Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-04-29
CURRENT ITEMS.

A STATE dinner in China consists of
fifty-two courses
SEVEN Philadelphia girls married bogus
| Counts last year.
Mrs. SMITH & HUSBAND is the style of
Terre Eaute, Ind, firm.
THE Cincinnati officials won't allow la
borers for the city to smoke during work
| ing hours.
ONE of the cruel April fool" jokes in
| Paris was the announcement Of the arri-
val of the steamship City of Boston.
THE number of horses consumed as food
| in Paris duriag 1869, was 2, 1853, which fur
| nished 1908, 200 pounds of meat.
In stage combat at French theatre
| lately, the wad from a gun broke an iron
helmet, and wounded the head inside it.
In the city of Asuncion, Paraguay,
there are three women to every man, and
in the country places there are fifty
| women to each man.
THE number of .workingmen in Paris
| is computed at three hundred thousand.
Thirty cents day is the average pay they
| receive ~ 80 4 sii'H ta"' ="
i JILL-TREATMENT of the mother law
| by the husband is one of-the grounds
| upon W hich a divorce is asked by lady
in Richmond, Va. "'
| AT Colebrook, Conn, few days ago,
| man followed the example of his grand
father, father, mother, brother and Wlte,
| and committed suicide.
A SAN FRANCISCAN, who sued the city
| for 100000 On account of the death OF
his daughter, who was run over by fire.
engine, has recovered $4,000. dt., al
A FoRTY-MILE velocipede race has re-
Gently taken place in France. Fifteen
competitors started, and the winner ac-
cOmplished the journey in 8 hours and A
minutes.
WITHIN two weeks recently six persons
and numerous animals were severely bit
ten by mad dogs in the vicinity Of Sas-
safras Neck, Cecil county, Md. gsas
A LOT of land in. Hartford, which was
sold twelve years ago as a pasture, for
81 900, is to-day held by the proprietor at
.$T5, 1000, and he has been offered $4,000
for it. ,.,r4 ,,.c, g.-
THE stocking of a child who fell out of
second story window, in Newport, VT,
few days since, caught in the fastening
of the blinds and held her until she was
rescued.
THERE is man at Peoria, ILL.,, who has
spent the last twenty years of his life upon
machine to which he is trying to give per-
petual motion. He dresses in rags, and is
half-starved.
DIsGUsTED with one of the stamps that
will not stick, Providence letter-writer
recently dropped letter into the Post
office with the stamp securely fastened
with pin.
TI1Io da1iuoroI n 10
cision recently, in which he established as
law that the name of a newspaper is a
TRADE mark as much as a label stamped
upon bale of muslin.
A FEW days ago beggar stopped at
the following morning died from heart
disease. The Coroner's jury found ST.,
00085 sewed up in his ragged clothing.
UsURY laws have been abolished in
Maine. Parties can lend and borrow at
such rate of interest as they may express
in writing, Where there is no legal agree
ment in writing, six per cent. is the legal
interest. 9@
MR.. SAMUEL SMILES, in an article of the
British Almanac for 1870, gives the total
yearly cost of drinks and tobacco in
Great Britain and Ireland at e100, 243, OLA,
VI uiOiC tudu sS4o loi CYCiJ "NuiO thoAO Ill
the kingdom.
THE King of Italy pardoned last year
two hundred and twenty-f five criminals;
the Emperor of Austria one hundred and
ten; and the King Of Prussia, forty-five.
A TEACHER in one Of the Boston public |
schools has resigned after several years
service, because she has conscientious
scruples against teaching on Saturday. |
She belongs to sect known there as
" Bible Christians"
A STEAMER, named the Italy, of 4,2O0
tons burden, and 600 horsepower, built
for the National Steamship Company, was
recently launched at Glasgow, Scotland.
She is said to be the largest merchant
screw steamer yet built, with the single
exception of the Great Eastern.
ONE of the oldest defcnses on record
has just been made at Hamburg by man
who had murdered his wife from motives
of jealousy. According to his own ac-
count he had not murdered her, but chad
killed her in fair and honorable duel, as
he had placed pistol in her hand and
told her to shoot at him.
THE ceremony of laying the corner
stone Of the new Masonic Temple in New,
York city will take place on the Sth of
June next. The Temple will be one of
the most imposing buildings in the city,
and the largest Masonic edifice in the
world. It is to be built directly opposite
Booths Theatre, on Sixth avenue, and
will cover whole block.
A BOY, seventeen years old, in Lampe-
ter township Pa, few days ago deliber-
ately cut off his foot, and when asked why
ne did it, replied that we are told if our
hand or our foot offend us, we should cut
it off. He had struck three blows, and,
picking up the foot, hurled it some dis
tance from him. The mutilation proved
fatal.
NILLsoN, the pranaa donna, recently lost
her voice for day or two in consequence
of her nervous terror and anxiety at wit
Messing in the streets of Paris fatal acci-
dent, by which young man, mounted
on velocipede, was run down by car
riage and killed on the spot. The opera
in which she was announced to appear
on the evening Of the day Of this disaster
had to be postponed.
THE New POSTAGE STAMPS The one
cent stamps have profile bust of Frank
lin, color blue. The two cents, a jackson
profile bust, color brown. The three
cents, Washington profile bust, color
green. The six cents, Lincoln profile
bust, color cochineaL Ten cents, Jeffer-