Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-08-19
CURRENT ITEMS.

wheat. i
q a Nor single city official gets q cent of
nav at Treasure City, Nevada.
DIVIDENDS are applied in the Washing
ton Life to make the policies larger.
CrNcrNNATI claims to have lost sixty.
ave residents by drowning this year.
IN Why is a king who can't talk like his
s dominions Because he is a king dumb.
~T TEE Stockholders of the Washingt
only receive theinterest their own money
q earns. = % - ~
THE official report dispels the exagger-
.ations as to the loss by the Constantine
pie fire. Only $50 persons persisted.
'az.51 MAINE boasts of an eleven-year-old girl,
So who, manages a moving machine with
the ease Of born farmer" "a, 30
20 THE San Francisco Coroner's annual
report gives 452 cases during the past year
ze-22 murders, 81 suicides, and IA sacci-
y's 'siONcE when bad man died, savage
wit being appIised of the event, observed
that the average value of mankind was
oE sensibly raised. aaa - = t,I IL.
SCOTT county, KY, boasts of a hen
= that is nursing pup, which she shelters
and scratches for to the neglect Of her
own offspring &C.
A YOUNG somnambulist recently in the
harbor of ProvincetowD, Mass, leaped
overheard, was rescued, and only awoke
after safely reaching the deck.
AFNoToRIoUs miser having heard an
elegant charity sermon, exclaimed This
zsermon strongly proves the necessity of
alm,s 3I have almost mind to turn beg
& "A. CALIFORNIA paper says box of
cherries has been shipped to New York,
the majority of which measure three and
half inches in circumference.
.ssvso IT is saidthata new hotel at Hampton
- Beach is to bear the title of the Quoquin-
napssakesosanagnoc House. Tine pro-
-prietor wanted name that was easy to
remember. .HYlMS u IL
A LAWYER in an Eastern city has con-
spicuously displayed in his office the fol-
lowing Suggestive. notification Gentle
omen who xpectorate on the floor cannot
expect to rate as gentlemen"
A FRaNcHMAN, wishing to compliment
girl as "little lamb" called hera s'smal1
mutton. ~ He did mot understand the
technicalities of the English language. /
tasis'THE French enamelers guarantee per.
s,,,,,lnanent beauty for 500 francs. 1t takes a
= month, during which the patient "must
Z not think Of washing, nor even blow her
g. nose" se ~
% IT is estimated that America, when her
productive power is fully developed, will
be able to feed four times as many per-
sons as there are now on the face of the
earth. 9UMII,1 43H H II
THE first en- oney article for Phila-
delphia paper was written for the Ledger,
July H. 1910, by Joseph Sai1er, who has
ever since conducted that department Of
the paper. gi HQlt9Eb5a B9TD
In Lowndes county, Tenn, few nights
since. Dr. James G. Carroll, in applying
at q, house for assistance, was mistaken
for burglar by the Landlord who fired
from a window, killing the doctor in
SANITY 81 saHoua sdi n ioomit'ss" To-"
A ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, city councilman lis
reported to have delivered the following
speech at late meeting of the Council:
MIR, Mayor and gentlemen of the Counr
Gil, let US put our heads together aud
make wooden pavement" x
A TRADHsMAN who had failed in the
city of Bangor, wrote on his front door,
Payment suspended for thirty days" a
neighbor reading this said, "You have
Sdolnot intend to do SO; it would run out
if I did," ....t,.,t
COMPARATIVE VIRTUE.-A shopkeeper
the name Of the little rascal A stranger
asked him why this appellation had been
given to him. /" To distinguish me from
the rest of my trade" quoth he, "who are
all great rascals.'sii II .9Dg 7fr ai9f }'i-'
THE famous trotting mare, Lady Therne,
met with an accident, at Rochester,N. Y,
few days ago, which will probably dis
qualify herfor thelturf She fell from a
bridge on which she was being led into
car, and dislocated hip joint,
Anticipating deputy sheriff in Litch-
field county Conn.,, recently seized at a
grocery store and removed with great
care, twoDcasks, one marked bourbon and
the other rum, which were found on ex-
animation toscontain lightweight gallons
of stale rain water. ~ Us
A LITTLE nine year old girl named An
ME Rosch, residing ins Quincy, ILL.,, died
recently from the effects of needle which
she accidentally run into her left breast
afew days before. The needle was broken
In attempting to extricate it, and it is sup
posed that the broken portion worked in
to the heart.
IN New York, a few. months ago, a.
Frenchman Borrowed $25 of a French
woman, and lefG his daughter in pawn
The other day he wished to repay the
loan, but the woman refused to give up
Che child, as she had become attached to
her. The disconsolatey parent made in
eftectual attempts to recover his child,
and finally appealed to the courts. asA-
In addressing q burglar for whom he
was about to provide home for a term
OF years, Judge Bedford ,of New York, in
formed him that the Judges of the court
had decided to hold that every burglar en-
tered a,house intending to murder, if nee
essary, and 10 give such worthless twenty
years in the Penitentiary. ID ana aothoa
NEVER ASK QUEsT1oNs IN A HuRRY.--- ~!
Tom. q word with you" ~" Be quick,
then; I'm in a hurry" What did you
give your sick horse, t'other day p" A
pint of turpentine." John hurries home,
and administers the same dose to favorite
charger, which, strange to say, drops off
defunct in half an hour. faos His opinion of
Toms veterinary ability is somewhat
staggered. He meets him the next day.
"Well, Tom.'i swell, John, what is it ~
81 gave my horse pint ofturpentine and
it killed him, dead as julius Caesar" :. So
it did mmei" &5I0OW Ni417li
THE Pittsburgh Commercial records the
death of Mrs. Margaret Burns, in her
104th year, and adds: "She never had a.
cough or any other lung disease in her