Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-08-26
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A JOINT CONCERN Anxiety about the
butchers bill. ....
THE Japanese have just got to using
American kerosene lamps.
AT recent concert in Paris the Mar
seillaise was sung thirty-two times.
A LONDON marketman was recently ar
rested for selling the meat of a donkey.
A CHARMING milkmaid of Vermont is
under arrest for breaking the cows back.
DIVIDENDS are applied to keep the pol
icy in force in the Washington life of
New York.
EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY = Trying
to borrow an umbrella. Moral Philoso
phy-Refusing to lend it.
A MAINE farmer gets up an hour before
daylight, SO as to put in twenty-five hours
o day.
THE Charter of the Washington Life
secures all the profits to the insured.
More than this cannot be done.
THE New York Eoeniag Post says there
have already been eight days this year
hotter than a single day last summer.
A CONSTANT reader writes to ascertain
IL but COlO SuOuluGE 81 Olbcu SlvCu w pun
dependents is baked or roasted.
THE Richmond city government recent
ly passed a regulation forbidding police
men to smoke, drink, or carry canes while
on duty.
ALWAYS do as the sun does-look at the
bright side of everything. For, while it is
just as cheap, it is three times as good for
digestion. Saa 's4'',i
A MILWAUKEE "nuss" says: "'Taint
much trouble to take care o sick pussons;
most on 'em don't want anything, and, if
they do, they don't get it." b
For thirty days recently past the mean
temperature in Boston has been five de-
gress above the average for fifty years
past, and the first nine days seven degrees
higher.
TEE cigars consumed in New York
city amount to about twenty three and a
half millions year, an allowance OF
twenty-three and a half cigars to each in
dividual. 7a'.
A BOY in Maryland town fell dead the
other day, after making long run,
/" clear round the bases" while engaged in
i" the national game" The exertion was
too much for his stock Of vitality.
WORM lozenges sold in several Massa-
chusetts towns, have been analysed and
found to contain strychnine, in a quantity
calculated to cause great damage, if not
death.
"A MAN named James Jason, who was
sentenced to the State prison in the year
1S47, from Posey county, Ind, returned
to his former residence few weeks ago,
and found it occupied by his grandson
and great grandchildren. At the time
Jason was sentenced, twenty-three years
ago, he was fifty-two years old
THE editor of the Blair (Towa) Register
is in the watermelon business. He re-
Gently put this card in his paper: I" To
the person leaving the largest melon at
this Office during the season, we will send
the Register for one year" The largest
and best melons in the county are being
rolled into the office, and he and his
friends are feasting.
A MORMON saint has discovered and
published in the church organ sure pre-
ventive of smallpox, which is: latter
being exposed, eat a sufficient quantity of
onions to move the bowels, and go on
about your business. Try it, and report
the effect to this Office, so that it may be
published to the world with more sigma
lures than one." i''g
THE following is a succint but spirited
account of the history of the Kilkenny
cats:
There onst was tive cats in Kilkenny,
And a1ch thought there was one Cat too many;
7f- So they quarrelled and fit, ..st
i end they gouged, and they bit,
+ iaf lI1ll, excepting their nails, p .fs
s5-afs And the tips of their tails, tada.atgu<
instead OF two cats, there warnt any.
+ Vorr y, l. -
day, Ned; quite conYersant with book
keeping, presume" mo, sir, / can't
say that / am. What makes you ask such
a question ?'' "Why, because YOU have
no less than dozen of my books; but
none of them returned, owing to your
book keeping abilities. I.o-..',...
THE Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
has decided that where, by negligence,
sparks from a locomotive set fire to a
warehouse near railroad track, the rail-
road company is liable for the damage
done by the fire; but the same tribunal
decides that, if another house catches
from the flames of the burning building
set on fire by sparks from the locomotive,
the owner Of the said premises has no
remedy.
~ A PITTSBURGH man was in the habit
OF keeping a paper of arsenic in an old
clock. His wife became very much de-
pressed in spirits, owing to the heat and
household cares, and knowing of the old
clock deposit, made her quietus with the
alaenic. Had it not been handy she
would probably now be alive. Papers of
arsenic are not convenient articles TO have
lying ready in ones house for any en1er-
gency.
Z THE Hartford Post has sovereign pre-
ventive for hydrophobia, as follows: eff
you see your dog or your neighbours dog
going mad, or think he is dog that
looks as if he might go mad, administer
unto the cur, as a preventive, half an
ounce OF strychnine. Keep doing it until
the animal pays no attention to any re-
mark you make, and ne will never hydro
phobe in this world"
HE report thatla young man in Allie
ghany, Pennsylvania, lost his speech by the
explosion of fire,cracker, on the 4th of
July, has bothered the eminent doctors.
Iney all went to writing about the differ
ent organs OF speech that must have been
eHected by the explosion, and now it
Turns out That 1t was written speech that
he lost, which was in his pocket. and
took fire from the fire cracker. =
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Tribune among the lakes of Maine writes
that he asked boy which was the best
of several small lakes for fishing. The
boy answered y "Lake Pissaauattisaqua-
quapassamoquidynixcum -. At this |
point the correspondent walked away,
reached neighboring lake, fshed three
hours, and returned. On his way home
he met the boy where he had left him, still
looking ON the ground, and just finishing
the name" Observation-Disclosures. The /