Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-20
VARIOUS ITEMS.

SITKA has 1000 inha bitants.
BosToN is worth $443,570, 700.
BOHEMIA has 100000 Protestants.
GEORGE PEABODY has given away &c.
$4,000.
4 A WASHINGTON draymsn speaks seven
languages.
ENGLAND had to support 913, ,0s4 paupers
in July last.
THE Bank of France contains ], 300, ,000,-
900 francs.
A SINGLE ostrich yields 500 worth OF
feathers annually.
CALIFORNIA has yielded $7O,00OOO in
gold and silver in ten years.
A NEW BRITAIN (Ct.) apple tree has
blossomed thrice this year.
"BRIDAL presents to let" heads an ad-
vertisement in a London paper.
THE Princess Murat has been sued for
the price of her wedding jewels.
FRANK PIERCE was carried to the polls
at Concord, being unable to walk.
JAY Cooke is President of a new Evan
gelical Association in New York.
One definition of " corn dodger ~ is a
man who refuses whisky.
IT is not true that the practice of no.
meopathy has been interdicted in Russia.
A MAN proves-himself fit to go higher
who shows that he is faithful where he is.
A FEW days since a letter appeared
directed to g Portland, Younighted Staits.'
WITHOUT counting Alaska, the United
States has 1,500,000,00O acres of public
lands,
THE editor of Haper's Mont1ly re-
ceives, weekly, an average of three stolen
articles.
THE population of San Antonia, Texas,
is 90 900, principally German and Mexi-
cans.
QUEBEC has seminary old enough
to celebrate its two hundredth anniver
sary.
A $300o,OO0 CATHOLIC cathedral is
being built in Canton and another in
A NEW YORK paper says hundreds Of
snobs in that city live wholly on borrowed
money.
A REFORMED drunkard recently sent
800 and grateful letter to his Hartford
reclaimer.
In 1867 neutrality-suspicious. was 3,592,-
416 souls. The women outnumbered the
men 1892
: NAMES population is 100000; Port
land and Bangor are the only towns that
exceed 10000.
& 9CHAUTAUoUE lake, in New York, is said
to be the highest naVigable water in the
United States.
In Southern Utah the Mormons are dry
ing many grapes for raisins. Fig trees are
growing finely.
SOLOMON advises the sluggard to go to
the ant, but the shif5less of the present day
go to their uncle.
NORWEGIAN children are required to at
tend school from the age Of eight until
confirmation.
NEW YORK has an anti-tobacco club,
which meets once week for the purpose
of not smoking:
IT is estimated that one-half Of the
twenty five and fifty cent currency in cir
culation is counterfeit 80
go into public are often more wanted at
home than abroad.
No LESS than 1000 women of ST. Peters
burg find it profitable to tell the fortunes
of the higher circles.
THE bursting of a boiler in the kitchen
of London hotel demolished the furni-
ture and annihilated six Of the scullions
OCTOBER, in Minnesota, was, on the av
erage four degrees colder this year than
any previous year for the last twelve.
A STONE coffin, weighing two tons, and
containing the ashes of a Roman chief and
his wife, has been unearthed at Stamford,
England.
A WAsHINGToNIAN, in his song, says:
When a young lady signs the pledge,
Its just as good as two,
For when her sweetheart finds it out,
He's got to sign it too.
WHYselo soldiers usually sleep longer
irscamp than when on the march? Be
cause their sleep is more in tents (interSe).
THE largest cattle owners in Texas are
King & Co, of Corpus Christi. Their
stock and herds number $4,000.
HoLYoKE, Mass, is becoming notorious
for casualties and crimes. SinceJune, 13
lives have been lost by accident or vio-
lence.
EZRA RosBRooK, now living at Prince
ton, Wis, built the first steam sawmill in
Y, over 80 years ago.
APpLEs sell in China for 81 dozen,
gold. They are sent from the States
packed in ice, and thus entirely preserve
their freshness.
.GUPPY, whose wife has the bend"
complains that it makes her quarrelsome.
She gets her back up every time she goes
out.
THE AltG CdIGf0q7oiG, newspaper pub
lished in San Francisco, keeps its own law
yer, and has on an average one libel suit
week. e.
A MAN in Coventry, Vt, recently pre-
sented bill of $50 against school dis
trict for water that the scholars had drank
from his well
Two BRITISH soldiers had their bare
backs lashed each twenty-five times, in
Ottawa, Ont, recently, for informing in
the Police Court against theofficers.
VAST quantities OF hquorice are brought
to New York city from Spain, to be
ground up and mixed with chewing to-
bacco. 1t is taken to Connecticut to be
ground.
A Mrs. ATKINSON, of Northampton,
Mass, died from starvation on the road
side, the other day, leaving in her house
1888 in gold coin, and $116,98 in silver
and bills.
A JUSTICE in Buffalo recently decided
that umbrellas are property, and sentenced
a man to the penitentiary for thirty days
for stealing one of those useful articles.
"Do YoU not think Mr.. w. very ugly
MANI" inquired young lady of her