Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-29
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pair of boots for twelve years.
A CALIFORNIA dog revealed murder
by bringing home human arm.
The Baltimore fire was caused by
man throwing away cigar stub.
A PROVIDENCE fireman has been con-
victed of stealing $500 shawl at recent
fire.
A CANADIAN Justice of the Peace fined
man three dollars for saying thunder
atom
AN old colored woman shouted herself
to death at Columbia, S. c., the other day,
at a prayer-meeting.
A FAMILY of three persons were recently
discovered in the suburbs of New York
living in sugar hogshead.
ENGLISH advertisements are commend
ing the American stove" as remedy
for the high price of Goals"
BEDFORD COUNTY, Pa, has cat that
has received a regular course of training
in the art of squirrel catching.
A LONG ISLAND gentleman cultivates an
eighty-seven acre fower-bed, as well as
several blooming daughters.
A CLERICAL gentleman in the South
west calls political enemy "a vulgar
THE Louisville Ledger says it does not
look exactly the thing to see minister fan
ming himself while offering prayer.
A LITTLE girl at Bowling Green, KY,
fell into forty-fve foot we'll with fifteen
feet OF water in it, and was rescued unhurt.
A SCHOOL for walters, designed to teach
them the elegancies of their profession,' -
is shortly to be opened in New York
THE Graphic thinks clergyman trav-
cling in the East may expectorate on the
pyramid, and still expectsrate as a gentle
man.
CATTLE-GRowING and beefmaking paw
well in Nebraska; and hog-raising in CON
nection with it is exceedingly remuner-
ative.
JOSEPH DELLMAN, Of Camden, o., was
driving nail, when it rebounded, striking
him in the eye, and completely destroying
the sight.
A SENSIBLE Newfoundland dog at
Rochester, having the rabies, leaped off a
cliff head-fOremOst, and rendered himself
harmless.
ANN JONES, of Providence, r. l., fell
to the floor dead on seeing the underta-
ker's hearse drive up for the burial of her
infant child
THE latest mode de Paris is to have ones
furs trimmed with lace, which is some
thing like having hot plum pudding with
lce-cream sauce.
A WISCONSIN stroke of lightning ran
off tree and killed thirty-two out of
torty-seven sheep, and did not leave
mark on any of them.
IT has been discovered that the Colora-
nn tn hI1fr not L. y, i
owgrass, and, in short, anything vegeta-
BILE that comes in his way
THE Bloomington Qll) PantagruloA &C
knoWledges the corn. 1t was planted May
%, and in just two months reached a
height of 13 feet inches
A TROY man tried moral suasion to
keep the boys from stealing his cherries,
but while he was tenderly talking to one
the other four stole his dog.
THE owner of half dozen dwelling
houses in Detroit begs from door to door,
inspired by desire to pay hts taxes and
furnish the parlor in satin rep
The trousseau Of a young Austrian
bride was seized by the New York Custom
House officials, few days since, and con-
tiscated for non-payment of duty.
A GEORGIA Cracker" was offered 81
per day to labor, when he exclaimed:
Sir, dye s'pose I'd work when I've Jest
discovered a fresh coon trackp'
ONE of the Siamese twins was recently
summoned to serve on jury in North
Carolina. Chang would not go, and Eng
was fined $25 for non-attendance.
The last mystery is phantom train. 1t
makes its regular appearance on one of
those Pennsylvania railroads which are
mainly devoted to killing people.
PHILADELPHIA is strong on brotherlv
love, but an average of thirty three mar
rlages day for the past year indicates
something more than brotherly love.
ONE of the complaints filed by Mrs
Patterson, of Ohio in her suit for di-
vorce, is that her husband made her eat a
quantity of potato-parings and apple
cores.
So great is the demand for Paris green
and arsenic, used to kill caterpillars and
cotton worms in the South, that both ar
ticles have considerably advanced in
price.
THE proposition of Brigham Young to
compromise with No. H. who wanted
more wages or more husband, has been
defeated by the interference of her at
tOrneys.
PROFESSOR WISE declines to take anv
female with him. She would want to take
fourteen satchels and trunk, and would
be growing all the time about her lost
band-bOXeS.
THE smallest baby exhibited at the
San francisco baby show weighed two
pounds and half 1t is nearly two
months old, and is to be exhibited through
the United States.
A REMARKABLE bull-frog, which was
in the habit of Selling and hopping off
with the young chickens of Mrs. Otis
Holmes of Taunton, Mass, was lately de-
tected and killed by that lady.
THE California mines are queer places.
A Golden State reporter heard "the growl
of bear, the howl of wolf, the voice
of prayer, the cry of child, and the
clash of bowie knives from one gulch.
THE woInen or wyoming are in arrne,
not socially but politically. They pro,
pose to nominate one or two ladies as
candidates for the Legislature, and sup
port the party which ratifies the nomina-
ton.
A DOCTOR of Portsmouth, N. H., wants
the custom of tolling the bells for funerals
discontinued. 1t has depressing effect
upon the sick, and cannot prove
source of much enjoyment to the depart
ed.
AN old lady named Hancock, at Chico
pee Falls, Mass, who is suffering with
water around her heart, has lain on one
side for five years, the physicians saving
that any change of position would cause
death.
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