Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-02-04
CURRENT ITEMS.

| SACRAMENTO boot-blacks are uniformed
THE New York theatres support 2,00C
| persons.
CINCINNATI made 3O,5O9,6SO cigars last
year.
Boston has a" Deaf Mute Christian As
sOciatiOn."
THERE are nineteen comic papers pub
lished in Paris.
DoRE has made 10000 pictures since he
was IA years old.
THE customs receipts for 1868, in Rus
sia, amounted to 143,075,500 francs.
| DURING last year 1872 persons were killed
by horses and vehicles in London.
THE National Hospital for Diseases OF
the Heart London, has had more than 33,
| 900 patients.
In Pennsylvania there are eleven mil
| lions of dollars in church property exempt
| from taxation.
THE dead Cinnamon along the Pacific
railroad are being dug up and shipped to
China
THE losses 10 sJeam boats attached to
the ST. Louis port, during the year 1869,
amounted to $2,000,000.
VIRGINIA "oyster rocks" yield an an
nual revenue of $40 100000. They occupy
$4,000 acres.
The Freewill Baptists haYe college at
Harper's Ferry whose bell is heard in
Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.
Hon. s. s. Cox's recent lecture in New
York, in aid of the New York Founding
Aid Association, netted $10,562.
THE Good Templars of California are a
money making corporation. Those at
Vallejo are building $25, 900 lodge house.
ONE hundred and fifty babies have been
found in the little basket crib at the door
of the New York Founding Asylum
since the Goth OF last November.
ONE of the intimate personal friends of
Daniel Webster, at Boston, is preparing
volume which will contain incidents of
his private and social life.
IT is stated that pupil of Baron Liebig
has discovered certain ethers, which,
when poured upon some chemical COM
pounds, produce instantaneously precious
stones of all kinds.
A CRAZY woman in Paris has delivered
herself UP to the police authorities, de-
claring that she was an accomplice OF
Traupmann in series of crimes far more
horrible than the Pantin tragedy.
A MAN, his wife, nine children, and an
aged mother recently came from Nevada
to Vineland, N. j., at an expense of 5000
in gold, that they might have the benefit
of churches and schools.
A MAN named Speight, who claims to
| be Jesus Christ, was rode on a rail out of
| Southington, Conn.,, the other evening.
He had half dozen women who followed
after him weeping
THERE are said to be living in Balti-
more county, Md, five brothers, the
youngest of whom is 73, and the Oldest
81 who served in the same company in
the war of 1912, and have never received
pension.
THIS year thirty three new trades have
been added to the London Directory
The London Times says that it would
seem that we are rapidly approaching, by
the division of labor, very near to the
acme of refinement and civilization.
CALIFORNIA; is inaugurating her silk man.
ufacture by getting up two flags, each
measuring thirty-s six feet fly by tive nty-o
feet hoist, one being for the National
Capit.l and the other for that of the
State. The quality is claimed to be equal
to any manufactured in Lyons or else
where in Europe.
JUDGE BUTLER, OF pennsylvania, re-
Gently gave decision on the question Of
bidders or "puffers" at public sales, in
which he held that if party procure men
to bid up property, and the person who
buys it is deceived thereby, he cannot be
held to his bid, as it vitiates the sale and
makes it void.
THE young women of Lewiston, Me-,
have formed a society, pledging themselves
not to kiss any man who uses tobacco, and
the Young men have formed society,
pledging themselves not to look at a
woman who wears false bair. AS con-
sequence marriage licenses are not in
active demand.
THE coliseum for the great musical fes-
tiyal in New York ia May will accom-
modate $4,000 people. The attendance of
1O, 900 musical artists is to be secured, and
the first stars Of the lyric world have
been engaged for the occasion. Four
grand prizes for musical compositions are
to be offered.
THE Tbipetans, in sleeping, have a
crious posture. They invariably draw
their knees close up to their heads and
rest on their knees and elbows, huddling
every scrap of clothing they can muster
on their backs; the richer rest thus ON a
mattress rising toward the head. The
poorer avail themselves of suitable slope
on the hillside, or pile stones and earth
| TO q convenient height.