Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-12-25
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

THE best illustrated paper out"-a
bank note.
To GET out of debt, pay up-to keep
out, pay down.
FASHIONABLE funerals in Paris are tick
eted to keep out the crowd.
Mr.. GLADSTONE, the English Premier,
is the son of shrewd Liverpool corn
merchant.
Coop literature should always gain car
rency. Somebody stamps this as bad
'un..
THEY call the Canadian legislators M.
P. p, Members of the Provincial Par
| lament"
WHAT sort of poetry brings tears to the
eyes of an editor ?-Lachrymal Qack-
rhymaD poetry.
A DAUGHTER of Thomas III. Benton is
said to be teaching a primary school in
San Francisco.
| To ADAM, Paradise was home; to
the good, among his descendants, home
is a Paradise.
SOMEBODY thinks that there are a great
many facts worth ae71-stuss-ing, and we
agree with that Individual
| THE Rev. Mr.. Milburn, the well known
blind preacher, has hopes of recovering
his sight.
SAID Auber, aged SO, when he heard of
Rossini's death, Il fear / must begin to
feel old"
A LITTLE girl in Maine was choked to
death the other day while trying to swal-
low toy whistle.
THE sale of sharp weapons and uten-
sils, except scissors, razors, forks and
table knives, is forbidden in Cuba.
No ONE will live in the house, at Man
chester, Conn.,, where Albert Starkweath-
er killed his mother and sister.
IN two wards in Worcester, Mass, the
Republicans have nominated women for
members of the School Committee.
A ROCHESTER, IN. " citizen poured
kerosene over his wife, then applied the
match, but fortunately the fluid did not
! ignite
ONE of the jurors in the Deacon An
drews' murder trial was not allowed to go
| home to attend his sisters funeral, during
the trial.
IT was not Mrs. Darlington who
thought Ed" must be great newspa-
per boy, because his name was attached
to so many paragraphs in the papers.
IN Boston, recently, lady fell down
stairs and broke her arm, and the surgeon
who set the broken bones, fell and broke
a rib while leaving the house.
THE Auburn Adoertiser SAYS Secretary
Seward will continue his residence in Au-.
burn, and that it is Frederick W. Seward
who is to reside in New York.
The herds of cattle roaming over the
pralries OF Texas are said often to number
thousands, and when making their way
to the watering places are not to be trifed
with.
WHAT is the difference between a thief
when stealing and when running away
In the first instance he is an erring scamp,
and in the second he. is scampering
Scamp erring).
A FELLOW without money, having ITO
miles to go, fastened chain and paddock
to his legs and lay down to sleep in a
field. He was apprehended, and carried
gratis to Jail in the town where he de-
sired to go.
ONE tired of life in Santa Fe went out
to the hills to shoot himself There he
met another on similar errand. They
exchanged confidence, placed the muzzles
OF their pistols against each others breast
and fred.
A BRIDGEPORT paper tells story of a
young somnambulist in Stratford, CT,
who went down to the docks and fished |
for an hour without having q bite, and
hen went back to bed, and in the |
morning was entirely unconscious of his
excursion.
A GENTLEMAN received an unpaid let
Ter, commencing " Sir, your letter CT yes
.erday bears upon its face the stamp of
Ialsehood." His answer was brief and TO
The purpose; " Sir, only wish your let
Ter OF yesterday bore upon its face a
stamp of any kind"
The WESTERN FARMER advertised in
his Manor ta K 90 the front ra,,E a,,a 80