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


VINO has ever been pushed by a shoulder
of mutton?
THE population of Cleveland, as per
late census, is S5,20o.
Boston annually expends $4,000 for
church music.
THE way to treat wife is to treat her
to new dress.
QUEEN IsABELLA's reign lasted exactly
thirty-fve years.
THEODORE PARKER's works have oeeA
translated into Swedish.
PARrsrAN ladies wear small gilt cnam-
payne bottles for earrings.
A PARTISAN belle performs her additions
in $4,000 silver tub.
FRANCE has 100000 men ready for SER
vice, and Prussia 100000.
HORACE GREELEY receives $1,000 per
annum as leading editor OF the New IorK
Tribune.
IT may be fair question whether man
can be said to be welded to celibacy.
THE Sun tavern, near Faneuil Hall,
erected in 1909, is the Oldest bulldlng III
Boston.
RUSSIA advises people not emigrate to
that country, as food is scarce and business
dull
A MAN in New York State was recently
fined twenty-five dollars for shooting q
bird on Sunday.
THE twelve hat factories at Bethel,
Conn, employ $40 hands, and turn out
361 dozen of hats daily.
A FAMILY of five persons on Staten Is
land has been poisoned by eating preserves
cooked in copper.
A LADY with Grecian bend looks to a
country youth like crooked-necked
squash struck by lightning,
4 FROM all accounts the tobacco crop in
Kentucky has been a great success, and
the damage by frost is very slight.
Rev. NEWMAN HALL and his wife write
so near alike that it is difficult to distln-
guish the chirography OF one from the
other.
GREAT BRITAINs silver coinage would
form a column over eighty-seven miles
long. Were they all new they would ex-
tend 1861 miles.
A NEW road locomotive has lately been
tried at Edinburg, Scotland, that threat
ems to revolutionize public traffic, both Tor
speed and power.
QUAKERs are 80 scarce in Canada that a
Toronto paper chronicles the arrival and
departure Vi TWO, anu uOICo euO oOuooeA'n
their appearance created.
A RESPECTABLE (?) lady was sent to
prison the other day, in New York, on
complaint of her daughters, for being q
confirmed drunkard.
LAST year 1,190 lives were lost by acct
dent in the coal mines of Great Britain
alonei The loss has averaged about 900
a year for twelve years.
THERE are living in Essex, Conn, eight
men who were in the same class at school,
whose aggregate ages amount to six hum
dred an eighty years.
A WAC at hotel recently ordered elev-
en- beds for his own exclusive use, because
he had been eleven nights without decent
sleep, and wanted TO make up the loss.
EXPERIMENTS show that sounds upon
the earth are distinctly heard at much
by those who are also upon the earth.
A MAN made money at New England
fair, by letting people raise him up by the
ears at twenty-five cents premium FOR sue
cess and ten cents fine for failure.
To DO the thing properly in New York
at wedding, the bride must have eight
bridesmaids, and hundred dollar poodle
besides the.one she marries.
WHEN you see g man on moonlight
night trying to convince his shadow that
it is improper to follow gentleman, you
may be sure it is high time for him to join
the temperance society.
A NEW YORK domestic, being dissatis-
fed with the lonely situation of her en-
ployer's house, twice fired the premises to
compel the family to remove to a more
populous district
THE other evening, an unknown Ger
man called at hotel in Fosters Meadow,
NY, became interested in game of cards,
lost $40, and hanged himself in a swamp
in the rear of the hotel, during the night.
SAID member of church to anoth-
or member " l can give five dollars for
this object and not feel it." "Then," said
his companion, "give tensand feel it. Did
not our Saviour feel what he did for
you?"
THE following announcement lately ap-
peared in paper Edward Eden, paint
er, is requested to communicate with his
brother, when he will hear something to
his advantage-hi wife is dead"
The wife of cross husband in Hart
ford, Conn, provided him with whisky
enough to make him hopelessly drunk,
and then took him in hand and admins
tered a fearful thrashing
Two sovEREIeNs have just entered on
the twentieth year Of their reign-namely,
the Emperor of Austria, and the King OF
Italy, who assembled their respective
thrones within few months of each
other.
THERE were in the British Kingdom,
1888, 924 acres under wheat in 1868, against
1893, 784 in 1867. The number of acres
devoted to the cultivation of potatoes in
1868 was 1,549, 1876, against 1,493,762 III
1867.
A FEW evenings since, lady, while sit
ting in her residence, in Bonneville, Mass,
was struck on the head by stone hurled
violently through the window, but her
chignon broke the force of the blow.
THE Missouri standard for a bushel of
oats is thirty-fv pounds; that of Illinois
is thirty-two pounds to the bushel. The
Board of Trade of st. Louis have recently
adopted the Illinois standard, thus making
the Illinois and st. Louis markets uni
form.
1T is stated that the cost of each slave
rescued on the coast of Africa by the Eng
lish fleet has cost the Government not less
than quarter of million of dollars.
Only nine persons were rescued from slave
traders in three years up to 1867
THE recent disastrous explosion at Metz
was caused by workwoman, in moment
Of passion, throwing pair of scissors
among the Illuminating powder used in
the manufacture of cartridges. Forty