Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-03-06
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worth of gold leaf at one meal, the other
day.
YELLOW RIVER, Ark, has "resolved
that the great need of this town is about
forty women"
THE Chinese at North Adams, Mass,
are becoming civilized. One of them has
cut his throat.
OYSTERS weighing three pounds and
ten inches long have been found at Point
Pinalis, near Tampa, Fla.
LADY readers will be delighted to learn
that patchouly perfume is from the
pogostemon pachouli plant.
A LONDON genius has invented the
anti breach-of- promise ink,o warranted
to fade entirely away in month.
DIED ofmelancholyness and falling on
a bridge" is the published verdict Of a
recent Western Coroner's jury.
IT IS denied by the French physicians
that atropine is specific against cholera,
or that 1t is of any use whatsoever.
A HOTEL waiter in Troy mas turned out
to be a Count in disguise. He wanted
some one to love him for himself alone.
IT is said that newspaper offices in Kan
sas have two pairs of stairs, one for the
editor to go down while the visitor is
ascending the other.
SAMUEL LEANENs, who eloped from
Webster, Mass, with widow, tempered
his meanness. He left deed conveying
all his property to his wife.
THEY have genuine case of leprosy in
Detroit, and it is asserted that the disease
is more or less prevalent in number of
the cities of the country.
A KANSAS Judge discharged man ar
rested for stealing a grindstone, on the
ground that the prisoner was out of work
and in starving condition.
AN acorn suspended by thread close
to water in vase will sprout its roots
reaching into the water. A stem with
green leaves will shoot upward.
THE latest faithful dog is in Sterling,
Mass. He refused comfort for the death
of the family horse, slept~in the snow
upon the larger quadrdped's grave, and
went heroically without his victuals.
THE latest novelty of life insurance is
the case of a woman in Detroit who Wis.,
tied every office in that City trying to get
a policy of $4,000 on six-months-Old
baby. No takers.
A GARTER SNAKE was observed some
time since in North Conway, N. Y, push
ing toad down his throat by running it
against the clods and stones, just as the
toad crowds down locust.
CALIFORNIA hotel-keepers, oft deceived
but ever-trusting, are to be consoled by
the passage of bill making it misde-
meahoruSor a person to obtain board or
lodgings under false pretenses.
A CoLoRED barber of Detroit has recov-
cred verdict of 800 damages against
the owners of the steamer Jay Cooke for
refusing to allow him to dine at the first
table after he had paid first-class fare.
AT the examination of a fortune-telling
swindler in Baltimore, recently, woman
testified that she had paid the prisoner
six hundred dollars at different times to
have her husbands affections returned to
her.
A PROPOSED amendment to the New
Jersey Constitution is that property of no
kind shall be exempt from taxation, ex
cept that of the State, counties and mu-
inequalities, and burying grounds not held
by stock companies.
"SoME of these fine days." placidly
observes the Richmond Enquirer, Judge,
jury, reporterSand spectators of the Hust-
ings Court will wake up in the basement
of the City Hall under about II, 100000
pounds of brick and mortar!"
REFINED CHALK, wet with glycerine and
rosewood, forms cooling lotion for red
ness of the nose or face. Eat fruit, walk
frequently and use medicated baths to
cure it. It proceeds generally from in
herited humors in the blood.
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Oregon, boasts of a
lady who has been married nine times,
has eight husbands living and is living
with none of them. More than this, she
i 4 -,
years of age and living with her third
husband.
THE first crop note of the year comes from
Milford, Del, and it asserts that there is
considerable uneasiness in regard to the
peach crop, as the buds of the trees are
considerably swollen, and should it now
set in cold, freezing weather it must kill
the fruit"
THERE is very accommodating room
in Randolph, Mass. During the day
bootmaking is carried on therein, as well
as cooking for nine persons, and at night
it serves the aforesaid nine for dormi-
tory. This is all the more creditable to
the room, as it is only twelve feet by fif-
teen.
A PAINTING deer, chased by hounds,
came up to woodman working near the
Umbqua (Oregon) bridge, and after he
had driven the dogs off the deer remained
with him all day, allowing him to fondle
it, and appearing to feel lively sense OF
gratitude for the mans interference in its
behalf.
A REMARKABLE rose-bush adorns the
cottage of 8. A. Kendall of Santa Rosa,
Cal. 1t was planted in 1858, and
is of the Lamarque variety, the most
beautiful of the white roses. Imagine an
immense bouquet of white roses, twenty
five feet high, twenty-five feet across,
beautifully rounded, with a blossoming
surface of 400 square feet, with 4, 600 full
blown roses and 200 buds.
Ex-MAYoR HALL, of New York, has
five daughters and one son. The latter
busie5 himself with printing press, pre-
paratory to learning the art OF printing
practically, and then journalism. One OF
the daughters is designer and etcher;
the second, writer of children's books
and pianist; the third, student OF
lyric art; the fourth, an accomplished
amateur actress; and the fifth is learning
to be modiste and milliner.
In GREENBUsH a church stands close
to the track of the Hudson River Rail
road. The pastors voice was drowned In
a PRAYER by prolonged screech of To-
comotive whistle. When he could be
heard again he was praying that Wander
bilt might be converted, SO that the sim
fulness of running trains on Sunday
might be impressed upon him.
THE BurgomasteP of Brussels has fur
nished persons vouched for by the syndi-
cate of the Brussels press as belonging to
important Brussels and foreign journals
with handy cards, printed in gold type on
stiffened leather, so as to enable them 10