Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-10
NUMBER "A.
CURRENT ITEMS.

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! extent than ever.
THE Anthropometrica is the name of
| a new association. This is the scholastic
way of saying journeymen tailors.
Two girls have gone into the green hide
business in San Francisco, and are max
ing money. Neither of them is over
seventeen.
A Girl. arrested in Boston the other
day for stealing an apple was so weak for
want of food that she tainted away in the
courtroom.
JACKSON GERARD, of Benton Me-, went
to sleep soon after leaving the breakfast
| table a few days ago, and at last accounts
all attempts to awaken him had proved
unavailing.
| DOROTHY WILLIAMS, of Wyoming, start
ed to walk three miles to church the
other day, and they found her torn into
about fifty pieces, the result of meeting
grizzly bear of low moral character
GEN THOMAS EWING, of Ohio, proposes
to donate tract of land for a miners
school or school of miners and measures
are under way for the establishment of
National institute for practical miners.
A CONVENTION of worll1ngmen, dele
gates from trades-unions, factory opera
be held in Worcester, Mass, about the
middle of August, to nominate a State
ticket.
IT is understood that a number of lady
students are to enter the Boston Meth
the Trustees having assured candidates
that the doors of the seminary are open
to all, without respect to sex.
u L., vlNA
has in her employ a hundred other
women, has regular work for all, and has
become rich, recently bought $4,000
house on fashionable street, and rides
in her carriage in imitation of the fash
ionable and wealthy ladies.
/ A New ENGLAND philosopher has dis
covered that the dull times are bless
ing in disguise, because "there is prob
ably no other way of checking the
feverish intensity of American business
life and compelling the busy workers to
take it easy"
A LITTLE girl in Rowley, Mass, has
earned dollar and quarter by catch
ing woodchucks at twenty-five cents
apiece. She snaps them up.as they put
their heads out of the hole. Such live
steel-trap will not be particularly safe to
meet one of these days.
THE Dallas (Tex.) Herald records the
story of two young men who, while out
riding, saw pocket-book lying in the
street, and they both jumped from the
buggy to get it. The hurry broke a
finger of one of them and dislocated the
ankle of the other, and the pocket-book
contaiAed nothing
BECAUSE he had been sued for $40, a
Barton (Vt.) man committed suicide, de-
claring that if he had got so low that his
name was not good for $29 he did not
want to live any longer. Such sensitive
ness is extremely rare in America, and
our friends in England must not be mis-
led by an isolated case like this.
THE Excelsior Magazine" one Of the
choicest and most artistic of monthlies,
is published at $3.5 a year New sub
scribers are offered a $3.50 field croquet
set and the magazine for $4.4CL only 80
cents additional. A handsomely-illus
trated Fashion and Etiquette Supplement
goes with it. Rare inducements to get
ters-up of clubs in money or premiums.
Sample copies 25 cents. Office, Room 80,
| No 157 La Sale street, Chicago, Ill.
THE Japanese have taken a sudden
fancy to the German language. They
learn rapidly, but they are fond OF
change and have no perseverance, so
that the teachers are obliged frequently
to alter the subject of study. Moreover,
the best pupils leave them just as they
are beginning to get on; directly a
japanese understands few words OF
German he goes to Yeddo to seek en-
ployment Fortunately the number OF
pupils is very great. Since the Emperor
himself has taken to study, and Govern
ment appointments at Yeddo are only
given to educated people instead OF
| being sold to the highest bidder it has
| become fashionable to go to school.
THERE was very sad occurrence late
! ly, near the residence of Jonathan Her
rington, few miles northwest OF Hills
boro Mo. Elijah Burgess with his fami-
ly were visiting Herringtons, and the
boys were out on steep hill side or blutf.
They had been amusing themselves roll
ing stones down the hill, when two OF
them concluded to go to the foot OF the
bluff to see the rocks Jump off, A large
stone was started from above and warn
ing given to the boys below, when little
son of Burgess, nine years of age, stepped
out from behind tree and the rock
struck him on the head, smashing his
skull and killing him instantly.
A PROMINENT oculist says that the con-
tagious Egyptian or granular infamma-
tion of the eyes is spreading rapidly
throughout the country, and that he has
been able in many, and, indeed, in a ma
iority of cases, to trace the disease to
what are commonly called rolling towels.
Towels of this kind are generally found
in country hotels and in the dwellings OF
the working classes, and, being thus used
by nearly every one, are made the car
riers of one of the most dangerous and,
as regards its symptoms, most trouble
some diseases of the eye. This being the
case, it is urgently recommended that the
use of these rolling towels be discarded
and thus one of the special vehicles Tor
the spread of most dangerous disorder
of the eyes-one by which thousands OF
workingmen are annually deprived of
their means of support-Wlll no longer
exist.
OF all places in the world to select as
retreat from the scorching heat of June
day, an ice-chest is perhaps the last, and
yet George Straubel did it. George had
formerly been bar-keeper at Apollo
Theater, but on Monday was living at
615 South Fourth street. He had been
suffering to some slight extent from colo,
and was also perspiring profuseiy DO
what he would, he could not keep cool.
The more he tried to keep cool, the more
he perspired, and at last the brilliant
idea struck him that brief retirement
in the ice-chest would set him up all
right 1t did the lager good, and why
shouldn't it do George Straubel good,
too? So he got into the ice-chest, and
very soon felt cool enough. The perspi-
ration was checked, and when Straubel
got out of the ice-chest the perspratlon
didn't return. On the contrary, he
couldn't get warm, and he continued TO
get colder and colder, until in a short