Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-06-12
VARIOUS ITEMS.


ufacturing pens with cocoa nibs.
EVERY man who plants shade tree in
Worcester, Mass, is paid one dollar by the
municipality.
| A MANS character is frequently treated
| like grate-blackened all over first, to
come out the brighter afterward.
In raft which reached Philadelphia
from the Lehigh region, was a stick of tim
Der 81 inches square and 56 feet long.
| IT is reported that several members of
the opera and concert troupe from France
in Buenos Ayres, have died of cholera.
ARAGo has demonstrated that the dura-
| ton of flash of lightning does not ex-
coed the one-millionth part of a second.
A YOUNG lady in New York broke her
engagement the other day because her
lover presented her with plain gold ring,
instead of diamond which she had ex-
pected.
| EVE was the only woman who never
threatened to go and live with her MAN.
ma. And Adam was the only man that
never tantalized his wife about " the way
mother used to cook"
MAINE is the Lake State of the East It
has more than 800 lakes, elevated so high
as to give ample water power for three or
four millions of people, should its popula-
ton ever become so large.
| THE late Spanish Marshal Narvaez was
| exhorted in his last moments by his at
tendant priest to forgive his enemies.
Enemies !" replied the dying statesman !;
"Pve none left. / ordered the last to be
shot, long ago"
A GOOD man, when dying once said,
| Formerly. death appeared to me like a
wide river, but now it has dwindled to a
little rill and my comforts, which were
as the rill, have become like the broad,
deep river"
| A SLIP of the tongue is recorded by a
French paragraphist. A lady was enjoy
| ing the society Of her husband, when the
bell rang and the servant announced " the
doctor" "Tell him / am sick and cannot
see him." was the madame's reply. ff
In the neighborhood of Leeds the fol-
lowing curious document, in a wretched
scribble, is to be seen in a window: CA
| Da Skool kept at -plaise, terms pens
| and pens per week for reeding and knit
ting and righting and sowing"
| A MAN in Toronto purchased a horse,
recently, and was so delighted with his
bargain, that he arose at midnight, in his
sleep, saddled the steed, and galloped wild
ly through the streets in his night gar
ments. A policeman halted, aroused, and
arrested the somnambulist.
"MY son." said the elder Spriggles to
his junior; thinking to enlighten the boy
on the propagation of the hen species
"My son, do you know that chickens come
out of eggs" "Do they" said Spriggles,
Jr., as he licked his plate, "I thought eggs
| came out of chickens
MERCURY conducts heat more slowly
than any other metal If the heat-con-
Quoting power of silver is at 100, that Oh
mercury is only 1865, or about twenty-ejght
times less than silver.
If the air of crowded apartment is
conducted through water, so much animal
matter is collected in the water as to occa-
sion a speedy putrefactive fermentation,
with a disgusting odor.
A LAD twelve years old was accidentally
carried over the Housatonic Falls. The
little fellow proved himself a regular Sam
island, he jumped on the dry land, and
when rescued by a boat was chewing gum
as quietly as an OK chews cud.
THE ruling passion strong in death was
Enthusiastically illustrated on the occa-
sion of a clergyman's prayer for dying
toll-keeper. The poor man had not many
hours to live, and the clergyman was in
the middle ofhis prayer. "Whist wee,
interrupted the toll-man, I think hear a
cart p
In Congreve's comedy Of the Way of
the World" one of the characters is thus
made to speak of lady, in allusion to her
glibness and inveteracy of talk: She has
got that everlasting rotation of tongue
that echo has no chance with her, but
must wait till she dies to catch her last
word"
! ST. GEORGE, the patron saint of Eng
land, with " the gilt taken off," proves to
have been no dragon-slayer, his only con-
nection with the profession of arms being
in the commissary department He is
said to have made lots of money by sup
| plying very poor quality of bacon, and
giving short weight.
THE London Court Journal makes this
Acknowledgements: ave are indebted to
America for great many valuable inven-
tons, and we are every day adopting and
bringing into use some new production of
our trans Atlantic cousins"
Mr. VIM H. HALsEY, Sunday school
Superintendent in Jersey City, knocked
the driver ola coal-cart from his seat with
blow of his cane, for attempting to drive
through q procession of children. Mr..
Halsey was called up for the offense, and
gave bail to answer at the next term of the
court.
JOHN B. COUGH was once determined to
be an actor In early life he was mem
Der of an amateur dramatic club in Bos-
ton. This acquainted him with the fact
that he possessed certain qualities of
mind which would enable him to attract
the attention of his fellow-men, and
helped to make him most effective speak
er. lsz
IT is said that among the two million
people by whom Yeddo, in Japan, is in
habited, there is not beggar in the streets,
not drunkard, notaruffian. The women
are beautiful, the men are robust and en-
ergetic; there is no trouble about fashions
education is universal, books are plentiful,
though there are no newspapers; life is
simple and easy; marriage is universal,
and children go naked.
THE Irish Church Establishment is
composed of 81 dioceses, with ,391 bene-
fees and 276 perpetual cures-in all, 1867
incumbencies, with net income of $780,
S64. The hierarchy consists of two Arch
bishops and ten Bishops, with an income
Of e53, 765, thus making the annual tax on
the people Of Ireland for the item of eccle-
siastical salaries alone, something like
81, 100000 in gold per annum.
A NEW idea of a reptile has been devel-
ODed A future statesman in the Dear