Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-10-23
CURRENT ITEMS.

A BUSINESS note Paper mills are run
ming on reduced time and paper on eX-
tended time.
A PERSON in Hardwick, Mo, displayed
the following inscription on his fence:
" Nobuddy hitch no hosses to this fens."
A Missouri Judge has just decided
that woman is not an old maid until she
is thirty-five. The Judge has since be
come very popular.
EIGHT drunken men were thrown out
of Detroit hack, recently, all Of them
escaping uninjured. The driver, who
was sober, barely escaped with his life,
THE strongest man in Cincinnati is
doctor, who can hold man OF equal
weight with himself at arms length in
either hand He can also, with his
fingers, twist a ten-penny nail into
screw.
A COUNTRY school-leacher in Center
County, Pa, has taught three terms in
one place without receiving dollar of
pay, and now threatens to prosecute him
self for living without any visible means
of support"
A GEORGIA editor says that the Sunday
edition of his paper will carpet road
twenty-siX inches wide for fifty miles. A
great many lies would be trodden under
foot if his paper were devoted to such
purpose.-N011SSt0aon Herald.
If it be true-and the natural philoso-
ply of the idea seems plausible-that
wagons draw most easily on any road
when all four wheels are of uniform size
and the pole lies lower than the axle, then
the primitive vehicles of remotest Eastern
days should have been nearly perfect in
their principles of construction.
THE State of Maine sold large lot of
it's timber lands at auction the other day.
About 100000 acres were disposed of at
prices ranging from 30 cents to $1.30 per
acre, and the right to cut timber and
grass upon about 100000 acres more was
sold at from 275 cents to $1,75 per acre.
The total amount realized was about
$150,000.
A DECATUR man Tried TO put his calf
back in the lot He had it tied with a
rope and the rope twisted around his
wrists. His dog joined him in the at
tempt. His face had the appearance of
having been sand-papered. He thinks
of sending the calf out to pasture. The
funeral services of the dog were very i'm
posing.-DOUer IN. J) Null.
IT is only since the telling of the for
ests of Asia Minor and Syrene that the
locust has become so fearfully destruc-
tive in those countries; and the grasshop-
per, which now threatens to be almost as
great pest to the agriculture of some
North American soils, breeds in serious
ly injurious numbers only where wide
extent of surface is bare Of woods.
THE organ grinding business seems to
pay. A ragged and abject-looking pro-
fessor of the hand-organ, accompanied
by a monkey, after three days sojourn
at Staunton, Va, went to the bank before
leaving and got large notes for $500, so
that he could conceal it on his person.
In reply to the surprised inquiry OF the
bank men he said: Ode monkey make
it ALL"
WHILE a Western Journalist was writ
ing an account of burglary his own
room was broken into and robbed by
thieves. A warning to editors not to
write up burglaries And as the thieves
only secured four volumes of patent
Office reports and seventy-1ive cents in
mutilated currency it is also warning
to them not to break into editors rooms.
--N0rr6st0aon Herald.
A DETROIT lady, who has been in Cal
ifornia for some months past, started
for home the other day and one Of her
relatives went to the telegraph office in
Sacramento and notified the husband in
Detroit, saying: "Your wife starts this
morning" So far so good, but he didn't
have money to pay for the dispatch, and,
feeling little cheap over it, he added to
the telegram: "I haven't paid for this
dispatch-left my money at home; will
make it all right the next time | write to
a fvSyn fry- VT
a bill which caused the Detroiter to turn
pale.
WHEN a speculative horseman of the
period wishes to initiate the value of some
rapid steed that he has for sale, he gets a
newspaper correspondent to print some
such exciting romance as the following:
" Among horsemen it has been known
for long while that Methodist minis
ter in Kentucky owned colt of which
marvellous things we're told The animal
was black as a raven, and bore the name
of Blackwood.' The value Of the horse,
in the estimation of the owner, may be
seen by the pleasant little price that was
put upon him. The horsemen on the
Street laughed that a plain Methodist
parson, in the wilds of Kentucky,
offered his animal for $60,000 A New
York banker heard so much Of this colt
that he took trip to Kentucky to look
at him. He saw him move. He describes
him as a marvel. His nostrils become
red as fire. his eyes dilate, and he seems
transformed The captivated New
Yorker offered $4,000 for the colt The
owner received the proposal with dis
dain. He did not even reply; ordered
the horse back into the stable, and went
into his house. Another visit was made
and the horse changed owners, $4,000, it
is said, being the price."-NoW I0r6
Graphic.
BAKED TOMATOES CANNED.-Select to-
matoes of a nearly uniform size, or place
the largest where the heat is the strong
est so that all will cook uniformly. Two
inches or two and half in diameter is
the best size. Bake them in earthen-
ware-in large pie-dishes if at hand. Let
the heat be strongest on the top, so that
the Juice will not cook away too fast. An
hours time ought to cook them sufii-
GENTLY. When tender throughout they
make delightful dinner dish, served
hot. If they are to be canned, the cans
should be hot and everything ready De-
fore they are taken out OF the oven.
Then they should be lifted quickly INTO
the cans. and some of the juice turned in
to fiji M between every layer. If the
Juice is done away, fill up with boiling
water. though it will not be so good.
Have the juice or water fill the cans even
full and seal at once. If there has been
any delay in filing the cans, or, perhaps,
anyway at first trial, it might be best to
set the cans in hot water and boil few
minutes to make sure that the air is
quite expelled before sealing. THESE
will keep, like other canned tomatoes, an
indefinite length of time. When wanted,
they should be taken out on pie-dlsh