Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-09-16
CURRENT ITEMS.

nave recently got divorce.
IT makes great difference whether
glasses are used over or under the nose.
THE letter-carriers of Nashville, Tenn,
delivered 81, 943 letters in August.
THE million heirs Of Anneke Jams are
likely never to be millionaires.
A JERSEY farmer offers to dig potatoes
against Weston, 100 miles in "a hours, up
and down the rows.
THE yield of this year of one mans
orchard, near Tampa, Florida, will be &c.
600 pine apples.
AN Illinois gardener has garden of
five thousand acres, on which he raises
seeds 1t is corn-seeds that he raises.
ONE of the amusements at Long Branch
is said to be watching the New jersey
mosquitoes open clans with their bills on
the shore. e- ~
LOUISA MURRAY (colored), of Mobile,
goes to the penitentiary for five years for
the abduction of the Digby child in New
Orleans.
DURING the past year, 45 men have
been killed, six wounded, and 800 head OF
cattle driven off, in one county of Ari-
IONA.
YOU'VE lady physicians are multiplying
rapidly throughout the country, and con-
sequeDtly the young men are decidedly
more sickly than they used to be.
ANEvADA man was bitten by scorpion,
which didn't hurt him much, but he near
ly died of the delirium tremens from
drinking whisky to cure it.
A CHICAGO music publisher has issued
song entitled, "Father will Settle the
BILL" All the young ladies in the city
practice it at home as well as at the stores.
A CALIFORNIA lady took a big rattle
snake out of her baby's cradle with two
canes, and dropped him into kettle of
boiling water, which took the bite out of,
him. ~
THERE are twelve brothers and four
sisters in New York family named Frost,
and five Of the brothers were christened
as Winter Frost White Frost, Sharp
Frost, Jack Frost, and Snow Frost.
THE longest railroad bridge in the
United States is the Cayuga bridge ten
miles west of Auburn, N. Y. 1t is one
mile and fifty yards in length, and twenty
two feet wide, and cost $4,000. tis{I =
MARK TwA1N's new book, which is to
be published next spring is to be an &C
count of travel at home, describing in a
humorous and satircal way, our cities
and towns, and the people of different
sections. 5ia
A wELL-KNowN old citizen of San
canon County, ILL.,, residing near Loami,
has for many years past been exceedingly
deaf. A short time since, he was struck
by slight streak of lightning. and now
hears perfectly WE'LL
. THE editor of the Jonesboro, ILL.,,
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county dairymen to comb their butter be-
fore they bring it to market Perhaps,
says Cairo paper, they want to sell it for
plastering purposes. 'F
THE Mrs. Thurston who believes that
she owns the State of Maine has made a
will relinquishing the State to the Gov.
ernor and his successors in Office, reserv-
ing for her heirs private residence in
Portland, and some funds in bank.
A RECENT storm passing over Gran
Dundten, In Switzerland, uprooted the old
oak under which, in 1412, the constitu-
tional oath was taken. But already from
the debris has sprung up vigorous young
shoot. frw&
A LABEL, with his name upon it,
which is attached to the coat of ev-
cry German soldier, 80 that he may be
recognized in case of death, is of tin, and
not OF parchment, which would soon be
destroyed by perspiration.
AN old topper, who had attended the
Polytechnic, where the learned professor
caused several explosions to take place
from gases produced from water, said
"You don't catch me putting water in my
liquor after this. had no idea before
that water was so dangerous, though
never liked to take much of it,"
THE thigh bone of mastodon was ex-
humed on the farm af Henry Muzzy, near
aurora, Ill, few days ago. 1t is in per-
Iect state OF preservation, measures four
feet In length, and one foot in diameter at
each end, and weighs fifty seven pounds.
Search for the remainder of the monsters
skeleton was being made.
A LITTLE child years old, son of Mr..
George w. Dexter, of eDanielsonville,
Conn.,, recently fell backward from sec.
ond story window, sixteen feet from the
ground. and turning a back summersault,
allghted upon the ground entirely un-
hurt He Immediately got up and went
to playing as if nothing had happened.
A PRIEST, the other day, who was ex-
aiming a confirmation class in the south
OF Ireland, asked the question, What is
VIZ 5"SAaAuCAe VI lldtIlulOuy - n uttlC
girl at the head of the class answered !:
"'Tis state of torment into which souls
enter to prepare them for another and
better world"
HE Postmaster General has issued an
order requiring the name and address of
the sender of registered letter or pack
age to be affixed to the same, and in case
OF non. delivery, the registered letter or
package will. be returned directly to the
office from which it is sent for delivery to
the sender, without, as now, being re-
turned through the Dead Letter Office.
In case the sender of letter or package
thus returned cannot be found, it will
then go to to the Dead Letter Office and
be treated as other mail matter. ~. +
"GET money honestly if thee can, but
get money! said the old Quaker, to his
son. Acting upon the principle involved
In this advice, woman in Philadelphia
has adopted a novel pursuit. She faints
in front of one of the large hotels or
store. She is carried into the place and
receives proper attention. Everybody
sympathizes with her, small purse is
made up to pay expenses, and she is sent
home in a carriage. The business has
netted her good income. s. ~
A YOUNG fellow in Nashua, N. H., re-
Gently got angry with his sweetheart, and
for revenge took her to ride and left her
on the steps of a country hotel, several
miles from home, to find her way back as
best she could. The girl one evening
afterward induced him To drive h or IN visit