Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-11-20
CURRENT ITEMS.

1T is economy to purchase the best
black silk. The cheap materials are
never worth retaining second season.
A HOUSE in st. Joseph, Mo-, is haunted
by ghost, which appears to tenants
who don't pay up promptly, but never to
those who do.
A SAN FRANCISCO policeman who was
| living at the rate of SIC, 900 a year was
found to be in receipt of $50 ds for
| winking at Chinese gambling.
"SCROFULA-PRODUCING pork and pim-
ple-promoting buckwheat cakes" is
what the Philadelphia Star calls two are
ticles of the average Americans daily
winter food
AN apple-tree on farm in Rollinsford,
N. H., which was planted 1876 years ago
continues to bear fruit, and it's present
owner does not remember year when it
has failed to bear
A sHoRT-HoRN steer was butchered in
Detroit recently which weighed ALTO
pounds alive, and yielded 5000 pounds
of dressed beef. This is believed to be
the largest animal ever slaughtered for
beef on this continent.
A MAINE man says that pumpkin in
that State grew so large that eight men
| could stand around it; which statement
was only equaled by that of Hoosier
who saw flock of pigeons fly SO low that
he could shake stick at them.
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa, has an old
lady who recently refused the gift of a
load of wood from tree struck by light
ming, through fear that some of the
fluid" might remain in the wood and
cause disaster to her stove.
A BROOKLYN woman sues her husband
for divorce, one of his trifing offenses
being the entering of the room in which
she was sleeping with lighted candle in
his hand which he held in position so
that drop of melted tallow fell into
her eye
AN extraordinary large turnip was dug
in garden at Salt Lake the other day,
which, on being cut open, disclosed
large sized frog, we'll and hearty, which
tumbled out and hoped off just as if he
was not the creature of wonderful
phenomenon.
THERE'S nothing like adjectives. In
Philadelphia the crisp chestnut is
crowding the popular peanut out of the
market" Here, the pulpy but presently
putrid paw-paw is giving way to the
pungent and pleasantly puckery persim-
mon.-St. Louis Journal.
AS river boat was loading at land
ing on the Mississippi River large gray
mule refused to go on board. The mate
sung out to deck-hand: "Twist his
tail and he'll come" Like Casabianca,
that deck-hand obeyed orders, and, like
Casabianca, he noblY died.
THE Superior Court, Portland, Me-,
recently ruled that the right to recover
for sum due on account for load of
coal depended upon observance of the
statute, which provides that unless other
wise agreed the coal shall be weighed by
sworn weigher, if it is not sold by the
| cargo.
A FARMER in Oregon has had field of
sixty acres Of grain eaten by rabbits, and
all of his Other fields have suffered, al
though to less extent, from their depre
dations. Hundreds are shot every day,
but hundreds more come out from the
sage brush and take their places.
A PRETENDED clergyman swindled the
mission of $500 on a contract for trans
porting 600 members of the Episcopal
Convention from New York to Boston,
and then tried the same unsuccessfully
upon the Stonington line. He is still at
large.
THE Lewiston (Me.) Journal says: can
elderly gentleman recently entered q
boot and shoe store in Lewiston and pur-
chased pair of number twelve boots.
He remarked that he had had his old
ones eighteen years. On being asked
how he had managed to make pair of
calf boots wear so long he replied that
he had always kept horse"
A MAN attracted attention in Troy by
his queer demeanor. He seemed to see
something interesting in the buttons on
ladies' dresses, and in several instances
was impertinent In his close examina-
tions. Finally he found dress from
which a button was gone. He seized
the wearer, pulled from his pocket
button and compared it with those left
on the dress. 1t matched. She was his
prisoner. He was a detective, and she
had stolen the dress.
A MOST singular discovery is reported
to have been made by Capt. Picasso, of
the Italian bark Teresa. He claims to
have found a rock rising from fifteen to
twenty-five feet above the water in lati-
tude 4O@ north and longitude 62@ 8min
It is within few seconds of the same de-
gree as New York, lies about $50 miles
from the coast, and is nearly in the track
of what is called the southern passage.
The rock is of a reddish brown color,
and about 300 feet long by 40 feet
broad Capt. Picasso thinks this discov-
cry offers solution of the mysterious
loss of the City of Boston, President,
Pacific, United Kingdom, and other YES
sells that have never been heard from af-
ter leaving port.
In going out with the crowd at the
close of performance in the theater in
Wheeling, W. Va, recently, Mr.. John
Dunlap, a book-keeper at the Register
office, was jostled about by gentleman
with whom he was unacquainted. Mr.,
Dunlap carried his overcoat upon his
left arm and it was against this arm that
the stranger had been pushed by the
crowd. AS they passed out John noticed
that the watch-chain of the strange gen
tleman was broken and hung from his
vest. Upon arriving home he hung his
overcoat up and had no occasion to use
it again until two days afterward. Then,
upon taking it down, he was astonlshed
to find hanging from button silver
watch TO which a broken chain was at
tached. He remembered the incident at
the theater, advertised the fact and the
owner recovered his property.
A SHORT time since young lady, a
resident of this place, experienced
creeping sensation in her nose after she
had retired for the night and all efforts to
remove the annoyance were without the
desired effect, the difficulty remaining
for several days, merely changing to
location farther up in the nostril. AT
length it seemed to pass down into the
throat, causing choking sensation, and
finally disappeared. Immediately after
its disappearance the victim experienced
acute pains In the stomach and called