Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

How to prevent sea sickness-Keep on
shore. @
A CURIOUS contradiction-the reign of
snow.
IF industry is no more than habit, it is
at least an excellent one.
LADY PALMERsToN, although over sew
enty, was sprightly enough to electioneer
for her son.
THE last illness of Sir Richard Mayne
was the first for the forty years he had
been Chief of the London police.
TEXANS believe that the story of the
cattle plague was put up thing to reduce
the price of their beef
THE man who attempted to hang him
self with cord of wood abandoned the
enterprise, because it was too expensive.
ROMAN MAxIMs.-1. Never work with
in doors when there is anything to be
done without. 2. Never do in fair wealth
er what may be done in wet.
A LITTLE girl, on Christmas eve, seeing
the sun setting, said: Mamma, know
what makes it so red, over there; Santa
Claus is baking"
A Boston artist painted bottle of
spruce beer so naturally that the cork flew
out before he could paint the string to
fasten it. Wonder what became of the
beer!
AN American gentleman writes from
London that common American corn
cobs are sold in the streets of that city
as "patent fire lighters-eight for a
penny"
THE Pope bought a pretty cottage for
the widow of Monti, executed for attempt
ing to blow up Zouave barrack, in Rome,
but she scornfully refused the gift and
then fed the city in diguise.
A DRUNKEN sailor recently ran his horse
over J.. Ross Browne, the United States
Minister to China, as he was passing on
the streets at Shanghai, recently, bestow
ing on Mr.. Browne many serious bruises
on the head, but no dangerous one
Two AMERICAN students at Gottingen
foughta duel last month, in which one of
them, the son of Philadelphia banker,
was severely wounded. A quarrel about
Grant and Seymour had given rise to a
challenge, " hich was promptly accepted
The duel was fought with pistols at fifteen
yards distance.
IT is said that the only infallible way to
ascertain that death has taken place, with
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holding a candle to part of the body
If the blister on being punctured gives
forth a fluid substance, death has not
taken place. If air is emitted, death has
occurred.
BOBBY" said Uncle Peter, as he ex-
amined the points of the beast, 81 don't
see but one reason why that mare cannot
trot her mile in three minutes" They
gathered round to hear this oracular
opinion, and one inquired, "What is it?"
"Why," he replied, /" the distance is too
great for SO short q time liedlsasa3 M
A POOR laborer in Manchester, England,
had such an infatuation for attending
prize fights, that frequently he would walk
fifty miles to witness one, when he could
not afford to ride. His last Journey was
fatal He had no money to pay ferry
man on the River Mersey, and attempted
to swim across. He was drowned in the
effort.
DEACON SAMUEL III. ANDREWS, since
his arrival at the State Prison at Charles.
town, has manifested the same calmness
and tractability of demeanor which has
usually characterized his conduct. AS he
had had some experience of the machin-
cry of cotton-mill, he has been set to
work in machine shop. He seems to
work with good humor and with fair
amount of diligence. L
SIX Waterbury, Conn.,, sportsmen went
pickerel fishing, one bitter cold night, re-
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