Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


ise.
JEwE1RY FOR OCTOBER. Election ear.
ring.
PERSONS who never complain of "Short
Crops"-Barbers.
SHELBY County, Tenn, is prosecuted
by wood-ticks.
A WHITE coon has been killed in Mont
gomery County, Tennsr
OLD folks should be serious. Frivolous
talk is bad-in-age. a.
In the Green Mountain State they call
an e.opement suicide. He sued and she
sighed.
In one week there were twenty-three
runaway matches in New England.
IMITATION poodles, on velvet cushions,
are the newest freak in 'ornamenta" fur
niture.
THE foliage is fast turning to plumage.
That is to say, the leaves are nearly all
down.
DRESSING GOWNS and slippers for Christ
mas presents occupy the attention OF
young ladies.
A CHINESE inventor has discovered
how to send by telegraph all exact fac
SSma6le of signature.
A SHIPMENT of choice California fruit
was recently made from San Francisco to
Dublin, Ireland.
A TOURIST, who was asked in what part
of Switzerland he felt the heat most, re-
piled, "When was going to Berne."
NEXT to the 'little busy bee" the boot
black furnishes the brightest example OF
Improving the shining hour"
THERE is gread demand in San Fran
cisco, from Chicago and other Eastern
cities, for Chinese domestic servants.
AFTER great photographed discus
sion in England, it has been decided that
Shakespeare" is the proper way to
spell it.
NEW YORK swindlers are again flooding
the country with circulars in regard to
counterfeit money, (which can't be told
from genuine"
Two fatigued travellers, having to travel
ten miles further, comforted themselves
by the calculation that it was only five
miles each.
A TITUsvILLE authority is responsible
for the statement that a Louisville mule,
hitched to street car, kicked clear over
the top of the car, and knocked man
off from the rear platform.
THE Tyrian purple, so long and justly
celebrated, and which was first made
known about 500 years B. c., was OBJ
tanned from species of shell fish found
on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
A BUSINESS man of Chicago recently re-
ceived letter from a classic correspond
ent requesting him to acknowledge
certain legal instrument before mote A
Republick.
THE ''egg. candlers' of New York con-
stitute a profession by themselves, and
make it pay "Candling" an eggis hold
ing it between the eye and a candle or
gaslight, in order to test its soundness.
All eggs at the metropolis have to pass
through this process before they are mer-
chantable, and the services of these pro-
fessional testers are always in demand.
JONES assumes, on coming home to din
ner, the bearing of an outraged husband.
"Why is it, Mrs. Jones, that you ride
through Wall street in the very equipage
l am struggling to maintsin for you at
high charge, and cut your husband p
Mrs. Jones at once reassures him "You
certainly would not have your wife,
from five thousand dollar barouche,
bow to man who is at work for his liv-
ing ~
THE Sultan, in a fit of impractical
patriotism, has ordered that henceforth
the use of the French language in the lee
lures at the Imperial Ottoman School OF
Medicine at Stamboul shall be super
seded by the use of Turkish. There be-
ing no standard medical works in the ma
tive lingo, and no teachers capable Of con-
veying knowledge in that gibberish, the
order of His Highness is about equiva-
lent to shutting up the school.
GOETHE once defined a Frenchman as
a person ignorant of geography. Here is
a specimen of what a French writer
knows about the wonders of the New
World. The GGulOis says "The Vic
toria Bridge, on the River st. Lawrence,
is formed of an immense tube, weighing
ten millions of kilogrammes, measuring
three thousand yards--taona the shore Of
Portland, IN Name, to Port S0r'nsd, near
Lake HurOn!"
THE properties of coal in the produc-
ton of gas were known to the ancients,
and practically used by that wonderful
people, the Chinese; but it was not until
1892 that gasometer and an apparatus
for the manufacture were erected in En-
gland by the inventor, Mr.. W. Murdoch.
His efforts met with little encouragement |
till 1902, when the mandatory of Boul- |
ton 6 Watt, in Birmingham, was pub
licly Illuminated with gas on the festival |
of the peace of Amiens
A WEEK or two ago the bartender at |
the Ackerman House, Atwater street,
wrote his name and address on a slip of |
paper, attached it to one of the toy bal |
looms sold on the streets, and sent the |
balloon af1oat. Three days ago he re-
ceived letter from a farmer in Pennsyl
vania, saying that the balloon bad been
picked up near his house, having made a |
voyage of many hundred miles, BY |
comparing dates it was seen that the bal
loon was three days in making the voy-
age.-Detr0at Free Press.
THEY tell about man in Doylestown,
Pa, who heard that well water could be |
purified with lime, so he emptied bushel |
and half into his well, and felt blissful
and happy. 1t turned out that, because
Of the dryness of the season, there was
only three feet of water in the well, and
ever since his experiment he has been
selling good article of whitewash to his
neighbors at two buckets for cent, and
walked mile and a half to the creek for
drinking water for his family. He has
his doubts now about lime being a good
purifier.
SLIGHTLY INoUIsITIvE.-''Loo here,
squire, where was yeou born?" said per-
sistent Yankee to five minutes acquain-
.ance. "T was born," said the victim,
in Boston, fremont street, No. A, left
land side, on the first day Of August,
l810, at five o'clock in the afternoon; ply
'ician, DR.. Warren; nurse, Sally Benja-
nin." Yankee was answered completely.
For a moment he was stuck. Soon,
however, his face frightened, and he
quickly said: yeas; wa'al, / calculate
7ou don't recollect whether itwas frame
,r brick house. dew yes'