Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-07
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CURRENT ITEMS.

A LITTLE ammonia in water Is one of
the best head-cleaners there is.
If a man doesn't take care of No. 1, he
will soon have 0 to take care OF.
ROSE HERsEE is engaged to Albert
Howells, of the old Parepa Rosa troupe.
Miss MILDLY MORGAN. the cattle re-
porter of the New York Tribune, will leet-
ure.
Boston sent ZOO books to Iceland by
DR.. Hayes as a gift to her ,000th celebra-
ton.
MANY mans vices have at first been
nothing worse than good qualities run
wild
Rev. DIR. TALMADGE receives 10000 let
ters in year. He finds time to answer
1000.
1HE comet is supposed to be a "dog-
STAR run mad-a sort of rabid "Skye"
terrier
TINS is said to be ministers leap year.
August, their vacation month, has five
Sundays.
In single day, recently, 1868 China
men were landed in California from two
steamers.
THE city of Chattanooga has voted to
give 100000 to the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad.
THE poet Longfellow is to write life
of Charles Sumner, Of whom he was
warm friend.
ONE hundred rifles day is about the
present working capacity of the Spring
field Armory.
A BoRE-A man who persists in talk
ing about himself when you wish to talk
about yourself.
Joy and hope in the morning, gloom
and disappointment at night, describe
the average picnic.
MORE people have been killed in cele-
brating Independence Day than there
were in establishing it.
THE Connecticut Historical Society has
come into possession of Andres pocket
book and Arnolds watch.
THE wheat crop in many portions of
Iowa is already cut and the yield is bet
ter than for years previous.
A STURGEON weighing 155 pounds was
caught few days since in one of the
small lakes at Madison, Wis
THE Watertown IN. W Times says the
pear crop of Jefferson County will
amount to almost nothing this year.
Miss HAGGIE PRICE, of Norfolk, Va,
has a duck which laid ninety eggs in
ninety days, and then went to setting
CHARLES LAMB, in speaking of one of
his rides on horseback, said that all at
once the horse stopped, but | kept right
on"
ONE farmer in Monmouth County, N.
j., who has six acres in black berries,
sold last season fruit to the value of
$4,000
Iowa raises most of the eggs "whole-
sailed in New York city. Fifteen thou
sand barrels have been forwarded since
January. ---------
AT Hancock, on Lake Superior, the
form in procession and
march up the street following load of
potatoes.
HARD words are like hail-stones in
summer, beating down and destroying
what they would nourish If they were
melted into drops.
THE New York Herald has been COM
PEELED to remind the seeDe~paintcr at
Niblo's that steamships do not sail stern
foremost, as a rule.
ROBERT WATSON was arrested few
days since in New York on the charge of
attempting to pass forged $1,000 bond
DANIEL LAMBERT was the heaviest man
that ever lived. He7exhibited himself in
London in 1906 and died in 1909, weigh
ing upward of 720 pounds.
THE largest room in the world under
single roof, unbroken by pillars or other
distractions, is at ST. Petersburg; $50
feet long and $50 feet wide.
DURING hurricane in Kansas County
Treasurer owned up that he had stolen
s., 500 of county money, but after the
wind SUBSIDIZED he denied it.
WHY is lawyer the worst sleeper in
the world? Because he first lies on one
side, and then he lies on the other, and
he is wide-awake all the time.
AN extensive open-air demonstration
against the money grant TO Prince Leo
pold was made by the republicans in
!Clerkenwell, England, recently.
WHAT kind of sassages is them?"
queried an old lady of the young man of
literature and peanuts as he passed
through the train selling bananas.
A DEPUTY UNITED STATES CoMMIs-
sIoNER OF FISHERIES is soon to place
60, 900 shad in the head waters of the Bra
zos and Colorado Rivers, in Texas.
THERE is no fruit in California that
thrives so we'll as the fig. The orange is
uncertain, and has ruined many culti-
vators; but the fig is never-failing.
YOUNG LADY" That piece just played
was by Wagner-wasnt it too lovely for
Young gentleman" Yes;
and amt his palace cars just gay?'
A HoMELY woman in Auburn, N. Y,
being impolitely accused Of the fact,
said she didn't see why woman hasn't
as much right to be homely as a man."
A DEAD eagle was found near Detroit
by boys few days since-a very large
one, which had been wounded by some
hunters bullet and had dropped there to
die"
COLORADO is a fine place for specula-
tions A pauper recently escaped from
the Poor House there and made 81 300 in
land speculations before he could be re-
captured.
THE tin-boxing of sardines has begun
in California. These delicate fish
abound from San Diego to Puget's Sound,
and the boxers pay fifty cents bushel
for them.
THE editor of the Paducah Re1atetcksan,
having accepted nomination Tor the
Office of Coroner, says that many years
experience within the precincts OF CAIRO
renders him an excellent judge OF dead
man.
MOSQUITOES are described in a certain
part of Minnesota as thicker than the
surrounding foliage, with wings ike
Apollyon's, beak like an Arteslan auger
and voice like the sound OF many
waters
" DESERTED by all except his aged bob
tailed dog, his life went slowly OUT as
the shadows of the setting sun crept over
the front stoop of Darlings grocery" IS
the NOV thew express themselves IN