Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-10-09
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OVER head and ears in debt-W fearing
an unpaid for hat.
BosToN has wooden building which
was erected in 1909. .lF
1T is said there is not a single Hebrew
beggar in New York city.
In London 500 men live by writing
cheap sensation stories.
THERE are $4,000 worth of window
glass in Stewards new store.
THE Apprentices Library, in New
York, contains over 40, 900 volumes.
A SHORT drive with many men-Belng
driven to their wits end. :"
THE number of thieves of all kinds IN
New York is estimated at ten thousand.
THE total number of cattle in the varl-
GUS European states is not less, 1t Is SAID,
than 94,700,000.
THE French Emperor is arming loco
motives with artillery for scouting duty.
A WORCESTER Yankee has raised four
hundred pounds of squashes from 1our
seeds .ad9 at# '''
Two THOUSAND new buildings have
been erected in St. Louis within twelve
months.
A MAN has Just served out sentence OF
one hundred years in the galleys, In
France.
THE telegraph is more freely used in
Belgium than in any other European
country. .... .,..., e..
NEW YORK merchants are subscribing
to aid the sufferers by the South American
earthquakes. .t-
JOHN Fl. FAsEY, said to have been the
fastest type-setter in the country, died in
Philadelphia last month. tft
MRS ROBERT LINCOLN wore white silk
trimmed with white satin, with pearl or
naments, when married.
AUGUST BELMoNT's picture gallery is
valued at 100000, and is one of the best
collections in this country.
Mr.. F. I. DAY, of Lewiston, Me-, has a
complete set of copper cents, all mounted
and framed, from 1898 to 1857, inclusive.
DURING the past year, 100000 meals have
been furnished to the poor at the Five
Points House of Industry, New York.
WHY is baby like wheat? Answer
Because it is first Graded, then thrashed,
and finally becomes the flower of the
family.
AN English amateur having propelled
himself on velocipede at the rate of fif-
teen miles an hour, intends racing loco
motive.
THAT was weak-minded foreigner who
declared that the oyster stew was the no.
blest instistew-tion of America. How
steao-pid?
THE Cincinnati Commercial states that
Gov. Yarmouth, of Louisiana, was for
merly rival of Robert Lincoln, for the
heart and hand of Miss Harlan.
THE Prussian troops are learning to ex-
ecute new manmuvre. A battalion
throws itself on the ground and two other
battalions march over them at quick
march to the front.
AFTER the list of January next, the reg
istration fee on all letters registered in
and addressed to any part of the United
States, will be fifteen instead of twenty
cents.
A CONVENTION of persons interested in
cattle raising is to be held in A4w Y ork in
the latter part of November. Delegates
from each State, and also from Canada, are
expected.
BY recent law in England, parents
who neglect their children may be sent to
prison for six months, and similar pen
atty is attached to the husband who fails
to maintain his wife. @
OUT of 293,214 conscripts of France
during the present year, 219,087 can read
and write, 1919 can read only, 60,266 can
do neither, and no information was gath
cred as to $500.
THE Little Corporal, published in Chica-
go, Ill, by Alfred L. Sewell and which is
to appear hereafter in magazine form, has
now the largest circulation of any juvenile
magazine in the world.
A PAPER mill, in which was manufac-
tured paper used by Benjamin Franklin,
in his office, is still in operation in Della
ware County, Pa. 1t is named the "Ivy
MILL" and was erected as long ago as the
year 1773.
THE revising barrister at Manchester,
England, has decided that the 5,700 ladies
who had claimed to have their names in
cluded in the Parliamentary register could
not be admitted to the franchise. @
A PACKAGE of currency, containing
twenty-five thousand dollars, was stolen
the other morning from Broadway Elk
press office, while the messenger was at
the front door. The man supposed to
have stolen it escaped.
A ST. LOUIS printer has attached the
ballon Hercules on an unpaid bill. He
expects his property will go up on his
hands. The lawyers say the attachment
will prevent this, and call it a very, (aero)
nauty case.
"LITTLE CHESTER" son of "John AL
len." the Wickedest Man in New York, !"
is named after the Rev Chester Van Al
len, pastor of the Baptist church at Sco-
tia, Schenectady county, N. Y, who is
brother to the Wickedest Man"
SHTY-FIvE velocipedes were entered
for a series of races lately held near Paris.
A new four-wheeled vehicle, just invented,
was introduced 1t is said to be safe,
swifter, and less fatiguing than the others.
THEY have discovered medicinal mud in
Texas. 1t is a sour earth, which acidu-
lates water to an extent that renders it a
valuable beverage for the invigoration of
fever-weakened systems. The mud brings
more money bushel than corn.
WE have lately been reading of some
person who was killed by a cork when
drawing it. Buff the cork has killed one
man, consider how many thousands and
tens of thousands the bottle has killed with
out word being said about it -
Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY said in the
sion in New York, that she had been en-
gagged in reformatory movements for the
past twenty years, and that now she did
not possess five hundred dollars to her
naWe.