Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-26
VARIOUS ITEMS.

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FRANKLIN PIERCE is the only man liv.
ing ever elected President of the United
| States.
THE Northwestern Horse Show Associ.
alton will hold a fair at Ottawa, Ill. July
| "a.
| THE fisheries in and around Dunkirk
harbor are yielding handsomely this sea-
son.
QUILP suggests hair pins as the only
sure preventive of hair falling off.
THE printers Of st. Joseph, Mo-, con.
tributed $50 to the ARENAS Ward monu.
ment.
sion of 5000 francs from her private purse.
| A CANADIAN woman lately drowned
her infant for fear it would grow up deaf
mute.
AMONG the 10000 persons buried in
Greenwood, there are but seven cente-
narians.
AN exchange tells of man who stopped
his paper on Saturday and died the next
day.
"OLTvER Optic" has written forty vol
umes for the boys, and sold 100000 copies
of them.
IT is not generally known that there
are in California 5000 Russians. They
are said to be good citizens.
JOHNNY comes marching home" was
/ played by the bands of the British army,
on leaving Magdala.
COMMODORE" MUTT the dwarf, was
lately made member of the Temple Of
4 Honor at Montpelier, vt.
SIeNoR BIITz is about to retire, after
| fifty years experience as ventriloquist,
magician and trainer of birds.
ONLY five dollars were coined in 1904,
and one of them lately sold at Newark,
N. j., for $500, and another for 1864.
TWENTY-FIVE thousand pounds of NAL
aga raisins were produced on single
grape farm in California last year.
THERE are 1900 icurneyman printers
in Germany and German Austria. Aver
age wages about so cents day.
IT appears from the statistics of the
army that Americans are taller than for
eigners, and Western men taller than
Eastern. +
CHILD Making boy or girl
of seven or eight study ten different
branches of education every day, as they
do in some schools.
Two Tennesseeans' fought duel to de-
eide which had the prettier wife. AS
neither was hurt, the question is still I'M
decided.
GREELEY says the name of our new
territory is Aliaski. Sumner says it is
Alaska. The difference seems to be all in
your i.-Neao York Mail.
PHILIP WILLIAMS, of Turner, Me-, aged
So years, lately made standing jump
with dumb bells of eleven feet one inch,
and hopes to improve as he grows older.
NORTH GERMANY has appropriated
10000 thalers to pay the expenses of an
astronomical expedition to the East, to
observe the solar eclipse in August.
TWENTY-FIVE hundred dollars have been
refused for tapestry picture now on ex-
hibition at Hartford. Four thousand
skeins Of worsted were used in making it,
ROBERT MCKEcHNIE, President of the
National Typographical Union, is assist
ant foreman of the New York Citizen, a
brave soldier and a first-class printer.
THE Pennsylvania State Medical SOcie-
ty, at Harrisburg, rejected resolution to
recognize female physicians, by vote Of
81 to 45.
IT is said that Mrs. Brown, whose hus-
band was recently hung at Harlem, went
three times to see the gallows and exc
cuted dance on it, singing ribald song
CRoQUET played at night has been pro-
ductive of rheumatism, and the report
that it is now played in the attics of fash
ionable residences makes it still more
rheumatic.
THE Directors Of the Atlantic Tele-
graph Company have declared dividend,
payable on the list of July, Of six per
cent. on their preference stock, and three
per cent on the original stock.
REMEMBER that selfinterest is more
likely to warp your judgment than all
circumstances combined; therefore, look
well to your duty when your interest is
concerned.
"FATHER, why don't we ever see any
faces at the Window" asked son Of his
parent, as they were passing an insane
asylum. Because their heads are
turned" replied dad.
REV. CHAUNCEY HARE TOWNSEND, a
wealthy Englishman, just dead, left his
gold repeater and $4,000 to Charles Dick
ems, with the invitation that he would edit
his religious writings.
THE mother of a fair bride in st. Louis,
the other evening, presented the groom
with handsome solid silver pitcher,
which contained the still more solid present
of a check drawn in his favor for $4,000.
THE Scientific American thinks the abo-
lition of the apprenticeship system and
the general adoption Of machinery are the
causes of the present scarcity of tirst-class
workmen in various branches.
Four hundred barrels of pork, which
went down on the steamer Amazon, and
had been under forty feet of water for
more than month"; have been raised, sent
to New Orleans, and sold for 500 barrel.
THE new York Sun states that the Rev.
Mr.. Punshon, the eloquent English
preacher, has taken up his residence in
Toronto, where he will remain for several
| years. He does not propose to assume
the pastorate of any church.
SOME one writes that the grass known
in New England as herdgrass or timothy
derived its name from Timothy Hurd, who
introduced it into Rhode Island. The
Quakers called it Timothy, and the worlds
people Hurd's grass.
AN extensive bed of fossil oysters, more
than two feet in thickness, has been dis
covered at depth of nearly four hundred
feet, in sinking a coal shaft in West Ian
cashire, England. The oysters are small,
and are petrifed in solid mass as hard as
flint.
CARDINAL WooLsEY, one of the most
eminent of British statesmen, poured forth
| his fpplinoS in his last DAYS i'm these mpmOr-