Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-12-30
General Items.

The property of New Orleans is as
sessed at $l4l, ,304, lO2.
A GOAT is good as mixer, but sue
ceeds better as a butter.
A DANGEROUS CHARACTER-A man who
takes life cheerfully.
The man who lights up at the post
office is a P. 0. light man.
A SUSCEPTIBLE Indianian tainted at the
performance of drama.
RICE birds are now busily engaged in
| getting shot down South.
BALTIMORE insures the life of every
member of its fire department.
VERA Cruz will soon be connected by
railway with the City of Mexico.
THERE were ninety religious journals
published in Paris before the war.
THE German Lutherans of this coun-
| try are in great want of ministers.
Four seed cucumbers was clergy.
mans fee for marrying couple in Iowa.
DENVER has fish with a head like a
cat, body like a lizard, short legs and
| fins.
The sailors on board the frigate Guer-
riere, at New York, have formed Bible
class.
EIGHTY-FIvE thousand New Testa-
ments have been circulated in Russia
| since 1868.
VERMONT is a State of mark one-halt
of the slate pencils used in the world
are made there.
The subscriptions at the North Ger
man Consulate in New York last week
exceeded $1,000.
SELMA, Ala, has public library II
was established by the Chamber of Com
merce of that city.
The different manufacturing estab
lishments in Auburn, New York, paid
for labor; last year, the sum of ST.,
100000.
AT the approaching great Hebrew
fair in New York, beautiful floral
temple is to be erected at cost OF
$4,000.
| FLoCKs of wild duck are visible daily
at all points on the Hudson, and sports
men are having great success in bring
! ing them down.
PORTSMOUTH butchers are predicting a
severe winter, because they find the
autumn feeces of sheep and lambs un
usually heavy.
THE painter wasn't more than a mile
out of the way when he made the drug
gist's sign read physicians prescrip
tions carefully confounded."
DURING the present year three thou
sand Scandinavian immigrants hav {
been brought to the State of Mississippi
through the agency of Mr.. Bleckfeld.
Four thousand Sanscret manuscripts
have been submitted to the committee
of the Asiatic society of Bengal, and
among them have been found some new
and important works.
The Germans of Buenos Ayers have
sent sixty thousand dollars to Berlin for
the German wounded. They have col
lected this large sum in less than a
month.
The total number of freshmen at
Cambridge university this year is 5S3, of
whom Trinity college has 152 and st.
Johns 125. The smallest number is
that of Downing college, 5.
The Cossacks, heretofore an irregular
body of Russia light horse, have been
transformed into regular troops by an
imperial decree, much to their dissatis-
faction. Their body is sixty thousand
strong.
This is genuine epitaph on child
buried in an Ohio graveyard -
lie tasted of Life's bitter cup,
And then refuse to drink it up.
He turned his little head aside.
Disguised with the taste. and died.
A MILWAUKEE reporter thus describes
the arrest of drunkard: GA broken
reed from Chicago was picked up in the
street yesterday, and in spite of his
maudlin tears was locked up to sober
Off,"
A JURY at Portsmouth, Ohio, have
given verdict under recent law, award
ing a woman $175 damages against re-
tail!dealer for selling her husband liquor,
thereby causing him to neglect his bust
ness.
AURORA, Ohio, has finally decided to
purchase hearse by taxing the town,
and petition has been signed by nearly
every voter in town, praying the next
legislature to pass local law enabling
the tax to be raised.
Two YOUNG people of Macon, Ca, of
whom it was prophesied that their mar
riad life would proye one of continued
misfortune if performed in the light OF
day, recently aroused magistrate after
midnight and had the ceremony per-
formed by lamp light.
The Titusville Herald says the latest
dodge to raise the wind in dull times is
that employed by Cory BARRIERS, who,
when customer enters for shave,
give him chloroform and avail them
selves of its stupor to cut his hair and
shampoo him. 1t is called cliptomania.
The fact that national tastes in drunk
provoking fluids are widely different, is
rhythmically expressed in the following
THE Russ loves brandy; Dutchman beers
The Indian, rum most mighty
The Welchman sweet metheglin quaffs,
The French extoi the Orleans grape;
The Spaniard tipples sherry;
The Yankees none of these escape,
For they with all make merry"
WOULDN'T SwEAR.--A good story is
told of pious old "Auntie' who fled
with her master before the Union troops
in South Carolina. On returning she
found soldier on guard at the gate of
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