Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-11-11

Levant when she was lost in the Pacific in
1861, recently made his appearance at his
old home in Norfolk, Va. He states that
he was cast upon an uninhabitcd island,
and was picked off only short time ago.
THE Janesville Gazette tells how negro
barber in Clinton shaved one side of Gus
toners face, and then demanded the pay:
ment of an old debt, which the irate indi-
vidual declined The barber refused to
finish his job of shaving, and the victim
left the establishment with one side of his
face scraped clean and the other covered
with heavy growth of beard.
EASILY PLEAsED.-A Down Easter ad.
vertises for wife in the following manner:
Any gal what's got COW, good feather
bed with comfortable fxins, five hundred
dollars in the hard pewter-one that's had
the measles, and understands tendin' chill
dren-can find a,customer for life by writs
ing small billy dux, addressed to @. T.,
and stickin' it in crack of Uncle Ebene-
zer's barn, back side, jinin' the hog-pen."
A FEW days since schoolmaster was
teaching a six-year-old boy the alphabet,
and found that the little fellow staggered
let, johnny" said the pedagogue. "Don't
you do" put in the teacher. What have
got on either side of my nose, Johnny"
Teddy blossoms, so father says" rejoincd
the pupil, and took his seat instanter
THE Lancet, good medical authority, says
it is a fact, although curious one, that OF
the passengers in train which met with
terrible accident lately, all, or very nearly
all, who were asleep at the time--escaped
uinjured- an@sthetic insuring
them not only against fractures and con-
tusions, but even against the bad effects OF
shaking and conclusion.
EX-GOVERNOR PACKER, of Pennsylva-
MIA, left collection of old coins valued at
nearly twenty thousand dollars, and sup
posed to be second to but one other collec-
ton in the United States. This immense
collection he made with great sacrifice, OF
time and money, and it consists OF many
rare specimens from date anterior to the
Christian era down to the present time.
THE Milwaukee Wisconsin tells of q
young man expecting to die, the other day,
who, after giving instructions as to how
and where he wished to be buried, and dis
posing of his effects, requested that the suit
of clothes used to lay him out in might be
given to some poor person, after the funer-
al, and his body given to the surgeons Tor
scientific purposes. Fortunately, more
favorable symptoms were developed, the
young man is now nearly recovered, and
the surgeons will not get his body for the
present. M
A NEW JERSEY paper, with charming
candor and 7aaiuete, tells how champagne IS
made from cider A barrel of cider, cost
ing, say, Sc, will yield 1870 bottles of cham
pagne, which, at say So per bottle, will sell
for $3.50 by the addition of little Rhine
wine, alcohol, sugar, and carbonic acid gas
And now, it says, cider has Its lmltators
in turn. The bogus cider-makers buy dried
apples and soak them. The water ;s mixed
with alcohol, simple syrup, and carbonic
acid, bottled and sold for cider. o
4 SOLDIERS who served during the late
war, and were entitled to bounty under the
act of July %, 1866, should remember that
the time for filing such claims is limited to
the 1st of December next. Ii they nave
not already filed their claims, they should
do SO at once. 1t will be remembered that
the act referred to granted $1G0 bounty to
soldiers who served three years, and $5Oto
those who served two years. Most of the
claims under this act have been paid, or at
least presented, but there may be a few not
yet filed. ims oF
Two instances of somnambulism being
perfectly cured by means of bromide of
potassi,i,n are recorded in the Paris
les Mondes. A woman, "a years old,
who had attacks two or three times
a week for ten years, after taking two
grammes of bromide of potassium in
sseventy-fve of water daily, the dose being
gradually increased to six grammes, was
entirely cured at the end of two months.
In the other case, girl of eight years,
after taking one gramme morning and
evening for short time, was completely
restored to health. aEonl