Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-09-05
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insane over the novel sensation of being
out of debt.
A LAFAYETTE Qnd.) boy who attempt
eel to amputate cats tail now does his
seeing with one eve.
OWING to feud at ball in Louisiana
recently, the party was fewed by the loss
OF four of its number
SOME of the farmers near Fergus Falls,
Minnesota, use shepherd dogs to care for
their cattle, and build no fences.
IT HAS been twice judicially decided
that railroad passenger need not give up
his ticket until furnished seat.
A KALAMAZOO, Mich, colt found a vest
hanging on fence and chewed itup along
with $40 in greenbacks in the pocket.
A KENTUCKY engineer got to jawing
with woman, neglected the boiler, and
there was an explosion which killed three
men.
MRS MARY SAPP, who was imprisoned
in jacksonville, Fla, for having double
the number of husbands allowed by law,
broke Jail last week and escaped.
In the San Francisco city prison, re-
Gently, cherry-root pipe was discovered
IN one OF the cells, in the stem of which
were concealed four fine steel saws.
A MAN near Dubuque harvested fifty
acres of wheat alone, alternately cutting,
binding, and shocking. He cut, bound,
and shocked five acres in one day.
Two YOUNG Americans have gained no.
toriety by velocipede feat in France.
They made a journey of 272 miles in
three days, resting single day half way.
Evn-MINDED persons steal the dippers
from the Louisville public fountains, and
bad boys plug up the spouts with clay,
while half the women crowd their letters
into fire-alarm boxes.
The indignant st. Louis female who
publicly horsewhipped the man who in
suited her, and discovered that she had
by mistake cowhided another man, has
been acquitted.
The highest peak of the Cordilleras, in
Peru, was honored on the 4th of July by
the hosting Of the United States flag by
party of Americans. This is the
highest point ever decorated by our flag.
THE Nevada Cinnamon working among
the mines never labor after four o'clock in
the afternoon, having firm belief that at
that hour the angels leave earth for
heaven.
THE Toledo Blade is reioiced to read of
two men being hanged who did not attri-
butte their downfall to whisky, and who
did not believethey were going right to the
better world.
A BEETLE took refuge in a church
organ at Florence, Mass, few SUNDAYS
ago, stopping the music, and necessitating
the taking of the instrument to pieces be-
fore the mangled remains of the bug were
discovered.
AN indianapolis woman advertises as
follows: "Wanted-The people to know
that left my husband, Henry H. Todd,
one year ago, because | ascertained that
he was part negro, and had deceived me.
Sarah Jane Todd
AN undertaken not thousand miles
from Concord, N. H., having got fash
lonable hearse, asks people in a unique
advertisement to patronize him if they
wish to get their moneys a0oath.
A PARDON was found more effectual in
curing young man who was dying of
consumption in an Illinois jail than
twenty dozen of cod liver oil. In twenty
four hours his lungs were as sound as if
there had never been anything the matter.
THERE is no telling what the coming
woman will do. But one of the women
of Keokuk, Iowa. wishing to aid in the
erection OF church, but having no funds,
worked four days on the editice putting
on laths. That is striking instance of
manual labor piety.
A CIGAR wrapper must burn to ashes as
completely and rapidly as the filing,
otherwise it cuts off access of air to the
latter, which then chars without burning
quickly enough, and a bad flavor is pro-
duced in smoking.
Turn TTos, Do,oao 90
publishing the course of study at the State
University, put "Comic Lectures" in the
first term of the Sophomore year, where
the Professor had written "Conic Sec
TONS"
To cover pictures, maps, ETC., with
beautiful and protecting coat, soak gutta
percha in ether until it swells up, and
then apply it rapidly with fine brush;
dirt settled upon the coat can be washed
OFT with rag or sponge moistened in
water.
A YOUNG lady of Bennington of a prac-
ticul turn ofmind, was invited by an Adj
vent eXhorter to get her white robe ready,
and prepare to ascend. II can't" she
replied; 'father and mother are going
up, and somebody must stay to see to the
cattle.''
DISTRICT Judge Maury of Texas who
issued warrant for the arrest of the Su-
preme Court of the State for contempt,
and was himself arrested and taken before
that Court, has been admitted to bail, the
Supreme Court Judges having quarreled
about the question of jurisdiction.
EYES like diamonds; hair like a vexed
mass of golden feathers faultless form :;
hand which no man can look upon with
out an intense desire to kiss it-are por-
tons of the description Of a young lady
who is Captain of a schooner that trades
with Houston, Texas.
THE Windhana County Transcript an
nOunces that the Connecticut General As
sembly, at its recent session, very wisely,
and after much deliberation, passed an
act allowing anybody and everybody to
catch fish in East Hampton Pond through
the ice each month IN the gear!
THE wild dogs in the woods near
Jamaica, l.. l., continue to give a good
deal of trouble. Almost nightly they
commit depredatfOns upon the pigs and
poultry of the farmers, and travel through
the woods, especially at night, is danger
Gus.
THREE children named Page, lately
inmates of the poor-house at st. Joseph,
Missouri, and from whence they were
adopted by charitable citizens, have inner
tied an estate worth $50, 1000 from an uncle
who died short time since at Indian
apolis.
A MAN in Cleveland, the other dav. un-
dertook to seize letter carriers horse bv
virtue of chattel-mortgage; but was
frightened away by the threats of the CON-
bined force as to what would be his Dor
ton if he interfered with Uncle Sans