Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-10-07
CURRENT ITEMS.

gold. s-'"'o nisne IN
HELENA, Montana, Is to have Chinese
newspaper.
| THE sweet potato crop of this year is
the best that ever grew in Kentucky.
IAN you return my love, my dearest
it, I am sure" - ''''
1 a sAGAcIoUs philosopher has observed
That ii the earth really is hollow, we all
lve upon mere crust
:. SALLY, what time does your folks
olneT "Soon as you 60 away; them's
missus's ORDERS"
The first velvet factory in the United
states has been started by French colo.
ny at Franklin, Kansas.
a MAN in Oxford, Ind, was bitten by
ragtiesnake seventeen years ago, and is
stlll taking whisky to cure the bite.
CoLUMBUs, Ga, has a chicken which
commenced growing like grown chan.
tacieer the first day after it was hatched.
"How," said one man to another, "do
you accomplish SO much In 80 short a
tlme Have you any particular plan ?" ~
have; go and do it"
a FEW years ago, a gentleman at Par
ker, Maine, put four or five brook trout
IN his fish-pond, and now rejoices in plen.
ty OF ''four and five pound speckled beau.
ties" af l'tal e
+ THE gold mines of California Weld an
nually 23,000,000, the quicksilver mines
$1,5OO,OOO, and the coal fields 100000.
A RIDICULOUS story is going the rounds
OF the country that Mrs. Bergh had a
young woman arrested the other day for
beating an egg.
LATELY man visiting Wisconsin from
Vermont, who had never seen any potato
bugs, bottled few and carried them to
that State for curiosity.
AN English nobleman has taken up his
residence in the center of the Dismal
Swamp, Virginia. Blighted affections are
supposed to be the cause of his trouble.
The Amsterdam Recorder says that
John Allen, once known as "the wicked
est man in New York." died few days
ago at his old home il Perth, Fulton
county, N. Y.
DURING the week ending September
IL, 1,349 men, $40 women, 4, ,446 boys, and
1,O2l girls, washed in the public baths of
Philadelphia.
Mrs. PARTINeToN says she understands
the pickle the Emperor has got into; but
she would like to know what this ner1-
trality is that Victoria is trying to pre-
serve.
MARGARET WATERS, the London
"baby farmer" having been found guilty
oi the willful murder of forty infants, has
been sentenced to be hanged.
THERE are S,9a5 Friends in Iowa.
Among that number two only were
reported as having INDUCED in the
vicious habit of swearing during the year
past. .t'
THREE members of a circus troupe
lately performing at Lebanon, Ind, car
ried off wives with them when leaving
the town. The courtship had only lasted
two days.
THE Brooklyn Union, in an article on
tight boots, says young Lady in Hartford
had such sore feet on her wedding day
that she couldn't stand up to be married.
A CONDUCTOR on the New York &
Newark Railroad is charged with putting
off from his train q passenger while in
fit, and who was, therefore, unable to
show his ticket when asked to do so.
A FEW days ago Mr.. Cloyce, of At
Gibson county, Kan, had wire fence
struck by lightning, and the electricity
passed along the fence for distance of
eighty rods, killing several head Of cattle,
one of which was eighty rods from where
the lightning struck the fence.
j A GENTLEMAN residing at Utica declares
that, on q recent occasion, while walking
along the track of the New York Central
Railroad, he was struck by the cow
catcher, thrown into the air, and caught
in coming down by the fireman, who held
him fast until the engine was stopped.
AN ungrateful son at Cincinnati, few
weeks since, gave out that his mother was
insane, and had her removed to q pauper
lunatic asylum. 1t now appears that she
was not insane, and he is being brought
to the right about by the authorities.
MANY persons have wondered why
horse chestnut horse,radish, &c, are so
called. a Scotch work entitled "Etymons
Of English Werds," says that the original
word was tharsh"- "--harsh-chestnut harsh-
radish, and that the French and Swedes
translated it "horse"-hence the common
error.
PERKINS will get tight occasionally,
much to the astonishment of himself and
lllCnu5. = y Va y CeAle, ooyc AAOt u ~ Woo
unaccountable to me, for L never did drink
but a mouthful or two, and the cause
never did strike me until measured my
mouth and found that it held pint"
MONEY s..,.i,,,,- 80, ..r..fl
= Money borrowed is a foe
f,nta1 Veiledin kindly seeming; e ~
Money wasted is friend
gane fis Lost beyond redeeming. lGGH s,Hs9
b1os Hoarded, it is like a guest 9dt aia ~.
- Won with anxious seeking, ,ss.
Giving nothing for his board 1.@@ 'f'
-,, Save the care of keeping. trq sij
rs Spent In good it leaves a joy ef-i,,~
Twice its worth behind it;
4Egss And who thus hath lost it here i3Ti sfij
| ~ Shall hereafter fnd it. m
AT Grass Valley, Cal, a young man at
tempted suicide, but failed. Alluding to
the circumstance local paper remarks
"This young man is only 20 years of
age; too young to be SO rash because he
| il impecunious. As he did not make
success of the job, we forbear giving his
name. Those who get their names IN
| this paper as suicides must succeed. Sue
cess is the test of merit" ae kee
| DURING the fiscal year ending June 3O,
| 1870. there was destroyed at the Treasury
United States currency to the amount OF
$500 239 35S 80, embracing legal-tender
| notes. fractional currency, interest notes,
etc. The whole amount destroyed since
the set authorizing the issue OF United
States currency, is, 81 3O8, ,O20 99927 The
number of pieces OF paper money en-