Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-01-24
CURRENT ITEMS.

Farmers Clubs in Kansas.
A sHoE-DEALER in Broadway adver-
tlses "Woman's Rights-and Leftsl"
SINGLE sleighs rented as high as $75 in
New York New Years Day.
A DIRECTORY of resident Americans in
Europe is about to be published.
Two OF the pension agencies of this
country are managed by women.
WHY is an old coat like an iron kettle?
Because it represents hard ware.
az SEE through it," as the washerwo-
man said when the bottom of the tub fell
out.
A HANGING garden of sponge is one of
the latest novelties in window gardening.
THE Metropolitan Railroad, at Boston,
carried over seventeen million passengers
last year.
A WRITER in Appleton's journal COM
plains that the American nation has no
name.
THE locks at the Willamette Falls, Or
egon, have been completed, and steamers
now pass through them.
BASE BALL is of much greater ANTIQUITY
than is supposed. It was played in the
ark when the dove was "put out on fly"
A FALL RIVER, Mass, clergyman who
had said that he wanted lead pencil
received one thirty inches long for New
Years present.
HE proprietor of the barn which was
set on fire in capturing John Wilkes
Booth has petitioned Congress to pay
him the value of the destroyed property.
A PAPER, alluding to the Statue of
Shakespeare in the Central Park. New
York, says: "That's right; such talent as
Williams ought to be encouraged"
A WOMAN at Macon, Georgia, dared
her husband to commit suicide, and he
had her arrested and placed in jail for
six months, the judge holding that her
action was grave offense.
IT is notable fact that more spinning
wheels are sold in Boston at the present
time than in the days when they were in
dispensable adiuncts to every New Eng
land household. They are mostly ex-
ported to Nova Scotia and the other
British provinces.
BARNUMvILLE, Vt, reioices in new
hall over its depot; and the young men of
the town have passed law that no to-
bacco shall ever be used in this hall, and
that any one violating the rule shall be
thrown head-foremost out of the hall
window.
A WIDOW in Rochester, Mass, has
been three times married. Her first hus-
band was Robb, the second Robbins,
and the third Robinson. The same
door-plate has served for the whole three,
and the question now is, what extended
name can be procured to fill out the re-
naming space on it.
The Danbury Nea0s says that rural
gentleman standing over register in one
of our stores attracted general attention
to himself by observing to his wife,
Marian, guess I'm going to have
fever, feel such hot streaks runnin' I'D
my legs"
"HUMBUG" is corruption of the Irish
words Uaa1e bog, pronounced Oombug, sig
n1fying soft copper, or pewter, or brass,
or worthless money, such as was made by
James Ii. at the Dublin mint-twenty
shllllngs of which was worth only two
pence sterling. AT first applied to worth
less coin, the words became the general
title of anything false or counterfeit.
A CELEBRATED singer, Madame LIE
Rochois, was giving to younger com
panlon in art some instructions in the
tragic character of Medea, which she was
ABOUT to sustain. "Inspire yourself with
the situation" said she; fancy yourself
IL 'ho PoOA "OuIan pace. IL you were
deserted by lover whom you adOred,
what would you do?" The reply was as
unexpected as it was ingenious 81
should look out for another"
A RECENT work on coffee gives a SIM
pie test which housekeepers might apply
with advantage: ga spoonful of pure
coffee, placed gently on the surface of a
glass OF cold water, will float for some
time, and scarcely cover the liquid if it
contains chiccory it will rapidly absorb
the water, and, sinking to the bottom of
the glass, communicate deep reddish
brown tint as it falls" Numerous sub
stances besides chiccory are used to adul-
terate coffee. A test for all of them
would be useful.
''MAN wants but little here below, nor
wants that little long" is a libel Josh
Billings asserts. s'Man wants every
thing he can see or hear ov, and never is
willing to let go of hiz grab. Whenever
yu find man who is thoroughly salts
fled with what he haz got, you will find
either an idiot, or one VINO haz tried hard
to get some more and couldn't do it. The
older man grows the more wantful he
bekums; as hiz hold on life slackens, hiz
pinch on dollar grows grippy."
POUNDED alum is one of the simplest
modes of purifying water-a fact which
should be more generally known. A
tablespoonful of pulverized alum
sprinkled into hogshead of water (the
water stirred at the same time), will, after
few hours, by precipitating to the bot
tom the impure particles, so purify it that
1t will be found to possess nearly the
freshness and clearness of the finest
spring water. A pailful, containing four
gallons, may be purified by single tea
spoonful of alum.
THIS is Mark Twain's picture of Harris,
the Hawaiian Prime Minister: "Harris,
for instance. Harris is an Americana
long-legged, vain, lightweight village
lawyer from New Hampshire. If he had
brains in proportion to his legs, he would
make Solomon seem failure; if his mod
esty equaled his ignorance, he would
make violet seem stuck up; if his learn
ing eQualed his vanity, he would make
Won Humboldt seem as unlettered as the
backside of tombstone; if his stature
were proportional to his conscience, he
would be gem for IT, microscope; if his
ideas were as large as his words, it would
take man three months to walk around
one of them; if an audience were to con-
tract to listen as long as he would talk,
that audience would die of old age; and if
he were to talk until he said something,
he would still be on his hind legs when
the last trump sounded. And he would
have cheek enough to wait till the dis
turbance was over, and go on again"
HINTS For YOU'VE MoTHERs.-Th
three requisites for babies are plenty of
steep, plenty of food, plenty of flannel |
Inc saying that man is d bundle of habits |
Is as true OF babies as it is of grown |