Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-05-21
FACTS AND FIGURES.

/ - A%@AnLI4OhhES duQ Sllldll-UOA COSL 4Oau
Francisco 5000, last year, ~. |
T. A CHURCH bell has recently been heard
for the first time in Cheyenne. 3aa aaais9
In one of the Paris gardens is a came
liza with thirty-seven hundred buds. ;33
THE Boston Trotting Association offer
prizes to the amount Of, $4,000 this year.
| GEN. LANE, co-candidate with Breckin-
ridge in 1860, has become Roman Cath
| olic. ae fre az. m;f 4sg 2iF3 ss..afl
/ ,THERR are eight tunnels on the, Penn
sylvania Railroad, ranging from, 200 to
3612 feet. 39fd aa 2 ,Soi':'s1iD siRl
MOUNTAIN trout over twofeet long have
oeen found in the inland streams of Cali
fornia. -
THE Dubuque Herald says that a census
| OF that city, recently completed, shows
the population 23,543 r.
THE Troy Budget says there is a pea
nut peddler in that city who clears be-
tween $40 and $50 per week. 7
A LADY died at Columbia, Me-, ia few,
days ago, at the age of, 104, who had been
four times married, and yet died widow.
A ROLL Of female hair, measuring six
feet long, and weighing twelve ounces, is
owned by q London hair dealer. In
BEECHER says he receives about, -$25, Il
600 a year, and gives one-third of it in
charity and to applicants ior aid '.fY" "
THE Roman Catholics Of New York
have subscribed $44 500 toward the sup.
port of the American College in Rome:
THE 2,447 churches of Great Britain
last year gave e44,900 to foreign mis- (
sions Ian average of about $75 each in
gold. sfsara 3sc9 BE- 5asejapd Wnl .
In the Island of Hawaii, there are 1.-TWO
lakes, side by side, one of fresh water and
the other salt. Both are far above the
level OF the sea. .l.I aiT9aG 9oa a eIl G
NINETEEN-TwENTIETH noofg the rice
raised in the United States is grown with
in a narrow limit upon the seaboard of
the Carolinas and Georgia 2s'21s = 81
AFTER an expense of ST., 900, and many
months work, the artesian we'll at Colts
armory, in Hartford, Conn, has found
water. = = 1
A PITTsFIELD lad recently sold 2O1
muskrat7 skins of his own trapping, and
with the avails thereof paid his last win
ter's tuition at school. ~ Ia
THE great Australian nugget of gold,
Welcome Stranger" founu by the de-
spalring miners of Donolly, netted the
finders $48000. :. .,,.f....-lf l.. !.
If you go into a store and find the clerk
lying on the counter asleep, you may
know that the firm don't advertise. Any
thing for q quiet life. :.s ,essi, qess,.s
In London, fifteen diamonds, weighing
one carat each, are worth about 81 500;
one diamond, weighing fifteen carats,
brings from $12, ,0V0 to $4,000. jass1 96 +
A MAN in Elizabeth, N. j., recently sent
to drug store for some medicine for his
horse, and the clerk, by mistake, put up
something which killed four horses, valued
at $2,400. G..o s,.,s ..ta-t s.r4s
WHEN Prince Alfred was "touring in
Australia he made presents which cost
him about $4,000. When he returned
home he brought in bill for this item of
expense, and the Government allowed it.
In removing the debris of the Pacific
House, in ST. Joseph, Mo-, few days
since, the discovery was made that the
fire was still burning. Nearly fivemonths
had elapsed since the house was burned.
DURING the past winter not a flake of
snow fell in Portland, Oregon. Only three
or four nights did ice form, and then only
of the thickness of window glasa. Sow
ing and planting were going on all winter.
THE solitary system has been partially
dispensed with in the Pittsburgh (Pa.)
State Prison, and convicts have been al
lowed to come into the corridors and have
the chaplain preach to them, instead of
being locked in their cells.
THE Lincoln Monument Association, at
Springfield, III. +, have awarded to Mr.. w.
ID. Richardson the building of the archi-
fao yanrfinn Of fo,.
$136,550.
ALL male children born in France this
year on August 15, the birthday of Napo.
leon l., whose parents will consent to their
bearing the name of Napoleon, are to be
taken under the special protection of the
Government. n9 81 7@jgl sbHss 1H
|; A THRER.sToRY brick house, eighteen
by forty feet, and in the constructieniof
which AZ, $50 bricks were used, was re-
Gently built in Lancaster, Pa, in nineteen
| and half hours, and persons were living
in it within three days from the time it
was commenced. It'll .bf9 sqa9q aws-yf
/ AT Dunstable, Mass, in 1851, dancing
at weddings was forbidden, and in 1860,
"William Walker was imprisoned month
| for courting maid without the leave of
her parents" In 1872 the wearing of long
hair, and superstitious ribbons to tie it up,
were prohibited by severe penalties.
+ On the 1st of May the New York truck
men reaped rich harvest. Their charges
were as follows. One horse truck, one
mile, So; two miles, $40; three miles, $12 :.
Two-horse trucks, including loading, un-
loading and housing, from $40 to $50, ac-
cording to distance; to Jersey City, New
ark and Brooklyn, $12 to $40 and $40.
TRAVELLERS on the planet Mars can 90
to any part of it on the element-land or
| water-on which they have commenced
travelling, so complex is the arrangement
of the continents and oceans on that
| planet. In this respect it differs very
| much from the earth, where the oceans
are three times as extensive as the land,
which is divided into two great insular
continents ~ 1888" =
DEEP sea soundings have demonstrated,
| it is stated, that the bottom of the sea, at
great depths, is covered by continuous
mass, extending over miles in extent, of
what may be considered as one single ami
NAL. It is thought to form the lowest
stage of animal life on the globe, and is
supposed to derive its nourishment di-
rectly from the mineral world, as in the
case of plants. The new animal has been
baptized by the euphonious name of
Bdthy5ius.
AN old building in Hartford, CT, re-
Gently torn down, was originally
erected, some sixty years ago, for the
Hartford C0urant. In this building the
| fret RIFLES ever nriuted in fhia cn,1ntrv