Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-05-13
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PARIS pays $4,000, 900 annually for Cow.
ers.
THE French Government supports 500
musical students.
THE perfection of politeness- Ofering
a standing joke seat.
THE Washington Is purely mutual, and
divides its profits among its policy holders
ONLY.
A sHIp.MAsTER at Bath, Me, lately had
four vessels struck by lightning, and two
of them burned.
THE cottage of the late President Pierce,
at Rye Beach, N. H., was recently sold at
auction, for $4,975.
Elk PRESIDENT JOHNSON has purchased
a three-story brick house, known as the
Lo very House, in Greenville, Tenn.
THE Boston Common Council have
passed an order appropriating $50 900 for
the celebration of the Fourth of July.
SOME one put asafoetida in the witches
caldron during recent representation of
Macbeth at New York theatre.
A PAUPER recently died at the Hull
borough Asylum, in England, who dur
ing his lifetime cost the borough $4,000.
8 Ex.SURaEoN GENERAL HAMMOND testi-
fies in the Mcfarland case that eight
hours sleep are necessary to q healthy
brain in the active man.
A VERMoNTER, on a bet, has agreed to
harness himself in sulky and draw a
man weighing 80 pounds mile in fifteen
minutes.
How much do you earn yearly? Death
will stop all income. Provide for it by
insuring in the Washington Life Insurance
Company, of New York.
A VERMONT coroner's jury is "of A
Pinion that the Decest met his deth from
Violent Information in the he'd, produced
from Unoan Cauz."
Four men are under arrest in Clinton,
Pa, charged with stealing church organ.
They say the church owes them $40, and
they took the organ as security. g!f
A FRENCHMAN threw himself from the
column of the Bastile, in Paris, few
days since, and was resolved into inch
fragments, because his brother had been
lost at sea. A NlI&
Two young ladies belonging to infu-
entail families in Hartford are under sur
gical treatment for cramped and distorted
feet, caused by wearing the prevailing
style Of high heeled boots.
A MONTREAL policeman recently ar
rested boy for cruelty to frogs. He and
his companions had placed kettle of
water on fire and thrown seven frogs
into it to be boiled alive. He was fined
So. "a
A CALIFORNIAN in Paris says of Ma
poleon that "Those who are expecting
him to pass in his checks soon, can rest
quiet; he is good for score of years or
more yet, unless he should chance to die
with his boots on" ~ I...
A YOUNG man was arrested in New
Jersey few days ago for deserving his
wife. When he was brought before the
Judge, he said that he had nothing
against his wife except that he thought
she spent too much money for caa,dy and
trash" t as t.g.g
IN removing the old Stacey House at
York, Me-, lately, a skeleton was found
lying in cramped position under the
foundation of the chimney. This building
was over two hundred years old, and it is
thought the skeleton was lying there when
the walls were laid.
A NEW HAMPSHIRE man carries what
money he has in pocket-book which his
father bought in 1916, and which has
been in constant use by the two since
that day. 1t is yet in good condition, and
he has enraptured his son by promising
to bequeath it to him.
THE inmates of the jail in Pittsylvania
county, Va, have formed themselves into
a moral association. Among the articles
in their creed is one against profan e
swearing, the penalty for violating
which is stripes. It was recently enforced
on one Of the members.
A YOUNG man in Belfast, Me, has under
consideration the question: Does it pay
to smoker" The other day he deposited
a short pipe in the same pocket in
which was a roll of greenbacks amount
ing to $85. Ee didn't have money
enough left to buy a paper of tobacco.
"A poor man at Louisville sought ad-
mission to hospital few days ago, so
sick that he could hardly drag himself to
the door, yet clinging to a babe six weeks
old, which his dying wife had left him but
few days before, and which he refused to
give up to strangers, though several Of
fered to take charge of it.
MATRrMoNY 0s SINGLE BLEssEDNEss.
Young husband -" Formerly, when
men would stare at you like that, you
would drop your eyes and appear to be
annoyed by it. But now -" Young
wife," But now can stare back, for if
they go too far in their admiration, why,
have husband to defend me. | should
SO like to have you fight for me it would
be so romantic" -itg bss,aaal1J g
EUROPE, says the Engineering Magazine
contains 70, 118 miles of railway, composed
of $50, 100000 cwt. of iron rails, on which
100000 passenger carriages and 100000
baggage cars are dragged by $4,000 loco
motives, over $4,000 bridges and 81 miles
of tunnels, at cost Of $50, 100000 per
annum, with consumption of 100000
tons of coal. 99
THE New York World has the follow
ing estimate of probabilities: 1.-THE re-
ported killing Of Major Randall by Indians
is personally contradicted by the reputed
corpse; but, as we have no knowledge of
the Majors character, we cannot say how
far his unsupported assertion should weigh
against the statements of numerous news
papers in a matter in which his interest
would naturally prompt him to take the
most favorable view of his own case"
THIS is from a recent number of the
Harvard Adoocate The other day Mole.
cule propounded the following to Atom
!" A boy said to gentleman, My father
and mother have daughter, but she is
not my sister, Now how do you explain
that?" Atom reflected, but all in vain.
To his every suggestion Molecule replied
By mild but decided negative. At length
Atom was forced to give it up. "Whv,
it's simple enough" said Molecule, with
an eXaSppratipp smile ~fha how lied