Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-09-19
CURRENT ITEMS.

will exchange one of his newly arrived
twin boys for girl.
MR. TURNER of Manchester, Tenn,
celebrated the wedding of his daughter
by thrashing his wife.
A WHOEVER in Manistee, Mich, who
has forty-eight children living, has just
married his fourth wife. t.1- 81 lA
A WOMAN named Berks exhibited a pat
ent churn of her own manufacture at
Kansas fair and secured premium.
The biggest Grumbler" in Montana
has struck quartz that nets 5000 per ton,
and he growls because it don't go $3.50
A NAVARRO co. youth severely horse
whipped his unindulgent father He
wanted to see "who bossed that ranch.''
CLAY similar to that used in Germany
in the manufacture of so-called meer-
schaum pipes has been discovered at Mid
dletown, Pa. .r-~.-.
MONTGOMERY Co., Kan, raises stalks of
cotton two feet three inches long, three
fOurths of an inch in diameter, with bolls
on eachsj Joint. "a "a F@r -r78E
The projected tunnel under the Detroit
river has been abandoned in consequence
of information derived from the small ex-
perimental tunnel. Wtt
AN Omaha woman committed suicide
the other day because her husband remon-
strated in profane terms when he found
dead horsefy in wheat-cake
A DETROIT lady died Of hydrophobia,
and the dog that bit her still lives, in
health and spirits, wagging mournful
reproach at her vivid imagination.
CHARLESTON, s. G. claims to be one Of
the healthiest cities on the continent, bas-
ing its assertion upon the fact that only
fifteen deaths occurred there in one week
recently.
In Rich Valley, Dakota VIM. Strath
ern owns "a sfourlegged chicken in
gOOdehealth. The extra legs are more Or
namental than useful-do not seem to be
of any service. III, ...8a sa
WE shall hereafter know what pug
nose is worth, Mrs Kitty Lake, of Phia-
delphia, having fallen and broken her
nose and sued the city for $4,000 worth
of satisfaction.
The people of California have theory
that the real pearl oyster is to be found in
their waters, and are determined, if posi-
bic, to add pearl fishing to the number of
their industries.
Miss JENNIE BURNHAM, who was
drowned recently in Grand Bay, N. H.,
had been preceded to watery grave in
the same waters by an uncle, grandfather,
and great grandfather.
PEORIA has very human dogs or the
newspapers aresnot to be believed. One
has died of delirium tremens, two of small
pox, one Of cerebro-spinaletc. and one
has committed suicide.
AsJEALoUs Saratoga woman recently
prevented her husbands attendance at
ball by carrying away every article of
clothing he owned, and hiding them in
barn three miles away.
EATING an Indian turnip two wears
ago has produced moustache and side
whiskers on a three yeaf-old boy in Salem,
Ind. The youths of the town are now
living on little else than these vegetables
A sANGUINE Virginian is writing
pamphlet to prove that the Dismal Swamp
is capable of being reclaimed by drain
age, and he predicts that it will at some
future day be the richest district in the
South.
A GREEN. BAY man called young lady
his precious darling little honey. dew Of
blooming rosebud and then stood
breach-ofpromise suit before he would
marry her.
THE State Geologist of Texas has had
reported to him the discovery, near the first
station from DEVILS River, of a cave, the
Interior of which contains very remarka-
bic painting and sculpture, apparently of
Aztec origin.
A GEORGIA bride.is described in one of
the local papers as Cooking a very lily
Graded in the golden glimmer of some
evening lake-a foam-feck, snowy, vet
sun-tiushed, browning the ripplings of
some soft southern sea-
COTrpT II Of Wocb o1orI~c bo1
disagreed about young lady, undertook
to carve one another to pieces with army
sabars. Those implements not being of
very deadly character, nothing to COM
pare with manure forks, they did not
severely hurt each other. 40 4-a~
THERE is no justification for suicide;
but we are prepared, on short notice, to
shed tears for the man or woman who can
find it in his or her heart to censure Mr..
Wade, of Huston, for shuffling off, when
it is knownthat ofshis fifty children, the
yellow fever left to Mr.. W. but forty-one.
A MAN in Fayette County, Pa, while
gathering blackberries, heard a rattle
snakes peculiar note of warning, and
looked around on all sides before discov-
ering that he was standing with both feet
on the reptile, but so close to its head that
it could not bite him He changed posi-
tion'immediately, but killed the snake.
A SAN FRANCISCO mil.iner has invented
a hat which will probably sell well in
cases where blushing is not so spontane-
Gus as it might be, or used te be. When
the wearer bows or lowers her head alb
ruptly, a tiny pair of steel clamps COM
press the arteries on each side of the
temples, sending the blood at once to the
cheeks.
A COUPLE of nice young ladies in
boards and finger-nails. The one with
the finger nails came out ahead, lacerat-
ing her antagonist numerically. The
affair wound up in police-court, where
they were both fined. The local paper
which describes the affair mercifully
withhOlds the ladies' names for the reason
that they are both engaged.
ANOTHER attempts to be made to set
tie the peninsula of Lower California.
Mr. W. G. Sohotield, relative of General
Schofield, is ins charge of the enterprise
He has contracted for the planting of one
hundred acres of hops and thirty acres of
tobacco, with which to test the soil about
Las Vallicitos, and, if successful, the ex-
pertinent will be extended next year over
large scope of country Mr. Schofield
asserts that the peninsula is rich in gold
and silver
EVE love to commend successful indus
try in young people, especially when they
are faithful to- their poor old parents
There is girl in Oakland, Cal, who, by
patient industry, a quick eye and nim-
Die hand, has not only supported her aged
mother, but accumulated nica Iiftla