Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-03-26
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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$200,000,000.
AN old lady in New Jersey, having read
an account of the bursting of grindstone
in manufacturing establishment, became
terribly alarmed lest a grindstone which
was standing in her cellar should burst
and blow the house up.
BARON RoTHscHuD, who lately died IN
Paris, always undervalued his property
for taxation purposes, and there is talk OF
bringing suit against his heirs to recover
heavy sums as arrears, perhaps several
million francs.
A HARTFORD merchant was lately per-
suaded, by the owner of the building ne
occupied, to abandon the habit of leaving
gas Jet burning at night, because the
rear wall was settling, and, in case the
wall should fall in, serious fire might be
started. The building is for rent.
AT recent naval court martisl, the fol-
lowing dialogue is said to have taken place
between one of the witnesses and the
Court: care you a Catholic?" No,
SIR" care you a Protestant ?" mo,
sir" "What are you then ?" captain
of the foretop."
THE other day hunted fox in Tiverton,
Mass, which had been hard run and then
famed by shot, fought men, boys and
dogs, and bit boys finger off, took a
mouthful out of mans boot, and other
wise bravely defended itself till over
powered by numbers.
AT late State ball at Vienna, the EN-
press of Austria appeared in a new dress
composed of the green and golden wings
of South American beetles, sewn with
gold thread on tissue of white silk. A
splendid suit of diamonds and emeralds
completed this costume.
THURLow WEEDS paper having ven
tured to say that the Louisville Journal
has a chip on its shoulder which it dares
any one to knock off," Prentice responds,
"The eIitor of the New York Commercial
has block on his shoulders which ought
to be knocked off,"
THE Massachusetts Society for the Pre-
vention Of Cruelty to Animals announces
their determination to stop the cruel prac-
tice, by butchers, of bleeding calves,
which is done for the sole purpose of
making the veal white. Some butchers
are in the habit of keeping calves with
out food or drink for one week, bleeding
them daily-a cruelty as monstrous as it
is unnecessary.
THE st Joseph (Mo) Herald relates a
case in which the Masons of that city
were victimized by well-dressed conf
dence woman, who represented to them
that her husband was prominent Mason
in Georgia, and that she had lost her rail
way tickets, money and baggage, and
needed assistance. After her wants had
been literally supplied, it was accident
ally discovered that she was an imposter
and had practiced the same game on vari-
| GUS occasions.
In the Swiss canton of Uri, printers and
editors are whipped on the bare back foI
publishing things which the authorities
do not like. In Bohemia, editors who
| assail the Government are sentenced to
imprisonment, with one or two fast days
in the week. On those fast days the sim
ming knights of the quill receive chunk
of stale bread, q pitcher of water and q
mackerel. In Mecklenburg the opposi-
ton papers are not allowed to publish
leading articles.
HENRY WARD BEEoHER gives the fol-
| lowing reason why he declined the title OF
D. D.: "My mother had name waiting
for me when was born. Two brothers,
very dear to her, had died early She
| joined their names, Henry and Ward, Civ
ing to me name that, to her, was a sa-
cred memorial of love. I mean to die
with it just as she gave it to me, neither
furnished nor incumbered. If you ask
me again why do not take title, re-
ply that | have one which my mother gave
me-"
THE changes on the earth's surface dur.
ing the glacial period are strikingly Illus
trated by boulder of peculiar variety
of granite, fifteen feet high and seventy
feet in circumference, perched upon the
top of the Hoosac Mountain, one of the
highest peaks in Massachusetts. This
boulder, it is conclusively proved, was
clipped off the apex of another mountain
at Stamford, VT, and transported by the
ice to its present position. The Stamford
mountain ia now truncated cone, and
the boulder is composed of the same kind
of granite, which differs in every respect
from the Hoosac rocks.
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