Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-06-17
CURRENT ITEMS.

a NEGRO, twenty six years old, in Della
ware, is living with his fifth wife.
THERE are one hundred and fifty assis
tant marshals employed in taking, the cen
sus of New York city, QIa9844 Ill
A SWARM of ants took up their abode in
mans ear in California the other day
INSURE your life for the amount YOU
farm is mortgaged for, in the Washington
Life. ~
IT is said that an appeal is to be made
for funds to restore and repair Mount
Vernon.
BY recent law Maryland pays S121, 12C
annually in pensions to 1,514 soldiers OF
the war of 1912.
THE increase of business in the Wash
ington Life in 1867 over 1866 was greater
than any other cash Company.
NEVER be be so fearless Of work as to
go to sleep by the side of it. A little fear
is both healthy and profitable.
A scHooLBoY defined appetite by
explaining that when I'm eating I'm
happy, aud when I'm done, I'm tight"
A BAREFOOT fisherman went to sleep in
field near Milford, Mass, recently, and
grazing colt bit a piece off his big toe.
THE outrage of clipping the hair of lit
tie girls on the streets of Terre Haute
Ind, has been perpetrated several times
recently.
A SAN FRANCISCO dentist, meeting a
delinquent debtor on the street,, choked
him until he gave up has false teeth, and
took them as pay. sg
DENVER, Colorado, was built on The
banks of an extinct creek. The creek has
now become constant stream, needing
to be crossed by bridges.
THERE are now at ST. Lazare, the
great female prison in the environs of
Paris, over fifteen hundred coDvicts,
most of whom are under twenty years OF
age.
A PHYSICIAN of Adams county, Iowa,
was sued for malpractice in setting leg,
and the jury returned verdict of $4,000
damages tor the plaintiff.
A RESPECTABLE gentleman in New
Haven, Conn.,, carries with him ring
through which he tries to pass all eggs be-
fore he purchases. Ifthey pass through
he doesn't buy. 49, ~
A PITTSBURGH tailor, who failed to
fit !" a customer with "suit," has been
arrested for " false pretencesn and put
under $500 bail, the charge being that
"he didn't know his business"
MASSACHUSETTS, is to have an editorial
convention, whereupon the Boston Times
says: 1.-THE Massachusetts editors are to
meet together and make an effort to treat
each other clvilly." n We NV
THE difference between war and peace
has been well defined by one of the an
GENTS "In time of peace the sons bury
their fathers; in time of war the fathers
bury their sons"
A NASHUA On. Il, J, Irishman, while be-
ing lowered into deep well for cleaning
purposes, the other day, when about half
way down got frightened, and shouted,
let me up, or I'll cut,the rope" $40, 81.
My DEAR said the sentimental Mrs.
Waddles, home, you know, is always the
dearest spot ON EARTH" "Well, yes
said the practical Mr.. Waddles, dit does
cost me about twice as much as any other
spot" Sos
THERE are 9,Stt Indians located in
Wisconsin, belonging, to the following
tribes: Chippewas, -Ottawas, and Potto
watomies, 1903; Menomonees, 1900
Oneidas 1918; Winnebagoes, 1000
Stock bridges, 400. -, =. -~t
A YOUNG married woman in Boston wa
so disguised by her husbands excessive
use of tobacco that she herself learned tc
smoke as an antidOte, and now puffs hel
Havana with much gusto. .
A BOSTON hackman, after being directed
to bring down trunk from the third story
OF residence in that city, was requested
to take Off his boots, that he might not
soil the carpeting. sde declined to do it.
A PAPER puts matter which it wishes
to enforce in the following neat smile
I" You might as we'll attempt to shampoo
an elephant with a thimbleful of soap
suds as attempt to do business and ignore
advertising"
$50 you are going to Keep school ?'
said young lady to her old aunt. "Well
tor my part, sooner than do that, I would
marry widower with nine children" 81
should prefer that myself,n was the reply;
but where is the widower?"
ONE of the Yankton Sioux Chiefs calls
himself "Bill Goosequill." The Detroit
Tribune says; "This is evidently rude
attempt by the poor untntored red man
to pay tribute to the name and fame OF
William Penn" ,,sv,>vv., -,
SOME crusty old bachelor in Congress
proposes to lay tax of % per cent. on
corsets, Whereupon down East paper re-
marks: "Since there is no tax on men
getting tight, why should not the ladies
nave the same privilege ?"
a CORRESPONDENT writing on the reli-
glous condition of Cuba. says there is not
Protestant place Of worship in Havana,
nor, as far as he, can learn, in the whole
island. The Catholic churches are at
tended by but few, and they mostly
women.
"A WEST CHESTER boy, eleven years
old, got up before he got awake, the other
morning, jumped out of the second story
window to the ground, and then, in a
somewhat battered condition, rang for adj
mission to the house. Such is the sad eff.
iect OF early rising.
The somewhat extraordinary case of a
man tried on the charge of attempting to
commit suicide came up in the Worcester
GMass) courts few days ago. John d.
Dennis was arraigned, a pro .forsaa verdict
OF guilty rendered, and fthelc case taken to
the higher court on>exceptions. =
A WOMAN in Aroostook county, Me-,
whose house caught fire the other day
during the absence of all the "men folks
poured upon the flames all the water there
was in the house, then used UP her milk
and cream, and finally -resofted to hei
meat barrels for the,pickle, She subdued
the flames. ss-st, H. y -s ~ Il.
THE Gloucester MASS Adoertiser item.
ICES thus: "A man who owes us a little
bill, said he would call last week and pay
us if he was alive. He still appears on
the street hut &c bo did ynt coll - =,