The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-25
ALL SORTS.

New YORK city has 5000 miles of tele-
graph and telephone wires.
BEACoNsFIELD thinks the new Parlia-
ment will last three years.
A TRACT of $4,000 acres on the North
ern Pacific railroad has been bought for
a colony from Belfast, Ireland.
OF the new Methodist Episcopal
Bishops, Foss will reside in st. Paul,
Hurst in Des MONIES, and Haven in San
Francisco.
The eldest unmarried daughter of the
poet Longfellow is described as a clever
young lady, with a strong, clearly
marked face, much resembling her
fathers.
Mrs. MYRTLE says that in the cities
they have an invention that will consume
smoke, and she will be overioyed ifnow
they will invent something that will con-
sumo the smokers.
THE estate of the late Mark Hopkins.
of California, is inventoried at $30,OO0,-
900. Of course there is a lawsuit over
it. He left three-fourths to his wife, ap-
pointing her administrators, and his two
brothers claim that she is trying to keep
their quarter too.
The books of John Stuart Mill are
among the most popular in Russia, and
all OF them were translated into Russian
many years ago. His reputation has
now reached Germany, and new edi-
ton of his works was recently issued in
Leipzig iii twelve volumes.
The Rev. W. A. Gross is a Marion
(Ohlo) clergyman who consented to go
into circus ring at the conclusion of
the performance, but while the audience
was still present, and perform a mar
rage ceremony for a couple who were
connected with the show. The clown
gave. away the bride, and kissed her, in
hlsmost elaborately comical manner.
A WIDOW lady of London, Ont, feel
ing the heat oppressive, arose from bed
and got into a cistern in her yard to
take bath. She was unable to get out
again, and next morning was heard
screaming for help by two young men
passing. They went to her assistance,
and, pulling her out, one of them en-
velOped her in his buster, in which con-
dition she returned indoors.
JUDGE JAMES GARLAND, of the Cor
poration Court of Lynchburg. Va,
probably is the oldest public man who
still works. He is over SO years of age.
He practiced law fifty-eigbt years, and
for ten years has been Judge of the
Corporation Court of Lynchburg, and
for eleven years he was in public life as
member of the Legislature or Con-
gress. He is still sitting and patiently
trying cases and delivering opinions,
showing great vigor of mind and con
siderable physical force.
THERE is at the Sydney (Australia)
Exhibition a house built of paper. The
entire furniture, including chandeliers
and a stove, is Of paper, So, too, are
the carpets and curtains and there is a
bedroom in which there is not only a
large paper bed, but also paper blankets,
sheets, quilts, and female undercloth-
ing, dresses, and bonnets in the latest
style. It is proposed to give a series of
banquets in this building, at which the
plates, dishes, knives, forks, and drink
ing utensils shall be also of paper-ev-
erything, in fine, except the eatobles.
A TURKISH journal, commenting on
the elevation of Mr. Gladstone to the
Premiership, asserts that he was Bull
garian. +" His father was pig dealer
in the valley Of Kustendje," says the We
racious chronicler, and young Glad
stone ran away at the age of Is to Ser
via, and was then, with another pig
dealer, sent to London to sell pigs. He
stole the proceeds, changed his name
from Trogadeir to Gladstone, and be-
came a British subject. Fortune ia
vored him until he became Prime Min
lister. Gladstone has no virtues"
THE European sportsman, mighty
hunter though he be, is completely ssup
to the blush when comparing his meager
account of days shooting with the re-
gal bags made by the Indian Rajahs and
Princes, or even by the Feringhees, in
British India. There may be less phys
ical exertion, and consequently less
physical improvement, in the monster
battues Of the East than in our more
homely and vigorous sports, but the to-
tai is something very magnificent in
deed. Six tigers, thirty-six bufaloes,
40 pigs and 1920 deer is the sum Of a
Hindoo gentleman's shooting.