Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-10-11
CLIPPINGS AND DRIPPINGS.



The Touring mills of Minnesota are
turning Out 5000 barrels of flour day.
There are 1876, 1884 widows IN the State
of New York, and only "A, S04 widowers.
The main gas pipe of Paterson, N. j.,
is laid under river and through an island
"A New York ferry company has &C
cumulated twenty-five barrels of pennies
An editor of one Of the Cairo papers
has been presented with cornstalk II feet
long. /
The sum Of $578 ,522 is required this
year to light the street lamps In Phila1el-
phia. .o~.1 -----+,..,..- .s.-,
A double tree grows near Liberty,
Miss, half of which is Ca and the other
j. Ross Browne thinks the gold yield
OF the Pacific slope this year will be about
$10,0O0,000, +. rso dr
"A company in California expects to
obtain five tons of borax o day from lake
in the vicinity. ego 9a3 ss\ eaH
of --Elmira, N Y, is soon to have o keg
factory. The kegs will be bored out of
solid timber. .l 4
This year there have been made in
California 100000 gallons of wine and
100000 gallons of brandy.
-"Vitals are baked here" is the horrible
announcement placarded in tho window Of
q New York eating house. ribaaa
The boot and shoe manufacturers at
Lynn, Mass, employ $4,000 persons-more
than two-t thirds of its population.
"A venerable married firm of peanut
and apple merchants in Spruce street, New
Ur..lri orc rzvoyth E0 mn fo Gan non
6a--Iti1s said that one-eighth of the iron
and steel now made In the United States ls
from the iron ores of Lake Superior,
ne 1T is estimated that there are seventeen
hundred persons in New York, Brooklyn,
and Jersey City engaged in selling hot
corn.
From September list to 10Th. 1859
bales of cotton were exported from Savan-
nah, Ga, against only 2,793 from Charles
ton, s. G.
& "A New York company has purchased
10000 acres of land in North Carolina,
and are going into wool growing specu-
lation on it.
A Troy printer, while playing base
ball recently, threw back his arm with
such force as to break the bone short of
near the shoulder.
Mr.. George Catlln, the artist and In.
dian traveller, will shortly publish an &C
count of his adventures in the Rocky
Mountains and the Andes. ~
"A couple in Ridgefeld, Mass, have
been celebrating the first anniversary of
their marriage by "paper wedding" at
which they appeared in full suits of paper.
Besides the $1O0,OOO,O00 in gold held
in the Treasury vaults of the United
States, the Bank of England holds $751;
$4,000, and the Bank of France $780,
100000. 9a5.'.2sf4
AT the height of the peach season, the
Washington Market dealers threw into the
North river fifteen hundred baskets day
of good peaches. Reason--they wanted
to keep prices up. @2ig
1T is said that a score of heavy cattle,
under full trot, will do more injury to
suspension bridge, through tremblings and
short vibrations, than @ railroad train at
twenty miles an hour.
The largest steel works in this country
are located on the Susquehanna river, near
Harrisburg. The steel trade is said to be
very dull in England, and even the Besse-
mer Steel works are in want OF new Or
ders. - . 4n
The value of improvements in ma
chinery may be estimated from the fact
that in 1919 it required two furnaces, each
with a high chimney shaft, to produce 1000
feet of glass per week, while now two far
naces, with but one shaft, produce $4,000
feet with the same If not q smaller con-
sumption of fuel.
The Dubuque Times says: "We have
here an unexplored mining field near sew
enty miles square, which has been merely
scratched on the surface at few points,
aud over $50,000.000 value of lead has been
raised. The wonder is that our mining re-
gion does not attract greater attention from
the mining adventurer.
The Hudson river has become so full
of gold fish" that fishermen take them
by thousands. They originally came from
a private fsh-pond near Washingtons
Headquarters, at Newburg, which commu-
nicated with the river by an outlet,
through which they made their way to the
main stream. They have bred with great
rapidity, and have stocked the river
Mr.. Bonner is now putting up O new
| fire-proof building for the New York Led
ger, at an expense of $4,000. What is
more, he can, at the present success of the
Ledger, put up such building every year.
Starting a journeyman printer, he is now
a millionaire From ten dollars a week at
the case his income has run up to four
thousand dollars week the year round
| nj Incidents and Accidents. *
Chicago has lost over $685., 719 by fire
during the past four months. sas,eiF
"A man in Indiana, annoyed by the
eneroachments on his watermelon patch,
poisoned the fruit-one boy dead, another
dying. t'ea '@ 2"+ a'
| ae..Some rascal mutilated an old lady In