Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-09-09
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water.
A BosToN lady's pins, when she is fully
dressed, number three hundred.
Al POLICY issued by the Washington in
1851, for SIC, 900, in 1858 had increased to
t1,15270.
THE boarding OF coin by all classes in
Central Europe is one OF the marked
events of the war. sa7 .s.sa.s 9.r.
A LITTLE child died of hydrophobia
recently, in Sheffield, England, from the
bite of donkey. 6q
THERE is wealth enough in Boston to
give. on an equal division, every man,
woman and child $4,000 each.
A GENTLEMAN of Oswego, being saved
from drowning, the other DAY, rewarded
THE best birthday gift for your wife is
a policy on your life in the washington
Life, of New York.
DOUGLAS JERRoLD once said to very
| thin man, "Sir, you are like pin, but
without the head or the point"
1T is reported that the New York THO
uae is having Mr.. Greeley old editorial
manuscripts engraved as maps OF the seat
of war.
A PROVINCIAL paper concludes q long
obituary with the following strange mott
fication: "Several deaths are unavoldably
deferred"
| PRUssIAN recruits are all marked with
indelible ink, so that they may be identi-
fled when they are brought home.
A MAN in Brattleboro, VT, was recently
fined $51 for intoxication and profanity,
and the man who sold him the liquor paid
fine of $50. @
THE average price of meat IL Russia is
| about five cents pound. Two hundred
thousand tons of tallow are yearly made
there. taa5
| OF the 220 convicts in the Alabama
! State Penitentiary, all except thirty five
are employed throughout the State build
ing railroads.
"A THIRTEEN year old rattlesnake, feet
3 inches long, was recently killed at Col
| chester, Conn, by man aged IS years.
The snake measured 7 inches round the
waist"
A CENSUS taker in town in Minnesota,
at the solicitation of the people, waited
| four hours before closing his lists for the
birth of babe. The census of the viii
lage was thereby increased from 420 to
430.
| OK travelling Ou duOtucI uudA IICO
pass on the Lebanon Valley, Pa, railroad,
Lewis Snyder has been arrested and held
in $4,000 bail to answer the charge of
fraudulently uttering a railroad pass.
AT Oswego, a drunken man laid down
to sleep, and was covered with several
| loads of hay, by a farmer who was build
ing stack. The hay smelled so bad the
stock wouldn't eat it, when it was moved
and the sleeper found.
MR. HART, who died few days ago, in
| st. Louis, was worth one hundred thou
| sand dollars, all of which was made in
the oyster trade. His friends say that,
fifteen years ago he began trade by pur-
chasing two cans of oysters on credit.
| IT is stated that during the last four.
teen years the New York and New Haven
Railroad Company have carried over the
| line of their road more than twenty mill
lion passengers, without the loss of life
or limb to single passenger on their
cars.
| A PARIS bookseller having applied to
Berlin publisher of photographic prints
for great number Of copies of the por-
traits Of the more illust1ious Prussian
Generals, received the reply: "There are
no copies left; we send you the origi-
nails"
A HORSE in Willingford, Conn, the
other day, while attempting to bite fly
on the ankle of one of his rear legs, drew
the hoof into his mouth in such manner
that several hours were required to ex-
tricate it.
In Elmira, the other day, young lady
was discovered who helped her mother at
the homework. Within two Teeks she
had dozen desirable offers of marriage,
one of which she accepted. Elmira girls
are all taking to helping their mothers.
THE London Times, feeling the pressure
of the competition which has lately
sprung up in journalism, has determined
to receive subscribers who may desire to
get the paper by mail During the last
half century it has refused to take sub
scriptions.
AN Atlanta stove dealer offers $75
stove to the young lady between thirteen
and eighteen years OF age, who shall, dur
ing the Georgia State Fair, best illustrate
her knowledge of the use of such articles
by cooking dinner for six persons on the
fair grounds.
AN insane man in Indiana, on his way
| to the asylum, attempted suicide by cut
ting his throat Fatal consequences were
prevented by the physicians, and the
result is that the man has since been per.
fectly sane. CAS-
A VERMONT. jury, trying an action
where the plaintiff claimed damages
against neighbor for bite by the latter's
dog, brought in the following verdict:
twenty-five dollars damage to the plain
tiff if nothing happens to him; and $500
if he has the hydrOphobia."
A LITTLE girl being sent to the store ia
purchase some dye stuff, and forgetting the
name of the article, said to the clerk,
"John, what do folks dye with ?" "Die
with? Why, cholera, sometimes" re-
piled John. swell, I. believe that's the
name, I want three cents worth"
I EATON RAPIDS has magnetic spring
so charged with electricity that a man,
after drinking quantity of the water,
went into blacksmith shop, and, while
talking with the blacksmith, sat down on
the anvil. When he got up, the anvil
stuck fast to him, and he had to have it
amputated. 81
AN inventor, named Joel Strong, has
! just been before the courts of Cincinnati
on commission de lunatico, granted at
the instance of his wife, who states that
/ he claims to have invented broom for
sweeping the entire globe, through the
aid of seven devils, by whom he believes
himself to be possessed.
A MAN recently paid tor an advertise
ment in the Springfield, Ill, Register, of.
fering a reward for the loss of his pocket