Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-09-23
CURRENT ITEMS.

THE value of coffee annually consumed
is estimated to be $125, 100000.
DYING FOR LOVE -Coloring your mus
tache to please woman. ~
Two new women's journals have recent.
ly been started in Holland.
A sTATIsTICIAN estimates the number ol
dogs in this country at 100000.
IT is reported that Gen. Sheridan will
return home some time in December.
TEN thousand New York workingmen
went out on a picnic the other day.
JOHN SIMMONS, who lately died at Bos.
ton, left his two daughters an annual in.
come of $4,000.
THE Boston public baths during the
month of August were patronized to the
number of 436,9S5 persons.
THE Massachusetts State military camp,
at Concord, contains tents for 5000 men
the entire military force of the State.
THERE ere over fifty miles of bitches
for irrigating purposes within space of
five miles square, around Los Angeles,
California
HELENA, Montana, papers, of a recent
date, speaks of a gold brick cast in that
city, weighing 2,2S2 ounces, valued at
$4l, ,859.
A LAZY farmer in Iowa, it is said, re-
Gently built a bar over and around his
stack, in order to save the trouble Of NOV
ing the hay.
Z. HORSE weighing 1900 pounds fell
over precipice forty feet high, near
Janesville, Wis, striking upon solid rock,
and suffered no Sinjury, not even the
breaking ofa bone. IN
THE estate in New York of the late
Admiral Farragutsconsist of real prop
| erty, valued at 100000, all of which he
devises to his wife and son. His war
trophies are bequeathed to his son.
ELIZA r. ARRowsM1TH. 104 years old,
now living at Somerset, N. j., is the old
est pensioner in the country, and gets
| 5000 year. Her husband was com
missary in the revolution. p .A
SEEN from the high attitudes reached
| by balloons, the blue of the armament be-
comes an intense black, and the stars gilt
ter in a background of perfect jet.
THE GAINESVILLE, Wis, Gazette says that
the flies are so plentiful and troublesome,
that some of their best sleepers are oblig-
ed to keep awake during divine service.
| MRS. ELIZABETH FIFER, of Groton, N.
Y, who is 108 years old recently took her
first car ride, and thinks the Car is ahead
of the wagon.
In private letter to a friend, Hon.
Alexander Fl. Stephens says he is slowly
recovering his health, and is Dusiiy en-
gagged writing school history OF the
United States. I
JONATHAN Tobey, famous for his many
| 10 uyc,,itc diod in, Nou Radfnrd Maoa q
few days ago, at the age of "a years. 1t
is said that for the last fifty years of his
life he had a case at every term of court.
A LUCKY laborer named Murray, while
engaged in excavating upon the site of
the old Fountain Hotel, Baltimore, a few
days since, came upon a tin box, which
was found to contain 1000 gold coins.
MRS. CATHARINE MULLER, a divorced
lady, has recovered $4,000 damages from
Matthew Hayes, wealthy bachelor of
Dubuque, Iowa, for breach Of promise of
marriage. The case was tried in Bu-
| chanan county.
YOUNG HOPEFUL: "T-h-a.t." Teacher
"Well~ No answer Teacher (encour.
agingly): "T-h-a-t spells what?" Young
Hopeful (briskly): "Oh! does it? ]
thought it spelt that" Teacher collapses
THE number of persons who visited the
five different watering places in this coun.
try the past summer is computed at about
one million. Of these, a very large pro-
portion was from New York.
James Reilly, who made 100000 as a
substitute broker in the war, spent it
straightway and has followed the calling
of New York street loafer for the last
two years, went to bed in the gutter the
other night and died there before morn
ing. fJ 1
| A MAN named Young, who is 102 years
old, gave banquet to his relatives few
DAYS since, at Honeoye Village, N. Z.
He was surrounded by four generations,
and was the happiest person present He
has lived upon his own farm for seventy
two years. II
AN Albany damsel asked one of her
fellow -bsarders, stylish dry goods clerk,
at the breakfast table, /" Why is your
moustache like nay back hair ?" He
blushingly gave it up, when the answer
caused him to bluah still more Because
it's all doao1s ~
MISS A. 2. LADD, of Augusta, Maine,
has been appointed by Gov. Chamberlain
a Justice of the Peace, which entities he1.
to administer 0aths, solemnize marriages,
aud to do other public business, for
which no woman in New England has
before been qualified.
| JOHN ScHoLLY, of St. Clair, Schuylkill
county, Pa, was killed last winter by an