Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-01-31
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dlo! WHICH, AS Is d CTcdm-OWDcT.
In the late great storm in Paris lady
was blown through plate-glass window.
THREE fourths of the writing paper
made in this country comes from Hol-
yoke, Mass.
GREEN ISLAND, N. Y, on the Hudson,
has lager beer saloon and coffin man
ufactory in the same room. ~ ~af
THE Mayor of a country town, conceiy-
ing that the word "clause" was in the
plural number, would often talk of
''claw" in an act of the Legislature.
IT is said that some of the proprietors
of the large New York Hotels are about
to dress all the servants. perters, etc., in
q regular uniform.
AN old lady of New Haven, who,
whenever she opens her mouth puts her
foot in it, says that now she is sure she's
got an EEL in her stomach.
THE Philadelphia Jews propose estab-
fishing Widowers' Fund Society, for
the purpose of rendering assistance to
widowers who, by the death of their
wives, are left with small children de
pendent on them. ...>A
= A DANBURY youth who could not sing
or play, wanting to serenade his girl,
whistled for half hour under her win
dow, the other evening, and when he got
over the fence he found about seventy
five dogs waiting to see what he wanted.
J. ONE of the most accomplished English
art writers of the day states that he has
found the American people much more
receptive of art ideas than those of En-
gland, and that he consequently has great
hope for the future of the fine arts in
America. au
WHEN a Kansas City girl, who was
clerk in candy store, learned that she
had fallen heir to $4,000 in England,
she refused to attend customers, and
perched herself on the counter and
chewed gum-drops the rest of the day.
A WORTHY old lady in an Eastern
town recently refused the gift of load of
wood from tree which had been struck
the "fuid" might remain in the wood,
and cause disaster to her kitchen stove
A GENTLEMAN at Lancaster, Pa, it is
said, has horse that takes his children to
school in the morning, returning home
driverless, and at night returns for them
in the same way, rubbing his nose against
the window-pane to indicate his presence.
THERE is a little railroad at Bayou
Sara, La, that runs to Woodville on
very inaccurate schedule. A stranger
came in the other day and inquired how
often the steam-Car made trips to the
country. The party Intercepted said I:
''Tri-weekly." "What do you mean by
tri-weekly ?" The answer was, cit goes
up one week and tries to come down the
next"
A BENNINGTON (Vt) lad, named Gage,
who is under articles of apprenticeship,
wanted to go to his home at Syracuse,
and got up a bogus telegram announcing
the death of his father This worked
the old gentleman happened to be well
unkindly published an obituary notice.
The boy has returned to his work, but he
won't send any more kilograms.
THE appeal tells of Memphis lady
who wrote to New York matrimonial
ferred the letter to a crusty old bachelor,
who, in replying to it, accidentally sub
stituted for his own photograph that of
a pet orangoutang The lady answered:
"There is certainly not much personal
beauty about you, but you appear to have
an honest, manly face. l accept"
A YOUNG lady living in this place who
went to Cleveland on the accommoda-
tion train a few days since was con-
siderably vexed because fruit-vender
coming through the cars came up to her
and, smiling blandly, said: "Sweet, have
any Oranges?" She told young man
with whom she was acquainted and who
was sitting near her, that she thought
that boy was rather familiar in calling
her pet names. She became less indignant
when the conductor explained that the
innocent fruit-seller merely exclaimed
"Sweet Havana oranges. "-PatnesoiUe
Telegraph.
THE belt of land around the globe, 500
miles north and 500 miles south of the
equator, abounds in trees producing the
gum of india rubber. They can be tap
ped, it is stated, for twenty successive
seasons without injury; and they stand
so close that one man can gather the sap
of eighty in day, each tree yielding, ON
an average, three tablespoonful a day.
Forty three thousand of these trees have
been counted in tract of country mile
long by eight wide. There are in Europe
and America more than $50 manufac-
tories of india rubber articles, employing
500 operatives each, and consuming more
than 10000, 600 pounds of gum year;
and the business is considered to be still
in its infancy.
WE have felt rather kindly toward
French roofs since Friday night. Two
cats got on Mr.. Welland's that evening.
They were cats that evidently never saw
a French roof before; but they were not
timid. They, without moments pause,
sounded the battle cry and went to work.
For two minutes there was great deal
of pulling around and bowling; but it
was French roof, it was new ground,
and, before they were fairly aware of it,
they were off the roof and going toward
out into the air for something to get hold
of. splitting and crying, and swearing and
beseeching and sobbing, with their hearts
full of agony and their mouths full of
fur, all the way down to the ground,
where they arrived in condition to af-
ford nourishment to Mr.. Welland's grape
vines.-DGn6,uy Neaos.
THE blunders of the English in regard
to American geography are notorious.
An antiquarian finds several curious illus
trations in Thackaray's "Virginians.
Thus the great novelist makes Madame
Esmond, of Castlewood, in "Westmore-
land County," a neighbor of Washington
at Mt. Vernon, on the Potomac, fifty
miles distant, and irregular attendant on
public worship at Williamsburg. halfway
between the York and James rivers, full
one hundred and twenty five miles from
Mt. Vernon; and so Immensely affected"
are the colored hearers of young
preacher at Williamsburg that "there was
such a negro chorus as might be heard
across the Potomac" the nearest bank of
which is fifty miles away. Thackeray
makes General Braddock ride out from
Williamsburg Che never was there in "his
own coach, ponderous, emblazoned
vehicle" with DR.. Franklin, "the little