Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-05
VARIOUS ITEMS.


r TRANSPORTED for life-Aman who mar
ries happily.
A MASONIC Life Insurance Company is
to be formed in New York. f4Fs8 81
REASON is oftentimes more ON the side
of the mule than with its driver
INDIANA has, 100 lodges of Good Tenn
plars with an aggregate membership OF
1917.
THE first wheat raised in Ohio was har-
vested at Marietta, in 1889, by Truman
Guthrie.
THE census of 1860 reported upward
of four millions of horses in the United
States.
WAIT fer others to advance your inter
ests and you will wait until they are not
worth advancing.
In Germany every town of fifteen thou
sand inhabitants boasts an opera COM
pany. ia
A FARMER on the Juniata river, in
Pennsylvania, plowed up great numbers
of the seventeen-year locusts. Tr.- mr.
AMERICAN canned fruits are becoming
very popular in England-peaches and to-
matoes taking the lead. (srE =
To things which you bear with impa-
tience you should accustom yourself and
by habit you will bear them well.
GREELEY says the man who pays more
for his shop rent than for advertising don't
know his business.
81 laugh would-be sapient cried,
AT every one that laughs at me.''
"GOod luckI' merry friend replied,
How very merry you must be u
A THEORETICAL scoundrel in Athens in
serted over his door, "Let no evil enter
here" Diogenes wrote under it, elbow
does the owner get IMP" IS au
A MAN in Belfast, Maine, has obtained a
Judgment of $1,4SS.50, against dealer
for selling him a horse that was unsound,
and not Of the pedigree represented.
CANADA has new law, by which
Judges are empowered to order whipping
instead of imprisonment, if the prisoners
are boys under. fifteen, convicted of lar
ceny.
A FAMILY in East Boston have a tame
rat which will come out when called, make
it's appearance regularly for food, and
stands upon his hind legs when it wants
water. s,.
Four Fifth Avenue mansions in New
York have real lace curtains at the parlor
windows, valued at from three to five thou
sand dollars each, two have monogram
carpets, one monogram door-plate, one a
private theatre, and four have picture gal
leries 80 [-1@
MAMMA, why does papa call the news
paper an organ ?" because papa wants
to go to Congress and he can'tlg without
facing the music" "What is facing
the music mamma ~ "Giving stanaps to
the organ grinder, my child"
GUNPowDER has much greater explo-
sive power when heated. 1t is said that
it's force is doubled at temperature of
four hundred degrees Fahrenheit, but it is
not worth while for boys to test the truth
Of the statement by actual experiment.
The facetious Abijah Hunt, of Will
liamsburg, Mass dining upon q tough
fowl in a Boston hotel, asked the landlady
where the fowl came from. She replied,
"From Williamsburg. Impossible"
said Mr.. Hunt, I" for the town hasn't been
incorporated over forty years."
A LETTER from our consul at St. Croix,
West Indies, read before the Geological
Society recently, says soundings have been
taken within a mile and half of the
shore, thousand fathoms deep, without
bottom, proving that the island is the
apex of great submarine mountain.
THE Princess Salome, of Mingrelia, has
accomplished feaG in tracing her pedi-
gree that outdoes all previous achieve
ments in that lire. She proves herself to
be lineal descendant of Jason who went
in search of the Golden Fleece, and Medea
THERE is enough in this world to com
plain about and find fault with, if men,
have the disposition. We often travel on
hard and uneven roads; but with q cheer
full spirit, we may walk therein with COM
fort, and come to the end of our journey
in peace. e eaH@ ef .its
THE fish in lake Mollychunkemunk,
Maine, are said to be superior to those of
either lake Wooleyoksebacook or Moose
toekmegautic. Those of lake Chaubun-
gogungamaug were very fine, but they all
got choked to death in trying to tell where
they lived. L ---,.s.s .---sls
PRoFANE swearing never did any man
good. No man is any the richer, happier,
or wiser for it. 1t commends no one to
any good society. 1t is disgusting to the
friend; abominable to the good insulting
to those with whom we associate; degrad-
ing to the mind
MARK TWAIN is the last correspondent
who has had confidential talk with the
President. Thus he reports it: "How is
your health, Mr.. Presidents" And he
said cit cannot be of any particular
consequence to you, young man. | keep
DOCTOR"
AN American eagle, measuring seven
feet from tin To tin and known to be over
one hundred years old, has been shot in
the town of Union, Me. The bird, with
its mate, has occupied nest upon an
sland for a long time, and his age is
vouched for by the Oldest inhabitant.
| PURE sodium has an enormous explo-
sive power when a small amount of water
| is poured upon it. A spoonful OF water
| poured upon two hundred ounces of So
dunn would occasion an explosion equal
to that of five thousand pounds of gun
powder, or five hundred pounds of nitro
glycerine.
| NC. MussEL has published a paper in
which he states that the trunks of trees
are always fattened in the northerly and
southerly directions, and expanded in an
east and west plane. He says he could
support his theory by several thousand
examples, and that his views are entirely
in accordance with astronomical laws.
THE Arabians have very pretty poetic
method of soliciting a female to marriage,
and their arguments, though simple, are
irresistible. Having brought blush to
the maiden's cheek by the earnestness of
his gaze the lover says to her: My looks
have planted roses in your cheeks; why
forbid mo tn crather them The law per-