Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-05-29
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To PLEASE woman let her do as she
pleases
DIAMONDS are cheaper now than ever
before.
A SMALL gold hand holding a pearl is
new in earrings. ..5r t-e
EXPENSIVE marriage ceremonies are
pronounced snobbish.
WHAT three letters denote strength and
activity?" N. r. G. (energy.)
NECESSITY knows no law, but law
knows a good deal of necessity.
THE spanking period is appropriately
called the palmy days of childhood.
AN anti-cremation philosopher living
near Lake Erie thinks the dead should be
drowned.
LEISURE is sweet to those who have
get it for nothing.
ADVERTISEMENTS printed in Chinese
characters are beginning to appear in the
California papers.
MAPLE-sUGAR is so plenty IN Vermont
this season that the girls are 20 per cent.
sweeter than usual.
A LADY lecturer believes that women
ought to retain their own names when they
get married. She has retained hers thus
far.
INVISIBLE purple gloves are worn by
ladies in mourning in preference to the
dead black gloves that are so apt to
crack.
QUIZ believes in cremation, for the
benefit of the soap trade. He knows lots
of people whose ashes would make splen'
did lye.
THE business of swallowing needles,
long monopolized by human beings, re-
Gently commended itself to Vermont
heifer, which ate glove needle and
died.
The last smart Old man lives IN Au-
gusta County, Va. He is ninety-one years
of age, and made his own coffin the other
day.
THE adventurous fellow who attempted
to steal red-hot stove must take back
seat since William A. Meyers, of Pleas
antville, Pa, is on trial for stealing nitro.
glycerine.
Mr.. JNo. s. JONES, of Stafford, N. e.,
SAYS that the fire in his house has not
gone out for forty-fve years. MIR. Jones
uses an open fireplace and covers the
| fire at night.
| IT is an old saying that every pound
of sugar made from the maple in the spring
robs the farmer of bushel Of wheat.
That is, good sugar~making weather is
bad for the wheat crop.
LOVE your nelghbor as yourself-bor.
row his plow, hoe, or horses whenever
YOU can; but if he wants to borrow
yours, tell him that you are very sorry
but you were just going to use it your
self.
THE newest earrings in Paris are o1
bone. They are cut in the form of many
pointed stars tipped with different colors
A small star fastens in the lobe of the ear
and larger one hangs underneath. They
are very odd and very pretty.
AND now it is Mrs. Betsey Hobbs, O.
Clinton, Me-, eighty-two years old, who
"during the past eighteen months, with
the assistance of her daughter, has made
between 900 and 1000 pairs of pants, be
sides doing the work necessarily falling
upon farmers wife,"
THERE is an elm eighty-four years ole
and about six feet in diameter at Frank
lin, N. H., and the man near whose house
it stands says that when he was boy ht
pulled it up, which made his father sc
mad that he walloped him with it ane
then set it out again.
THE Third National Tournament O
Chess PLAYERS is to be held in Chicago
beginning on July Z, 1874, and terminal
ing on July 30, or as soon after as con
venient and possible. The Chicago Ches.
Club has undertaken to make all neces
sary arrangements to accommodate those
who may desire to participate. The pro
gramme contemplates Grand and ,
Minor Tournament-the former composed
of acknowledged firstclass players, receiv
ing no odds from any other player. The
latter will comprise such players as may
choose to enter the lists, and who are il
the habit of receiving the odds of at leas
pawn and move from first-class players
Prizes will be given to successful com
petitors in each class. The entrance fet
to the Grand Tournament has been f1xee
at $40, and to the Minor Tournament q
$10 Each contributor to the genera
!, fund to the amount of $5 will be entitled
, to copy of the book of the Congress.
copy of the rules and regulations adopted
by the committee, and other information
{ desirable to intending participants, Cal
be obtained by addressing Albert W
Giles, Secretary and Treasurer, ia Eas
Madison street, Chicago, III,