Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-14
VARIOUS ITEMS.

/ ADMIRAL FARRAGUT is said to be
millionaire. aaso @ts
Cn1oAeo consumes 1s, 100000 gallons of
water daily sss4 oui
STUFFING plugs. of tobacco with sheet
lead is the latest sWindle. n
2 SIR RoBERT NAPIER S title will be Baron
Napier of Magdala. aAst'esssA .
AN upright trunk, which resembles a
bureau has been invented. srif a@
RUsKM spends the income of his three
millions on charity. sf
Mrs CHARLES SUMNER is boarding with
a private family at Lenox, Mass. ~
The electric fluid recently killed fifteen
sheep in Oxford, N. H, at one Strike"
A TON of collar paper, it is stated, is
made daily at one mill in Pittsfield, Mass. .
THE Kansas State Fair will be held at
iLeavenworth, September 20 to October 2.
FRANCE has fined an omnibus driver
for calling Imperial troops "paper sol
diers" .,i
BosToN owns $15,OOO,O00 worth of
parks, which amount is greater than the
city debt. 5z a; e a
OVER thirteen hundred steamship voy-
ages year are made between England
and America. 75722''
q ALL the parties arrested in Ireland un-
der the suspension of the h1beGs corpus
have been released. gs
THE tank of soda bottling establish
ment at st. Paul exploded recently and
killed two men.
MORE than thousand spirit and to-
bacco smugglers were convicted in Great
Britain last years.
WHITE gloves are prescribed in polite
European society; pearl and orange color
gloves are prescribed. tsa
ELIZA BROWNING, a Cincinnati servant
girl, has fallen heir to $4,000 by the death
of a Liverpool uncle.
THE Prime Minister of King Theodore
asserts that the Abyssinian monarch had
an elder son, who is yet alive. @
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL is said to be
the handsomest of the American poets.
He is fifty, and does not look more than
thirty ,,g as aat 81 .1iG el 81 sal
Mr.. EDWARD CHURCHILL, aged one
hundred years, walked two miles to
church, in Erie county, Pa, Sunday, July
Goth. ~ Id s7iz Coh sHi 1 aRph 'i>'
WATERING place visitors notice that
pipe smoking is increasing as cigars de-
crease in quality and grow in price.
SINCE the beginning of summer, there
have been sixty-fve suicides in New York,
and the suburban cities---about eight
week. :; s...as fsfs ssaa3tla5 - it]ra
LITTLE DAIsY's mother was trying to
explain to her the meaning of smile.
G Oh, yes, 1 know" said the child, ait is
the whisper of a laugh" aa Ta
AMONG the latest inventions is rubber
bath-tub, about three feetin diameter when
spread out, which can easily be slowed
away in a lady's satchel.
!, QUEEN EMMA, of the Sandwich Islands,
is quite active in soliciting and distributing
relief to the sufferers by the late volcanic
eruptions in that country.
TT has been discovered that coal ex-
posed to the weather loses, in nine
months fifty per cent. of its value as fuel,
and nearly as much gas making material.
TWELVE hundred bales of hay were
purchased in New York, recently, for Liv-
erpool. This is new article of export.
The drouth in England is the cause of the
movement. s , ..resfs ,a
Mrs. MARY ScHUINDLER, of Rochester,
N. ~, was lately arrested on charge of
roasting the hands of her adopted daugh-
ter, for the offence of stealingla pocket
book.
THE Milan Gazette announces the ap-
preaching marriage of Menotti Garibaldi
with young lady named Italia Bedes-
chini, born at Smyrna, but now residing
at Padua.
A LETTER directed to Miss Bessie IT,,
Waterbury, CT. / don't know her name,
but she is the prettiest little girl in the
city," is bothering the worthy postmaster
at that place. so
THE Lowell Courier says one of the
thirteen professional boot-blacks of that
CITY. has accepted a challenge from a
Boston "shiner" to compete for the
championship of the State and a prize of
$40. f1 ~ Des
a CHILD was recently born in North
Colebrook, Mass, which had but one
finger, all told. The child was otherwise
perfectly formed, but one hand had only a
single finger, and the other none at all.
THE editor of the Auburn Ad0ertiser
boasts of having been presented with "the
veritable hatchet with which George
Washington chopped the cherry tree and
didn't tell lie to his papa about"
AN Englishman, describing a wonderful
parrot hanging in cage from the window
of a house which he often passed, said ::
"It cries stop thief so naturally that
every time I hear it always stop"
A COMPANY has been chartered, under
the title of the American Hard Rubber
Company" who propose to build road
wagons, and other vehicles, of rubber at
about one-half the price paid for wooden
ones. Fis
COLONEL EDMUND RICE has invented
what he calls new bayonet, but what Is
in fact a trowel, intended to enable infan-
try to intrench itself rapidly. Two hun
dred tentative trowels are in course OF con-
struction at Springfield.
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH stipulates in
the contract respecting the property OF
Carlotta, made with the King of Belgium,
that if the unfortunate princess ever re-
covers the complete use of her mental
faculties she shall not visit Vienna.
PROVIDENCE has colored boy, aged
thirteen years, who for q few cents will
take nlouthful of glass, chew it UP fine
and swallow it. He says he has followed
the business since he was nine years old
and can keep fat ON it. He ought to have
pane in his stomach by this time.
AT Cornish Flat, n. Y, recently, a
streak Of lightning ran down tree and
went into the earth, tearing open a hole