Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-08-12
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-"Put Yourself ia his Place."
AMONG the 10, 900 inhabitants of San
Francisco, about 10000 are Germans.
TIE PLEAsANTEsT TAx-Life insur-
ance. The Company--The Washington
Life, of New York.
FRANK MOORE, American Secretary of
Legation at Paris, is writing life of
BurIngame.
FIes are 80 plentiful in California this
season that it will not pay to gather them
for the market. p
A ScoTCH terrier mounted on a gray
trotter can often be seen taking an airing
on Harlem Lane, N. Y. 7
THE dividends of the Washington Life
are made and paid in cash or insurance,
annually from date of policy.
THE latest fish story from. Northern
New York is, that four men caught 1907
trout one afternoon recently.
"A RATTIKsNAKE, with eight rattles,
was killed in one of the streets OF Meri-
dan, Conn, a few days since. %
~. A. PEORIA, ILL.,, man has had "revo-,
luton that he is to die August 16, 1871,
and has his tombstone lettered to that
effect. ~r~g ~r-4
An eagle was shot near BELIZE, in Aus
tria, recently, bearing a collar with the
date 1646, and partially efaced eoat-of-
arms.
NEW YORK physicians claim that soda
water was largely responsible for the
great number of sudden deaths during
the recent hot weather.
AN old lady at st. Landry, Louisiana,
before her death, could count up over
eight hundred lineal descendants, all
blood relations of hers.
THE Philadelphia Ledger says: eve
have had another trial in this city of a
woman indicted as a common scold, and,
what is most extraordinary, the lady
pleaded guilty when she was arraigned."
A NEW YORK lady, who used some
kind of dye to produce the golden hair SO
much admired, has had one side of her
hair turn perfectly white, and the other
side of yellowish green. So
AT Bucklin, Mo-, lately, a lad was Bit
ten on his foot by common gray spider,
and in q few days modification took
place, and large pieces of flesh dropped
out, so that his foot had to be amputsted.
WHEN the $4,000 insurance on the life
OF q Mr.. Cole, late principal of the high
school in Walpole, Massachusetts, was
paid, the legal heirs at once handed over
the amount to the young lady to whom he
was engaged to be married.
THE Boston Journal Of Chemistry warns
against the dangerous character of gal
vanized iron pipe when employed for
conducting water to be used for culinary
purposes as it will rust even more rapidly
than clean iron IN most localities.
THE Austin (Texas) Daily Journal says
they had snow balling there on July 6.
This luxury was due to the working of
an Ice machine recently established in
Austin. The snow-balls were made of ice
shavings. s.
A vERDANT Rhode Islander, looking at
the trench for the water pipes on William
street, New Bedford, the other day, and
noticing the gas pipes, asked a bystander
II all the streets were held together with
iron rods.
A WILD cat attempted to take a baby
out of its cradle in a cabin near Mankato,
Mimi, but little black and-tan dog at
tackled the catamount and fought it until
the mother came in and drove the wild
beast out with brand of fire.
THIS is the latest from Paris: "Doctor,"
said nephew, on settling the fee ques-
ton for his uncle's illness, and from whose
death he entertained great expectations,
"Ibeg, for the future, you will not inter-
fere in family matters"
MRS KATE HOWARD, who died recently
at Paris, KY, at the age of SO, was six
feet and one-half inch in height, and
weighed $50 pounds. Her husband was
six feet four inches high, and all but one
OF their ten children were over six feet in
height, the tallest being six feet ten
inches.
THE other day Mrs. Vincent Colyer, of
East New York, after rescuing her little
grandchild from being run over by a
double team. suddenly put her hand to
her forehead, exclaiming, in faint voice,
81 was scared SO much" and fell heavily
to the ground, and died in three minutes.
On recent hot morning the Oberlin,
Ohio, College junior class, built up q fire
in their recitation room, and when the
hour for recitation came, and with it the
Professor, the heat was SO intense that it
was almost suffocating. The Professor
stood his ground, and made the class
sweat before they got through with the
joke. i9r1rT,7Trr7g
By Prussian law every man capable of
bearing arms must enter the army. No
substitutes dIc dllOWcu. I6 lS euTOlleU at
20, and serves seven years, three in the
regular army and four in the reserve. He
Is then in the "Landwehr" for nine years,
and is then enrolled in the "Landstrum u
till he is fifty. In case of war the regular
army is called first, then the reserves, then
the Landwehr. The Landstrum is not
called beyond the frontiers Il,
A GENTLEMAN was recently porting over
what to give a young lady friend, and at
last decided that it should be ring.
"Now, my dear friend, what kind of q
ring would you like Fit is go very puz-
cling there are so many sorts. p" Well,
Mr.. Johnson-o you know, don't like
to make choice in these nlatters-little
delicate--you understandable really, if
you insist upon i'll s'pose you will
why, should like an engagement ring
dearly" was the innocent reply.
A STORY has been told of a graceless
scamp who gained access to the Clarendon
printing Office in Oxford, England, where
the forms of new edition OF the Episco-
pal Prayer Book had just been made up
and were ready for the press. In that
part of the "form" containing the mar
rage Service he substituted the letter k
for the letter v in the word live, and thus
the VOW "to love, honor, comfort, etc, so
long as We both shall live" was made to
read $50 long as We both shall likep' The
change was not discovered till the whole
edition was printed off.
A WIDOW of New Jersey, who was
once fascinating, having noticed that her
hnQ1tv waa hpcOminp daily mora g ", I'D;