The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-21
ALL SORTS.

THERE are said to be at this moment
more editors In than out of prison in
Russia.
The quantity of cotton consumed
IN 1878 was ffty-four times greater than
In 1778.
MORE than twenty celluloid companies
IN this country are doing a successful
business.
FISK University, at Nashville has been
presented with bell weighing 1000
pounds.
john ROSE was tarred and feathered
on his wedding night at Lewis, KY,
because his bride was his niece.
PHILADELPHIA contains 1O3 distinct
iron factories, giving employment to
nearly $4,000 hands, without including
those employed at the Baldwin locomo-
i've works
MIR. HERBERT GLADSTONE, who comes
into the new Parliament with his father.
is said to be "not only strong, calm
and lucid reasoner, but has that gavetv
and playfulness in him which British
audience most loves"
AMONG all European countries France
is the one in which the taxes are paid
most punctually and cheerfully. In
contrast, Englishmen are great grum-
blers and Italians are always in arrears,
their treasury invariably being one-fourth
short in its dues.
A NORWICH botanist, amazed the other
day at the rapid growth of a fungus.
calculated that it had developed 10000
600 cells in one day, or 1876 cells a Sec
ond. Prof. Gray, however, cites an in
! stance where a century plant formed
1900, 1000, 600 cells in twenty-four hours,
or 23l ,48l a second.
JOSEPH EMMET's spree in Pittsburgh
will cost him $4,000. Nearly all of the
seats were sold for week of his per-
Torrance at the Opera House, and the
house had to be closed, the money being
refunded. Persuasive efforts did not
avail, and he was sent to a hospital,
where he was put into condition to act
during the ensuing week.
UNDER the old law marriage ceremon-
les could be performed in California by
any Judge, Justice of the Peace, Mayor,
clergyman, or preacher of the gospel,
but by an act Of the present Legislature
they can be solemnized only by Justice
of the Supreme Court, Judge of the Su-
perior Court, Justice of the Peace, or
minister of the gospel.
A NEWSPAPER in Georgia says that if
the farmers of that State would devote
less of their energies to the raising of
cotton and give more attention to the
cultivation of sugar cane, rice, arrow
root, the tea-plant, wine-growing, and
the production Of early fruits, vegetables
and melons for the Northern market,
they would be much more independent
and happy.
A. RUST, residing on Grand Prairie,
Texas, while returning from Dallas, was
attacked on Mountain Creek bridge by a
Mexican lion. His life was saved by
bis dog, which engaged the lion. The
dog was terribly lacefated. The neigh
borhood demand action of the County
commissioners in Kidding the county of
the beast. This is the third person at
tackled by it.
Mrs. SCoTT-SDDoNs says: CT have
travelled through the United States for
eleven years, and know all phases of So
ciety. The women here are very much
better informed than the English women.
American women possess a certain grace
and ease, what the French call chic,
that you will not find even in the high
est English society. A servant girl here
will dress herself in a graceful, natty
way that an English Duchess knows
nothing about"
The Boston Traveller relates of an
old and wealthy Boston merchant that
he has in his GO sitting-room an ancient
music-box, and several mirrors reaching
from floor to ceiling. He loves to take
his ease with a bowl of punch or bottle
Of brandy beside him, and for amuse-
ment he starts the music-box and calls
in his man-servants and maid-servants
and has them dance to his music, while
he watches their movements in the mir
rors, correcting them when their steps
are not right, placidly slipping his punch
OF his brandy when all goes well.
IT is notorious that dogs take their
manners from the human society in
which they have been brought up Thus
the coach-dog, having associated all his
Liz WAUn S1OOL1o CtuCl OUtU10 u1C11 10 oO-
ficient in sagacity and only fit to follow
the rumbling of the wheels. Fighting,
gripping, and holding on with iron
tenacity are the congenital attributes Of
the bulldog, while the greyhound has
little of the reasoning faculty which is
born in the colley or sheep dog. A par
lor dog, which, like Levers Mrs. Roo
ney, ''comes O dacent people," would
repudiate the company of street cur,
whom the gentleman and scholar of
Burns would nose and find out, just as
honest Launce's cur Crab was spotted
by the two or three gentleman-like dogs
with which he came in contact under the
Dukes table.
Two Bets Lost.
Two members of Congress disputed
one day as to whose chain was the heav-
ier Each one bet $40 his chain was
the heavier, and they settled it by