Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-03-26
power to machinery in every conceivable
form may be illustrated.

power to machinery in every conceivable
form may be illustrated.
A CoLoRED man in Bridgeport, Conn,
recently lifted keg of nails, weighing 106
pounds, by the chime, with his teeth, held
it out in a horizontal position full O min
ute, and won bet of ten cents
THE Legislature of Maine has increased
| the bounty on bears from two to five dol
| lars. These creatures have been increas-
ing their depredations lately, and killed
three hundred sheep in Kingfeld alone
last year.
A FARM in Sutton, New Hampshire,
which was purchased by Thomas Wad-
leigh in 1867, has remained in the family
ever since, being now occupied by the
great great grandson of the original pro-
prietor. t.
On the Monongahela river, within sixty
miles of Pittsburgh, are eighty coal works,
with an average daily capacity of 5000
bushels. The production during the year
amounts to at least 10000, 900 bushels.
A GERMAN at Lake Village, N. H, has
received a pair of boots from Germany
by mail. They have wooden soles only
an inch and q half thick, guarded by iron
and studded with brass nails. Cost 81
post paid.
THERE are now in Australia, says the
M0rE Lane Express, some four millions of
cattle and forty millions of sheep, while
there are not q million consumers, and
the live stock, with abundant pasturage,
increases enormously.
In the United Kingdom of Great Brit
ain 13,500,000 gallons of wine were used
in 1867, ranging from per cent of alco
hol to 25 per cent /; 46,500,000 bushels Of
malt were used to make ale
Mr.. ALEXANDER TOMBSTONE, father of
Ex-Governor VIM. F. tombstone, of Penn
sylvania, is now SO years of age. This
venerable gentleman has been Master
Mason seventy-four years, and is believed
to be the Oldest mason in the United
States
PATTI, who now sings for thousands of
dollars night, to say nothing of the rich
presents received at the hands Of royalty,
commenced her public musical perform
ance by singing in an old building in Jer-
sey City now used as carpenters shop.
A MARRIAGE took place at Concord, N.
H., the other day, in which the bride was
only sixteen years of age. and widow at
that She was married the first time
when she was only thirteen years old.
Inc DIIueSrOOm On bulS OCCdSIOu was
twenty-fou years old "Early and often
seems to be her motto.
A YOUNG English nobleman, resident
in Paris, possessed of considerably more
money than brains, lost $4,000 in gam
bling at one sitting, to a female; hired the
whole of a theater for himself and party
of friends, and would allow no one else to
attend the performance and has taken to
driving four donkeys in his carriage.
THE other day. says an exchange, a
young lady called at the house of a friend
and seeing couple of not large-sized pin
cushions lying upon table, which, upon
inquiry, she found had been in use for
five years, suggested to the lady of the
house that it would be good idea to rip
them open and get the needles. At this
the lady laughed and replied that she
thought it would hardly pay; but upon
the other insisting that she would find as
many as 300, the experiment was finally
tried, when, to the astonishment of all,
1900 needles were counted out.