Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-10-21
CURRENT ITE MS.

4 A Bug THAT FLoURIs HES ALL TIL
YEAR ROUND -Hum-bug
AGRICULTURAL fairs are epidemic now
but there's no use of garden vegetable
competing for prizes-the cabbage vii
always be a head. n*t a
THE police of New York returned on
hundred and thirty one lost children t.
their homes, during the month of Sep
temper. 41o3 TEST 'H s'af
In Queen Victoria's crown there are 1,
1858 brilliant diamonds, 1,273rose diamond
and 147 table diamonds, large ruby, Il
sapphires, II emeralds, small rubies, and
227 pearls. q ~lSaas aT
THE lively cock-roach can be extermi
mated by catching him and soaking him in
kerosene. This is dead shot. Try it.
No cure, no pay.--DetrO5t Free Press.
AT a recent auction sale of unclaimed
goods in New York, a box of stage fix
ings, formerly belonging to Artemus
Ward, was sold for dollar.
AN East Tennessee woman stopped a
railroad train by waving red flag, and
wanted to know of the enraged conductor
if Sairey Melvina Thompson was aboard
which the same was her sister.
SOME photographic philanthropist is
committing pious fraud on the fair sex,
by endeavoring to persuade them that the
only way to avoid red noses in winter is
to keep their mouths shut, l Hal
The following are some of The names
found on the Michigan census roll: Man
mankowmea, Oksmahkekto, Penaeiwi
kishek, Ahyatwakishick, Shashawahu-
bise, Meshenahshintawn, KehpeDawa
yahsbe, CharWak osngan, Pahkekahnahg-
wat, Renewanahgose.
TIE body of a Mrs Catharine Hipp,e,
who died at Monrovia, Kan, four years
ago, was recently found in complete
state of petrifaction. The face was alnost
two shades darker than when in its
natural state, and looked as il it had been
varnished. ..
IF it be wise to Insure your property,
the lcss of which would fall heavily upon
your family, il is wiser to insure your life,
the loss OF which would bs a blow in
finitely heavier. Insure in the Mutual
Life Insurance Company of Chicago.
Two rascals immured in the Ludlow
street jail in New York could not afford
to remain idle, and therefore employed
their time in manufacturing counterfeit
money, and where detected while in the
act Of selling it to outsiders.
"THsRE is not single Confederate pris-
oner in the custody of the United States
anywhere, at this time" So says AdJd-
tant General Townsend, in response to an
inquiry as TO whether there are any Con-
federate prisoners in the Dry Tortugas.
THE late Thomas Rippon, chief cashier
of the Bank of England, once only in a
service of fifty years ventured to ask for
q fortnight's holiday. He left town, but
after q three days unhappy ramble he
grew moping, and returned to the bIissful
regions of Threadneedle street to die at
his desk. "
AN i'll l-humored English wife, abusing
her husband on account Of his mercenary
disposition, told him that if she was dead,
he would marry the devils eldest daugh-
ter if he could get anything by it: "That's
true" replied the husband, bat the worst
of it is, in England one can't marry ts'0
SISTERS"
THE present census will show that the
United States has fifteen cities OF more
than one hundred thousand inhabitants.
There are but three countries that exceed
this-the East Indies with twenty one
cities, Great Britain with sixteen, and
China with fifteen.
THE Chicago Post says that Lee, who
won Crosby's Opera House, has four
brothers still living who are in the same
business drawing Three of them, like
him, draw houses one as house.raover,
the second as tragedian, and the third
as an architect. The fourth is in the
army, and he draws his sword and his
rations.
SOME young men of Saar Louis had
volunteered to assist in burying the dead
before Metz; but, after they had worked
at this horrible occupation for day, they
fed home in dismay, sick at heart and al
most in q helpless condition. They say
the sights OF horror on those battle-felds
are SO fearful that they would unnerve
the strongest man.
q A. POSTAL. convention has been conclud-
ed between the United States and the
Provinces of VanCOuver's Island and
British Columbia, establishing and regu-
lating the exchange of correspondence
with those colonies on the same basis as
that adopted in the postal convention
with the Dominion of Canada. The con-
vention goes into Immediate operation.
IT is the opinion of many persons that
the late, unprecedented freshet in the
James and Shenandoah rivers was not
caused by continuous rain, but some.
thing like the bursting of water.spout
on or about their headwaters, as their
sources are not a very great distance
apart. The food came down in the She
nandoah in great waves, succeeding each
other rapidly. oi n e8 bt 8
DETROIT has fellow who is quite an
adept in passing counterfeits. Ills mode
of operation is to rush from the street in
to some store, without hat or coat on,
with a twenty dollar bill in his hand, and
ask for change, which is readily given,
tne finctionaries thinking they are doing
some neighboring store favor. A
THE following ia vouched for as a boys
composition: The Horse--The horse is
the most useful animal in the World. So
ig the Cow. I once had 13 Ducks and
two was drakes and Skunk killed One.
He s.neld Orful. knew Boy which
Had r chickens but his Father would not
let him rails Them and SO he god mad and
40 he bosred q Hole in his mothers Wash
tub. I wish / had hors. horse weights
1000 pounds.
PROBABLY many are not aware that
black dyed elk is liable to spontaneous
combustion, but such is believed to be the
fact by experienced observers. The real
cause of the action has not yet Eeen
definitely elucidated. However, it is 40.
visable not to keep large quantities OF
black dyed silk together, and also to pre-
vent its getting very dry, or beipg Kept
where there is not ample ventilation.