Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-10-23
VARIOUS ITEMS.
4 MAN of mark-The sign painter.

In Fafls, Saturday is the 1aVorlee Weo-
ding day.
Mrs. MARY SMALL, of Maine, has 119
great grand children.
THE way of the world-A great many
millions of tons.
THE Oldest man in New York is Captain
Lsterbush, aged 108.
SMALL women are noticeable for the
greatness Of their signs.
A PETRIFIED crocodile 1875 feet long has
been discovered in Kansas.
SARATOGA has had 10000 more visitors
this season than ever before
PROGRAMMES of the music are distrib-
uted in some London oh urches
M. DE WITT, Guizor's son-in-law, is
writing history of the United States.
The square in which Yale College stands
is estimated to be worth $25OO0O.
ONE and half billions worth of liquor
is annually sold in the United States.
ENGLISH ladies of nobility took part in
Parliamentary proceedings six centuries
ago. a
BALTIMORE has an oyster police, whose
duty it is to protect the fisheries from dep
relation.
WITHIN one year 1890 persons died
from serpents' bites, in Madras Presidency,
India. ..... s
GILL take the responsibility" as jerks
said, when he held out his arm for the
baby.
LONDON UNIVERSITY will be open to
women May, 1869. They must be seven
teen years old. ,..... st..... .....
JONAH SMITH has flied 10 years for the
parade of the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery of Boston. t
REBEccA BROWN died on the 9th instant,
in New Orleans, at the age of 10S, and was
hurried by the city authorities.
MUSICIANS, peddlers and beggars are no
longer allowed to exercise their vocation
on board ferry boats in New York.
The sign boards put up at the road
crossings on the Pacific Railway are said
to be, "Look out for the Indians"
LIEUTENANT GRINNELL of New York,
is Inspector General of the japanese Navy
for $4,000 per annum.
MICHIGAN manufactures 100000 feet
of pine lumber per annum. Some days
over million of feet are shipped.
THE Catholics are erecting, at Quincy,
the largest church in the State of Illinois,
except the great Cathedral at Chicago.
A FRENCH chemist proposes viper's
bite as an antidote to the bite of mad
dog. He has not tried the experiment.
CALIFORNIA has sent thirteen thousand
dollars to the sufferers by the late earth
quake on the South Pacific coast.
THE NonpdreiJ says that young lady
| H.
Bluffs, by the firing of cannon.
DURING August the New York Post
Office sent 100000 letters, and received
1863, 900, besides money-order business Of
100000.
CROPS in Spain are said to be much
shorter than usual. Famine is threatened
in many districts, and large quantities OF
grain must be imported.
A PLEASANT party of school lads near
Salt Lake City pelted an Indian papoose
to death, the other day, and threw the
body into slough.
THE New York Mail knows of fur.
nished house on Fifth avenue which rents
for two thousand dollars month The
occupants are Cubans.
Mrs. THOMAS Cross of Maine, has Just
had her seventeenth little cross to bear
and has borne it. Such is the effect Of
resignation when the husband is Cross.
IT is stated in the English papers that
Charles Dickens gets 100000 for the
series of one hundred readings to be
given by him the coming winter and
spring
clergyman of the Church of England, has
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lief that the doctrine of eternal punishment
is unscriptural
A MONUMENT to the late painter Eliot
OF Scotch granite, with medallion of him
by Calverley, of Albany, will be put over
his grave in Greenwood, next spring.
A SWEDISH professor has made brandy
out of the common reindeer moss, and
another has discovered that mushrooms
are so plenty that there need never be q
famine.
A SUBMARINE diver employed on the
Seine went down drunk the other day, and
not making the expected signals, another
was sent down after him, who found him
calmly sleeping on the bed of the river
EBER PARKER and wife, of South street
Boston, recently celebrated their COLDER
wedding-day. They have resided in one
house over forty years, and in the imme
date vicinity over sixty years.
THE youthful pastor of the Kenoshs
(Wis.) Baptist Church could not induce
any painter to hazard his life by painting
the spire of the church, so he adjusted 6
rope to himself and the spire and did the
work himself .
A FRENCH woman, suspected OF hav
ing stolen some diamonds and laces, chal
| lenged examination; an old detective gave
her huge chignon tWitch and thereby
unfolded a box in which were the missing
yaluables.
| ANOTHER cooperative foundry is tc
be erected at North Albany, N. Y. 1t will
| be frst-class affair, and the building viii
cost $4,000. The foundry is expected tC
be in operation this fall. 1t will give EN-
ployment to 100 men.
A FELLOW committed burglary in To
ronto about one o'clock on recent
morning and was arrested, sent to the
Assizes for trial, tried, convicted and sen
fenced before evening of the same day
Justice was both swift and sure in that
case.
"WHEN are you going to settle this
bill ?" We've had settlement already
When?" "The last time you called.
"How so?" didn't then tell you that
I meant to settle that bill? "Yes."
every well, then, wasn't that settle
meant ?"
| IT is reported that John B. Young of
the ENew York Tribune, is decidedly in
luck. An uncle in the East Indies, whom
he has never seen and seldom heard of,