Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-10-28
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NEW YORK averaged forty weddings per
day in a recent week.
NEBRASKA had but one thunder storm
during all summer.
A SPOILED CHmD-The one that played
with the kerosene can.
The mosquito, as public singer, draws
well but never gives satisfaction.
A PIECE of calico mile long has been
manufactured in New England
The managing editor of the New Or
leans Times has celebrated his golden we'd
ding.
AGAssIz, during the last year, has dis
covered ten thousand different varieties of
the fly
Why does the fool who never laughs re-
mind. you of the wisest man? Because he
is Solemn'un.
THE Mutual Insurance Company, of Chi
cago, is the oldest Life Company in Illinois,
and second to none in the Union. y
MERCHANTS who advertise only once in
three months, forget that most folks can
not remember anything longer than about
seven days.
The "new-fashioned gentlemen's hats"
are bell-crowned, and carry rim two
iucllcb anu d Hall WIuc, Will all upWdIu
tendency - -
A NEW JERSEY forger has recently
been sentenced to five years in the State
Prison on each of twenty charges of which
he had been found guilty.
IF Micawber were living the longing of
his life would be satisfied in view of the
new gypsy bonnet, which turns up both at
front and back
In Boston, gentleman has just obtained
verdict of $639 damages against drug
gist for negligence in putting up prescrip-
ton, which caused the death of the plain
tiff son. to ..,,.9. ..... .a..-
IT is estimated that America, when her
productive power is fully developed, will
be able to feed four times as many persons
as there are now on the face of the earth.
A RESIDENT of Saratoga was suddenly
stricken with total blindness on a recent
Sunday, and ON the following Monday his
sight returned to him as suddenly as he
had lost it. QaEJTsG0ih IA .f4 NJ
THERE is herd of twenty six camels in
Nevada, used for carrying salt from the
desert to the mills They live on prickly
pears and sage brush, and are as easily bred
as goats - "a - 81 AZ . p -
A BUTTER train containing over 5000
packages passed over the Vermont Central
Railroad recently. This is said to be the
heaviest train of the kind that ever passed
over any road in the country.
A MAN in Albany, while tearing down
an old building, the other day, found a
well-preserved silver coin, dated 1771, and
bearing the image and superscription of
Ann by the grace Of God" RrsrYsv2
REV. J. G. Snow, Principal of the West
brook (Me.) Seminary, says that during the
drouth considerable quantity of water
was condensed by the tin roof of the SEM
nary boarding house; and transmitted to
the cistern. -
AT New Orleans, the other day, a Mrs
Traffick died suddenly at dentists office,
after having one. of her teeth extracted,
Paralysis of the head was the supposed
cause of death, induced by the nervous
shock, of the operation. f,f gF t; q +
THE a"manI who dared" thus reveals
himself in the columns of the Gin
cinnati Chronicle: 81 wish to inform
those of my busy neighbors that I
am not afraid or ashamed to acknowl-
edge that I was married to Cara Belle
Dickson, on the 10Th of June last, at the
residence of the Rev. p. of ST. Johns Epis-
copal Church, John H. Elliott.
s,. sgs JAMES TRAVIS"
The students Of Union College, Sche-
nectady, had their annual horse-chestnut
fight the other day. The fight lasted
about an hour, ending in the discontinue
of the Freshmen. Black eyes and bloody
faces testified to the fury of the contest.
One Soph. lost his eyesight, probably be-
yond recovery. Nearly all the windows
on the south colorado of the building
were broken AAs s :
WHARF" Mr.. M" said wedding guest
to a clergyman, don't you drink wine at
wedding p "No, sir" was the reply, 'sI'll
take glass of water" But sir" said
the oficious guest, "you recollect the adj
vice of Paul to Timothy, to take little
wine for his infirmity.n j" have no in
trinity" was the sententious reply.
The night of the steamboat explosion
at Oswego, guest at one of the hotels re-
quested to be called atefye o'clock in the
morning, and, on being aroused by the eX-
plosion with a rafting. of windows and
wash pitchers, he sprang. out fbed prompt
~, calling out to the supposed porter,
That will do; you needn't make such a
noise about it."
A MAN in Leavenworth evidently thinks
it is notwen for man to be alone. His
wife lay very sick, not expected to live,
and, while in that condition, she heard him
make proposals of marriage to the servant
girl. That night the wife died, and was
buried the following day. The widower
OF day renewed his proposals to the serv-
ant-glrl, was accepted, and she is now en-
gagged in making her wedding garments.
The Sioux City, Iowa, Neaos says: One
OF our physicians was called on yesterday
to visit LADY, living near Perry Creek. On
examination it was found that large If
regular hole had been bored in her head
Just behind the ear. A closer examination
proved that vermin from her artificial hair
mad forced their way nearly through the
Done.e The doctor who attended her de-
scribed her condition as horrible.
A LITTLE girl, when her fathers table
was honored by an esteemed guest, began
TO talk very earnestly at the first pause in
the conversation. Her father checked her
somewhat sharply, saying: why is ut
mat you always talk so much p "Tause
I've dot somesin to, say" was the instant
fepiy-at which the solemn papa was
: obliged to look another way, and the
guests laughed outright IA
The sister who nursed Marshal Mac
Mahon.s says that he never uttered a com
PAINT during the dressing of his wounds.
no matter how they cut and hacked in the
lrightful wound, which completely travers-
ea his thigh and in which boy ten years
ola might turn his fist around, not groan
was heard, Whatever was given him,
Whatever was done for hin, he ro,Jx, woo