Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-05-27
Varieties.


Silk dresses are now very much worn
We know a young lady who has worn ore
threadbear
Monogram garters are now worn by the
ladies. Let us hope that the fashion will
go no further in this direction.
- Corsets are the most economical
article of lady's wardrobe, because they
keep her from running to waist"
A young lady being asked by rich
old bachelor, "if not yourself who would
you rather be?" She replied sweetly and
modestly, "yours truly
The New York papers say the spring
suits for ladies there, are ornamented
with everything, from Jacobs ladder to
pen wiper, in silk"
Never be worried at trihes IF a
spider breaks his thread twenty times,
twenty times will he mend it again.
Make up your mind to do good thing,
and you'll do it."
"A little boy was relating story he
had heard one day. His ideas becoming
confused in some way, he could find no
words to explain his meaning At last he
said :-"Weil, | know enough big words,
but don't know where to put them inn
All VINO happen to receive silver in
change should aid in keeping up its circu-
lation by paying it out again Immediately,
aid DOT boarding il as curiosity. We're
ceived three cent piece in change month
ago, aud magnanimoosly paid it out yes
terday. Behold an exampfol
"A story just told of Mr. John Bright
may be recorded here before it slips away.
Some one said to him lately, "Mr. Bright,
should like to come back to England
fifty years after am dead, in order to see
what changes have happened in the coun-
try" my good friend" SAID Mr.. Bright,
"if you don't mend your ways you will be
glad of any ercuse to get back"
THE COMING OBITuARY.-Died in the
thirty fifth year of his age, John Smith,
husband of the Hon. Jane Smith, at her
residence in Soesbury, this morning, at
six clock. Mr.. Smith was meek snd
quiet husband, beloved for the graces of a
trained nature. He excelled in the domes-
tic virtues; as cook he was surpassed
by few as nurse he was eeualed by
none.
HARDENED CAsE.-Up here they say
that "The Man in Blue" got "$l5 900
reward" for returning "The Diamond Col
lar" to "The Lost Bride" who was at the
time in "The Crimson Room" with its
key of Gold" Before leaving the room
he pulled "The Flower of Suea," and
stuck it in his button-hoIe, and re-
marked that he was a hardened
wretch and could not be "Redeem ed
by Love-" that the only thing that
could reform him would be Little Buck
shot" in the head and he could cut the
last "Notches in the Stick and depart
for better land, where sorrows never
come.
A MODEL CoMMUNITY.-The Island of
st. Martins, situated at the northerly end
of Lake Michigan and containing about
seven thousand acres, with population
of between 100 and 200 has been set
tied over fifteen years and during that
time they have not had any town organ
ization-do not know to what county
they belong have no officers whatever
and have never paid tax of any kind.
1t possesses the full average wealth, sus
tains voluntarily church and school. but
has never felt the need of any legal organ
ization; and as they have no offices to
give, offc seekers are unknow n, and the only
hesitation in giving them this notice is,
that it may lead to large emigration to
this Eutopia. -Sheboygan Times.
"FLEBIscITE."-Some inuuiring wag
sent the following note to the editor of the
New Orleans Times:
"NEw ORLEANS, April rs, 1870.
"Dear N Enclosed find SO. What
the devil is PIe5iscite?
Yrs. languidly
j. c. ~ *Y"
The importuned editor delivered himself
thus: Measuring our correspondents
anxiety by his liberality. both gratitude
and compassion prompt an early reply.
Having once passed through similar con
dition of mental exhaustion endeavoring to
comprehend the Schleswig Holstein ques.
ton We can feel for our friends dazed
condition over the Plebiscite, and shall
therefore proceed to answer it.
"a 'plebiscite' is thing only few
'fellers' can understand. You see, when.
in the course of human events, the policy
of a government, in lis transcendental re-
lations with the political economies of a
State, becomes imbued with the spectral
analysis of abnormal influences, infringing
upon the perpetuity of institutions at
once detrimental and nugatsry to the alb
struse interests Of theocraey. why, then, a
decent respect for the opinions of mankind
requires the PRONUNCIATION of popular
analytical manifesto, in which 3 : =
In short, a'plebiscide' is plainly a pile.
biscits or, in other words, it is French