Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
WHALING GRoUNDs-School-ho


| ionable in Louisville.
THERE are more than $4,000 Scandinav-
ians in New York.
THERE are more than 100 railway sta
tions in London.
A MARYLANDER has sued woman for
"backing out" from marrying him.
SEALsKN will be used more than ever
this winter for trimming overcoats.
A DETROIT policeman has an eleven
year. old cat which weighs thirty pounds.
Six water-spouts appeared on Lake
Erie few days ago, and lasted half an
hour.
A MAN in Springfield, O., has construct
ed musical clock which plays eight
different tunes.
Two WEALTHY planters of Porto Rico
have manumitted eight hundred of their
slaves.
A YOUNG lady up town (New York; re-
Gently paid $3.50 for having single dress
made.
WHY are ripe potatoes in the ground
like thieves? Because they ought to be
taken up.
WHAT ancient implement of war does
petulant lover most resemble? A cross
bow.
In Phillips County, Kansas, at late
election, they used a scooped-out pumpkin
for ballot-box.
WASHINGTON is overrun with grave
stone manufacturers, desirous of contract
ing to supply the national cemeteries.
AN exchange announces, on the death
of lady, that she 'lived fifty years with
her husband, and died in confident hope
of better life"
THE alumni of Harvard challenge the
present class to test of proficiency in
oaral exercises-meaning thereby boat
race.
THE enormous consumption of tea may
be imagined when it is known that Great
Britain consumes upwards of 80, 900 tons
per annum-equal to about four pounds
to each person.
Chow DOES that look, eh?" said big
fisted Wall street man to friend, hold.
ing up one of his brawny hands. 'That,"
said the friend, CLOCKS as though you'd
gone short on soap"
THE gentleman so often spoken of in
novels, who riveted people with his gaze,
has obtained employment in boiler man
ufactory, with extra pay, on account OF
his peculiar faculty.
RooTs.-If these are stored in cellar
under the dwelling rooms, have them
covered with dry earth, which will pre-
vent disagreeable and unhealthful odors
from coming into the apartments.-Am
AgTScultatTSSt.
| A LITTLE common wax rubbed on the
soles of ones dancing shoes makes ones
feet glide smoothly over the heaviest car
pet. Almost all our best dancers invaria-
bly, carry with them to parties small
pieces of beeswax.
OUR experience in journalism teaches
us that there is nothing in this world that
will so disgust and sicken the general
reader as to learn, after wading through
the particulars of an awful accident, that
there is a probability of the victims re-
covery.
A DANBURY mans horror, at the pros
pect of being crushed to death by team
of frightened horses, was terribly intensi-
fed by the reflection that che was stand
ing on the very verge OF eternity without
dollar in his pocket"
SEVERAL young ladies in town have
formed an anti-tobacco society, and amuse
themselves by inducing their gentlemen
| friends to sign a pledge not to use the
weed, which they do unanimously, and
smoke as much as ever. So all parties
are pleased, and the reform line still moves
forward unbroken.-ErchGnge
A BARBER in Titusville, while cutting
the hair of a rural customer, ran his
shears against some hard substance,
which proved to be a milestone. The
old farmer said he chad missed that whet-
stone ever since haying-time last July, and
had looked all over ten-acre lot for it,
but now remembered sticking it up over
his ear"
A. sTRONG-MINDED woman in Detroit
made the following gentle reply to poll
tician who had called at her house to get
her husband to go to the polls and vote
"No sir, he can't GO! He's washing now,
and he's got to iron tomorrow, and II he
wasn't doing anything, he couldn't go. l
run this ERE house, l do, and if any one
votes it'll be this same Mary Jane !"
SOMEBODY says the hog is Peabody
among animals alongside of hen
Throw a handful of corn in ten-acre lot
and every hen in the inclosure will get a
dab at it. The last hen on the spot may
not secure more than two kernels, but
nothing in the hens appearance will in
dicate that. It will step around with as
much precision and gratitude as any in
the flock, and wear the most pensive smile
you ever saw A hen will not eat every
thing it sees, but it will try to, and there
isn't one of them on the face of this earth
but that can tell you the taste of every
thing it has seen within the radius of
half mile of the house.
THE multiplication or copying of draw
ings, by means of electricity, has been
still further improved by an invention
which greatly simplifes the process. 1t
is Swiss device, and is designed to do
away with the fatigue and difficulty ex-
perienced by craftsmen in the puncturlng
of holes through drawing for the pur-
pose of obtaining an outline, and after
ward transferring the outline by sitting
plumbago or other powder through the
small holes. To accomplish the desired
result, the induction coil is now employed.
A table covered with tin foil is connected
with the negative pole, and on it may be
placed as many sheets of paper as the
spark will pass through. The positive
pole, consisting of metal bar, insulated
with gutta percha, serves as pencil for
copying the tracings. The metal point of
the pencil being moved about on the
contour and outline of the engraving,
electric sparks spring across every time
connection is made, and puncture fine
holes through the paper
THE Moabite expedition, according to
a report recently read before the British
Association, discovered on the borders of
the desert east southeast from Heshbon,
the ruins of magnificent palace in an
excellent state of preservation. A quad
rangular wall of freestone, 515 feet on
each side, incloses a brick palace. On
the other side of the only entrance is an