Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-12-23
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A BAD debt: The owing of a grudge.s'
Is it wrong to take any one in when
it rains? t'ea'
THE best thing to give the poor: En-
ployment. 9.a
WHEN is the weather like crockery
shop When it's muggy. htHe7
A JOINT concern: Anxiety about the
| butchers bill. .--ta.
WARNING to bald heads: "Death loves
a shining mark" 53a5c
The tobacco-ehewer is like a goose in
Dutch oven-always on the spit.
DANGEROUS associates Those who
are " dressed to kill soT
| A CINCINNATI dancing club claims
the appellation of "Sorrowful Old
Maids
WHEN are barrels like whipped prize,
fighters? When they are badly bunged,
you know S1't
A SAN Francisco organ grinder re-
Gently died, worth $l00-leaving no heir "
but monkey. M tsF~3
MEN are like potatoes-they do not =
know how soon they may be in hot
water. v sb .s6 sH
If Russia is to fight England she'll
get taste of the riggers of war;
Cow.-Jouw. -
MARX TWAIN promises, for the Janu-
airy Galary, an original picture of King
William of Prussia.
WHY is a philanthropic effort like
blow aimed at a mans face? Because it
tends to human-ize. +'
CATTLE are dumb beasts, but by get
ting together in large numbers they
make themselves herd. Aat raI
f" FLExURA, or patent steel spring waist
boots, particularly adapted for. organ
lists" is the latest novelty advertised in
the London musical papers
PUNCH wants to know whether the
Germans will care as much for the
Watch on the Rhine" now that they
have got the great Strasbourg clock.
IT is proposed to France to cultivate
the Chinese bamboo in order to open o
new branch of industry IF the PROPOSE N'
ton be attempted it will probably proveai
a bamboozle. a# fsa-arg 50
AN Alabama editor itenizes his adj
vices from East Tennessee as follows 4
"Methodist meetings continue with in
creased interest-ten convicts shipped
to the Penitentiary." H.a5 -ffs ID
THE residents of Montreal find food z
for reflection in the knowledge that no 81
matter how little consideration they en- B
Joy while living they will be worth $l5 I,
head for anatomical purposes after
death. aaHi
"THE Political Outlook" has not been
used more than three or four times at
least as leader head, but anyhow the
editor of Mississippi paper got tired of
it and hung his article on to (. The Po-
| litical Inlook." .Hrlf
Miss FANNY RUTHERFORD, of Grand
| Rapids, Mich, is city physician. When .,
the Rutherford goes feeling young fel-,
| lows pulse and finds it beating like all
possessed, how does she know whether'i1
it's fever or Fanny fadN
| A SUNDAY-sCHooL TEACHER who had all
most become discouraged over the list =
lessness of her class, at last felt rewarded
| by an interested look from little girl.
| The reward was lost when the little
creature touched bracelet on her arm, p
and asked, "Teacher, are them threaded
on lastic p .-.
AN old Dublin beggar woman asked a.
lady the other day for half-penny.
"Fve nothing for you," said the lady
but if you go to the soup Kitchen }
| you'll get pint of excellent SOUP
"Soup is it, ye mane?'' bawled the in
dignant mendicant; edo you call that
stuff soup? Sure and I'll jist tell ye-
how they make it; they get % quart of
water, and then boil it down to pint to
make it strong.'
AN attorney in Dublin having died
exceedingly poor, a shilling subscription
was set on foot to pay the expenses OF
his funeral Most of the attorneys and
barristers having subscribed, one OF :
them applied to Toler, afterward Lord
Chief Justice Norbury, expressing his
hope that he would also subscribe his
shilling. "Only shilling?' said Toler,
"only shilling to bury an attorney
Here's a guinea; 60 and bury one-and- e
twenty of them" se1es