Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-08-23
FACTS AND FIGURES.

CASTELAR,, the Spanish orator, was for
merly type-setter.
England has as many people in the
almshouse as she has children in schools
ST. Paul, Mimi, allowed 352 mar
riages and only sixteen divorces during
the year III.
Nilsson wore at her wedding pair
of diamonds and pearl earrings that be-
longed to the Empress Eugene.
1t is just as impossible to get along
without advertising as it is for cross
eyed man to borrow gun.
Insure your life in the Washington
Insurance Company of New York, to the
amount of the mortgage on your house.
1t is generally believed to be danger
Gus to travel on railroads, but statistics
show it is the safest method of locomo-
ton on land ever yet devised.
Carefully prepared statistics show
that during the last six years upward of
thirteen thousand collisions at sea have
taken place between vessels in all parts
of the world.
That was a very touching Incident
that of the little schoolgirl who refused
| to define the word clown as "a low, vul-
gar fellow" and for her stubbornness
was punished with the ferule and detained
in play hours, all to no reformatory end.
The little child's father proved to be a
clown in circus
| "A humming bird flew into a court
room in Georgia during the session OF
the court one day recently, at half-past
ten a. M, and continued to fly within &
few inches of the ceiling until SKIP. m.
when it fell slowly and lighted on a
mantelpiece, where it was captured. Il
was on the wing seven and half hours
without rest.
In the different countries of Europe
there are the following number of theaters
Italy has 348; France, 1877; Spain, 1863
England, $50; Austria, 152; Germany
1911; Russia, Al; Belgium, 81; Holland
33; Switzerland, 20; Sweden, 10; Nor
way, s; Portugal, Is; Denmark, 10 F.;
Greece, 4; Turkey, 4; Roumania, 81;
Servia, l.
of the 5000 French guns taken in
the war twenty-five huge specimens has
been set apart for monster bell to be
cast for the Cathedral at Cologne. The
bell is to weigh 500 tons, and will be
seventy-five feet high, with diameter OF
thirteen feet at it's base. With the ex
ception of the Ivan Veliki, at Moscow
which is gong rather than bell, it will
be the largest on the continent.
1t is an old and general supposition
that the law does not regard dogs as
property, and that dog found running
at large in the street is anybody's proper
| ty. Judge Bowling, of New York, had
dog-stealing case before him recently,
in which he stated that great mistake
pervaded the public mind in regard to
dogs; that by law they were as much a
mans property as his horse, or anything
| else he owned and, moreover, stated
that in case of killing dog, unless in
self-protection, the party could be made
to pay the value of the dog the same as
though it were horse.
On lately moving to another grave
the remains of Mrs. Anna Reese, who
died in 1862, and was buried-in the GENE
terry at South Bend, Ind, the unusual
weight caused such surprise that the coffin.
| lid was removed, when it was found that
the body presented exactly the appear
ance it wore when consigned to the grave.
ten years ago. The features and hands
| were not shrunken, nor were there any
signs of decay. Neither were there any
signs of petrifaction. DR.. Ham examined
the body and found that the flesh had
changed to adip0cere or fatty wax, phe.
nomenon regarded as more wonderful
than petrifaction.
"A Manchester (England) confectionel
says he has used from the highest to the
lowest quality of butter, and fully proved
that some of the low, yet not the lowest
priced butter was nothing more nor less
than grease from horses bones out of {
knacker's yard, colored and tasted by
drugs and waste butter mixed in. This il
the way he found this out. Using dea
of cheap butter, he thought he would buy
this first hand, and by inquiries traced
its manufacturer, and after " a carouse O
glasses" offering to find capital to joir
in the manufacture of the article, they
had partly drawn up articles of terms
He wished to have some idea of prof
returns, when he was informed it wa'
"stewed out of horses and other bones
the cost of which was I'd per h., and solo
at Sd or Cd per To-"
Some novel mechanical arrangement
for the transmission of messages from
one floor to another, and from one to an
other part of the same floor at the grea
central telegraph office in London ar
described in the London Times. Thes'
consist in connecting the check tables an6
the different floors by endless bands, KEEP
in motion by the steam engine that is uset
to exhaust the pneumatic carrying tubes
The bands are of tape or thin webbing
running over small wheels at each ex
tremity of their course, as well as a
every angle that they turn; and foul
bands are used Tor each track of what may
be called the message tramway. Be
tween tables in the same room the course
81 - VI.
height to be clear of the traffic below
then cross the room horizontally, and de
scend on arriving at their destination
A message slipped between the wheels a
one side is instantly carried away an6
rapidly delivered at the other From
floor TO floor the bands pass down shafts
or through covered ways; and at every
terminus there is lever by which any SCI
can be stopped without disturbing the
rest,