Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-28
VARIOUS ITEMS J,

THE Protestant population Of Francois
100000. a ,ss.e Gs1eHs ai7
THERE are sixty-nine vessels in the tItal-
ian navy. 4i -e :,s, t..,s s....f.as .a.ts
INDIANA has 5000 square miles of coal
land.
THERE are. 500 newspapers in New
York State.
THERE are 1874 Congregational churches
in Michigan. a . ,94 1858
CAa1pHoR is concluded to be the best
remedy for strychnine poison. ssgnsq
THEY have not hands enough to
gather the crops in Hungary.
!. A FARMER named Flaven died of star
walton in Quebec the other day. 4.
THERE are 246 agricultural societies in
the province of Ontario, Canada.
CHARLES READE, the novelist, is said to
be the vainest man in England. e saIst
THE Daily Witness, of Montreal, is the
only religious daily in America. -.
IT is said that 100000 were spent in
Saratoga during the racing week.
THE dry goods statesmen of Philadel-
phia have formed a protective association.
THE growing rice crop of Georgia and
South Carolina is estimated at $4,000
tierces. -.e - ....-s
THE population of Bavaria has increased
only about one per cent. in the last five
years. 3'aa -t.ssi'l@
A BRICK oven has been found in hill
in Wilmington, Del, seven feet below the
surface.
IT takes 10000 gallons of water to
keep the Boston Common fountains run
ming an hour. r re@
WHO is the LATEST man? The furniture
dealer; he keeps chairs and lounges about
all the time.
THE Cleveland Herald figures up
Lake Shore grape crop for this year OF
100000 pounds. ed
A FRENoHMAN is organizing a concert
troupe of ladies exclusively, for visiting
the United States. q" asl
THE tobacco crop of Western Massa-
chusetts this year will be one of the larg-
est and best ever gathered.
ENGLAND exported more than four thou
sand horses, worth nearly million dollars
in all, last year. 81 ~:
ISAAC NEWTON, Second Advent
preacher in Hudson, N. Y, has been pros
ecuted for preaching too loud.
THEY have just begun to rebuild the
burnt district in Charlf ston, S. c., and eX-
pect to have it restored in two years.
ONE of the New Y ork ocean steamships
has contract to bring 10000 more Ger
man immigrants to this country.
A MASSACHUSETTS youth sold, this year,
800 worth of pond lilies, at cent apiece,
in the cars at Groton junction.
A GENTLEMAN at Saratoga aged 65 is
engaged to be married in the fall to a
young lady of IS. He has money and she
has none.
THURLow WEED writes from London
that an enterprising Yankee has made a
decided hit in London by establishing a
soda fountain.
plows in England amounts on average
soils to an increase of at least eight bush
els to the acre.
THE Masonic Lodge at Marietta, O., is
older than the Declaration of 1ndepend-
ence, it having been chartered on Febru-
airy 20, 1776
THE ruins of Barnum's Museum have
been taken down, and on the site a new
and handsome building will soon be
erected.
THIS years estimates for Utah are ::
wheat, $4,000 bushels; corn, $4,000 bush
els; potatoes, 100000 bushels; sorghum,
10000 gallons. t= a
THE merchants of London, c. w., have
agreed to sell American silver to those
only who will bind themselves to ship it
out of the country. 3' r5-'''''s
A ST. LOUIS oculist has recently re
stored the sight of a blind mother and
daughter. Best of all, he did it without
charge, they being too poor to pay for his
services.
HUNGARY is about to celebrate its thou
sandth anniversary as kingdom, and ar
rangements for the celebration will soon
be made at Vienna.
AMONG the old carbines sent to Sharp's
factory, in Hartford, for transformation
is one in the stock of which an ingenious
soldier had inserted coffee mill.
In preparation for great shooting fl s.
tival to be held in Vienna, 100000 bottles
of wine, and 5000 barrels of beer have
been brought to the field. . Ia -.-i.
A PRIMITIVE three-pennY piece of 1862,
one of the earliest and rarest coins of New
England, was dug up on a street-corner at
Salem, the other day Jas saG s.a
MISS BEAUNIA, CoNANT, of Brooklyn,
daughter of the well-known Biblical trans
lator, has been appointed Professor of
English literature in Rutgers College.
LONDON thieves have begun to wear the
uniform of postmen, and thus protected to
pick the locks of street letter boxes and
walk off with the contents in broad day
| light. 5|i@
RUSSIA sends fourteen thousand crimi-
mails to Siberia every year. One-fifth OF
them die from the fatigue of the journey,
twenty-six hundred miles, which is per-
formed on foot 1fasf
Mr. SETH BoYDEN, the strawberry cul-
turist of Newark, believes that in the
course of twenty years he could raise
strawberries as large as pineapples, and
of equal delicacy.
THERE are six sugar refneries in Phila-
delphia, which refine about 190,000,000
pounds per year of raw sugar, costing at
present prices $22,0O0,000 in gold. After
being refined, it sells for $26, 100000.
THEY are putting up building in Ire
mont street, Boston, which will seat 49,
900 people 1t is to be used for musical
festivals, but it's name, the Boston Rink,
indicates that it is for skating also.
A MAN at Birmingham, Conn, fell from
scaffolding distance of thirty feet, the
other day, and struck upon his head,
which penetrated the ground as far as his
ears but was not much hurt by the acct
dent.
IT is said that Oliver Dalrymple, who is
the largest farmer in the State of Mime