Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-03-12

The pastors of several churches in Ithaca
were not little surprised, on attending
reception to which they were invited, to
find this, to them, offensive recreation in
troduced. Five of them have united in a
letter to the President and Faculty, stating
their objections and the reasons therefor,
which has been published. .lsasroe "a .s,.,
z New ORLEANS, unlike any other great
city in the world, is surrounded by wild
animals. Deer are shot within five miles
OF the City Hall, and alligators abound in
neighboring swamps. Old residents, in
deed, remember when young alligators
were caught in the street cutters. Not
long since an American spotted tiger
completely devoured a little girl in par I
ish not far from the city. These animals,
it is said, are increasing in that part of
Louisiana. Z $500.
WHILE the Hon. Walter Brooke, of
Mississippi, was eating oysters at saloon
in Vicksburg, one night recently. one
lodged in his windpipe excluding all air
from his lungs A doctor was promptly
summoned, who made an incision in the
trachea, and passing his finger in pushed
the oyster out from its lodgment. 'Respi.
ration was then with difficulty restored,
the breathing going on through the open
ing made in the trachea. The suffering
and excitement during the time respira-
ton was suspended were extreme ard re-
suited in degree of congestion of the
lungs and brain, but especially of the lat
ter, which proved fatal next day.
"TALK about bedbugs," said Bill Jones.
who had been across the plains, "you
should have seen some of the critters I
met in Idaho last spring, / stopped one
night with some settlers, who lived in a
log cabin containing only one room and a.
lott When 1t came time to 60 to bed
they strung blanket across the middle of
the room, and the settlers family slept on
one side OF it and gave me tother. laid
down to go to sleep, and the beibugs be-
I gan to gather Ike lunch-eaters around
free LAY out / tried to kiver up and
keep away from 'em, but the pesky var
ments would catch hold of the bed clothes
and pull them off from me- They didn't
think nothin' of draggin' me round the
room if held on. fit 'em till about mid
night, and then looked around for some
way of escape. There was ladder reach
in up into the loft and thought the best
way to get away from the blood-s dckers
was to climb upethar, so did. There
wasn't any bugs in the loft, and laid
down congratulatin' myself on my escape.
Pretty quick heard the ladder squeakin'
as If somebody was comm up. Bimeby
saw bedbug raise himself up through
the hole in the floor and look carefully
round the loft. Soon's he saw me he mo-
toned to his chums below, the blood
thirsty cuss, and cried exultinIy: Come
up, boys, he's HERE"
81 A FELLOW who has been shaved in
China says that the barber first stropped
the razor on his leg, and then did the
shaving without any lather. The GUS
toner demonstrated, but was told that
lather was entirety useless, and had ten
dency to make the hal stiff and tough,
and was therefore never used by persons
who had any knowledge Of the face and
its appendages After the beard had
been taken of-and it was done in very
short time-the barber took a long, sharp,
needle-sha~ea spoon, and began to ex-
plore his customers ears. He brought up
from numerous little crevices bits of wax
and dirt that had been accumulating since
his childhood. The barber suddenly
twisted his subjects neck to one side in
such a manner that it cracked as if the
yertebre had been dislocated. Hold
onI" shouted the party, alarmed for the
safety of his neck. "All right" replied
the tonsor, me no hurt you;" and he
continued to jerk and twist the neck until
it was timber as an old woman's dish rag.
He then fell to beating the back, breast,
arms, and sides, with his fists, and pun.
inelled the muscles until they fairly
glowed with the beating they had received.
He then dashed a bucket of cold water
over his man, dried the skin with towels,
and declared that his work was done.
Price two cents.