Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-05-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
WHAT is the usual result Of a runaway
match? A pair done (pardon)
/ UWHAT sort of carpenter is. most un-
healthy A mailing Gan ailing) one.
THIS is my impression" as the printer
said whenihe kissed his sweetheart.
30 Four villages in Prussia have been.
united by royal decree, and will hereafter
bear the name of Bismarkdorf.
A eRMDsToNE which was sent to Eng
land in bale of cotton has come back to
the old plantation il q cask of sugar.
"PA, what is the use of giving our pigs
so much milk ?" $50 that they may make
hogs Of themselves, darling"
A SPECIAL mission has in charge the
work of paintings Young Mems Christian
Association at every important station on
the Pacific Railroad.
!, A DISC oEsoLKTE husband Of Lyons,
France, whose wife had deserted him, sent
ten barrels of flour to the pious poor of the
city, soliciting their prayers that the tru-
ant might not return. #F&# ~
HENRY WARD BKRCHER recently bap-
tized large number of candidates for
membership into his church, but he made
the ladies remove their false curls and
chignons before they, went down to the
water ~ oi" c4ss2 @
A FRENCHMAN brought two mugs to the
milkman in place Of one, as usual, and on
being asked the meaning of it, replied:
"Dis vor tie mich, and dis vor to water !;
an will mix them 20 rs to soOte myself"
A GOOD story is told of an Englishman
who boosted to an Indian that the sun
never set upon the territory of his coun-
trymen. ought" exclaimed the Spotted
Tail, "Great Spirit afraid to trust Eng
glishmen in the dark" -
AT Attleborough, Mass, a kind hearted
gentleman has made provisions, for the
comfort of the elderly ladies who spend
the intermission at church, by furnishing
them with tea, sugar and milk, and all the
apparatus necessary to a social cup for
dinner.
A RUMINATIvE individual hearing for
the first time the quotation, Cali the
worlds a STAGE" expressed his lack Of
wonder at accidents being of daily occur
renee among the passengers, as the stage
turned over every twenty four hours.
THE Swiss Government wished to en-
ploy women as telegraphers. On learning
that operators would be sworn to absolute
secresy, many Of those who had applied
for situations withdrew, saying that that
was requiring altogether too much.
Ma CARPENTER, of the American We
locipede Club, in New York, rides, stand
| ing, with both feet in the saddle, and pro-
pels the machine by "wabbling" the front
wheel, giving it a serpentine movement.
He rides side-saddle, with his hands be-
hind his back, and turns right and left
with perfect freedom and grace,
THE Yosemite valley is thickly dotted
with the ruins of Aztec or Toltic cities
and Notifications, in some of which tim
bers exposed to the storms and blazing sun
of that trying climate are yet to be seen,
in good state of preservation, showing
| that the builders must have disappeared
| at comparatively recent date.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN may get him
| self into trouble again. He recently call
| ed Adam Ewes husban1 a sneak. AS
several Of that gentleman's descendants
| are still living and may object to this kind
| of aspersion of any of their most renown-
ed ancestors, George F. may find himself
! involved in suit for SANDER or libel
Pittsburgh Gazette.
"A CURIOUS physiological experiment
has recently been made. A. few grains of
barley were placed before hungry
1 pigeon. While pecking at the barley the
brain of tba pigeon was frozen by means
of sprey of ether. The bird, being thus
deprived of consciousness, ceased peck
ing, and remained as if dead. The barley
was then removed, and the ether spray
having ceased, the brain was allowed 70
thaw. The bird soon returned to life, and
its first act YVES to renew the pecking for
time, although no food was before it.
A NEW instrument called a horoscope,
is realizing a large sale. 1t comes to Paris
from Havana It is said to prognosticate
the weather twenty -four hours in advance
by changes in the fluid contained in q
tube. To make one, take glass tube q
foot long and three and one-third inches
in circumference; fill it with the follow.
ing liquid Camphor, two parts; salt.
petre, one part; dissolved in alcohol and
partially precipitlted with distilled water
Then close the tube and place it in the
air toward the north, and out of the sun
You will then observe the following bar.
ometric phenomena. For fine weather
the liquor in the tube VIII be transparent
for rain, there will be crystalizei stars
floating about in the liquid; for tempest
the liquid will be full of cryst lis, in an
lapparent state Of ferment; for wind, the
crystals will adhere to the side of the
tube from which the wind Is going to
blow. This simple invention is more Ger.
tain and cheaper than any other barome-
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