Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-12-02
NO. 12.

of that burg He failed to come to time
on the wedding day, and gives as an sex !.
cuse that he didn't feel well enough ac-
quainted with her." . s.~l,.....
THERE is said to be one passenger !;
train on the Burlington d Missouri River
Railroad, not trainman of which, con-
dUctor, fireman, engineer brakeman, bag
gageman, or Post Office man, chews or
smokes tobacco or swears.
A LITTLE girl who had just laid aside
her slate in order to adjust her stockings, I
was asked by her mother: "What are
you drawing on your slate, Emma ?" II :
amt drawing on my slate" she answered,
I'm drawing onmy stockings" t.,igsen
Mrs. BoLLEs has knocked one objec-
ton " entirely out of sight by the state
ment that an invention has been per- e
fected in Boston by which infants can be
satisfactorily and continuously rocked
while the women go to vote. ,.,...,s. +.
A POOR but honest youth at Wilmings
ton, n. c., was recently encouraged to be
good and virtuous by a reward of 10 cents
for finding and restoring to the owner a
pocket book containing $435. The indi-
vidual whose liberality was thus strikingly' /
tested is said to be exceedingly wealthy.
A DEs MONIES printer went farming
last spring He planted an acre of fine.
land with some excellent cabbage seed. In
the fall he harvested from that acre an eX-
traordinary good crop of rottdbdgdS.H Hes
marked the large vegetables wrong font,9
took them to market, and disposed of them
to good advantage. M s5 st 9ss 8g +.
INirecounting the signs Of the times as
bearing upon the Adventist theory of the
earth's destruction, at the Concord IN. H.)
church on a recent Sunday evening, one of
the cheerful prophets of speedy annihila-
ton affirmed that there were more earth
quakes during the last five years than dur
ing the preceding twenty-five hundred
years. VIZ s.
VIM. GLAzIER's children, in Bremen
county, Iowa, made playhouse between
two Of his hay stacks. In order to make
tea" they needed fire, and made a bigone
out Of fifty tons of hay and large barn
near by. One of the children but just es
caped with it's life Juvenile tea parties
are not as popular in the family now as
they were. a gH 7e n,st II /
Nor IN VAIN fs,t.f f,aff.r.
Let me not deem that | was made in vain, -
Or that my being was an accident,
Each drop uncounted in storm OF ram l
Hath its own mission, and was duly sent ~
To its own leaf or blade, not idly spent
Mid myriad dmples on the shipless main. 81 &
The very shadow an lnSectS wing. : -,
For which the violet cared not while 1t stayed
Yet felt the hghter for its vanishing,
Proved that the sun was shining by its shade.
THIRSTY gent enters the bar-room OF a
first-class hotel early in the day; Land
lord. / guess I've got sense enough to take,
drink this morning" ObseqlHous paf,
tender furnishes the required beverage ana
the thirsty gent smiles, smacks his lips, ana
remarks Well, old top, that's prime, but
I'm cussed if I've got cents enough 70 % pay
for it!' exit with flying colors) ,-
THE celebrated physician Doumourler
was surrounded in his last moments by
several distinguished doctors OF Parls.
g Gentlemen.n said he, ado not regret me
i leave behind me three great physicians" (
On their pressing him to name them he
briefly added: "Water, Exercise and
Diets to the no small discontinue OF his
disappointed brethren. h u !,
A LITTLE boy was advised by his father
to use illustrations in his converse Mheh-'
ever thev should occur to him, tor,| con-
timed the parent. "there is no more forclr
ble wav of conveying or impressing your ?
meaning" Shortly after the boy was be-
inc lect1red on generosity, It's better to
rive than to receive, Johnny-tar better.
The Bible says so, and say SO" f" llIlus,
trate It. papa. I think / will understand
YOU better.h Father could not see the ap-
plicatlon. s. 4..a. ..a.ls ,}.tlt-.,-
SOME calculating Englishman has made
a computation to the effect that II every
individual in Paris should take amouthful
of food less every day than he would in
time of plenty (supposing that mouth1ul 70 TO ! !
be about an ounce, the saving would
amount to /, $4,000 pounds, or 6,697 sacks
of $50 pounds, daily, 46,879 sacks weekly,
and in the course of one year, II II were
possible the siege could last SO long 1I AaT sne
consumption would be reduced py %'49'-
908 sacks of 280 pounds each