Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-07
VARIOUS ITEMS.

Italia lOI HIS uCdloi.
A BURGLAR in st. Louis stole $4,000
from pawn-shop the other day.
How LONG does widow mourn for her
husband? She mourns for second.
THE Kansas State Fair will be held at
Leavenworth, September 30 to October 2.
OVER seventh part of the State of
Mississippi is advertised for sale under
execution.
A MAN in Pittsburgh recently had his
eye put out by a cork from mineral
water bottle.
THE sweeping and busting of the Brit
ish House of Commons costs eight thou
sand dollars a year.
THERE is not single organized Pres
byterian or Episcopal Church in Texas,
and but very few communicates of either
church.
THE tariff for ten words, allowing five
for address. over the Atlantic cable, will
be fifteen dollars in gold after the first of
September.
In Yarmouth, Maine, town of $500
inhabitants, there are sixty persons above
eighty years of age, and one hundred and
twenty-nine above seventy.
QU1Lp, who has heretofore been Uni
versalist, now believes there are two things
destined to be eternally lost-his umbrella
and the man who stole it.-Boston Post
A TEXAS man gave it as his opinion,
when importuned to take out a policy in
a life insurance company, that fellows
life was SO mighty uncertain about there
it wasn't worth insuring.
A LADY in one of the wealthiest families
in Somerset, Mass, mounted moving
machine the other day which her husband
didn't know how to operate, and cut four
acres of grass.
A MARRIAGE was solemnized in Hart
ford nearly two years ago, which has been
kept secret from the friends OF the par
ties up to the present time. The parties
are now applying to be divorced.
In Eastern cities humane drivers protect
their horses with a canvas screen, which,
resting on framework, serves as a shade
from the sun, and permits at the same time
free circulation of air.
MR.. ROBINSON thinks it conclusive evil
dence of drunkenness when he sees man
"sticking postage stamp behind his left
ear and attempting to get into letter-box
to go by the mail train"
"MIKE, why don't you fire at those
ducks? Don't you see you have got the
whole flock before your gun" 81 know
have; but, you see, when get good
sight at one, two or three others swim
right 'twixt him and me-"
THE Cincinnati Union Bethel Sunday
School claims to be the largest in the
United States. 1t is attended by an average
of 1900 children, and conducted by corps
of sixty teachers.
MISS RACHEL CowAN, of Clinton, Ky.
while holding pins in her mouth, hap
pened to sneeze, when pin lodged in hel
throat and killed her.
AT Ogdensburg, N Y, one day recent
ly the thermometer went up to 1872 in the
sun. The Captain of the schooner Fulton
lying at the dock, placed an egg on the
deck and in twenty minutes it was thor
oughly cooked.
THE revenue derived from the Spanish
Government from the Havana lottery dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 80, accord
ing to an official statement just published
was So, 39,2SS-about 1854 less thar
| that of the preceding year.
| SOMEBODY has discovered a way o
will take care of vine patches. Lay boards
between the rows to shelter them in thu
day time, and they will make carnival o
the bugs at night.
| A PARIS eccentric advertised that HI
was equity, of violent temper and terri
bly, quarrelsome, but that he would settle
twenty thousand dollars year on youne
and handsome wife. He received forty
six applications and is now married.
AN exact calculator has made an est
mate based upon the salaries paid t.
American ministers, and the number o
sermons preached, and arrives at the con
clusion that the price paid for a sermon
to take the country through, is only three
cents apiece! III
THE authorized Milk Inspector of Gin
cinnati, after tour of inspection, fur
nishes the names of fifty-two milkme1
who had pure milk, ninety eight who ha(
milk and water, of nine who had pure an(
skinned milk, and of four who ha(
watered, skinned and pure milk.
A YOUNG French gentleman, five year
of age, was approached with childish en-
dearments by an infant of eighteen months
Don't you see said the mother, tina
| Guo DdUy Wdubo W AloS yOu ICo, IC
piled young France, Indignantly, "that''
because he takes me for his papa"
A DISTINGUISHED physician restricts the
members of his family, from May to Sep
TENDER, to two ounces of animal food pei
/. day. He has kept record for twenty
years, and has found the deaths in the
meat eating families four times greater thar
in the vegetable-eating
"HENRIETTA," said landlady to hel
new girl, "when there's bad news, parti
cularly private Affections, always let the
boarders know it before dinner. 1t may
seem strange to you, Henrietta, but such
things make great difference in the eat.
ing in the course of year"
THE wind recently performed curious
freak by taking up four cocks of hay from
the field Of Mrs. Pierce, in Springfield,
Mass. They were taken up as gently as a
balloon ascends, and went over the city tc
the northeast until out of sight, not yes
tige of hay remaining where they stood.
A LITTLE daughter of Mr. S. Jordan
Durham, Me-, swallowed piece of acorn
some time last winter, since which time
she has been troubled with very bad
cough-so bad that she was thought to be
in consumption. About three weeks ago
she caughed up the acorn, which was
found to be sprouted, and she has been
well ever since. E
AN eight-hours-a-day man, on going
home the other evening for his supper,
found his wife sitting in her best clothes,
ON the front stoop, reading a volume of
travels. "How is this?" he exclaimed.
"Where's my supper ?" g don't know"
replied the wife, !" began to get breakfast
at o'clock this morning, and my eight