Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-10-03
CURRENT ITEMS.
NET PROFITs-A fisherman's.


water every hot day.
THIRTY women are employed on the
daily prese of New York.
THE patent ice-machines used IN the
South clear 700 per cent profit.
WHY is a talkative woman like the
ocean? Because YOU can't make her
dry up.
A PATIENT in the Jacksonville, ILL.,, In
sane ASYLUM has recently fallen heir to
$4,000.
AN oak recently cut on the Derby,
r. T., turnpike measured nine feet in di-
ameter.
For finding $3.50 pocket-book, Roch-
ester, n Y, boot black received twenty
five cents.
THE Registered Letter Department
earned the Government $4,000 net profit
the last year.
A BORE-The man who persists in talk
ing about himself when you wish to talk
about yourself.
A TRACT Of $4,000 acres in Mcdowell
County, N. c., has been sold to an emf
grafton company.
THE anchorage and unexposed parts of
the Niagara Falls suspension bridge are
as sound as when first put in.
A QUILT exhibited at the Central Hi
nois Fair, made by Miss Sarah Breckon,
of Morgan County, contains 28,517 pieces.
Two men at Minerville, Mo-, have found,
only eight feet below the surface, lump
of lead estimated to weigh 10000 pounds.
THE question of the advantage of dis
posing of the dead by cremation is again
revived, and finds numerous jealous adj
vOcates.
A DETROIT (Mich.) boy makes on an
average over $25 per week backing boots
and selling newspapers, and has now in
bank $1,100.
THE cultivation of the silk-worm is now
becoming so extensive in Mexico as to bid
fair to have an important influence upon
the silk trade.
THE hull of the British ship Confidence,
the flagship in the battle of Lake Cham
plain, is being raised from the bottom of
Plattsburg Bay.
THE span of the great rotunda of the
Exhibition building at Vienna is over ITO
yards, or double the size of the dome of
ST.. Peters, at Rome.
No ACTOR has yet been able to counter
felt that expression of JOY which man
shows when discovering ten-cent stamp
in his paper of tobacco
Lancaster, n. H., in the person of Julia
A Miller, who was the great-great-great
grandchild Of King Philip.
THE great equatorial telescope now
being constructed at Cambridge, Mass,
for the Naval Observatory, will be finish
eG the latter part of this month.
PHOTOGRAPHS of the counterfeit $500
bills have been made six times larger
iorin mole nd or Tod 70
banks throughout the country.
SWEDEN has hitherto mainly depended
on England for coal, but hencefOrth she
is likely to derive sufficient for her needs
from her own mines, which are in process
of Development
IT used to be the boast of Cakes Ames
that he could import iron and steel from
England, make them into shovels, and
then undersell British shovel makers in
the Birmingham market.
THE most accurate estimates state that
China possesses coal-felds to the extent of
over 100000 square miles, one province
(ShausI having no less than 81 900 square
miles with veins from 10 to 30 feet in
thickness.
AN eccentric old gentleman named
Johnston has recently taken up. his abode
in the woods near Lafayette, Ind. He has
no shelter save the trees, no bedding save
coffee-sack and an old coat, and his lar
der is a hollow-tree.
A MORMON farmer has succeeded in
playing a thorough confidence game on
the potato bugs. He planted grain of
corn in each potato hill, and as the corn
came up first, the bugs thought it was
corn-field and started for other scenes
JOSEPH GALES FORSTER, the well known
spiritualist, claims the Kirby reaper and
mower to be the work of some inventive
soul in spirit-land, who dictated through
medium the manner of its construction
out of such materials as this poor sphere
affords
THE new blacksmith shop at the Rock
Island Oily Arsenal is one of the largest
in the United States, if not in the world.
1t is built Of stone and iron, has front
age of 210 feet on the main avenue, with
two wings, each $50 feet long and 60 feet
wide.
MUCH anxiety is felt in Sonoma Valley,
Cal, from the discovery of a grape-louse
on the roots of the vines, similar to the
one that destroyed the grape crop in
France. A committee of wine-growers
has been going around among the vine
yards examining.
A BOSTON preacher, in speaking Of the
danger of permitting the Bible to be
crowded out by the newspaper, perpe-
trated the following pun: Men nova
days." said he, care like Zaccheus-desi-
rous Of seeing Jesus, but they cannot be-
cause of the press"
A GENTLEMAN, addicted to scientific in
quiry, has discovered that thirty three
days complete the cycle of the potato bug
generation; that 700 of the critters are the
average product of one female, from
which the family grows in the second
generation to 245 900, and in the third to
S2,700,000.
Two BABIES were shipped several hun
dred miles by express, in Oregon, recent
ly, and arrived at their destination all
right; but the express agent was almost
worn out telegraphing ahead for milk,
shingles for spanking purposes, and other
necessaries.
THE Ann Arbor (Mich.) Courier talks of
the champion sunflower The stalk is nine
and half inches in circumference at the
ground, and the lineal measurement of
the stalk and stems is Isl feet 1t has
eighty-one fruit-bearing flowers, with more
in prospect
PROFESSOR WYMAN, during his examin-
alton of the mounds in Florida, found
many human bones split up in the same
manner as those of animals. From this
he concludes that the aborigines were
cannibals, and that the bones were broken
to obtain the marrow after the flesh had
been eaten.
WHEN Horace Greeley visited Yosemite
he picked up in the trail horseshoe, and
hung 1t on the knot of an oak tree for