Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-10-31

Coal has recently been discovered neal
- Golden, Col 1t is, hard and bright II
color $500 M
EXPERIMENTS show that corn loses one
Is fifth and wheat one-fourteenth of it,
weight by drying. IA a
i "A MEMBER of base ball club in Balti
more ran 100 yards recently against a trot
"a ting-horse and won "a wager
@f No SARATOGA hotel except Congress
Hall paid expenses this last season. Stew
arts grand house lost $4,000. III ..
"A NEW uniform for our entire standing
army of 10000 men is now being made a
Z Frankfort Arsenal, Philadelphia. 4
T E JERUsHA PECK, maiden miser, of Riv
erside, Conn, died recently, leaving colo
which she had boarded for thirty years.
THERE is one school-district in Mara
thon County, Wis, which has 1854 more
I square miles than the entire State O
Rhode Island
Mrs JANE g., SwIssHELM claims the
credit of suggesting the system of red
light signals now in use on all railroads
in this country. ~
NEARLY 100000 rent are annually paid
blythe National Government for private
buildings, which are used for offices in
Washington.
In CEYLON, the marriage ceremony is
performed by tying the couple together by
the thumbs. In this country they are
usually put together by the ears.
AT st. Louis the courts are now occu-
pied with litigation between two street
o. ,beggars,z father and daughter, over
g $4,000, the proceeds ofseVeral years col
lections on the streets.
3. : AN llnstamped letter was deposited in
Western pOstOffice last week, and under
meath the address was the Endorsement:
"Let her slide, p NJ; she's all hunk; in
side air one of them post hole keerds"
p ! AN important order of Catholics in
Iowa is the Monks of St. Troppe, Du-
buque County, who have one Of the larg-
est and best farms in the State, compris-
ing over 5000 acres, and an immense
monastery. ..- ...s. 80
THE rails are all laid on the Grand
Rapids & Indiana Railroad as far north
as Little Traverse Bay, Mich andalthough
e7afew daysswillsbe required to complete
! the balasting, the road may be- regarded
as finished.
.se.. HAzING is not so popular at Yale Col
lege this season, as was once the case. A
freshman, measuring fifty four inches
- round the breast, and standing six feet
five, showed the boys where the laugh
came in, and they couldn't find any sport
in it,
. @ ADDITIONAL. reports from Minnesota,
Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kan
sas and Ohio confirm the estimated fall
ing off in the Irish potato crop in those
States, which in 1870 produced over
-4 3,000,000 bushels. The loss at the given
rate would aggregate over 100000
bushels. = e.
ALTHOUGH Dukes County, Mass, has
probably been in existence for two hun
dred years, it never sent a convict to the
State prison until recently. 1t wants il
distinctly understood, however, that the
two men "scnt up" on that day were out
~ casts fromthe abandoned and aprOffigatt
State of Vermont.
COMPLETE reports received of the dis
asters by the storm of August "a show
that the total number of vessels destroyed
along the coast of Maine and Nova Scotia
was 1,122, and the number of lives 600
including three by the cyclone on the
5I q land The records also show that about
b. 800 buildings were injured or totally de
stroyed. .~0
.rss The International money order system
between this country and England anc
Germany is awaited of to much larger
extent than was. expected. The American
- aPost0fice hast remit to Great Britain
about SIT, 500 year, so much more money
is sent thither than hither. Successful
simmig grants sending home their wages is
the explanation. '
Two PERSONS who have chosen each
60 other out of all the species, with the de
$ sign to be each others mutual comfort
and entertainment, have, in that action
bound themselves to be good-humored
s .affable, discreet, forgiving, patient anC
H .inyyfllla wit n nth froi1
ties and projections, to the end Of thei
lives.-AddGSOn.
E " EASTERN PAPERS are talking about thu
wonderful magnetic powersof boy dowl
ge in Bangor, Me. 1t is said that by simply
touching with the tips of his fingers thu
back Of chair on which person is seat
ed, the sitter will be thrown quite across
the room. The stoutest man will b.
thrown from his seat as suddenly as if BY
5. young earthquake. e.s
THE Warsaw Ind5anSan says Mr. San
Hemphill, while trimming his grape vine
last spring, slipped small potato owe
the end of one to keep it from bleeding,
as it Is termed. The potato sprOuted anC
* and grew all summer, and the shoots i
sent forth can scarcely be called eithe
a@ grape or potato, but have a peculiar lool
and formation of their own. r.-
..s OWNERS of threshing machines which
~ do not have the tumbling rod boxed, can
not sue for threshing done by such ma
..,y. chine, and are liable for all injuries don
! a. Sbysuch exposed tumbling rods. Eighty
three persons in Illinois have this yea
been killed or manned for life by neg
lcct of thesact of March 81, 1862 A few
more suits, would make this class of acct
dents less frequent. Z az
A NOVELTY IN THE DA1RY.-Butte
T made from milk two years old is certainly
ID q. curiosity, but is not likely to remain Sc
s@ "a much longer. A few weeks ago, at the
International Exhibition, in London, but
ter Of good quality was made from some
IS milk condensed and preserved by Hook
4, eers process two years ago, having beer
~ g Kept, IN the meantime, uncovered and ex
:. posed to the air.
.S THE Jerusalem pilgrimage, under thu
~ protection Of the Archbishop of Paris
will leave Marseilles about the middle O
this month and on the way to Jerusalem
IS Athey viii visit Alexandria and the Isth
mus. From Jerumsalem excursions will
be made to Bethlehem, Jerico, the Jordan
the Dead Sea, Mount Carmel and othe1
places. The party will be absent abou
s,a two months and half, and will return
80 IRA home by Smyrna and Athens. ssstsss .
IN Kansas they seem disposed. to en-
- courage the vanquishment of the ennis
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