Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-29
VARIOUS ITEMS.

A CURTAIN lecture -QTOVe SIHCluLaol
husband to suicide.
MODERATION is the silken string run
ming through the chain of all the virtues.
PRIZE FIGHTING may not be penny-wis-
dom, but it is certainly pound-folly.
A TIPsY Connecticut man tried to Click
locomotive He won't try it again.
A BANK robber in New Orleans was
detected by the mark of a tack in his
boot.
He is well constituted who grieves not
for what he has not, and rejoices for what
he has.
PAPER money lately issued by the Gov
ernment of Italy was engraved in this
country.
NEVER indulge in what appears to be
little sin; it will harden the heart and lead
to greater.
WHY is the avoirdupois system OF weights
like an unprincipled person? Because it
has no scruples
Two hundred and forty men will be en-
ployed by the Government this year in the
survey of Lake Superior.
"I'M not denying that women are fool
ish." said Mrs Poyser, Good Almighty
made 'em to match the men"
On May day, 1920 loads of furniture
went across the ferries out of New York,
| and 295 loads were brought in.
The population Of Egypt is 1900, 600,
of these 100000 are in Cairo, 100000 in
Alexandria, and $4,000 in Suez.
A WIDOW lately purchased, as part OF
her second wedding outfit, a tombstone for
her recently deceased first husband
A M1NNow found in a pail Of milk, in
Brooklyn, was accounted for by the milk
man. The cow must have swallowed it.
| PITTSBURGH has thirty-three iron, eight
steel, and two copper rolling mills. The
iron mills have a capacity for 200 tons.
THE height ofpoliteness is passing round
upon the opposite side of a lady, when
| walking with her, in order not to step upon
| her shadow.
| WHAT difference exists between a sta
| toner and paper-hanger at work in
prison? One sells the paper the other
papers the cell.
| A LADY wants some one to invent a
machine to tell how far husbands go in
| the evening when "they just step down
| to the post-ofice."
Mrs. DILLAH LADD, of Lyme, Conn,
| has entered her 108th year. Her husband,
| though he lived to be quite an old Ladd,
died some years ago.
A LONDON journal gravely informs its
readers that the impression prevails IN
certain parts of America that the law per-
| mits man to sell his wife.
IT is not until the flower has fallen off
that the fruit begins to ripen SO in life,
| it is when the romance is past that the
practical usefulness begins.
"DEATH," says Lacon, "is like thunder
in two particulars we are alarmed at the
sound of it, and it is formidable only
from that which preceded it,"
A New YORK paper says that about ten
children week are cut of in various
places by placing tubs of water where they
can conveniently fall into them.
WHY is public speaker, who is about
winding up his address, like boy who has
done violence to his wardrobe? Because
he's toward his close (tored his clothes).
l A COUNTRY paper says there is man
in that neighborhood so mean that he sits
on the doorsteps of the church on Sun
days to save the wear of his pew cushions.
A PAPER tells of man who fell over
a precipice, and remarks: "The fall was
about fifteen yards, and the poor man, who
was going home that way, died instantly"
In BELFAST Me-, are twins seperfectly
alike that their mother only distinguishes
them by embroidering on the ribbons
around their waists the names Martha and
Mary.
THIS is the year on which nearly all of
| the so-called prophets and Interpreters OF
| the Scriptures have agreed that the begin
| ming of the end of the world is to take
place. f, t..f
"WHAT would l give" said Charles
Lamb, "to call my dear mother back to
earth for single day, to ask her pardon,
upon my knees, for all those acts by which
1 grieved her gentle spirit !"
A GUST of wind and "jocky hat and
| feather cost young lady $3.50 on Troy
New York; ferry boat, the other day.
In attempting to save her hat, her pocket
book, which she held in her hand, fell over
board.
A VENERABLE lady in Boston states that
ON May 9th, 1903, sixty five years ago, the
peach and cherry trees were in full bloom,
with snow enough on the ground in the
morning for good sleighing
THE whole number Of snow storms in
Boston for the past twenty-five years is
seven hundred and twenty-four. The
depth of snow during the same period was
one hundred and seven feet.
How very exhilerating it must be to be
suddenly lodged in prison cell for a
night, and be released the following morn
| ing with the comforting reply to your in
| quiry, "you are the wrong man."
A SAILOR, exhorting at prayer meeting
in London chapel, said that on dark,
stormy nights, while on the sea, he had
often been comforted by that beautiful
passage in Scripture-"A faint heart
never won fair lady,"
| THE New York Observer estimates the
number of Jews in the United States at
100000. Their first immigration to this
country was in 1894 They have three
hundred synagogues, thirty-nine of which
are in New York snd Brooklyn.
A PHYSICIAN of Breslau announces to
the Academy of Sciences in Paris that he
has succeeded in Illuminating the cavities
of the living human body by means of
electricity so as to render their interior
visible to the physicians. @f
In ENGLAND and France, dried fern
leaves are used very extensively for pack
ing fresh fruit, grapes, especially; they
seeming to possess, to an unusual degree,
the property of preserving vegetable and
even animal substances for long time.
THE Ohio Reform Farm, near Lancas-
ter, has ITO acres. There are over 900
boys, mostly criminals, who behave well,
and who are engaged in growing small
fruits, and their returns last year, after
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