Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A LADY KILLER -Corsets.


"A a LADY KILLER -COrsetS.
r AN AIR APPARENT-The fog. es,..af,. =,
A JUROR, after serving some days IN
Hartford panel, was discovered to be deaf.
HE Boston Standard publishes the
names OF delinquent subscribers under
the heading ".skunks." 81 ta%fS
The keeper of Chey enne museum
wants the Indian agent whose conscience
compelled him to resign.
II A MONTREAL bank clerk has been dis.
missed on account of allowing customer
to overdraw his account $4,000.
In Nashville, Tenn, ion the 25th ult.
forty-four ladies each got a valuable
Christmas present. husband. -.
ONE of the San Francisco papers has
added "divorce" feature to its birth,
marriage and death column.
A LoNDoNER got the better of gar.
roter by gripping the fellows arm beneath
his chin and carrying him off on his back.
On Christmas day, a child in Spring
field, Ohio, was poisoned BY putting in its
mouth piece of green paper in which
candy had been wrapped.
A cow rung the front door of house
in Washington, the other day, and when
the bell was answered the questionable
beast walked into the hall.
In Georgia large hawk has been dis
covered which follows railway train for
the purpose Of catching birds which are
scared up by the noise Of the train. :
BENJAMIN MONROE, of Waterbury, Con-
necticut, advertises warning against har
boring his wife Angelina, and quietly re-
marks that he left her to save his life."
A CITIZEN of Monterey, Cal, refused to
receive into his hands Geographic dis
patch from neighboring town because
the smallpox was raging at the place
where the telegram came from. Cautious
chap.
WHEN the announcement of the result
of the Presidential election was made in
Egypt, it was in this wise: General
Grant has been named President, to-wit:
Head of the Sheiks. And Alcafoks has
been named second President
A GENTLEMAN recently from the plains
assures the New York Times that it is a
fact that the number of dead buffaloes ly-
ing on the Pacific Railroad, shot by pas
sengers as the cars go along, is very great !;
and says there is enough meat lying there
at this time, easy of transportation, to feed
all the poor people of America.
A RHODE ISLAND horse fancier who
thought he knew a thing or two recently
snapped a white horse for cream-colored
one, paying something "to boot" More
lately he traded off his cream color for a
beautiful, glossy. coal-black horse, paying
boot again. Very soon, however, the
coal black horse grew rusty, and, in spite
of all his efforts, has turned into the iden-
teal white horse which he first traded off /
A FUNNY incident happened in church
In Kingston, N. Y, a few Sundays ago.
Owing to the absence of the minister, a
lay member of the congregation was in
vited to read a sermon at the morning SER
vice, which he did very acceptably to those
present. In the afternoon clergyman
from a neighboring place occupied the
pulpit and preached a sermon. Oddly
enough, it happened to be the identical
sermon which the lay member had read in
the morning. 80
as the boys call it, the "horse- hair SNAKE"
is given by Prof. Agassiz, as follows:
"Soon after being Matched in the water,
they creep into the legs of grasshoppsrs,
and burrow their way into the abdominal
cavity, where they undergo further devel-'
opment as worms, sometimes growing to
be two or three inches in length before
they are freed. When they have grown
so long that the grasshopper becomes dis
tended by the size of its strange inhabitant,
it bursts, the worm is released, and returns
to its aquatic life" A gentleman living
in Yonkers writes that his little girl re-
Gently pulled a gordius six inches long,
and another somewhat shorter, from the
body of a cricket They seemed to be
protrudipg like horns The cricket
hoped away, apparently as well as ever.
Here is a new fact, perhaps, for the ma
turalists.