Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-21

the circulation of his paper he will lie
| any one sending him dollar have his
| paper for a year for nothing.
DIR. G. NJ BOURNE, 64 years old, recent
ly walked from the San Francisco City
Hall to the San Jose Hotel, making
the 55 miles, and taking the 101, ,758 isteps
(Which he counted) in 18 hours and 80
| minutes eog 5
A MAD dog got into Philadelphia
stable last summer, and the animals kept
| there have been dying of hydrophObia
ever since. A mule, goat, dog and horse
have successfully gone mad, and another
| recent case is reported.
A vENDER of nitro-g -glycerine scattered
the loungers in an engine-room in Titus
| vile by calmly setting down a can near
the fire and remarking, II want to leave
this glycerine here while until it thaws
| out"
A wIDE-AwAKE young gentleman of
Charles City, Iowa, sent seventy-fve cents
to an advertising scamp for method of
| writing without pen or ink. He received,
in large type, on card, write with
pencil" b e21
The Rochester IN. W Daily Democrat
has carrier named Parks, 66 years old,
who has delivered that paper over 80
years, during which time he has but twice
failed to regularly supply his patrons with
the news. ...of +v
THE public excitement at the commence
ment of the trial in Paris, of Traupmann,
for the murder of the Kinck family, was
80 great that $4,000 applications for tick
cts were made, and many ladies passed the
previous night in the court for fear of ar
irving too late.
AT recent meeting of the Capital Re-
moving Committee, at st. Louis, letter
from Congressman Boyd was read, stating
that seventy-four members of the House
were pledged to vote against any appro-
priations for buildings at Washington, and
to the Worlds Fair to be held there.
AN obese French lady, complaining of
her frightful tendency to en6onpoint, says:
81 am SO fat that pray for disappoint-
ment, to make me thin. No sooner does
the disappointment come than the mere
expectation of growing thinner gives me
such Joy that become fatter than ever"
A WHOLE family in Manchester, N. H.,
were dangerously poisoned few days ago,
by eating squash which had been charged
with strychnine while on the vine 1t was
probably intended to poison the farmer
who raised the squash, but it had BEEN
carried to market by him and there pur-
chased by its victims.
| THE wind blew off the hat OF little
girl, as she was walking with her father
! in Trenton. Her father and she turned
and hurried after it, and the next moment
the spire of the Fourth Presbyterian
Church fell with crash across the side
walk at the very place where they had
lust been. ut is an i'll wind" etc.
AN urchin of six or seven years went
into a barber shop in Racine, WIS, and
ordered the barber to cut his hair as close
| as shears would do it. He was asked II
| his mother ordered it that way. mo-"
said he, "but school commences next
week, and we've got school-marn that
pulls hair, and I'm bound to fix her this
term, you bet.'
A WRITER in the Western Christian Ad-
vocate estimates that in the city OF Gin
cinnati there are one hundred evangelical
churches open on the Sabbath, attended
by from twenty to thirty thousand people;
while there are more than twenty-five hun
dred drinking saloons, all open on the
Lords day, and visited by more than fifty
thousand people.
Tn New York, during the past year,
| forty-two persons were murdered, and
thirty. one women died by their own hands,
and eighty men either shot, hung or
| poisoned themselves. One hundred and
seventy-fve persons were drowned, and
ssventy-five were killed by steam or street
cars. Altogether, 1875 persons died from
various injuries described "as accidental"
A MIR. GALToN has prodnced q rather
remarkable work on "Hereditary Genius"
He has calculated that in Great Britain,
one person in each 1000 is eminent, one
in 100000 illustrious. And further:
"Out of 286 Judges" says Mr.. Cation,
"more than one in every nine OF them
has been either father, son or brother to
another Judge, and the other high legal
relationships have been even more nu-
merous."