Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-11-29
NEfsceIlaneous Items.

There are $4,000 blind people in the
| United States. ,ss-.,..
"A firm in Minneapolis makes $4,000
shingles week..
There are one hundred thousand
| drunken women in the United States
Z The New York Metropolitan Police
cost So, 499, TT within the last ten months.
The mudholes on the Overland route
are said to be filled up with tons of mail
matter. g.
"A damselin Boston recently borrowed
| five hundred dollars, and gave herself as
collateral" The note has one year to
| run. e at4e .:r5
Weston, the pedestrian, in 1853, accom-
plisbed the feat Of walking one thousand
miles in one thousand hours, at Lockport,
N. Y. - & ..-.. ..~e7si
| The Masonic Fraternity of Quincy
| have in consideration the construction of
magnificent Temple Of the Mystic Tie, to
cost over 100000 ~,--.-~...-',..~ E
--Kimball, the Mormon, has recently
buried his first wife, 1t is to be hoped that
| his ten or fifteen surviving wives will sue
| coed in consollng him.
"A woman in Providence, r. l., refused
to marry her lover on the very day as
signed for her wedding, because he had
shaved off his moustache. aaal5
"A clerk in Broadway dry goods store
has been arrested for the larceny of $780,
600 worth of silks, laces, velvets, ETC.,
which he carried off by degrees. 1
The Oldest newspaper in New Hamp
| shire, the Gazette, was first issued III years
ago. We shall soon have veritable past
to look back upon in this country.
DIR. Allen, celebrated dentist, says
that in the United States, in population
of thirty millions, there are twenty mil
lions of teeth annually lost by decay.
| The property left by "Artemus Ward"
falls inside of $4,000 lie was thought
to be worth from $4,000 to $4,000, and
unsatisfactory management is limited at.
| Minneapolis, Minnesota, is to be light
ed with gas by e. New York company,
| which proposes to erect gasworks in that
| city, beginning in the course Of the present
month. .... ed. ...,.e ~. -f...-. ~
| Two fourteen year-old school boys,
| the other day, when one stabbed the other
in the side, inficting what is probably q
| fatal wound.
"A Boston man paid $500 for curled
black walnut tree at Huntsville, Indiana,
| few days ago, and after it was felled and
the beauty OF the grain was discovered,
| the purchaser said he would not take
$4,000 for it. st3'a' %t4 -i
There is to be mastering match in
Cincinnati for the championship, for from
| 800 to $1,000 aside-two thousand yards
between four plasterers, Cadwaller and
Hemp on one side, and Goodin and Fin.
nerty on the other. ,.a5s.. a .a,~.a
1T is understood to be the decision of
the Treasury Department that unless the
holders of seven hirties present them for
conversion into five-twenties at maturity,
| the option for such conversion is lost, and
they will be paid in greenbacks.
The proportion of unmarried men in
the journalistic profession in this country
is said to be larger than in any other pro,
| fession. An exchange thinks it is because
| the newspaper men "haven't time to at
tend to such matters" which is, perhaps,
partly the truth. ,....a...
Newman Hall said, in New York, not
long since, that he had been in this country
about seven weeks and had seen only four
drunken persons on the streets. In Lon
don ha would have seen that number in
one night. There are seven drinking
shops to one bakery; $70000,0 900 are spent
annually for drink, and $50,0OO,OO0 of it
by the poor. .rs 81
"A ship canal through the Florida
Peninsula is advocated by the Southern
| newspapers. Such canal would be less
than 100 miles long, and would shorten the
voyage from New Orleans to New York
several days, and be the means of avoiding
the dangers of the Florida coast.