Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-19
VARIOUS ITEMS.

rienced change of hat.
LIFE is the best Of oonundrums, for we
all to have to give 1t up.
MANY persons have burned their fin
gers by dabbling in petroleum.
Why Is grocer out Of business like an
eel? Because he hasn't got any scales.
GIRLS are hereafter to act as carriers Of
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady stanton's Woman's
Rights paper.
JOHN A. OLMsFEAD, of New York, has
invented boat which can be doubled up
| in trunk.
MOSQUITOES drive bears in Florida.
They drove one right into the city Of Tai
lahassee the other day.
"WHAT are you doing with my micro
scope, George? ~ GIVE been shaving, IA
Their, and I want to see If there are any
hairs in the lather."
IT Is the duty Of every man to take
some good reliable, entertaining paper,
and pay for the same promptly-of course.
CHURCH pews in Cincinnati cost from
$25 to $100 The First Presbyterian
Church has agreed to abolish the pew sys-
| tenn.
John, did Mr.. Green get the medi-
u L Il
piled John, "for | saw the shutters up
| the next morning"
AT bachelors dinner, recently. one
| crusty old wit gave as a toast: "Matri-
| mony--the maiden's prayer and the
| widows might"
| THE published census Of Hong Kong
| shows the total population of that place
to be 117,471 souls, Of whom 2,151 are
| Acknowledgment.
THE original retired physician, whose
sands of life" have been running out so
long, is better. He married Hartford
girl recently.
THE thirty-on savings banks in New
| Hampshire have deposits amounting to
| $14, 100000, an increase of more than
$3,OOO,0O0 during the past year.
LAST year Paris consumed 1,707, 1865
| sheep. The French butchers are so expert
in killing that twenty sheep are killed in
forty eight seconds.
In Mississippi this year, Havana tobac-
co for cigars will be extensively cultivated.
On numerous places the young plants have
been already transplanted, and are thirty
ing finely.
MANY man thinks it virtue that keeps
him from turning rascal, when it is only
| full stomach. One should be careful,
and not mistake potatoes for principles.
| MANY farmers in Maine, tempted by
| high prices, sold all their potatoes and
have paid thirty per cent more for seed
potatoes than they received for those sold
| by them. sH
| A CASE was tried in Norwich, Connecti-
cut, recently in which the plaintiff gained
the case, and in the generosity evoked by
his success, paid the fine, costs, and fees OF
| the defendants lawyer.
| A CORAL merchant of Naples was re-
Gently robbed of $4,000, but shortly after
received by mail securities to the amount
of $4,000, the thief considering himself
entitled to the balance as commission.
ALL bets on the life or death of DR..
Livingstone are declared "off," on ac-
count of the foul play of the natives, who
stole his medicine chest, and thus insured
his deliverance in good health.
THE Prince Of Wales has become very
bald, and they say he will soon be very
gray. His features are described as show
ing good humor. His speeches, for a
Prince, are certainly not bad
ENTHUSIASTIC admirers serenaded an
actress at a hotel in St. Louis short time
since, and listened to simultaneous speeches
from several gentlemen who supposed the
honor intended for themselves.
| THE quantity of crude oil now stored in
tanks at Petrolia, Canada, is 10000 bar
rels-equal to the whole consumption of
| the province for a year and a half Four
fifths of the wells have suspended opera
| tions.
THE peat speculation has proved un-
profitable in Connecticut Losses have oc-
| Cured in Hartford and Tolland counties
to the extent Of about $4,000 in this
speculation, and large sums in other parts
of the State.
POLICE investigation shows that while
| the lottery offices in New York receive
| 5000 daily, the 1853 faro banks have an
average daily income Of $48,900 About
$30,O00,000 is annually spent in the gam
| bling houses Of that city.
METEOROLOGICAL registers conclusiyely
show that contrary to the belief that the
appearance of the aurora borealis por-
tends a storm, the appearance Of this
phenomenon is as often followed by fair
weather as by foul.
| A PIOUs Scotch minister, being asked by
| a friend, during his last illness, whether he
thought himself dying, replied, "Really,
| friend care not whether am or not for
| if die, shall be with God; and if l live,
| God will be with me-"
JOHN HOPKINS, ESQ.,, the wealthiest man
| in Baltimore, now approaching octogena-
rian life, has made his will, bequeathing a
million and half, with magnificent sub
urban estate, for great university, as well
as another million for hospital in the
city.
THE largest steamer ever built at the
West is ready for launching at Fulton, o.
She is, Of 5000 tons capacity-300 tons
greater than the famous Great Republic,
300 feet long, 80 wide and 10 feet depth of
hole She will engage in the New Orleans
and St. Louis trade.
A CITIZEN has procured, from Paris, a
door mat made of steel wire, with the
word :" Salge" (welcome) wrought in the
centre. A visitor, overcome by curiosity,
innocently asked what kind of salve he
manufactured and advertised on his door
mat.
In several mines in Cornwall, Eng
land, there are galleries which extend I'M
der the sea, where the sound of the waves
is clearly heard when the sea is agitated,
rolling the pebbles and boulders over the
rocky bottom of the ocean.
A MARRIED lady, who was in the habit
nf cpandinr npet Of hor time in tho