Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-09-11
VARIOUS ITEMS.

In Boston street peanut vendors are in
dicted as nuisances. II
THE Boston OI6ve Branch says Boston
boy is hub bub. anEfa s13 ta
THE water power Of Maine is equal to
that of one million horses Lrag
THE Viceroy of Egypt spent s12,00,000
in ten weeks tour. -3loai
q A CENSUS just completedin Rome shows
217378 population. LH"so2 ai ~
THERE is a house in Brooklyn occupied
by fifth wife and five mothers-i -in-law.
/ For setting bull dog on a cat one G. E.
Frank has been sent to Jail in New York.
{; THREE American citizens have been APP
pointed harbor masters in Chinese ports.
THERE are now ninety-nine planetary
bodies on the roll call of the solar system
. In Newtown, Md, there are 103 single
ladies and only sixteen single gentleman.
AN Industrious man in Bangor has his
garden lighted by gas so he can work in it
by night. '.07@ 70 i''5a.f 13 8#
THERE is an establishment for canning
peaches in Atlanta, Ga, which employs
500 hands ba1oi os 9fha niiA -Dlol 2
A CoRK jury has given verdict Of e70
damages against woman for, calling q
school teacher Fenian. u h@ Tai n91
TRERE are four hundred nobleman to
every square mile of Hungary, and one to
every eighteen of the population
ALLEN, English prize-fghter, is under
bonds not to fight within a year, So the
championship match is off. pr 3ad
IT has been stated by savan recently
that Pompeii and Herculaneum were de-
stroyed over twelve thousand years ago.
THERE are 2,053 gymnastic societies
CTurnvereine) in Germany, mastering in
all about two hundred thousand members.
Mr. CYRUS w FIELD, it is said, will
soon return to this country, buy farm on
the Hudson, and retire from business life
altogether. .i'al ID n
3 THREE hundred tons Of cheese came
down the Hudson in one boat the other
day. 1t must have been a nifty mass.
Or seventy mine new serial publications
which have appeared in London since the
beginning of the year, only seven are now
in existence. slo.it
: A MAN in Massachusetts, has invented
combination lock, which is, he says, re-
markable for its simplicity, as it has only
100000 combinations.
AN Armenian gentleman has arrived in
New York with a vew of finding loca-
ton in the Southern States for a colony of
two hundred Armenian7
IN Ohio there are 172 wooden mills; in
Michigan, 40; in Indiana, 1876; in Illinois,
80; in Wisconsin, 60; in Iowa, So; in Min
nesota, IS. Total $50
A MAN named Royal Scales, Jr., of Fish
erville, N. H., threw his child into a barrel
Of soap the other day and then committed
suicide. The child was rescued.
THERE are % cardinals, % patriarchs,
archbishops and bishops, 1872 priests, 100
seminaries, 2,947 monks, 2,191 nuns, 1902
Jews, and 489 Protestants in Rome.
A YOUNG man in Lynn, Mass, was re-
Gently fined for dropping dog between
the wheels of his wagon, and then, in
order to kill the animal, running over it. fl
A WELL known New York diamond
merchant estimates the value Of the
precious stones worn in Saratoga, at one
time during the present season, at over
$4,500,000. ar Esd 10 6aFir1 %
APHYsIcIAN stopped at the shop of
country apothecary, and inquired for
pharmacop9ia. "Sir," said the apothe-
cary, II know of no such farmer living
about these parts" s,a qava
Nor long ago piece of iron ore was
dug out of mine in Devon, England,
seventy four feet below the surface of the
earth, and on breaking it lizard six inches
long crept out of it. ',1o q.4a..f,, s,.ff,
AN old shell was put into Lowell, Mass,
factory, with other old iron, a few days
ago, to be melted, when it exploded and
tore the building almost to pieces, but for
tunately injured no one
LAST year two Germans purchased
eighty acres of land in county of South
ern Tennessee, and paid for the property
with the proceeds of the first crop of
four acres of strawberries set out last fall.
IT is said that the three highest noun
tains on the globe are Gaurisanker of the
Himalaya range, 29,3S0 feet; Dapsang, in.
Western Thibet $3.50 feet; and Kunch-
-injinga, in Eastern Thibet, 28,600 feet. =
Z A STATUE to Joan of. Arc was recently
inaugurated at Melun, France, in COM
memoration of the relief of that town by
the Maid of Orleans WHEN besieged by the
English in 1430!9 odj baa nG@ jGa5
AT Wesel, Prussia, wealthy man died
a few weeks ago, who had beard eleven
and one half feet long, which he wore
wrapt up on his breast. He directed in
his will the skin of his chin to be tanned
and the beard thus to be preserved. a p
= GENTLEMAN Ito boatman), "You must
often, / should think, get wet? do you
not?" Artless boatman 2" Yes, yer honor,
we does, VERY wet, VERY wet, indeed;
but I'm VERY dry just now, yer honor,
and no mistake "a III oi Te5
A YOUNG man named Cryer died the
other day at Lexington, KY, three weeks
after bullet lodged six inches within his
brain, and another bullet had passed from
his back to his abdomen. He retained his
senses until his death. ass-.,s l.so
OFFICIAL returns show that there are
yet 1873 Prussians exiled in Siberia who
were taken under arms during the Polish
revolution in 1863. Probably they will
be shortly liberated under the conditions
of the last amnesty. ~
A YOUNG man in Pittsfeld, Mass, at
tended his own, wedding and his fathers
funeral on the same day, recently, taking
suit of white clothing for the former and
another of black for the latter.
GENERAL statistics of the crops in
France are published. On the whole, the
wheat crop is little if any superior to that
in ordinary years. In almost all the dis
ticts, barley and oats have suffered from
drought, and will he inferior in quantity
and quality. HF 9aJ Ed byo53q t#
ARATHER fast youth was relating the
experience of his voyage across the
ocean to sympathizing friend Said he,
81 tell you what, old fellow, there's one
good thing about it, though, you can get
as tight as you please every day, and