Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-06-05
CURRENT ITEMS.

SULPHUR comes from Vesuvius; there
fore it is good for eruptions.
CARPENTERS are not particular about
their food. They are used to boarding
houses.
EIGHT HUNDRED marriageable young
ladies, for whom there is no visible pros
pective husbands, is what's the matter
with Easton.Pa.
THE production of brick in the United
Statee in 1870, if laid in wall one foot
thick and ten feet high, would reach a
distance of over 2,9OS miles.
/ A woMAN's club has been formed in
ST. Louis, for the discussion of social,
moral and philosophical questions,
| and especially questions vital to women.
/ A BROTHER of Nathan r. Hull, Of
killingworth, Conn.,, who was recently
killed by train of cars, has committed
suicide from grief by jumping into q
we'll.
/ DOMESTIC prints are so pretty this sum-
mer that housewives of taste are using
shilling calico for home wrappers, and
luxuriating in half dozen of the various
patterns.
A DEs MONIES genius who loves his
ease has 1 vented an automaton fire
| lighter. He lies in bed, pulls string
which sets the kindling on fire, and when
he hears the kettle singing he gets up.
| A BOsTONIAN keeps large standard
dictionary on slightly inclined shelf in
his parlor, which the children and adults
of the family can instantly and easily
consult for a definition or lesson in
| spelling.
A TOWN in Kentucky has developed
queer specimen of genus homo in the form
| of facetious dentist, who advertises that
he will pull teeth without pain to the
operator, and with very little to the by
standers.
THE Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer says:
We are going to quit the newspaper
business; it doesn't pay to run paper in
| town where business men read almanacs
and pick their teeth with the tail of
| herring"
On the average of the last six years the
| loss of life in English coal mines, by eX-
plosion and other accidents, amounts to
one death for every 100000 tons of coal,
not to mention injuries of more or less
| serious character.
THE Boston Common Council has voted
| that the 4th of July shall be celebrated at
an expense to the city not exceeding
$25, 900, while $500 has got to answer for
June H., the anniversary of the battle of
| Bunker Hill.
THIRTEEN years ago John Kendall, of
| Alabama, called Arthur Spooner liar.
| Spooner reflected, got mad, and the other
day decided to shoot Kendall for the in-
suit and did shoot him; and now his
honor shines like new tin pan on gate
post.
| WHILE Prof. Watson has been foOling
away fifteen years of his life in the study
of astronomy, very common fellow in
Delaware has discovered that turnip
tied to string and hung to a hook will
prevent rheumatism from entering the
| house.
| THERE must be demand for sawdust
in Gardner, Me. A local paper says
that the sawmills in that city make from
| fifty to seventy-fve cords of sawdust per
day, which sells readily for about as high
price as though it were in solid long
lumber.
A BALTIMORE paper tried to say some
thing about Churches and Skeptics,"
and the writer of the article pleaded pite-
ously for some one to put him out OF his
misery when he saw his pious editorial
appear under the head "Crutches and
Sheeptics."
AT Qucchee, VT, the farmers were plow-
ing in January, and on May day had the
pleasure of seeing foot OF snow on their
| fields. Some of the hill roads were Ten
dered impossible by snow-drifts. The
birds were starving, and many robins
were found dead.
Lucy G. DoNEGAN, of Dubuque, Iowa,
has sued Frank S. May for $4,000 dam
ages. May had the smallpox, and hung
some of the clothes he had worn upon
fence near plaintiffs house, whereby the
| woman and two of her children were in
fected with the disease.
MANY Cuban sugar.planters are emf
grating to Southern Texas, glad to ex-
change the comparatively quiet condition
of affairs in that State for the existing
troubles at home. The country between
the Sabine and the Rio Grande is well
adapted to the sugar cane.
GA MAN in Pennsylvania lunatic asy
lum,'' says an exchange, "imagines him.
self woman, and for that reason parts
his hair in the middle" Several young
men outside of the lunatic asylum part
their hair in the middle because, it is
supposed, they have no reason.
NORTH HADLEY, Mass, is disturbed by
foul water in its wells, and an old astrol-
oyer, we'll known in that vicinity, has
traced, with his mysterious rod, a subter-
ranean stream from the cemetery, few
rods distant, to the we'll at the parsonage
and to others along the street which con-
tain foul water.
The editor of the San Bernardino
Guardian feels impeiled to describe the
rival editor of that town as an editorial
empiric-a newspaper quack; a man
without education, without courage, with
out honor-a drifting, mental imbecile, a
slandering falsifier rambling adventurer
"a creature--a thing-content to live on
family charity"
THE preparations of the United States
for observing the coming transit of
Venus are very nearly completed. Eight
parties are to be sent out from this coun-
try. One will go to Siberia; another to
Central Asia; a third to Nagasaki, in
Japan; fourth to Pekin, China; and the
rest will go to the Southern seas by the
sloop-of-war Swatara, which is now being
fitted up with all necessary appliances for
that purpose.
THE Syracuse On. " police authorities
are dealing severely with those little boys
who, in their anxiety for fun, play such
games as g stump the leader" and follow
the leader" The games themselves are
harmless when properly played. but the
Syracuse youths, in following their leader,
pull down fences, tear the roofs off houses,
trip pedestrians, ETC., which is carrying
the game too far.
There were 14,087 births in Con-
necticut in 1S73 gain of 282 over the
previous year, and of 40 1-2 per cent over