The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15

Carelessness cost last year just Sl0S, 000,-
900, all gone up in smoke.
There are 3, 700 Cinnamon in New York
City, and quite number Of them attend
Sunday school.
An oculist tells Boston reporter that
every yard of dotted veil that IS sold is at
least $50 in the pockets Of his brethren.
Not within the last twenty years have the
salmon fisheries of Scotland proved so sue
cessful as during 1883. They yielded to
Billingsgate alone 5, 196, 400 pounds Ireland
sent to London $50, 800 pounds The total
supply of salmon from all sources received at
Billingsgate from January to Dec. 81, 1888.
was 7,7l5,850 pounds. The salmon streams
of England only contributed SS9, $50 pounds
Of that quantity.
So mild is the w.ather in North Wales
that primroses, honeysuckles, snowdrops,
and roses are to be found blooming in the
valleys and on the hillsides. Vegetation in
the low lying districts is also fast springing
into life, and in the Vale of Liangollen fruit
trees are in bloom. Tourists are enabled to
scale the mountains without difficulty-feats
which, when previously attempted at this
season of the year, have been attended with
loss Of life
Wausau, Wis, has a population of S,000
and has seventy saloons, being one saloon to
each ia inhabitants. including men, women
and children. Milwaukee, with a population
of $50, 900, has 200 saloons. one for every
loo inhabitants. It is needless to say that
there are times when either of these cities
are converted into bowling pandemoniums,
that taxes are exhorbitant and that respecta.
bic people are continually in danger of in
suits and Outrages ut the hands of the whisky
element
Strong rays of light are day by day eat
ing out more of the ink in the original
parchment draft of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, which is kept in glass case in
the State Departments Library. Few of
the names are now legible. Near the parch-
ment is the original, on foolscap paper
The ink is as fresh as it was when it dropped
from Jcfferson's quill. The many erasnres
and interlineations by Franklin, John
Adams and others are still perfect as to
color. The paper is yellow with age, and
worn through where it has been folded.
According to the last census returns, the
population of Sweden has increased from
1,763,000 in 1850 to asp, 245, the most
populous provinces being those in the
south, as they have SO inhabitants per square
mile, while the northern provinces have only
80. Next to Stockholm, which has popula- |
ton of 176, 745, the largest towns are Gothen- |
burg, 1855; Malmo, 9,512 Norrkoping,
1921 GeAe, 1886; Carlscrona, 1926 |
Jonkoping, 17.109, and Upsal, 1886 The |
increase Of the population would be much |
greater but for the number of emigrants |
from Sweden, the average for the last fe W
years being over 10000.
The English trade in frozen meat from the |
Australasian colonies is making progress.
In 1880 only 400 carcasses were imported, |
while in 1883 193,645 were landed in Eng |
land, being 62, 1913 from Australia and 1885,. |
1872 from New Zealand. Twenty-one cargoes
arrived in perfectly satisfactory condition,
seven were not quite SO good, while three
were unquestionably bad For New Zealand
meat the lowest prices obtained were 10 |
cents pound for sheep and 16 cents for
lambs In the case of Australian mutton
The highest price paid for sheep was Is cents
and for lambs IS cents. Australian frozen
beef does not seem to be in much demand
Is the importation of quarters has fallen off
rom 1878 in 1881 to 1853 in 1888.