The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-01-01
BREVITIES.

contest between cripples.
A VISITOR to Queen Victoria has to
be announced by five different per
sons.
BISHOP GILBERT HAVEN is in an al
most hopeless condition from kidney
troubles.
LIE Regents of the University of
California have entered upon crusade
against the undergraduate secret soeie-
ties.
A SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ranebman
boasts OF having killed two Indians with
the same bullet, which passed through
one into the other.
CAPT. JAMES B. EADs, of the Missis-
sippi ietties, has been travelling in Asiatic
lands fer several months. He has Wis
tied Jerusalem, Jaffa and Cairo.
THERE have been sixteen executions
of females in England since Yictoria'q
accession to the throne, and durino the
same period one woman has been bpno
in America.
JUDGE ELDRIDaE, of Memphis. fined
himself so for hardness at court. Two
lawyers made able arguments for the
remission of the penalty, but his Honor
remained firm.
a CURIOUS sight was presented at La
grange, Ga, last week. In the midst
OF a snow-storm might have been seen
green grass and the peach and pear
trees in bloom.
MISS ALICE LoNGFELLow,a daughter
Of the poet Longfellow, has recently
accepted the appointment of Vice Re-
gent for Massachusetts of the Mount
Vernon Ladies' Association.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN LANDERs. of Con-
necticut, has been presented with twelve
wooden nutmegs," made from the
wood of the Charter oak. He will dis
tribute them among old Congressional
friends.
PIERRE LoRILLARD doubtless counts
the figures Ia the English turf statistics.
which have just been printed, with pleas
urable emotions. He ranks fourteenth
in she list of winners, with seven win
nings and 95,376 to his credit.
MISS KATE FIELD brought from
Strattord slip of Shakspeare's null
berry tree, which she has presented to
the Central Park Commissioners. It
is to be kept in a greenhouse until
April and then planted with proper
ceremony probably upon the poets
birthday.
HENRY LAVA SELWYN, a full-bIooded
Sioux Indian and q son of leading
chief OF the Yankton tribe, has been
ordained pastor of the church at Yank-
ton Agency. IF the brother should take
notion to get up a revival in his parish
he will have it if he has to come down
and scalp the whole congregation.
TRAUTz-BAUzoNNET, the great book
binder Of modern times, has Just died
in Paris. His finest bindings in mosaic
compartments of colored morocco cost
from 1000 to 5000 francs. He did the
gliding himself, and was aided in his
work by two assistants only. Of late he
had been monopOhzed by one of the
Rothschilds.
MISS SUSAN B. ANTHONY has been so
quiet of late years that the public is in
clined to forget about her, but she is
SC1ll I1FAhS ana hopes TO see the Six
teenth amendment passed before long.
Il have turned my three-score years,
she said to a reporter, but then Lu-
cretia Mott is ST, you know" Miss
Anthony at so is looking remarkably
well, retaining her old-time sprightli-
ness.
ACCORDING to official statistics, there
were, from 1888 to 1866, no fewer than
ninety-four persons buried alive,
through accident or ignorance, in vari-
GUS parts of France. DR.. Thouret,
while disinterring bodies from grave
yard converted into a public square,
observed many skeletons in such strange
and difficult postures as to convince
him that they had been buried before
life was extinct.