Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-08-21
VARIOUS ITEMS.


Russia.
FUN calls Cyrus W. Field for enter
prise. ........
THERE are 1900 INDECENT clergymen in
England.
EIGHT hundred Americans are summer
ing at Dresden.
THERE is firm in Syracuse by the
name of Settle & Burst.
A SON of the Sultan is on the way to
France for an education.
JOHN BRoUGHAM talks of forsaking the
drama for novel writing.
THE Louisville Journal has seen some
white blackberries.
THE cattle plague has broken out in
Egypt and Russia.
Boston has a weekly called the Neao
England Base BalISst.
THERE are about 100000 vines in
California vineyards.
LONDON has home for lost and starving
dogs found in the streets.
NINETEEN couples were divorced in
Hartford last month.
WATERPROOF suits for ladies are being
introduced into England.
THE new insane asylum at Poughkeep-
sic is to have Turkish bath.
STEUBEN, Maine, didn't have clear
sunrise from May 4th to June 25th.
IT is believed that ten people We're
buried alive in Berlin within year.
THE rust has struck the tobacco plant
badly in many parts of Connecticut.
To ASCERTAIN whether a bull is mad
Twist his tail and punch his sides with
pitchfork.
THE greatest glory is not in never
failing, but in rising every time that we
fail.
THE board for pet dog is five dol
lars per week at the fashionable watering
places.
VICToR EMANUEL is writing an &C.
count of his reign, to be published after
his death.
THE sugar crop in the West Indies
promises to be very large one this
year.
PHILADELPHIA does less in life in
surance than any other city OF half its
size.
THE preponderance of women over
men, among the English Quakers, is
twelve per cent.
! SIX paupers recently died in Springfield,
Mass, aged respectively SO, 90, 80, 81, SO,
and 100
BOILED oranges are considered very
good as side dish by japanese gour-
mands.
THE reported discovery of rich gold
fields at the Cape of Good Hope is con
firmed
PARIS has new journal which bears
the astounding title of Bed Bugs IN the
Butter.
Mrs. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE is writ
ing novel at her summer retreat at Stock
bridge, Mass.
WHEN you go fishing, be sure and take
bite before you start, for you may not
get one after.
No LESS than two hundred kinds Of hats
are worn by men, and all fashionable, the
present season.
THE wheat harvest in Minnesota is es
timated at fifteen millions bushels, nearly
double that of last year.
A METEoRIc stone about the size of a
tea cup and of reddish brown color fell
in Fairfield, Conn, a few day since
IT is estimated that there are two thou
sand news-boys and three hundred news
girls in New York city.
PILES have been driven Ole hundred and
sixty feet in San Francisco without finding
hard pan.
THE Sultan has watch mounted on
diamond the size of a silver dollar, finger
thick, and worth 100000.
A PTTsFELD (Mass.) firm has paid
100000 for insurance in the last thirty
years and never lost cent by ire.
THERE is man in lunatic asylum in
England who believes that the English
Government wishes to build an iron
foundry in his stomach.
THOSE who ought to know say there
is not bottle of pure wine in the United
States, nor has there been for twenty-five
years.
AN eccentric blackbird has astonished
the good people of Leyden, Mass, by be-
coming domestic fowl and roosting with
the chickens
A FEW days ago gentleman we'll
known in Troy, n. Y, was married to his
sixth wife. He buried his fifth wife less
than year ago.
A WEALTHY stock broker of New York
city is about to erect mammoth art gal
lery, for the use of the public, at an ex-
pense of nearly 100000.
IRRITATING-After rolling all night in
your berth at sea, till you are miserably
i'll, to have steward open your door in
the morning and ask you II you'll have
a fresh 1sOH for breakfast"