Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-05-07
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

THE best penance we can do for envy
ing another's merit is to endeavor to sur
pass it.
A LONDON publisher announces a reli-
gious tract with the title: "Salts and
SIENNA, Cathartic in Seven Doses"
IT is discovered that the Sage lands in
Nevada, where the Digger Indians lived
on worms and rabbits, are excellent for
wheat.
"WHAT have you to remark, sir, about
my oratory?" once asked vain public
speaker of John Randolph. Nothing
sir; it is not remarkable" quietly replied
the merciless wit.
A PERSON discoursing of the painful
position of the Siamese twins, concluded
by remarking: However, it is well they
are brothers; if strangers to each other,
their predicament would be distressing"
1T is unlawful for the soldiers stationed
at Sitka to purchase liquor. They send
the Russian children to the stores to pur-
chase liquor for them, and from this
practice the children are said to have
become habitual drunkards.
Mr. JOE SAMUEL, Huntsville, Mo,
dry goods clerk, while in state of SOM
nambulism, walked out of secoHd-story
window, fell ten feet, striking his face on
barrel and receiving fearful cash, and,
next morning was standing by the wall
asleep, the fall and injuries having failed
to awaken him.
A LADY in Pittsfeld, Mass, recently
caught large sized American eagle in a
very remarkable manner. Seeing hawk,
as she supposed, fighting sturdy old hen
in the yard, she ran up and seized it by
the neck. The eagle made no serious
resistance to the capture, being astonished,
apparently, into submission.
WHEN Ferdinand II. of Naples ("Bom-
ba'') first heard of railroads, he gave it as
his opinion that they were an invention
of the devil, and declared that none of
them should ever be constructed in his
States His confessor had to demonstrate
in the most urgent manner with him in
order to obtain his consent to the build
ing of the first railroad in Naples.
AT recent convention of working
women in Boston, it was stated that the
majority of the girls employed to operate
on heavy sewing machines in shops, ''last"
only from one aud a half to two years,
although few stand the labor little
longer time. "Their backs give out, their
spines give way. 1t is that ugly motion
of the foot that spoils the spine"
Josh Billings was asked, "How fast
does sound travel?" and his opinion is
that it depends good deal about the
noise you are talking about. "The
sound of a dinner horn, for instance,
travels half mile in a second, while an
invitation to get up in the morning have
known to be quarters Nv an hour goin
up 2 pair~of stairs, and then not hev
strength left to be heard"
Thu cause of ladies' teeth decaying at
so much an earlier a stage of life than the
other sex, has been usually attributed to
the friction produced by the constant
action of the tongue. It has, however,
been suggested, with more gallantry and
perhaps with equal truth, that it is owing
to the Sweetness Of their LSps-as it is well
established by popular belief that saoeet
things spoil the teeth. K
THE old Manhattan well of New York,
whose whereabouts had been forgotten
for many years, was recently rediscovered
Into thatrwel the body OF, a murdered
girl was thrown by her lover, about
seventy years ago. The man was defend
ed by Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton
and Edward P. Livingston, and was &C
quilted, though there was an almost uni
versal belief that he was guilty.
LOST wealth may be restored by indus
try; the wreck of health regained by tenn
perance; forgotten knowledge restored by
study ; alienated friendship smo othed into
forgetfulness; even forfeited reputation
won by penitence and virtue; but who
ever again looked upon his vanished hours,
recalled his sighted wears, stamped them
with wisdom, or efaced from heavens rec
ord the fearful blot of wasted time?
AT Little Sodus, N. Y, the other day, a
daughter, five years old, of James Par
sons, fell into well and was rescued by a
dog. The well is about twenty feet deep,
and at the time of the accident contained
about fifteen feet of. water. A man who
was passing along the road heard peculiar
cries from the dog, who was running fran
tically around the well, The man got
upon the fence and saw the animal Jump
into the WE'LL He then ran to the spot and
saw the child being upheld @by the dog.
Both were Immediately rescued.
AT Baillsul, Belgium, recently, Mr..
Brennett, director of a circus, entered the
cage of performing lions, in place of the
tanner, who had been taken sick. For a
time Brennett succeeded in. making the
lions go through their performances but,
when it came to the close, which consisted
in giving the animals raw meat, the direc-
tor lost courage, and, instead of keeping q
firm eye on the animals, as tanners are
wont to do, he trembled and made for the
door OF the cage. A large lioness bounced
upon him and in a few minutes the rash
man was torn to pieces.
SAVE something, no matter how little il
may be, always save something. Neve,
turn away your head from small savings
they aresthe foundation of all great ones
A penny is not much. Many man woulG
rather throw away penny than pick il
up, if it lay before him. Yet a penny 8
day is nearly eight dollars a year, anC
eight dollars is the interest of between one
and two hundred dollars capital. "Waste
not, want not" is an old saying; and he
who is extravagant enough to cast idly
away what can be made useful, though il
be but trife, may expect to see the day
when even that trifle would be acceptable
Exchange.
T. BLUE, ESQ.,, in the Schenectady Star
gives the following "advice to girls -,
If you'll take advice from me, my dears
you're welcome to it, assure you. In the
first place don't get married before Won
leave school. Don't go to school day
after you are %, If you don't know
from a bulgine. Nothing looks worse
than six-foot girl with her hand raised
in juvenile spelling class. Don't fall in
love with the first fool you think is rea'
nice. Outside appearances are deceitfu
If they are not. instead of being attached
to the literary core ought to be pen