The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-07-01
BREYITIES.

In MANY box factories the nails rs
driven by machinery, one machine does
the work of ten or fifteen men.
GEN. PHRA, first eunuch of the King of
Siam; rules over $50 young ladies in the
royal hareth, his aids in the service be-
ing fethales:
IT IS thirty-seyen Years ago since the
first message was transmitted over 8
telegraph wire. The message was sent
from Washington to Baltimore.
ALTHOUGH Oliver Wendell Holmes
talks rapidly, never hesitattrg fer. q
word, he writes laboriously, crossing
out, interlining, and studying dictionaries
for the best word.
SAYs the London Netesi American
literature has now become so far English
that It has Supplied, lis With more house
hold words than the literattttfe If anY
other country except France"
A WRITER in the GenHenan's Maya
zine says: "Year by year the rigors OF
the east wind seem to augment, and the
conclusion that some deplorable change
has tak8n place in eur climate is being
forced upon tis:;
OLD COMMODORE VANDERBILT once bit
a piece out of a New Testament still
preserved in a New York court-which
had been handed him to kiss in a case
when he was Ill a towering passion at
having been summoned as a Witness.
A FRENCH surgeon mitigates pain by
administering series of wave sounds to
the affected part by means of tuning
fork and sounding board. Neuralgia
is cured sbeedi1s The vibration is kept
up by an electro magnet.
TIE Postmaster General of England
has been making experiments with the
employment of deaf and dumb persons
in the sorting OF papers in the Post-office
Savings Bank Department, and it is
found that they perform the work salts
factorily.
KING JAMES version of the Holy Bible
contains 3, $50, 489 letters, 773, 692 words,
81, 173 verses, l, 189 chapters, and sixty
six books. The word ''L0fd" occurs
!, $50 times, the word land" 46, PIT. The
word reverend" is found in Psalm cxi.,
9. The middle verse is Psalm cxviii., s.
All the letters of the alphabet, except
the letter j, die found in Ezra vii, q.
The longest verse is Esther viii, 9, and
the shortest st. John XII, 35.
AN EoLIAN harp is to be placed by
Geo. Elwanger on his tower, near Mt.
Hope, at Rochester, New York. The
harp will be tubs shaped, seven feet
high, and with eight slots. It will be
made of imported Norway pine, and
hard curled maple which has been cut
forty-five years, and so adjusted that by
a weathercock it will be turned to expose
g new slot to the wind and give new
key at every change Of the wind.
DURING the past decade enoiigh able
bodied men have 1eft Germany to make
three good army corps. Fifty-six per
cent. of all the emigrants that left Ger
many during the last decade were males.
The result is surplus of million Of
females Most Of the emigrants now
leaving Germany are between fifteen and
forty years of age-the age when men
are the most useful as producers. One
hundred and fifty thousand will leave
the present year.
LONDON Punch, In a recent number.
dips thus into serious vein: "There ID
no royal road to the leadership of great
party; no power of purchase, no heredi-
tary claim; and while those who proba-
bly, think otherwise are struggling for
the honor of succession, the real leader
is silent and undiscovered. When his
time comes he will make himself known
perhaps a tt1an without title or position
OF family pretensions; and the crowd Of
dukes, earls and lordings, who are now
trying on the clothes of the dead giant,
will at once recognize their master"