Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-02-10
Generalities.


IN any business never wade into the
water where you cannot see the bottom.
STURGEON says-Nobody is more like
an honest man than thorough rogue.
Draw upon content for the defcien-
cies of fortune.
A SOLDIERS MONUMENT is to be erected
on Boston Common at an expense of
$4,000. la ..
The guileleSs are usually without sus-
picion, but the dishonest man always
suspects others. .....
A DETROIT WOMAN supports her hus-
band by cleaning the snow from her
neighbors' sidewalks. "-
A SERMON in four words on the vanity
Of earthly possessions-"Shrouds have
no pockets -'aa. a1F a.'" O.
THERE are ,5,405 street lamps in the
city of Boston, and it cost 1924 ,560E
for light last year. .-a. ,ios... .....
WHALEBoNE is now shipped by the
cars from San Francisco to New Bedford
without change Of cars.
The total outstanding debt of Missouri
is 20,S66 900, of which SIG, ,l22, 600 ison
account Of eighty-six railroads.
NINETEEN THOUSAND nine hundred and
one Philadelphians were drunk and dis
orderly last year. '2' go. ;'1 I'll Hr
The mean temperature at Lookout
Mountain during December was 81 de
grees. The highest was 81 and the low
est 2 degrees. .....
THE Mechanics Savings Bank, of
Providence, received the large sum of
$4,000 on deposit in one day last week.
This does not look like hard times. ~
SoUrH NoRwALK, Conn, has a man
named Morehouse who walks II miles
in going to and from his work every day.
He is 60 years old at that. a ....I.,..n.t
The assessed value of San Francisco
real estate with improvements, is ST.
500,000, of which one-third is under
mortgage, costing $3,000,000 annual
interest E" H"H
A PIG carrying a wisp of straw i'll his
mouth portends rain. Minor showers
occur, without the intervention of the
pig. Nicely roasted he is very good.
THERE appears to be scarcity of leaf
tobacco in Virginia The Petersburg
Courier has been informed by tobacco
nists that some of them have been com
PEELED to close their factories for the
want of raw material .t
ONE of the Baptist churches in Chi
cago is to have a chime of seventeen
! I a. '.rNc h.,
! largest IN the United States. The largest
bell, fiat, weighs nearly four thou
sand pounds, and the cost of the whole
will be $1,000.
The surest heritage of human life is
suffering. 1t is as inevitable as the sum-
mer shower, the wintry blast, or the
storm that ruins and desolates. There
is never a smile, but a tear is lurking
near it. The highest bliss contains al
ways the germ of the most passionate
grief JOY hangs always upon the verge
of pain. ... ..,...
AN enteprising farmer in Maury coun-
ty, Tenn, has bought fine steam ap,
paratus and boils by steam all the food
he feeds to his pigs, horses, cattle and
hogs. He says he can cook enough food
in half day for all the stock in the
neighborhood. He claims that one
bushel of food cooked by steam will do
an animal more good than five bushels
eaten. raw. rea s.ae,r.A
BoxFoRD, Conn, is quaint old Puri-
tan town-not glass of ale sold in the
place. 1t borders on eight towns, is
eleven miles long and six wide, and has
population Of eight hundred and fifty
souls, about the same as one hundred
years ago. Appropriately enough, the
chief industry of the town is the manu-
facture of boxes for shoes and matches.
CONSIDERING the smallness of our
standing army, and the Indian and
Mexican wars, and the great civil war
it has passed through, it is a remarkable
fact that there are still fifty-nine officers
on the list who have served thirty years
continuously in the United States army.
Six of these are Generals and seven are
field officers, the remaining forty-six
still plodding along in the lowlier
paths of the regimental line or subordi-
nate staff. . .Er ya5o9