Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-03-21
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CHINESE servants don't like Philadel-
phia, as they are not allowed to pound on
tin boilers Sunday.
ANY man who buys town lot in Gree
lev, Colorado Territory, must sign the
temperance pledge when he receives the
deed.
A BOY eight years old, at Lowell, Mass.
spelled seven thousand words without a
miss, and he put one hundred to the com.
mittee and they missed fifteen.
THE Council Bluffs N0npareI calls at.
tention to the disregard of the law against
wanton slaughter of buffaloes on the plains
and says that upward Of 100, 900 buffalo
hides have been shipped from that city
alone the past winter.
THE people of Concord, N. H, give
an annual concert and levee for the benefit
of Lewis F. Miller, a little crippled news
boy, who is trying to work his way
through Dartmouth College, and is now
in his Sophomore year.
A CoNvALEsCENT smallpox patient in
England has been sentenced to ego fine OF
months Imprisonment for escaping
from the hospital and making a circuit OF
the tap-rooms of the town in an eight.
hour GENDER"
A SMALLPOX patient got into the jail
at Jackson, Tenn, the other day, and the
jailer "lit out" so quickly that he forgot
to lock up his bastile. When he came back
the smallpox man was gone. So were
the prisoners.
A HEN has unfortunately been killed in
Boston, which might in time have attain
ed the power of laying golden eggs. A
solid nugget of the precious metal was
found in her insides, weighing four pen
nyweights, and in shape very like an egg.
County, Mass, lately refused the gift of
a load of wood from a tree struck by
lightning, through fear that some of the
fluid might remain IN the wood and
cause disaster to her kitchen stOvei
IAIPoRTATIoNs of tobacco from China
is the latest novelty in English trade. It
is used in some measure as a substitute
for Turkey, which it resembles in appear
leafSSfqditet yellow, and is almost void Of
flavor.
A HEART, not Gin the right place." was
found belonging to man who recently
died IN the hospital at Cincinnati It had
been beating away for years, comfortably
enough on the right side, when
by all rights it should have been on the
left; but from the slight arrangement, it
suffered little if any arrangement.
DIR. CHARLES PUTNAM, of Boston, dis
cOuragGs the popular delusion that the
children, of the poor are the hardest and
most ffkely to attain to maturity. He
says: "Twenty-eight per cent. of the
children born in Boston die during their
first year, and among the poorer classes
the percentage is over fifty"
THE new United States Hotel at Sara
toga Springs is going to be "bigger than
all outdoors" The principal part will be
800 feet long by so feet deep, with wing
IS feet in length. The kitchen will be
1875 feet long, and the dining-room twice
that length. The piazzas of the wing and
front will be over half mile in extent.
THE maddest woman in the United
States of America is one who lives at
Jackson, Me. She recently lent her fifty
dollar muff to female acquaintance,
who spOrted it at a smallpox funeral, and
sent it home with neat little note, stat
ing this fact, and that as she chad
sprlnkled it with benzine, the owner need
not fear catching the disease"
A Troy IN. W dentist, while plying
his avocation around the mouth of lady
Va
tional insanity, and kissed her. She was
not so far under the influence of ether but
that the shock revived her, and the tooth
carpenter loaned her husband fifty dol
lars on long time the next day, beside
making no charge for his two and half
hours work.
A CINCINNATI man who suspected his
servant girl of using kerosene oil to kin
die the fire with, thought he would try
her one night, so he poured the oil out
and filled the can with water. When he
landed in the dining-room next morning
there was no breakfast, and no fire to
cook it withholding but stove full of
soaked wood and the foolishest looking
girl he ever saw.
CHARLIE REDFIELD, treasurer of Nc
Vicker's theatre, has curiosity. 1t is
bank note on the First National Bank of
Goshen, Ind, of the denomination of $40
on the face and $50 on the back It is
undoubtedly genuine bill. The mistake
must have occurred in printing, and there
are probably number of others printed
in the same sheet, that are floating around
the country. The question is: What's
it's value-$10 or $20.-ChacagO Times.
THE San Francisco C0na7qerci0I Bulletin
reports the following as the largest single
bona tide transaction in grain ever make
in California, if not in the United States:
The wheat was ali in the city warehouse,
was of uniform, good shipping quality,
and was the property of Scholle Brothers,
having been purchased by them in lots
during the fall at low prices. The sale
consisted of $4,000 tons, valued at $780,
900,
THE Willamette Farmer contains long
description of the dairy farm of Mr..
Henry Ankeny, near Salem, Oregon. The
farm contains 1000 acres, on which are
maintained 800 head of cattle, besides
swine. During the past season, the pro-
ducts of 300 COWS were made into cheese,
of which there are now on hand, ready
for market, some 26, 900 pounds. The i'm
provements upon the farm are described
at length, and with the land are stated to
be worth seventy thousand dollars.
THE magnitude of the Illinois railroad
system can be understood when il is con-
sidered that now only Se0er counties, Jas
per, Crawford, Calhoun, Hardin, Pope,
Massac and Franklin, out of the one hun
not touched by railroads. Even in the
seven counties mentioned, railroads are
already projected, so that it will be but
short time until every county in the State
will be reached by rail, aggregating a
total of between 1000 and 5000 miles of
road. .-.ss '..s. ........
"PUr barrel on your own back, you
brute!" shouted an old gentleman with
flowing white beard and cherry face, as
heartiess truckman> was lashing pair
of overworked horses that were stagger-
ing through the sloughs in William street.
Are you one of Bergh's spies?" was the
surly rejoinder. No, sir, but I'm
man I'll thrash you" The cartman took