Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-06-10
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injury in the wine-growing districts of
France.
Now is the time to be insured in the
Washington. Tomorrow the time to en-
joy it.
A PASTRY cook, named Grey, at the
Patee House, st. Joseph, Mo-, has had q
windfall of $4,000
A WITTY French writer says that every
body in Nice Qtaly) speaks English ex-
cept q few fashionable Americans.
FORESIGHT is the right eye of Prudence,
and Prudence dictates Life Insurance.
Insure in the Washington.
AN Englishman has been adjudged
two months on the treadmill for tearing
out friends side whiskers in scuffle.
A GANG of laborers on strike in
England have painted on their banners
"a little earning is dangerous thing"
A DETROIT couple brought sick child
to police justice, a few days ago, and de-
manded the arrest Of neighbor for be-
witching it.
THE great difference between grown
persons and children consists in the ST
being extremely selfish without trying to
conceal it.
THE recent great hail storm in Phila.
delphia has induced some enterprising in
dividual to start "hail insurance COM
pany."
THE Woman's Club have come to the
conclusion that no girl should marry UNI
less sne has money enough to support a
husband.
A New YORK reporter says that the
legs of Weston, the pedestrian, resemble
two ordinary lead pencils fastened to one
end of small banana.
THE Greeks are said to be the most SEN
sible people in the world, as they wear
one style of dress ali the year round, and
the fashion never changes.
HENRY X. BROWN, the sculptor, has
made bronze statue monument TO ADra-
ham Lincoln, which is to be placed in
Union Square, New York city.
PEARLS are said to be the most trouble
some property in the world. Unless they
are constantly worn and aired, they
change color or crumble to pieces.
KossUTH is giving lessons in foreign
languages at Turin, in order to make a
living. He steadily refuses to accept any
presents at the hands of his friends.
A CINCINNATI man threw his wife out
OF the window because supper was not
ready when he came home drunk For
tunately her injuries were not dangerous.
A NEW medical association, with the
name OF "The Academy of Medicine Of
the District of Columbia" has been organ
lied at Washington. 1t includes both
white and colored members.
PAUL DE CAsAaNAC, the champion
duellist of France, declared recently that
he would not accept any more challenges
from men that could not prove that they
were good swordsmen.
THE Milwaukee Sentinel says an old
gentleman who resides in the suburbs
never has green peas tor dinner without
remembering the poor in sending the pods
to the orphan asylum.
THEODORE CLAY, the lunatic son Of
Henry, used to remark, while in the
asylum that :" it was very good board
ing house, but some of the boarders
were the biggest folls he ever saw"
Two rival undertakers of Pittsfield
Mass, recently INDUCED in fight at &
funeral, at which both attended, one fur
nishing the coffin and the other the hearse
and mourners had to interfere to proven
bloodshed.
AN English farmer lately placarded the
following announcement Extensive
sale of live stock, comprising not less
than 1000 head. and an unlimited right
of pasturage." All he had was few
hives of bees
SOME one says that to have a really
happy household the most essential thing
is to have good cook, and that more inn
morality and misery are occasioned by
bad cooking than can be traced to any
other cause.
Two deer-hounds freed boy in fiel(
near Petersburg, Mich, the other day
and kept him in that position for severa
hours. A brother OF the freed boy pro
cured gun, and the dogs were shot.
AN advertisement was sent to the Cleve
land Herald Office ON a recent Sunday
night, in which occurred the words, 9Th,
Christians Dream No Cross, No Crown.
The laundering compositor made it read
The Christians Dream No Coos, ~
Cream"
The Luzerne Penn) Union says tina
during violent storm on the 21st ult.,
large quantity of sulphur fell in certain
portions OF the township of Hanover, anC
that a tin pan exposed in the yard of DR.
Bakes exhibited deposit of some fifty
grains of the mineral"
A SMALL boy in Boston showed his rare
talent for devising means of cruelty by
shutting two little girls in barn and set
ting two large dogs upon them. TIL,
shrieks of the children called the neigh
bors and they were rescued, but only aftel
they had been terribly lacerated by tn,
half maddened brutes.
A MAN named Elijah Mopsell, of Mon
son, Mass, recently caught the small pox
and, Ignorant of the fact, spread the dis
ease in his family. His wife, mother anC
two children died from the effects within
two weeks, and he, left alone, the sole oc
cupant OF his once happy home, became
respondent and was driven to suicide.
A FRIeHTFUL scene occurred at tn,
Bowery Theatre, New York, few nights
ago. The young woman who performs il
the cage with the puma lions was seize(
by the throat by one of the beasts, ant
terribly lacerated before she could be re
leased. Her piercing shrieks threw tn,
audience into a panic, and many peopl,
tainted. She was taken home, and re
ceived prompt surgical attendance.
A BRooKsToN man went into Lafayette
Ind, got fatigued," laid down close to
molasses barrel, accidentally turned thu
faucet, and went to sleep, with full
stream running on his head. He was dis
covered after about eighteen gallons O
the sweet had ran out over him. The
Mayor further sweetened him by fine o.
So. He paid the fine, and gave his note
for the molasses.
DIR. THOMAS SMITH, of Charleston, S
c., was deprived of the power of speech