Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-23
FACTS AND FIGURES.
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1HE VatuaGtOn OF darLIOfu, COHH ~
| $41, ,784, 1865. dsua efs" 4oi33 7ltD'o
New BRUNSWICK paid $1,120 for dead
bears last year. sg d5 81 b9g6ia
OPIUM in Southern Asia enables 400,r
100000 people to get drunk.
I AN English clergyman charges double
fees for marriages in Lent. @ ."
A POCKET rifle, with a barrel only
eighteen inches long, has been invented.
IT is rumored that Charles Dickens win
again visit this country in the fall.
A BOY in Phillips, Me, has been con-
victed of profanity and fined nine cents
by justice. ,ar 41i taa.4-g eE a5i
q. SAXoNY, with a population of $4,000,
had 210 suicides last year-158 men and
So women. sf ~ s9 #E''
THEY have stylish parties in Boston at
which no one worth less than $250,000 is
admitted. t.t t..
CHARLES WESLEY, brother of the ven
erable founder of Methodism, wrote seven
| thousand hymns. a,il III H atses
MELBOURNE, Australia, though but
thirty years old, has quarter of a million
| of inhabitants. h''
THE bed of the Missouri river, at Sioux
City, is $40 feet above that of the Missis-
sippi at Dubuque, in the same latitude.
THE first newspaper printed in Amer
lea was issued in Boston, April 4, 1704.
Only one complete copy of it is preserved.
| A RESPECTABLE citizen of Philadelphia
lives, when they are inseason, upon meth
ing but goose eggs, partaking of nine per
diem. H'l-T 4' . ''
AN old woman in one of the French
departments has just died and disinherit-
ed her nephew because he sung the Mar
seillaise in 1889.
AT Alexandria, Va, a gull stuck its Ia
Ions into the back of fish, which proved
too powerful for the bird, and after Sc
we're struggle, carried it under water.
In the village Of Union Springs, N. Y,
there are thousand and more shade-trees,
planted during the past ten years by a
tree planting association.
! Four thousand pawn brokers, with $685.
900, 1000 capital, carrying on business in
England and Wales Thirty million
pawns are affected in London alone in one
year.
A CLEVELAND convict hung himself
in efigy-the other day, making gene
raj scare among officials, who proceeded
to cut the body down, when resurrec-
tion occurred from under the bed.
MILAN has provided its customs officers
with very powerful microscopes for the
examination of all meat brought into the
city, to make sure that none of it harbors
trichin9 sporalis.
In Europe there are about 10000 known
species of flies, included in $50 genera. In
North America about $500 species have
been described, but the whole number will
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A DEPUTATIoN Of Englishmen lately
placed upon the tomb of Macmillan SUI
perb crown of solid silver, the product of
subscription. The crown was made by
an eminent jeweler of Paris.
A MISSISSIPPI editor and Justice of the
Peace married couple in 1858, divorced
them in 1860, married the man to another
woman in 1861, ditto the woman to an
other man in 1862, and recently married
the original couple.
HENRY LEwITH, of Hartford, died re-
Gently, and left an estate worth $4,000,
and debts which figured up $1,000 more
than that. Mrs. Lewith not only waved her
legal rights to one-third the estate, but
! paid the balance out of her own pocket
AN enterprising velocipede manufac-
turer has offered handsome premium to
the corporation of Paris for liberty to
establish velocipede Stands" as in the
case of cabs, throughout the city, fixing
his tariff at four sous an hour, or one
frank per day.
IT rs fact not generally tknown, per-
haps, that Washington drew his last
breath in the last hour of the last day of the
last week, in the last month of the year,
and last year of the century. He died on
/ Safur6au ninht OF 10 n,olooIr nacop,
81, 1900 Cincinnati Enquirer. ..~.,
/ A DONKEY in the suburbs of London
has attained a celebrity by showing a
fondness for hearing the concertina played.
At the sound of the instrument he will
gallop toward the player, braying loudly.
1t is suggested that he wishes, in a hui
name spirit to drown the sound of the in
strument. ~ ,a a.la jill
Docs are In training in New York for
| thieving purposes. They are taught to
rush into room, seize from the counter
parcel, and quickly bring it to their mas
| ters. The counter is made to resemble
these in banks, and the parcel is covered
with yellow paper, to look like the pack
ages of bank notes that are exchanged be.
| tween different banks.
An English physician has just discov-
cred that the moon passes successfully,
during its different phases, from temper
ature of molten lead to that of the congo
lation of mercury. While the sun darts
its rays upon her, thermometer suitably
constructed would indicate temperature
of nearly 500 deg. While, on the contrary,
upon she side opposite the sun, tie instru-
ment would descend to 10 deg, below zero,
thus giving fortnight of Siberian winter
| followed by fortnight of super-tropical
summer!
| AN Illinois correspondent of the Couaa-
try Genhenaaa has much faith in real es-
| tate. He SAYS "The sharpest and ablest
man, with 81, coo at starting may buy and
sell and trade and deal, add profit to profit,
loan money at 20 per cent, and shave
notes at 25 or 30, and fret and worry and
stew through a long and laborious life, and
at the end he will not have accumulated
half as much as he would, had he made at
starting, the same investment In real es-
state, sat down, took things cody and
waited on fortune. This is the average ex-
perience."
A PAIR of lovers, near Bristol, Eng
land, were taking walk, when some
slight disagreement arose between them,
| and the young man walked hastily away.
| The young woman soon went in search OF
him, and found that he had climbed q tree
and hanged himself by his handkerchief
| Nobody was near the spot, and the girI
at once climbed the tree to cut her lover
| down, but she had no knife with her, ana
| tha o,,Iu vav hv which she could eHecL