Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-07-02
FACTS AND FIGURES

A HARTFORD lady has just had a $1,000
watch sent her by express.
Bye new law in Italy the clergy be-
come liable to cOnscriptio
IT has been calculated that sixty persons
per minute die in this world.
ANEW Irish paper, THE Irish West, has
made its appearance in Cincinnati.
THE Catholic Publication society las
printed $4,000 tracts during the past
year.
ONE hundred and seventy mine thousand
dollars have been raised for the American
College at Rome.
Six women were recently admitted to
the University of London, having passed
satisfactory examinations.
SWITZERLAND has about 900,00 cattle,
worth $42 1000, 900; 552, 900 cows.yield $780,
100000 worth of milk year.
THE Society for the Prevention of Cruel
ty to Animals in New York average two
arrests of cruel teamsters per day.
THERE have been three Popes besides
Plus TX, who have celebrated the fiftieth
anniversary of their first mass.
A BOSTON letter-carrier was recently
made she recipient of $3.50 from the well
pleased citizens whose mail is entrusted to
his care.
JAMES HALL, the'famous Aberdeen ship
builder, is dead. It is said that there is
not portion of the world where "Halfs
clippers are not known.
In one of the French departments
poster adorned the walls, inviting the
voters to cast their ballots for Jules x.
the drunkards' candidate"
A FATAL quarrel in Jersey City arose
from the refusal of barkeeper to allow a
teamster to water his horses from the ice-
pitcher.
A LADY in Rhode Island subscribed for
Newport paper, the other day, to be sent
to q neighbor who worried her by borrow
ing her own.
A TEXAS paper claims that there are
more newspapers published in that State,
in proportion to the white population,
than in any other State in. the Union.
By singular coincidence, the first day
of the Peace Jubilee fell upon the date OF
the commission to George Washington as
Commander-in-C Chief of the American
armies.
LORD BYRoN's valet, Swede, named
James P. Lindberg, sixtyfOur years old, is
now an inmate of the National Military
Asylum at Milwaukee. He was present
at Byron's death.
DURING the year 1868, there were 49,
S48 male persons, charged with crime,
taken before the police magistrates OF the
metropolitan districts of London. or this
number, Sc were ticket.of leave men, and
5,544 had been previously convicted.
A COMPANY has been formed in New
York to bring fresh meat to that market
from Texas. The entire hold of their
vessels is lined with non conducting felt;
and by chemical means cold below the
freezing point will be kept up.
A WHITE baby was picked up few days
ago On the Dan'river, near South Boston,
Va. It was in q metallic coffin, with a
bottle of milk at its mouth, and roll of
greenbacks under its head, while newly
plucked roses decorated its strange cradle.
THERE is man living in Northampton,
within three miles of the railroad, 38
years of age, who has been in but four
different towns in his life, has never been
inside of railroad Car, and has never
slept in any house except the one in which
he was born, has never been cOurting and
never kissed girl.
IT is recorded of Catholic lady, of
Northumberland, England, in the last cen
tury, that she married thrice, her first
husband being Quaker, her second
Church of England man, and her third
Catholic; and what Is more curious still,
on each occasion she married a man twice
her own age; at 18 man of 80; at 30 a
man of 60; and at AZ, a man of "a.
THE champion strawberry has been ex-
hibited in New York. 1t measured ~
inches around, and weighed one ounce
and seven pennywelghts. LII was raised
by Nathaniel Niles, at Madison, N. j :, and
is cross between the Wilson and the
Agriculturist. Governor Randolph. OF
New Jersey, has christened it the Niles
Seeding"
THE report of the Inspectors of Con-
stabulary in Scotland for the year ending
March Is. 1869, states that the number OF
tinkers, gipsies, vagrants, and other per-
sons who have no apparent means OF sup
port, has increased in Scotland to the ex-
tent of $4,000 within the last two years.
The number of vagrants now amounts to
68,036, or 33,696 men, 20,756 women, and
1854 children.
A PAPER was recently read before the
Academy of Sciences, at Toulouse, France,
to prove that the trunks of trees are not of
a circular, but of an elliptical form, the
axis from east to west being longer than
that from north to south. The names Of
eight distinguished observers of the ope-
rations of nature are given as supporting
the fact mentioned.
THE other day a seam in the rock
cutting on the Ridgefield Branch rail
road, in Connecticut, was charged with
forty-two kegs of powder and quantity
of nitro-glycerine, the whole costing $500
The explosion shook the windows in Ridge
field, TWO miles away. and removed earth
and rock, the displacement OF which by
the usual course would have cost $1,000
A CHEMIST in England has discovered a
fluid preparation which he affirms will
cause bodies plunged into it to petrify and
become stone within five years time.
The secret of this process is known only
to himself. He throws out the suggestion
that, in time. if persons will only pres rye
their relatives and friends with his fluid,
they will be able to construct dwellings
with them, and thus live in residences sur
rounded by their ancestors.
The one hrndredth birthday. of Mrs.
Ruth Hemphill, of Henniker, N. Ht wa wa
recently celebrated. She was tne LIE nas'
female born in the town. Her Ia'aen, aea,
Deacon Ebenezer Hartshorn, Dullt sne oSS nis
frame house in Henniker, ana IL now 1s"nuo .
in good condition. 1t was In .n,s hgIor Mer
snJ. sa.her lame Iames Hemphill, served in the Rev
- - Che 10 the mother of ten