Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-03-04
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! New YORK has sixteen saloons to every
| church.
A STUDENT from Siberia is attending
Cornell University.
| DETROIT has ten cemeteries for the in
terment of its dead.
ONE Buffalo dealer has sold 10000 val
entines this year.
SOLITARY confinement has crazed nine
convicts in the Detroit prison.
| A VALENTINE dealer in New York, this
year, sold seventy-eight valentines valued
at $50 each. aa M s5ial
| A SINGLE firm in Paris has sold two
hundred thousand photographs of the
murderer Traupmann.
THERE are in the United States 659
Young Mems Christian Associations, with
over 100000 members.
THE office of Woodruff, Claflin & Co.,
the Wall street female brokers, is called a
female shaving shop" r. ~ = S-1
| LONDON had seventeen hundred and
eighty-four alarms of fire last year; New
| York, fifteen hundred.
JUDGE KNIGHT, of st. Louis, has decid-
ed that debts contracted by wife must be
| collected from her husband-no from her
| separate estate.
CALIFORNIA harbors superstition
against "dying in your boots," and even
murderers SO far regard it as ito pull the
boots off their victims
THE Commissioners of the New York
Central Park intend to supply pure milk
| for infants from the COWS at the Park, at
| cost.
LABOR Reform Clubs are being organ
lied in all the counties of New Hampshire.
The new party .claims eight thousand
votes in the State. ~
THE North Dutch Church, in New
York, which is one hundred years old, is
to be demolished. The land on which it
stands is worth $250,0O0.
SOME excitement has been created in
| Knoxville, Tenn, by baby which has de-
| parted from the old established rules gov
erning "cutting teeth" by cutting its
back teeth TO start with.
A NEW spouting mineral spring has
| been accidentally develoned near Sara
toga, N. Y. 1t throws water several feet
high, similar to the Geysers Of Iceland
and California.
JOHN SHEPPARD, of London, has COM
pleted task at Memphis of walking 100
consecutive hours, with fifteen minutes
rest in every twenty-four hours. He won
a wager Of $1,000.
THE Grand Division of the, Sons of
Temperance of New Hampshire have
voted to invite all the clergymen in the
State to preach temperance discourses on
the Sunday before the election.
1T is said that new description of lava
is being thrown from the crater of Vesu-
vius since the last eruption, consisting of
| crystalized salt. This beautiful phenome-
| non has hitherto been unknown in vol
canic natural history.
| FRANCIS P. BLAIR, Sr., and his wife,
who have been married over sixty years,
rode on horseback, the other day, from
Washington to Silver Springs, distant
some fifteen miles, and returned to Wash
ington without dismounting. M
SocIETIEs for the prevention of Cru
| city to Animals have been formed in the
following cities : New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Francisco,
Montreal, Albany, Buffalo, Detroit, st.
Louis, st. Paul, Mimi; Davenport,
Iowa; Bangor, Me-, and Fishkill, N. Y.
A CHARITABLE society has been formed
the ends of cigars thrown away by
smokers. With the produce of those de.
spised remnants it has been able to clothe
completely sixteen poor children, and
even to give them some toys and sweet
meats at Christmas.
A CAREFUL analysis by the chemist of
the Board of Health of New York, of
thirty samples of cosmetics used by the
women for beautifying" their complex
ions, revealed the fact that their principal
ingredients were lead and bismuth. Five
specimens of silly white turned out to
be nothing but marble dust.
JOHN KITS, the revolutionary soldier
recently lionized at Washington, was once
so weighed down with misfortune that he
resolved on suicide. Carefully loading
his rifle, he placed the muzzle to his head
and pressed his toe against the trigger,
when, to his surprise, the trusty weapon
flashed in the pan. He took courage and
has been prosperous ever since.
EXPERIMENTS made in Germany by the
military authorities show that sheet of
ice three inches thick affords a perfectly
safe passage for infantry or horses march
ing in single file, and for light carriages !;
with the thickness of six inches it will
bear all sorts of wagons and cannon. The
strength of the ice may be increased by
covering it with straw and laying planks
under the wagon wheels. I
THE New York Times alludes to the
conundrum in Packard's Monthly" Was
Morgan murdered ?"-and says that
there is at least one gentleman in this
city who knows every incident connected
with the abduction and subsequent fate of
Morgan" The Mail says the Times prob
ably refers to Thurlow Weed, whose forth
coming autobiography is expected to
throw some light upon this mysterious
subject.
WHEN the body of Mr.. Greenwald a
citizen of New York, who was murdered
| by Spanish volunteers in Havana, was
disinterred for the purpose of being sent
to New York. his friends were startled at
finding it buried in that part of the grave.
yard reserved to paupers and malefactors,
and that it had been buried uncoffined and
stark naked. When murdered, Mr.. Green
wald had on new and fine clothing, and