Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-02-18
CURRENT ITEMS.

PHILADELPHIA has 500 professional
gamblers
THE Chinese in San Francisco held a
jubilee on January 80, the first day of the
Chinese new year.
THE Minnesota Legislature has passed
bill to exempt from attachment seed
wheat to the extent of fifty bushels.
A YOUNG ladies' seminary in Philadel-
phia has just graduated five "Sallies" and
one "Sadie," but not one "Sarah."
DURING the year 1869 there were nine
teen births, seventeen deaths and seven
marriages in the royal families of Europe.
THERE are now living "a persons in
Connecticut and one in California who
are own cousins, and whose united ages
are 1,700 years.
THE New York Times says that Rev.
Horace Cook is either in Bloomingdale
Asylum or in the Insane Asylum at Flush
ing.
A FELLOW in Brooklyn, being called up
on to give bonds to keep the peace grave
ly inquired whether they wanted 7.30s or
1040s.
THE Boston Journal predicts that our
inland letter postage will be reduced from
three cents to two cents within a twelve
month.
AFRIeHTENED horse in Port Hope, Can,
recently successfully crossed a viaduct
quarter of mile long and sixty feet high,
on single plank, at full speed.
WESTERN NEW YORK papers state that
Mark Twain's bride was for many years
confined to a sick room, and was finally
hxrf fha, 11ats IF ofio
doctor.
THE California Legislature, having re-
pealed the Sunday law, finds that by the
same act it has taken the penalty off prize
fighting on Sundays, leaving it in full force
Oh other days.
AT Brady's Bend, Penn, in violent
quarrel between man and his wife, their
child, girl IA years old, in trying to part
them, lost her reason, and is now hope
lessly insane.
JOHN SMITH, a carpenter at Peoria, ILL.,,
just married, fell from the dizzy height of
ninety feet, while working on the new
Central City Elevator at that place, the
other morning, and was dashed to pieces.
THE project of establishing an insane
asylum in New York, to be under the
charge of homeopathic physicians, is
about to be realized, the necessary land
and subscription of $4,000 having been
already secured.
EAN extraordinary affair recently oc-
Cured in Brescia, Italy. Two boys caught
mouse, which they bathed in kerosene
oil, and then set fire to it. The frightened
animal bit both boys so severely that they
died within three days.
Mroc Mr1YHrr xuac od hu
Prince Arthur to dance while he was in
Washington. She "modestly but firmly"
informed him that she was engaged for
thet set. She is complimented for her
truth and courage.
In Bridgeport, Conn, the other day, an
unwilling maiden, driven to desperation
by the persistent calls Of an oft-rejected
youth, called in the police, and the poor
fellow was fined in the police court, after
spending the nj ght in the station house.
THE children of the public schools of
New York city have been called upon by
the Board Of Education to subscribe a
penny each toward the purchase of a
bronze copy of Houdin's statue of Wash
ington for Central Park. The statue is to
cost $4,000.
AT stable near st. Louis there is a
young pony colt of the Shetland breed,
few weeks old, and weighing only six
teen and half pounds. The Liliputian
animal is only twenty inches in height,
and jumps through fence like a cat. 1t
is pet in the neighborhood. l
A PORTUGUESE youth, with three legs,
four feet, and twenty toes, is on exhibition
in London. Two of the legs are perfectly
formed, but the third is bent upward from
a. - J-,,oo ;oi,,t o,,J bo txxyo i,,,y,oy
fectly formed feet. The young man is
twenty-five years old, very intelligent, and
speaks several languages.
THE White Mountain Medical Society,
in New Hampshire, has passed resolutions
that any member OF the Society who
should advertise himself in any circular
or journal, by reporting operations, ETC.,
performed, should, on the first offense, be
punished by reprimand, and ON the Sec
ond be expelled.
THE Oshkosh Times says woman there
has been convicted of horrible cruelty to
her step-son, 6 years of age. Not content
with beating him and pulling the hair out
of his head by handfuls, she turned the
child out in the cold, in his night-shirt,
and locked him up in an outbuilding, bare
footed, till his feet froze. Her name is
Martina Large, anu HeI senteHCe 10 tnIoc
months imprisonment.
THE Inland Empire (Nevada) says the
mortality bills of Utah are sad commen-
| tary on the habits and institutions OF the
| Mormons The deaths are numerous
among them, and only small per cent.
live to see their tenth year. As an illus
tration, Bishop Heber Kimball has buried
forty eight of his sixty three children ;
and of sixty deaths in Salt Lake City in
one month, forty four were children.