Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-27
VARIOUS ITEMS.

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TINE is q file that wears, and makes no
noise.
THERE are 600 old clothes dealers in
New York city.
A PHILADELPHIA school house has been
seized for ground rent. ~
ONE million postage stamps are daily
used in the United States.
Two LARGE velocipede factories are
now running in New York.
A STATEN ISLAND factory turns out a
ton of chewing gum" daily. 8n!H .-i
A HARTFORD company paid 50, ,000 in
| surance on one>sheep, recently.
THE anti-Butler campaign cost State
street, Boston, at least $4,000. t" @-
BANK runners in New York have their
wallets chained to their wrists. = fa.gs.
| Doctor OF LITERATURE is new de-
gree established by the University OF Lon
| don. -24
A MOVEMENT has been commenced in
| Spain for the abolition Of bull fights.
THERE are no beggars in Portland, Ore
| gon, a place of eight thousand inhabit-
| ants. t
IT is said that a Frenchman recently
drank eighty-four cups of coffee on a
wager.
LIBERIA has 100000 inhabitants, of
whom only $4,000 are American negroes.
ONE small Massachusetts, town has one
hundred and forty-six shoe manufactures
THE fee on registered letters will be re-
duced, January 1, from twenty to fifteen
cents.
THERE is a man in Southwestern Penn
sylvania who has for ninety years used q
crutch.
A WRITER on adulteration in food says
there are fifty substitutes for coffee and
1879 for tea.
CANADA has young lady of twenty
three, who is seven feet seven inches tall,
and weighs 370 pounds.
MICHIGAN has paid one-eighth Of its
State debt within a year, and HOW owes
less than three and half millions.
In Berkshire county, Mass, there is
rich old fellow who never rode in rail
road car nor ventured outside his native
county.
Two DoMEsTIcs in Lee, Mass, have re-
Gently been bereayed of a relative, who
left them $4,000 each with which to
mourn his loss t =
II PEDDbER was StdIpOu W UtdGu
in his room, at Birmingham, Pa, the other
day, with an emaciated dog watching the
corpse.
THE workingmen's cooperative socie-
ties of Halifax, England, make 100000 a
year profits and have lately erected an ele-
CANT $780, edifce.
ELECTRIC shocks applied to the head
have been successfully used in England in
arousing to consciousness persons stupe-
fed by opium.
THEY, have in Lacrosse blind wood
sawyer, John Hogan, blind broom
maker, Henry Henryeson, and blind au-
thoress, selling her life. t
CAREFUL observations by scientific men |
has proved that the greatest known velo- |
city of the largest ocean wave is nine |
hundred miles an hour. 'A aft
THE operatives in the cotton and wooden |
mills in North Adams, Mass work eleven !
hours per day, and the average wages is
six dollars per week. ssa
A BROOKLYN minister said recently that |
there are six hundred thousand members |
of the African Methodist Episcopal |
Church in this country.
FRESH attempts are being made to re
cover the Russian military chest which |
was thrown into the lake of Kloenthal, |
Switzerland, during the retreat Of 1899
In France, the only thing required to
send an individual to lunatic asylum is |
the certificate of a police surgeon, de- |
claring the individual to be insane.
THE San Francisco Bulletin says:
" More farms have been cut up and sold |
in this State during. the present year,
probably, than in any three previous
years" 4a
On farm near Toledo, O., few days
ago, during his fathers absence, q FIVE
year old boy started little bonfire in the
shed that spread until it took in all the
homestead.
A MEMPHIS aeronaut dropped dog at
an elevation of 5000 feet The animal is
supposed to have sustained internal inju
ries, as no external marks were found, Of
injuries or of the dog. .i
A TROY pig was recently exhumed from
the ruins of an elevator, which was de-
stroyed by fire month before, and his pig
ship trotted off at a lively pace. Ali he
had to eat was wheat for a month
THE Supreme Court of California has
compelled man to pay his wife $4,000
upon promissory note given previous to
their marriage. The question Of law in
yolved in the case is a ew one.
BELTS to run smoothly should have
certain amount of elasticity. A perfectly
unyielding belt will not embrace the face
of the pulley. For this reason leather
belts should be kept soft by occasional
oilipg "a. .s, -
THE ponies or horses peculiar to China
are used only for riding, and by manda-
rims when upon official business. All
agricultural work, plowing, irrigating,
and the working of rice mills, is done By
the buffalo
A PRIVATE watchman, four policemen,
and the proprietor entered Bridgeport
| store the other day, with the utmost pre-
cautions to capture burglar, and found
him only ridiculous rat struggling ina
trap.
4 FEW nights since, boy at Niagara
Falls stretched cord across the street, a
little above the pavement, "iust for fun. =
and a man fell over it, breaking his collar
bone and receiving injuries tfat will lev
him up for several weeks. ~