Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-11-13
VARIOUS ITEMS.

II WRETCHED Llmo-mean-Wnlle.
LONDON has 100000 houses.
SLIGHT of hand-refusing an offer of
marriage.
THE most fashionable Partisan milliners
are men.
How TO prevent a conspiracy from leak-
ing outlet the plot thicken.
Mrs. STEPHENS, a daughter of TLacke-
ray, is in Boston.
THE fear that is life to us-The atmos-
phere.
AT night London streets are illumi-
mated by 100000 lamps.
SWITZERLAND purposes adopting the
postal money order system.
MARSHAL SERRANo, President of the
Spanish Junta, began life as a journalist.
THE largest advertiser in France is q
man who has invented a patented bait for
fish hooks.
A BOY of eleven has just died at Aargau,
in Switzerland, from the sting of venom
Gus fly.
NEW YORK city has contributed $4,000
for the sufferers by the recent earthquake
| in South America.
| If nature abhors vacuum, why does
she per&it so many empty-headed people
to live?
If revenue officer engages actively in
politics, in England, he is fined $500 and
| dismissed from Office
THERE are over forty thousand Second
Adventists in the United States, who, from
religious scruples, do not vote.
WHY is it important for physician to
"keep his temper ?" Because if he did not
| h. Io ~ 70 hic &c -
| (patience).
MRS Polly KENT, sprightly Massa-
chusetts dame of eighty-oney years, recently
walked fifteen miles in five hours and
half
IF human being could make as much
| noise in proportion to size as locust, he
would be heard to sing from Chicago to
New York.
| A FEW days ago, half-a-dozen of the
urchins in the Meriden (Conn.) Reform
School mutinied, threshed the overseer,
and escaped.
AN inhuman English Captain and mate
who turned adrift two" stowaways," on
the ice near Newfoundland, have been
committed for murder.
A DRUNKEN fellow in New York, who
lived upon the charity of his widowed
sister, fatally stabbed her the other
night because she objected to his beating
her.
| A CALIFORNIAN writes to the papers
about q snake with head as large as a
milk pan and eyes like apples. He saw
| twenty feet of snake, and didn't stay for
the rest.
A BOY at Lisbon, Me-, fired a hay-mow
| few days ago, to "break up" setting
hen. He was amply successful, and his
father will proceed to rebuild the barn.
A ATwENTY-YEAR-oLD Connecticut youth
has lately married blooming widow of
| fifty, who has seven children, the Oldest of
whom is six years older than his new
papa.
LOUISA MUHLBACH, the authoress, is
poor In recent letter she says that she
would like to have money enough to buy
small house and garden, which she
might leave to her two daughters.
A BOY living in Allegheny County, N.
Y, while leading horse to water, tried
the experiment of attaching the halter
strap 10 his ankle Result-the horse be-
came frisky and the boy corpse.
NEVER attempt to do anything that is
not right. just as sure as you do you will
Il get into trouble. Ifyou even suspect that
anything is wrong, do it not until you are
sure your suspicious are groundless.
A PHILADELPHIA policeman, the other
day, escorted to the police station a
woman troubled with an unusually large
and unshapely Grecian Bend, composed
of stolen shawl and other articles.
THE Berkshire Courier says of a lady
who sent in some manuscript called poet
nv, that she had far better been darning
! stockings-she can't write poetry worth a
darn, anyhow" Ungallant, very.
A FELLOW was detected at Ipswich
Mass, the other day, in weighing load
of hay that he was selling, with four hun
dred pounds of iron, which, of course, he
meant to smuggle out Of the way before
the hay was delivered.
AN unclaimed express package was
opened in Memphis, the other day, prevl.
. Gus to it's being sent to the sale of guam
tity of such bundles to pay expenses OF
transportation, and found to contain
, twenty five thousand dollars in counter
, felt fractional currency.
A WOMAN was lately by mistake shut in
the vaults of small village church in
!, Sweden, where she remained eleven days
, When found she merely asked for some
water, and, being treated with great care
J perfectly recovered il few days.
A VALUABLE horse belonging to q
farmer in Addison county, VT, was re-
Gently bitten on his fetlock by a rattle
snake, and died in fifty minutes, in great
, agony. The reptile was trampled to
death by the horse in its rearings and
plungings after the bite.
A WOMAN in Vienna is realizing for
tune by means of trained goldfinches thai
draw numbers from small bowl Policy
, and lottery players attach great prestige
to this humbug, and pay fabulous prices
for the numbers.
: Col. DRAKE, who sunk the first oil wei
on Oil creek, and gave the world the ben
eft of his grand discovery, Is at Titusville
living in extreme destitution, with M
9 source of maintenance except the uncer
! tain charity Of friends.
GEr. FAIRoRnDE, of Wisconsin, wht
received an empty left sleeve In battle, re
i Gently presented to Gen. Stannard, of Yer
; mont, who has an empty right sleeve TO
E the same reason, halfdozen pairs of odt
|. dress gloves.
t 1T may not be generally known tina
the bodies Of trees grow only In the fall