Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-05-08
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trait painters of that city don't go to sail
ing flat boats and make reputation.
NEW WORKERS are still bowling for
rapid transit, and they wouldn't be salts
fed if shot from the mouth of a cannon.
RHODE ISLAND and Massachusetts are
negotiating in real estate. The former has
factory to build, but is crowded for
| room.
SUITs of black silk and grenadine CON-
bined will be one of the summer fashions
this on the authority of Monsieur
Worth.
A CHINAMAN can swallow dose of
| Cayenne pepper without looking red in
the face, and he chews red pepper without
wink.
THE objection to amber earrings is that
they cast reflections upon the face and
cause the fair wearer to appear to have
the jaundice.
THE Postoffice Department has decided
| that female officials are more honest than
males Now let Susan B. jump up and
swing her bonnet.
AN Iowa woman got mad and left her
husband because he washed his feet in the
dishpan, and the neighbors don't sympa-
thize with her bit.
A ACoNTEMPORARY wants all Its exchanges
to warn women to jump into creek when
they discover that their clothing is on fire.
Jump. ladies, jump!
AN old bachelor editor has discovered
that girls are plenty in Baltimore, but
stifled a sigh when he learned that mar
riage license costs $3.50.
A MARRIED woman in Brooklyn is suing
| n IN poop for hroaph nf DrOm ica
committed eleven years ago, and her hus-
| band is her main witness.
ANEW York Custom House man writes
that he has heard ladies of refinement,
wealth, position and education, lie GUS
| toms officer out of cOuntenance.
RICH gold mines are reported to have
been discovered in the mountains on the
north fork of the Ouachita River, near
the Choctaw line, in the Indian Territory.
A WEST NEwBURY (Mass) man has won
wager of $15 by eating twelve boxes
of sardines, quart of 1aw pea beans
and pound of bar soap within three
days.
The latest is described as trimmed
inside with gold fringe and tassels, with
very snowy urns on the top, draped with
gold and plumes." This is Hartford
| hearse.
| BUFF colored linen travelling suits
| trimmed with a darker shade of the same
material will be much worn during the
season and are cut and made in the polo
naise style.
THE Hill Brothers, farmers of Windsor
Locks Station, Conn, are the proud own
ers of COW which turns the scales at
5000 pounds. She is six years old, and
was raised by her present owners.
A LOUISVILLE boy wanted to leave
, cold world in which his mother would
| only give him two pieces of pie for din
ner, and so he swallowed several percus-
sion caps, but they didn't kill him.
PEOPLE who are over wise must expect
| to pay for their whims as the Iowa man
did, He went back on his own true love
because she ate onions, and the jury gave
her $4,000 damages. How much better
for him if he had Offset her by eating
Limburger cheese.
THEY have sharp lawyers down East.
One of them marketing for dinner, asks
a poultry dealer, "I Is that turkey young
one?" eyes, sir" "Will you take your
yer administers the oath, charges 81 for
but SCINlCC, duu JANUS pdy Ill PoulAy'
A STATE fish law recently enacted by
the Pennsylvania Legislature provides,
among other things, that "no person shall
have in his or her possession, after the
same has been killed, any black bass,
pike or pickerel, except alive for stock
ing other waters"
WHITE MOUNTAIN JELLY CAKE.-TwO
cups white sugar; one half cup butter,
melted; three cups flour, one cup sweet
milk, two eggs, two teaspoonfuls cream
tartar, one of soda. Dissolve the soda in ,
milk and sift the cream tartar in the flour
and use frosting instead of jelly. This is
good; try it.
A HARTFORD man put valuable clus-
ter diamond pin in little box and hid
it in the stuffing of a lounge for safe
keeping, some time ago; few days since
he carried the lounge to a furniture man
to have it repaired, but didn't think of
the precious gems; they have disap-
peared, but the furniture man says he
doesn't know anything about them.
THERE are dozen Irish women in
Boston who are "boss'' workwOmen and
scrubbers, who hire hundreds Of persons
to clean the places of regular customers,
and who have become rich at the bust
ness. One of these " boss" scrubbers has
succeeded in buying $4,000 house on
Kneeland street, and rides in her gay
carriage in imitation of Beacon street
ladies.
KENTUCKY comes to the front with one
of the greatest marvels of the present
age. In town Of considerable size in
that State there resides a lady who makes
it her boast that she has had but one new
bonnet in forty years, has made but two
calls on neighbors in eighteen years, and
has taken but one meal away from home
in all that time. And yet she is well off,
in good health and all her limbs perfectly
sound.
THE conduct of State Constables Max
well and Skinner in making a seizure of
liquor at Wildes', Hotel, at Chicopee
Falls, Mass, recently, while the proprie-
tors daughter was dying in the house,
and another shortly after when the prep
arations for the burial were being made,
excited wide and deep feeling in the
more than 400 residents of Chicopee Falls
and Chicopee, was sent to Boston asking
for their removal.
TIMOTHY WHEELER, of Waterbury Cen
ter, VT, has some remarkable ideas about
food and drink. He has confined himself
to a vegetable diet for ten years, and,
five years ago, he got it into his head that
people in general drink too much &C
cordingly, he went thirty eight days the
first year without taking any liquids into
his system, the second year seventy days,
the third year one hundred and thirty, the
fourth one hundred and seventy, and, up
to the 10Th of April, he had gone two
hundred and twenty-eight days in the
fifth year without drinking anything
whatever.