Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-10-30

nounced one of the strongest men ever
seen. While holding by his legs to ira
neze bar liz the air he lifts horse from
the ground by his teeth, as well as per-
forming many other wonderful feats of
strength.
AMONG the men who have been dis
charged from the United States armory in
Springfield, Mass, recently, for want Of
work. is Mr.. William Bliss, who has been
in the employ of the Government since
1920. As was the custom years ago, he
paid 1920 for his chance in the armory.
A REMARKABLE case of resuscitation
from drowning was that of John Crowley,
boy of seven years, who fell into the
water at Boston, the other day, and was
restored to consciousness after two hours
of unremitted attention. Hot blankets
and artificial respiration were the means
used to restore him to life
MEN often lose opportunities by want of
self confidence. Doubts and fears in the
minds of some rise up over every event,
and they fear to attempt what most prob
ably will be successful, through mere tim
orousness, while brave, active man will,
with perhaps half the ability, carry the
enterprise to a prosperous termination.
A MAN and woman, strangers to each
other, were recently confined in opposite
cells in the New Orleans Central Station.
From mutual sympathy they proceeded
to love, and as soon as they regained their
liberty magistrates marriage certificate
made them as happy a couple as is gener-
ally seen in the lower ranks of life.
A CURIOUS electrical phenomenon was
recently produced by lightning during a
:; ~ totr
a house, and, passing through one of the
rooms, imperceptibly touched an lakewood
bureau One Of the drawers contained
about 800 in gold, silver and copper, and,
on being opened, it was discovered that
the whole was converted into one solid
mass.
AN Irish boy attempting to crawl
through hole in which an iron shaft was
revolving at the rate of one hundred and
fifty times a minute, in the iron works at
Providence, r. l., a few days ago, a hooked
piece caught in his clothes and stripped
them from his body. He chung to the shaft
until the engine was stopped, and escaped
unhurt.
Mrs. PRAY, of Winterharbor, Me-, who
is over sixty years of age, started of re-
Gently, at early morning, in boat, unas-
AlSbCQ, duo uull bJsC udJ tsilN N"A
ried three miles to market thirty dollars
worth of mackerel, returning to her home
in the evening feeling well paid for her
arduous labors.
A MAN and his wife, who live in a
tenement house in Springfield, Mass, have
not spoken to each other for several years.
1t is merely to see who will hold out the
longest. When the man wants to say
anything to his wife, he addresses his re-
marks to their little son, who also acts as
the medium through which the wife COM
municates with her husband.
"A SINGULAR marriage has just been
celebrated at the Hotel de Vile, at Liege.
A young girl was united to man con-
demned to several years imprisonment,
but who, by special favor, was permitted
to marry. After the ceremony was over
and the benediction pronounced, the police
marched the bridegroom back to prison,
notwithstanding the lively protestations
of the bride, who naturally wished to be
with her husband.
| A. SNEEzE.
| What moment! What doubt.
| All my nose, inside and out,
| All my thrilling, tickling, caustic
Pyramid, rhinocerostic,
Wants to sneeze and cannot do it.
Now it yearns me, thrills me, stings me,
| Now with rapturous torment wrings me; =.
Now says =" Sneeze, you fool; get through it,
| Shee-shee-ohl tits most del-ishi-
Ishi-ishi--most del-ishi-
(HaDg it shall sneeZe till spring.
| Snuff7s most delicious thing.
| "A FRENcHMAN, who had saved from
his earnings at the armory in Springfield
| $4,000, lent it to the town of Conway, N.
| H., but the transaction was not recorded
| till after three days had expired, and there
/ fora fhot ox raf1cod 70 n w.
| on account of this little informality, the
man. The costs amounted to $500, and to
pay this he is now working industriously
YOU'VE PRINCE MILAN, just made ruler
of Servia, hasn't got used to the situation
yet. He lately visited his grandmother
and said to her, Grandmother, His High
ness is hungry, and would like to have
something to eat" The old lady asked
him if they did not give him enough to eat
at home. ooh, you see, grandmother, }"
replied the lad, laughing, whenever I ask
| for anything at the palace the servants i'm
mediately kiss my hand, and ! am about
tired of that"
THERE is quite change in the fashion
of furs The old round, broad collar has
disappeared, and narrow collars with long
| tips, approximating to the old boas, are
taking their place. The furs in requisition
are sable, mink, squirrel and ermine
| The latter is very popular for evening
| toilet and for children's sets. Sable and
mink are the most in demand where style
is considered. The astrakaI is very much
worn for capes and cloaks, and answers
for both cloak and furs. 1t comes in black
and gray.
A WELL KNOWN vagabond who was
brought before magistrate as common
vagrant, having suddenly harpooned q
good idea, pulled from the capacious
pocket of his tattered coat loaf of bread
and halfdried Goldfish, and holding them
/ up with triumphant look and gesture to
the magistrate, he exclaimed: You don't
catch me that way; I'm no vagrant.
| Amt that visible means of support,
should like to know?"
A CURIOUS matrimonial affair has re-
Gently transpired in Brooklyn. Ten years
ago a couple, recently married, moved
from Boston to the City of Churches,
where the husband set up in business and
prospered. His business at his Office was
better than at home, for his married life
was unhappy, and about five years ago
the parties managed to secure divorce
| They gradually lost sight of each other,
| and during the past year each of them
married, and each to a person who had
| been divorced. The two husbands were
thrown together, without knowing their
real relations to each other, and few
weeks ago the one who had married the
divArced woman invited the other home