Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-12-30
Personal Intelligence.


sors since IVA. egi.ze.-s.ls3ca
BISMARCK officially controls sixteen
French papers published in captured
cities. @ ., n..,.,
JOHN DENIER, the rope walker, has
forsaken his narrow, road, and taken to
farming in Ohio. -''''4a s''' '''''
jim MACE is playing in " AS You Like
IT, at Niblo's, taking the part OF
Charles, the Wrestler. .asi'
CHARLES WAsHBURN, late American
Minister at Paraguay, has returned to
San Francisco to live. 4-ssaa., az
MRS. HORACE GREELEY and her daugh-
ter spend the winter on the. Isle of
Wight in England. ..-,..a.
A Mr.. SALvo, of Columbus, has in.
vented a guano distributor, which can
also be used for planting garden seed,
corn and cotton. M @oiia1nq
A Mr.. BEARDsLEY,. of Huron, was whip
ing one of his children the other sday,
when an older brother Of the boy inter
fered and fractured the fathers skull.
Mr.. HUGHES, of Salt Lake City, went
to see what was the matter with blast,
and found out when he went sailing
through tree top, without any eyes to
speak of. us @ 4t -fbni1
PRUssIAN MINISTER GERoLTs youngest
daughter and Senorita Romero, sister of
the former Mexican Minister, are soon
to take the vail at Washington.
TIE phenopthalmotrope is the name
given to machine invented by DR..
Donders, of Utrecht, for calculating the
movements of the eye-ball By means
| of it the mathematical analysis made
by Professor Helmholtz of the, occular
movements may be practically demons
trated R bs3 ia bo03 ~
GOLD KING CoAL," w. H. Brown, the
g coal king" of Pittsburg as he isvery
appropriately called, has, in addition to
several steamboats, and tugs plying, the
Ohio river, 165 square barges, twenty
model barges, twenty-six flats and for
ty-three fatboats. These amount to
130,2SO tonnage, and two thirds of them
are loaded with coal awaiting shipment
| the first rise.
EARLY to bed, and early to rise,
Will make man healthy. and wealthy and
Like some other sayings attributed to
Franklin, it contains neither poetry nor
sense. Early rising and travelling about
in the dew before the sun has dissipated
| the moisture, has cost more lives than
| lying in bed late. The wise and the
| healthy man, is he who takes heed to
natures laws, and works diligently
while he may sia,ba
For stern, close thought, the: mind
must be schooled by habits of close, ap-
plication, and this is more rare thar. one
would imagine, for, Notwithstanding
what is called application in our public
schools, the mind is so little employed
in it that few men ever know how to
isolate themselves from present, OBJ
.jects enough to think really, and the
habit is easily lost.-Carohne r. Corn
wallis. ~ eHamst! IL All
A SCIENTIFIC French gentleman;s
| Laborde, has announced the discovery
| of an infallible means of distinguishing
| between real and imaginary death, by
sticking a needle an inch or so into qthe
body. The novel element of Dr.sL
| borde's discovery is, that in the living
| tissues, the needle becomes tarnished
and odorized, while in the actually de-
funct it retains it polish. q - "o'''a
IMAGINE that thinking is the great
desideratum of the present age andthe
cause of whatever is done amiss may
justly be reckoned the general neglect
Of education those who need it most
the people of fashion. What can be ex-
pected when those who have the, most
influence have the least sense, and
those who are sure to be followed set
the worst example. Bishop Berkeley.
MARTHA AND MARY.-Commend us to
our good brethren of the clergy for anec-
dotes of pith and delicacy. At the
house of the late DR.. Archer, in Lon
don, there was gathering of friends,
and among them Dr. Harris, author Of
Mammon," and DIR. Philip, of Maberly
Chapel, author of "The Marthas,'
"The Marys," etc. In the course of
conversation, the question was mooted,
which was the most amiable of the two
sisters of Bethany, Mary or Martha
DR.. Archer replied massa
II prefer Martha for the unselfish-
| ness of her character, in being more
ready to provide for the comfort of her
Lord than crafty hersef.o s5gtf
Pray" rejoined DR.. Harris. address
ing DR.. Philip, "what is your view?
Which of the two do you think would
have made the best wife ~ goass10
Well, really, "replied the good man,
"Im at loss; though / dare say, were
making the choice for myself, should
prefer Mary" tfa gxa
DR.. Archer, turning to DIR. Harris,
said, smartly, n9i1ni sH -
Pray, Dr. Harris, which of the two
should you prefer?" eab s7o,4
The author of MammonD was only
for moment Disconnected, and replied
in a style that set the table in roar
"Oh, / think | should choose Martha
before dinner, and Mary after it.o--7Edi-
tors Drawer IN Harper's 1Magazine for De-
cen6er. 4d HsgaGt
Born SIDEs.-In the old time, in Phia-
delphia, the disciples in the faith Of William
Penn invariably wore the single-breasted
drab or snuff-colored coat, ard were strict
in their notion of having the buttons thereof
on the left side of the coat aforesaid. At
dinner given by him. friend Elias Bearsy
had secured a big buck darkie to "tend
table," to whom he gave an imperative or
der to hand things to the guests at the left
side. E vs
"Thee will always know by their coat
buttons, Pompey which is the left side"
Among the guests was French gentle
man who wore doublebreasted coat4-a
worldly garment. The darkey, in handing