Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-08-30
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Domestic Paragraphs.

VIM. H.. Gearing died in Pittsburgh
recently, aged %. He had all his teeth
but one, and never had occasion to use
spectacles. ~
Abraham Lincoln, when g youth, want
ed to marry Miss Wood of Gentryville, Ind /,
but she declined on account Of his being $50
awkward, lazy, and overload of book"
One of the very latest styles of ladies'
hats now worn are called the butter dish"
They are cross between swapping tur-
ties shell and wash pan. They are so
nice
The wife of VIM. Couch (colored) of
Redding, Conn, became the mother of q
pair Of twins on the 18th of July, making
twenty four children she has borne in the
last twenty years Eight of them were
4 twins.
| Gen. Hood was feted at Richmond,
I Texas. In a speech in that place he recon
mended perfect submission and a dignifed
endurance Of all wrongs. He advised peo-
pie to build7school houses, churches and
| railroads. -
The Red Wing Argus says twelve thou
sand Scandinavians have been added to the
| population Of Minnesota this season. Those
who have the best opportunities of obser-
walton, estimate the number of those who
! have landed at Red Wing az over two thou
sand. 90 - IL
"A man in Hartford advertised recently
that, on receipt of a certain sum, he would
by return mail instruct any applicant how
to make a fortune. His directions were:r
home made, as l did, and always be ready
/ to ali, OF.
"A Miss Fanny Bell Of Memphis, lately
attacked whiskey shop in that city, and
pulling revolver, drove the inmates out,
when she ss.swent ia ssen~ the furniture, bot
ties, casks. &C., and before her. hand could
be stayed destroyed one thousand dollars
worth of property. s,~~
At New York, last year, nearly.
| $4,000, 900 was spent at the various places
of amusement The largest returns from
4 any one establishment were from Barnum's
Museum. The Stadt Theatre German es-
Enlistment IN the Bowery, received nearly
100000 during the year.
| Capt. William L. Cazneau, formerly
one Of the most famous of Boston sea cap
tains, recently died at San Francisco, Cal,
! aged 81. In 1912 he survived one Of the
most remarkable shipwrecks on record, in
which he was ever six months on the wreck,
and all but two of his crew perisned.
The girls in Michigan are taking de-
cisive measures with the undecided young
men. One of them asked a young man
when he intended to marry her. The young
man said he was not on the marry, and she
broke q teapot, filled with boiling water,
over his head. She was justified of course.
"A Presbyterian minister in New York,
on recent Sabbath, suddenly disappeared
behind his pulpit, Will mysterious smoke,
with strong smell Of birthstone, rose in
his stead. He was quitting himself out"
his vehement demonstrations having ignited
some lueifer matches lying loose in his
pocket.
The Plymouth Qnd.) Democrat says
''There is living i'll q German township, in
this county, woman who is the mother Of
Is children, 100 grandchildren, and 81
great grandchildren--in all one hundred
and eighty-two deseendants. The mother
of this wonderful family is rs years Of age,
and in the enjoyment of good health.
"A ten year old COW, said to be three
| fourths Short horn and one fourth Ayrshire,
owned by W. F. Geer, of Painsville, Ohio,
in seven days in Jnne last, gave 586 pounds
of milk, or daily average of 1877 pounds.
The greatest quantity given in one day was
81 pounds. The cow had no feed besides
good grass. At the time of trial her weight
was l 1888 pounds. r.T
The Davenport Gazette says that Mrs.
Mary Ehlers was made widow for the sec
ond time within ten weeks, by the death of
her husband, Frederick Ehlers, by cholera.
Only five days previous to. his death was
she married to him after brief widowhood
of only two months, Fre1 Schroeder, her
| first husband having then died, leaving her
young widow with babe month old.
The inhabitants of Fulton, Muscatine
county, Iowa, were thrown into excitement
on Sunday last, by the discovery that q
family of seven or eight persons were suf-
fering from the poisonous effects of what
they supposed were mushrooms. DR.. Cor
It's was in attendance during the whole night
and it was only by the most energetic treat
ment that their lives were saved. This
should be a caution to mushroom eaters
While Mr.. Waldron, whose farm is on
the railroad west Of Rochester. Minnesota,
was leading couple of horses towards his
house few day ago, train Of cars ap-
preached, and one of the horses getting
loose made for the train, and, trying to
jump over the car, fell short and into a
ditch. Nothing daunted, he leaped again,
but instead of clearing the train, he struck
one of the cars and was thrown alongside
the track, used up $3.50 horse. LII
The Portland Press tells the following
rather extravagant story to illustrate the
wholesale thieving practiced there on the
night of the great fire: cone who had
been slumbering peacefully in his grave in
| the Eastern cemetery, awoke, and walking
forth inquired if 'the day of judgment had
Gomez On being told that it was only
/ Portland burning, he remarked that he
would go back to his repose. On reaching
his grave he found that in bis absence some
body had stolen his coffin p
A whirlwind swept over meadow in
this vicinity on the 10TH says the Great
harrington Courier, catching up in its
course the end of long winrow of hay,
twisting it into rope so quick as to entwlne
a negro who was working at the other
extremity in its coil, lifting darkey and hay
about 100 feet in the air, and deposited them
in the next lot, 60 rods away. The man was
unhurt, but the hay was SO twisted that they
chopped it into eight good lengths and took
it to the barn in that form.
Among the novel inventions of the day
is one by E. 7. Burrows, Of Mystic River,
Conn, who has patented lady's garter,
consisting of a soft flexible band, which is
to be clssped around the GLADYS leg, next the
skin, over which the stocking is to be drawn,
and the usual elastic garter placed SO as to
encircle the stocking directly over the band,
and thus ell uneasiness occasioned by the
elastic binding the leg too tightly is obvi.