Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-07-17
VARIOUS ITEMS.

VARIOUS ITEMS.
New YORK has eighteen daily papers.
KEEPING fans for hire is a new trade in
Paris.
QUEEN ISABELLA, of Spain, weighs two
hundred and eighty-four pounds.
QUEEN VICToRIA's breakfasts" are
from half-past 4 to halfpast in the
evening.
A MAN has lately died in Paris leaving
fortune of $4,000 in postage stamps.
ONE-F1FTH of the people Of Algeria
have died of cholera within the past six
teen months.
A GENTLEMAN is to build a 100000
church at Yonkers, as memorial OF his
deceased wife.
THE proof of the adage that time is
money is found in the fact that times
change.
DAVIES arithmetics net him $4,000
annually A mathematician can cut
good figure at that.
SHERBRooKE, Canada, claims to have a
hen which manufactures needles and lays
one with every egg.
LEGAL QUIBBLE.-A barrister should
cultivate good temper, if he would sue
coed as cross examiner.
A BOY in England was blown by the
wind across a railroad track just in time to
be run over and killed.
THE grasshopper plague in Utah has
been less severe this year than usual;
whereat the Mormons are joyful.
THE leaders of the Pittsburgh Eoeni7ag
Mail are written in a prison cell by its
editor, who is serving out libel term.
WHEELS like men are often tired, and
very frequently from o kindred cause
going round so much.
RAYARD TAYLOR, when last at Rome,
opened studio, employed models, and
went through a regular course OF art IN
structiOn.
PRINCE NAPOLEON is said to have re-
manned three-quarters of an hour on his
knees before the tomb Of the late Emperor
Macmillan.
LIVERPOOL gives it's chief constable
salary Of 81, 100 year and provides him
with house, rent free, forage, fuel, and
light.
A GRAND angling match is announced
in Paris. The system is to 'be that OF
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$4,000, given by Russian prince.
AN ex-city official in Troy, N. Y, lately
corrected his wife with an ax-handle, for
a breach of etiquette in helping herself to
butter at the ea-table with her own knife.
IT is estimated that in the breadstuffs
trade of this country, from the farmer down
to the consumer, the transactions amount
to three billion dollars annually.
SEVEN of the leading theatres of Paris
received during the last twelve months
10,000,756 francs, an increase of more than
three million francs over the preceding
year.
GARLANDs of natural flowers are now
used to adorn the hair of ladies in evening
toilette. They are kept fresh by quilts be-
ing filled with water and sealed at both
ends.
A DEERFIELD MASS man, who has al
ways resided in Deerfeld street, recently
visited Greenfield for the first time in
twenty years. He was somewhat aston
ished at its growth within that period.
A BosroN rat built himself. a costly nest
recently, using therein $4,000 worth of
bills belonging to Joseph Burge. The
money was recently reclaimed, not yet
beyond redemption.
A NEW scientific toy is 8 magnetic fish
cut out of paper, colored to initiate nature,
and which, being placed in the palm Of the
hand, Wiggles as naturally and uneaslly as
fish out of water.
THERE is something exquisite in the
Yankees reply to the European traveller /;
when asked if he had just crossed the
Alps, he replied: "Waal, now you call my
attention to the fact, I guess did pass a
little risin' ground"
A LADY teacher was announcing to
her pupils the holiday on the 22d day of
February, and asking them why the birth
day of Washington should be celebrated
more than hers ? A little fellow exclaimed
with great vivacity, because he oeUer told
q lie !"
LIVE to be useful. Live to give light.
Live to accomplish the end for which you
were made, and quietly and steadily shine
on, trying to do your duty. For those
who are enabled through grace to shine
as lights here, shall shine as suns and stars
for ever and ever.
THE practical joke does not always end
so harmless as in the case Of Nathaniel
Appleton, who found on riding p-to the
house of his beloved that his rivals horse
was hitched at the gate. Unhitching him,
and giving him very smart stroke with
rawhide, he walked in and inquired
whose horse that was cantering down the
street. It need not be said that Ire found
the coast clear at once.
A FRENCH journalist, wishing to poke
little fun at the English, says that a
British Captain named Harris once came
across sleeping whale. Under the i'm
preston that it was an island, he landed,
and in the name of Queen Victoria took
possession. The whale awoke and went
down, carrying the discoverer and his
party, but upon all English charts the
place is marked Harris Island"
CUvIER, the naturalist, wasi in his favorite
pursuit very democratic in his tastes. He
treated all men as his equals, and would
not allow others to treat him as their supe-
rior One day, while discussing a ques-
ton in anatomy with young naturalist,
the latter constantly interjected in his con-
versation, "Monsieur lie Baron" "There
is no Baron here" replied Cuvier, there
are two students seeking the truth, and
bowling down only to her"
IT has been found, while firing at the
drumming man" target, at Wimbledon,
England, which is scarlet on one side and
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