The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-06-04
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Colonel Ingersoll says the hotels Of
this country have kept him in poverty
al his life.
"A correspondent of Philadelphia
newspaper says that Miss Jennie Cham
berlain, the Cleveland beauty, has de-
cided 10 go on the dramatic stage.
Mr. William Lowell, of Bristol,
Eng. has introduced novelty in sui
eide by attempting to hang himself to
the door-knocker of the house of a
young woman who had refused to
marry him.
Now that Washington has been
made postmaster at Bay City, and
Shakespeare at Kalamazoo, it must be
admitted that Michigan is doing full
honor to the men of great names. =
Detroit Free Press.
Mayor King, of Philadelphia, con-
scientiously sold all his railroad stock
before taking office, and thereby lost
fifty thousand dollars, the sum by which
their market value was increased dur
ing his term OF Office Chicago San.
Mr. Peter Burnham, the antigua
rian bookseller under the 'sOld South, y
who began business in Boston sixty years
ago as yender of apples and beer, to
which he soon added small stock of
books, has now 100, 1000 rare volumes,
and while ago sold the lot on which
his old book-shop stood for 100000
Boston Journal.
johnny Walsh, the banioist, whose
rendering of "Old Black Joe y and the
Little Ole Log Cabin in de Lane, =
when those melodies first came out
some twelve or fifteen years age, made
him one Of the fayorites of the variety
stage, is now Salvation Army cap
tain; but he still takes his banjo along
with him. Chicago Tribune.
The new editor of New Mexican
paper remarks in his salutatory that ii
any one does not like the way the pa
per is conducted and tries to make a
shooting iron play on this ere editor,
we will give you some good advice
you better don't try it on, as this ere
editor has been a good while in the
far West and knows how to deal.
But if you desire to go blind, come on;
we will straddle you blind and go you
one better. -
The problem to be solved in Jour-
nalism is to make as good paper as
can be made and to sell it at price
within the reach of all. The people
want all the available news, not mere
condensations and head lines. They
want to get at a reasonably low-not
the lowest-price, clean newspaper, a
reliable source of news and knowl-
edge, a paper fit for the family circle,
but which is also an attraction and a
necessity everywhere. - Chicago Jour-
nal
David Scully and Miss Mary V.
Bittner went into the recorders office
at Somerset, Pa, the other day, and
Mr.. Scully asked the clerk to give him
a marriage license. Having received
the license he and the young woman
in the presence of the witnesses present
declared themselves man and wife.
This is said to be the first marriage in
that county under the law allowing
persons to thus marry themselves. =
Pittsburgh Press.
Roscoe Conkling was in the Sup
RENE Court, Brooklyn, the other day,
where he argued case. While be
was sitting reading his brief, several
careless lawyers walked over his we'll
polished shoes. He looked down at the
shoes with a sigh, and moved his chair
back to the side of another gentleman,
to whom he said: "l've reached that
time of life when / want to get some
where where I won't be stepped upon.
That's my ambition. IN. Y. San.