Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-24
n 7 FHEsE are the days in which to ask
~ faFors.M Everybody is in a melting

- raFOrSs& EVefyDOuy is III d nelClHS
mood.
TILE work of arching the Hoosac tun-
mel is well under way and progressing
finely.
FTHEY sen land in the region of Lake
q George, mot by the acre but by the
island.Ky
ETHAN ALLEN, the famous trotting
stallion, was sold recently in Kansas for
ri 5000 10i
WHEN man parts his hair in the mid
die the crease is very apt to strike into
A WOMAN at Lowell Mass, who weighs
HfB9Eponnds is running the hack business
in that place.
- Il "A WISCONSIN book agent has been
killed by the kick of horse-man's most
ife 70 faithful friend.
10 ta.AN- old business sign in Philadelphia
i7o' many years ago read: William Shot and
SeI iuJoAathan Fell"
IMAGINE how they exist in Florida
nee without daily paper. No wonder ALI
gators are plenty.
30 John LANE, of Omaha, Neb, is so tall
that he can, seize hold of bar placed
twelve feet high.
IN BEAUTY and bashfulness are often
81 ~ United, yet the lovelest maiden is adj
mired for her cheek.
TTfE italian Government proposes to
establish monopoly of the tobaccorais
ing business in Sicily.
REFUSAL on the part of a husband tc
TYpHshe the perambulator is to be made
Y ground for a divorce.
UNFAsHIoNABLE persons say Lawng
Brnch, just as of yore; fashionable per
Ssonsssay Lung Branch
srt NJ A KENTUCKY man was arrested and
fined five dollars for making an unsuc-
cessful attempt at suicide. +
GOOD way for parents to encourage
cremation is to leave the matches where
ID the children can get them.
s,iSoss "A FANwith watch on one side of the
mat handle and strong eye-glass on the
other is the last thing out in Paris.
THE cotton factories of Columbus, Ca,
. have taken g. 42 bales of cotton thus
ia. increase of 1,742 over last year.
II ~ AsAIAN in Boston, in his hurry to assist
q fainting lady got bottle of mucilage
instead of camphor and bathed her face
;7uojyHithit.i
THElast excuse that young men offel
to her mother is: " Want to take he1
over 10 the park and show her the comet
ma'am."
s21 eloqH4s prize poetry in the French Acad-
envy will be awarded in 1875 to the
author of the best piece of poetry ON Liv-
i'"' Ing, dhgstone.
An last accounts over two thousand
people were distributed amongt the Thou
QtJsana Isles That would be two persons
eS'LAto each isle.
THE minis of the United States and
A,n those of England, France and Germany
ass" won't use any but Lake Superior copper
in the manufacture of coin.
,N1sS Mas LECTURER aptly demonstrates the
theory that heat generates motion by
,1Ir pointing to boy who accidentally sat
10. ba;down on piece of lighted punk
,ls,.ss., THERE is man in indianapolis who
-r,a 10 declaims the Quarrel of Fitz-James
and Roderck Dhu" in such way as to
,N~n'f make the sti7est shirt collars wilt.
AN Iowa paper predicts that IN five
years every barrel of Western flour will
uTnf be sent East in barrels of paper, made
- Az from the straw the wheat grew on.
A DISPATCH from Brownsville Tex,
tam reports the first bale of cotton shipped
I no. %. to New Orleans few days since from
nsui the rancho of j. Hynes, at Santa Maria.
- IA BOILER in the Eagle Iron Works at
.YtW Terre Haute, Ind, exploded the other
day, badly scalding VIM Fisher, the en-
gineer He will probably die of his in
juries.
AT Lebanon Ind, recently, Eliza j.
Peckham, aged seventy-fve years, while
engaged in picking cherries, fell from a
I, step-ladder, and striking upon her head
was instantly killed.
=, "PLEAsE, sir" said little girl who
l. was sweeping crossing for living
"you have given me bad penny"
"Never mind, little girl, you may keep
it for your honesty"
"I'D HATE to be in your Shoes" said a
woman of the East Side, recently, as she
was quarreling with neighbor. You
couldn't get in them," sarcastically re-
-; .r; marked the neighbor.
THE Chicago doctors are trying with
lam IN faa no 1oY 40
e = of life in consumptive patient Doubt
g full if they succeed thus in pulling the
wool over the fell destroyer.
"HAvE you seen my blackfaced ante.
lopez" inquired Mr.. Leoscope, who had a
collection of animals, of his friend Bot
tlejack. "No, / haven't. Whom did
Il r your black-faced aunt elope with?"
MOUNT RAINIER, in Washington Terri
e tory, gives token of being in active vol
canic eruption. Immense volumes of
dense, black smoke were seen issuing
from the side of the mountain recently.
& IL AN orator who had raised his audience
to great height by his lofty roarings
fifw exclaimed: " will now close in the beau
tifu language OF the poet--I forget his
''s7' ame-and-and-I forget what he said
too.'
,,, A POLITICIAN, wishing to compliment a
80 well-to-do farmer, said: g You must have
begun life early to accumulate such an
" estate as this" YES" replied the
,e,, farmer, ct began life when was mere
baby"
s& !" DEAR me, how f1uidly he talksp said
Mrs Darlington, recently, at temper
% ance meeting. / am always reioiced
g, when he mounts the nostril, for his elo.
sss quence warns every cartridge in nv
body"
THERE are 52,01sSwater wheels in oner
O alton in American manufacturing estab
lishments, giving power of 1,l30416
horses,l while Niagara Falls gives a