The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-04
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w., htto gwen DTIu TO cn1IQ Weighing
twenty pounds and ten ounces.
GEORGE JENKINS, of Barbour county.
Ala, killed a rattlesnake which weighed
forty-two pounds, and had fourteen rat
ties.
JOEL GRUBBs, of Russellville. XIV. who
Is 80 years old, frequently walks to
Buena Vista springs, a distance of six
miles.
The boys of the Boston public schools
are instructed in military drill, and an
nually have a street parade, with a
review by the Mayor.
In Montague county, Texas, gentle
work-ox went mad and attacked a man
on horseback, goring the horse to death.
while the rider escaped by climbing a
tree.
A YOUNG married man blowing. his
wife hoeing, and his baby sleeping in
the fence corner In a cradle, is what q
gentleman saw near Hartwell, Ga, re-
Gently,
In his younger days Prince Bismarck
was credited with saying that all large
cities should be swept from the face of
the earth, they being but hot-beds of
revolution.
The village of sheldahl, Iowa, lies in
three counties, and its government is
consequently mixed. A change of county
boundaries is proposed, but each county
wants the village.
AN 11-year-old boy at Queen City,
Tex, born without arms, is said to use
his toes with as much ease and dexterity
as ordinary boys do their fingers. He
can even write legibly with his toes.
A BLIND girl has excelled all previous
members of the fourth class in the high
school at Portland, Me-, by attaining
rank of 100 in all her studies for one
month, except Latin, and SO in that.
WILLIAM ALLEN, JR., has brought
suit for 500, 900 damages against thirty
seven residents of the county of Cler-
mont, Ohio, whom he accuses of having
attempted to lynch him in May, 1879.
GARIBALDI, who is in excellent health,
is at present repairing and charging his
house on the island of Caprera. The en-
largement is made In view of his recent
marriage with the nurse of his children.
The editor of the Albany Argus has
pointer bitch which catches fish by sub
merging her head and taking them with
her mouth. She does this purely for
sport, and does not eat or even hurt the
fish.
A WOMAN at Allenville, Ark, conspired
with a drug clerk to give her husband
poison as though by mistake. The plan
was to let the man die, and then the
widow was to sue the clerks employer
for damages.
IRON MOUNTAIN, Mo-, is all that it's
name implies, being seven tenths pure
iron. It is nearly mile long, half as
broad and several bundled feet high. It
is being carried away at the rate of $50
tons q day.
In the seven years of the Revolu-
tionary war Great Britain sent to America
about 112, 1000 soldiers and $4,000 sea-
men. The forces raised by the United
States during the same period consisted
of about $4,000 Continental soldiers
and IS, 900 militia.
L ONLY want to show you one thing
more, Professor. I have invented short
method of boring mountains which I
think will prove very valuable" envy
dear sir, )" burst forth the wearied listen
er, eff you would only invent a short
method of boring individuals you would
indeed confer lasting benefit upon the
race.
WHEN, In the reign of James L, Mrs.
Turner, chief starcher to the Queen and
the fashionable world, was hanged, she
came to the gallows in the peaked style
of hat introduced by Queen Elizabeth,
which sent that kind of head gear out of
fashion as effectually as did Mrs. Man
ning's black satin dress at her execution
that glossy material now again in vogue
The bonnet worn by Queen Victoria on
the day of her accession was genuine
coal scuttle.
BAsLE successfully holds her own
against all competition In the ribbon
trade. This supremacy dates from the
Edict of Nantes, in common with the
English trade. AS far back as 1910
there were some 900 ribbon looms at
work in the canton, producing annually
material valued at 81, 100000. In 1872
there were 1000 looms, employing
5000 weavers and helpers and sixty de-
signers, and consuming annually 400
tons of silk, ont Of which over 100000
600 yards of ribbon were manufactured,
valued at $50, 100000.
Mrs. WILKINS, of Oxford, N. c., had
three children of her own and was step
mother to boy. The latter annoyed
her by stealing eatables from the pantry,
and she tried in vain to prevent his dep
relations. She locked the daintiest of
the food in chest, and he opened it
with skeleton key. Finally she poi
soned some cake, put it in a closet, and
went away for days visit On her re-
turn, instead of finding that the boJ was
dead, she saw the remains of two of her
children who had been killed by the
poison.
Air the Bedding.
The desire of an energetic house
keeper to have her work completed at
an early hour in the morning often
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