Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-09-26
CURRENT ITEMS.
ALWAYS GOING TO THE Does-Bones.

CRoQUET has been defined as "billiards
gone to grass"
ADVICE TO YOU'VE WRITERs-Say what
you have to say, and then stop.
SARATOGA hotels have registered 32,269
visitors during the last three months.
IT is sad to see many walk in the dark
themselves who carry lantern for 9TH
erS.
THE King of the Ashantees is allowed
to have 3, 1873 wives, but not to exceed that
number. -
THE educational authorities of Zanes-
vile, O., refuse TO admit colored children
to the high school.
OUR young ladies are never behind the
fashions; but the fashions are very much
behind the young ladies.
THE cable which was laid between
Kingston and Aspinwall, and been twice
lost, has been again recovered.
A MAN in Griffin, Ga, was bitten BY
snake seventeen years ago, and is still
drinking whisky to cure it,
WHAT is the difference between hang
man and gambler? One ropes people
in, and the other ropes people out.
THE New York Tribune cleared $4,000
during the first six months of this year,
and it's a poor year for pen and ink profits,
too.
1T was Voltaire who said: "Ideas are
like beard men only get them when they
are grown up, and women never have
any"
A CITIZEN of Champaign is now living
in house with his fifth wife, seventeen
children, and three mothers-in-law, and
yet he is not happy.
AMONG the contestants for the first pre-
MUM at the baby show of the New Hamp-
shire State Fair will be pair of colored
twins, both Toys. They are brothers.
A FOND lover who serenaded his lady
the other night in Southern city. was
very wet when he got through-and it
didn't rain much, either.
JACK SHEPPARD, at the City Gardens,
San Francisco successf lily accomplished
walking one thousand miles in one thou
sand consecutive hours, but he suffered
extremely during the latter portion of
the walk.
ONE of the English comic papers says
the present rate of taxation there bears
equally on all classes; it hardly presses on
the rich, and presses hardly on the poor.
THE Mayor of Keokuk recently dis
charged such of the Jail boys as could say
the Lords Prayer. Then a lawyer offered
to bet him five dollars that he couldn't
say it himself. He declined on the
ground that he didn't gamble.
A SHARP Toledo girl said of gentle
man to whom she had just been intro
duced, that he would be very presentable
if the Lord hadn turned up so much of
his legs to make feet Of
Al.
in Pennsylvania: "In memory of Tabi-
Thomas Andrews, Eben Halsted, Edward
Murray and Charles Dean, by her devoted
husband, Cyrus Morgan"
The girl of this age is unfit to be wed
who don't understand how to make nice,
sweet bread And the man is Ounce
who a partner will take who don't under
stand cooking coffee and steak
THE famous Libby Prison is now used
as the factory OF the Southern Fertilizing
Company; and Castle Thunder, used dur
ing the war as prison for Southern de-
serters, has been converted into tobacco
warehouse and manu- actory.
THE Acknowledgement of Michigan
has filed an information in the WaShte-
nav Circuit Court for Il mennd1n2ls upon
the Regents of the University to show
cause why they failed to appoint two pro-
fessors Of homeopathy, as required by the
late Legislature.
IT is told of one of the "supes" who re-
moves chairs from the stage of Troy
theater with great effect, that on the death
OF Edwin Forest being announced to him,
while Standing on Il hotel stoop, he ex
claimed, with dramatic gesture: "Great
flNpr lf>t,I-
A FRENCH provincial paper has been
sentenced to pay so francs each to II per-
sons whose names it published on list of
pilgrims, The publication was true
and harmless, but French law forbids
Journals to NEEDLE with the private affairs
of individuals.
CRANBERRY PICKING is being pushed in
the large marshes in the vicinity Of Der
lin, Wis. The crop is not as large as it
was last year, the cause being ascribed to
the severe cold Of last winter. 1t is esti-
mated that many marshes will not weld
more than half the usual crop.
CHANG, one of the Samese twins, was
recently summoned as Juror in case in
North Carolina Eng of course had to
accompany him, and now exception is
taken to the verdict on the ground that a
man not member of the jury was present
in the jury-room where it was agreed
uron.
THERE is a little valley in St. Clare
County, Mo-, which the people think
ought to become the new Saratoga. With
in a radius of few rods there are no less
than hundred springs, black sulphur,
white sulphur, and fresh water. Some of
the sulphur springs are slightly tinctured
with salt.
THE poplar is not ordinarily so long
lived as many other trees, but there is one,
known as the "Peuplier de rArquebuse,"
now standing in the Botanic Garden at
Dion, France, which was planted about
the year 400, and is one hundred feet
high, with atrunk forty-nine feet in cir
conference at it's base.
A DANBURY man got up before dawn,
on recent Sunday morning, to see the
sun rise, and was shot at by the exasper-
ated owner of melon PATCH next door.
In May last he made similar effort and
was bitten on the heel by strange dog.
He thinks of hiring bV to do the early
rising for his family.
A MAsTODoN skeleton has been dis
covered on farm near New Paris, Ohio.
About q quarter of a ton of bones were
exhumed, which, according to acknowl-
edged proportions of the ANIMAL indicate
this one to have been very large, probably
II feet high and SO feet long. One tusk
unearthed is 10 feet long, and its weight
$50 pounds. They hope to get the entire
skeleton
MEN who haven't the cash to getsquare