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


"Is THIS what ladies wear around thei
waists?" asked a country youth Of ,
friend who was a clerk in adry good
store. "Of corset is" returned til,
counterjumper, with niischievous wink
In grading the Knox & Lincoln Rail
road, in Thomaston, Me, a skeleton wa
exhumed, supposed to be that of a MAJ
who was executed as spy by order o
Gen. Wadsworth, in 1880.
A. WHITEHEAD, aged 20 years, has beer
sentenced. at New York, to states prison
for three years, for marrying two young
ladies' He appears to have engaged him
self to two others. s.
DUDLEY HALL, of Medford, Mass, 81
years old, went to the polls on the Sd, re
marking, as he deposited his ballot: "Thi!
is the last time shall ever vote" He re
turned home and died in an hour
Troy IN. " fashionable circles are
greatly excited over the elopement of q
wealthy merchants daughter with young
barber. The merchant says he would
give $4,000 could he unite the nuptiaI
knot
IMPURE thoughts are the seat of sin. I
dropped into the soil of the mind an6
heart, they should be cast out immediate
ly; otherwise they will germinate, spring
up, and bear the fruit of sinful words and
acts. ~. 4ss
"A PROFESSOR of Williams College (WesI
Mass.,) while endeavoring to suppress 8
recent noisy hubbub among the students
was completely drenched with bucket
of water thrown upon him from an upper
window.
A WEALTHY bachelor citizen Of Provi
dence, who died few days ago, bequeathed
his $250,000 fortune to female clairvoy-
ant-a spiritualistic physician in whose
house he died-but the numerous brothers
and nephews contest the will.
BOOTH, the tragedian, had broken nose.
A lady once remarked to him, Il like your
acting, Mr.. Booth, but to be frank with
you, can't get over your nose." "No
wonder, madam" replied the tragedian,
"the bridge is gone"
GENERAL SHERIDAN tells some tall buf-
falo stories. He says that he saw, a few
weeks ago, a herd of buffaloes ninety five
miles long, twenty five miles wide, which
must have contained three hundred thou
sand buffaloes.
WHEN Rothschild heard that the head OF
the Agnade family was dead, " How much
does he leave?o he asked. Twenty mill
lions" You mean eighty" "No,
twenty" Dear me! / thought he was
in easy circumstances" remarked the
modern Crnsus.
A MAN in Westyille, Conn, discovered
founding on his doorstep and took it
in. Two days afterward the parent of the
waif, in fit of remorse, claimed it; but
the hespitable entertainer refused to part
with it unless he was paid $3.50.
In late speech to the workingmen OF
Birmingham, Mr.. Vernon HarcouTt allud-
ed to the growing influence of the labor
ing classes in politics, and said it was his
belief that, had it not been for the dis
tinctly pronounced opinion of the work
ing classes, England would have been en-
gagged in war long before this time.
A LADY being asked for a recipe for
wEooping-cough, for little twin patients,
copied by mistake something referring to
the picking of onions, which said: "If
not too young, skin them pretty closely
immerse in scalding water; sprinkle
plentifully with salt; and leave them for
week in strong brine"
ABOUT fifty private telegraphs are in
use in New York, and the number is be-
ing rapidly increased The expense is
about $500 for each machine, with wires
ready for work, and counting rooms and
offices are thus placed in Instant COM
munication with docks and manufactures
in different parts Of the city.
A PARIsIAN statistician computes that
as the births since the creation of the
world have been 66,627,s43, ,273, 075, ,291
souls, and that there are in the world only
3,095, 900 square leagues of flat surface, that
only one. fifth of square foot of land is
allotted to each inhabitant for burial pur-
poses. a
For great many years the Russians
have made use Of the expansive proper
ties of freezing water in quarrying opera
sions. In summer they drill crevices in
the marble and fill them with water The
cold of winter causes the water to act as a
wedge, and enormous masses Of marble
are thus detached with the smallest ex-
penditure of manuel labor. 's
THE Frontier Iaadec of the 30th ilt.
was issued at Bear River City, about 85
miles east of Salt Lake. The editor
speaks of the new city with the utmost
enthusiasm, and says 5000 persons already
obtain their mails from the Bear River
City post Office. Houses and streets are
built up by magic, and every branch of
business is represented, wholesale and re-
tail >s Hsf
A Mr.. MERRIMAN, of Nottingham, En-
gland, has adopted an ingenious plan for
killing two birds wife one stone. This
gentleman had the misfortune to lose his
eldest son; and in announcing the fact to
his friends through the newspapers, in the
usual way, he adds that he himself is zone
of the candidates for the representation
of Nottingham. H
q A COUNTRY doctor being out for day s
shooting, took his errand boy to carry the
game bag. Entering field of turnips,
the dog pointed; and the boy oyerjoyed
at the prospect of his masters success, ex-
Claimed, "there's covey ifyou get near
'em, won't you physic 'em?" "Physic
them you young rascal, what do you
mean % said the doctor. "Why, kill 'em
to be sure," replied the lad.
THE other day in Schenectady an old
lady with two bandboxes in her arms came
to the track Of the Central and inquired at
what time the next train was due. On
being informed that it would pass through
the city in half an hour, she quietly
dumped her bandboxes on the pavement
and squatted, remarking that she didn't
want to be run over, and body couldn
be too keerful.'"
MY Box
A lock Of golden hair,
Tied with silken thread
tiny shoelet lying there;
"A snow-white curtained bed;
A little broken toy;
A book all soiled and torn:
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