Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-13

Miscellaneous Items.

past winter.
The Syracuse salt mines have yielded
100000 pounds of salt since their dis
covery in 1897.
Two pretty women had duel in Kan
sas, the other day, and one was shot dead.
A lover was the cause.
BY the time Western game is sold in
New York, it is said, 900 per cent. is added
to the cost of purchasers.
The Chippewa (Wis) Union says
during a cold snap there, water in wells ~
feet deep was frozen over. &s =
-v-Substract your age from eighty and
o-thirds of the result will give you the
probable duration of your life.
The first building in Cory, Pa, was
erected in August, 1861. The town now
has population of over 5000.
An English magazine estimates the
| Wall street money business at between
SIS, 600, 600, 900 and SIT, 100000 900 a year.
Between eighty and ninety million
| pins can be made in day of ten hours by
a machine lately completed. So the Con.
| necticut papers say. 7'af. "a
| More that $4,000, of which Hartford
has contributed $4,000, has been raised
| in Connecticut toward the foundation
of State industrial school for vagrant
girls. *, ',9int 10 sga.gu set 5tT
| The total acres of land granted by
| Government to Iowa to aid in the con-
| struction of railroads, is 5009,784. The
total miles of road now built in. that State
are 1926.
| MIR. VIM. Fraser, an amateur skater
of Chicago, recently wagered 5000 that
he could skate 100 miles in "a consecutive
hours. He won the money and had Is
minutes to spare. ff aG
| San Jose, California, has gone into silk
| culture, with company having capital
of 100000, the machinery has arrived,
the foundation of the building is laid, and
the worms are at work.
| in the United States there are one
hundred and eighty theaters, museums,
opera and concert halls, which paid last
| year a tax OF two per cent, on their gross
receipts, amounting to $194039.
New York has had nearly one hun
/ bred days of sleighing the past winter, &C
cording to oneof its journals Three
months of snow before the close of Feb
ruary makes pretty long winter. s.i $50
The Hanover, York County, penn
| Spectator, says that strange and fatal
disease has made its appearance among
cattle in that county, and that many farm
| ers have lost some of their valuable COWS.
| An irrepressible Yankee is boring a
| hole in the Black Hills to furnish Chey-
enne with volcano to be far superior to
| Vesuvius in every respect. 1t will be illu-
minated by natural means on every Fourth
| of July.
| In New York plan has been preached
| to receive from all the prominent points of
the West quotations Of the labor market,
so that enigrants may be sent at once to
the points where their services will be
most in demand.
| 1t costs seventy pounds sterling a
week to keep the Great Eastern. The Chair
man Of the Company, at recent meet
ing, advised patience as other cables must
| be laid, and the Great Eastern is the only
vessel to accomplish it successfully.
A lady who had carried two common
pigeons from their home in Missouri, a dis
lance of two hundred miles, keeping them
in close box, lately missed them, and has
received letter from Missouri saying that
they had returned to their old haunts.
"A lady of Troy announces in the pa
| pers request that the "curled darlings"
| who attend her receptions will not lean
| GuClI uCdOS f1S dlllct tAC Wdli, 40 VLO VA 10
| taken off by the paper, and the entire re-
| papering of room is frequently rendered
necessary"
"A Brooklyn man has accomplished q
feat in the way of bigamy. He courted tor
two years and finally married a young
woman residing within stones throw of
the house where he lived with his wife and
family, and sustained the two establish
ments for some time. -t
To one who asked pecuniary assist
ance of q crusty capitalist the remark was
made: "Heaven helps those who help
themselves" Said the would-be borrower
sourly: "That reminds me of fall | got
fer of aid from a by stander: 'Come here,
sonny, and I'll pick you up.'" @
Olive Logan tells of suffering woman
who had not eaten a bite for nearly four
years." and had not slept wink since the
first gun was fired on "sumter," who re-
ceived $13 from some charitable ladies in
New York, and Immediately satisfied the
terrible cravings of hunger by the pur
chase of point lace collar at Stewards.
Incidents and Accfdemts.
A little girl eight years old reached
Whitewater, Wis, q few days ago, having
travelled from Ireland alone, and not think
ing it much of a trip.
"A colored girl in Chicago, arrested for
theft, recently made seven attempts to
commit suicide-three by hanging, two
by drowning and two by burning-all of
them being frustrated by those having her
in charge. .6Ea.
One night lately fellow attempted,