Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-12-19
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oranges.
HENDERSON, N. c., has had a snoy
storm.
APPREHENsIoNs of return of the epi
zootic are felt.
tional Convention.
MINNEAPOLIS has street vender of pan
cakes. So has st. Louis.
PoTAToEs in Minnesota are quoted
higher per bushel than wheat.
VERY good kid gloves can be bought il
New York for so cents pair.
PETERSBURG, Ind, has woman 81,
feet high, with an upward tendency.
FUR will be as generally and profusel,
used for trimming this winter as last
There is no opening for measles il
Dyersburg, Tenn. They've all had it.
RozENzw1G wept upon his being re
leased. So did a good many other folks
AT East st. Louis, the last pile of tn,
Mississippi bridge approach has beer
driven.
BROOKLYN is said to have more breach
of-promise suits than all other cities pu
together.
SHREVEPORT is rapidly recovering from
the depression consequent upon its recent
calamity.
Four HUNDRED birds sing over the
tables of dining-saloon in Charleston,
South Carolina.
AT the Mississippi State Fair drawing
the Vicksburg Herald drew the first prize
-$400 in gold.
A CHINAMAN took the first premium on
butter at the recent fair at Seattle, Wash
ington Territory.
A FARMER at Augusta, Georgia, lately
discovered that his dog was in the habit
of milking fine cow.
In New England premature skating has
already led to the quenching of several
vital sparks in ice-water.
A MICHIGAN man proposes beneficent
plan to prevent dogs from killing sheep.
1t is by extracting their front teeth.
A PEACH TREE in Missouri on being
have taken to producing white plums.
AN Albany lady swallowed a mouse
recently, and dismissed the family doctor
for recommending cat as an an tidote.
A GENTLEMAN lately refused to cele-
brate his silver wedding on the ground
that he was mot yet reduced to beggary."
SMOKING on an empty stomach was
what killed Robert Wright, in London,
recently. Never carry an empty stomach.
Nor less than twenty-five tons of solid
mineral matter is daily dealt out to the
customers of the New York Croton water
works.
"I HATE to die-I wanted to wear my
blue redingote to Mrs. Georges party"
were the dying words of the belle of Kan
sas City.
A PIN swallowed year ago by young
lady in Franklin, Kan, lately came out
through her left eye, entirely destroying
the sight.
A TRAIN boy running on the st. Louis,
Kansas City and Northern railway has a
bank account of $4,000, and he feels
proud of it.
OF man who married his fifth wife,
the Boston IT0UelJer says: mo one can
say that he is not laying up his treasures
in heaven"
AN Iowa widow wouldn't sell 2,300
wanted 30 per pound, and she has it in
the barn yet
MUsCAT1NE, Iowa, has the boss potato ;
it is 81 inches long, 13 in circumference,
about A pounds in weight, and has more
eyes than Argus.
A PHILADELPHIA bookkeeper added the
year 1879 to his column of figures, and as
he couldn't account for the deficiency in
receipts he was arrested.
A YOUNG man in Missouri shot him
self the other day while going to church
on horseback. The first instance of the
kind, perhaps, on record.
ONE thousand two hundred of the teach
ers in the New York public schools have
petitioned the board of education to re-
store corporal punishment.
MISS GODFREY, of Bennington, Vt, is
under arrest for dragging her father down
stairs feet foremost, because he opposed
her dancing round dances.
In the coal mining regions of Illinois
they cure whooping cough by taking the
patients down the shaft. The subterra-
mean air is said to be a curative.
A YOUNG man in Scranton, Pa, has
four breach of promise suits on hand.
His anxiety ITO be an angel" is described
as enough to wiring the stoutest heart.
A QUERULoUs Bostonian objects to pay
ing the gas company's bill of $1S for the
frivolous reason that there were no burn
ers in his house during the time charged
for.
A PENNSYLVANIA auctiOneer sold q
muff worth about $40 for $22, and drop
ped dead while taking the money. The
doctors try to make out that he had heart
disease.
THERE is graveyard near Shelbyville,
KY, on which potatoes are raised every
year. The tombstones are taken up in the
spring and replaced after the crop has
been dug up.
A YOUNG girl in Troy who became exas-
perated with her family, took her revenge
by stealing shawl, that she might bring
them into disgrace. She was sent to Jail
for ten days.
A LARGE number of ladies in Spring
field, Mass. have been poisoned while
gathering forest leaves this fall: One
physician has twenty cases of poisoning
by alder leaves.
JOHN CARPENTER, of Jersey City, said
that his daughter shouldn't go to a party,
and she got up and informed him that she
had been married for eighteen months and
was her own boss.
A REPORTER of the New York World
has discovered restaurant where dinner
can be had for five cents, and now the
staff of that paper breathe easier, and hope
TO winter it through.
THE citizens of Waterford, N. Y, were
recently alarmed and indignant at the
fact that boat containing fifteen and
half tons of nitro-glycerine was lying in
the canal at that place.
MYRA GURNEY, of South Abingdon,
Mass, has put, in six months time, over
400 000 cfi4oboc and no ono knows how