Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-09-04

| ed together by electric wires, the ordinary
! rifle bail of the Springfield musket, with
the regulation quantity of powder, passes
over one hundred feet directly from the
muzzle of the piece in about the fifteenth
part OF a second.
A GENTLEMAN once asked little girl,
an only child, how many sisters she mad,
and was told "three or four" Her mother
asked Mary, when they were alone, what
| induced her to tell such an untruth.
"Why, mamma" cried Mary, 81 didn't
want him to think you were so poor that
you hadn't but. one child. Wouldn't he
thought we were dreful poor?"
THE fat men had clam bake at Greg
ory's Point, Conn, the other day Thirty
nine men were weighed, and passed mus
ter at two hundred pounds, or over. The
heaviest was G.. Sidney Smith, OF Stamford,
three hundred and fifteen; the lightest was
Amos Barnes, of Westport, who. weighed
precisely two hundred pounds. The
CLANS and oysters, ETC., suffered severely
THE following curious advertisement is
taken from recent English journal :
Episcopal chapel for sale, fashionable
town, high-class congregation; average
income, last seven years, $500 year ;
present income rather low. First rate
opening for an Evangelical preacher.
Immediate possession Price only 81 700
for long lease, fixtures and fittings. Prin-
cipals only address -, Strand, W. c."
AN anecdote is told of a German stu
dent in theology, who after waiting an
unconscionable time for admission, ap-
peared before the examiner, bearded like
a pard." The learned examiner fell back,
astonished, exclaiming, GA student in
theology with beard p GA beard p
cried the student, with an air of equal as
constituent, and putting his hand up to
his face" bless me, why it must have
grown while I have been waiting in the
ante-roomp
A FRIEND tells a good thing of a
wounded soldier who, in 1864, was brought
from the Weldon Road to City Point, on
the James. As he Law on his stretcher, an
old woman passed along peddling pies
known as turn overs" the crusts ofwbich
were of the real iron-clad Species The
soldier bought one, and after giving his
teeth fair trial on it, he hailed the ped
dler with" Say, mother, be these pies
sewed or pegged?" The answer is not
given. I'D
ABOUT the 1st of November, 1867, Mr.
Dabney, United States Consul at Fayal,
Azores Islands, wrote to the Department
of State that there was large number of
American seamen on those Islands, prin-
cipally deserters from whaling vessels, and
that in order to get them home he had
chartered the Portuguese brig Evarista to
bring them to this country. He shipped
on board of that brig eighty-seven sea-
men for the port of Boston. The brig has
not since been heard from, and it is sup
posed that she, with all on board, has been
lost.
BARNUM has sold another crowd. AT
the White Mountains the other afternoon
he proposed foot-race of the heavy men
of the house, which should include him
self He picked out six of the largest and
fattest men he could find, and placed them
in a row directly in front of the steps OF
the hotel. He then addressed them, and
said the race would be to the fence, some
| fifty rods distant; they were to start upon
| his counting three. and the stakes were to
| be life-ticket to his new museum, and a
| copy of his lecture on Humbuggery then
| taking his position at the head of the line
| he slowly and deliberately counted one
| two-three. At the word "three" they
all started on dead run, with the excep
| ton of Barnum, who quietly sat down on
| the steps. The fat,men didn't discover
the sell until they had reached the fence
and were greeted with shouts of laughter
| from the crowd on the verandah.