Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-07
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than three-cent piece.
| THERE are 10000 Methodist local
| preachers in this country.
PARIS walters spill hot coffee on the
trousers Of stingy customers.
| THE fund for the relief of the Avondale
sufferers now reach ss $103,669.
A sEAMsTREss has stolen from a jeweler
in Paris, diamonds valued at $4,000.
DoToR LIE PLUM, of New York, says
that peanuts are a sure cure for liver COM
plaint.
AN English magistrate recently fined a
man twenty five shillings for ill-treating a
turkey. %.
DURING the month of November New
York city expended $3O7,994 for amuse-
ments. - .t"
A YOUNG man in Schenectady had his
skull fractured by colliding with another
while skating.
A GERMAN sd0ant predicts that the Suez
Canal will be perfectly useless in less than
two years. -1'~' -
THERE was no fire in Bangor, Me, to
call out the fire department since April
last until the 18th ult. ~
In 1868 England drank 18,457, 800 gal
Ions of ardent spirits; Scotland 5,818, ,583,
and Ireland 5,131,0S7.
THERE are forty-one newspapers and
six weekly literary and scientific journals
published in Athens, Greece.
GEORGE w. Doe and his daughter,
few days ago, skated from Simcook to
Manchester, N. H., eleven miles, in one
hour. ia sa'
THE Detroit Faee Press says there is
thought to be over five thousand poets in
America, but only dozen can write po-
etry. .Ti#a
A NEGRO at Alexandria, Va, stole two
hundred and fifty dollar horse, killed it in
ravine, and sold the skin for $1.25.
AN Englishman in Madrid recently
strangled pickpocket who had stolen his
watch, and then surrendered himself to
the police.
A VIRGINIA preacher pounded his Bible
with such efficacy, on recent Sunday, as
to break the marble slab which formed the
pulpit desk. ,f 1sGi 'a't
GEORGE W. BRENT, Of Winchester,
Virginia, prophesied that he would die on
the ftty-seventh anniversary of his mar
riage, and he did.
A BUNDLE containing $4,000 worth of
bonds, stolen fifteen years ago, was re-
Gently left at one of the New York city
police stations by a boy who escaped ar
rest. ~ a. sga e0 1888 s
A.LARGE importation of English spar
rows has recently been received by the
Superintendent of the Albany Rural Gem
etery. IL, g!. y }'f ~a
THE mean rate of discharge of the Mis-
sissippi river into the Gulf of Mexico
somewhat exceeds 38,600,000 pounds of
water per second. Isl
A TRADER at Manchester, N. H., who
had been missing money from the till,
found fifty dollars, in bills and greenbacks,
made into mouse nest. ng
The Wyoming Legislature passed a bill
licensing gambling houses The Governor
vetoed it, and it was again passed by a
two-thirds vote, and became law.
THE story of the discovery of great
lake north of Superior turns out to be
camard. 1t is small body of water, known
for many years by the inhabitants of Brit
ish America.
A CONNECTICUT woman wrapped up her
dead baby and took it in her arms to a
photographer to secure picture of what
all the neighbors assured her was 'beau-
tiful corpse"
SEVEN thousand Saxons, living in Tran
sylvania, have determined to emigrate next
spring to the United States. Hard times
and the general maladministration of the
country led them to take this resolution.
WOMEN in China are subjected to three
obediences: 1. Before marrying, the daugh
ter must obey her parents. 2. After mar
riage she must obey her husband. 8. After
the death of her husband she must obey
her oldest son. t
A MAN recently applied for divorce in
the New York courts, and answers were
also filed in the wife's name. As the
answers were unsatisfactory, the divorce
was granted, but it afterwards came out
that the wife had all the while been con-
fined in lunatic asylum. +4.t
THE second.class convicts in Russia are
terribly flogged before they are sent off to
to Siberia. At Kieff nine turnkeys have
performed this task every week. The
howls and yells of the poor wretches, as
they receive their eighty or a hundred
lashes in the ail-yard, can be heard all
over the city. ea.
THE salaries of Prussian village school
teachers are so low that many of thepoor
teachers blessed with large families are
positively starving. A number of deaths
among teachers, caused by absolute star
vation, have been repeatedly brought to
the notice of the authorities, but as yet no
redress has been made.
AT Lancaster, Ohio, few days ago, a
druggist, preparing some rat poison in
which PHOSPHORUS was ali Ingredient ,and
this having ignited spontaneously, he got
some of it on his hands while trying to
extinguish it, and, the flames continuing
until water could be brought from some
distance, both hands were burnt so severe
ly that he may lose them. -@
In Madagascar no less than twenty
thousand natives attend Protestant wor-
ship in one hundred and forty-eight differ
ent congregations. One hundred and
twenty chapels are now in process either
of building or enlargement. In Antana-
native, the city were the Queen resides,
there are nine large churches. Ten years
ago, to be known as Christian in this
island, would have imperiled his life and
property. ~
A FEW days ago two splendid deer were
killed by the Erie road locomotives, just
west of Port Jervis. In both instances
the animals were allowed to run upon the
track in advance of the trains, at low
rate of speed until they became thorough
ly exhausted, when the engineers of the
trains, by dexterously increasing the min
imum rate of speed at points where they
could not escape the pilots of the engines,
struck them with the cow catchers, killing
them easily, and throwing their bodies
down the emhankmpnt Tn pach caap the