Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-07-03
VARIOUS ITEMS.

"A DEED without a name AN I'M
signed will.
THERE are 1000 journeymen printers
III Germany.
PITTSBURGH and Allegheny City togeth-
er have 134 churches. m ese
HE man who swallowed the story
whole was nearly suffocated
A PERPETUAL motion saw mill is said to
be at work in Detroit.
A COUPLE of rival pleasure balloons
colllded in mid-air over Paris the other
day.
ELEVEN skirts of white tulle are indis-
pensable to a recherche evening dress in
Paris. "
JUDY says the first inquest ever held was
on the world after the deluge. Verdict
"Found round"
TMoTHIE TRn111, editor of the Paris
Petit Journal, has made 100000 by writ
ing editorials.
MRS. RHoDA BERG, of Chelsea, Mass,
died recently from a slight scratch on her
hand by tame rabbit.
LAST year the number of contributing
visitors to Bunker Hill were 26,35S, and
the receipts $5,132.
DICKENS announces a farewell" series
of readings in Great Britain, during the
coming autumn.
A NEW YORK paper has a new motto
for stage driver, which is classically apt:
Jam forte IN omnibus"
DIR. BELLOWS book of travels in
Europe and in the East has been trans
lated into French and German.
ONE firm i'll New York rents out about
1000 pianos, from which they receive an
annual income of $4,000.
THE Scien tifc american argues that the
career of the cholera as destroying pesti-
lence is forever ended.
THE Queen of England will travel in
Switzerland. and the Empress of the
French in Norway, this summer.
THE young Russian Prince, Scherbatoff,
has married a widow of seventy winters.
Prevailing cause-want Of stamps.
TIE only copy of the first newspaper
printed in America, known to be in exist
ence, is in the British archives in London.
THE wedding dress of the daughter of
the Queen of Spain was all lace and pearl,
and she rode to church in a tortoise-shell
coach.
A SWARM of bees gathered on lamp
post on Broad street, Boston, recently, and
was captured by the merchant to whose
door they came. ILL.,
TEA made from common garden rue is
recommended as a cure for the bite of
spiders, which sometimes are serious, and
even fatal affairs.
| THE Cork printers propose to abolish
Sunday work in newspaper offices by
having Monday mornings paper printed
on Saturday night"
THE discovery has been made that only
two words in the English language have
for their last syllable cion"-" coercion"
| and suspicion!'
NEARLY hundred acres of willows are
cultivated in Wyoming county, N. Y.
When ready for market they bring from
$40 to 5000 per acre.
To FURNISH their autographs for the
President, each member of the Chinese
embassy (Mr. Burlingame excepted) re-
| quired sheet of foolscap.
Two STORES on Washington street, Bos-
ton, have in their windows delicate Pana-
ma hats valued at $3.50 to $500. They are
the "genuine article"
A VERDICT of 5000 has been returned
against the Adams Express Company for
| the loss of valise, alleged to contain
| $40, 900, two years ago.
| PARIS is looking at plan of a theate1
which may be made large or small at
| pleasure The walls are movable and shut
| together like an opera glass
THE japanese Dickens" Kyate Bakin,
has just published story in one hundred
and six volumes, which was twenty ght
years going in press.
THE faculty of Bowdoin College, Me-,
has been offered the sum of $4,000 for a
portrait in its gallery painted by Vandyke
The subject is Governor of Gibraltar.
NEAR Girard, Alabama, little girl was
recently bitten by snake. Her sister
sucked the blood from the wound, and ap-
piled spirits Of turpentine, and the child
survived
CoLERIDGE, an inveterate talker, once
asked Charles Lamb, did you ever hear
me preach % to which Lamb replied, 81
never heard you do anything else"
! Much fun was made in Warren, VT
lately, when large party, who had started
to hunt bear, finally brought their game
to bay, and it proved to be a black year,
ling calf!
CoNsTANTINoPLE has 300 bathing estab
| lishments for the people, either free or so
cheap that all can obey the Koran wherein
it says that cleanliness is two-thirds OF
the faith"
A MAN named Ryan Cary was lately en-
gagged in shearing sheep, near Boonville,
N. Y, hen one of the sheep kicked,
driving the shears into the mans body,
and causing almost instant death.
A CoUNTRYMAN lost his pocket book, CON
tanning $500, in a Hartford store. An
honest boy returned it to him, and refused
the proffered reward of twenty-five cents,
saying that he wasn't hard up"
| AT Honesdale, Penn, two children, aged
respectively seventeen and fifteen years,
having first obtained the written consent
of their parents and guardians, were re-
Gently united in wedlock.
THE American Watch Company employs
| four hundred and fifty workmen, who arc
under the charge of two uperlntendents,
| twenty foremen and one master mechanic,
with large number of assistants.
A PRESBYTERIAN paper of Canada says
| that the people of Prince Edward Island
| lately made presents to the minister, then
charged their value against him, and rob-
bed him of part Of his salary besides.
THERE are now in the country about
100000 spindles, which cost $25 each, or
$160,000,000 The capital used to work
them is not less than $3.50 a spindle,
which is $4,000, 900 matchmaking $780,
100000.
TIRE manuf, ct1ra of buttono from, x,oro