Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-05-28
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THE editor of the Gettysburg Sentinel
has filled that position fifty-one years.
THERE were 6 1884 births, 1884 marriages
and $3.50 deaths in Boston last year. '''
SIX of the eight principal colleges of
Indiana admit young ladies as students.
Mr. BERGH has caused the arrest of q
man in Yorkville for skinning dog alive.
THREE cooperative stores have failed
in st, Louis during the past eighteen
months. @ ~ al - reet n H,e-1-
THERE are about sixty,hve thousand
students at the universities on the conti-
nent of Europe.
Gov GEARY, of Pennsylvania. signed
1896 bills during the recent session of the
Legislature. f-ef. aF. f.a eh
THERE are nineteen bookstores in Con-
stantinople, mostly kept by Germans and
Frenchmen. THa 5'147sa
A MAN has been sentenced to six months
imprisonment in England for stealing
$4,000 feet of gas.
THE Boston Iraveler says that GA
Marblehead scotsman recently paid forty
six dollars for single potato" Ya.
Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds
of chickory have been imported into San
Francisco within six months.
PROFESSOR EASTMAN, of Poughkeepsie,
has expended twenty thousand dollars In
trying to invent writing machine. 81 a.
Victor HUeo gets $4,000 for his story,
"The Man who Laughs. This, some
mathematical chap has computed, is just
81 80 line. ..laa
A SEVENTY -EIvE-YEAR old goose Is still
living in Kent county, Maryland. She
has raised goslings annually until within
three years. tsl
AN English gentleman has bought be-
tween 5000 and 1000 acres of land In
Nelson county, Va, or which he intends
to settle 800 English ia Miles. 'if" %.
A NUMBER of Buffalo business establish
ments have signs in plain view: mo beg
gars or insurance agents are allowed with
in these premises"
A HUNDRED thousand herring were re-
Gently cast ashore by the tide in Kataya
Bay, Martha's Vineyard, and they were
carried off and salted.
In Brieg, Silesia, recently, ayoung mar
ried couple committed suicide because the
doctor had decided that the young hus-
bands leg must be amputated.
HAINEs' Treatise on the Powers and
Duties of Justices of the Peace, ETC., has
reaChe Sale of 1000 copies,-a larger
sale than any book of the kind ever before
had in this country.
A THOUSAND acres of land in Wayne
county, N. Y, have been planted in pep
permint this year. The yield is about
twenty-f pounds to the acre, and the
average price $3.50 per pound, 80 that
farmers find it a paying crop.
THE best time ever made on veloci-
pede was accomplished at the Cleveland
rink few DAYS ago, Mr.. Fred. Hawley,
of Rochester, N. Y, making fifty miles In
three hours, fourteen minutes and thirty
nine seconds, actual running time.
AN echo in Woodstock park, Oxford
shire, England, repeats seventeen sylla-
bles by day, and twenty by night; but the
most remarkable echo known is one on
the north side of Shipley Church, in Sus-
sax, which distinctly repeats twenty one
syllables.
LAST WINTER, Boston was visited by
thirty.two snow storms, and the aggregate
depth of the fall of snow was feet 1115 4
inches. In the past twenty six years, the
only winters during which the total fall OF
snow was greater were those OF l64s-4
and 1854. +. ltiy, e $50 Il
OLIVER DALRYadPLE, of Minnesota, Is
said to be the largest wheat grower in the
United States. In addition to his other
crops, he has sown 1000 acres of wheat
this season. Last season Mr.. Dalrymple
employed 100 men and 100 horses in har-
vesting and threshing his crop.
A YOUNG lady of Jefferson, o., mistook
a bottle of violet ink for perfumery, in
the darkness the other evening, and put
some upon her handkerchief, which she
used to wipe her face, and, Fastening to
church Immediately after, she created an
immense sensation.
THE Chronicle states that it is very
low estimate to calculate that the people OF
San Francisco spent 5000, 900 in celebrat-
ing May-day. Upwards of $4,000 persons
went into the country, while the CIf
House, the sea beach and the country
around the city were thronged.
The famous maelstrom, on the coast OF
Norway is so little feared that the fisher
men pass and repass 1t In their sail vessels
at all states of the tide, except at certain
times in the winter when the greatest
rate of the tide does not exceed six miles
an hour.
THE Yale University crew average In
weight 172 pounds each, the only one
heavier than that being the stroke, george
w. Drew. of New Haven, native of
Maine. who weighs $780, Their boat is of
Spanish cedar 81 feet long, 20 inches wide,
and weighs 40 pounds They row AZ
strokes to the minute.
To ASCEND staircase eighteen feet high
requires thirty six times the force that is
required to walk eighteen feet on level
ground; and would, therefore, be equal to
a level walk of three hundred and twenty
four feet. So then, q person shut up In
the house and in need of exercise. can
walk his mile by going up these stairs say.
sixteen times.
A MAN in San Joaquin, Cal, has in his
possession surveyors instrument, on the
front lens of which there is plainly seen
beautiful landscape, with all the varied
hues of nature. Some fifteen years ago,
according to the owners account, the In
strument had been in use, and was left
standing for time, on the plain, In q
scorching mid-dsy's sun, fronting wood
land. When again brought into use, q
correct picture of the fronting woodland,
with all the various colors of the landscape,
was photographed on the lens, and has re-
manned Interchangeable to the present time.
In Dennisvills, and other places in New
Jersey, heavy business is done in raising
cedar trees out of the marshes In whicn
they were buried many centuries ago.
The wood raised from these buried forests
is as sound as if recently felled, ana is
mostly made into shingles. Tree ai.el
tree from 20O to 600 wears old, may pe