The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-10-01
JOTTINGS AND CLIPPINGS.

IT isn't what goes in, but what comes
out of the inkstand that makes trouble.
REHoBoTH was the favorite summer re.
sort of the American Indians four hun
bred years ago.
CHICAGO has E16 miles of sidewalks,
1921 miles of public sewers, and 443
miles of water MAINS The Commissioner
of Public Works there estimates that the
city wastes $1,000,000 annually ON
political loafers as public employees.
NJ Zo1A has no great opinion of the
rewards of authorship. He says that
whereas a successful play running 100
nights bring to the. theatrical treasury
$50, 900, and into the .author'ss pocket
5000, only five examples in the past
fifty years can be found of book bring
ing the writer olargea sum.
A FRIEND Of Clara Bagnal, of Toronto,
caused himself to represent a ghost, and
presented himself before her. She was
of a nervous temperament, and the
shock proved too much for her. She fell
in fit, only to wake raving maniac.
For six years she was bereft of reason,
and now she is dead. 20 . --i-=-l
CHICAGO has new industry-an hospi-
tai for diseased and orphan birds. Mrs.
A. F. NOR is the chief physician and
matron of the institution, and is also
head nurse and instructor in-chief to
young birds. There are medical. sur
gical, and obstet1ie wards, anIasylum for
the blind, and an orphan department..
A FOLDING, chair factory in Newburg is
monument to the pluck and sagacity of
its owner, who, though he is totally
blind, and has been for many years, and
had nothing to start on, has built up an
establishment which now employs fifty
hands and sends goods to all parts of the
country.
IT is reported that the development of
the German army is in danger of being
checked for want of officers. Notwith-
standing the good pay and great glory
which the military career affords, the
classes from which the officers are drawn
no longer furnish full supply of good
material. The remedy is easy. Promote
from the ranks.
The editor of Punch gets $500 a
year. The position is a difficult one.
He has to discard everything that is
funny and witty, and prepare sort of
humorous water cruel, weak enough for
those who, Enthusiastically speaking,
have carefully abstained from mirth and
can't stand anything strong. The work
is worth the money -Andre,Us' Queen.
A PARIS merchant who has been sey-
eral times robbed by unfaithful cashiers,
has invented an infallible test of COM
potency. The cashier presents himself
offers his services, shows his reference.
Then the merchant: "Show me how YOU
would erase mistake In your figures"
The aspiring cashier sets to work with
scraper, ink eraser, and what not, andi
he succeeds in destroying all trace of the
erasure, he is invited to take his hat and
leave. 't=ia'l 4'-2i4"l4
IT is generally supposed that the
bronze cents and the nickel five cent
pieces are worth intrinsically the value
marked upon their faces. Very far from
it. Reckoning nickel at 50 per pound,
the five cent piece is worth a cent and
quarter. It weighs seventy-seven grains
and fraction. The proportions in the
composition of it are rs per cent. of cop
per and 25 per cent. of nickel. Copper
is reckoned at forty-three. cents per
pound. If, then, nickel five cent piece
is lost, the government clears three and
one-half cents on the issue. aslar.
THE contract has been given out for
the Western monument to Oliver and
Cakes Ames. 1t will cost $4,000, and
will be put up at Sherman, Wyoming
Territory, at a place about 400 miles
west of Omaha, the highest point in the
Rocky Mountains which is crossed by
the railroad. The monument is to be fifty
feet square at the base, and sixty feet
high, pyramidal in outline, with three
slopes. The material viii be Black Hill
granite. There are to be two medallions
Representing the heads of Oliver and
Cakes Ames. One will face the east and
the other the west, at height of forty
feet from the ground A town hall is also
building at North Easton, Mass. as a
memorial of the Ames brothers. a-ss
THE Episcopal Church at North East,
Md, is two hundred years old; the com,
munion service is of silver, richly chased.
presented by Queen Anne, and among
the records there is book with the
names of all the bachelors of the parish
who paid tax Gor the privilege of
single blessedness.) Year by year the
list decreased, till at last but twenty re-
manned and it finally fell into disuse.
There is an old manor house deserted
now, except by swallows, who build
their nests in the caves and chimney, of
which many people remember storieg
by their grandparents of dinner parties
and stately entertainments given at
Bricedon Hail." when carpets were
laid down the broad flights of steps that
the ladies might enter without endanger-
ing the satin of their robes.