Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-09-23

accldent caused by the narrowness OF
mountain road, it being only fourteen in.
stead of thirty y-three fees in. width, as re-
quired by law. His wife brought suit
against the county, and has lately received
a verdict of 5000. f. nsGasfaqa
IT having been stated that sparrows
/ will hunt mosquitoes as well as worms, a
chap in jersey procured a couple, put
them in his bedroom, and told them to
hunt He was somewhat disguised when
he returned to his room to find that the
mosquitoes had swallowed the sparrows,
instead of the 0ice gersd. '4
IT is said that man who was staying
at q fashionable hotel woke up one morn
ing and couldn't find his pillow any
where. Just as he was about giving up
the search he put his hand to his head,
and found that the pillow had got jammed
into his ear. The regulation allowance at
hotel is one feather for pillow, and
two for bolster. @
A FAITHFUL wife at Cleveland, learn
ing that her husband had been locked up
for drunkenness, took her babe to the
courtroom and demanded his release.
When the magistrate refused to acoede to
her REQUEST, she placed the little innocent
at the door of her husbands cell, and
strobe out of the prison with majestic
step. ~
A MINNESOTA paper says that during
recent thunder storm the lightning struck
the ground near Red Wing, boring hole
about eight inches in diameter, and 80
deep that a twenty-foot pole failed to
reach the bottom. Such storms would
| be invaluable in the oil regions. @
IT is said that the compositors' cases in
I,
each over six thousand compartments for
the reception of the numerous letters OF
| the Chinese alphabet. The cases are built
| in the form of an amphitheatre, and the
compositor stands in the middle. Every
letter he sets he selects from the six
| thousand. eo
A coUNTRYMAN was standing on one of
the wharves the other day, watching the
progress of hosting an anchor OF
schooner which was getting under weigh,
and as he saw the huge iron rise from
the water to the '.Yo, heave, O!" OF the
sailors, he remarked !; "You may heave
high and heave low, but you will never
get that crooked thing through that nttie
hole. I know better"
AN odd legal decision was recorded in
Jersey City the other day. On recent
Sunday, Capt. Rynders, the well-knoWn
politician, was driving ten thousand dol
lar horse over bridge within the city
limits, when the planking: gave way, ana
the horse was fatally injured. hynaers
sued the city, but Judge Beale decided
that he could not obtain damages because
no one has legal right to drive a horse
in Jersey City on Sundays.
PROBABLY the most wonderful speci-
men of glass work in the world is to be
seen in the glass room of the Conserva-
tory of Arts and Trades, at Paris. lS is
the figure of lion, life-size, represented
in the act of sitting serpent. The beau-
tiful hair and bristling mane-everythin
about it's made of glass. It cost its au-
thor. M. Lambourg, thirty years. labor,
and was conspicuous atthe Universal Ex-
hibition of 1866.
THE line of conduct chosen by young
man during the five years from fifteen to
twenty will, in almost every instance, de-
termine his character for life. AS he. is
then careful or careless, prudent or i'm
prudent, industrious or indolent, truthful
or dissimulating, intelligent or ignorant,
temperate or dissolute, so will ne be III
after years, and it needs no prophet no
cast his horoscope or calculate his cnance
in life 3l1H 95}S sA4 d3o'
WHILE the great fire is still smoking,
the public are contrasting the snowy
buildings burned with such fire, proof sdi-
fees as the Tribune Block and the beau.
tiful building on La Sale street, owned
by the Republic Life Insurance Co. The
managers of these two institutions have
wisely secured homes for their business
safe against the destroyer, which fitly rep
resent their own permanence and stabillty
the Tribune in furnishing intelligence,
and the Republic Life protection for the
families of the West. Let the business
men follow their example. -C Chscdgo lTso-
une, Sept. 6.