Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-07-15
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bile. $500 s
DICKENS left bis library. to his eldest
THERE are now 445 blast furnaces in
the United States.
ALEXANDER FL. STEPHENS now weighs
but seventy-six pounds.
WHEN is THIEF like a seamstress
When he cuts and runs. ,s.,:s y
DocToRs of Law and Medicine insure
in the Washington Life Insurance Com
pany.
A SPANISH proverb says One II did" Is
worth two az wish l had." r ME IA
POLICIES become self-sustaining in the
Washington Life Insurance Company of
New York. .~A~gl IN .frg4frNg]
PRINCE ARTHUR's best horse, at a re-
cent sale of his stud in Canada, brought
only $198.
MnKMEN are happy fellows. They en-.
Joy themselves at the watering places all
the year round. .s
A FRENCH BARRIERS sign board reads as
follows: "To morrow the public will be
shaved gratuitously." sisr r ss.s.a|
GOLD is the only idol that is worship
ped in all lands without temple, and by
all sects without hypocrisy. 5p..a
A GENTLEMAN looking at his watch
after midnight cried: cts tomorrow.
must bid you goodnight" CYgEI
WHY is horse the most curious feeder
in the world? Because he eats when he
hasn'ta bit in his mouth. st< ( Il
A NEW HAMPSHIRE woman told The
census enumerator that her age was
thirty-one years, and said her Oldest son
was twenty-seven. ..,> /.
HON DAVID A. WELLS recently retired
to private citizenship with the expiration
of the Office he has held for the last four
years. suesta.
=. THE fence of grave yard in Pennsyl-
vania bears an inscription in large white
letters, use Jones bottled ale if you
would keep out of here" a.ral
A CALL to get up Fourth of July
celebration at Railway, N. j., and signed
Many Citizens" was responded to by
one man, who adjourned sine die. sit
NEVER listen to fatterers, my dear"
said mother to her daughter. "Why,
mamma, how should / know that they
are flatterers unless listen to them?"
A LONG BRANCH bells, named Annie
Welsh, dresses eigh&stimes a day, and
dashes along the beach Behind four differ
ent teams during each twenty -four hours.
ELIHU BURRITT proposes to publish a
book containing all the newspaper notices
of Dickens death, and all the pulpit allu-
sions thereto, from all countries. .4f9s
A SOVEREIGN remedy for hydrophobia
is to immense the head of the canine un-
der water for one half hour He will be
little mad at first, but soon gets over it.
THE remains of young lady were re-
Gently consigned to the grave in Troy
under the escort of eight female pail
bearers, who were uniformly dressed in
white dresses and wells. ii; aaft4tr
DIR. LIVINGSTONE the African explorer,
is supposed to be at Nijiji, two months
travel in land from ZANZIBAR, and no It'd
ings from him are looked for under seven
or eight months. @@@
1T is estimated that the quantity of beer
consumed in Europe each year would re-.
qulre to contain it a canal nearly five
English miles In length, fifty feet deep,
and two hundred feet broad.
THE Chinese only pay their physicians
when they are in perfect health; as soon
as they get sick the pay of the doctor
ceases, and it is therefore for his interest
10 cure them as quickly as possible. $500 4
A COUNTRY poet, after looking about
over life, has come to the following rhym-
ing conclusion u' -s
"Oh, wouldn't live forever
wouldn't if l could
But needn't fret about 1t, .
For couldn't If 1 would.'' a
REV. @. @. FooTE, of New York, is
credited with telling his congregation that
young lady in that city recently got
into terrible rage and paroxyism of
anger with her husband, and that, on be-
ing bled Immediately after, her blood was
found to be frothy like champagne!
A HOG got drunk in Covington, Ky,
the other day, by eating some brandy
peaches which had been thrown into the
street. The animal went Keeling about
tor an hour or two, behaving, however,
as well as most men generally do under
gered under the wheels of street car
and was killed.
THE proprietor of the Bridgeport, Conn
hotel was busting about the other morn
ing at ten o'clock with twenty things to
do, when some one asked him why he
didn't call up his clerk. 81 shan't call
him as long as l can help it," replied he,
"for when he is in bed know where he
is, but after he's up don't know where
to find him."
A WEALTHY old lady living in Brook
line, Mass, called in her neighbors one
day lately, and told them to take every
thing in the house. They went energetic
ally to work, and before any of her friends
knew it. there was not an article of furni-
ture left. A religious mania did it, and
now legal force is trying to get the furni-
ture back again.
The Japanese have hitherto had coin
age of silver pieces, and of silver and
gold, but are about to replace them with
coin resembling the Mexican dollar,
which will be minted with machinery
bought of the British mint in China.
Much of the old coinage has found its
way to England, but more to India and
San Francisco, Mexican bars and dollars
being RENTED for it from the last point.
ORPHEUs C. KERR contributes these
verses on Dickens to Puactinello:
The homage of our world to thee, 's|
o Matchless Scribe when thou vert here,
Was all that's loving in Laugh,
And all that's tender in a Tear.
So, if with quivering lip we name,
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