Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-15
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VI uCWSpdpcIS Ou Duuudy.
AN agent of the fire-fend has notified
Cincinnati that it will be her turn next.
THIRTY-THREE persons were recently
taken i'll at Pittsburgh from eating smoked
whitefsh.
RED foxes are becoming a nuisance in
Kentucky. Pigs, poultry, and young
lambs suffer.
The richest man in Denver is Nexl-
can with an Indian wife, and she leads
the fashion.
A SNOW bank, four rods long, two rods
wide and three feet high, remained in
auckland, Mass, in the middle of July.
A CONNECTICUT paper speaks of the
reign of terror in that State because a man
has been arrested for stealing an UNI
brella.
ACLEyELAND youth had his hand taken
off in a planing-mill lately. He was to
have given it away in marriage next day,
anyhow 49,
IL Saratoga is the Bethesda of our
nation, it is probably on account of the
number OF pools gotten up there every
summer. .1s54E
DURING recent storm in North Caro-
lima every telegraph pole for mile on
one of the railroad lines was shattered by
lightning.
SERVANT girls in Montana get $50 gold
a month, with the use of piano and sew
ing-machine, besides three nights "off"
in the week
A DESTRUCTIVE freshet washed away
the corn patch of Wisconsin farmer and
laid bare an almost inexhaustible lead
mine. 7z
A MECHANIC in Portsmouth, N. H., has
not been able to do any work in eleven
years, on accountsof friend crushing his
hand while shaking it,. -
A CHILD was born in Worcester, Mass
the other day, whose mother is nineteen
years old, grandmother thirty-siX, and
great grandmother sixty.fve.
a MASSACHUSETTS woman went before
justice the other day and swore that a
neighbor woman had bewitched her into
having cramps and spasms.
ONE day lately Mrs DR.. Mary Walker
was arrested in Baltimore for wearing
pants. And the next day Baltimore had
her "confagration." Judgment.
A BLUE lizard, living on a rock of
precisely the same tint, has been found
upon the Island of Capri, and is cited as
another instance of natural selection.
THE Transcript, a Georgia paper, says
that it cant say as to the crops around
there, but Georgetown is the place to get
into fight if any one is aching for exer-
cise." .s-
TwENTY-EIeHT different kinds of "bit-
tiers" sold in Rhode Island for strictly
medicinal use" are undergoing analysis
by the State chemist from an excise point
of view.
A VIRGINIAN writes to a Richmond
paper that he is opposed to the election
of an unmarried man for Governor, and
that he would not vote for his own brother
were he a bachelor.
CAzENov1A, in Madison county, New
York, is haven for perspiring humanity
tits said thatquilts are used on the beds
all the year round Indian corn will not
mature, nor will peaches ripen.
The tarantula is malignant little
beast. One came all the way from Cuba
lately to bite Portland fruit dealer He
made the voyage in bunch of bananas
and took the first opportunity to carry out
his fell design.
The young person who blows out the
gas, shuts the window and retires to his
peaceful couch, has turned up again, this
time at Dubuque, where there were two
of them, man and wife, and both had a
narrow escape.
THE Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
have open top cars attached to each one
OF their passenger trains, for the purpose
OF allowing the passengers to view the
country and beautiful mountain scenery
as they pass along.
The way types can be eccentric is
shown by an Iowa special as it appeared
IN Chicago paper, about the arrest of a
mail robber, upon whose person was
found rif1ed letters and two mail keqs p
Mail keys of course.
A vERAcIoUs. New Hampshire agri-
culturist solemnly asseverates that after
the grasshOppers had eaten up all his
hop-vines he saw them with his own eyes
making united efforts to pull the poles
out of the ground.
Coy. -WooDsoN, of Missouri, and Gen.
Jas. Craig, and several other gentlemen of
st. Joseph, Mo, went across the line into
Kansas, recently, to shoot prairie chick
ems, and were arrested and fined for vio-
latlon OF the Kansas game law.
SPIDERS weighing three or four
pounds" are among the natural attrac-
tIons OF Florida, If travellers tales may be
believed, though there is suspicion that
arachnide and arrack-punch somehow
got mixedsin the heads of the observers
THE students editors of a small Western
college paper having printed some re-
marks in ridicule of woman lecturer.
have been sued by her for $4,000, which
sum, remarks the Detroit Tribune, "is an
easy thing to get out of almost any college
paper"
The gallant editor of a Southern journal
is in bad frame of mind because a ladv.
who exhibited canned fruit'at an aoricul.
tural fair, was only awarded blue rib
bon, while young man who, on the same
occasion, excelled in shooting at mark.
got $3.50.
THINK of the noble red man running a
sawmill But this is what some of the
klamath Indians in Oregon are doing.
and the mill turned out 100000 feet. last
year. But it is shameful to bring these
sons of the forest down from hair to mill
logs.
ONE of the austere professors of Yale
came rushing out to find the man who
had dared to pull the college bell. He
was told that Yale had won every one Of
the boat races, and saying. {" Go ahead,
boys" he returned to his home, Modified
and beaming.
In the digging off well at Newark, N.
j., the other day, the workmen struck
lie" About two barrels of good oil
were pumped the first day. The owner
proposes to bore deeper with proper appa-
ratus, in the hope of finding more album
dant supply of the valuable liquid.
A GENTLEMAN who has tried. it saws the