Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-20

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PAIRING p. LANE, who now resides
with his family at Belvidere, ILL.,, is 101
years of age, and is active and lively. His
wife is 81 years old. This. couple have
had twenty three children, all of whom
are living, and in the enjoyment of good
MfscelIaneOus Items.
There are two hundred slang terms for
intoxication. @ 80 ww
"A Russian newspaper is to be started
in California. 80 r
There is colt in Montpelier, VT,
with two perfect heads.
Boston proposes to have society for
the prevention of cruelty to animals.
The past winter was the coolest since
that of 1843 on the North Pacific coast.
Prairie chickens are so plenty in Mis-
souri, that they are used for swine's food.
| s-Agood sized store in Boston is warmed
thoroughly by water heated by two gas
| burners.
Ohio has population of GO to the
square mile; Massachusetts, 1852; New
York, 85. ~ y f
Its asserted that the Havana lottery
draws annually from New Orleans over
| $1,000,000. ISIS
An old Indian Chief finding his hair
coming out, explained it by saying he was
dead at the top. r - I
| The citizens of Brunswick, Me, the
| other day snOwballed fire out that threat
ened to burn the poor house.
Secret and benevolent societies of Chi
| cago have more than one hundred Con-
sistories, Chapters and Lodges. ta -.l
| Fatal cases of the loathsome disease
known as spotted fever, have lately &C.
CURED in Erie county, Pa.
| DO not destroy this paper. When you
| have read it pass it to your neighbor, and
ask him if he doesn't think he had better
| subscribe. AIN f4F aeH. sa8rA
Near New Haven, Conn, few days
ago, grasshoppers were skipping over
the snow, and the ground was frozen four
feet, down. gE~Ir IA E& Tr
| "A policeman of Kansas City, Mo,
| had one of his ears bitten off, on late
Sunday, by a drunken man, who pretend
ed to have secret to whisper in the stars
ear. S1f VIE L2
"A man named Riddle recently skated
one hundred miles in one hundred hours
pond, thereby winning two hundred dol
lars. I.r rgt3 4#f u E#3 cI5t &p
| An Ohio statistician estimates that, q
| few years hence, New York, Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Mis-
souri, will each contain five million inhab-
itants. ~sssirT sasNfs3s3 eos % 6EA
"A bear was found olive in the ruins of
Barnums Museum. on the second evening
| q In fro nh thro11rh ho
streets of the city until his capture was
effected by the police. -. q II
/ "A negligent Town Clerk in East
assessor list of registered voters as re-
the year $50 voters. a'a =, - 81. ,s5. Z.
| Kentucky is to pay to John Young
Brown the salary to which he would have
| been entitled from the Government as
member of Congress if the House had adj
mitted him to seat. ~ al 80 l. aA41-A, =.
| "A man named Eugene st. Clair has
accomplished the feat, in Cincinnati, of
skating one hundred miles in eleven hours
and forty-six minutes, receiving therefor
$3.50, a belt and a handsome gold medal.
"A concern near philadelphia makes
business of buying dead horses for their
hides; but recent discoveries show that
the meat of the animal is sailed down, and
the Philadelphians are getting little shy
of corned beef. a8H7 @&h gas
II of fourteen faro boxes captured by
j the st. Louis police the other day, eleven
were found to be mere swindling machines,
containing more than the proper number
of cards, with curiously contrive6 springs
controlled by the dealer. Ga
| Said near-sighted Congressman to
Tilton, What would you do, Mr.. Tilton,
if you could not distinguish your friends
in the gallery?" Said Tilton to near
| sighted Congressman: "Why, sir, /
would try to distinguish myself on the
floor!" SIS
! L. The statement is made that some men
in New York carry on regular trade in
little boys. They seize upon them in the
streets and transport them clandestinely to
men in the country, and sometimes to the
far West, where they are bound out at q
very low price. e8
THE Springfield Republican makes q
comparison of the conduct of the people of
two well known nations under diffcultieg
The Japanese will cnmlait haYi-kari al
soon as he goes into bankruptcy: an
Amslican pays ten cents on the dolls.r and
laughs at his creditors.
/ The teller of the Shaumut Pank. Ros
4 ton, absconded with $500 belonging tc
the bank, reached place Of safety and
wrote back proposition to return one
third of the stealings if the officers 1'would
execute bond of protection from arrest
and molestation." Proposition accepted
I'm Brooklyn German who lost leg
In the war and has tried TO get a living al
winter by. selling stationery, was Obliged
to sell his stock to feed his family
and then called at a house and asked
for food. He was arrested aad told the
Judge ne begged because he would moi
steal, and the court excused him with the