Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-12-26
CURRENT ITEMS.
LEyITY is the soul of wit.

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LEvITY is the soul of wit.
OxIDIzED jewelry continues fashiona-
BILE.
To REMOVE stains from characterized
rich.
SEAsoNABLE HABITS over
| coats.
DENVER has had a "snorting snow
Storm"
A PACK of wolves roam over Clearfeld
County, Pa.
THE Boston tailors have abolished the
credit system.
MANY Pennsylvanians are emigrating
to Southwest Missouri.
A GREEN COUNTY Qll.) colt one year
old, weighs 1850 pounds.
DRESSES much worn will be much worn
for the next several months.
AN early spring-Jumping out of bed
at five o'clock in the morning.
THE "east shore'' in Michigan is af1ict-
ed with virulent horse-disease.
THE bufaloes are good deal further
! off in Kansas this year than last.
TRUTH sometimes tastes like medicine,
| OLD girls should never trust handsome
milliners to try on their bonnets for them.
NEVADA boasts of the richest silver
mines and the best patronized penitentia-
ries.
A DIVORCED woman who reassumes
her maiden name should be addressed as
"Miss."
WHEN a man is saddled with bad
wife, there are sure to be stir-ups in the
family.
A PARTY of bears recently destroyed
five acres of corn for Hortonville wis.,
farmer.
"GREAT PUMPKINS p AZ en- expression
used to signify tllat one is utterly
squashed.
A CH1LENo found gold nugget worth
$116 while hunting quail near Mokelumne
Hill, Cal.
THE first steam grist-mill in Idaho was
recently erected on the Camas prairie, at
Mount Idaho.
A MAN at Omaha is said to have a pet
wildcat. Some night that wildcat will
have pet man.
CLEAR LAKE, Cal, swarms at this sea-
son with wild geese, swans, and various
species of wild ducks.
A ooLoRED Young Mems Christian AS
sociation which once had an existence in
Charleston, S. c., is to be reorganized.
A LEXINGTON, KY, whisky. firm filled
an order, the other day, for three gallons
of old Bourbon, to be sent to Babylon.
YOUNG, the Washington murderer hang
ed the other day, wanted to smoke a cigar
on the gallows, and was allowed to enjoy
it.
MEDICAL men say the white veil dotted
with black, is injurious to the eyes; but
the ladies don't care dot so long as it is
becoming.
SEVENTY umbrellas were stolen
from the Baptist Church in Oswego one
rainy night last week They pretended
to say that the victims went home smil-
ing.
PEEKsK1LL, N. Y, is excited over
bigamy case A Canadian came there
and married widow worth $4,000, leav-
ing wife in Canada.
EXPENSES of Italian opera in New
York, $15, 900 a week, and average re-
ceipts $11 900. The managers are cipher
ing how long it will take at this rate to
make sufficient to retire upon.
THERE is a woman in the vicinity of
Severance, N Y, who is in the habit OF
marrying.every man who comes along.
The Troy Chief says she long ago got far
beyond bigamy-'way up somewhere into
trigonometry.
AN Ohio youth, who desired to wed the
object of his affections, had an interview
with her parental ancestor, in which he
stated that although he had no wealth to
speak of yet, he was "chock full Of days
works" He got the girl.
r. LANE EMORY, residing near Taylor,
Pa, recently lost horses by hydrophobia.
| While driving on the road one of
them began to act very strangely, frothed
| at the mouth, became ungOvernable, and
| in frantic rage seized its companion by
the neck, thus communicating the disease
| to it. A number of hogs in neighbor-
| hood were bitten by the same dog, and
| died with all the symptoms of hydro
phobia.
A WILD hog weighing about 600 pounds
was killed near the Muskrat Lake, in
Manitou County, Michigan, recently.
His hogship had sojourned in that local
ity for about ten years. A tusk from the
lower jaw measured seven inches in
length, girted nearly two inches. and
tapered to triangular point. He fought
uODly, UuJ MS rough AluC w etS d9 iesot pei
| forated with bullets, and he fell victim
to the superior strategy of the enemy.
THE Keosauka (Mich.) Republican has
story of plucky woman: "Mrs. Bennett,
who lives about half mile above town,
killed deer with an ak last Saturday.
Some hunters with their dogs had been
chasing the animal for a couple of days.
| In the flight the deer ran into Mr.. Ben
netts yard, where the dogs caught it, No
one else being at home, Mrs. Bennett ran
| out with an axe and knocked it in the
head, and had venison for supper"
/ A BRooKLINE (Mass) man says he has
| invented a system of telegraphing any
distance without the aid of wires, the
only instrument necessary costing but
thirty cents, but as he can get no patent
on it he refuses to disclose the process,
as it would be of no benefit to him, and
would only turn out of employment thou
sands of telegraph operators now getting
good wages. Considerate Rrookline