Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-04-25
CURRENT ITEMS.

HAVE pIdCcu O,UUU SALMON tl1dcklIdWJ tIOuG
in Lake Mendoza, at cost of $54.
A BAND of music was one of the attrac-
tions at an opening" held by fashlona-
BILE milliner in New York recently.
A NEW HAMPSHIRE lady of advanced
years (she stands at ninety-six III the
shade), recently had the whooplng-cough.
A CLERGYMAN at Paris, KY, stopped his
PRAYER to lead an unruly man out by the
ear, and went on, GAS | was saying, y,
Lord"
A WEST VIRGINIA pensioner received
check duly signed, but with the amount
left blank The honest soldier returned it
for correction.
PEORIA has ghost which seems to be
of a practical turn of mind 1t was last
seen to silently steal away with a scuttle
of coal and two sticks Of cord wood.
THE City Marshal Of Westfeld, La, hav-
ing no place to confine his prisoners, hand
cuffs them to hitching-posts over night,
providing each with an umbrella if it
rains.
MANY of the Western Union operators
are practicing on the English Or cOntinen-
tai telegraphic alphabet, which it is pro
posed eventually to substitute for the
Morse alphabet, now in use
THE newly arrived Italians do not take
kindly to hard labor. Five of them drowned
themselves recently in New York, rather
than to work for the gas companies in
place of the men who struck.
IT is stated that one Of the common
sailors on the Atlantic was a woman about
% years old, who lost her life trying to
save lives. Her sex was not known till
she was being prepared for burial
A POLICE JUDGE in Cincinnati fined a
professional street beggar $25, and gave
the public bit Of valuable information in
passing sentence, to the effect that such
characters can always pay their fines.
IT seems to be authenticated that
woman in Benton County, Ind, is the
mother Of four daughters, all alive and
well, and all born at the same time. The
little quartet of sisters attracts a vast
amount Of attention.
THE pastor of a church in Newark,
n j., refused to proceed with the services
at a funeral until the Odd Fellows regalia
was removed from the coffin. The lodges,
feeling insulted, took away the regalia
and retired from the church.
THE Southern papers keep banging
away at the planters, who don't raise corn
quotes the exclamation of an old negro:
'"Fore God, I haint seen cOrn-cOb since
de war"
THE pocketbook of Nelson Curtis, a
Well-knOwn builder of Boston, was stolen
recently from pile of lumber, where he
had momentarily laid it while examining
some papers. 1t contained $4,000 in bank
bills and $4,000 in notes of hand.
A NEW YORK farmer, on his way to q
new farm in Gibbon County, Neb., stopped
to view Omaha. He found what proved
Of greatest interest land principaD in Ca
NADIA Bill's game of three cards. He lost
$780, and accepted 5000 in return to
leave town and not prosecute.
A BUFFALO girl, pretty and eighteen,
has sold over five hundred seWingma-
chimes in the last two years. She travels
with a horse and wagon, smiling when
she leaves a machine and shedding tears
if anybody afterwards refuses to keep it.
That does the business.
PARIS, KY, the county seat of old BOur-
bon, and the place where the best whisky
in the world is made, has so many total
abstinence people that it is proposed to
prohibit the sale of liquor within its limits
This is not the only case where the
prophet has lacked reward in his own
country.
THE practice of shying spitballs at each
others heads is not dignified proceeding
for Legislators at best, but in the New
Jersey Legislature it has come to be such
Il crying evil that member from Mercer
has been obliged to speak on the subject,
and secure the passage of a motion prOhib-
iting it.
The owner of "haunted" house in
Atlanta, Ga, offers it rent free to any ten
ant three months. He says he can't keep
any one in it over five days, and that Gre
quently," when occupants have paid the
rent month in advance, they have given
up the house after two days occupancy,
and forfeited their money.
Two good little boys of Mckenzie,
Tenn, found broken rail on the Nash
Vile & Northwestern Road, and instead
of posting themselves at convenient
distance to watch the fun when the train
came along, ran off to the station to notify
the keeper. The Superintendent pre-
scented them with permanent passes and
$40 apiece.
IT is generally believed now by meteor
ologists says the New York Times, that
we are to have cycle Of very hot sum
mers. An eminent sanitarian in the
Health Department, DR.. Stephen Smith,
has already issued report suggesting
measures during the coming summer
which shall prevent the fatal effects of the
expected heat.
THE Nashua Qowa) Post trots out two
champion yOzes Of heavy weight cattle.
They are owned by Frank Hollenbeck of
Chickasaw County. One pair weighs 4,220
pounds, and looks like a yoke Of ele-
plants; the other pair weighs 3, $50 pounds
These mammoth oxen are from the John
Lewis stock farm in Richland township,
Chickasaw County.
THE clans of New England have stood
without a rival. But New England must
look to her laurels in the clam field. The
Portland (Oregon) BulEet{n says that CLAIMS
weighing from one pound to one and one
half pounds each have been found in Pu-
get Sound and it is claimed that they are
superior to any CLANS found on the Allan
tic coast. This thing should be looked
into.
PROF. AGAsslz has been lecturing on
eggs, and he asserts that "all living beings,
whatever their diversity of form, have
grown up from eggs which are at first all
precisely similar DeviatiOns take place
little understood that eventually change
IneSe beings INTO widely dl1erlng AMI
mails" This explains where everything
comes from except eggs.
THE Lafayette Qnd) Journal says:
There is black and tan dog attached to
one of the saloons in this city which has
become a confirmed drunkard In the
absence of water the animal contracted the
habit of drinking out of the pans placed
under faucets to catch the waste beer, until
1t can now swill down pint at time
Ihe brute has frnnnnnftu hnnn 90 d,r1nlr