Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-07-10
VARIOUS ITEMS.


widows.
THIRTY to forty shots minute can be
made with the new French gun called the
R0Udgestr.
THE very latest fashionable color in
Paris is delicate shade of salmon verglng
toward pink.
THE largest income for 1867 paid Massa-
chusetts was $97S, 563, by John 5. Whitney,
of Northbridge.
A GENTLEMAN at Annapolis has COM
menced the cultivation OF crabs. lie mas
1000 already fenced in.
IT is estimated that three thousand
dwellings will be erected in the city OF
Washington during the present year
THERE are over 1000 newsdealers in
New York and vicinity, and protective
union" is now agitated.
CooLIE emigrants, to the number OF
9,52S, have been received in the BRUSH
West Indies during the year 1857.
AT the recent wedding of the daughter
of New York banker, the house was vo-
cal with innumerable canaries
BOSTON having failed to identify the
discoverer of the application OF ether,
has dedicated monument to the discovery
itself
LAST year IA, 207 criminal offenders were
convicted and sentenced in England and
Wales, 2,510 in Scotland, and 2,733 in Ire
land.
IT is curious, if true, as stated by q
scientific paper, that people with grey
eyes are better marksmen with the rifle
than persons with eyes of other colors.
THE Boston postoffice is to cover 20, 1856
square feet of ground that of New York
will occupy 60, 269 square feet. The site
of the former costs $463,000; of the latter,
$500,000
PARIS papers announced, much to the
surprise of the English, that the Prince OF
Wales was in Paris to see the races, and
that he had q fight with Frenchman
after the Earl had won the grand prize.
LINCOLN, The new capital of Nebraska,
now contains about $50 houses. The school
lands south of Lincoln have been sold
They consisted of 800 acres, and brought
the handsome price of $35,7SS, or $111.93
per acre.
UNION papers in Canada are rejoicing
much over the action of Masonic Royal
Arch Chapter in New Brunswick, which
the mother country, and takes new one
from the Canadian Grand Chapter.
A HAIRDREssER of Bressuire drew the
lottery prize of 10000 francs in Paris, and
made his deputy in the Corps Leg5aatiJ
go to the bank with him to get the money,
taking the honorable member away from
his duty of applauding ministerial
speeches.
A MAN who is in the habit of taking
note of whatever he sees, added up the
aggregate amount wagered by seven young
men in drinking saloon in Cleveland
and found it to be $4,000. They were
waiting for some one to come with money
enough to "treat."
DANIEL WEBSTER wore hat the size
of which was 75s; Thurlow Weed wears
the same size; Abraham Lincoln's was
lie; Daniel Lords 81; Horace Gree.
ley's ~; James Gordon Benefits 7$8
Mr.. James T. Brady has q head as large
as that of any public man in the country
A POEM FOR THE COURTS
Ajudge did once his tipstaff call,
And say, 'Sir, desire
You go forthwith and search the hall,
And bring me in the crier."
''And search in vain, my lord, l may"
The tipstaff gravely said,
1.-THE crier cannot cry to-day,
Because his wife is dead
SOME old pipes have been discovered in
Scotland, not far from place ON which in
former ages Roman camp was stationed
and this discovery has caused very scien
tifc English gentleman to prove that oul
forefathers smoked from the very begin
ming of the foundation of the Heptarchy
A LITTLE girl, about four years of age
was induced by the offer of some candy
by thoughtless person, to jump from the
third-story window of a building in Han.
| nibal, Mo-, few days ago. She was
caught by the person making the offer,
before she reached the sidewalk, thus
probably saving her life.
A RICH farmer of Calais, Maine, aged
siXty-fve, recently married q second wife
who is only nineteen years of age A
daughter by his first wife is forty years old
and her daughter aged twenty is about to
be married Thus there is a child who is
twenty one years older than her mother,
and grandmother who is a year younger
than her granddaughter.
CRossING the ocean with Mr.. H, his
readiness at repartee attracted the notice
of all on board, and a wager was laid that
give not only prompt but witty reply
looking through the telescope, the atmos
phere being damp and cold. The interest.
ed party, determined to win, touched Mr.
H-'s arm, and asked: "Mr. H
what ship is that?" "Don't know but !
hope it's Peruvian bark, for I'm in per.
| feet chill !"
A DOUBLE white camelia, with 1900 ex.
| banded flowers and an equal number Of
buds, was recently exhibited at the great
| Horticultural show at Client There were
| also to be seen on plant of Camelian
Chandlerii, 1000 expanded and many in
| bud, with like number on q plant OF
Camelia Imbricata These plants formed
cones about fifteen feet through at the
base, and an equal height They were al
very Insignificant plants in pots ten years
| ago.
THE amount of nutriment contained III
beer is generally greatly over-estimated
Liebeg asserts that in one thousand fouI
| hundred and sixty quarts OF the best
Bayarian beer there is exactly the nourish
ment of an ordinary two and-a-half pound
loaf of bread. This beer is about on q
par with our best American beer. Instead
of being a condensation OF the nutriment
contained in the grain, in just so far as
the liquid has undergone fermentation, the
nourishment has disappeared.-Jour7aG o
Chemistry.
| A sCHooLMAsTER in England lately re
| ceived deputation of his pupils who
came to complain in the name of the
| school of the beer furnished them: "My
dear boys, all men and all things are i'm
perfect. You too have your faults, and