimore to all parts
of Europe. Oysters are taken from deep
waters and planted, and in three years
become large enough for market.
EVERY day thousands and thousands
of letters are received at the post office
inadequately addressed. Great con-
fusion and trouble are caused by this
carelessness and neglect, and the depart
ment has made an appeal to the public
asking that more attention be paid to
this matter in future. The need of
designating the State is shown by the
fact that there are in the United States
no less than Is places named Brooklyn;
5 named Baltimore; 10 named Boston ;
Buffalo, Is; Burlington, II; Charleston,
II; Chicago, 4; Cincinnati, s; Cleve-
land TO-; Columbus, 19; Dayton, %;
Detroit, 5; Indianapolis, 2; Louisville,
Is; Lowell, Is; Memphis, s; Milwaukee,
3; Nashville, IA; Omaha. 5; Pittsburgh,
8; Philadelphia, 7; Portland, IA;
Quincy, Is; Richmond, %; Springfield,
%; St. Joseph, Is; st. Louis, 4; St.
Paul, ~; Toledo, 7; Washington, 80;
Wilmington, Is; and Williamsburg, %.
A HISTORY of the origin of sparkling
champagne attributes it's discovery to
an accident. The wines of Champagne
have natural tendency toward efferves-,
cence, and monk OF more taste than
honesty, who had abstracted from cask
in the monasterial cellars some still
champagne, which he bottled for his
own private drinking, was alarmed one
night by series of explosions. Corks
had been blown into the air, and the
stolen wine, which he had vainly en-
deavored to keep in confinement, was
running in froth and foam over the
sides of the bottles. The terrified monk
concluded that the devil must have got
into the wine; but the prior of the
monastery, to whom confession was
made, knew better. He tasted the
wine, found at once that it was good,
shrewdly determined to bottle some for
himself, and ended by going through a
series Of experiments, which had for re-
suit the discovery of the true art of
making sparkling champagne.