Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-01-04

"A French sayant says that Adam was
l23 feet inches tall and that Eve was 118
feet, 81 inches. Noah, he declares was an
equally large young man.
The wife Of German surgeon died re-
Gently in Paris. When friends came to con-
dole with him, he was found busily dissecting
her body.
"A woman in Paris murdered her daugh-
ter, and then ate her breakfast with the
bloody knife, she had used for that purpose.
Mr. George Love, of Athens, Harrison
county, Iowa, hasbeen expelled from church
for voting for Vallandigham.
A railroad is being constructed from
St.. Paul, Minnesota, running northward
from that place to Pembina. British capital
lists furnish the money for building this road
and have the controlling interest in it,
Their object is to reach the settlement Of the
Hudson Bay company, and ultimatelyto ex-
tend the road to the valley Of the Sass
katchawan river, and from thence to the
Frazer river gold regions and the Pacific.
These capitalists will construct road down
the river from St. Paul TO Winona. Mr. W.
3. Ogden, on the part of the Northwestern
Railroad company, has signed an agreement
on the part of that road to have their line
extended to Winona by the time the road
from st, Paul to Winora is completed. 1t
contemplated that both these roads will be
completed and in successful operation with
in the next two years.
"A Dutch lady is exploring Upper Egypt
in her own yacht. Her crew consists of ten
English and ten Egyptian sailors.
Rome has been greatly scandalized by
the flight of five nuns from the convent of
the Good Shepherd. One. of them fell, in
getting over wall, and broke her leg.
Some of the specie that for years past
has been hidden away in old stockings, is
coming to light. A Harrisburg, Pennsyl-
yania business man has received between
one and two hundred dollars, in gold from
Wealthy old farmer, in payment for
BILL. st
Henry Steers is building at his yard, in
Greenpoint, L. l., q large wooden steamer
for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
This vessel is said to be the largest wooden
steamer ever built. She is 5000 tons bur-
then, 800 feet in length, so feet in breadth,
with 81 feet 6 inches in depth of hold.
She is to be constructed from the very best
material, and win cost over million dol
lars
"A correspondent of The Providelce Joasr-
nal. writing from the Isle Royale, says:
g Fishing is good of the rocks of the island,
but sometimes the tables are turned. AS
for instance, just as we had entered the
harbor, boat pulling across had q shark
reach over the stern, aud selling the cox
swain carried him down before the eyes of
his Mortified crew."
The London Medical Gazette chronicles
the excision of enlarged spleen by Surgeon
Wells of London The patient was "a lady,
and was likely to survive the operation,
which is an extremely rare one in the annals
Of surgery. The excised organ weighed
6 lbs. OF.
AT the Knickerbocker banquet in New
York the following remarkable toast was
given
HolIand-Land of dykes and Van Dykes,
of brooks and Ten Brooks, of pools and
Vanderpools, Of schooners and Schoonmak-
ers; land Of cities with euphonious names,
Of Saardam, and Edam, of Amsterdam and
Rotterdam; land Of cider and Zuyder- ices;
proprietor Of bottom lands on the largest
known European scale. Broad-based Hol-
land, Hail!
/ LoiANoil Ado INV penny
trains all day long. The advantage of
this over the old style of locomotion is that
| it is six times quicker and six times cheaper.
Anna Dickinson appeared in the Boston
Music Hall in red gown the other night.
A correspondent says that the wrongs Of
woman were red-dressed on that occasion.
"A young female Quaker, accompanied
by three others of her persuasion, is now
making tour of Great Britain, with view
of correcting, by public exhortation, the
vice and immortality of the present day.
The Madison Journal gives fearful
story of hydrophobia at Waterloo, Wis,
upon the authority Of Henry Drew, assist
ant superintendent of public property. 1t
says: Some six or seven years ago mad
dog went through the village of Waterloo,
Jefferson county and bit q number of ami
mails Among others, it snapped at the leg
of COW belonging to Mr.. Babcock. The
animal was examined, but no mark was
| found, and it was supposed that it had es-
capped being bitten. The animal was after
wards sold to man by the name of Gar
rison, who used her milk freely, as did two
Of his children. Some of the neighbors, in
Guiding Mr.. Drew's family, were also sup
piled with the milk of this COW. At differ
ent times during the time since the COW was
bitten, there has been inexplicable and fatal
sickness among those using her milk, and
two children Of Mr.. Garrison's, two of Mr.
Drew's. and two others, have been attacked
with spasms, and died in great agony. Mr.
Garrison has also been attacked at times
with spasms The mystery Of this sickness
was solved by the death, with every symp-
tom of hydrophobia, short time ago, of the
COW so slightly bitten seven years ago, and
in whose system madness had been latent
ever since. The case is singular one and
worthy the. attention of scientific men.
An editor Of temperance paper once
wrote a long, dull leader. 1t had no cap
ton. When the compositor said "What
shall / head this ?" the editor replied,
g Drunkenness is Folly" The compositor,
having q foul case, set up drunkenness is
jolly" Both editor and printer were right.
-" Hotel de Horse" is the modern name
for livery stable on East Broadway, New
York.
Two young gentlemen, rivals, called
the same evening on the object of their af-
fections. "John," said the one who came
in last, and who had an umbrella in his
hand, off come here again and find you
here, I'll run this umbrella through you
and spread it."
'IfIne for NgatrimOny.
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