Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-03-18
CURRENT ITEMS.


A New York rag -picker.has $4,000 in
a city bank T
THE British Museum has cost $20,000,-
900.
SIXTEEN locomotives exploded their
boilers last year.
A PITTSBURGH young man has paid $50
for kissing lady in the street
THE expenses of the Peabody cere-
| monials in Maine were about $1,000.
/ THE Mayor of Marshal, Texas, has pro-
claimed compulsory vaccination.
ST. LOUIS now measures fifteen miles
from her northern to her southern limits.
THE late M. Gronof, said to be the
wealthiest Russian merchant, left only
| $15,000,000.
A NEW YORK negro janitor tore up$10,-
900 worth of books and sold the leaves for
old paper.
TOLEDO has been sued for $4,000 be-
cause it shut down on a canal that run q
sawmill.
In the three days that Jefferson Davis
was at Huntsville, Alabama, he took over
500 life insurance policies.
ERIE, Pa, has had over thirty incendiary
fires within year, and the police have
but recently caught the rascals that set
them
A DELAWARE woman is getting a di-
vorce because her husband jumped on the
back side of the bed at an alarm of burg
lars.
A MAN at Lowell, Mass, has made
provision in his will that he must be
buried in a burglar proof safe when he
dies.
The upper ten of London regard it as
bad etiquette to ride to church on Sunday,
whenever it is possible to walk. 1 t9
A HAIR from King Theodore's head was
among the "obiects of interest at O. late
meeting of the London Microscopical So
ciety. @ sa
AN Englishman suicided at hotel in
London, and the landlord has sued his
friends for the loss of custom and the
trouble.
A FIFTY pound shell, thrown into
Vicksburg during the war, was found in
the cellar of store the other day, q part
of the fuse still clinging to it.
THE new Constitution of Tennessee
prohibits from holding Office al who
"deny the being of God, or a future state
of rewards and punishments :.
ONE ofthe Richmond papers prints this
notice at the head of its editorial columns:
"We shall be compelled to treat all nomis
nations for Office as advertisements-re-
quiring payment in advance"
A NICE little game has been stopped at
the New York Custom House: Some OF
the men have been accustomed to wear
+" stomach canteens," fitting about the
body under the coat, into which they
would syphon off liquor from casks un-
loading, carry it away, empty 1t safely
and return.
THE New York Express says: Every
day in March the distance between the
earth and the sun is increased 1,O67 miles.
At the beginning of the month the dis
tance was 92,212,632 Astronomically
spring begins on the goth of March, when
the sun crosses the equator" n , J.
JUDGE HIGBY, of Stratford, Conn, was
feeding his fowls the other day, when one
of them flew up and lighted on his
shoulder, and, reaching round, picked him
in the eye, nearly binding him Tor a
while Inflammation set in, and for a
few days it was feared he would lose his
sight. sa
THERE was recently great excitement
in the extreme southern counties OF Cali
fornia over the discovery of new and
rich gold fields, about sixty miles from
Santiago. The quartz exhibited is free
from sulphurets and other metals, and is
literally full of free gold. People were
leaving San Diego and Los Angeles in
large number FOR the new mines.
PRoF. TYNpALL has theory that the
blue color of the sky is, or may be, pro-
duced by particles suspended in the air,
which are not only invisible to the naked
eve, but irreducible by the highest powers
Of the microscope He demonstrates their
existence by the light which they scatter,
even after they have passed utterly be-
yond the range of the microscope, In
other words, the heavens are made OF
dust.