Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-07
CURRENT ITEMS.
MAN respires, aspires and expires.

FLAT acknowledging on your DacK.
No CHAIN is stronger than its weakest
link.
THE office of State Printer has been
abolished in Kentucky.
THE Danbury Neaos says the great need
of the times is cOpper-toed pants.
In what case is it absolutely impossible
to be slow and sure? In the case of a
watch.
IT takes two boys to go to school now
a-days. One to study and the other to
carry the books.
POCKET pincers for young men to feel
of their moustaches with, are new and
valuable invention.
A CLUB has been formed in Baltimore
for the qualification and preservation of
the moral man."
IT is kindly said Of Rochester corpse
that, although married man, he was not
addicted to profanity.
A DANBURY man wears a ten cent sill
yer piece on his shirt bosom, and calls it
a dime and pin, which it certainly is.
OLD LADY, see you recover umbrel
las" Shopman-'-Yes, nm, lots of 'em.
day."
A SHIP Captain, in the China trade,
reports that on his last outward passage
he saw serpents fifty feet in length dis
porting themselves about his vessel.
PEOPLE in Texas are talking about q
grand celebration, when they expect a
railroad train, made up in New York, to
go through to their State without break
in the connection. I .
The C01asregGt50nal5st states that a pop
ular Boston pastor, on recent Sabbath,
wound up prayer as follows: "And
give grace, we beseech Thee, to the dea-
cons, that they may be able to set god
ly example to us common people,"
A PENsIvE man, with basket full of
new hats, was passing the Wooster
House, Friday, when quarter of ton
of beautiful snow slid from the roof into
his basket. Not being a profane man, his
suffering was intenso.-DGn6urq Neaos.
CHASING mule-eared rabbits is favor
tie sport of the Stockdale neighborhood
in Washington County, Texas. The
mule-ear and the genuine grey hound
make q beautiful race on the prairies
Both ladies and gentlemen, join in the
sport.
THE Jacksonville Journal tells of
young man in that city taking the beef
steak that was given him at breakfast,
the other morning, and having his boots
half soled with it. He now declares that
the old things will wear better than ever.
In a San Francisco court. the other
day, little dialogue ran thus: Counsel
to Witness-"YOu say you were at his
house every night?" eyes, sir" "Were
you his partner?" "No, sir" "Any rel
alive of his?" emo" '"What were you
doing at his house every night?" 81 was
sparkling his wife's sister,"
THE Italians who have been of late
pouring into New York make excellent
navvies. They have developed unexpect-
ed energy in the labor of cleaning the
streets of that city; an importation of
them has been carried to Virginia, where
they have done well, and the contractors
having charge of a large force Of them
have applied to the Superintendent of
the Underground Railway in New York
for work.
A CALIFORNIAN claims that the people
of his State are better looking than those
from other parts of the Union. Hear him:
young people who have been born here.
Their ruddy cheeks are not scorched and
blistered by the ferOciOus August suns of
the Mississippi Valley; their full round
limbs are not shriveled and shrunken by
the savage frosts Of the northwestern
winters, and they grow up in all the
strength and symmetry of nature I'M
abridged. There is probably no place on
this continent where the proportion of
pretty children is as large as in CalifOr-
nia."
IN France the roasting of coffee is quite
science, the rooster being required to
study the properties Of the different kinds
of berry, since each sort must be roasted
for certain period of time. The opera
ton is conducted in hollow iron sphere,
by the rotation of which all the berries
are equally exposed to the heat. During
the roasting the ball is closed and the
gases confined, but at the close of the
operation the valve is opened and the
gases allowed to escape The roasted
berries are then quickly transferred to
carefully closed vessels.
A POOR seamstress was arrested the
other day in Brooklyn, N. Y, on charge
of stealing garments which she had taken
home to sew. Upon her examination, it
appeared that she was employed by GER
tain Miss Plllsbury, of New York City,
who paid her seventeen cents for making
four pairs of pantaloons, fifty cents for
making twelve pairs of drawers, and
twenty-five cents for making six shirts.
She did not finish the pants as soon as
she agreed to, and the gentle Pillsbury
refused to pay her; whereupon she pawn
ed the articles to keep her family from
starving.
IT is we'll known that from time to time
various cases of poisoning from the use
of vanilla ice have been noticed and pub
lished in Paris, Munich, Vienna, and
other places. The most careful investi-
cations, however, have failed to discover
the cause. In a few cases traces of lead,
iron and tin, from the vessels used, have
been found in the ice, but as no poisoning
has ever resulted from fruit ices prepared
in the same vessels, it cannot be due to
that. The learned M. Schroff is of the
opinion that vanilla beans are poisoned
by the natives of South America and
Mexico, who rub them with acaiou oil to
make them smooth and soft. This oil is
not seldom contaminated with a sharp
substance which acts like cantharides.
He thinks it less probable that the injuri-
Gus effects are due to small crystals found
in the outer skin of the vanilla beans
benzoic acid.
A FAMILY in Sullivan, Me-. consisting
of father, mother and four children,
have suddenly gone crazy. They were
steady, Industrious people until short
time ago, when they suddenly ceased to
work and declared their house haunted.
Numerous nocturnal visitors perambu-
lated about their house and threw some
soporific substance into the windows,