Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-07-22
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NEW Ohh 10"
On the Fourth.
a. rr car conductor at Philadelphia
los been arrested and fined for overload
ing his car.
NAN in Boston is SO short that when
he Is IN he don't know whether he has
headache or corns.
THERE are over five thousand newspa-
pers published in the United States, rep
resenting capital of $96, O0O,OO0.
A Mrs. CHAMBERLAIN delivered the
Grafton at Lakeville, Dakota county,
MINI, on the Fourth.
To avoid anxiety in sickness and health,
Re insured in the Washington Life lnsur
ance Company of New York.
IT is said that trichina have been dis
covered in the flesh of deer shot In their
native wilds in Oregon.
EIGHTEEN young men have been fined
SO each for habitually "loadng on the
street corners of Boston.
A TIGREss was killed in the Madras
presidency by the quill of porcupine
piercing her throat while eating the
animal.
81 WON'T pay for steak as tough as
this" said an angry boarder; no law can
compel me-it's not legal tender"
VIcE-PREsIDENT CoLFAx has been in
yited to deliver the annual address at the
Vermont State Fair, at Burlington, Sep
tembsr 10.
Do you want to see your wife's smiles?
Secure her from poverty by a policy III
the Washington Life, of New York.
MORE than $4,000 persons, rendered
houseless by the great fire in CONSTANT
nople, have been provided for by the
Turkish Government.
A ST.. LOUIS paper describes letter of
Horace Greeley as looking Gas if some
body had smashed bottle of ink on it,
and tried to wipe it off with a curry
comb"
In the vestibule of church in South
Gardner, Mass, may be seen the follow
ing: "Noticel Persons chewing tobacco
will please spit in their hats"
THE sister of Samuel Craft, wealthy
farmer of Glen Cove, N. Y, was recently
attacked by an Infatuated COW, and be-
fore she could be rescued was gored to
death.
A VICTIM of unrequited affection con-
Cludes as follows:
81 sat me down and thought profound
This maxim wise drew
It's easier far to like girl
Than make d girl like you.''
THE petty tradesmen of London, to
whom Dickens had given orders, on the
announcement of his death displayed these
autograph notes in their windows, with
an eye to custom.
In Pittsburgh, on the Fourth, fire.
cracker was thrown into the mouth of a
boy aged ten years, and exploded there.
TIE boy has entirely lost his voice, but is
otherwise uninjured.
SOME workmen of town in Hanover
amused themselves by stripping tipsy
companion and fastening him in That con-
dition to a tombstone. A few hours later
he was found there, dead.
A. SUNDAY SCHOOL teacher, deploring
The lack of attendance on his ministra.
lions, appealed to the few present: "What
can / DO" said he, ito get the boys and
girls here?" II know" said one Of the
urchins. "What is it?'' "Give 'em all
five cents apiece"
THE Hon. Andrew Stewart, of Penn
sylvania, visited Washington a few days
ago, and was at the Capitol. Heis nearly
ninety years old, and was in Congress
fifty years ago. Not one of his Congress
tional colleagues is alive.
DETROIT has IA, sos families, rs stores,
ISL groceries, 446 offices, GO hotels, 1876
boarding houses, 81 churches, 10 public
halls, 1O8 public schools, 1913 machine
shops, 500 places where liquor is sold,
&c. The number of families in 1850 was
$685.
In Los Angeles and San Diego coun-
Ties, CAL, one may ride twenty miles
along the highway without quitting the
land of Don Juan Foster. The landed
possessions of that gentleman are set
down at three hundred square miles.
Mr.. CUYCKANIcKPUcKs Yakutskolit-
milks Sakiatskylitmilks Ankachagamuks
Observation-Disclosures keeps hotel at Sit
la, Alaska. He says that the Americans
lave the queerest names he ever heard of,
and it is with the utmost difficulty he can
pronounce them
A BALTIMORE policeman the other day
arrested one of three brother rowdies for
insulting lady. The brothers assailed
the officer with clubs to rescue the pris-
nner, but the officer chung to his man,
hook him to the watch house, and in a few
minutes died of his wounds.
A NEW ORLEANS man, with bottle Of
lnucilage in his pocket, enjoyed the sOcie-
ty of two lady friends in q street, uncon
scious that the bottle was broken. When
they desired to leave, all were stuck fast
ind only persevering efforts and the
facrifce of silks and doeskin released
them.
AN old hypochondriac in New Yorh
inagines every few days that he is going
10 die He has made several wills, which
are destroyed when he RECEIVERS from the
attacks" and he has said farewell to hi.
family and given directions about his
funeral more than twenty times.
,s.s A GENTLEMAN whose nose had become
distinctly colored with the red wine he
was wont to imbibe, said one day to his
little son at the table: You must eat
Tread, my hoy; bread makes your cheeks
aed." The little boy replied: "Father,
what lots of bread you must have snuffed
rpr
y. A CORRESPONDENT writing from Ire
land recouuts visit to an Irish school in
The Black Valley. An address was made
ID the children, and at its conclusion they
were asked what they expected to do
when they became men and women,
when, with one inspiration, the forty pu-
pills responded, go to America"
Dr. LANEssAN, French physician,
recently lost his life in consequence, it is
taid, of his excessive exertion to resusci-
tate q young girl who was nearly drown
I'd in the Seine. The Doctor breathed
lis own breath into her lungs, but as she
begun to recover, he tainted away and
could not be restored to consciousness.
A CoNvIvIAL club in Norwalk, Conn,
were TT Gently invited to the house of their
President to partake OF lobster salad,