Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-24
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| Y GRATITUDE Is the throwing out OF our
hearts in the light of another's kindness
THERE are twenty counties in Pennsyl.
| MIA which do not owe dollar of public
i debt.
/ CALIFORNIA exempts editors from jury
duty, thinking they have trials enough in
their business.
BRINGE j Limburger cheese into
Denver is punishable by fine of $1s for
| the first offense.
THE Eastern oyster refuses to spawn in
| the bay of San Francisco. He grows
very FAT and then dies.
TT has been decided in Wisconsin that
a lady who is kissed by a conductor can
bring action against the company.
A DUBUQUE man has asked the courts
| to protect him against three widows who
/ are trying to force him into a marriage.
i A BROOKLYN sewing society fines any
/ member who talks scandal ST. for each
offense; only the wealthy are able to at.
/ tend
4 The Niagara hotcl-keepers announce
i that they are going to put stop to hack
swindling, but what about hotel SWIM
| ding? 1
4 A BOY in st. Louis swallowed seven
brass buttons because another boy dared
him to, and is now laid up for internal
| REPAIRS s@s@t, /, se
VERMONT boys threaten to run away
and become pirates unless they are given
hunks of maple sugar, and mothers have
i to submit. ej so atkE ~ A
/ PEOPLE who propose to explore Africa
Fought to know thatit takes awhole month
to dry dead explorer so that he can be
| shipped home.
| seKIND WORDS are wonderful in their
way says an exchange, " but SO far as
children go bootjack exerts more pow
erful influence" se5 fYa7 e,ss 4.
AN agricultural society in New York
is discussing the morality of raising hops
and is getting rather hoppy over the quess
ton. Try rye, says an exchanges.
A DETROIT paper noting, the fact that
| a man fell down dead while combing his
hair, says g And yet there are people
who will persist in that dangerous habit" :"
| WooD ashes and common salt made
compact with water will stop the cracks
/ Of stove, and prevent the smoke from
escaping. H.
PITTsBUReH is going to cast cannon
| twenty eight feet long. If the ball don't
| kill they can punch a man in the stomach
with the muzzle Of the gun and severely
| injure him. a l
BRA1NTREE, VT, had but one marriage
during 1873. The groom was gay young
spark of 73, while the bride was a giddy
thing of "a. 1t was her second and his
| fifth marriage.
THERE'S nothing like persistency.
| John Couch was married in Philadelphia
| the other day to girl who had refused
| him eighteen times. She wanted to see
if he really loved her.
You may talk yourself into bronchial
affection but you can't convince a Yer
mont woman that there won't be a death
in the family if she dreams of seeing a
hen walking picket fence.
THE Maine people are waking up to
the enforcement of the Fish laws, and
man was fined fifty dollars the other
day for merely bringing salmon to mar
ket in Bangor out of season..
In a house at Augusta, Me-, rats nest
recently discovered contained four silver
spoons, a three tined fork, thirteen cotton
stockings and half peck of butter
nuts. Quite stylish housekeeper for
rat.
AFTER years of careful study and close
observation an Iowa professor is able to
announce that frogs; can see sideways,
and that music has more of influence on
them than this careless world has any
idea Of a
A NORTH CAROLINA Judge added three
years to mans sentence because the fel-
low hit him on the pate with quld OF
tobacco and called him "old hoss.' 1t
does seem as if the word freedom" had
fry FsHts = =
A. CITIZEN of Vicksburg advertises:
tMy attention has been called to an edi-
torial in the Vicksburg Herald of to-day,
which might reflect upon me. 1 de-
nOunce the author of said article as q
liar, scoundrel and coward. =
Mrs. ). H. BLAcKMAN, of East Sharon,
Mass, who had been paralyzed in one OF
her legs three years SO as not to be able TO
walk step, fully recovered the use OF her
limb few weeks ago, as she claims, Dy
the efficacy of prayer alone. a
Two hundred people in Colorado town
recently turned out in a body to look upon
bedstead with casters, it being the first
ever seen in the county. The possessor
had his hat over his left ear, and was for
time greater man than the Mayor,
THE quickest way we know of to make
man believe that there's nothing in the
world worth living for is to excite him
into chasing a cat across a yard where TWO
or three clothes-lines are innocently sway
ing in the evening breeze. Detroit Free
Press. los s
THE most astonishing case of spontane-
Gus nuptials has occurred in Iowa, where
couple were recently married, and after
the ceremony the bride was obliged to
ask her husband what her new name
was. The parties had been acquainted
only a few hours.
How rapid is the march of civilization.
There is county in Kansas where only
few weeks ago the buffalo fed and the an
telope sported, now showing evidence OF
modern civilization by bearing on the
docket of the District Court three divorce
SUITS Exchange.
SPEAKING of cremation, an exchange
utters the following: 6
ss And this is all that's left OF thee, sE 4
Thou fairest of earth's daughters;
Only four pounds Of ashes white
Out of one hundred and fourteen and three
aHow much better it would have been
to have shaken hands and allow it was all
mistake" said Detroit Judge. Then
the lion and the lamb would have lain
down together, and white-robed peace
would have famed you with her wings
and elevated you with her smiles OF ap-
probation. But no; you went to clawing
and biting and rolling in the mud, and
here you are. It's five dollars apiece"
| THERE was g." sewing party" Charity
at Mrs Basteemup's the other evening,
and during the affair the father of one of
the young ladies present appeared upon
the scene unexpectedly He was SO much
gratifed at the cleverness exhibited by his
daughter with her needle that he then and