Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-05
Wren, by whom it was given to the Lodge

of Antiquity, No. 2, in London. sa@.
A NEW YORK correspondent of Provi-
dence paper remarks that Robert Bonner
is a fast compositor A cotemporary re-
collects of his undertaking to set 1000
ems of type an hour for "a successive
hours without stopping to rest, and he did
it with time to spare. That was in 1915,
in the office of Mayor Harper's newspa-
per organ, the american Republican,. -
A CORRESPONDENT of the Wisconsin
Farmer, travelling in foreign countries,
says he saw no harrows in Egypt, and in
Palestine, while the peasant plows, his
wife follows with a heavy hoe and breaks
up the clods. The pillow is made of wood,
and is but three sticks, The team is often
a cow, or even small donkey, while in
Egypt camel and a cow are often hitched
together. .... ,t..s f.r..-.
THE New York Fleming Post gives the
names of seventy one lawyers, in that city,
who have been in practice there from
thirty-nine to fifty-four years. All of them
were admitted to the bar previous to 1880
one, Murray Hoffman, as early as 1912;
1873; and two, James w. Gerard and
iOh n. IdlllaoSC, III lCIf. 4 LII W
nine of the whole number have been at the
bar since 1926 e@trt i7 ~ u sii4i5'. 3
AN exchange tells us that 2" Society is
considerably excited just at present over
a curious invention, lately introduced by
one of our Eastern book firms, entitled
"Planchette" The instrument consists of
a heart-shaped board, to which are at
tached two pantograph wheels and pen
Gil. This being placed upon a sheet of
paper, and the hands Of two or more per-
sons laid upon it, answers are written to
questions asked, which, at times, are singu-
larly appropriate" ,.<....
AN Englishman, residing in Paris, found
that the project of that great city had or
dered his house, which was No 10, to be-
come, by one of those sudden transitions
to which those in Paris are used, No. 40 !;
so he accepted the alteration, painted up a
large 49," and put on brass plate the
words formerly 49," elbow droll are
your countrymen," said a Partisan; "who
but you would do that?" ado what ?"
asked the astonished friend who was walk
ing with him. "Why, put up his age after
his name" He thought the inscription
was proper name-"M. Formerly"
On, MOI
Oh, no; could not wed you-noi ali l..
But hope you won't forget .
love you as sister should. -
s,a Oh, please, VIII. don't go yet.
49, Yes; Hove you as sister should ,.
But marry you? oh, no
I'm grieved that you should think of it,
Come back-don't leave me SO.
There, now, sit down and talk to me,
Instead of frowning so; {' cfi-4
One cannot love just when they would,
I'd like to have you know -
don't believe you love me much,
lido not. on my life; ESQ r
But if l really thought you did ~
Well-yes-I'll be your wife. 10 si@
A MEMBER of Henry Ward Beecher's
church was expressing solicitude lest he
should not be able to get pew for less
than one-third more than he paid last year,
when a fellow broker spoke up and said,
" I will sell you pew; what will you give
for one?" "Th1ee hundred and fifty dol
lars" was the reply. "Sold,' exclaimed the
other, with laugh, in which the lockers
ON Joined. The seller afterwards attended
the auction sale of the Plymouth Church
pews, bid one off for three hundred and
twenty-five dollars, and gave the receipt
to his acquaintance, making twenty-five
dollars by the operation. Selling short on
church stock is rather novel idea, to say
the least
THE Young Mems Christian Association
in London is % years old. The last annu-
al report shows that in 1867 the Associa.
ton was joined by 1871 new members, and
assistance was rendered toward the organ
ization of new associations in twenty one
towns in England. There are now in CO.
operation with the London Association, at
home and abroad, 1856 societies, having
58,430 members, and 241 others, from
which no return of members has been re-
ceived. In England and Wales there are
101 associations, with 1917 members
in Scotland, -, with 5,o9S members; and
Central Bible Glass in Aldersgate street
was attended during the year by $500 diff
ferent young men, and the reading-room
by 81S, of whom 325 had joined the edu-
cational classes. @ e ;}h 5"t* 'sl1ta