The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-06

VI 1000.
THE record has been broken by a
New York coachman clipping with the
family goyerness, and society is in con-
sequence terribly shocked.
The death of Schuyler Colfax leaves
but two ex-Vice-Presidcnts surviving
Hamilton Hamlin, of Maine, and Will
Jam A. Wheeler, of New York.
HE interes ling information is given
by a Philadelphia paper that the Chinese
in that city have trained sparrows to
fight" 1t would be vastly more diff
cult to train sparrows to keep from
fighting.
A YOUNG girl employed in bag
factory in New York recently lost
finger in the machinery, and now sues
her employer for $4,000. The man
who gets her full hand would in like
ratio pay heavily if she entered upon
suit for breach of promise.
BLIND Tom, the musical prodigy, has
a successor in the person of six-year-
old son of G. w. Ware, of Greenville,
S. G. The lad has remarkable talent
for music, and can at once reproduce
on an accordion or piano any tune
played or whistled to him.
The Chicago Current says that
machinist, who states he was employed
by capitalist to investigate the Keely
motor, and, in order to do so, became
Keely's assistant, declares the motor to
be fraud in all respects, and that
Keely himself knows nothing of
mechanics.
GOVERNOR BAwN, in his annual mes
sage, spoke of people coming into
Rhode Island for the purpose of pro-
curing divorce. He states that, in
the past ten years, there have been
1854 applications for divorce in the
State, of which number 1926 have
been granted.
IHE discoverer of the richest silver
mine in Leadville sold his prize for
$4,000, and during the following year
the two purchasers made million each
from it, In the meantime the discov-
orer squandered his $40, 0O0in prospect
ing, and the other day, a homeless
tramp, sought nights lodging in a
Leadville Station-house.
A NEW organization of veterans at
Boston is entitled ''the Gettysburg
Club, and at dinner the other night
seyenty-tive persons were present.
Eight Massachusetts, regiments have
bought land whereupon to build battle
Held monuments, and it is likely that
the other regiments which took part in
the battle will mark with stone their
positions on the field.
Mrs. EUGENIA MARKS, who died re-
Gently at Frankfort, a Philadelphia
suburb, was q slave of Thomas JEFF
ferson, and was at his bedside when
he died. She took great pleasure in
telling that, while at Washington, she
cooked so nice a breakfast for General
jackson that he went to the kitchen to
compliment her, and accompanied his
compliments with a five-dollar gold
piece.
Mr.. +. II. CUSHING, whose papers in
the Cento'y descriptive of his life
among the Zuni Indians have attracted
much attention, says that the Zuni's
smoked cigarettes seven hundred years
ago. Many of the young men of to-day
are making desperate effort to kill
themselves and revive the classic Gus
toms of the Zunis in both smoking and
banging their hair.
PHILADELPHIA has been bereft of an
other sensation. Hezekiah Williams
(coloreD had for several weeks been
exhibited at museum there as ''the
wild man from the iungles of Africa. y
lie was chained to the floor and the
police interfered on the suppostion that
he was an idiot. Upon being taken
into court the removal of his false hair
and beard revealed a perfectly sane
negro.
KENTUCKY school-teachers are show
ing great zeal and activity in devising
ways for the improvement of the educa.
tional advantages of the State. At a
recent meeting of their State Associa-
ton committee, to whom the question
OF compulsory education was referred,
reported that whereas twenty per cent
of the people of the State were litter
ate, laws should be passed to compel
persons having children under their
charge Ito assist in making them use
full citizens and ornaments to society,""
The recommendation was "enthusias-
ticaly adopted without discussion"
The United States Supreme Court
recently rendered a decision in the
polygamy case of Rudger Clawson.
Clawson was found guilty of polyg-
amy in Salt Lake City and was SEN
fenced to four years Imprisonment and
eight hundred dollars fine He APP
pealed to the Supreme Court of the
Territory, and applied to the court
that sentenced him for release upon
bail The application was denied, and
he sued out a writ of habeas corpus
in the Supreme Court of the Terri
tory. This court overruled the petit
ton, whereupon appeal was taken to
the United States Supreme Court,
which affirmed the decision of the
court below.
A WRITER in the Weekly Medical Re
V[e0 says: Il have collected every
catarrh, asthma and hay fever sure
cure that is in the market, numbering
in all tifty-eight, and have carefully ex-