The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-12
BREYITIES.

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FIFTY-sEvEN tons of Greek marble
have been delivered in London, free of
all charges, by the Greek Government,
for the Byron pedestal.
ITALIAN army officers are now exer-
eised in the practical running of railroad
trains, so that In time of war they may
know all about moving troops by rail.
THERE is no place like home" re-
peated Mr.. Henpeck looking at motto,
and he heartily added, I'm deyilisb
glad there isn't"
DURING the past five years ex-Gov.
Stanford, of California, has accumulated
stable of 294 head of thoroughbred and
trotting horses at his stud farm, Palo
Alto, Gal.
A MAN near Houston, Texas, made
5000 per acre this year from the cultiva-
ton of domestic blackberries. The yield
was 5000 quarts per acre, which sold at
20 cents quart.
A METHOD of removing the bark
from trees, when the sap is not flowing,
by treating the wood with superheated
steam, has secured for the inventor
prize offered by the French Agricultu-
raj Society.
A FRENCHMAN has discovered that an
oil can be distilled from American grape
vines which will not CONCEAL above 8
deg. Fab, while other oils CONCEAL at
q! deg. He recommends this oil for
watch making and similar uses.
GERMAN clerks are undertaking En-
glish in London, and there is an cutlery.
Germans seem very glad in these days
to quit their Faderland. Bismarck has
perhaps shown them too clearly chow
wide the limits stand between a SPLEEN
did and happy land"
THE wedding guests were assembled
to see Howard Candy married to Bal
timore belle, when a telegraph boy
brought in this message from the alb
sent bridegroom ST have left you"
The bride tainted, and her friends slow
ly dispersed, expressing an unfavorab,,,
opinion of Candy.
In Northampton county, N. c., Ran
son Harris, IA years old, and james In
gram, 10 years old, both colored, be-
came involved in quarrel, during
which Ingram threw an ak at Harris,
but missed his aim. Harris then threw
the ak at Ingram, striking him on the
head, killing him instantly.
A MAN complained in a police court at
Marietta, Ohio, that a neighbor had
struck him ON the head with a cane.
81 don't think he hurt you much" said
the Justice. "No, I don't know as
he did," was the response. But they
were wrong, for the mans skull was
fractured, and minute later he fell
dead in court.
Mr.. AND Mrs. IINsLEY were dit seed
years ago, at Columbus, Ind. Both
made subsequent matrimonial ventures,
lie taking four wives In succession, and
she two husbands. At length, both be-
ing free, they discussed their varied ex-
perience, admitted that neither had
been happy since their parting, and
finally were reunited.
HoRAT1o SEYMOUR drives from his
farm to Utica every day. He has an
Office there. His property consists
mainly of Eastern farms and Western
lands. He says that an American is al
ways seeking some new field Of venture,
while German will take farm and re-
main on it until it is paid for. He thinks
that Massachusetts will become an Irizh
State,
In the Austrian army the "caution
money!" as the sum is called which the
candidate for matrimony is obliged to de-
posit with the authorities, has heretofore
been set at $4,000 forins, but rumor
prevails that the amount is to be doubled
Marriages have been so numerous in the
service that the politicians think it adj
visable to check them.
CREMATION has become so frequent at
Milan that it has been decided to build
by the side of the cremation furnace in
the cemetery cinerary temple or ash
huiIse, III which the remains of the dead
may be deposited and labeled off in jars
made like the old Latin urEs. The
Milan press is in favor of the new tenn
pie The architects have handed in
their plans, and they have been APP
proved by the city authorities.
ELIJAH LENGEL, Philadelphia car
penter, believed that he had a power of
fascinating beasts. He turned this real
or fancied quality to account by becom-
ing an exhibitor of lions and tigers in a
menagerie. While in cage OF savage
tigers IN Sap Domingo, he accidentally
fell. They flew at him furiously on
seeing him PROSTATE, and killed him,
though they were themselves quickly
slain with revolvers by the employees.
THERE is a married couple in Milan
County, Texas, who have strange mix
ture of names, and are now about to Gel
citrate the fiftieth anniversary of their
marriage. On the 10th day Of October,
1880, in Caldwell County, KY, Drury
Mitchuson Kevil married Lucretia Kevil
hutchinson and she became Lucretia
Kevil Mitchuson Kevil. They were not
at all related. He was born in 1879, in
Kentucky, and named for the father of his
future wife, and she was born in South
Carolina in 1910, and named for the
mother Of her future husband, and they
hava been mixed generally ever since
In Indiana a number OF sparrows
wanted drink Of clear water. 1t was
TOO far from the swampy margin of the
bank of stream to allow them to reach
it readily, but weeds grew thickly along
the edge. Four sparrows settled on one
of these weeds, one above the other, and
their weight bent it over half way to the
water. A fifth lighted further up and
bent it further down. Then a sixth set
tied near the end. and the whole stalk
came down level with the surface, and
they drank their fill without difficulty or
having to wade through the muddy mar
gin of the pond.
An Engineers Wager.
An amusing incident In the career Of
Mr. A. L. Holly is related by a New
York paper. While working as an en-
gineer on one of the railways, he made
wager with some of his fellows that he
could run locomotive mile without
fire, water or steam, the locomotive to be
taken empty and cold from the shop and
towed by another engine to point at
some distance ON the road where a level
stretch of track favored the experiment.
Young Holly rode in solitary state ON his
cold locomotive to the scene Of trial, and,
unsupported by his escort, set his locomo-
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