The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-05


Mrs. Humphrey Wards Robert Els
mere' has acquired undying fame. A
new linen collar has been named after
it.
There are in Vienna at present six
companies who make business OF
hiring out steam boilers to small man
ufacturers.
Still another order has been started
in Maine-the Permanent Haymakers'
Association" Its lodges are called
"haylofts. y
The Bombay geological gardens have
received the body of a sea serpent six
ty-four feet long and as large around
as nail key.
A skating rink was opened at Moke-
lumhe Hill, CAL, a week or two ago,
and two small boys were crippled for
life the first night.
There is said to be one woman in
the finishing department of the watch
factory at Waltham able to do mems
work for mems pay.
A cigarette manufacturer says that
the sale of his wares has fallen off 40
per cent in a year. Possibly due to
the mortality among smokers.
The regulation step in European
armies is longest in the German army
and shortest in the Russian. The Bel
gian march is the slowest-110 steps
to the minute.
At Statesboro, La, negro cut
down large pine tree few days ago,
and it fell across small stump and
split exactly through the center for
and making exactly twenty-five rails
to the cut.
1t is claimed that there are 5000
tailors in and near Boston out of
work, because, as alleged, the local
clothing manufacturers send their
goods to New York City to be made
up by the cheap labor of the tenement
house districts.
A ragged street gamin, holding up
at arms length an old rubber boot
from which pours stream of water,
is the design for work of art for the
common, which the Boston aldermen
have just approved, according to a
New York paper.
Perhaps no newspaper writer was
ever more disturbed by triAe than
was the society reporter who, in de-
scribing the belle of a recent fashiona-
BILE party, intended to say ''she looked
au fait," but found that an unfeeling
blacksmith had made it, ''she looked
all feet"
Miss Shultz, who has just taken the
degree of M. D. in Paris with highest
honors, is only twenty-one years of
age and is described as particularly
pretty young woman. She means TO
go at her professional work earnestly,
although she has one regret-that she
cannot 90 to balls and the opera as
much as of old.
Charles E. Bonner, of Montana, was
an Office boy in New York twenty
three years ago. Not liking that bust
ness very much he borrowed money,
went to Missouri, and finally to the
great Northwest. He has since paid
back the loan and is now worth So, 000,-
600. Most of this was made in mines
and mining stocks.
According to financial contempor-
airy the Russian government has &C.
cepted the proposition made by a com.
pany recently formed in St. Petersburg
for the construction of canal to con-
meet the Black Sea with the Sea OF
Azof. The canal will be Ill versts
long and will afford passage to
steamers drawing not more than nine.
teen feet.
John Mcguire, New Haven lad,
was caught by the hand in belt, and,
although carried around on the rapid.
ly moving shafting about seven hun.
dred times, received only injuries from
which he is certain to recover. Al
each revolution his body struck the
ceiling and floor. His shoes were
torn from his feet, and nearly every
inch of clothing stripped from his
| body.
The Jekyl Island Club, of Georgia.
is meeting with great success in propa-
eating the English pheasant. A few
months ago the club received seventy
eight birds out of 100 which were sent
to it from England, twenty-five having
died on the journey. From the eggs
of these seventy eight birds 1000
chicks were Matched out last fall by
common barnyard hens.
It is somewhat singular how often
the omission of a single seemingly in
significant letter will alter the entire
meaning of sentence. For Instance
several errors are recorded where the
letter en- has been omitted from tn,
word window" invariably placing q
"widow" in some embarrassing posi-
ton; as where, on the occasion of a
street pageant gentleman unwilling.
~ advertised several widows fol
hire"
Samuel Murray left Easton, Penn.
sylvania, thirty years ago and nothing
more was seen or heard of him until
few days ago, when he turned up at
the house of his brother-in-law in a
most dilapidated condition. He said
he was penniless and supposed he
would have to 60 to the poor house,
but when his brother-in-law offered
him home produced wallet con.
tanning more than $4,000, took bath
and had his baggage brought to the
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