Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-05-17

NJ TP4uin III hnsiand is increasing enormo,,s1,
80 q9an'1ty now used is certainly emo,
nous nous In 184l the consumption wos sn 90
A@0 POUNDS IN 1868 it was IA, 2l3 ponds Id.
ia nouch Is the eupldity of the male nprso
II f-TTis Hospitals, stimulated nv dole = :,
halr, the moment female patient dies be .,
whole head of hair is cut off Ono mol.
nurse at the Hotel Dieu is said to have mad
GU francs by selling the hair and teeth 81
oead patients III his ward for dentists ave
as eager purchasers. .of~eorpses' teeth as
hair-dressers are of oorpses' hair. -
"A girl seventeen years of age attempted
70 commit suicide, by drowning, a few davs
SINCE, IN fafls. Her sweetheart had for
saken her. The first words she uttered
When she recovered her senses were: "Mon
Dleu how cold the Seine is u The boatman
who rescued her stood near, and exclaimed:
"Ah my little darling, it has nobody to
warm its bed.p rs
An American letter writer in England,
having intimaied that M Sturgeon was
aiming to form new sect, to be called after
his own name, Mr.. Sturgeon says, in reply,
in the columns of The Sword and Trowez.
50 There is no word in the world so hateful
to our heart as that word Spurgeonism, and
no thought further from our soul than that
Of forming new sect"
Religious and Educational.
-Incessant takers generally exhaust
their fund of knowledge sooner than they
are aware.
Religious opinious and religious feel
ings form highly important part of the
mental character.
"A gentleman will have no occasion to
appear naughty in order to preserve dig
nifty Of manners.
Whoever desires that his Intellect may
grow up to soundness, to healthy vigor,
must begin with moral discipline.
The Rev. T. E. st. John, D. d., pastor
Of the Universalist church, at Worcester,
Mass, has accepted $4,000 call from Chi
cago.
The Baptist State convention at Macon,
Ga., has unanimously resolved that it is in
expedient to attempt to form any union
with the Disciples.
The exaltation of talent, as it is called,
above virtue and religion, is the curse of
the age. If divorced from rectitude, talent
NO matter, how deeply laid have been
the plans of the criminal, or how des-
perately executed, detection pursues him
like blood hound, and tracks him to his
fate.
10 surround anything, however mon
strous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery,
is to invest it with a secret charm and pow
err of attraction, which to the crowd is ire
sistible. ,. ro
The most ignorant class Of respectable
females in society, are those incessant,
careless, loose readers-especislly of trashy
fiction,-who read, not for information, but
all for excitement
The Southern Methodist Conference, at
New Orleans voted on the 9th, to change
the name of the church from Methodist Epis-
copal Church South, to simply the Metho-
dist Church.
The time for holding the proposed New
England Methodist convention has bee,
settled to commence in Boston, Mass, on
the 9Th Of June next. The convention is
expected to hold three days and close with
9 grand centenary celebration on Thursday,
June Z.
The cornerstone Of o new Methodist
Episcopal church at Ithaca, N. Y, was laid
on Tuesday last, in the presence of $50
elergymen and large concourse Of people,
but on Friday night some thief moved away
the cap stone and stole the box and its con-
tents.
We have seen In our time sundry con-
temptible parish transactions towards their
pastors, but one Of a Connecticut parish
where subscription paper was recently
started for the support Of preaching, and
laid first before the minister for his sub
scription, as member of the parish. He
subscribed twenty dollars; no other one
subscribed as much. His pay that year
was less than four hundred dollars, includ-
ing his own subscription:
The italicised words In the King James
translation of the Bible are not emphatic
words as some people seem to suppose, but
are so printed in order to indicate that they
are supplied by the translators, to perfect
the expression. The habit of emphasizing
such words in reading sometimes leads to
absurdities,- in the case of the schoolboy
who read the 9th verse Of the 18th chapter
Of 1st Kings thus "And he spake to his
sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they
saddled him."
AT the University of Notre Dame, at
South Bend, Indiana, a most solemn and
imposing religious ceremony will take place
on the 3lst of May next. At least some
twelve Bishops, and among them Archbish-
ops Spauldng and Purcell, have accepted
the invitation to be present and take part
in the ceremonies Of blessing and erecting
upon the dome of the University of Notre
Dame, a colossal statue Of the Blessed Vir-
gin Mary. 1t is expected that the ceremony
will eclipse every thing Of the kind which
has ever taken place in the United States.
Washington, Madison, Monroe, Harri-
son, Tyler, and Taylor we're Episcopalians;
Jefferson; John Adams and John Quincy
Adams were Unitarians; Jackson, Polk,
and Lincoln were Presbyterians; VanBuren
was of the Dutch Reformed church. The
surviving presidents are Fillmore, Unfair
ian, Pierce, Trinitarian regationalist,
till recently he has Joined the Episcopal
church; Buchanan, an Episcopalian during
his term of office, but is said to have Joined |
the Presbyterians this year; and Johnson
is Presbyterian.
"A singular incident has taken place at
Neuchatel, in Switzerland At the death of
a merchant in that city, on the credit side
of his book the name of "God " was found |
to be inscribed for a considerable sum. No |
one knew Of such creditor, and Oh inves
tioation evidence was obtained that deceas-
ed, who was man Of great piety, had
opened 81 account to the Father Of All, |
and entered to it each year a share of his |
nrofts The clergy have claimed the sum |