Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-01-09
CURRENT ITEMS.

A PHILADELPHIA belle has broken her
engagement because her intended called
her by her first name.
ACCORDING to the State Auditor, Ken
lucky has lost over half million dollars
by defaulting sheriffs.
AN Oshkosh poet asserts that "at the
dawns effulgent breaking, voices whis-
per to his ear" He shouldn't get up so
early.
THE belle of Milwaukee carries peck
etful of prunes, and chews them on the
horse cars, and then snaps the kernels at
the conductors eyes.
The prevalent fashions preclude ladies
from wearing white skirts. They have,
after mature deliberation, adopted the old
fashioned quilted skirt.
A BANGOR man has run off because he
thought he had killed the man who was
counting his sister-in-law. The poor lover
was terribly beaten, but survives.
A WESTERN journal, on learning that
Rhode Island is crowded, suggests that
the Governor of the State be authorized
to hire one or two families to go West.
THE Missouri Haqwas0nSdn advertises
42O COW bells for sale, and explains that it
took them of hardware man in payment
for Job work. Live and let live is its
motto.
ST. PAUL papers are congratulating the
climate of Minnesota because it permit
ted bricklayers to work out of doors, in
their shirt-sleeves, late in the month of
December.
THE Detroit Post says: "Good wood is
selling in Gratiot County for 81 cord,
but YOU couldn't beat that into the head
of Detroit wood dealer with a ten-ton
pile-driver."
WE believe not one of the New York
great dailies had enterprise enough to send
its Gown correspondent" to Shreveport to
write up the yellow fever plague.-Norris-
t0On Herald.
FAsHIoNABLEs have seized upon yellow
again as a 1avOrite color. A huge yellow
blush rose stuck on the side of the peculiar
bonnet or hat of the period is regarded as
the tip of the fashion.
In number of the smaller towns in
Kentucky the good, old fashioned diver
sion of "candy-pulling" is becoming pop
ular as mode of raising church funds IL
place of the more expensive fairs.
A RUMoR is prevailing among the Piute
Indians that the Government intends to
remove them to other quarters. The In
dams declare they will die fighting rather
than leave their present reservation.
A BRIDE at the depot in Terre Haute, a
day or two ago, created sensation by her
stunning outfit. She was arrayed in a
white tartletan dress, black shoes with
white rosettes, and carried black mHtf
THE Boston Globe says that the workmen
celebrated the opening Of the Hoosac tun-
mel by tapping two or three barrels OF
beer There was no interference by the
police, as the barrels were marked nitro
glycerine."
The Cedar Falls Recorder reports hav.
ing found the meanest man. The chap
donated pair Of WORKOUT summer pants
to the homesteaders, but took out the
pockets and ripped the buttons off before
parting with them. A-s E't
SPRING GUNS have been determined lille
gal by the Supreme Court of Iowa, sitting
in Des Moines. A man set one to guarC
his vineyard, and it shot a rogue, who not
being sufficiently shot, brought action and
obtained judgment.
Tue cruelest young female is the girl
some Western papers are Boosting of
They are telling how she sheared thirteen
sheep in five hours "the other day." and
now, of course, these thirteen innocent
sheep are left out in this weather without
OverCOatS.
THE Rutland, VT, police force have go
the bows under such subsection that they
don't dare slide on the sidewalk, but the
girls slide with impunity, where they
please, and one of them ran over anc
ground up bank president, Mr. Daniels
the other day.
PETER VAN DYKE, an old chap who
died in New Hampshire the other day
worth $140,000 in cash, requested in his
will that no one should shuttle and sheC
crocodile tears at his funeral, but cover
him over, and then hurry home to figh
over his money"
In Missouri the -trodden sex are
beginning to successfully assert theil
right to enter upon any vocation hitherto
monopolized by the tyrant man. A
couple of St. Joe girls lately garroted &
poor workwoman. Those girls will ge
into the Legislature next
He was filed with remOrse, that man
in the OswegO Jail, on charges of bur
glary, bigamy arson, drunkenness, pocket
picking, and highway robbery, and sc
for fear a case might not be made ou
against him he made sure thing Of it by
stabbing the jailer.
A MINNEAPOLIS mechanic has solved {
difficult problem in railrOading by thu
invention of a snow-shovel, which clears
roadway wide enough to allow the carr
to pass, takes all the snow clear down t
the rails, carries it up, deposits it on which
ever side preferred, at a speed of from
two to six miles an hour, according to thu
depth of snow.
THE Green Bay Ad0ocate tries the credu
lily of its readers by saying that Holland
town deserves credit for a new way o
caring for the widows and widowers
Having eleven resident widows and a.
many widowers, a committee arranged t
marry them, pairing them off by lot. The
drawing took place on a recent Monday
and eleven marriages are expected to taxi
place this winter"
AN "undenominational soup house" i
advertised as recently opened in one o
our cities. So far, so good and it il
hoped the soup will have NO flavor of sec
in it. But the regulations of the hous,
should be such as to forbid the lazy tt
enjoy it or it will not be good thing. |
man will not work when he can fine
work to do, we have divine authOrit
for saying he ought not to have soup.
II is unnecessary to endure the pang
of the rheumatics. A Kansas City MAJ
has discovered the remedy in his owl
case and generously confdes it to tn
public. Next time you get 'em try il
All that you have to do is to persuade
Texas steer to take after you. After tn
animal has chased you forty rods or so t
and up tree, you will not feel singl
rheumatic twinge, ..