Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-05-15
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knives. Emery paper is also good.
A GHOST that haunted Massachusetts
house has been efectually exercised by
means of rat poison.
THREE Shakeresses at Tyringham, N
H., have fallen from grace by taking to
themselves husbands.
A REPORTER, in depicting wreck at
sea, says that "no less than thirteen unfor-
tunates bit the dust"
A KEoKUK poet says he "lies enfolded
in his mothers arms, all wrapt in early
childhood's spotless charms"
A MACHINE in the Winnipiseosee mills
at Franklin, N. H., runs off thirty-five
miles of newspaper day.
BUTToNED shoes with patent leather
tips and scalloped ankle tops may be con-
sidered now the most fashionable.
THERE is more shipbuilding going on
at the present time on the Connecticut
River than in any previous year since
1861.
A MUscATINE Qowa) dog committed
suicide by hanging himself between two
pickets on the garden fence the other
day. ass .--
A LITTLE girl of Reading, who saw her
baby. The corpse was covered with
flowers.
THE bitterest words ever uttered are
said to have fallen from the lips of man
who mistook persimmon for green gage
plum.
A PETRIFED rattlcsnake, so perfect that
six rattles were distinctly visible, was re-
Gently found in block Of marble at
Burlington.
AN editor has placed over his marriage
notice cut representing trap sprung,
with this motto: "The trap down-an-
other ninny caught"
AN old man in Kenosha, Wis, has
ruined his health sitting up in cold
room next to where his daughter and a
young man were sparkling.
A MEMPHIS man sat in the gas works
an hour a day for 142 successive days be-
fore anyone told him that he couldn't
cure ague by inhaling gas.
AN explosion of powder in Pennsyl-
vania mine lifted miner into the top of
a large shade tree without removing his
hat or hurting him in the least.
A GENTLEMAN bought piece of land
on the outskirts of Providence, r. l.,
thirty years ago for $400. He recently
refused $4,000 for the same property.
MAINE is going to sell all the public
lands to which the State has an unques-
toned title-about 100000 acres-in Sep
tember, and close up the business of the
land office.
A DUTCHMAN in San Francisco, in try
ing to reach the ferry-boat fell into the
water. His first exclamation on being
hauled out was: =" Good gracious, let's
have bridget"
A CHICAGO pork packer whose pew-rent
was raised to $25 exclaimed: "Great
Caesar! here's a nice state of affairs-the
Gospel going up and pork going down.
What's to become of us?''
ROBERT Dow, of Salisbury, N. H.,
awoke his wife the other morning and re-
marked to her that he thought he was
dying. Soon after he became unconscious
and died in a few hours.
A CORRESPONDENT wants to know our
opinion concerning the disposition of the
dead. AS far as we are acquainted with
them the dead seem to be of aquiet dis
position.-St. Louis Democrat.
AS A rule our leaders of fashion are
dressing very plainly this season-a fact
to be hailed with satisfaction and delight.
1t has come to this that lady is known
by her costume.-N Y. Graphic.
In Armenia, N. Y, there is an old-fash-
ioned house, now nearly century Old,
which contains twenty-eight rooms ex-
elusive of closets, and has seven brick
fre-places, three brick ovens, and six out
side doors.
A PARTY of men have purchased 1000
acres of land in Wisconsin for the eX-
elusive purpose of raising muskrats. Last
year they captured 1000 of the animals,
and anticipate take of 5000 this year.
The skins sell at thirty cents each.
A GEORGIA paper says: EVERY vii
lage and borough in the State is project
ing the erection of factories of various
kinds. We never knew period in the
history of Georgia when so much money
was put into manufacturing business as
at present"
VIRGINIA is rapidly becoming a wine
country. Vineyards are being
established in the vicinity of Richmond,
and the profits are said to be great, while
the quality is reported to be very much
like the imported claret, Madeira and
white wines
The papers are opening a crusade |
cousining. Many a burdened house
keeper has said: eve are often visited by
persons to whom we are under no obliga-
tions-persons who want to go some
where"
THE Denver Times tells of a grad ed |
DuHham cow in that place, that cost sixty |
dollars, the owner of which sold over one |
hundred and sixty dollars worth of milk,
produced by the cow, in thirteen months,
beside using all the milk three adults and |
three children wanted.
MARIA F. GRosvENoR sued the United |
Society of Believers, body of Shakers |
living in Harvard, in the Supreme Court |
at Boston recently, asking. $4,000 |
damages, charging that she, having |
Joined the society in 1919, was expelled |
in 1866. The defense was that she pro-
mulgated heresies and that she went |
away voluntarily. Judge Endicott rem
dered verdict for the defendants.
A CURIOUS story is told in a Natchez,
paper about Ell. POlkenhOme, Sr., OF that |
place, who, while walking out on a warm
day, felt something burning him in the
side. His clothes were on fire, and on
he found that his eye glasses
in his waistcoat pocket had caused the |
mischief. The suns rays penetrating |
through this garment TO the lenses had |
burned hole through the pocket and
scorched his under-garments.
In the Supreme Court at Taunton
Mass, few days ago. Margaret Black, of
Fall River, obtained verdict for
81, 900 against Andrew S. Weeks, of the
firm of Weeks & Potter, Boston, on ac-
count of being nearly poisoned to death
by dose of aconite which she took, sup
posinr it to be picara. The aconlte was
put up by Weeks & Potter, ana Labeled
& nicara,' by mistake, and sold to Fall