The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-10
BREVITIES.
BosToN's debt is $26,229,666.
NEEDS looking into-A telesnone
drive of

BosToN's debt is $26,229,666.
NEEDS looking into-A telescope.
A CHICAGO Chinaman has taken ont
naturalization papers.
SALMON in the Scottish rivers are
suffering from pestilence.
SAN ANTONIO is rapidly becoming the
great wool market of Texas
WEST TEXAS doctors now speak Of
that section as the health belt.
A MAN died in Ireland last year aged
1O6, who left daughter Is years old.
The sum of $350,O0O was spent for
beer in Cincinnati during the saenger-
fest week.
A PROJECT to rebuild Carthage upon
the site of the ancient city is before the
Bey of Tunis.
HE operation of removing the right
eye has been successfully performed on
Mr.. Plimsoll, M. P, the sailors friend.
The apple crop throughout Western
North Carolina was almost wholly de-
stroyed by severe frosts in the month of
May.
" I CANNOT tell" says an old convict,
how many crimes are arranged in
prison and afterward successfully car
ried out, but their name is legion"
BosToN has a Spiritualist, named
Powell, who makes motions over a care
fully washed slate, and when it is re-
versed beautiful drawing appears.
LILLE DUER, who shot and killed
Ellen Hearn, at Snow Hill, Md, has
written love story for the Philadelphia
Times, and contemplates a lecturing
tour.
The English Factories act requires
that no woman shall be employed con-
tinuously for more than four hours and
half. After working that length of
time she must have rest.
THE Zulu King Getty wayo's messen-
gers, when on a mission of peace to
Lord Chelmsford, are reported to have
asked: "Why do the English hide like
ant-bears in holes? Let them come out
and fight in the open. Ii they beat, we
submit at once"
A FARMER in Holden, Me-, relates
that, being much annoyed with crows
pulling up his corn, he placed large
umbrella in his field in order to frighten
them away. He was good deal sur
prised one wet day at finding a good
flock seeking shelter under it from the
rain. The umbrella is now used for
another purpose.
A WOODWARD county XIV bow
knows more about horse trading now
than he did a week ago. He came home
from Lexington exultingly the other
day with an alleged 4-year-o old horse,
which he had bought of a jockey, but,
on examination by his father, it turned
out to be a steed that had been sold by
his sire in 1868.
BLAcKBERRIEs are black; blueberries
are blue; billberries have bills, and
raspberries grow on raspy bushes; but
wintergreen berries are red; elderber-
ries have nothing in particular to do
with elders; gooseberries are not eaten
by geese; strawberries do not come
from straw, and mulberries are no rela-
ton to the Muligans.-Chic0g0 Jour-
mol.
A MAN at Chapmanville, Va, had a
chance to find out how long he could
stand on his toes. Robbers took his
money, hanged him to tree, and left
him. BY pressing his toes on the
ground he could relieve the choking of
the moose around his neck, and in that
way he stood for thirteen hours, but
was on the point of giving up when help
came.
HOMES for friendless children in En-
gland do not appear to be overmuch
homelike and comfortable. The
founder and Lady Principal of home
for friendless girls was recently on
trial in London for neglect and cruelty,
and the testimony showed that the
poor children in her charge were
nearly starved, dirty. ill-clad, and I'M
healthy, and were sometimes logged
with rope.