Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-02-20
CURRENT ITEMS.

| a HUNTINGDON (Ienn.1 negro claims &c
be the father of sixty-five children.
FEMALE voices in a choir are dangerous
to religion, says the Archbishop Of San
tiago.
A PAIR of sparrows, having family to
bring up, will consume over 5000 cater
| pillars week.
A WESTERN paper says that recently 8
workman's head was blown from between
| his two ears.
| A PHILADELPHIA merchant advertises 8
grease extractor that will be "useful to al
| who wear clothes"
"HE's dead, but he pays just as we'll as
ever he did," was the reply publisher
received to dunning letter.
BETWEEN fifty and one hundred saloons
all told, have been closed in Ohio by the
woman's temperance movement.
A TOPEKA girl has been left a quarter oi
a million dollars by her uncle, and now
all through trains stop at Topeka.
Mrs. CHANDLER, of Clinton, Iowa, has
| just had a cancer amputated that measur
| ed twenty inches in circumference.
A TROY woman says that if death loves
shining mark, it is singular that it has
not aimed at her husbands nose before
| this.
AN Easton Pa.) gourmand ate forty-five
| fried oysters and quart OF chicken salad
at one sitting, and still lives to make a hog
| of himself.
CARLYLE says "discourtesy originates
in dullness alone," so, when man calls
you an ass, you can console yourself that
he's stupid.
| A HOPEFUL little Latter-Day Saint neal
| Ogden, Utah, aged twelve, got drunk the
other day and killed valuable horse with
| pitch-fork.
THE highest newspaper office in the
world is at Cerro de Pasco, village on
the slope of the Andes, $4,000 feet above
the level of the sea.
THEY wear the bonnet very far back on
the head, and great many people spend
their time wondering how it is kept on
the feminine head.
DIAMONDS were never so common as
now. Every cook and washerwoman in
the land has her "solitaire," while ladies
are putting theirs away.
Ice can be nodded into any shape from
round to square, drawn into a bar, and
even tied in knot, if we had suitable ap-
paratus, yet ice will not stretch.
CAN epigrammatic female says that
male is only mule spelt wrongly" This
is nonsense, when everyone knows that
if man as mule, woman is muller.
THE ladies of Leavenworth, Kansas, are
discussing the adoption of the Ohio plan
of assault upon the outworks of the evil
one, by visiting and holding prayer
meetings in saloons.
ONE of the very best letter. carriers in
New Haven is woman She is neither
meddlesome nor inquisitive. Sweet
hearts are always delighted to receive
their little billet-douX from her.
noke Island, N. c., covers an acre and a
half of ground, and yielded last year
fOrty-six barrels of wine. Another one
in Terrill County yielded sixty-three bar
rels
The London Times says that england
has never produced a great man who
wasn't always in debt up to his ears"
Which doesn't amount to much, after all.
A large sized hat, unpaid for, would
do it.
A SPAN of horses were killed and a
sleigh was smashed to smithereens by q
train on the Northwestern Railway, near
Kenosha, recently. The driver was ine-
briated, but knew enough to get out of
the way.
A CHAIN of compressed cakes of gun
cotton tied around the trunk of large
tree and exploded will cut it down in
stantly by the violence of its action. The
cut through the trunk is as sharp as the
keenest ak.
A YOUNG author reading tragedy per-
ceived his auditor very often pull off his
hat at the end of line, and asked him
the reason. II cannot pass very old ac-
quaintance," replied the critic, without
civility.'
LYNDEBoRo, N. H., has no lawyer, no
doctor, no tavern and no grog shop, yet
within the limits of one school district it
has twenty three sewing machines and
one knitting-machine This is q city
getting ON sew sew.
A coLoRED lad in Des Moines, pupil
of the colored school, applied to one of
the Directors for the privilege of attending
the other school, on the ground that he
wanted to study "algeberry," which was
not taught in his school.
THERE is woman in Indianapolis who
has broken up the peace of heretofore
happy home, by her implicit belief in a
fortuneteller. She lost COW, and the
cow was found according to the directions
given by this fortune-telling swindler.
Since this, every cent she can get hold of
goes into the hands Of this woman, and
prayers and threats from her husband are
unavailing to stop it.
Two thousand dollars seems to be
pretty steep price to pay for rooster,
Int
Batchelder, of Mount Crawford, Me-, for
his black Spanish roos.er called General
CASTELAR,. The purchaser, Mr.. William
G.. Davis, civil engineer on the Portland
& Ogdensburg Railroad, considers him
the best game bird in this counTy-he
being the only one hatched from dozen
eggs brought from Matanzas, Cuba.
THE Red River Star says: "Our towns
man, Mr. Ell. Davidson, started for Fort
Garry this week with a sleigh load of
green apples, California pears, fresh eggs,
etc. The sleigh is about twenty feet in
length, covered with canvas, with close,
board floor, heated with large stove, the
institution being mansion within and
externally resembling moving pavilion.
1t was remarkable sight to see the mann
moth concern moving over the prairie,
with the smoke issuing from the chimney,
destined $50 miles north" 49, a
a WONDERFUL occurrence took place
in Colorado recently. A gentleman walk
ing down the street heard noise behind
him. 1t sounded like railroad train
crossing a bridge. Stopping to ascertain
what it was, a whirlwind travelling no
faster than spirited walk picked him up.
Its force was sufficient to invert the tails
af his coat above bio head n0tWithgtanQ-
ing the pockets were loaded with speci-
mems of silver ore, and he was carried
along for hundred feet or more, like a
feather. with hnth feet nccaSiOnallY off the