Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-05-20
CURRENT ITEMS.

. iit CURRENT ITEMS.
AN unpopular "Ism" with everybody
The rheumatism.
PEOPLE who are behind the times
should be fed on ketchup.
THE current expenses of the Mexican
Government are double its income.
SOMEBODY states that S90,000000 have
been sunk in journalistic enterprises in
New York.
PREMIUMS received in cash and policies
paid in cash by the Washington Life.
UMBRELLAS with windows are the lat
est invention. The windows make the
umbrella lighter. s.,
A WORLDS CoNeREss of chess-players
has been called at Baden Baden on the
10Th of July. %
HERE comes q brewery on foot"-is said
when the king of Wurtemburg is seen
walking out.
THE knife with which japanese per-
forms the h0rS- kari must be buried with
him, or he is refused at the g ates of Para
disc.
In the height of prosperity expect ad-
versity, and fortity yourself against its
evils by ins1ring your life in the Wash
ington Life. 49, M.
"A ST. LOUIS dealer advertises that his
"trade mark y is, that boy five years old
can buy of him as cheap as man of ma
ture age. ....ts~ --t---..,-1
THE Quincy Herald says that a late
confagration in that city had its origin
in an ash barrel, and that incendiarism
had nothing to do with it.
A BELGIAN peddler was recently muir.
dered in Bruges, and as recompense to
his wife, the government has granted her
q permit to beg.
In experimenting in London recently
on telegraphy, messages were sent to Te-
heran, in Persia, distance of 3,700 miles,
and answers were received in thirty
seconds.
"NEw York papers please copy. OF
such is the kingdom of heaven" is the
quotation attached to an obituary notice
in one of the Berkshire, Mass, papers.
In Eureka, Humboldt county, California,
pew has been reserved for President
Grant, once q resident of the place, and
an inscription posted to that effect.
A MAN in Augusta, Ga, on recovering a
lost $4,000 by means Of an honest little
boy, rendered the finder twenty five cents
as reward The boy replied that he
would prefer the simple approval of his
conscience. R6
REV. J. M. WooDMAN, of Chico, Cal,
believes that next year there will be a
famine, coming after seven years of plenty,
and is building large granaries so as to
store up the abundant harvest of the COM
ing season. " W0l
THE Hartford Times has an obituary of
dog who suicided in that city the other
day. He had been at play with other
dogs, and deliberately walked into the
basin in the State House yard and held
his head under water until life was ex-
tinct @
A SUGGESTION is made by an English
druggist in relation to the dispensing of
poisonous substances. He proposes that
in addition TO the word "poison," the la
bells should have printed on their margins
the appropriate antidote for each class of
poisons. $3.50
"IMMAGINAsHUN, tew mulch INDUCED
in" says Josh Billings, "soon is tortured
into reality; this is one way good boss
thieves are made; a man leans over fence
all day and imagines the boss belongs to
him, and sure enuff, the first dark night,
the hess does" Il - A4
THE whole amount contributed last
year by Christians Of every name for the
spread of the Gospel among heather ma
tions, is estimated at $5,000,000 while the
war system of Christendom alone cost for
the same period $2,000,000,000, or four
hundred times as much
A MAN by the name Of Williams, resid-
ing at Bristol, Ind, punished his son for
chewing tobacco, by making him stay out
and chop wood until 8 o'clock at night,
then took soft soap and washed his mouth
until it was raw, after which he crammed
it full of pepper. 49,
REV. J. AREoLD, q superanuated preach
er of the New York Central Conference,
at its recent session, reported himself 90
years old. He had been Christian sew
ty -four years, and minister sixty years.
Rev. G.. Harris, of the same Conference,
is the only survivor OF the body at its or
ganization in 1910. a
FORTY ONE years was the good old age
of a horse which died recently in Ulster
county, N. 7. Of him his disconsolate
late owner says, that he would take down
the bars with his teeth when he wanted
to get out of lot; and when he wanted
a shoe put on, he would go down to the
blacksmith shop and wait there until it
Was put on, and then return 20 the stable.
TEE Commissioner of Internal Revenue
decides that persons who sell mixture
of soda water, etc, with wine and other
spirits, are to be regarded as liquor deal
ers. The claim" he says, "that the
spirits are used simply for fiavoring might
perhaps be supported by facts in few
cases but generally, if not universally,
the vile, etc, is quite a prominent part
of the beverage
The Hartford Boiler Inspection and In
surance Company, during the month of
March, examined 1874 boilers, and found
4S2 defects, 60 dangerous. The most
numerous and dangerous defects were
fractures, burned plates aad incsustattoDs.
Steam gauges Were often found Gus of
order, and many leas y boilers were found,
made SO by " blowing down" and imnledi-
ately filing with cold water.