The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-05-29
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Every governor of Pennsylvania
since the war has been Il volunteer
soldier.
The seven hundredth female ply
ician in Russia has passed her exami-
nation.
A iewelcr ut Suisum. Cal, has made
a clock that will run 480 days without
winding 4 second time.
A working philanthropist at Grass
Valley, Cal, saws wood for poor women
OF that place free of charge.
There is about $75 100000 of En-
glish, $13, 900, 900 of German and $685.,
600 900 Of American capital now en-
ployed in Mexico.
In his later years Robert Browning
had a head that painters loved to study.
A great many portraits Of him have
been made recently.
The Shah of Persia is having a geo
graphical globe made upon which the
different countries Of the world will be
represented by precious stones.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria has
given up some Of his foolish habits.
He no longer wears corsets and only
paints his face on occasions Of state.
A Philadelphia woman wrote with
lead pencil on a piece Of brown paper:
Il give my bank book to Mrs. Reichart, y
and it was will which the lawyers
could not break.
The Duke Of Palmetto, peer of
Portugal, has offered the whole of the
money derived from his property dur
ing the year for the purpose of estab-
fishing coast defenses.
Sims Reeve, the once famous tenor,
is living in London, at the age of 20.
It is said that while his voice is APP
parently unimpaired. he does not wish
to sing in public any more. =.
Great heavens. what Il man for a
center rush." was the exclamation of
Rugby football player on seeing the
Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Boston. walk
up the aisle in Westminster Abbey.
Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson denies
the statement that he began life as a
bootblack. II have always been too
lazy to black my own boots he re-
marks, ito say nothing of other peo-
PIES
Trains on the Pennsylvania limited
have the market quotations posted. a
stenographer and typewriter render
gratuitous service to the passengers,
and waiting maid is provided for the
ladies.
John D. Rockefeller. who is now
worth at least 100000, 000 says the
first money he ever had was % cents,
which he earned by working for
farmer SO that he could go to the
circus.
Oscar futile, of Santa Cruz Cal,
was splitting kindling wood when he
tackled a large piece Of redwood. He
found 5-cent piece of 1850 lodged in
the center of the limb. 1t was black
ened by the sap.
The recent influenza killed more peo-
pie in Paris than the last two vista
tions Of cholera. But the news that
the dreaded Asiatic pest has made 5000
victims at Bussorah is making London
and Paris very uneasy, all the same.
1t is said that for four years after the
fight at Chickamauga the battlefield
shone like bright moonlight, even on
the darkest nights. The light came
from the phosphorescent exhalation of
the decaying bones of the heaped-up
dead.
Miss Kennedy. a San Francisco
school ma'am who was dismissed by
the school committee in 1887 without
any assigned cause, has been rein
stated by decision of the Supreme
Court with $4,000 for pay in the in
terval.
Tie St. Louis Republic makes the
statement that Captain Jack Haynes,
the engineer in charge of the engine at
the Pagan Building, is one hundred
and two years old. He is a Tenn
esseean by birth and doesn't look to be
over sixty-five.
The Mexicans hayetno confidence in
a young doctor until he has had
couple of years practice. Then they
make an inventory of his patients, and
if he has cured more than he has killed
they recognize him, no matter whether
he has diploma or not
The Art Union of London, which for
years has upheld the dignity of line en-
cravings, has at last given way before
the change of taste, and issues for 1890
to its members portfolio containing
set of etchings, eight in number, mostly
English landscapes.
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