Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-09-25
VARIOUS ITEMS.

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i PARIS has no steam fire engines I'd
A FLYING cat has been found in India.
A BEGGAR died recently in Rome worth
100000. ,s,o,..s !.
FIVE hundred perfumes are sold din iinrthis
WHEN is coffee real estate }aa When it's
ground. -. - ''S'',5.'''iJ - r,'+fI
DEER are very destructive in Canadian
grain-felds. - - ;e,f
THREE.coRNERED visiting cards are the
latest style. ,.r ..,.,.rt.1 ootnq;f,eG
AN Oxford professors writing the life
of Queen Elizabeth. .t,ao,,5r S4tI
SIMMONS, al, Florence, is cutting statue
of Roger Williams. grf.sr64Y $50
"PRoFEssoR of the accumulative art"
is the California term for thieves.
TWENTY thousand rockets were fired off
at once at Napoleon's fete this year.
A DRUNKEN fellow was recently burned
to death in shanty in Cleveland. .noT
WHEN does a farmer act with, rudeness
towards his corn? When he pulls its
ears. - 4.Cs ..g-.f
THE poetical works of the late g Miles
O'Reilly," edited by MS friend Savage, are
in press.
PLANcHETTE is now being made of
glass. The inventor of the game has real
lied $50,000 y4.-.6e .-.el
A MAN ninety years old applied at the
Health Office, San Francisco, to be yaccin-
ated, recently. ="
REv. STEPHEN Ell. Tyne, aJr., of New
York, conducts open airreGgious meetings
in New York.
IT is expected that the New British Par
lament will meet in the second week in
December. rs lsd 53 b. tu8s91G b 45r
The Cincinnati Times has a. bachelor
friend who has occupied one room for
more than thirty years.
John G. FREMONT lives at Tarrytown,
on the Hudson, on the estate formerly
owned by j. Watson Webb. 'tarne7
Il A DIR. HIRsH, of Rotterdam, claims to
have discovered method for making deaf
mutes both hear and speak.
THEY are going to try preparation of
petroleum in France to fire cannons with
instead of powder. 3a ae .rainon
THE milliners boast that they have at
last invented bonnet which the ladies
cannot make for themselves. .GF7aaE Jfi1
THERE is a crazy woman ON Blackwelps
Island who imagines she. has been defraud-
ed of 100000 by Horace Greeley.
A SUITABLE monument is to be erected
to the memory of the late Ex-Governor
Seymour, of Connecticut. 5pQ9 oh
THE circulation of Rocheforte's Lanterne
has increased to 0,000 copies since its
removal to Belgium a1jdo9GGJ 3dI
Z A aIRL in New York stole the clothes
off q baby and left the child naked and
screaming for its mother.
A FLASH of lightning lasts only one mil
lionth part of a second, according to Arago,
the celebrated French sayant.i .i3}au n0
n AN old man was chokedi to death in
Philadelphia, the other day, by trying to
swallow a larger piece of meat than would
pass his throat. s5a
a LIVERPOOL. has haunted house, the
windows of which are broken, by continu-
Gus showers of stones. The police can't
discover the ghostly assailantss 81 q
A GENTLEMAN fof Norfolk, Va, found
100000 in an old trunk a few daysago.
1t was all in Spanish milled dollars and
Virginia paper currency of 1776.
THE English Judges have decided to COM
pei juries engaged in trying felonies and
cases of misdemeanor to remain in, Gus
tObJ OullnS DlOSAcOo VI D1C u l0As
AN old East India Captain lately lost a
new iron steamer on her first voyage,
only eight hours out of Glasgow, by utter
inability to tell which way was north, his
compass being entirely capricious, =,
THE State of Michigan is about to erect
a Soldiers Monument which will cost
$4,000 OF this sum $48,o00 has already
been secured. 1t will contain eleven
pieces of statu ry, two ba8So a'eliegos and
four allegoricaI figures. II aa3t' Hsmif41d
AN old Treasury clerk, John d. Barclay,
recently celebrated the sixtyfourth aGni-
versary of his entrance into the Depart
ment He was appointed under President
Jefferson. How many grindings out of
the political hopper he has survived! e
Z, A CORRESPONDENT tells us how to pre-
vent hydrophobia. Spriggins says he
once prevented severe case of the malady
by simply getting on a high fence and
waiting there until the dog left. ~ .a
A PROMINENT photographer, of Pitts
burgh, has been arrested for libel, which
consisted in manufacturing and circulat-
ing pictures of the head Of a well known
and respectable young lady of that city,
to which little boys body had been
coupled.
n CASE before Ihe birmingham maglS-
trates, has ELECTED, among other curious
details, the fact that confectioners often
buy decaying fruit for havoring ice cream
and confectionery, as the juice is obtained
from it in larger quantities L.egf
A CORRESPONDENT, writing from Rome,
says the health of the Pope is excellent,
and that when complimented recently on
his appearance by one of the prelates,
Plus TX, replied: II eat well, drink
well, sleep wen I meyer was better in
! my life" a. 7"