The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-23
ALL SORTS.
SALT LAKE Cry counts q, 900.


SACRAMENTO population is 81, 1852.
New ZEALAND has population of
800, 600, and debt of $3.50, 900, 900.
In olden times English boroughs and
shires often found it very difficult to Sc
cure representatives. The intense anxiety
to secure seat only began about hun
dred years ago.
JUST now the newspapers are teeming
with the paragraph, "Don't drink ice
water when you are hot" and it is one
that should be regarded by all. The
time to drink ice-water is along In the
dead of winter, when it is a tight scratch
to keep from freezing to death.
A TRAMP consented to do small lob
at digging post-holes at Carson, New,
though labor was contrary to his Gus
tom. He returned to his employers
house in an hour, threw down his spade,
and said he had changed his mind. He
had found $3.50 worth of gold bars which
some miner had buried.
The destruction of Russia's grain crops
during the past two years has been sim
ply enormous. Statistics show that the
crop Of 1879 was reduced fully $5O.OO0.-
600 in value by the bad weather and the
various pests of the grain, and it is now
established that the showing this year
will be still worse. The exports for the
first six months of the current year are
less than half those of the correspond
ing period last year.
THE Russian educated classes are now
very proud of having a cyclopedia of
their own. Recently their appeared the
sixteenth and last volume of ''The Rus
sian Cyclopedic Dictionary" which is
the work of single person, Prof. Bere-
Yin, who has been engaged upon it for
seven years, unassisted by any scientific
societies, or by the Government. The
Russian cyclopedia costs 80 rubles.
MISS BROWNING, of Denton, Texas,
had two suitors who were incliued to
Stay each other. Being of religious turn
of mind, and desiring to make peace be-
tween them, she invited both to attend
church meeting and escort her home.
Her plan was to bring them to an ami
cable Christian understanding. 70 effect
this she prayed fervently in the meeting
But her scheme failed, for, when the two
men melton the porch, eachdetermined on
carrying off the prize, there was a fight,
and one was killed.
This is a Dramatic Nea0S correspond
ent's view of the Hub: ''To promote
suicidal inclinations easily, rapidly and
by an entirely natural method, l know
of nothing more infallible than being
stranger in Boston. The hotels are
wretched, the citizens look upon you
with an air of cool suspicion that would
exasperate craven image, the sidewalks
are so narrow that walking upon them
reminds you of tight rope perform
ance, and the streets are so crooked that
by walking straight ahead for twenty
four hours you pass the starting point
exactly eighteen times"
SEVERAL young men were lying on the
banks of the Susquehanna at Bingham
ton, N. Y, the other day. smoking,
when a large rat ran across one of them
The animal was so confused at its mis-
take that it sought refuge in the nearest
hole, which happened to be offered by
the loose sleeve of an undershirt of one
Of the young men, He was frightened
half to death and danced about, calling
to the others to take "the rat out of my
sleeve" One of them took out jack
knife, and, in trying to cut off the sleeve,
cut the animal fairly in two. When one
of the others, who had been laughing at
the scene, saw what was the matter, he
tainted.