Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-04
yARE0US ITEMS.
RANT is 46, and weighs $50.

VARIOUS ITEMS.
GRANT is 46, and weighs $50.
UTAH has discovered a silk-spinning
spider.
A Boston lady has had a teamster fined
for cruelty.s
! MADRID's Governor prohibits begging
on the streets.
! Gov. TOP, of Ohio, leaves a wife, four
sons and two daughters.
A RUSSIAN draft in January will take
| four in every thousand
| IN France, to one person who reads a
book 100 go the theatre.
| THE diamond crosses for Maximilian's s
lawyers have reached Mexico.
A CoNNEoTIcUT'groce recently discov-
cred Chinese idol in chest Of tea.
WATERBURY, CT, has District School
Clerk who can neither read nor write.
THOUSANDS of Europeans believed that
President Johnson, if convicted, would be
hung.
INTRODUCING the daily papers as readers
in the public schools is thought of in Phil
adelphia.
LATEST fashion DEGREES that wedding
cards be issued three weeks before the
event transpires.
WHY do many people in China travel
on .foots Because there is only one
Cochin China.
A PEDDLER was found dead, near Pitts.
burgh, ,--starved to death land near him
his dog, not quite dead.
In Boston it was just five months and
five days from the last snow of last spring
to the first snow this fall.
LoNDoNERs want street thieves lashed
| at the whipping post, thatt being the only
punishment they dread.
THE State Treasury of California con-
tains of coin, $743, 1923; legal tenders,
1922, ,59350. Total, 1866, 1928
MAINE this year produced 100000 tons
of hay, the same number of bushels OF
corn, and 100000 bushels Of wheat.
PoNToToc county, Miss, boasts ofan in
habitant % years old, 81 inches high and
45 pounds in weight.
THE Cuban f1lihusters' flag consists OF
red and blue bars, with white ground
in one corner surmounted with Ion
star.
THE Vermont Legislature is discussing
laws compelling children to attend
school, and regulating the legal rate of in,
terest.
A PRISONER recently broke out of Nj
agara county IN. " Jail, purchased
bottle Of whisky, and then returned to
his cell contented.
A HAMILTON, Ont, policeman, being
told that dead body had been washed
ashore from the bay, hurried thither and
found that the body was that of horse.
THERE is band of robbers in NortL-
eastern Texas who admit no recruit till he
shall have killed man in the presence of
witnesses.
A ACoRREsPONDENTd desires to know which
arm gentleman should take when with
lady? Whichever he can get, and think
himself lucky at that
DURING the progress of the Cole-His-
cock murder trial at Albany, juror was
found who never had heard of the case.
He was peremptorily challenged for in
competency.
A SAVANNAH culprit attempted to es-
cape from an officer by shamming death,
but was brought to life by the pouring Of
water into his mouth as he lay on his back.
LITTLE Sarah Coli, aged eleven, started
bllO LII OuldoJ cCA0Ol al l. dOtOAoOiit ~. u >
seventy-four years ago, and taught it forty
years. She still lives to witness the fruits
of her labors.
THE Helena (Montana) Herald has seen
q curious specimen of gold, from Boulder.
1t is q correct representation OF the shell
Of snail, and weighs $50. 1t is in It's
original form, moulded in the rocks.
THE compositors of GaZjgndnis Mes
senger, and other Paris newspapers, are
said to go and return from work on veloci-
pedes, and several Of the collecting clerks
of the Bank of France have begun to use
them.
A LITTLE boy of thirteen, having placed
a penny on the railway track at Bruins
wick, Maine, to see the locomotive crush
it, one of the train hands threw stick Of
wood at him, and he was instantly killed.
At brilliant wedding in st. Johns
Cathedral, in Cleveland, recently, it was
found that some one had locked the organ;
stopped the key hole, hid the key and
lifters of the bellows, and carried off the
key of the music case to prevent rival
organist from officiating.
A PARIS paper gives a conversation be-
tween father and his little daughter.
| "What have you done with your doll?'
81 have put it away, to keep for my child
ren, when / grow up" "But if you
| shouldn't have any?" An well then it
will do for my grandchildren"
| A MARRIED daughter OF James Clemens,
wealthy citizen of St. Louis, has begun
suit against her father for property in
New York valued at twenty thousand
/ dollars, which he persuaded her to trans
| fer to him while under age for nominal
/ consideration.
A YOUNG lady advertised for dressing
maid. One applied, and in response to
the inquiry if she was quick, replied !:
/" Oh, so quick that will engage to dress
you every day in half n hour" SIN
half an hour" reiterated the young
lady; and what shall do the rest Of the
I day 2"
THE Cincinnati Chronicle recently pub
iished a dispatch saying that "Col Gil
bert, a fierce editor Of Valparaiso VSdette
and Republic, is candidate for Speaker
of the House Of Representatives" What
the telegraph should have said was "Col
Gilbert A.. Pierce, editor" &c.