Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-09-22
General Items.

A TENNESSEE HYMN, popular at camp
meetings, has S41 verses.
CAPTAIN EYRE, who ran down the
Oneida, is dead.
THE latest measurement makes Mount
Washington 6,205 feet high.
BEEcHER is writing review of the life
of Irving.
A WHITE crow has lately been shot at
Undertook, N. Y.
Two ostriches have been added to the
New York Central Park collection.
GoLDEN-wINGED wasps are the latest
curiosity reported from Iowa.
SOME of the ocean steamer captains
get three hundred dollars per month.
SOME Michigan hotels use the coun.
ter and a piece of chalk for their regis
| ter.
ROBERT BRowNING's new poem Bal
austion's Adventures" is 5000 lines in
length.
THERE are about 7O,O0O,OOO of per-
sons talking English as their native
tongue.
A WESTERN genius is catching feas,
pulling out their legs, and selling them
| for flax seed.
WHEN is a vessel like a scarf pin ?
Give it up? When it is on the bosom of
a heavyssswell.
NEWPORT will soon be eclipsed by
Martha's Vineyard, where the great
camp meeting of the season is held.
A PHILADELPHIA clergyman thinks he
has invented a machine which will
husk ten acres of corn day.
AS late as 1890, girls were not permit
ted to attend public schools in Boston.
The world has moved trifie since
then.
Mr.. JOSEPH RANErTI, flute player of
the Boston Museum orchestra, has
never missed an afternoon or evening
performance in % years.
AT the clam bake of the Fat Mems
Association, in Norfolk, last week,
there were 1000 persons present, $50
of whom weighed over 200 pounds
each.
AN enterprising Northern man has
purchased ! 900 acres of the marshy
land near New Orleans, and designs
converting it into large rice planta-
ton.
LADIES in the country have taken to
wearing thick boots with broad square
heels, as the Louis Quinze boots and
heels they find are not at all adapted for
rough service.
The Albany, Ga, Ne,0S reports that
vast quantities of grasshoppers in north
ern Georgia, where they are eating
everything green, devastating a field in
single night.
The tea growers in the South and
Southwest are extending their acreage
so much that they claim that in few
years enough tea will be grown in this
country to supply the home demand.
The last device of the inventive Yam
kee mind is an ephemeral instrument
pleonastically called the sugar-wh whistle
that Whistles" and purchasable for the
inconsiderate sum of one cent. Confec.
TONERS who sell this kind of whistle aver
that it developes in children taste for
music, the tone produced from it being
naturally sweet.
A,LITTLE boy in Yorkville, Canada,
came to his death few days ago under
most singular circumstances. He was
one of a party of children who were
playing together, and kissed one of the
little girls. This so enraged another lit
tie girl that, in a fit of what may be
called jealousy, she struck him with a
stick, inficting an injury from which he
died in a few hours.
AFTER sleep of twenty-four hours,
young lady in Pittsburg arose and was
very indignant with her friends for
what she considered their unseemly
wonder at the length of her nap. Her
peculiar appearance during the sleep
had for time occasioned the belief that
she was dead, but fortunately her
mother insisted on retaining her body
until the fact was beyond question. On
awaking, the young lady imagined that
she had slept but few hours, and she
related fanciful dream.