Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-10-14
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lost both of his arms. o ,suaafi Yt,,,l,
ONE clothing firm in Boston employs
three thousand hands.
71 STAND OFF Cry is the name of new
Oil town in Pennsylvania. i99d 4adaM
LAzINEss is good deal like money, the
more . man has of it, the more he ,wants
TIME FLIEs.--Egen to this rule there is
an exception, any man may keep-his
birthday. aIa s3q 2a.89 q s5al4 sl9d
Tucson, the capital of Arizona, with a
population Of 2,500, has neither school,
church, nor minister.
| AN editor, who has been elected town
constable, is now able to arrest the atten-
tion of his readers. .554;a4hs dopm sH7
| A BnL-PosTER may be described as a
man who sticks to business, and whose
business it is to stick. '''i0
2 We should not like to have the Shah of
Persia for visiting acquaintance. He
travels with retinue Of six thousand per-
sons.
| MR. ISAAC INGHAM, prominent citizen
| of Rockville, Connecticut, died few
| days since from the pricking Of his thumb
with bone while cutting meat. t,:.,
| ONE Partisan to another: "hIy wife is
! half dead at the idea OF q SIEGE" e"Cour-
age, my friend" was the reply, Gin this
world one is never completely happy"
AN exploring party which lately re,
turned from the Yellowstone River re
Yellowstone at $50 feet, and the height Of
one of the Geysers at il9 feet.
AYoUNa lady in st Albans suicided by
biting the tube off a stomach pump and
swallowingit it when the kind doctor was
trying to relieve her of the laudanum she
had taken. .f. s., ~. f.u.
THERE is a colored man in the Michi-
gan Penitentiary who has been there for
ten years for murder, ,9and he now insists
that Lincoln's proclamation set him free,
and asks the authorities to let him out.
"A GYPSY woman promised to show two
young ladies their husbands faces in a
pail Of water. They looked, and ex-
| claimed: "Why, we only see our own
faces!" q" Well" said the giysy,S'" those
faces will be your husbands when you
are married" san ,ssy aeifna
The Louisville Courier ia " authorized
by Mr. Jefferson Davis to say that the
story going the rounds of the European
and American press, stating that he is en-
gagged in writing novel, is without the
foundation either of fact or intention"
A PARIsIAN wit, meeting friend, re-
marks y "What beautiful shoes! When
did you get them? How much did you
pay for them?'' "Fjfteen francs Eff
teen frencs! that's cheap, considering
how much calf there is in them"
"CAN'T you mansge to give my son one
80 - \. Il ~ fTod a
mother of teacher. "No, madam" was
the reply: "Your son will stand no
chance; he obatinately persists in idle.
ness" ""Oh, but them exclaimed the fond
mamma, "if that's SO, you can give him /.
prize for perseverance" !"
A TRAVELLER, being at a coffee house
with some gentlemen, was largely draw
ing on the cfedulity OF the company.
"Whsre did you say all these wonders
happened, sir?" asked gentleman pres
ent. II can't exactly say" replied the
traveller; shut somewhere in Europe
Russia, 1 think" 81 should rather think
Italy," returned the other.
By omitting the letter "s'' in a legal
document, an English attorney once in
| flicted loss on his client of $i50,000. 1t
was brought to his attention, he saw his
blunder, and, without any words, eat
| down and wrote his check for the full
amount. Such man doesn't lose clients
| if he does make a mistake. .rtf45Ia,tT d
The first church organ in Boston was
put into Kings Chapel, in 1713, but SO
great was the prejudice against it that for
seven months it stood unpacked in the
vestibule Of The church. When it was
| put up, and its sounds were heard, it met
with favor. 1t was related that one old
lady expressed her opinion OF it by say
ing: Its q. pretty box of whistles, but
| an awful plaything for the Sabbath" .o
AN English lady on her honeymoon
tour has lately lost her life in Switzerland
by falling into crevasse covered with
| thin Fl Oxen snow. Some of our readers
1 will remember the sad calamity which
befell another young English lady, Mrs
Arbuthnot, the beautiful daughter of
/ Lord Rivers, who, within a fortnigh af;
4 ter her marriage, was, in the same coun.
/ try, struck by lightning, and found dead
by her husband, who had left her for a
/ few minutes. 4s4,,,a8r ag q
| A BURLY Teuton entered an omnibus
one day with huge roeerschaum in his
4 mouth, and, taking the only vacant seat,
| proceeded to roll forth volumes Of smoke.
i The conductor, seeing this violation of
rules, stepped up to him and said, mo
smoking allowed The Dutchman,
| taking the pipe from his mouth with an
air of astonishment, thus replied to the
polite conductor: 81 don't make no noise
| ven schmokes." 7n3 ,o3'ii t.-'1
| A. YOUNG man died in Newport the
other day, from lockiaw, brought on by a
| very singular accident. About ten days
| before his death, while at work nearly
under a skylight in a shoe store, during
storm, the glass broke, and a large piece
| fell and struck him on the wrist, just as
he was reaching his hand under the light
for a piece of leather. The glass severed
one Of the arteries Of the wrist, but the
flow of blood was stopped, and the young
man seemed likely to recover, when locR-
! law set in and caused his death. 99aa
AEuRopEAN letter says "Some years
ago Chevalier de Chatelin published a
| prediction by French prophet in these
words: "When the Second Umpire shall
| have been established at Paris, it will last
i for eighteen years, less one quarter; not
1 a single day longer Mark the singular
| fulfllment. Louis Napoleon claimed eu-
preme power, though not yet the title OF
| Emperor, on the I'd day of December,
1859, and on the I'd day Of September,
1870, exactly eighteen years, less ono
quarter, not day longer he was priss.
| oner of war, and his dynasty at an end.
1 This is one OF the most remarkable coin
cidencss on record, for the prophecy has
/ not been cooked up for the occasion, but
i vas printed in black and white years
ago." 2" t4a es-
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