Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14
CURRENT ITEMS.
THE autumn silks will be striped.

G. THE autumn silks will be striped.
SIX men recently caught 1000 grown
trout in one day in Montana stream.
The latest "charm" for watch chains
is stick of caustic to cauterize dog
bites.
FRENCH milliners are already at work
upon the autumn bonnet They have
promised to produce a ''perfect love-"
A BROOKLYN girl claims to have
changed her dress and completed her
toilet in three minutes, the other after
noon.
IT is shrewdly observed that sawdust
pills would cure great many diseases if
the patient would only make his own
sawdust.
A GUN standing in the corner of a
room in house at Monrovia, Ind, was
fired off by electricity during a recent
thunderstorm.
WHEN man saves his cigar money to
buy his wife new bonnet and the chill
dren new shoes, it indicates spell of
misunderstanding Neaos.
A BRUSSELS telegram says the Wash
ington Government has given notice to
terminate the treaty of commerce and
navigation with Belgium the 1st of July,
1875.
THERE are no bouquets about a news
paper office, but sometimes the contents
of the paste-cup acquire maturity
which by any other name would smell as
sweet.
A SCIENTIST announces that a human
being has 100000 of pores through
which perspiration and exhausted parti-
cles of the system escape. We are all
pore creatures.
KATE FIELD writes from Spain that if
nature would ecopomize on feas, and
disburse the extra energy on the men of
that country, she would be doing thrifty
piece of business.
IT is said that the Transatlantic
Steamship Company will appeal against
the award of the British Admiralty
Court, in the case of the abandoned
steamship Amerique.
A TRAVELLING circus company has sued
the village of Great Falls, N. H., for
damages incurred through the unre-
paired condition of its roads, whereby
several of the troupe got great falls.
AN old maid is not without power. A
writer observes that he has known one
such to turn a steamboat excursion into
an occasion of gloom and dependency.
"THICKER than the surrounding foli-
age, with wings like Apollyon's, beak
like an artesian auger, and voice like
the sound of many waters" is a poetic
description of the New Jersey mosqui-
toes.
Miss McHENRY, of st. Stephens Church
Philadelphia, sets a noble example to
women who wish to be of real use in the
world. She has raised 100000 for
three church homes, which care for 600
children.
AN awful animal, ten feet long, with
yellow eyes, switchy tail, cream-colored
fur and shrieky voice, is what some rail-
road laborers say they saw in the night
on Dresden Mountain, vt. Probably a
combination of cat and Imagination.
A STREET BEGGAR in New York says
that the panic has ruined him. His col
lections have dropped to So day; rents
have fallen 30 per cent, and he has two
houses and three stores empty even at
this reduction
ACCORDING to the census, there are
only two men in America who make a
speciality of the manufacture of hand
organs. Just think how easy it would
be to kill those two men, and yet they
still live-N. 7. World
THIS is the way in which an observer
classifies them: The Comanches have
| concealed look; the Kiowas more fear
| less and open; the Apaches are a steady
set. The Sioux have all three of these
looks and more to suit occasions