Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-02-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

COUNTRY SHAREHOLDERS -Plowmen.
A ROARING TRADE Keeping a me
nagerie. i 3
WHEN is wall like a fish? When it il
scaled. @ s aj-e sa-za
BLOOD. they say, tells. But not SC
often as tongues. Ia5t}8 OEB
WHEN is a young lady like a. part of a
word? When she is silly belle (sylla-
ble.)
CAN it be said that the man who makes
business of raising pork for market gets
his living by his pen? E
IF brevity is the soul of wit, what vast
amount of fun there is in the tail of a fash
ionable coat. s'
LEAP YEAR. old bachelor says
that during leap year the ladies jump al
every offer of marriage the name
TnfID bachelors are congratulating one
another upon the close of lear. year and
their escape from the peculiar danger
which threatened them. .t r.
MADAME DEMoREsT, the celebrated
New York Modiste, learned the millinery
business at Lansingburg, N. Y, where
she was only plain and pretty Ellen
1T turns out now, according to French
man lately writing on the subject, that
Napoleon lost Waterloo because he was
sleepy, and coffee would not keep him
awake during the most critical hours be-
fore and during the final struggle. Il
THIS advertisement recently appeared
in the New York papers, "The person
in the possession of a stray Maltese cat,
with white spot on its breast will re-
ceive the prayers of a heart broken female,
and So also, by leaving the same at No.
81 Lexington avenue"
THE Russian student in Cornell Univer-
sity, noticing that boots were placed out
side the doors of certain rooms at night
(the Profsssor's), placed his outside also,
but next morning, instead of being well
polished, he found them filed with water.
PROF. MARSH says: Il know a man
who, at the age of forty, entered the Law
renee Scientific School at Cambridge, Mass,
became a boy again among the boys, re-
newed his youth of body and mind, and
probably made far more proficiency than
he would when twenty years younger"
., WHEN Horace Greeley started the Meao
Yorker in New York, years ago, he en-
deayored to create sensation by offering
prizes for the best poems and stories.
Lewis Gaylord Clark was chairman of the
committee to decide these things, and
awarded the $50 to Mr.. Henry W. Long
fellow, a professor in Bowdoin college, for
the poem. y
NoTHING~is more easy than to grow
rich. 1t is only to trust nobody; to be-
friend none; to get everything and save
all we get; to stint ourselves and every
body belonging to us to be the friend of
no man, and have no man for our friend
to heap interest upon interest, cent upon
cent; to be mean, miserable and despised,
for some twenty or thirty years-riches
will come as sure as disease and disappoint-
ment.
The Coos On. 81. Republican says that
Richard P. Kent's mare recently getting
loose in her stable, the door Of which was
open, trotted out through the street to
shop, entering which she
trotted up to the snvil block, at which
man was at work, and held up her fore
foot. Examination showed that the nails
were loose, and they were properly fixed.
In Tifin, Ohio, few days since, man
visited an unoccupied mill and entered an
old boiler that had been taken out for re-
pairs. While pegging away at its sides
with hammer and chisel to obtain speci
mems of lime scales, it rolled and fell on
Its end, closing the entrance and imprison-
ing the specimen seeker. In this unex.
pected dungeon he remained six hours
until his cries attracted the attention Of
some passers by.
SEVERAL weeks since Cincin natl doc.
Tor was called TO attend a sick We ung man
Ia hosrding.house. Apprenticeship that