Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-02-04

RATS and mice are completely destroy
ing the crops of the Sandwich Islands.
In order to exterminate the pests, an at
tempt was lately made to introduce the
rice-swamp snakes of java but the
Kanaka Legislature, fearing the coming
of the serpent devil they had read about
in missionary books, ordered the snakes
to be thrown overheard in the harbor of
Honolulu
1T is told of a teacher in New Orleans,
that having discovered loaded pistol in
the possession of scholar one day re-
Gently, he threw it into the fire, and when
the barrels of the revolver began to ex-
plode, rushed from his chair and franti-
cally attempted to throw himself from the
window, but vas prevented by two or
three bolder members of the school who
stood their ground during the racket
A YOUNG woman in her night dress, and
fast asleep, recently wandered into Lon
don police-station. After some little time
she awoke, and, looking round, was
startled in no small degree. The officer
then got her to write her name, but, just,
as she was about to add the address, ..h e
pen dropped from ber hand, and she
again relapsed into her former state,
Ultimately she awoke, and her mother
was sent for.
THE remains of George Peabody were
submitted by DR.. Pavy, distinguished
English physician, to novel preservative
process, which consisted in first injecting
all the arteries with solution of arsenic
and corrosive sublimate; and, after the
lapse of twenty-four hours, with satu-
rated ISOLATION of tannic acid. BY these
means the softer tissues are actually con-
verted into leather, and decomposition
efectually arrested.
A GLENs FALLS paper relates the sad
story of proud, ambitious young law
| student endeavoring to acquire sufficient
knowledge of the law to be admitted,
meanwhile starving his body on salary
OF three dollars week, received for copy
ing papers in judges Office, the latter
allowing the student the use of his library.
The poor fellow was recently sent to a
lunatic asylum, body and mind having
become complete wrecks.
PROFESSOR BLOT has at last established
his central kitchen in New York, and
claims to supply people with cooked dishes
at scarcely more than the price of the raw
material at retail. A regular bill of fare
is made out daily, and furnished to GUS
TONER'S The dishes being ordered, are
put in portable kitchens, and delivered at
the door at the hour designated In the
order. The empty vessels are collected
when the meal is over, and taken back to
the "kitchen" by servants employed for
that purpose. .5
FARM laborers and peasants in France,
according to a recent inspection, are not
living under the most favorable conditions.
The average wages are twenty cents for
day, lasting, in the summer, from A. NJ.
or. s1xzrrefi
The teamsters sleep two in bed, composed
of a sack of straw in wooden box, and
in room with rough floor, constructed
at the end of the cattle sheds. In Prussia
the wages are lower than in France, and
the laborers sleep in the stables with their
horses and bullocks.
A STORY comes from Texas which quite
eclipses the famous performance accredit-
ed to William Tell. We are told that
some few months since party OF Texans
were practising with six-shooters at
target, when a wager was proposed that
piece of silver should be placed on
cork. on the head of one of the number,
and the cork shot out, leaving the coin
resting on the mans head. The wager
was made, and at distance of five PAGES
the parties were placed In posltl0n, the
target adjusted, and the feat performed
without injury to the supporter OF The tar
get.
A PHILADELPHIA publican missed
money from his TILL Every means was
employed in vain for the discovery OF the
thief. He slept alone in his oar-room one
night undisturbed, but in the morning
every bit of paper money was gone from
the drawer. At length the drawer was re-
moved. In one corner hole was found
just large enough for the entrance Of
mouse. For years the little creatures had
been renewing the lining of their nest
with national currency OF every small de, .
nomination. The quantity recovered filled
a cigar box. 1t was cut virtually into
paper down, and amounted in the aggre
gate to several hundred dollars.
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