Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-09-18
VARIOUS ITEMS.

five o'clock in the morning.
THE grasshoppers have put apples up
to % cents apiece in Utah.
THE Horseshoe Falls at Niagara have
receded six feet in the last year. -3
A MONUMENT to the late Mr.. Elliott is
talked about by his artist friends. M
Four thousand Mormon Immigrants
have passed through Canada this year.
. ST. PETERSBURG has FIVE daily papers
-four published in Russian and one in
French. 1f-aa5
New JERSEY temperance men propose
to circulate 10000 copies of Parton's wine
article. l.
THIRTY MILLIONS of the annual revenue
of England is derived from the sale OF
opium to the East Indians. @
AT recent book sale in London, six
volumes printed by William Caxton
brought the enormous price of $5,4SO
IT is said that the Editors Drawer in
Harpers Aagasiaae is made up by women.
So are good many editors drawers.
"A WRITER in the Paris Figaro says all
women are devils. They are the devils
most men like to be possessed OF. .4r
A GERMAN statistician has found that
universally the deaths are most numerous
in the first four months of the year.
A New YORKER advertises to give les
sons in the "Grecian bend" Any one
can get it cheaply by eating green apples.
INLondon there is man who lives by
begging catalogues and selling them for
waste paper at three half pence per
pound. ea..g
RESTORING lost children is big business
IN Prnn1y1u 1ur, month 12D 1nYiOuc
and aimless babes were restored to their
parents.
KARL DAMN, writer in New York
German paper, says that arsenlcum, given
homeopathically, will cure the cattle
plague.
A BRIDAL pair in Savannah were chlo-
reformed by burglars, and robbed on
their wedding night, recently. and the
bride died.
A wIDowER in Hardwick, Vt, forty
five years old, and who has children mar
ried, was lately welded to girl twelve
years old. asa
A CLERGYMAN, after marrying couple,
made prayer over them, concluding:
"Forgive them, Lord, they know notwhat
they do" Es Gat @aj
OLIVER DYER, who brought "the wick
eldest man in New York" to public view,
is the answerer of correspondents in the
New York Ledgsr. ~ enee a-1 t215
A LADY in East Bridgewater, Mass, was
recently severely burned in the face by the
explosion of n sealed can of tomatoes left
on the stove. gaa t3sga3 ~ n.9iF
"WHY don't you ask me how am?"
smilingly said a lady visitor to a four-year-
old girl. 81 don't want to know was
little innocent's reply. 81 taHou32
A VALUABLE jewel, stolen from the
Royal Treasury at Lisbon two years ago,
was recently recovered at Athens. 1t was
diamond worth $150,000. 5.
A JOKER in New York has posted up in
his place of business '" No money lent
in sums less than million dollars under
any circumstances" t,t..4
A MAN in London kept the body of his
dead daughter in the house seventeen days,
until he could get up q rattle to pay the
funeral expenses. 1,.......a....
THE letter carriers for the suburbs of
Paris are to be supplied with velocipedes,
which will enable them to finish their dis
tribution four hours earlier daily.
THE grain crop in California this year
will be immense. At least 20,000,000
bushels of wheat have been harvested.
The grape crop is also above the average.
PRoFEssoR WATSON, Of the Detroit OBJ
servatory, announces the discovery of
another minor planet, hitherto unknown.
1t shines like star of the tenth magni-
tude. 3
HOWE WHITE, of Norton, Mass, eighty
six, and wife, seventy seven years OF age,
were delighted few days ago by sur
prise visit from forty-six children and
grandchildren, who had not all met togeth
er for forty years. ii ften eGiie5
A LONDON letter-carrier, with children
and sick wife to support on nine shillings
a week, stole twelve postage stamps from
a letter, and has been sent to prison for
five years. aa aa7 fag6 9d3 d5H no
/ ALBANY has the credit of having fur
nished New York with it's "wickedest
man." John Allen was graduate of Al
bany Academy. His name OF Allen is said
to be an assumed one. ...jt
THE mail agents on the Union Pacific
Railroad have been armed with Spencer
carbines, with which to defend themselves
against any attacks the Indians may make
on mail trains.
A.. T.. BURDEN, of Staaords Springs,
Conn, poisoned the flies in his house re-
Gently, and swept them out of doors,
where they were eaten by brood of
chickens, every one of whom died.
THE editor of the Heamont Jouriool, pub
lished at Windsor, in that State, has in his
garden tomato nearly ripe, measuring in
one way seventeen inches,
the other, twenty and half inches
STURGEON says: "The world maintains
it's players and fiddlers far better than the
Christian church remunerates its minis
ters; and dancer or an actor will receive
more than the most learned and edifying
divine" .1u.,
SMOKING by ladies in Boston is on the
increase. An extensive. cigar dealer in
that city says he sells an average of three
hundred per day for ladies' use, and thinks
a thousand per day at least are pulled by
the fair ones.
JOSH BILLINGS says: "Most people de-
cline to learn only by their own expert
encc, and / guess they are more than half
right, for don't s'pose man could get a
correct idea of molasses candy merely by
letting another feller taste it for him."
THE distress of the people in the Red
River settlements of British America,
north of Minnesota, is represented as ex-
RENE. The crops have been a complete
allure, and the people are in danger of
general starvation. a Y
ARCHBISHOP KENRIcK, Of st. Louis, has
instructed the Catholic clergy in his do
,ese to denounce "Planchette," and warn