Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-11-13
NUMBER 10.
CURRENT ITEMS.

of an evening, because it's slate.
WHEN is money damp? When it is
due in the morning and mist at night.
A MEMBER of the Junior class of Dart
mouth College is a clergyman fifty years
old, and married.
NEARLY all the billiard balls now in
use in the United States are made in
Connecticut.
IT is not the height we have attained
that makes us giddy; it is locking with
contempt on those beneath.
THE largest plate glass ever manu-
factured in the United States was recent
ly cast in Indiana. 1t is 1S4 by 81
inches. e3 4i
A New HAMPSHIRE woman when dying
made her husband swear on the Bible
that he would never marry woman with
a sharp nose.
SEQ TO grass" is swearing when used
in New Hampshire At least they are
churching deacon down there for using
the expressions
A BosToNIAN ridicules that other Bos-
tonian's umbrella, aged seventy-six, by
holding up for public veneration one
that he owns over whose buckhorn ham
die 107 autumnal equinoctials have
passed.
THE Chicago Temperance Monthly is the
title of a new forty-eight page illustrated
magazine, to be devoted to the cause OF
temperance, and the first number of
which will be issued in January next, by
Mrs G. Augustus Hayiland, of the Gem
Of the West.
A LIVELY lad swung with so much en-
ergy in a San Francisco pleasure garden
that he threw himself into conserva-
tory thirty feet distant, cut an artery in
his arm, ruined several hundred dollars
worth of rare plants and frightened the
women into panic. s
CYRUS LAFKIN, of Peabody, Mass,
caught his foot in the railroad track, the
other day, and, being unable to release
himself, was held fast for half an hour,
when train of cars came laundering
down upon him The poor man saved
his life by throwing himself one side, but
lost his foot, the cars running over and
cutting it off.
NINETEEN years ago a Tennessee
father refused to let his young daughter
go to a candy-pull, and she disappeared.
The other day she returned, lifted eleven
children out of the wagon, and entered
the house and took off her things as
day. ~. Ia. i.
AN American inventor has discovered
new motive power to supersede steam.
It is the result of twenty-five years
labor, and by it's operation water is trans
formed by a mechanical process to vapor
without the application of heat, and yet
the TRANSFORMATIONS prOuuCes Il IiiUgor far
more powerful than steam. 1t is said
that the new motor can be used at any
rate of pressure desired, from ten to
thousand pounds to the square inch. d
THE McConnellsburg Pa) Republican
says: GA couple of Sundays ago, during
services at the Reformed Church, a
snow-white pigeon entered the church,
and after describing a couple Of circles
in the holy sanctuary rested on the min
ister's head-Mr. Shade He drove his
strange, visitor away with his hand, ,wher
it calmly took position on the Bible and
serenely surveyed the congregation until
it's removal from the church."
PLEASANT bit of romance from Balti-
more: Young Englishman applies for
work to Superintendent of factory and
narrates his history, whereby it appears
that he was reared by his mother, his
father having abandoned her in the in
fancy of his son; Superintendent of fac
tory recognizes his boy; learns that wife
has never ceased to mourn the unfortu-
nate difference with husband, and hnds
lad excellent employment; gets leave OF
absence, a passage for England and goes
for wife. .ss5a5G gIe
THE trunk was large, dilapidated
Saratoga, and on the lid in large letters
appeared this touching legend: "Ive
been through the war Gentlemen,
handle me carefully, as am old" The
baggage-smashers gathered around the
old trunk and read the recommendation
carefully; then reverently removing
their hats they took it up tenderly, ana
aiming about three inches below the car
floor gave it gentle toss and a baggage
mans blessing. It went in--all but the
bottom, and the old trunk saw its last
battle as well as its contents strewn
over the dusty surroundings.
AVERY Jealous CINCINNATI lady lately
woke up the wrong passenger" A
gentleman and his wife were promenad-
ing the street in the twilight. A we'll
dressed lady rushed up suddenly behind "
the pair and dealt the wife sharp blow
on the temple with an iron poker. The
woman fell and then the assailant ran B
frightened away. The male member Of
that promenading pair was amazed at
the little incident. He carried his wife
into drug store, where she was restored
to consciousness, and wondered what it
was all about. The residence of the as
sailant was known, and she explained >
that she thought the gentleman was her
own husband, and she knew the woman
he was walking with was not her hus-
bands wife She was exceedingly sorry
for the painful mistake, and begged OIL.
Owing to the respectability OF all the par
ties the matter was smoothed over ana
the poker laid away for the present.
THERE is a curious prescription III
ENGLAND for the cure of drunkenness, by
which thousands are said to have been
assisted in recovering themselves. Inc
recipe came into notor1ety through Ine
efforts of John Vine Hall, father OF the
Rev. Newman Hall and Capt. Vine Hall,
commander of the Great Eastern steam
ship. He had fallen into such habitual
drunkenness that his utmost efforts to
regain himself proved unavailing. At
length he sought the advice of al emf
nent physician, who gave him prescrlp-
tion which he followed faithfully for
several months, and at the end OF tnat
time he had lost all desire for liquors,
although he had for many years been led
captive by most debasing appetite. The
recipe, which he afterward published,
and by which so many have been as
sisted to reform, is as follows: Sui
phate of iron, 5 grains; magnesia, lO
grains; peppermint water, IL grains;
spirits of nutmeg, / drachm; to be tax
en- twice day. This preparation acts
as tonic and stimulant, and SO partly
supplies the place of the accustomed
liquor, and prevents that absolutG phys
ical and moral prostratisn that follows