Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-10-18
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Nine hundred ard ninety millions of
men use tobacco. yaae9uaI 95g
r a--Pennsylvania can supply 10000 tons
of coal per apnum for 500 years. srG
Peaches twelve inches in circumfer
ence were exhibited at Fair In Illinois.
A reason given for George Peabody
being 80 wealthy is that. he never had q
wife. euiels aBi 30 ittJagd
"A sermon in four words On the vanity
of earthly POSSESSIONS Is" Shrouds have no
pockets.V a{o& i ya
"A recent number of the New Orleans
Times printed four closely printed columns
of obituaries Il. sYesz5.ao -4Hf..f
The shaft for the New York founda-
ton of the East river bridge has been sunk
one hundred feet. .soa.T9 rF.5slt 5k
Canada sent cheese to the State Fair
at Buffalo weighing Z, COO pounds, and val
| ued at $4,000. 10 tra obi nj s91i-s ~ 'iD
II he st. Louis stree cars carried 1,100,-
600 passengers in August. They only
charge five cents fare.,go % nra,sa9 -,.-
The South Side Chicago Railway Co.
have prohibited smoking on all of their
cars on and after the list inst Ia mo I
1T Is said that one-eighth of the iron
and steel now made in the United States Is
from the iron ores of Lake Superior.
The latest new word--it started in
New York--is " suicided." Its friends say
it is as good as "collided." but it isn't, b.
"a Grace Church, New York, is engaged
for wedding every day next week The
fashionable marrying season in New York
is just opening. ladI ,aaay1e9A .iiI
The English language has 60, 600 words
lin the dictionaries. Good takers and
writers use but 5000 in all, and foreigner
can travel on 500. 5sdT Nsa5oe3N '2'''S
Two men threw nearly two hundred
dollars worth of boauets to the Black
Brook" ballet dancers and were then ar
rested for not paying the florist,
Alaska has a better currency than we
have. Some coin is In circulation, but
leather money predominates That iscer-
tainly more valuable than paper. y3-;
"A female pickpocket exploited in the
| Second Union Church, on the night OF the
| 7th, ,Tobbing some thirteen ladies OF
amounts varying from $40 to 500. ~ s
.,i-Advices from the West say thirty thou
sand cattle, from Texas and New Mexico,
are now collected at 7Abeline, Kansas, on
| the Union Pacific Railway, awaiting pur-
chasers. 'i''l '. 3.''A.''l - 'i'''ei!
- There was great deal of human ma
ture in the remark of q lady who, holding
glass of water in her hand, said, Oh, if
| it were only wicked to drink this, how nice
| 1t would bel" a9s2Jf4 9ls a,A 100 Il
The fastest time in American railroad
| ing was that of Directors train on the
New York Central Railroad, the other
| day, from Hamburg to Butfalo-ten miles
| in eight minutes, or the rate of seventy
eight miles an hour. 1870 ow9G3T -4,
The Jews constitute SO large and in
| fuential an element at San Francisco Qur-
nishing fully .one-third of the whole num-
Der of pupils in the schools), that schooi
| HOLIDAYS and vacations are coming to be
governed by the Jewish holidays and testl-
| vals.7 q 8ts fsca3g5s.
louisville is enjoying wicked merri-
ment over the adventures of two ministers
who went to see the BLACK Crook" in
that CITY last week, Thursday night, dis
guised bv false whiskers, and who were ar
| rested in the second tier az suspicious char
acters. 9.llf 4 ~ "'9 2@- 1ad3 Fl
"A few nights since as the passengers
| on the down train at the Jacksonville
Gnd.1 Railroad were taking supper at Sey-
mour. some graceless scamp stole the loco
motive ana ran it down the road ten miles,
where it was abandoned. The train was
delayed until one o'clock in the morning.
IT has been observed that as civiliza-
ton creeps westward on the Plains, the
buffalo grass recedes correspondiugly.
| Within the last few years it has dlsap-
peared entirely from Eastern Kansas and
Nebraska. It is certainly accommodating
on the part OF the grass to go after the buff
faloes. 91 81 'a13 s s.aov.
Eight hundred tons Of shells have re-
Gently been returned to Washington to be
emptied and stored, and it is said that the
workmen have discovered that work upon
them is not dangerous, as saw-dust has.
been substituted for powder in the prepar-
alton of these projectiles. How many
thousands of them similarly filed were
fired at the rebel forces during the war it
is impossible to calculate.