Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-07-22


Post: a careful Pennsylvania waited
till his wife went to the barn for hens
eggs, and then tried his new gun with
load of buckshot and the side of the barn
as a target. The doctor picked the shot
out of her and the husband will have to
wait the slow process of divorce before
he can marry the woman of his choice.
| A LIGHTNING ROD man, in putting up
one of his rods between Indianapolis and
| Cincinnati, connected it with Western
Union telegraph wire, Sin ORDER" he said,
" to relieve the lightning rcd il it should
become excessively charged with electri-
city" He succeeded in relieving the line
of its dispatches, which, ran into the
ground, and caused a large and well
selected amount OF "cussing" at both
ends of the line.
TIE famous expression of an Irish
orator respecting political rival that "he
never opened mis- mouth except to put his
foot in it." may apply to horse owned
by T. r. Simonton, of Camden, Maine.
That gentleman found his horse last week
in condition resulting from such an ex-
pertinent He had got his hind hoof IN his
mouth and could not getitout. Eventually
the h0of had to be pried ont with wagon
stake pushed in behind it.
PROF. PIAzzI SMYTH, astronomer royal
for Scotland, has made long series OF
observations on the temperature of the
earth with underground thermometers,
and is thereby led to conclude that some
relation exists between this temperature
and the amount of sun spots, and that it
takes place in certain order, deducible
from the observations. Following this
out as a conclusion, be is of opinion that
next winter will be unusually severe
throughout the British Islands
/ A LITTLE child of Mr. Moore, in Fond
du Lac, Wis, recently had a most remark
able escape from a shocking death. She
was standing on the railroad track when a
freight train came in. AS soon as the en-
gineer observed the child he whistled
down brakes, but too late to stop the train.
When the cow-catcher struck the child it
was thrown upon the small platform in
front of the engine, escaping without a
bruise, being carried some distance on the
engine.
THE wife of a California farmer, being
sick, her physician ordered some powder,
largely composed of opium, and directed
her husband to administer the weight of d
quarter eagle at dose. In the morning
when the doctor returned, the patient
was dead, and evidently of poison. "Un
happy man." said the doctor, where is
the powder gave your" 81 gave it to
her. Here is the empty box" You for.
got my prescription, then ?" mo, doc
tor. I put the two dollars and half in
one scale, and the powder in the other. y
"Was it in gold?" mo; did not have
gold, and made up the amount in silver.
"MY son." said an old lawyer, giving
advice to his son, who was just entering
upon the practice Of his fathers profes
sion, "if you have case where the law is
clearly on your side, but justice seems to
be against you, urge upon the jury the
necessity of sustaining the law. If, on
the other hand, you are in doubt about
| the law, but your clients case is clearly
founded upon justice, insist upon the ne.
cessity of doing justice even though the
heavens should fall" "But," asked the
son, "bow shall I manage in case
where both law and justice are dead
against me?'' "In that case, my son.
replied the old stager, talk round it.''
WHILE the inspector on q train bound
east from Kansas City was testing the Cal
wheels at Jefferson City, Missouri, he dis
covered a boy under one of the cars, who
had concealed himself there all the way
from Kansas City. He had formed sor
of net of rope, in which he lay suspended
like q spider in its web, between the axle
of one of the trucks and the floor of ths
car. The boy was routed out of his place
and quite a crowd gathered about him on
the platform. He was disposed to b.
saucy, and stated that he had ridden il
this way thousands of miles. AS the traii
was moving slowly from Jefferson City
the boy got in his old place again undo
the car while it was in motion. The con
ductor was notified and stopped the train
The boy was hauled out from his lurking
place, and taking up q stone, was in tn
act of hurting it at the conductor, whe1
the latter knocked him down.