Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-09-30
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ST. LOUIS has lis miles of sewers.
MAKE THIS OUT.-Possssses possesses
sssss.
A MAN OF LETTERs-The penny-post-
man.
WHAT part of cigar is like tree
The ash is.
THE public singer that "draws" the
best "A mosquito.
How to fire and fall back-ges gun
that kicks.
THE acrobats of every household the
pitcher and tumbler.
CHICAGO publishes ninety five news
papers and periodicals.
THOUSANDS of laboring men are said to
be out of work IN New York.
A PROSPEROUS man who yields himself
up to temptation bids farewell to welfare.
WHY is carpenter like barber? Be-
cause he can't get along without shay
ings.
PENNSYLVANIA has produced 2S,000,-
900 barrels of petroleum in the past ten
years.
THE ruin of most men dates from some
idle hour. Occupation is an armor to the
soul.
A PuNsTER. passing by the shop of a
certain Mr.. Taswell, observed that his
name would be As-well without the I.
THE Georgia State Fair is to give q
premium Of $50 to the best printed daily
or triweekly paper in the State.
THE other day some scoundrels entered
the orchard Of Mr.. Neil, near Racine,
Wis, and "barked" eighty-nine of his
best apple trees.
A WOMAN in Windsor, Canada, has be-
come such an inveterate tobacco -chewer
that she puts a ten cent package into her
mouth at once.
SOUND advice of an old merchant 4:
"Never owe any man more than you are
able to pay, and allow no man to owe you
more than you are able to lose"
GONE ought every day." says Goethe,
cat least hear little song, read a good
poem, see fine picture, and, if it be pos
sible, to speak q few reas enable words.
A GENTLEMAN was one day asked by a
friend how to keep himself from quarrels.
He answered, "By letting the angry per-
son have all the quarrel to himself"
HEARTH AND HOME, heretofore pub
lished by Pettengill, Bates & Co., New
York city, has been purchased by Orange
Judd 81 Co., the well-known publisher
of the american AgqicuJturist, and its
publication will be continued by the new
proprietors.
THE Charleston Courier says: "The
value Of the cotton crop of the past year
(1869-70) may be put down in round
numbers at 1926, 100000.
ASTRONOMERS say there are eighteen
million suns belonging to our armament
More than 1000 such firmaments are visi'
BILE, and every increase OF telescope
power adds to the number.
Youth and age have too little sympa.
thy with each other. If the young would
remember that they may be old, and the
old remember that they have been young,
the world would be happier.
A NASHUA, N. H., paper says: "In
several towns in Maine apples are offered
st ten cents bushel at the orchard In
many towns in our vicinity they can be
had for nothing"
A WE'LL KNOWN theatrical manager is
abount to fit up d steamer as g theatre
to ply up and down the Hudson River
and give performances at the various
towns and villages on its banks.
THE difference between war and peace
has been well defined by one OF the sci
entists "In time of peace the sons bury
their fathers. In time of war the fathers
bury their sons."
A LITTLE boy having broken his rock.
ing-horse the day it was bought, his mann
ma began to scold, when he silenced her
by inquiring, "What's the good of hoss
+ill it's broker"
Tu- GREAT Woman's Hotel of Mr. A. T.
stswarts i, Fourth avenue, New York
Stbmits WHICH Is tx to cost 1000, has reached
the third of its seven storles..anu anu WI mnd " "
ready for occupation within 0"ei''
months -
A LADY, living in the country, who is a
little plumpish, sent her man servant to
secure two places in the local coach, SC
that she nightn't be squeezed. There
was only room for one inside, 30 he en-
| gagged the other outside.
THE walls of Paris are mile and 8
half from the outer boulevard, and the
outlying forts are mile from the walls
so the enemy's guns must take position
three miles from the outer boulevards.
Troy had hsunted cigar store, th,
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