Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-05-14
FACTS AND FIGURES.

= SQUARE ear rings are again fashion,
able 'ees v':7l' 71se .fr Hedf
ANDREW JoHNsoN's property is valued
at SIS, 1000. i@A hsa "
g Cork trees are being successfully cul-
tivated in South Florida. -,
A NEW YORK policeman has resigned to
accept legacy of $4,000.
OF the 5000 Confederate dead buried at
Gettysburg, only 700 can be identified.
THE salary of the Governor General of
the Dominion has been fixed at $22. 600 a
year. .s~.
THE Good Templars of Maine intend to
run an independent Gubernatorial ticket
this year. TT Is
THE total of incomes returned in Troy,
N Y, is $3.50, 754-an increase of 1884,
2SS over last year.
THE Charleston Is. CO. Courier thinks
that the cotton crop Of the South, this
year. will not exceed 100000 bales.
A New YORK paper says that the very
purest milk that can be obtained in that
city contains fully one-third water.
A GENTLEMAN of Boston, who, for over
thirty years, had been without the power
of smell, has suddenly recovered the
faculty. Hjz sd} III. A.. as..
IT is stated that the number of German
newspapers published in the United States
is over $50, about 80 of them being dailies
A DETECTIVE officer recently sued
country official in Buffalo, for ten cents,
borrowed to buy beer. The court gave
judgment, charging $270 costs.
THE Presbyterian Board of Education,
during the year ending April l, aided 334
"a oc 80 IL.
119 collegiate and 107 academical.
A VESSEL load of ice was recently
emptied into the Bay at Hamilton, Cana
da, because the price to be received would
not pay the cost of transportation.
THE English Government, considering
| the African slave trade extinct, has with
drawn the squadron which it has main
tanned on that coast for many years.
| IT is said that farmers made more clear
profit on sheep in the last four years, than
on any other stock, notwithstanding the
low price of wool and mutton.
MRS. CREEDoN, whose husband recently
died of hydrophobia, in Cincinnati, has
commenced suit against the owner of the
dog, laying her damages at $4,000.
THE monument to Humboldt, in the
| New York Central Park, will be a bronze
bust about four feet high, and will be
placed on stone column of a height of
! from ten to twelve feet.
| AT Irwintown, Pa, the other day,
daughter, 10 years old, of Jacob Bolin, q
miner, died from the effects of drinking
some whisky which her father had left
in the house.
PIKE, with others, was engaged in
New Jersey marsh speculation. He bought
out all his associates, and then announced
that he had found in the swamp peat
bed worth $20,00G000.
FROM 1853 to 1866 "a period of IA
/ years-there persisted, in civilized warfare,
1,743 491 men. The cost of the conflicts
1 in which they lost their lives was $685.
! 100000 e... s.
/ THERE are five weekly American papers
in Paris, chiefly supported by advertise
ments seeking the eyes of American tray
! elers, and there is serious talk of establish
| ing daily ~
| Mrs. eEUNICE NICHOLS died at Middle
ton, Mass. April %, aged 100 years and 2
| days. On the Goth, being reminded that
it was her one hundredth birthday, she
said: ooh, that is too long to live in this
world"
+ WHEN Queen Victoria was married,
twenty mine years ago, she had twelve
bridesmaids. Every one of these young
i ladies has since been married; one has been
married twice; one is now widow; and
/ three are dead. ~
4 & FEMALE Custom House officer at New
York recently examined a portly and dig
/ nifed lady, who had just returned from
| Europe, and found that $1,100 worth of
point lace had much to do with the grace
full rounding-out of her figure.
AN enterprising Spectator in Paris talks
! about starting mammoth printing
| house, where he desires to print all the
daily newspapers published in the city.
He says by dong so the dailies would re-
1 'duce their expenses 10 per cent.
A CASE exhibiting the arrest of develop
ment and growth in child, arising from
the intemperanee of parents, has recently
been reported by the London Pathological
| Society. The child, in this instance, was
| five years old, but had the intellect of an
| infant of nine months.
In Sweden, since 1868, only seven per-
sons have been executed, sixty-one have
been condemned to capital punishment,
| and 235 to penal servitude for life. No ex-
| ecutions have taken place during the last
two years, though a number of persons
are lying in prison under sentence OF
| death. .......a.7 a
/ 1T reads singularly, in ii csc days ofsteam,
| that there are. yet stage and post-horse
routes for the mail in some OF the Oldest
sections of the country. Some 400 OF these
medieval routes have lately been awarded
in the State of New York, and 55o IN New
| England.
| THE St. Johnsburg Caledo'atdn says
that there is farmer in that vicinity who
| has all his last years butter on hand
/ between one and two tons-for which
he was offered last winter fifty-two cents
per pound. He asked fifty-fve, and
keeps his butter, which will soon be tit
| for wagon-grease.
| In London, few weeks ago, an appren-
| tice stayed out beyond closing time. Some
| apprentices lowered sheets from
thirdstory window to pull him mp, but
the sheetipg gave way, when ne reached
the second story, and he fell onto the
pavement, striking his head with great
violence against the flagstones, and died
an hour afterwards.
THE Pennsylvania Legislature passed
an act imposing penalty OF $50 for the
killing of any insectiverous bird, one-hsIf
of this fine to be paid to the informer.
The birds that are classed under the head
ofinsectiverous birds, are robins, martins,
swallows, blue birds, woodpeckers, etc,
in fact all the various small birds generally
seen in that latitude.