Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-06-03
CURRENT ITEMS.

PR sIDENT GRANT will visit st. Louis
in July on private business.
PITTSBURGH proposes to have rowing
regatta on the Fourth of July next.
LlTCHFIsLD county, Conn, boasts of
child with eleven living grandparents.
THE rates of the Washington Life are
the same as other good companies.
TIVE total cost of the late Illinois Con-
stitutional Convention was about $780,
900.
THE aeronsut King recently made his
144th ascension at Charleston s. G.
THE new Police Commissioners of New
York city are each paid $4,000 year
salary.
A GOOD constitution is like money-box;
its full value is never known till it is
broken.
cit is curious fact" says some ento-
mologlst, that it is the female.mosquito
that fortunes us"
IT is said that 105 rich persons in Eng
land hold $1,745,000,000 worth Of the
British consols.
LARGE numbers are already securing
board for the Musical Institute to be held
in Chicago the last of August.
A LAD named Grown was killed the
other day, at Dover, N. H., while playing
base ball, the ball striking his head.
THE Milwaukee Sentinel says: Seven
daily, ten weekly and three monthly
newspapers are published in that city.
INSURE your life for the amount of the
mortgage on your house, in the Washing
ton Life Insurance Company, OF New
York.
HAVE alwus bore it in mind that, jist
about in rasho that a person or individual
il proud and naughty, they are ignorant.
| Billings.
A BOY at Waterbury, Connecticut, split
his companions head open with Ratchet,
because the latter would not give him a
bite of candy. re-..
THE Attorney General has decided that
internal revenue officers are not to be ex-
cluded from claiming and recovering in
formers shares.
SAYS the Louisville Courier: "Louis-
vile can't boast of her Red Stockings
or White Stockings but she is pretty
heavy on her black legs"
THE ungallant editor of the Elko (CaL)
Independent says :" all the plain females of
the New England States are focking to
the Pacific coast" e@~--,
A SAN FRANCISCO editor!complains that
when an Eastern journal wants to locate a
joke without truth or moral in it, Califor-
mia is always selected.
A, CARRIAGE which was presented to
Daniel Webster by his New York friends
in 1850, brought only $S6 at auction, in
Portsmouth, N. Y, a few days ago.
Of Go1a
were very nearly poisoned by the trifling
error in passing around chloride of zinc,
as beverage, instead of wine.
THE late John G. Baldwin, of Orange,
N. j., started life poor man, and during
the last fourteen years gave to educational
and charitable purposes 100000.
A CANDID saloon keeper in Brooklyn
displays sign, John Doe, dealer in bar
ley water and bad cigars" His descrip-
ton of his wares is said to be eminently
truthful.
| THE model husband lives in Lewiston,
| Me. He takes the baby with it's nursing
bottle to his place of business, leaving his
invalid wife to take her ease at home.
A LADY recently sent fur cape to a
fur establishment for repair, explaining her
wishes in the following note: AZ want
mi kape mendid whar the mices nored it
in gud shaip."
A PICTURE BROKER in Wilmington, Del,
has been convicted of obtaining money
under false pretenses, for selling paint
ing as the work of the marine artist
Hamilton, which had never been touched
by his brush.
A YOUNG man, aged twenty-five years
whose term of three years Imprisonment
in the Cambridge, Mass, house Of correc-
ton had expired, was recently moved to
the State prison to enter on life impris
onment
SOME Newport chool-ma'ams have
been invited to go to Montana to teach
The Neaos warns them if they go they
must expect to go to housekeeping at the
end of three months. It's the custom Of
the country.
A PRACTICAL man died not long ago in
DevOnshire, England. Almost with his
last breath he enjoined upon his wife and
daughter to have the funeral procession
leave the house at an early hour, that
they might get back in time to milk the
cows. ~st.4
SOME boys of Montpelier, VT, recently
went on hunting expedition, carrying
their ammunition in their pockets One
of them sat down to smoke, when spark
was communicated to his pocket, explod.
ing the powder and burning him fear
| fully.
AT place of amusement in Indjanap.
oils, the other night, a little girl actress
sang Little Barefoot" in costume. Such
was the effect on the audience that at the
repetition of''P lease, sir, give me a penny
sir, it fairly rained nickles on the stage
at least two dollars worth were thrown
A YOUNG man named Frank Thorne
stopping in Buffalo, has concluded ar.
rangements with parties at Niagara Falls
to make leap from the new suspension
bridge into the river, distance of 1916
feet, on the 18th of next August. He is
to receive the sum of $4,000 for the
undertaking.
THE Philadelphia Press of recent
date says, "For the first time within hv
ing memory there is not gambling house
publicly open in Philadelphia. The blaze
of light through half drawn blinds and
half-opened doors no longer at midnight
lures our youth from home or tempts the
stranger" 1853
WHILE passing a house in Virginia
two drummers observed very peculiar
chimney, unfinished, and it attracting Their
attention, they asked a flaxen-haired
urchin standing near the house if il
"drawed well,' whereupon the aforesaid
urchin replied: eyes, it draws the at.
tention of all the fools that pass this
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