Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-06-12
NUMBER 40.
CURRENT ITEMS.

A ST.. LOUIS cat bit boy and he is mad
the boy is. 10 N 81
BLACK satin fans trimmed with white
lace are something new.
A FOOLISH lady sent bride sohite
sGtsn pe7a-aciper as a gift.
READING, Pa, is catching dogs and
measles with equal alacrity. sr- ~.
GRAY hairs seem like the light of soft
moon, 'silvering over the evening of life.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY is agitated by
the Oriental magnificence of "the first
brick residence ever erected within its
boundaries. ~ s4sar. 49, s @ m
HENRY WARD BEECHER says collecting
autographs is an alarming literary intem-
perance, for which the only remedy is
total abstinence.
THE legislator who wanted to make
kissing misdemeanor probably never
had the pleasure of seeing miss demean
herself under the operation.
IF women would study Housekeeping
as theirhusbands study law, medicine and
bookkeeping, there would be less COM
plaint of bad servants. 30 0Eta sas A'
/ 1T is said that the essential oil in onions
is so powerful that if a man were to die
shortly after eating one his brain would
exhale the odor of the vegetable.
Mrs. SEBA SPIcER, of Tipton,, Mo-,
aged seventy-eight, recently employed a
mason to repair her chimney, and herself
carried all the mortar and brick up
ladder.
THE English sparrows which were in
troduced into Albany five or six years ago
have become so numerous ana annoying
that they are pronounced to be an unmit-
igated nuisan.
PoUeHKEEPsIE, NJ Y, has a stone
yard, and requires each tramp soliciting
aims to earn his food and lodging by
breaking stone. Applications for charity
have fallen off.
A FISH FARMER in Illinois gets seventy
five cents per pound for his trout; thus a
small string of fish will bring as much as
sheep, and they require neither grain,
hay nor stabling.
The snow.fence on the Kansas Pacific
is being taken down for the purpose of
saving it from the fire which passes over
the prairies every summer. 1t will be re-
placed in the fall, as usual. e
In San Francisco, Judge Louderbach
has just fined man $50 for insulting an
editor. This goes to show that however
loud you may talk to California journal
ist he can always talk louder back.
A DETROIT gentleman prides himself
on his fine fowls, and his neighbor is
equally vain of fine coach dog. The
dog worries the life out of the chickens.
A few days ago the owner of the dog re-
ceived the following note: :" Friend
You keep dogs. I keep chickens. If
my chickens worry your dogs, shoot
'em."
WHEN fuel is burned in an open fire.
place at least seven-eighths of the actual
or potential heat passes up the chimney
unused; about onehalf being carried off
with the smoke, and one-fourth with the
current which flows in between the man
tel-piece and the fire, while the remaining
loss is represented by the unburned car
bonaceous matter in the smoke.
A MAN about thirty five years old died
recently in Kentucky who, since the
termination of the war, has been making
tri-weekly pilgrimages between two
churches ten miles apart always making
the journey on foot, fasting with great
severity, and keeping silence during the
whole of his long walk. He would never
disclose whether the penance was self
imposed or what it was performed for.
A LITTLE girl who fell off Long Bridge
and nearly drowned was rescued by
young man. 1t is consoling to think that
as the child is only five years of age the
usual denouement may be averted, but we
advise the young man to emlgrate, or
she will go for him as soon as she is old
enough, and girls do grow so fast in this
country-tSd7a Francisco Neaos Letter. .,4 4
HARRY III. BAUeH, of Quebec, fourteen
old foil dacYnorafa1xr in xyifh
little performer in variety show several
months ago, and ever since has been fol-
lowing it about, though the girl won't
pay any attention to him. He is quite
penniless. and has begged his way about
the country, but finally brings up at
Taunton, Mass, where he has been hand
ed over to the Board of State Charities.
A KENTUCKY Grange has had its little
romance. Recently young brother and
sister of the Order walked to the front of
the Master and were united in marriage.
The entire audience were taken by sur
prise, having had no intimation that
there was to be a wedding. Soft eyes
began to dart love glances around the
Grange, and diffident bachelors exclaimed
that the new Order exceeded their most
sanguine expectations in providing life
partners for the faint-hearted.
A WASHINGTON man proposes that
canron be kept at all
dangerous river reservoirs or dams, to
give instant and general warning of
breakage, by which, as in the recent
calamity in Massachusetts, many lives
and much property might be saved. The
trouble, says an exchange, is that when
the moment came for the cannon to be
exploded it would be found to be loaded
with black sand, duly certified to as the
best powder by a County Commissioner.
A CHICAGO telegrapher, on recent
visit to Des Moines, wished to compli-
ment one of the young ladies of that city
by sending her a box of oranges. The
oranges were purchased and carefully
boxed, and messenger employed to de-
liver the gift, bearing the note expressing
the wish that the lady might always be as
blooming and sweet as the inclosed fruit.
But some wag stopped the messenger and
substituted potatoes for the oranges and
sent the bearer on his way. A terrible
row was kicked up, and the box duly re-
turned to the sender.
A RECENT letter from Sargent, Kan,
to the Topeka Commonwealth contains the
following: "Large numbers of wild
horses abound on the rivers. They are OF
all sizes and colors, and are the widest or
all wild animals They usually roam IN
bands of from six to twenty, and Will run
at sight of a man two miles away. A great
dom 5sticated horses, as well as
mules. which have strayed away from
their owners have taken up with the wild
ones. After running with them for
awhile they become as wild as their un-
tanned companions. Various methods
have been adopted to catch them, but
have generally proved fruitless. A scrub