Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-07-31
VARIOUS ITEMS.

sowed to wheat.
PYRoTEcHNIcAL advertisements are the
newest dodge in Paris.
BRAZIL wishes to organize free school
system like our own.
EVERYTHING betokens fruitful year in
New England.
MORE than 100 animals were killed by
heat III New York on recent tuesday.
The man who wakes strong every day
The shoemaker.
One of Landseer's pictures sold lately at
auction for over $4,000.
THE population of Prussia, according to
recent returns, is 21,013,033.
CUBA physicians pronounce this years
pine apples dangerous to health.
THERE were g. 157 murders, 5o0 suicides
and nine deaths by duelling in Italy dur
ing 1857.
THREE dry goods clerks in New York,
employed by one firm, are paid $4,000
year each.
IT is said that there are 100 fewer
newspapers in the country than there
were five years ago.
WE suffer more from anger and grief
than for the very things for which we
anger and grieve.
A MAMMOTH bear, weighing 425 pounds,
was caught in trap at Pownal, VT, few
days since.
FUN suggests, as companion book to
" Every Man his own Lawyer" Every
Fool his own Client"
THE Menken's last husband is gambler.
1t is suggested that as she has been married
a good deal, she wanted to marry good
dealer.
A SWARM of bees have chosen the
steeple of the Baptist meeting house in
Canton, Ct, for their hive.
THE arabic land of the United States
amounts to fifty-two million farms of one
hundred and sixty acres each.
A NEW liquid for embalming
soric corpse preserver)-is advertised.
The body is merely washed with the fluid.
HUMAN bones have been found sixty
eight feet below the surface of the ground
in digging well $50 miles west Of Omaha.
A LADY, visiting Saratoga from New
York city, will carry thirty pairs of shoes
and numerous fans and parasols to match
different tOilettes.
A BRICK chimney in Worcester, Mass,
one hundred feet high, has been moved
four hundred feet, without stays or prop.
1t is detached from any building.
SIX prisoners captured jailer, locked
him in, and made their escape from the
Maryville, Tenn, jail few days since.
HoRATIo SEYMOUR is the nephew of the
Hon. Horatio Seymour Of Middlebury, VT,
Senator from Vermont for ~ years.
ONLY two men, Horace Greeley and
George Ripley, are connected with the
editorial department of the New York
Tribune, who were there five years ago.
KEEP doing, always doing. Wishing,
dreaming, intending, murmuring, talking,
signing, and repining, are idle and profit
less employments.
A RUSSIAN has invented an ingenious
piece of mechanism by which, when a
person places 8 letter in the postal boxes,
receipt, dated and signed, is returned.
On one of the hottest days of this sea-
son, man in New York was seen arrayed
in a fur hat and an overcoat Admitting
crowds followed the mysterious being from
place to place.
THE Revolution, published by Susan
B. Anthony, says: "We have kept our
babies out of sight many time for fear a
bacco-chewing friend would kiss them. "
Four negro children were burned to
death in a cabin, in which they had been
left alone by their parents, the other day,
in Choctaw county, Alabama.
OF the 124,091 children between the
ages of five and twenty reported in Mime
sofa, the Sunday School Association of the
State claims $4,000 Sunday School schol-
ars.
THE Boston Directory for the present
year contains S0,251 names, an increase of
1880 over last year. This increase is
mostly due to the annexation of Roxbury.
A WESTERN editor, in response to sub
scriber who grumbled that his morning
paper was intolerably damp, says "that it
was because there is so much due on i"
Two BOYS in Exeter, N. H, have been
arrested and held to appear at the next
term of the Supreme Court for chasing a
COW until she was so exhausted that she
died.
THE Peoria Transcript says a family
consisting of gentleman, his wife and
two daughters, were recently poisoned in
that city, as was supposed by some new
milk of which they had partaken.
PERHAPS the best pun recorded was
that inscribed on tea-chest, viz. TIL
dOces." The words are the second person
singular of the verb d0ce0 to teach, and
when literally translated become, "Thou
tea chest."
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT, by the time he
gets through with his cruise around the
world, will have the satisfaction of being
able to say that he has personally enter
tanned, and been entertained by, all the
royalty of the world.
A HUSBAND complains sadly at the
price of "ducks." His wife recently
bought three for 1926, viz: A "duck"
of dress, a duck" of bonnet, and a
"duck" of parasol.
THERE is landlord in Boston who is
in the habit of placing an extra fork be-
side the plate of such boarders as have
not paid promptly-being an intimation
to "fork over" likewise
A BACHELOR sea-captain, who was re-
marking one day that he wanted good
chief officer, was promptly informed, by a
young lady present, that she had no objec-
lions to be his first mate. He took the
hint-and the lady.
EGG shells, empty but unbroken, are
used in pistol galleries as targets The
shell is placed on the water jet of a foun-
tain, where it dances Enthusiastically as a
swallows flight. The utmost skill is re-
quired to hit it.
A HOME VERSE
Though frosts the flowers Kill,
Though birds depart and squirrels sleep
Though SHOWS may gather cold and deep,
10 folk hair sunshine keen