Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-10
CURRENT ITEMS.


which wants the whipping post abolished
PHILADELPHIA wants few female bar
bers. How nice to be iathered by q
pretty Quakeress
THE Rochester Chronicle says that the
climate of that city gently wooes rheu
matte twinges from their lurking place.
New JERSEY quidnuncs mention as q
ARE phenomenon native four years old
who has just learned to chew tobacco.
The lady who was asked if her servant
was care-taking answered that she Ger.
tainly took everything she could carey.
BRAVE mep can term faiss---
But when f~ey e'tass 20 ofiicei
No ladies need apply.
SOME bows at Biddeford, Me-, found a
woman's head in the water. and the whole
of Maine is being searched over to find
the body.
A BURGLAR who was found under a
mans bed in Philadelphia excused him.
self on the ground that he was looking
for his dog.
TEXAS cattle-drivers are busy gathering
herds for an early drive. Cattle are in
better condition than ever before at this
season of the year.
Mrs. MARTHA DUFFY, of Atlanta, Ga,
took morphine because she had lost In
business the money got on her dead hus-
bands life insurance.
A DOCTOR writes to the Baltimore Sun
that the nervous disease known as hydro
phobia can be produced by the bite of a
perfectly healthy dog.
A MEDICAL journal says that it is inJu-
rious for one to drink water out of pools
and ditches 1t is not as convenient as
drinking from glass, either.
THE New York San says that any man
can make fortune in ten years by raising
cabbages but Greeley's advice to young
men can't be covered up that way.
MARYLAND has a new State law fining
a barber So for keeping his shop open
Sunday, but a saloon can remain open
all day and incur no prosecution.
A GREEN BAY preacher rode thirteen
miles, married couple on the ice, took
fifty cents as his fee, and returned home
without losing his bland smile.
A SHOEMAKER out West, with literary
turn of mind, has the following poetical
gem attached to his shingles:
"Here lives man who never refuses
To mend all sorts Of boots and shoeses."
THAT is a smart boy baby in Oak Har-
bor. Ohio. He can walk, talk, speak
French and English, whistle and sing,
and all at the tender age of thirteen
months.
AT Fort Wrangell, Alaska, the average
emperature during the winter has been
thirty degrees below zero. The coldest
snap was in January, when the mercury
CONCEALED.
A BLIND and insane inmate of the Rome
IN. Y poor-house became imbued with
the notion that every body was trying to
poison him. He therefore went and
hanged himself
THE Cincinnati Commercial says the
best way to keep the lid snugly on a tea
kettle full of boiling water is to sit on II.
Few people would have ever thought OF
that.
FEATHER CAKE.-One cup sugar, one
teaspoonful butter, one egg, three cups
flour, two-thirds of cup OF sweet mix,
one teaspoonful cream tartar, hall one OF
soda. Flavor with lemon.
LAMB.-Lamb should be roasted until
the gravy that drops is white; the fore
quarters are the best for roast; the leg IS
good broiled or roasted; two hours VIII
roast the fore-quarters well.
WHEN you repeat the proverb, Frall-
ty, thy name is womanp' you must ex-
cept hereafter, Mrs. Chloe Jones, colored,
of Raleigh, whose waist, at its slenderest
point. measures seven feet in circumter-
ence.
In the stomach of Goldfish opened at
Boston the other day was found stone
inkstand full of ink If the fish had only
secured pen and some paper the world
might have had story of life under the
sea-
A CALIFORNIA newspaper speaking OF
a rich mine, SAYS that on discharging a
blast a seam of rock about the thickness
of a mans hand was displayed, so yellow
with the precious metal as to seem almost
solid gold.
OF all Jokes, says the Salem (Mass)
Gazette, that of the Legislature passing
law to. prevent young men under eighteen
wears hurting themselves by overwork IS
the greatest. Won't "Young America"
enjoy the laugh?
LIGHT FRUIT CAKE.-Three-fourths
pound butter, one pound sugar, one pound
eggs, one pound flour, one pound raisIns,
stoned and chopped little, half-pound
ciiron, small teaspoonful soda, no spice.
Will keep all summer.
THE st. Paul Pioneer longs for some
preventive against breaking the point off
a lead-pencil. A very simple and cheap
preventive is to roll it up in tissue paper,
tie with silk thread and then carry it
around in padded box.
CHERRY PUDDING.-Three cups butter
milk, three eggs, three cups cherries, one
teaspoonful soda, a pinch OF salt. STR
we'll, and thicken with flour, and bake.
Serve with sauce or sweet cream and
sugar ANY other fruit is as good as cher
ries.
A NEW YORK court has decided IN favor
of passengers on crowded train occupy
ing seats in palace car without paying
extra therefor, and has awarded man
$40O damages for being put off a train be-
cause he refused to pay for seat in sucn
a car when there were none vacant In the
other part of the train.
THERE is no use trying to arouse chill
dren in the morning, at this season of the
year. under the maxim that the early bird
catches the worm. There isn't any worm
to catch, and they know it. Just as soon
as the frost is out, so that the worm can
be caught, the boys will be up and have
him to go fishing with.
THE good people of Ipswich, Mass, are
pointing triumphantly to the power OF
prayer in that town. There was a scheme
for a grand calico ball, but the church
members have been praying increasingly
that il might not take place, and large
number of the young ladies who were
going tn If have decided to break their
ensaoempnts. several of them have been