Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-09-13

and Inflammation ensued, and the efforts
OF the physicians were Of no avail.
Prof Dascomb, of Oberlin, Ohio, |
found a "little stranger" on his doorstep,
one night last week, with note directing |
its delivery to certain gentleman and his |
wife who should attend the Commence
ment. In due time the parties indicated |
arrived, and received their charge. Al
though surprised and puzzled, they gladly |
accepted it, as they had no children Of their
own.
The Marietta (Ohio) Register gives a
proof that the adage that "lightning does
not strike twice in the same place" is not
always correct. The barn of G. Morrison,
in West Virginia, opposite Racine, Ohio,
was set on fire by lightning. Two men,
named Wilkinson and Ramsey, went in to
save the grain, when a second flash struck
the building, killing Williamson, and Sc
verely injuring Ramsey.
The story that the King of Abyssina
had shut up a batch of Englishmen, and
threatened their lives, because Queen Vic
toria had refused his hand in marriage,
which had some currency never had, it APP
pears, any foundation in fact. He impris-
oned them because letter which he wrote
to England for an envoy regularly accred-
tied to him, was allowed to lie year and
half in foreign office unanswered.
The story has been current in the pa
pers of how a Milwaukee German named
his boy after Bismark, and how he received
complimentary letter from the great
statesman, with a handsome spoon bearing
Bismarks initials. 1t turns out that the
letter and the spoon were the work Of some
practical iokers in Milwaukee, who have
imposed upon the happy father the belief
that they were really from Bismark. Mr..
Kroger is a v, ~ angry Dutehman. ,ed
AT an exhibition Of meat, recently
held at Nancy, France, butcher exposed
mare, twenty months old, weigh
ing 40 kilos., and horse thirteen years
old, weighing $40 kilos.; these animals had
been fattened for the table, and were COW
cred with garlands. The members of the
Acclimatization Society awarded the butch
er silver medal and fifty francs in money.
Why do not somesof our enterpriSing res
taurateurs introduce this new luxury up
on their bill of fare sreF IN m ..rsa
L. 1t is, sometimes said that the heat of
our hot summer days is equal to that ex-
perienced in tropical countries; but facts
and figures tell a different story. AT
Lucknow, in India, sometime in the month
Of June, the thermometer at Z O'clock in
| the morning marked SO degrees in the
shade, and rose during the day to 100 de-
grees in the shade. At Delhi it ranged for
| two weeks from 1903 to 109 degrees. But it
must be stated that such a heat is too
much even for the natives, who succumb
| in great numbers on such occasions.
The Legislature of the State of Illinois
at it's last regular session appropriated the
sum of $4,000 for the support Of poor
patients in the Chicago Charitable Eye and
Ear Infirmary, during treatment for dis
eases of the eye and ear. Patients from all
parts of Illinois may receive the benefits of
| tLis fund. thereby obtaining both gratuit-
| GUS board and surgical and medical treat
ment at the Inf1rmary, on furnishing writ
ten certificates of their INDECENT condition.
either from their physicians or from q
| supervisor of the town or county where
| they reside G.. Davenport is Superin-
tendent. iEl51 e5.. s..I is.a ,tsrrl
The New Bedford (Mass.) Mercury
says that lady in New York, who was
having an expensive set of teeth made by
her dentist, suddenly died. The afflicted
husband, as soon as possible, FASTENED to
the operator to say that "those teeth !"
would not be needed But the job being
already completed, the only arrangement
on which the parties could agree was for
the dentist to retain his wares, receiving
ten dollars from the Widower. By way Of
making the matter satisfactory all around,
the latter begged the use ofHthe teeth for
the funeral, promising to return them the
next day. W 9st' f73v 9a' n GaH
About three o'clock, ON the afternoon
of the 2Sth ult., John Crosse, a German,
who has long been employed by the Me-
chanics' National Bank, at the corner of
LaSalle and Lake streets, Chicago, as
messenger, was sent to the Merchants
Union Express Companys office with a
package containing $4,000, TO be forwarded
to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. When he first
came to the receiving desk the clerk was
engaged for few moments before being
ready to wait upon him. Recognizing him
and the probable character of his GRAND,
the clerk asked him for his money. The
old gentleman replied, You have it,
havn't you? The clerk assured him that
he had not. Two strangers had been seen
at the desk, one at either side of Crosse,
few moments before. The one on his
right turned to him with the interrogatory,
" Is that the Peoples Despatch?" pointing
to the opposite side of the room. The old
man partially turned around, to look in the
direction indicated, and replying afirma-
lively, the man walked away. Upon re-
Stunning his position at the desk his package
of money, which had been lying by his
left hand, was gone The stranger on his
left hand had also disappeared. The pack \
age was stolen, and neither Of the thieves
have been arrested. 10 5.841g 1tt
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