Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-16
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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A MAN in Pittsburgh has beard eight
feet long.
PAPER collins are the latest European
invention.
GENEVA, N. Y, boasts of COW which
recently sold for $4,000. s
IT costs 100000 per annum to feed the
dogs of Cincinnati.
Two hundred thousand toy drums are
made in Paris annually.
Two Americans have opened dentist
shop in Odessa, on the Black Sea.
ONO paid $337, ,997.73 of her State debt
during the month of March.
The arabic land of the United States is
estimated at 1850, 900, 900 acres
THERE are $4,000 ministers of all de-
nominations in Great Britain, with 347OO
churches and chapels.
THE Cornell University has thirty-one
professors with twelve additional pro-
fessorships to be filled) and 3S8 students.
BISHOP HUNTINGTON, the new Episco-
presented with $25, 900 house.
THE telegraph companies of Great
Britain and Ireland own 100000 miles of
wire and manage 3,169 stations.
THERE are 148,0OO shade-trees in Paris
the Elm, Plane, Horse
Chestnut. Maple, Linden, Acacia and the
Alianthus,
DURING 1868, 1853 persons were acci-
dentally injured on the New JERSEY
railroads. In 104 cases the injuries proved
fatal 2n
MANCHESTER, N. H., authorities allow
no one on Sunday to smoke a pipe or cigar
upon tae public pave, within one mile of
the City Hall. g
A BABY advertised for adoption in
London was wanted by $40 applicants, all
faith.
THE father of cash boy in Louisville
dry goods store has brought action against
a salesman for slapping the urchin, laying
damages at $4,000,
A SINGULAR mistake was made by Fields
d Osgood, the other dsv, in binding the
current number of OR Young Folks in the
covers of Parton's Danish Islands"
THE Fall River cotton mills manufac-
ture la, 1854 900 yards-or GA, ,977 miles of
cloth, yearly, The pay-rolls of the various
establishments amount to$200, 900 month.
M. SCHNEIDER, the President of the
French Corps Legislatif, is one of the
wealthiest men in France. He has four
daughters, each of whom will inherit one
million dollars.
THE burgomaster OF Leipzig has prohi-
bited velocipede riding in the streets of
that city, owing to the numerous acci-
dents which have recetly befallen the velo.
cipedists of Leipzig.
A PARIS bookseller, NJ. Gosselin, has
recently been sentenced to three years
imprisonment, and fined one thousand
dollars, for selling books and phamphlets
not very complimentary to Napoleon and
Eugene.
MRS. JOHN JACOB AsToR, of New York,
celebrated the recent coming of age of her
son, by furnishing Mr.. Brace, of the Chill
drens Aid Society, with the amount re-
quired to provide one hundred orphan
boys with homes in the West. 10
DURING 1868, the seventeen street rail
ways of Philsbelphia, with total length
OF l72112 miles of track, transported So
435, 5l2 passengers. received $3,393, ,623
and paid out $2,460,70 During the same
time, Ii horses were killed on the roads,
and IA injured.
FIVE rustic New Yorkers gave a polite
sharper $3.50 to buy their
tickets to California, on his assurance that
he could save ten dollars on each ones
passage money. The clever fellow disap-
peared in crowd and forgot to return.
A BRDGEPoRT gentleman lately saw,
without interference, his landlord fleeced
of 800 by gamblers on the train, and re-
marked in explanation, "I wasn't going
to warn him. He raised my rent 5000 this
year." From which let all ayaricious
landlords take warning.
= CHEvALIER, the aeronaut, who proposes
to cross the Atlantic, has had hundred
applicants for seats in his car on the occa-
sion. He has concluded to charge $3.50
per passenger. The voyage is to be under
taken on the 31st Of July, from New York.
The London Lancet mentions case in
which new blankets, having been infected
by scarlet fever, were put away uncleansed
In wardrobe. Fourteen months after
wards the mistress Of the house had these
blankets taken out and put upon her own
bed in few days she took the fever and
died.
A HACK DRIVER in Buffalo, who had de-
Sained two gentlemen purposely from
lCoCAlAS buO tidll, III OIucT tudb UG mlgUb
make more money out of them, was arrest
ed at the instance of the gentlemen, and
was compelled to pay their hotel bill and
the costs of the case.
A GENTLEMAN who has had several
months experience with the velocipede,
states that new beginners, instead of pro-
pelling the machine by adjusting the hol-
low of the foot to the treadle, would find
it much easier and more conducive to
health to use the forward part Of the foot.
THE New York Herald states that, of
the seven or eight societies organized in
that city eighteen months ago, for the pur-
pose of furnishing groceries and other
supplies at cheap rates to the stockholders,
only one succeeded in establishing store,
and that has been closed at loss of $2,-
500. There are, however, several build
ing societies in the city and vicinity that
are more or less successful. a
For some time there has been person
al advertisement in the New York papers
addressed to "Dad from " Ma" saying
that she is " in affiiction, and longed for
him tnat they might comfort one another"
This advertisement has been In the New
York papers for months, and in the San
Francisco and China papers. The New
York Suno alone has received over 800
for publishing it. There is much specula.
ton as to the romance that may be con-
cealed in this notice. }a ~